This study examines the effects of two interethnic ideologies (assimilation and multiculturalism) on in-group favoritism and discrimination intention toward immigrants. Specifically, this study aims to test the concomitant impact of these two ideologies on intergroup biases in order to affirm whether these two paths are related to intergroup bias. Moreover, this study is designed to extend prev...

The ARIMA-model-based methodology of programs TRAMO and SEATS for seasonal adjustment and trend-cycle estimation was applied to the exports, imports, and balance of trade Japanese series in Maravall (2002). The programs were used in an automatic mode, and the results analyzed. The present paper contains an extension of the work. First, some improvements in the automatic modelling procedure are ...

Breeding programs for improvement of sacha-inchi, Plukenetia volubilis L., generally aim to select individuals with greater seed yield since there is a strong correlation between and oil production. However, the manual removal husks evaluating this trait laborious costly, thereby discouraging breeding efforts. Accordingly, objective present study was estimate gains from indirect selection produ...

This paper presents an analysis of indirect passives in Japanese in terms of event structure and qualia structure proposed in the framework of the generative lexicon (Pustejovsky 1995). On the assumption that the event structure of the indirect passive construction is based on the causative structure, the present analysis accounts for the adversative interpretation of indirect passive sentences...