Makoto Yoshida's Books

Suppose Design Office

Building in a Social Context

By: Ai Yoshida,Makoto Tanijiri

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Suppose Design Office

Building in a Social Context

By: Ai Yoshida,Makoto Tanijiri

A book showcasing the projects of Japanese architecture firm Suppose Design Office, founded by Makoto Tanijiri and Ai Yoshida. This is the first collection of works from the viewpoint of multiplicity and the design thinking of the creative team at Suppose Design Office, who are always seeking for something new. Based on an architectural perspective, the firm defines its work as discovering fresh ideas, new styles of buildings and new relationships between all interactive elements. They have designed workspaces, landscapes, products, art installations and more than 100 houses. Their interest in the problem-solving and creative challenges of architecture extends through all scales and budgets from ‘doghouses to skyscrapers’. Both the new and the familiar inform their search for fresh solutions to the issues of everyday life, which is explained in this book. This monograph offers an exclusive peek into the working life of a world-renowned design firm. By explaining the design processes for creating interior architecture, it is a vital book for anyone in the design industry, from interior designer to manufacturer, and from architect to space designer, as well as students, agencies and professionals in the whole design sector. About the Author Makoto Tanijiri is one of the founding architects of Suppose Design Office. He is also a professor at Musashino Art University, Osaka University of Arts and Anabuki Design College. Ai Yoshida is one of the founding architects of Suppose Design Office. Features - Readers gain complete insight in the working methods of the architectural firm Suppose Design Office. - In-depth features of the different design projects realised by the firm’s founders Makoto Tanijiri and Ai Yoshida their team. - This is the first ever book about the work of Suppose Design Office and gives an in-depth look at the design processes. - Tanijiri and Yoshida define their work as a chance to realise fresh ideas about buildings and the relationships of all interactive elements.

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Frame Publishers

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9492311151

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9789492311153

The Era of Great Disasters

Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes

By: Makoto Iokibe

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The Era of Great Disasters

Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes

By: Makoto Iokibe

The Era of Great Disasters examines modern disaster response in Japan, from the changing earthquake preparations and regulations, to immediate emergency procedures from the national, prefectural, and city levels, and finally the evolving efforts of rebuilding and preparing for the next great disaster in the hopes of minimizing their tragic effects. This book focuses on three major earthquakes from Japan’s modern history. The first is the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, which struck the capital region. The second is the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, affecting the area between Kobe and Osaka. The third is the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the magnitude 9.0 quake that struck off the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region, causing a devastating tsunami and nuclear accident. While the events of (and around) each of these earthquakes are unique, Professor Iokibe brings his deep expertise and personal experience to each disaster, unveiling not only the disasters themselves but the humanity underneath. In each case, he gives attention and gratitude to those who labored to save lives and restore the communities affected, from the individuals on the scene to government officials and military personnel and emergency responders, in the hope that we might learn from the past and move forward with greater wisdom, knowledge, and common purpose.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472054678

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9780472054671

A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots

A Social History of Japanese Television, 1953 - 1973

By: Jayson Makoto Chun

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A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots

A Social History of Japanese Television, 1953 - 1973

By: Jayson Makoto Chun

This book offers a history of Japanese television audiences and the popular media culture that television helped to spawn. In a comparatively short period, the television industry helped to reconstruct not only postwar Japanese popular culture, but also the Japanese social and political landscape. During the early years of television, Japanese of all backgrounds, from politicians to mothers, debated the effects on society. The public discourse surrounding the growth of television revealed its role in forming the identity of postwar Japan during the era of high-speed growth (1955-1973) that saw Japan transformed into an economic power and one of the world's top exporters of television programming.

