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The Presidentialization of Japanese Politics

By: Masahiro Iwasaki

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The Presidentialization of Japanese Politics

By: Masahiro Iwasaki

Are we seeing the presidentialization of politics in Japan? Certainly, many recent prime ministers have demonstrated powerful leadership, notably Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe. While the phenomenon of presidentialization has been much discussed for years, the Japanese case has not received much attention in the English language. Iwasaki analyses the state of Japanese politics using the established analytical framework of presidentialization – looking at leadership power resources, leadership autonomy, and the personalization of the electoral process – and assesses the factors that have been claimed to lead to similar changes in other countries. He argues that there are also unique variables that contribute to the presidentialization of Japanese politics. Most notably, the introduction of public subsidies to political parties and electoral reform in 1994. A valuable contribution to the global scholarship on presidentialization, which will be of particular interest to scholars of Japanese politics.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351258664

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Nonlinear Principal Component Analysis and Its Applications

By: Yuichi Mori,Masahiro Kuroda,Naomichi Makino

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Nonlinear Principal Component Analysis and Its Applications

By: Yuichi Mori,Masahiro Kuroda,Naomichi Makino

This book expounds the principle and related applications of nonlinear principal component analysis (PCA), which is useful method to analyze mixed measurement levels data. In the part dealing with the principle, after a brief introduction of ordinary PCA, a PCA for categorical data (nominal and ordinal) is introduced as nonlinear PCA, in which an optimal scaling technique is used to quantify the categorical variables. The alternating least squares (ALS) is the main algorithm in the method. Multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), a special case of nonlinear PCA, is also introduced. All formulations in these methods are integrated in the same manner as matrix operations. Because any measurement levels data can be treated consistently as numerical data and ALS is a very powerful tool for estimations, the methods can be utilized in a variety of fields such as biometrics, econometrics, psychometrics, and sociology. In the applications part of the book, four applications are introduced: variable selection for mixed measurement levels data, sparse MCA, joint dimension reduction and clustering methods for categorical data, and acceleration of ALS computation. The variable selection methods in PCA that originally were developed for numerical data can be applied to any types of measurement levels by using nonlinear PCA. Sparseness and joint dimension reduction and clustering for nonlinear data, the results of recent studies, are extensions obtained by the same matrix operations in nonlinear PCA. Finally, an acceleration algorithm is proposed to reduce the problem of computational cost in the ALS iteration in nonlinear multivariate methods. This book thus presents the usefulness of nonlinear PCA which can be applied to different measurement levels data in diverse fields. As well, it covers the latest topics including the extension of the traditional statistical method, newly proposed nonlinear methods, and computational efficiency in the methods.

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9811001596

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9789811001598

International Symposium on Quantum Chromodynamics and Color Confinement, CONFINEMENT 2000

RCNP, Osaka, Japan, 7-10 March 2000

By: Hideo Suganuma,Masahiro Fukushima,H. Toki

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International Symposium on Quantum Chromodynamics and Color Confinement, CONFINEMENT 2000

RCNP, Osaka, Japan, 7-10 March 2000

By: Hideo Suganuma,Masahiro Fukushima,H. Toki

The quark confinement mechanism is one of the most difficult problems in particle physics, and is listed as the 7 difficult mathematical problems of the new millennium. The first person who first solves this problem will be awarded a prize of US$ 1 Million by Cray Mathematics Institute. This volume is useful for the systematic understanding of quark confinement and nonperturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) from the wide viewpoints of mathematical physics, lattice QCD physics and quark-hadron physics. It covers the current studies of nonperturbative QCD: quark confinement mechanism; topologies in QCD (instantons, monopoles and vortices); BRS quartet mechanism for color confinement; lattice QCD calculations for quarks, gluons and hadrons; dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and hadrons.

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World Scientific

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9810246633

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9789810246631

Deep Inelastic Scattering

Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop, Tsukuba, Japan, 20-24 April 2006

By: Masahiro Kuze,Kunihiro Nagano,Katsuo Tokushuku

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Deep Inelastic Scattering

Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop, Tsukuba, Japan, 20-24 April 2006

By: Masahiro Kuze,Kunihiro Nagano,Katsuo Tokushuku

These proceedings present the most up-to-date status of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) physics. Topics such as structure function measurements and phenomenology, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) studies in DIS and photoproduction, spin physics and diffractive interactions are reviewed in detail, with emphasis on those studies that push the test of QCD and the Standard Model to the limits of their present range of validity, towards both the very high and the very low four-momentum transfers in leptonproton scattering.

