Performance Evalution of “Agency” Japanese Style

A Review of the Performance of the International Atomic Energy Agency Regarding Pakistan’s Nuclear Activities

Among the significant issues of the subcontinental region, one can refer to the concern over Pakistan’s inability to maintain the security of its nuclear facilities, the illegal increase in its nuclear weapon production, extremist organizations’ access to nuclear weapons, as well as the fact that this country has not joined the NPT treaty. Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA...

Automatic labeling of Japanese prosody using j-toBI style description

Speech corpora with prosodic labels are getting more and more important not only for speech synthesis but also for discourse modeling. A widely used labeling system for Japanese prosody, J-ToBI, however, is insufficient for applications like discourse modeling and it even lacks an accurate method for automatic labeling. In this paper, we propose an automatic labeling method for J-ToBI style des...

Policies Against Poverty: an Evalution

The explicit aim of these programs is to take people out of poverty, or at least to reduce poverty intensity. If the benefit is high enough to reach the poverty threshold, there are no time limits and the take-up rate is 100%, then poverty is automatically defeated (but this would be much too expensive). Otherwise, when benefits are low and support is not always granted until the end of the pov...

Beware of Japanese Negotiation Style: How to Negotiate with Japanese Companies

Localizing senility: Illness and agency among older Japanese.

For many Japanese, fear about senility is not primarily expressed in relation to pathological conditions like Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Instead, as people grow older, their concern focuses on a widely recognized category of decline in old age which, although symptomatically and conceptually overlapping with AD and other forms of senile dementia, is distinguished from unambiguously pathological ...