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Routledge

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1135869766

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9781135869762

Knowledge and Inference

By: Makoto Nagao

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Knowledge and Inference

By: Makoto Nagao

Knowledge and Inference discusses an important problem for software systems: How do we treat knowledge and ideas on a computer and how do we use inference to solve problems on a computer? The book talks about the problems of knowledge and inference for the purpose of merging artificial intelligence and library science. The book begins by clarifying the concept of ""knowledge"" from many points of view, followed by a chapter on the current state of library science and the place of artificial intelligence in library science. Subsequent chapters cover central topics in the artificial intelligence: search and problem solving, methods of making proofs, and the use of knowledge in looking for a proof. There is also a discussion of how to use the knowledge system. The final chapter describes a popular expert system. It describes tools for building expert systems using an example based on Expert Systems—A Practical Introduction by P. Sell (Macmillian, 1985). This type of software is called an ""expert system shell."" This book was written as a textbook for undergraduate students covering only the basics but explaining as much detail as possible.

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Elsevier

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1483267067

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9781483267067

Muscle Physiology and Biochemistry

By: Shoichi Imai,Makoto Endo,Iwao Ohtsuki

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Muscle Physiology and Biochemistry

By: Shoichi Imai,Makoto Endo,Iwao Ohtsuki

The papers in this volume were contributed by close friends, co-workers and pupils of Professor Setsuro Ebashi. They are dedicated to him to commemorate his great and pioneering contribution to the advancement of muscle physiology and biochemistry, which, in time, exerted a great influence on the whole field of life science. We believe that this issue reveals the present state of research on muscle and/or calcium that was opened up by Professor Ebashi.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461555434

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9781461555438

Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature

By: Makoto Ueda

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Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature

By: Makoto Ueda

A Stanford University Press classic.

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Stanford University Press

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0804711666

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9780804711661

Optimization and Anti-optimization of Structures Under Uncertainty

By: Isaac Elishakoff,Makoto Ohsaki

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Optimization and Anti-optimization of Structures Under Uncertainty

By: Isaac Elishakoff,Makoto Ohsaki

The volume presents a collaboration between internationally recognized experts on anti-optimization and structural optimization, and summarizes various novel ideas, methodologies and results studied over 20 years. The book vividly demonstrates how the concept of uncertainty should be incorporated in a rigorous manner during the process of designing real-world structures. The necessity of anti-optimization approach is first demonstrated, then the anti-optimization techniques are applied to static, dynamic and buckling problems, thus covering the broadest possible set of applications. Finally, anti-optimization is fully utilized by a combination of structural optimization to produce the optimal design considering the worst-case scenario. This is currently the only book that covers the combination of optimization and anti-optimization. It shows how various optimization techniques are used in the novel anti-optimization technique, and how the structural optimization can be exponentially enhanced by incorporating the concept of worst-case scenario, thereby increasing the safety of the structures designed in various fields of engineering.

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World Scientific

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1848164777

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9781848164772

Bioinspired Actuators and Sensors

By: Minoru Taya,Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh,Makoto Mizunami,Shûhei Nomura

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Bioinspired Actuators and Sensors

By: Minoru Taya,Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh,Makoto Mizunami,Shûhei Nomura

From authors renowned in the fields of engineering and biology, this is the first book to integrate sensor and actuator technology with bioinspired design. Beginning with detailed descriptions of actuation and sensing mechanisms in plants and animals, the authors move on to apply these principles to synthetic design, offering in-depth knowledge of the development of state-of-the-art smart materials and devices. All of this is supported with a range of real-world applications, from tactile sensory systems in insects linked with the development of robotic hands, to the structural colour systems in nature used to inspire camouflage technology. Further examples are given of successful designs along with their integrated autonomous systems, such as flying and swimming, unmanned systems, and autonomous zero-energy building design. With a wide interdisciplinary appeal, this is an ideal resource for any student, practising engineer, or researcher interested in the connection between natural systems and synthetic design.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316571602

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9781316571606

Thin film materials technology

sputtering of control compound materials

By: Kiyotaka Wasa,Makoto Kitabatake,Hideaki Adachi

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Thin film materials technology

sputtering of control compound materials

By: Kiyotaka Wasa,Makoto Kitabatake,Hideaki Adachi

This title contains rich historical coverage of the basics and new experimental and technological information about ceramic thin film and large-area functional coating. Included are principles and examples of making thin-film materials and devices.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540211187

