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Middle Ear Diseases and Surery Viewed from the Physioloy of Pressure Regulation

By: Haruo Takahashi

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Middle Ear Diseases and Surery Viewed from the Physioloy of Pressure Regulation

By: Haruo Takahashi

The physiology and pathophysiology of the ME viewed from its ventilation and pressure regulation both by the ET and TMGE are described in this book. This is one of the main research projects in which our department has been involved for several years. Although, as a matter of course, this is still far from a perfect job, I believe that several new findings that would not had been discovered had we only paid attention to the ET were obtained through these studies, and I sincerely hope that these findings are useful in the daily clinical practice of otology. The studies described herein have found that a well-pneumatized mastoid is important for ME ventilation and pressure regulation, and that mastoidectomy not only deprives the mastoid of this important physiological function but also probably causes postoperative recurrent cholesteatoma. It is therefore suggested that the mode of ME surgery should be carefully selected in line with the surgical intervention to the mastoid, and that irreversible and organic impairment of the TMGE function in the mastoid, as well as the ET function, are closely related to the pathogenesis of cholesteatoma, which is the worst sequelae of OME in children. Although I feel it is necessary to further clarify the pathogenesis of ME inflammatory diseases in order to develop new treatments on the basis of these findings, I believe this book will be useful for otologists in their daily clinical practice.

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9062998801

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Unfinished Business

Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937–1953

By: Haruo Iguchi

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Unfinished Business

Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937–1953

By: Haruo Iguchi

Ayukawa Yoshisuke (1880–1967) was the founder of the Nissan conglomerate and the leader of the Manchuria Industrial Development Corporation, one of the linchpins of Imperial Japan’s efforts to economically exploit its overseas dependencies. Despite his close association with the Japanese government from the 1920s to the 1950s, Ayukawa was a proponent of free trade and global economic interdependence. He sought to lessen state control of Japan’s economy by trying to attract foreign—especially American—capital and technology in the years surrounding World War II. In the postwar era in particular, Ayukawa actively pushed the growth of small- and medium-sized firms, yet his efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. In Unfinished Business, through exploring the reasons for Ayukawa’s failure, Haruo Iguchi illuminates many of the economic problems of today’s Japan.

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BRILL

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168417354X

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9781684173549

Usefulness of Acute Phase Reactant Score in the Neonatal Period

Managing Neonatal Infections

By: Toshihiko Nakamura,Haruo Goto

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Usefulness of Acute Phase Reactant Score in the Neonatal Period

Managing Neonatal Infections

By: Toshihiko Nakamura,Haruo Goto

In clinical practice, the most important points for accurately diagnosing neonatal infections are: immediate results at the bedside (quickness), accuracy of results (reliability), the degree of invasiveness to the sick baby is as low as possible (less invasiveness), the examination is not too expensive (cost performance), and the examination can be repeated (repeatability). This book describes the acute phase reactant (APR) score, in which one test item is 10 µL, and three APRs can be measured within 3 minutes in total at the bedside and scored. With clinicians’ keen observability and this APR score, neonatal infections can be confidently assessed. In addition, this book does not only refer to APR score, but also publishes the measurement results of cytokine profiles in comparison with APR scores throughout. This book will also increase understanding of the pathophysiology of neonatal infectious diseases.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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103640014X

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9781036400149

Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons

Nature, Literature, and the Arts

By: Haruo Shirane

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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons

Nature, Literature, and the Arts

By: Haruo Shirane

Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings of this imagery. Shirane discusses textual, cultivated, material, performative, and gastronomic representations of nature. He reveals how this kind of 'secondary nature, ' which flourished in Japan's urban environment, fostered and idealized a sense of harmony with the natural world just at the moment when it began to recede from view. Illuminating the deeper meaning behind Japanese aesthetics and artifacts, Shirane also clarifies the use of natural and seasonal topics as well as the changes in their cultural associations and functions across history, genre, and community over more than a millennium. In this book, the four seasons are revealed to be as much a cultural construction as a reflection of the physical world."--Back cover.

