This research paper is focused on the qualities of leadership exhibited by public administrators in the field of emergency management in East Asia, particularly in the Chinese and Japanese cultures, and how they navigate the uncharted waters of this new field in a traditional culture. Beginning with a general examination of the cultural and societal influences on the position of leader and the ...

The indoor light environment of the building has an extremely important influence on its own use function, and there are many factors that affect building, such as surrounding interior decoration design window. window is used envelope. An part structure responsible for lighting ventilation meet requirements environment. It exists a device building. performance windows not only meets people?s li...

Influenced by Toyota’s recent automobile recalls 2009-2010, and highlighting the importance of recalls research, this study conducts a car recalls trend analysis for the US market that is a first of its kind. The research uses secondary data from recall websites maintained by public and private organizations. The study shows recalls are a common event with the majority of recalls initiated by o...

The event-related brain potentials elicited by rapid visual presentation of Chinese characters and non-characters were studied for two groups of adult native Chinese speakers: one group of Putonghua speakers, who could read Simplified Chinese characters, and one group of Hong Kong Cantonese speakers, who could read Traditional Chinese characters. For Putonghua participants, but not Hong Kong Ca...

Scientists are not always remembered for the ideas they cherished most. In the case of the French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, his name since the end of the nineteenth century has been tightly linked to the idea of the inheritance of acquired characters. This was indeed an idea that he endorsed, but he did not claim it as his own nor did he give it much thought. He took pride instead in adv...

The APS journals now offer authors the option to include their names in either Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters following the name as it appears in Latin characters, for example: Tadanori Minamisono ( ) or Chang Kee Jung .The program, announced in December, is offered for author bylines throughout the Physical Review journals, including Physical Review Letters. The option offers advantage...

Opponents of World Literature fear that its advent marks the end ‘work literature’. J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood Jesus (2013) presents a world in which work literature has indeed been forgotten. Migrants arrive new life ‘washed clean’ burden European tradition. Simón, who dimly recalls old life, feels something is missing new. He longs for altogether ‘other’. Might Simón learn...

In the wake of a civil war, local resources can play a potential role in shaping the recovery process by providing both old and new exegeses for the disturbing effects of the past. Using the case of Gorongosa, this article aims to explore the ways in which the war has impacted upon traditional medicine by creating Gamba spirits that cause havoc but can also transform the psychosocial hurts of w...

We present a platform for creating immersive 3D games including a new interface for navigating through virtual scenes. One innovative part of this application is a crowd simulation with an emergent behaviour of virtual characters. While the users has to move very quickly through a crowd of nearly two hundred virtual characters he is supported by a precise, fast operating, and unobtrusive naviga...