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9783540211181

Curing Lives

Surviving the HIV Epidemic in Ethiopia

By: Makoto Nishi

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Curing Lives

Surviving the HIV Epidemic in Ethiopia

By: Makoto Nishi

This is a book about life during the HIV epidemic in Ethiopia, and seeks to understand how and why the global effort to achieve universal HIV treatment has shifted away from its initial focus on the excessive human suffering precipitated by the epidemic. When antiretroviral drugs became available in Ethiopia, they emerged as powerful agents of change: not only did they cure individuals, they also helped people overcome their fear of – and break the silence around – AIDS, while healing the social ruptures caused by the epidemic. Nevertheless, as this book argues, the very same agents have silently “reversed” these changes over the course of the past decade. These reversals have dissolved connections, re-incurred invisible social fissures, and allowed a large majority of people to stay indifferent to the suffering of individuals whose lives remain vulnerable under the current treatment regime. This whole process is a product of neoliberal global health interventions that determine which lives are worthy or unworthy of investment. This book will interest scholars of biopolitics and public health, those who study the developing world, and those interested in how pandemic interventions alter the lives of many.

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Springer Nature

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9819918316

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9789819918317

Biocontrol of Plant Diseases by Bacillus subtilis

Basic and Practical Applications

By: Makoto Shoda

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Biocontrol of Plant Diseases by Bacillus subtilis

Basic and Practical Applications

By: Makoto Shoda

Plant diseases are a serious threat to food production. This unique volume provides the fundamental knowledge and practical use of B.subtilis as a promising biocontrol agent. In order to replace chemical pesticides, one possibility is microbial pesticides using safe microbes. Bacillus subtilis is one of several candidates. Screening of the bacterium, the application of plant tests, clarification of its suppressive mechanism to plant pathogens and engineering aspects of suppressive peptides production are presented here. The author illustrates how B. subtilis is far more advantageous than, for example, Pseudomonas in biocontrol and can be considered as an useful candidate. Features: Bacterium B. subtilis suppresses many plant pathogens and is a biocontrol agent to replace chemical pesticides The book presents the bacterium's suppressive mechanism to plant pathogens, and engineering aspects of suppressive peptides production Biological control of plant disease plays an important role in sustainable agricultural production practices and is expected to replace agricultural chemicals

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CRC Press

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0429643101

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9780429643101

Vinland Saga

By: Makoto Yukimura

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Vinland Saga

By: Makoto Yukimura

A KING IS BORN Pushed to the brink of despair after his father attempted to have him killed, Prince Canute has experienced an awakening, transforming him from a timid, gentle boy into a clear-eyed man with the heart of a king. But a king needs a crown, and Canute now knows that nothing will be given to him. If he wants to rule, he will have to prove his ruthlessness with a plot that will change the fate of the kingdom and spatter the throne with blood! Meanwhile, Thorfinn watches events unfold that could steal away the vengeance he has waited so long to achieve...

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Kodansha Comics

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1612626998

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9781612626994

Joint Utterance Construction in Japanese Conversation

By: Makoto Hayashi

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Joint Utterance Construction in Japanese Conversation

By: Makoto Hayashi

This book focuses on how participants in Japanese conversation negotiate and achieve joint courses of action within a single turn at talk. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis as a central framework, this book describes in detail the structures and procedures used by Japanese speakers to jointly produce a coherent grammatical unit-in-progress, and explores the range of social actions that speakers accomplish by employing that practice. This study is part of a larger project intended to investigate how humans achieve intricate coordination of their behavior with that of co-participants in everyday social encounters and how language plays a constitutive part in making such micro-level social coordination possible. Through a close examination of joint utterance construction in Japanese, this book contributes to a growing body of research into the mutual influence between the grammatical organization of language and the organization of situated human conduct in social interaction.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027226229

