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Traditional Dietary Culture Of Southeast Asia

Its Formation and Pedigree

By: Akira Matsuyama

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Traditional Dietary Culture Of Southeast Asia

Its Formation and Pedigree

By: Akira Matsuyama

First Published in 2002.Foodways can reveal the strongest and deepest traces of human history and culture, and this pioneering volume is a detailed study of the development of the traditional dietary culture of Southeast Asia from Laos and Vietnam to the Philippines and New Guinea from earliest times to the present. Being blessed with abundant natural resources, dietary culture in Southeast Asia flourished during the pre-European period on the basis of close relationships between the cultural spheres of India and China, only to undergo significant change during the rise of Islam and the age of European colonialism. What we think of as the Southeast Asian cuisine today is the result of the complex interplay of many factors over centuries. The work is supported by full geological, archaeological, biological and chemical data, and is based largely upon Southeast Asian sources which have not been available up until now. This is essential reading for anyone interested in culinary history, the anthropology of food, and in the complex history of Southeast Asia.

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Routledge

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1136888012

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9781136888014

Gardener's Guide to Succulents

A Handbook of Over 125 Exquisite Varieties of Succulents and Cacti

By: Misa Matsuyama

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Gardener's Guide to Succulents

A Handbook of Over 125 Exquisite Varieties of Succulents and Cacti

By: Misa Matsuyama

The Gardener's Guide to Succulents is a stunning visual reference identifying over 125 plants from 40 different genera of succulents and cacti. Fleshy, spiny, hairy, flowering--and coming in every imaginable shape, color and size--this plant family has captured the affection of plant enthusiasts all over the world. This book provides a beautiful overview of the diversity that succulents have to offer, presenting a wide variety of popular plants to help you create striking, aesthetically pleasing compositions. This succulent guide includes information about: What each variety needs and where it thrives Plant characteristics, with ratings on ease of growth and maintenance requirements Ideas for group plantings and illustrated tips on indoor planting Striking identification photos, rich in color and contrast This succulent encyclopedia is a useful resource for everyone--from cacti beginners looking to decorate their living space to serious gardeners hoping to expand their succulent plantings.

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462921310

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9781462921317

Succulents for Beginners

A Year-Round Growing Guide for Healthy and Beautiful Plants (over 200 Photos and Illustrations)

By: Misa Matsuyama

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Succulents for Beginners

A Year-Round Growing Guide for Healthy and Beautiful Plants (over 200 Photos and Illustrations)

By: Misa Matsuyama

Succulents for Beginners is the perfect introduction to this friendly and forgiving plant family. Misa Matsuyama--the bestselling author of The Gardener's Guide to Succulents--shows you how to plant and maintain the most popular varieties of succulents and cacti with reassuring advice and minimum fuss. This book has over 200 clear, color photos and illustrations and is absolutely packed full of all the basic information you need to keep succulents thriving, including: A detailed month-by-month growing guide explaining all the planting and maintenance steps--everything from propagating and basic watering to repotting and group planting A clear overview of the basic seasonal types and most popular succulent families and their particular characteristics Which plants, tools, soils, and containers to use for the best results Answers to frequently asked questions, giving clear, concise solutions to the most common issues encountered by beginners A special section on how to create a healthy environment for your plants so you can enjoy them for many years to come Inspiring and creative ways to display your succulents in different rooms and locations--indoors or outdoors The month-by-month format and simple, yet thorough, instructions will have you referring to this handy resource again and again. Gorgeous photos and helpful tips invite you to bring more and more of these plants into your life.

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462922996

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9781462922994

Field Guide to Succulents

Colors, Shapes and Characteristics for Over 200 Amazing Varieties

By: Misa Matsuyama

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Field Guide to Succulents

Colors, Shapes and Characteristics for Over 200 Amazing Varieties

By: Misa Matsuyama

A Field Guide to Succulents introduces you to over 200 popular succulent and cacti species including many you've never seen before! Each chapter serves as an illustrated field guide that covers the characteristics and needs of a particular succulent family, then zooms in to show you their attributes in detail and from angles that let you truly see what makes these varieties different from one another. This book gives you: All the basics on how to grow succulents and cacti successfully—tools, soils, watering, placement, propagating, pest and disease prevention, and how to see them through seasonal changes so that your plants will keep growing and thriving A stunning photo guide to over 200 plants both popular and exotic Ideas for group plantings that are attractive to the eye and congenial to the plants Tips from experienced growers on ways to approach succulent gardening The simple instructions are geared toward beginners; the interesting mix of plants shown and explained here will appeal to succulent collectors. Fans at every level will enjoy this up-close exploration into the infinitely diverse and surprising world of succulents.

