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Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing

ISSN for PRINT: 1065-3090

Institutional price:	$586.00
Issues per year:	4

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2003, Volume10

162 pages

DOI: 10.1615/JFlowVisImageProc.v10.i12

Issue price - $280.00

CULTURAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT MODEL USING DISCRETE WAVELETS. A STUDY OF LETTERS IN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

N. Morohoshi
Shirayuri College, 1-25 Midorigaoka, Tokyo, Japan

H. Tsuchiya
Shirayuri College, 1-25 Midorigaoka, Tokyo, Japan

Kiyoshi Horii
Shirayuri College, 1-25 Midorigaoka, Chofu-shi, Tokyo 182-8525, JAPAN

Yoshifuru Saito
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, College of Technology, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

ABSTRACT

A new objective method for receptivity of cross-cultural values has been developed using discrete wavelets. This method has been applied to 21 letters written by Hart. They were included in her autobiography Once in a Lifetime that recounts her experience before and after the studies in the U.S. The receptivity process of American culture in Yasuko Hart’s heart and mind was visualized as a W-curve. The results also suggested common cross-cultural development models. This is the first attempt to analyze the sentences used in the private letters.