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9789027226228

Tensegrity Structures

Form, Stability, and Symmetry

By: Jing Yao Zhang,Makoto Ohsaki

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Tensegrity Structures

Form, Stability, and Symmetry

By: Jing Yao Zhang,Makoto Ohsaki

To facilitate a deeper understanding of tensegrity structures, this book focuses on their two key design problems: self-equilibrium analysis and stability investigation. In particular, high symmetry properties of the structures are extensively utilized. Conditions for self-equilibrium as well as super-stability of tensegrity structures are presented in detail. An analytical method and an efficient numerical method are given for self-equilibrium analysis of tensegrity structures: the analytical method deals with symmetric structures and the numerical method guarantees super-stability. Utilizing group representation theory, the text further provides analytical super-stability conditions for the structures that are of dihedral as well as tetrahedral symmetry. This book not only serves as a reference for engineers and scientists but is also a useful source for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. Keeping this objective in mind, the presentation of the book is self-contained and detailed, with an abundance of figures and examples.

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Springer

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4431548130

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9784431548133

The Okinawa Program

How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health--And How You Can Too

By: Bradley J. Willcox,D. Craig Willcox,Makoto Suzuki

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The Okinawa Program

How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health--And How You Can Too

By: Bradley J. Willcox,D. Craig Willcox,Makoto Suzuki

“If Americans lived more like the Okinawans, 80 percent of the nation’s coronary care units, one-third of the cancer wards, and a lot of the nursing homes would be shut down.” —From The Okinawa Program The Okinawa Program, authored by a team of internationally renowned experts, is based on the landmark scientifically documented twenty-five-year Okinawa Centenarian Study, a Japanese Ministry of health–sponsored study. This breakthrough book reveals the diet, exercise, and lifestyle practices that make the Okinawans the healthiest and longest-lived population in the world. With an easy-to-follow Four-Week Turnaround Plan, nearly one hundred fast, delicious recipes, and a moderate exercise plan, The Okinawa Program can dramatically increase your chances for a long, healthy life

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Harmony

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0609807501

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9780609807507

Stability and Optimization of Structures

Generalized Sensitivity Analysis

By: Makoto Ohsaki,Kiyohiro Ikeda

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Stability and Optimization of Structures

Generalized Sensitivity Analysis

By: Makoto Ohsaki,Kiyohiro Ikeda

This book focuses on the optimization of a geometrically-nonlinear structure under stability constraint. It presents a deep insight into optimization-based and computer-assisted stability design of discrete structures. Coverage combines design sensitivity analysis developed in structural optimization and imperfection-sensitivity analysis developed in stability analysis.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387681841

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9780387681849

Regional Development Through Ecological Business

Unique Cases in Japanese Rural Regions

By: Makoto Hirano

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Regional Development Through Ecological Business

Unique Cases in Japanese Rural Regions

By: Makoto Hirano

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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0415694418

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9780415694414

Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) in Bangladesh

By: Tapan Kumar Nath,Mohammed Jashimuddin,Makoto Inoue

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Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) in Bangladesh

By: Tapan Kumar Nath,Mohammed Jashimuddin,Makoto Inoue

The book is immensely beneficial to the readers to have a clear understanding of various CBFM practices prevailing in Bangladesh.Providing a comprehensive and critical analysis of success stories concerning several CBFM practices in different forest areas of Bangladesh, together with their respective strengths and weaknesses, it identifies sharing authority to take decision by the community as one of the main weaknesses. The other main weakness is the lack of beat level authority to coordinate with community for making the process vibrant. The book determines that it is the community patrol group which is most effective under the co-management system, yet the general body and executive committee of the co-management system are composed of different stakeholders, each of which is subject to their own work pressures, and are not as effective as claimed. There is a need to empower communities living in and around forests, and to create ownership of the forests so that they can feel that the forests around them are by the community and for the community.

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Springer

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3319423878

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9783319423876

Punctured Torus Groups and 2-Bridge Knot Groups (I)

By: Hirotaka Akiyoshi,Makoto Sakuma,Masaaki Wada,Yasushi Yamashita

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Punctured Torus Groups and 2-Bridge Knot Groups (I)

By: Hirotaka Akiyoshi,Makoto Sakuma,Masaaki Wada,Yasushi Yamashita

Here is the first part of a work that provides a full account of Jorgensen's theory of punctured torus Kleinian groups and its generalization. It offers an elementary and self-contained description of Jorgensen's theory with a complete proof. Through various informative illustrations, readers are naturally led to an intuitive, synthetic grasp of the theory, which clarifies how a very simple fuchsian group evolves into complicated Kleinian groups.

