405 research outputs found
The Holistic Aspect of the Phenomenon of Entanglement
It is my aim to compare the conceptual and historical paths that led Bohr and Schrödinger to develop their positions with regard to the phenomenon of entanglement. For this purpose, the concept of holism and non-separability in relation to the views of Bohr and Schrödinger will be crucial for reconstructing their standpoints. The idea will be upheld that the concept of non-separability underlies the phenomenon of entanglement. Furthermore, I shall place emphasis on the divergences between Bohr and Schrödinger in spite of their shared holistic world view
Lifespan of information service firms in Japan: a survival analysis
The purpose of this paper is an analysis of survival in the Japanese information service industry. Information service firms are generally classified into two typical patterns. One is the group of independent firms such as software vendors, and the other is the group of non-independent such as subsidiaries established by spinning off and so on. We used a sample of 334 firms in Japan and analyzed by Kaplan-Meier estimator method and Cox proportional hazard regression model in order to investigate the difference of survival between these two groups and/or among other attributes. As a result, the lifespan of the information service firms significantly depends on the degree of system integration sales ratio, software development sales ratio, and entrusted processing sales ratio. On the contrary, property of non-independence and high sales ratio with main customers have a negative influence on their survival rates, i.e. lifespan. The paper discusses these results and offers some managerial implications, and future research opportunities are provided
Lifespan of information service firms in Japan: a survival analysis
The purpose of this paper is an analysis of survival in the Japanese information service industry. Information service firms are generally classified into two typical patterns. One is the group of independent firms such as software vendors, and the other is the group of non-independent such as subsidiaries established by spinning off and so on. We used a sample of 334 firms in Japan and analyzed by Kaplan-Meier estimator method and Cox proportional hazard regression model in order to investigate the difference of survival between these two groups and/or among other attributes. As a result, the lifespan of the information service firms significantly depends on the degree of system integration sales ratio, software development sales ratio, and entrusted processing sales ratio. On the contrary, property of non-independence and high sales ratio with main customers have a negative influence on their survival rates, i.e. lifespan. The paper discusses these results and offers some managerial implications, and future research opportunities are provided
Recombining Plasma and Hard X-ray Filament in the Mixed-Morphology Supernova Remnant W44
We report new features of the typical mixed-morphology (MM) supernova remnant
(SNR) W44. In the X-ray spectra obtained with Suzaku, radiative recombination
continua (RRCs) of highly ionized atoms are detected for the first time. The
spectra are well reproduced by a thermal plasma in a recombining phase. The
best-fit parameters suggest that the electron temperature of the shock-heated
matters cooled down rapidly from ,keV to ,keV, possibly due to
adiabatic expansion (rarefaction) occurred years ago. We also
discover hard X-ray emission which shows an arc-like structure
spatially-correlated with a radio continuum filament. The surface brightness
distribution shows a clear anti-correlation with CO (J=2-1) emission
from a molecular cloud observed with NANTEN2. While the hard X-ray is most
likely due to a synchrotron enhancement in the vicinity of the cloud, no
current model can quantitatively predict the observed flux.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PAS
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