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Columbia University Press

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0231152817

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9780231152815

Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogeneous Earth : Second Edition

By: Haruo Sato,Michael C. Fehler,Takuto Maeda

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Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogeneous Earth : Second Edition

By: Haruo Sato,Michael C. Fehler,Takuto Maeda

Seismic waves - generated both by natural earthquakes and by man-made sources - have produced an enormous amount of information about the Earth's interior. In classical seismology, the Earth is modeled as a sequence of uniform horizontal layers (or spherical shells) having different elastic properties and one determines these properties from travel times and dispersion of seismic waves. The Earth, however, is not made of horizontally uniform layers, and classic seismic methods can take large-scale inhomogeneities into account. Smaller-scale irregularities, on the other hand, require other methods. Observations of continuous wave trains that follow classic direct S waves, known as coda waves, have shown that there are heterogeneities of random size scattered randomly throughout the layers of the classic seismic model. This book focuses on recent developments in the area of seismic wave propagation and scattering through the randomly heterogeneous structure of the Earth, with emphasis on the lithosphere. The presentation combines information from many sources to present a coherent introduction to the theory of scattering in acoustic and elastic materials and includes analyses of observations using the theoretical methods developed. The second edition especially includes new observational facts such as the spatial variation of medium inhomogeneities and the temporal change in scattering characteristics and recent theoretical developments in the envelope synthesis in random media for the last ten years. Mathematics is thoroughly rewritten for improving the readability. Written for advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students of geophysics or planetary sciences, this book should also be of interest to civil engineers, seismologists, acoustical engineers, and others interested in wave propagation through inhomogeneous elastic media.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642230288

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The Bridge of Dreams

A Poetics of ‘The Tale of Genji’

By: Haruo Shirane

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The Bridge of Dreams

A Poetics of ‘The Tale of Genji’

By: Haruo Shirane

The Bridge of Dreams is a brilliant reading of The Tale of Genji that succeeds both as a sophisticated work of literary criticism and as an introduction this world masterpiece. Taking account of current literary theory and a long tradition of Japanese commentary, the author guides both the general reader and the specialist to a new appreciation of the structure and poetics of this complex and often seemingly baffling work. The Tale of Genji, written in the early eleventh century by a court lady, Murasaki Shikibu, is Japan's most outstanding work of prose fiction. Though bearing a striking resemblance to the modern psychological novel, the Genji was not conceived and written as a single work and then published and distributed to a mass audience as novels are today. Instead, it was issued in limited installments, sequence by sequence, to an extremely circumscribed, aristocratic audience. This study discusses the growth and evolution of the Genji and the manner in which recurrent concerns--political, social, and religious--are developed, subverted, and otherwise transformed as the work evolves from one stage to another. Throughout, the author analyzes the Genji in the context of those literary works and conventions that Murasaki explicitly or implicitly presupposed her contemporary audience to know, and reveals how the Genji works both within and against the larger literary and sociopolitical tradition. The book contains a color frontispiece by a seventeenth-century artist and eight pages of black-and-white illustrations from a twelfth-century scroll. Two appendixes present an analysis of biographical and textual problems and a detailed index of principal characters.

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Stanford University Press

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0804717192

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9780804717199

Teletraffic

Theory and Applications

By: Haruo Akimaru,Konosuke Kawashima

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Teletraffic

Theory and Applications

By: Haruo Akimaru,Konosuke Kawashima

Telecommunications systems have been evolving from the conventional telephone network that mainly deals with voice, to the ISDN (integrated services digital net work) integrating voice, data and image. Moreover, the ATM (asynchronous trans fer mode) and optical switching technologies are being developed for the broadband ISDN which can handle the high speed video communications as well. Computer networks are also progressing from centralized TSS (time-sharing system) to dis tributed LAN (local area network) and VAN (value added network). In the research, development, design and operation of such telecommunications and computer networks, the important problems are determining the optimum con figuration and dimensions of the systems for providing a given performance or GOS (grade of service). The teletraflic theory, the basis for the performance evaluation and the dimensioning, has been studied along with the switching technology, and has developed rapidly by incorporating the recent advances in OR (operations research) and queueing theory. However, it is sometimes difficult for non-experts of teletraffic to understand and apply these theories, because they require a deep mathematical background.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447133625