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3540718079

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9783540718079

Basic Atomic Interactions of Accelerated Heavy Ions in Matter

Atomic Interactions of Heavy Ions

By: Inga Tolstikhina,Makoto Imai,Nicolas Winckler,Viacheslav Shevelko

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Basic Atomic Interactions of Accelerated Heavy Ions in Matter

Atomic Interactions of Heavy Ions

By: Inga Tolstikhina,Makoto Imai,Nicolas Winckler,Viacheslav Shevelko

This book provides an overview of the recent experimental and theoretical results on interactions of heavy ions with gaseous, solid and plasma targets from the perspective of atomic physics. The topics discussed comprise stopping power, multiple-electron loss and capture processes, equilibrium and non-equilibrium charge-state fractions in penetration of fast ion beams through matter including relativistic domain. It also addresses mean charge-states and equilibrium target thickness in ion-beam penetrations, isotope effects in low-energy electron capture, lifetimes of heavy ion beams, semi-empirical formulae for effective cross sections. The book is intended for researchers and graduate students working in atomic, plasma and accelerator physics.

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3319749927

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9783319749921

Stochastic Processes

Selected Papers of Hiroshi Tanaka

By: Hiroshi Tanaka,Makoto Maejima,Tokuzo Shiga

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Stochastic Processes

Selected Papers of Hiroshi Tanaka

By: Hiroshi Tanaka,Makoto Maejima,Tokuzo Shiga

A selection of Hiroshi Tanaka's brilliant works on stochastic processes and related topics.

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World Scientific

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9810245912

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9789810245917

Dew on the Grass

The Life and Poetry of Kobayashi Issa

By: Makoto Ueda

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Dew on the Grass

The Life and Poetry of Kobayashi Issa

By: Makoto Ueda

This book sketches the life and poetry of Kobayishi Issa, a major Japanese haiku poet, and tries to identify the sources of his bold individualism and all-embracing humanism in terms of his long and checkered carrier.

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BRILL

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9004137238

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9789004137233

Heterogeneous Catalysis of Mixed Oxides

Chapter 4. Catalysis of Heteropoly Compounds (Polyoxometalates)

By: Makoto Misono

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Heterogeneous Catalysis of Mixed Oxides

Chapter 4. Catalysis of Heteropoly Compounds (Polyoxometalates)

By: Makoto Misono

The chemistry and catalysis of solid heteropoly compounds are described. Heteropoly compounds are heteropolyanions and their derivatives that maintain the polyanion structure (metal oxide clusters), and catalysts of which the compounds are the essential components are called heteropoly catalyst. Heteropoly compounds are called polyoxometalates as well. First, the structure and chemical properties of heteropoly compounds are summarized, emphasizing the acidic and redox properties. The polyanion structure can be preserved in the solid state, if appropriate cautions are paid, and the acid and redox properties can be controlled in a wide range by choosing the polyanion structure and constituent elements. These are the remarkable advantages of the heteropoly catalysts. Then the catalysis and catalyst design of the heteropoly compounds are described in detail. There are actually several industrial processes using heteropoly catalysts as solid acids and oxidation catalysts. It is important to recognize the presence of hierarchical structures (primary, secondary, and tertiary structures) and three major types of catalysis (surface-type and two bulk-type catalyses). Due to this, catalyst design becomes more realistic and unique properties like shape-selective catalysis develop. Moreover, the dynamic behavior of protons and organic molecules can be elucidated by spectroscopic techniques.