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996

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World Scientific

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9812706704

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9789812706706

Handbook of Hydrothermal Technology

By: K. Byrappa,Masahiro Yoshimura

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Handbook of Hydrothermal Technology

By: K. Byrappa,Masahiro Yoshimura

Quartz, zeolites, gemstones, perovskite type oxides, ferrite, carbon allotropes, complex coordinated compounds and many more -- all products now being produced using hydrothermal technology. Handbook of Hydrothermal Technology brings together the latest techniques in this rapidly advancing field in one exceptionally useful, long-needed volume.The handbook provides a single source for understanding how aqueous solvents or mineralizers work under temperature and pressure to dissolve and recrystallize normally insoluble materials, and decompose or recycle any waste material. The result, as the authors show in the book, is technologically the most efficient method in crystal growth, materials processing, and waste treatment. The book gives scientists and technologists an overview of the entire subject including: À Evolution of the technology from geology to widespread industrial use. À Descriptions of equipment used in the process and how it works.À Problems involved with the growth of crystals, processing of technological materials, environmental and safety issues.À Analysis of the direction of today's technology. In addition, readers get a close look at the hydrothermal synthesis of zeolites, fluorides, sulfides, tungstates, and molybdates, as well as native elements and simple oxides. Delving into the commercial production of various types, the authors clarify the effects of temperature, pressure, solvents, and various other chemical components on the hydrothermal processes. - Gives an overview of the evolution of Hydrothermal Technology from geology to widespread industrial use - Describes the equipment used in the process and how it works - Discusses problems involved with the growth of crystals, processing of technological materials, and environmental and safety issues

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William Andrew

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1437778364

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The Cross-cultural Transfer of Educational Concepts and Practices

a comparative study

By: Masahiro Tanaka

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The Cross-cultural Transfer of Educational Concepts and Practices

a comparative study

By: Masahiro Tanaka

This book analyses comparatively the creation of American and Japanese universities on the model of German universities largely in the late nineteenth century, and the reform of German and Japanese universities on the model of American universities after the end of the Second World War. The argument is that transferring educational concepts and practices from one cultural context to another involves not merely a ‘transfer’, but a ‘transformation’. How and why this transformation occurs is what this book is about. More precisely, it is suggested that transformation of educational concepts and practices during their cross-cultural movement can be understood within a theoretical perspective that is proposed and developed in the book. This book is divided into six chapters. Chapter One, as the introduction, analyses several scholars’ approaches to the aspects of educational transfer, then attempts to construct a theoretical perspective for the book on the processes of change in educational concepts and practices during their movement across cultures. Chapters Two and Three offer two narratives to investigate how German university concepts and practices were transmuted as a consequence of local actors’ efforts to import these concepts and practices into Japan and the United States. Chapters Four and Five provide another two narratives to examine how American university concepts and practices were altered as a result of American actors’ attempts to export these concepts and practices to Japan and Germany. Chapter Six, as the conclusion, through reflecting on the four narratives given in the main chapters, re-examines the ways in which the theoretical perspective of this book is useful to understand the processes of transformation of educational concepts and practices during their movement from one culture to another.

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Symposium Books Ltd

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1873927401

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9781873927403

The Presidentialization of Japanese Politics

By: Masahiro Iwasaki

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By: Masahiro Iwasaki

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The Presidentialization of Japanese Politics

The Presidentialization of Japanese Politics

Nonlinear Principal Component Analysis and Its Applications

Nonlinear Principal Component Analysis and Its Applications

International Symposium on Quantum Chromodynamics and Color Confinement, CONFINEMENT 2000

International Symposium on Quantum Chromodynamics and Color Confinement, CONFINEMENT 2000

Deep Inelastic Scattering

Deep Inelastic Scattering

Handbook of Hydrothermal Technology

Handbook of Hydrothermal Technology

The Cross-cultural Transfer of Educational Concepts and Practices

The Cross-cultural Transfer of Educational Concepts and Practices

The Presidentialization of Japanese Politics

The Presidentialization of Japanese Politics

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