It is well known that many of the manufacturing practices advanced in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s emphasize bottom-up decision processes characterized by teams, the empowerment of multi-skilled...
Koga, Tadanori, Hashimoto, Takeji, Takenaka, Mikihito, Aizawa, Kazuya, Amino, Naoya, Nakamura, Masao, ...
Yoshiharu Omura, Hideyuki Usui, Masaki Okada, Tastuki Ogino, Naoki Terada, Masao Nakamura, ...
In exploration and utilization of the geospace environment, it is very important to understand interactions between spacecraft and space plasma environment as well as natural phenomena occurring in...
Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth (2007)
Morck, Randall, Nakamura, Masao
Paul Rosenstein-Rodan argues that economic development requires coordinated investment in many interdependent industries, and prescribes a flood of state-controlled investment across all sectors—a...
早見, 均, ハヤミ, ヒトシ, Hayami, Hitoshi, Nakamura, Masao
Japan heavily depends on materials such as coal, pulp, and woods from Canada, while Canadaimports manufacturing goods from Japan. Both countries consume energy and generate CO2 inorder to produce...
Yumino, Kunio, Kawakami, Ikuo, Tamura, Mamoru, Hayashi, Takaaki, Nakamura, Masao
NADPH-menadione reductase activity by rat brain microsomes (Ms) was decreased 40–50% by 10 �M. dicumarol, a potent inhibitor of DT-diaphorase, whereas no change in NADPH-paraquat (PQ) and -diquat...
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Fruin, W. Mark, Nakamura, Masao
It is well known that many of the manufacturing practices advanced in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s emphasize bottom-up decision processes characterized by teams, the empowerment of multi-skilled...
Ascorbate Radicals in Fresh Cow's Milk (1994)
Using ESR, a weak signal identified as the ascorbate free radical was observed in fresh cow’s milk. The signal was unchanged after storage at 5�C for 24 h but disappeared after storage at 25�C....
One- and Two-Electron Reduction of Quinones by Rat Liver Subcellular Fractions (1994)
Nakamura, Masao, Hayashi, Takaaki
NAD(P)H-quinone (menadione, Trolox C quinone, and α-tocopherol quinone) reductase activity of rat liver subcellular fractions was observed optically at 340–400 nm, and oxygen radical generation...
One-Electron Oxidation of Trolox C and Vitamin E by Peroxidases (1991)
Direct reactions of peroxidases with Trolox C (a vitamin E analogue) and vitamin E were observed in 50% (v/v) methanol. The kinetic results revealed that the reaction of horseradish peroxidase...
Allopurinol-Insensitive Oxygen Radical Formation by Milk Xanthine Oxidase Systems (1991)
Oxygen radical generation in the xanthine- and NADH-oxygen reductase reactions by xanthine oxidase, was demonstrated using the ESR spin trap 5,5′ -dimethyl-1-pyrroline-N-oxide. No...
An investigation of joint venture dynamics : evidence from U.S.-Japan joint ventures (1990)
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Lactoferrin-Mediated Formation of Oxygen Radicals by NADPH-Cytochrome P-450 Reductase System (1990)
Superoxide generation in the NADPH oxidase reaction of NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase, demonstrated using the ESR spin trap, 5, 5-dimethyl-l-pyrroline-l-oxide, increased on the addition of...
One-Electron Oxidation of Trolox C (a Vitamin E Analogue) by Peroxidases (1990)
The oxidation mechanism of Trolox C (a vitamin E analogue) by peroxidases was examined by stopped flow and ESR techniques. The results revealed that during the oxidation of Trolox C, peroxidase...
Iodothyronine-Induced Catalatic Activity of Thyroid Peroxidase (1990)
Nakamura, Masao, Yamazaki, Isao, Ohtaki, Sachiya
Iodothyronines induced catalatic (H2O2-decomposing) activity of thyroid peroxidase and lactoperoxidase, the effect increasing in the order of thyroxine (T4)>triiodothyronine (T3) > diiodothyronine...
Mizoue, Megumi, Nakamura, Masao, Seto, Norihiko, Ishiketa, Yukio, Yokota, Takashi
Microearthquakes in and around the Kii Peninsula, southwestern Honshu, Japan, have a three-layered hypocentral distribution as presented by the upper crustal, the transitional and the subcrustal...
Preparation of Bovine Milk Xanthine Oxidase as a Dehydrogenase Form (1982)
NAKAMURA, Masao, YAMAZAKI, Isao
When xanthine oxidase was prepared from fresh raw cow's milk in the presence of dithioerythritol, 94% of its xanthine-oxidizing activity was found as a dehydrogenase type. The enzyme was...
NAKAMURA, Masao, KUREBAYASHI, Hideo, YAMAZAKI, Isao
The percentage of one-electron reduction of p-benzoquinone and oxygen was measured in various reactions of xanthine-oxidizing enzymes using cytochrome c as a scavenger. The mechanism of...
Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth
Rosenstein-Rodan (1943) and others posit that rapid development requires a 'big push' -- the coordinated rapid growth of diverse complementary industries, and suggests a role for government in...
Technical change in a bubble economy: Japanese manufacturing firms in the 1990s
Takanobu Nakajima, Alice Nakamura, Emi Nakamura, Masao Nakamura
Technical change, Total factor productivity, Economies of scale, Japan, Index number method, O3, O47, O53, O49,
Been There, Done That -The History of Corporate Ownership in Japan
Japan’s corporate sector has, at different times in recent history, been organized according to every major model. Prior to World War II, wealth Japanese families locked in their control over large...