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9781447133629

A Gathering Darkness

The Coming of War to the Far East and the Pacific, 1921–1942

By: Haruo Tohmatsu,H. P. Willmott

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A Gathering Darkness

The Coming of War to the Far East and the Pacific, 1921–1942

By: Haruo Tohmatsu,H. P. Willmott

The United States' involvement in World War II began with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. But for Japan, the conflict began at a much earlier date. This book focuses on Japan and the events in its military history leading up to and including Pearl Harbor. Unique in its perspective, A Gathering Darkness shows how historical events in the 1920s and 1930s steered the country into war with America and its allies. A Gathering Darkness looks at what happened inside Japan in the 1920s to change its outlook on the West. There was a general repudiation of western values by Japanese society, and Japan turned its back on the outside world and an international order that were making life difficult for the country. The treaties made in Washington in the 1920s left Japan with a local supremacy that no other power, including Britain and the United States, could challenge on the account of their lack of forward bases and their commitments that precluded full deployment of forces in the western Pacific. A Gathering Darkness shows why Japan became increasingly militant in the 1930s. The authors look at Japanese military involvement in Manchuria beginning in September 1931. They cover the beginning of Japan's involvement in China in 1937, a conflict in which Japan would up in a deadlock with the China theater of operations in the period 1939–1941. The book then analyzes the first five months of the Pacific War, including the Pearl Harbor strike and the synchronization of offensive operations across more than four thousand miles of ocean. It also investigates the dilemma Japan faced as it realized in early 1942 that the United States was not going to collapse. A Gathering Darkness is the first volume in SR Books' trilogy on the Pacific War. This book offers a fascinating look at the prelude to the Pacific War and the early stages of the conflict that no one interested in World War II, military history, or Japanese history will want to miss.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742581268

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9780742581265

Traces of Dreams

Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho

By: Haruo Shirane

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Traces of Dreams

Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho

By: Haruo Shirane

Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and this book establishes the ground for badly needed critical discussion of this critical figure by placing the works of Basho and his disciples in the context of broader social change.

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Stanford University Press

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0804730997

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Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogenous Earth

By: Haruo Sato,Michael C. Fehler

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Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogenous Earth

By: Haruo Sato,Michael C. Fehler

Seismic waves – generated both by natural earthquakes and by man-made sources – have produced an enormous amount of information about the Earth's interior. In classical seismology, the Earth is modeled as a sequence of uniform horizontal layers (or sperical shells) having different elastic properties and one determines these properties from travel times and dispersion of seismic waves. The Earth, however, is not made of horizontally uniform layers, and classic seismic methods can take large-scale inhomogeneities into account. Smaller-scale irregularities, on the other hand, require other methods. Observations of continuous wave trains that follow classic direct S waves, known as coda waves, have shown that there are heterogeneities of random size scattered randomly throughout the layers of the classic seismic model. This book focuses on recent developments in the area of seismic wave propagation and scattering through the randomly heterogeneous structure of the Earth, with emphasis on the lithosphere. The presentation combines information from many sources to present a coherent introduction to the theory of scattering in acoustic and elastic materials and includes analyses of observations using the theoretical methods developed.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540896236

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9783540896234

How Enzymes Work

From Structure to Function

By: Haruo Suzuki

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How Enzymes Work

From Structure to Function

By: Haruo Suzuki

The first edition of this book covered the basic treatment of the enzyme reaction using the overall reaction kinetics and stopped-flow method, the general properties of protein and cofactors, the control of enzyme reaction, and the preparation of enzyme protein. These topics are the basis of enzyme research and thus suitable for the beginner in the field. The second edition presents the cofactors produced via the post-translational modification of the enzyme’s active site. These cofactors expand the function of enzymes and open a new research field. The carbonyl reagent phenylhydrazine and related compounds have been useful in finding some of the newly discovered cofactors and thus have been discussed in this edition. The topic of the control of enzyme activity through the channel of substrates and products in polyfunctional enzymes has also been expanded in this book.

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CRC Press

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1000681432

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9781000681437

Mysteries in Muscle Contraction

Evidence against Current Dogmas

By: Haruo Sugi

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Mysteries in Muscle Contraction

Evidence against Current Dogmas

By: Haruo Sugi

This book explores the author’s wide-ranging work on muscle research, which spans more than 50 years. It delves into the dogmas of muscle contraction: how the models were constructed and what was overlooked during the process, including their resulting shortcomings. The text stimulates general readers’ and researchers’ interest, highlights the author’s pioneering work on the electron microscopic recording of myosin head power and recovery strokes, and presents a frank discussion on how the original work sometimes tends to be overlooked by competing scientists, who hinder the progress of science.

