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    Different Approaches to Wealth Creation: A Comparative Study of the American and Japanese Automobile

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    This chapter deals with the simple yet important question of whether national culture matters in today’s rapidly globalizing world. This study explores the automobile sectors in Japan and the USA and examines the relevance to the cultural constructs of individualism/collectivism, time orientation, and uncertainty avoidance. To maximize research confidence with limited resources, it triangulates its qualitative findings and the literature concepts generated from quantitative research. The grounded findings include the connection between business practices and cultural values, the interrelated nature of cultural dimensions, and a clarification of the cultural construct of uncertainty avoidance

    Narrow resonances in the continuum of the unbound nucleus 15^{15}F

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    The structure of the unbound 15^{15}F nucleus is investigated using the inverse kinematics resonant scattering of a radioactive 14^{14}O beam impinging on a CH2_2 target. The analysis of 1^{1}H(14^{14}O,p)14^{14}O and 1^{1}H(14^{14}O,2p)13^{13}N reactions allowed the confirmation of the previously observed narrow 1/21/2^{-} resonance, near the two-proton decay threshold, and the identification of two new narrow 5/2^{-} and 3/2^{-} resonances. The newly observed levels decay by 1p emission to the ground of 14^{14}O, and by sequential 2p emission to the ground state (g.s.) of 13^{13}N via the 11^- resonance of 14^{14}O. Gamow shell model (GSM) analysis of the experimental data suggests that the wave functions of the 5/2^{-} and 3/2^{-} resonances may be collectivized by the continuum coupling to nearby 2p- and 1p- decay channels. The observed excitation function 1^{1}H(14^{14}O,p)14^{14}O and resonance spectrum in 15^{15}F are well reproduced in the unified framework of the GSM
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