Personal Values of Japanese Business Managers

Researchers have spent many years examining the Japanese business culture, but there is limited empirical evidence about the personal values of Japanese business managers. The research of these authors confirms some previous conclusions, but also might detect new attitudes in Japan at the dawn of the 21st century

Recurrent Stacking of Layers for Compact Neural Machine Translation Models

In neural machine translation (NMT), the most common practice is to stack a number of recurrent or feed-forward layers in the encoder and the decoder. As a result, the addition of each new layer improves the translation quality significantly. However, this also leads to a significant increase in the number of parameters. In this paper, we propose to share parameters across all the layers thereby leading to a recurrently stacked NMT model. We empirically show that the translation quality of a model that recurrently stacks a single layer 6 times is comparable to the translation quality of a model that stacks 6 separate layers. We also show that using pseudo-parallel corpora by back-translation leads to further significant improvements in translation quality.Comment: Version 2 (Current): Fixed Typos. Additional Results for models using back-translated data. Resized the figure. Better explanations of some parts. Version 1: Initial versio

Photoinitiator-free micro/nano fabrication of biomaterials with nonlinear deep UV excitation

Two-photon fabrication is expected to be a technique for fabricating biological tissues for regenerative medicine and drug discovery because of its capability of fabricating 3D structures on a subcellular scale. In this study, we conducted two-photon fabrication of biocompatible materials without photoinitiators. By using a visible-wavelength femtosecond pulsed laser as excitation light, two-photon polymerization is induced in deep UV absorbing moieties without the use of photo-initiators. We performed 3D micro/nanofabrication of a biocompatible hydrogel material. By using Raman spectral change, we investigated the photo-chemical process of the biocompatible upon the irradiation of visible pulsed laser light.SPIE OPTO, 22 January - 28 February 2022, San Francisco, California, United State