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0128081112

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9780128081112

Optical Fiber Telecommunications VIA

Chapter 6. Nanophotonics for Low-Power Switches

By: Lars Thylen,Petter Holmström,Lech Wosinski,Bozena Jaskorzynska,Makoto Naruse,Tadashi Kawazoe,Motoichi Ohtsu,Min Yan,Marco Fiorentino,Urban Westergren

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Optical Fiber Telecommunications VIA

Chapter 6. Nanophotonics for Low-Power Switches

By: Lars Thylen,Petter Holmström,Lech Wosinski,Bozena Jaskorzynska,Makoto Naruse,Tadashi Kawazoe,Motoichi Ohtsu,Min Yan,Marco Fiorentino,Urban Westergren

This chapter treats several approaches for employing nanophotonics or near-nanophotonics concepts to create low-power switches. The partly interrelated issues of low-power dissipation and small device footprint are elucidated and figures of merit for switches formulated. Both optically and electronically controlled optical switches are treated and the crucial role of material development emphasized, illustrated by several examples, including both theoretical analysis of switch concepts and experimentally realized switches. Thus, electronically controlled switches based on hybrid, metamaterial, and nanoparticle plasmonics, electrooptic polymers as well as switches based on silicon and photonic crystals are discussed. The all-optical switches focus on third-order nonlinear effects and carrier-induced refractive index changes in III–V materials, as well as on emerging concepts of near-field-coupled quantum-dot switches. A brief comparison to electronic switches is done.

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0128060603

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9780128060605

Strong Money Demand in Financing War and Peace

The Cases of Wartime and Contemporary Japan

By: Makoto Saito

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Strong Money Demand in Financing War and Peace

The Cases of Wartime and Contemporary Japan

By: Makoto Saito

This book theoretically and empirically investigates the emergence of strong money demand in wartime Japan (1937–1945), its disappearance after the end of the war (1945–1949), and the reemergence of strong money demand in contemporary Japan (from 1995 to the present) in terms of the effects on fiscal activities and the price level. An augmented fiscal/monetary theory of the price level is constructed from a close examination of the strong money demand present in these periods. Then, profoundly puzzling phenomena such as mild deflation despite monetary expansion, low long-term interest rates despite fiscal unsustainability, and weak aggregate demand despite near-zero rates of interest, all of which are actually being observed in contemporary Japan, can now be interpreted in line with the above augmented theory. In the present, strong money demand at near-zero rates endows the Japanese government with maximum fiscal flexibility. However, if it disappeared for some reason, prices would surge to the quantity theory of money level, and fiscal sustainability would have to be restored. In the future, alternative currency units issued by private banks might carry out a purge of such strong demand for the yen.

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204

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Springer Nature

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9811624461

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9789811624469

Basho and His Interpreters

Selected Hokku with Commentary

By: Makoto Ueda

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Basho and His Interpreters

Selected Hokku with Commentary

By: Makoto Ueda

This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present in a new English translation 255 representative hokku (or haiku) poems of Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the Japanese poet who is generally considered the most influential figure in the history of the genre. The second is to make available in English a wide spectrum of Japanese critical commentary on the poems over the last three hundred years.

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Stanford University Press

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0804725268

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9780804725262

Lesson Study

A Japanese Approach To Improving Mathematics Teaching and Learning

By: Clea Fernandez,Makoto Yoshida

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Lesson Study

A Japanese Approach To Improving Mathematics Teaching and Learning

By: Clea Fernandez,Makoto Yoshida

Lesson study is a popular professional development approach in Japan whereby teachers collaborate to study content, instruction, and how students solve problems and reach for understanding in order to improve elementary mathematics instruction and learning in the classroom. This book is the first comprehensive look at the system and process of lesson study in Japan. It describes in detail the process of how teachers conducted lesson study--how they collaborated in order to develop a lesson, what they talked about during the process, and what they looked at in order to understand deeply how students were learning. Readers see the planning of a mathematics lesson, as well as how much content knowledge the teachers have. They observe students' problem solving strategies and learn how Japanese teachers prepare themselves to identify those strategies and facilitate the students' discussion. Written for mathematics teachers, educational researchers, school administrators interested in teachers' professional development, and professional developers, this landmark volume provides an in-depth understanding of lesson study that can lead to positive changes in teachers' professional development and in teaching and learning in the United States.

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Routledge

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1135644012

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9781135644017

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