There were two forms of nativism1 during the Tokugawa period. The first was literary in orientation. Literary nativists undertook exhaustive and comprehensive studies of Japan’s classical literature, and both poetry and prose works were central to their scholarship. An array of luminary intellects mostly from the eighteenth century made their mark on this form of nativism, including Keichū (164...

This study examined the importance assigned by Human Resource personnel to the personality traits of Information Technology officers. The extent to which these traits were evident among Information Technology officers was determined and compared to their level of importance among Human Resource personnel. The well-known 16 Personality Factors model was used and data was collected by questionnai...

It is well known that Dharmakı̄rti followed Dignāga in accepting that there are exactly two sources of new knowledge (pramān. a), namely, sensation (pratyaks. a) and inference (anumāna), and that the criteria by which these two means of acquiring knowledge are distinguished were somewhat different for the two philosophers. Dignāga claimed that the two sources of knowledge were distinct in that s...

THE theme of this paper1 is the Victorian ideological divide between the public sphere (viewed as a masculine domain concerned with paid work and national politics), and the private sphere (viewed as a female domain concerned with home and family). These contrasts were in some respects ancient ones: the political dimension of public masculine persons and private female persons going back at lea...

This paper reports on the automatic metadata generation applications (AMeGA) project’s metadata expert survey. Automatic metadata generation research is reviewed and the study’s methods, key findings and conclusions are presented. Participants anticipate greater accuracy with automatic techniques for technical metadata (e.g., ID, language, and format metadata) compared to metadata requiring int...