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1351590480

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The Tales of the Heike

By: Burton Watson,Haruo Shirane

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The Tales of the Heike

By: Burton Watson,Haruo Shirane

The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike and changed the course of Japanese history. The Tales of the Heike focuses on the lives of both the samurai warriors who fought for two powerful twelfth-century Japanese clans-the Heike (Taira) and the Genji (Minamoto)-and the women with whom they were intimately connected. The Tales of the Heike provides a dramatic window onto the emerging world of the medieval samurai and recounts in absorbing detail the chaos of the battlefield, the intrigue of the imperial court, and the gradual loss of a courtly tradition. The book is also highly religious and Buddhist in its orientation, taking up such issues as impermanence, karmic retribution, attachment, and renunciation, which dominated the Japanese imagination in the medieval period. In this new, abridged translation, Burton Watson offers a gripping rendering of the work's most memorable episodes. Particular to this translation are the introduction by Haruo Shirane, the woodblock illustrations, a glossary of characters, and an extended bibliography.

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Columbia University Press

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0231510837

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9780231510837

Traditional Japanese Literature

An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, Abridged Edition

By: Haruo Shirane

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Traditional Japanese Literature

An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, Abridged Edition

By: Haruo Shirane

Haruo Shirane's critically acclaimed Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, contains key examples of both high and low styles of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays. For this abridged edition, Shirane retains substantial excerpts from such masterworks as The Tale of Genji, The Tales of the Heike, The Pillow Book, the Man'yoshu, and the Kokinshu. He preserves his comprehensive survey of secular and religious anecdotes (setsuwa) as well as classical poems with extensive commentary. He features no drama; selections from influential war epics; and notable essays on poetry, fiction, history, and religion. Texts are interwoven to bring into focus common themes, styles, and allusions while inviting comparison and debate. The result is a rich encounter with ancient and medieval Japanese culture and history. Each text and genre is enhanced by extensive introductions that provide sociopolitical and cultural context. The anthology is organized by period, genre, and topic—an instructor-friendly structure—and a comprehensive bibliography guides readers toward further study. Praise for Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 "Haruo Shirane has done a splendid job at this herculean task."—Joshua Mostow, University of British Columbia "A comprehensive and innovative anthology.... All of the introductions are excellent."—Journal of Asian Studies "One of those impressive, erudite, must-have titles for anyone interested in Asian literature."—Bloomsbury Review "An anthology that comprises superb translations of an exceptionally wide range of texts.... Highly recommended."—Choice "A wealth of material."—Monumenta Nipponica

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Columbia University Press

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0231504535

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9780231504539

Coyote Ragtime Show

By: Haruo Sotozaki

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Coyote Ragtime Show

By: Haruo Sotozaki

Franca, Mister, and their band of coyotes have only seven days to find Pirate King Bruce's treasure, which is hidden somewhere on a doomed planet--and they must find it before Madame Marciano and her gang 12 Sisters do.

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1597411566

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9781597411561

Middle Ear Diseases and Surery Viewed from the Physioloy of Pressure Regulation

By: Haruo Takahashi

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Middle Ear Diseases and Surery Viewed from the Physioloy of Pressure Regulation

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Middle Ear Diseases and Surery Viewed from the Physioloy of Pressure Regulation

Middle Ear Diseases and Surery Viewed from the Physioloy of Pressure Regulation

Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business

Usefulness of Acute Phase Reactant Score in the Neonatal Period

Usefulness of Acute Phase Reactant Score in the Neonatal Period

Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons

Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons

Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogeneous Earth : Second Edition

Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogeneous Earth : Second Edition

The Bridge of Dreams

The Bridge of Dreams

Teletraffic

Teletraffic

A Gathering Darkness

A Gathering Darkness

Traces of Dreams

Traces of Dreams

Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogenous Earth

Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogenous Earth

How Enzymes Work

How Enzymes Work

Mysteries in Muscle Contraction

Mysteries in Muscle Contraction

The Tales of the Heike

The Tales of the Heike

Traditional Japanese Literature

Traditional Japanese Literature

Coyote Ragtime Show

Coyote Ragtime Show

Middle Ear Diseases and Surery Viewed from the Physioloy of Pressure Regulation

Middle Ear Diseases and Surery Viewed from the Physioloy of Pressure Regulation

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