Alternative approaches to model choice
Nakamura, Alice Orcutt, Nakamura, Masao, Duleep, Harriet Orcutt
Banks and Corporate Control in Japan
Using a large sample of Japanese firm level data, we find that Japanese banks act primarily in the short term interests of creditors when dealing with firms outside bank groups. Corporate control...
The econometrics of female labor supply and children
Alice Nakamura, Masao Nakamura
This is a survey of applied econometric research on the effects of children on female labor supply. Reasons for interest in the topic, and a basic model and terminology, are reviewed. Concerns are...
Research alliances and collaborations: Introduction to the special issue
Masao Nakamura, Masao Nakamura
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Measuring the impact of US research consortia
Masao Nakamura, Mariko Sakakibara, Lee Branstetter
This paper empirically evaluates the impact of the US Advanced Technology Program-sponsored consortia on the ex-post research productivity of participating firms. We find that there is a positive...
Masao Nakamura, John Hagedoorn, Hans Van Kranenburg, Richard N. Osborn
R&D alliances and previous experience with the sharing of intellectual property rights are expected to have significant effects on joint patenting by alliance partners. Although so far un-researched,...
Explaining the growth of international R&D alliances in China
Masao Nakamura, Jiatao Li, Jing Zhong
This paper explores two key research questions: (1) what are the growth trends of international research and development (R&D) collaborations in China; and (2) what factors determine the choice of...
Knowledge sharing in cooperative research and development
Masao Nakamura, Mariko Sakakibara
This article examines the effects of knowledge sharing or endogenous spillovers among R&D consortia participants on R&D competition when R&D enhances a firm's absorptive capacity. A three-stage model...
Cooperative R&D and the Canadian forest products industry
Masao Nakamura, Masao Nakamura, Harry Nelson, Ilan Vertinsky
In the past decade the share of cooperative R&D has increased. In this paper, using a case study of the forest industry in Canada, the antecedents of cooperative R&D and the forms it take are...
Interaction between public research organizations and industry in biotechnology
This paper summarizes the most important findings of the literature on the close interaction between public research organizations and industry in biotechnology. The first question deals with why...
Masao Nakamura, Hiroyuki Odagiri
The boundaries of the firm are an important issue in relation not just with the make-or-buy decision in production but also with research and development (R&D). Firms depend on universities to gain...
Masao Nakamura, Hitoshi Hayami, Masao Nakamura, Kanji Yoshioka
The Kyoto Protocol agreed on in 1997 allows some flexibility for developed countries in their implementations of their commitments to reduce emissions of CO2 and other global warming gases. In...
Information failure as an alternative explanation of under investment in R&D
Masao Nakamura, Alice O. Nakamura, Peter Tiessen, W. Erwin Diewert
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Masao Nakamura, Pierre Mohnen, Cathy Hoareau
This paper tries to uncover some of the economic factors that encourage firms to seek information from universities and government labs or to collaborate with these institutions. We exploit the...
The performance of research partnerships
Masao Nakamura, Yannis Caloghirou, George Hondroyiannis, Nicholas S. Vonortas
This paper investigates partnership performance as perceived by individual partners. It taps into one of the most extensive sources of pertinent empirical information recently constructed in Europe....
Top-down Production Management: A Recent Trend in the Japanese Productivity-enhancement Movement
It is well known that many of the manufacturing practices advanced in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s emphasize bottom-up decision processes characterized by teams, the empowerment of multi-skilled...
Does Culture Matter in Inter-Firm Cooperation? Research Consortia in Japan and the USA
Masao Nakamura, Ilan Vertinsky, Charlene Zietsma
Collaborative research consortia allow firms to pursue scale and scope economies in research, finance large costly proposals, share risks, avoid unnecessary duplication, internalize the externalities...
Hitoshi Hayami, Masao Nakamura, Mikio Suga, Kanji Yoshioka
Environmental management requires, among other things, the incorporation of environmentally friendly technologies into production processes of environmentally friendly technologies into production...
Measuring Firms’ R&D Effects on Technical Progress: Japan in the 199
Emi Nakamura, Masao Nakamura (presenter), Takanobu Nakajima
One of the important public policy issues in science and technology is to ascertain if and how firms' investments in research and development (R&D) contribute to technical progress at firm and...
Innovation, Strategy and Canada's Forest Products Industry
Steven Globerman, Masao Nakamura, Karen Ruckman, Ilan Vertinsky
This study identifies the changes affecting the Canadian forest products industry and relates those changes to imperatives facing Canadian firms to modify their corporate and business-level...
Banks, Ownership Structure, and Firm Value in Japan.
Morck, Randall, Nakamura, Masao, Shivdasani, Anil
We investigate the relation between firms' ownership structures and q ratios in Japan. At low levels of ownership by main banks, firms' q ratios fall as bank equity ownership rises. At higher levels...
消化不良性中毒症に於ける肝臟の病理並に其の類似症に於ける肝臟變化との比較
著者は消化不良性中毒症の中毒症状發現に關し肝臟の意義を闡明ならしめんとして該症21例,對照例として中毒症状を伴はざる慢性消化不良症9例及び...