The paper examined the value system in Philippine firms against the backdrop of Eastern-Western cultural dynamics in East Asia. The Asian milieu presents co-existence of cultural stasis and unease -balance and tension between Eastern values and Western ideas. Successful Asian countries demonstrated their ability to blend conflicting cultures and highlight certain values in order to promote nati...

This study examined 1,631 college students’ endorsement of traditional Confucian values in four East Asian cultural contexts (i.e., China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan). Findings showed that young people endorsed values of interpersonal harmony the most, followed by the relational hierarchy and traditional conservatism respectively. Results also indicated that participants in China provided the high...

Decisions about having a child or undergoing sterilization are complex and difficult to make. This paper proposes a counseling technique for helping couples decide whether or not they want to have a (another) child. Based upon behavioral decision theory, a hierarchy of birth planning values (Table 1) has been developed' and used to study motivations for and against childbearing as a function of...

The former method starts by numerically estimating the adequacy and the inadequacy (with respect to the initial data) ofeach statement "the alternative i appears in on aggregate hierarchy on the j-th place* and constructs a preorder which maximizes the ratio of total sum of adequacy values by the total sum of inadequacy values for the associated hierarchy. The latter method involves usual conco...

We present a method for automatically clustering similar attribute values in a database system spanning mulitple domains. The method constructs an aftribute abstraction hierarchy for each attribute using rules that are derived from the database instance. The rules have a confidence and popularity that combine to express the "usefullness" of the rule. Attribute values are clustered if they are u...

— The occurrence of incompressible quantum fluid states of a two dimensional system is a result of electron–electron interactions in a highly degenerate fractionally filled Landau level. Novel quasiparticles (QP’s) called composite Fermions (CF’s) have allowed a simple single particle description of the most prominent incompressible states. Residual interactions among these QP’s are investigate...

Threshold limit values (TLVs) are intended to protect workers from the severest effects of thermal stress and to establish the exposures to heat in working conditions. Earlier, acute heat strokes often occurred as a result of working in hot environments in Japan. However, acute heat strokes recently sometimes occurred in outdoor work environments such as industrial constructions and agriculture...

A number of techniques have been developed to turn data into useful knowledge. Most of the algorithms in data mining find association rules among transactions using binary values and at single concept level. However it will be more exciting to discover hierarchical association rules for decision makers. In this work we have integrated association rule mining with fuzzy set theory and hierarchy....

We address the problem of the apparently very small magnitude of CP violation in the standard model, measured by the Jarlskog invariant J . In order to make statements about probabilities for certain values of J , we seek to find a natural measure on the space of Kobayashi-Maskawa matrices, the double quotient U(1)\SU(3)/U(1). We review several possible, geometrically motivated choices of the m...