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Capability Matrix : A Framework for Analyzing Capabilities in Value Chains
This paper develops a Capability Matrix for analyzing capabilities of developing
country firms that participate in global and national value chains. This is a generic
framework to capture firm-level knowledge accumulation in the context of global
and local industrial constellations, by integrating key elements of the global value
chain (GVC) and technological capabilities (TC) approaches. The framework can
visually portray characteristics of firmsā capabilities, and highlight a relatively
overlooked factor in the GVC approach: local firmsā endogenous learning efforts in
varieties of relationship with lead firms.Developing Countries, Industrial Management, Business Enterprises, Capability Matrix, Capabilities, Value Chains, Lead Firms, Local Firms
59Co-NMR Knight Shift of the Superconducting NaxCoO2.yH2O
Layered Co oxide NaxCoO2.yH2O with the superconducting transition temperature
Tc =4.5 K has been studied by 59Co-NMR. The Knight shift K estimated from the
observed spectra for powder sample exhibits almost temperature(T)-independent
behavior above Tc and decreases with decreasing T below Tc. This result and the
existence of the coherence peak in the spin-lattice-relaxation-rate versus T
curve reported by the present authors indicate, naively speaking, that the
singlet order parameter with s-wave symmetry is realized in NaxCoO2.yH2O.
Differences of the observed behaviors between the spectra of the non-aligned
sample and the one aligned in epoxy adhesive by applying the external magnetic
field are discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Politics of International Advocacy Against the Death Penalty: Governments as AntiāDeath Penalty Crusaders
Two-thirds of the countries worldwide have moved away from the death penalty in law or in practice, with global and regional organisations as well as individual governments working towards universal abolition. This article critically examines the narratives of these abolitionist governments that have abolished the death penalty in their country and have adopted the role of āmoral crusadersā (Becker 1963) in pursuit of global abolition. In 2018, the Australian Government, while being surrounded by retentionist states in Asia, joined the antiādeath penalty enterprise along with the European Union, the United Kingdom and Norway. Using the concepts of āmoral crusaderā (Becker 1963) and āperformativityā (Butler 1993), this article argues that advocacy must be acted on repeatedly for governments to be antiādeath penalty advocates. Otherwise, these government efforts serve political ends in appearance but are simply a self-serving form of advocacy in practice
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Volunteers in the probation service: a comparison between Germany and Japan
Capability Matrix : A Framework for Analyzing Capabilities in Value Chains
This paper develops a Capability Matrix for analyzing capabilities of developingcountry firms that participate in global and national value chains. This is a genericframework to capture firm-level knowledge accumulation in the context of globaland local industrial constellations, by integrating key elements of the global valuechain (GVC) and technological capabilities (TC) approaches. The framework canvisually portray characteristics of firmsā capabilities, and highlight a relativelyoverlooked factor in the GVC approach: local firmsā endogenous learning efforts invarieties of relationship with lead firms
Lip incompetence and myofunctional therapy
Lip incompetence, which is a state in which the upper and lower lips are constantly apart, is thought to induce mouth breathing that may result in the development of gingivitis and periodontal disease. In the orthodontic field, lip incompetence has major problems for diagnosis, when determining the treatment goal and at the time of retention. We have been performing studies on lip incompetence and have obtained the following results : (1) it is possible to predict to some extent the state of lip closure during sleep by examination only in an awake state, (2) anterior teeth are positioned forward in individuals with lip incompetence, and (3) a training method called Button Pull is effective as a myofunctional therapy for improving lip incompetence, but there remains a need to clarify the background
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Trust in the German police
The relative levels of trust in the police are explored, using data from the fifth round of the European Social Survey (ESS) which covered mainly 28 European countries. In this article, the position of Germany is examined within the international context. German trust in the police, for both German natives and ethnic minorities, for those 15 and over is high in comparison to other European countries.
The article also tests if it is the fair treatment of citizens by the police, or the high value placed on rule adherence and conformity, that is driving the German citizenās trust. It shows that the German police is trusted due to their perceived fairness, effectiveness and shared moral values, rather than on value placed on conformity to authority
Death Penalty Politics: The Fragility of Abolition in Asia and the Pacific
This special collection of articles on the death penalty and the politics of abolition in Asia and the Pacific is published to coincide with the centenary of one of the worldās earliest statutory abolitions, in the Australian state of Queensland, in August 1922. Scholars of the death penalty, its practice and its abolition were invited to participate in a symposium in May 2021 hosted in Melbourne by Eleos Justice at Monash University and the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University. They were joined by lawyers and abolition advocates, including some who had worked on death row cases.
This collection seeks to bring perspectives from a variety of disciplines and methodsāhistorical, legal, sociological, comparativeāto bear on the questions of retention and abolition in a variety of jurisdictions and time periods. If there is one conclusion to these collective studies, it is the fragility of abolition. Abolition may now be widely embraced as a norm of international human rights law, but its establishment as a comprehensive and irrevocable fact remains elusive. The task of a research collection such as this is to understand why that may be as a guide to what might be pursued in the future regarding abolition
Factors relating to the mental health of women who were pregnant at the time of the Great East Japan earthquake: analysis from month 10 to month 48 after the earthquake
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