In the background where there are many factors affecting Japanese families such as decrease of children, change family structures, gender concept, etc., "family'' has become a noticeable issue attracting much attention nowadays. The type traditional named "IE'' was officially regulated in law during Meiji period. After war, legal status eliminated; however, reality, still remains popular. fact,...

Proportions of equity held by institutional investors are rising across all OECD countries. Paradigms of corporate governance involving a key role for institutions are market control via equity (the takeover sanction), market control via debt (LBOs) and direct control via equity (corporate governance activism). Even in countries where institutions are currently unimportant to corporate governan...

It has recently been argued that there was an apartheid-like social structure operating in Early Anglo-Saxon England. This was proposed in order to explain the relatively high degree of similarity between Germanic-speaking areas of northwest Europe and England. Opinions vary as to whether there was a substantial Germanic invasion or only a relatively small number arrived in Britain during this ...

The objective of this study was to examine the value orientations of dental students from different ethnic backgrounds studying in Australian dental schools. A ninety-eight-item questionnaire was used to collect the data, including fifteen subscales developed consistent with the Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck value orientation model. To compare the value orientation structure and to determine if any ...