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462924123

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9781462924127

Healthcare Reform, Quality and Safety

Perspectives, Participants, Partnerships and Prospects in 30 Countries

By: Jeffrey Braithwaite,Yukihiro Matsuyama,Julie Johnson

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Healthcare Reform, Quality and Safety

Perspectives, Participants, Partnerships and Prospects in 30 Countries

By: Jeffrey Braithwaite,Yukihiro Matsuyama,Julie Johnson

This book offers a global perspective on healthcare reform and its relationship with efforts to improve quality and safety. It looks at the ways reforms have developed in 30 countries, and specifically the impact national reform initiatives have had on the quality and safety of care. It explores how reforms drive quality and safety improvement, and equally how they act to negate such goals. Every country included in this book is involved in a reform and improvement process, but each takes place in a particular social, cultural, economic and developmental context, leading to differing emphases and varied progress. Methods for tackling common problems - financing, efficiencies, effectiveness, evidence-based practice, institutional reforms, quality improvement, and patient safety initiatives - also differ. Representatives from each nation provide a chapter to convey their own situation. The editors draw a conclusion from these numerous contributions and synthesize the themes emerging into a coherent ’lessons learned’ summary that delivers value to the numerous stakeholders. Healthcare Reform, Quality and Safety forms a compendium of the current ’state of the art’ in global healthcare reform. This is the first book of its type, and offers a unique opportunity for cross-fertilization of ideas to the mutual benefit of countries involved in the project. The content will be of interest to governments, policymakers, managers and leaders, clinicians, teaching academics, researchers and students.

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CRC Press

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1317123220

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9781317123224

A Structural Analysis of Complex Aerial Photographs

By: Makoto Nagao,Takashi Matsuyama

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A Structural Analysis of Complex Aerial Photographs

By: Makoto Nagao,Takashi Matsuyama

It is most appropriate that the first volume to appear in the series "Advanced Applications in Pattern Recognition" should be this monograph by Nagao and Matsuyama. The work described here is a deep unification and synthesis of the two fundamental approaches to pat tern recognition: numerical (also known as "statistical") and struc tural ("linguistic," "syntactic"). The power and unity of the meth odology flow from the apparently effortless and natural use of the knowledge-base framework illuminated by the best results of artificial intelligence research. An integral part of the work is the algorithmic solution of many hitherto incompletely or clumsily treated problems. It was on the occasion of a laboratory visit in connection with the 4th IJCPR (of ~hich Professor Nagao was the very able Program Chairman) that I saw in operation the system described here. On the spot I expressed the desire to see the work described for the inter national technical audience in this series and the authors were kind enough to agree to contribute to a new and unknown series. With the publication of this monograph on the eve of the 5th ICPR my wish is fu1fi11~d. I want to thank here the authors and Plenum Publishing Corporation for making this volume and the series a reality.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461582946

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9781461582946

Million Light Years Away

By: Mayumi M. Matsuyama Otto

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Million Light Years Away

By: Mayumi M. Matsuyama Otto

This is a story about a girl, another girl, and a scared of heights boy. who meet due to a crash landing and are forced to become friends due to a responsibility that falls onto their shoulders.

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Lulu.com

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035950907X

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9780359509072

3D Video and Its Applications

By: Takashi Matsuyama,Shohei Nobuhara,Takeshi Takai,Tony Tung

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3D Video and Its Applications

By: Takashi Matsuyama,Shohei Nobuhara,Takeshi Takai,Tony Tung

This book presents a broad review of state-of-the-art 3D video production technologies and applications. The text opens with a concise introduction to the field, before examining the design and calibration methods for multi-view camera systems, including practical implementation technologies. A range of algorithms are then described for producing 3D video from video data. A selection of 3D video applications are also demonstrated. Features: describes real-time synchronized multi-view video capture, and object tracking with a group of active cameras; discusses geometric and photometric camera calibration, and 3D video studio design with active cameras; examines 3D shape and motion reconstruction, texture mapping and image rendering, and lighting environment estimation; demonstrates attractive 3D visualization, visual contents analysis and editing, 3D body action analysis, and data compression; highlights the remaining challenges and the exciting avenues for future research in 3D video technology.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447141202

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9781447141204

SIGMA

A Knowledge-Based Aerial Image Understanding System

By: Takashi Matsuyama,Vincent Shang-Shouq Hwang

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A Knowledge-Based Aerial Image Understanding System

By: Takashi Matsuyama,Vincent Shang-Shouq Hwang

It has long been a dream to realize machines with flexible visual perception capability. Research on digital image processing by computers was initiated about 30 years ago, and since then a wide variety of image processing algorithms have been devised. Using such image processing algorithms and advanced hardware technologies, many practical ma chines with visual recognition capability have been implemented and are used in various fields: optical character readers and design chart readers in offices, position-sensing and inspection systems in factories, computer tomography and medical X-ray and microscope examination systems in hospitals, and so on. Although these machines are useful for specific tasks, their capabilities are limited. That is, they can analyze only simple images which are recorded under very carefully adjusted photographic conditions: objects to be recognized are isolated against a uniform background and under well-controlled artificial lighting. In the late 1970s, many image understanding systems were de veloped to study the automatic interpretation of complex natural scenes. They introduced artificial intelligence techniques to represent the knowl edge about scenes and to realize flexible control structures. The first author developed an automatic aerial photograph interpretation system based on the blackboard model (Naga1980). Although these systems could analyze fairly complex scenes, their capabilities were still limited; the types of recognizable objects were limited and various recognition vii viii Preface errors occurred due to noise and the imperfection of segmentation algorithms.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489908676

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9781489908674

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Traditional Dietary Culture Of Southeast Asia

Traditional Dietary Culture Of Southeast Asia

Gardener's Guide to Succulents

Gardener's Guide to Succulents

Succulents for Beginners

Succulents for Beginners

Field Guide to Succulents

Field Guide to Succulents

Healthcare Reform, Quality and Safety

Healthcare Reform, Quality and Safety

A Structural Analysis of Complex Aerial Photographs

A Structural Analysis of Complex Aerial Photographs

Million Light Years Away

Million Light Years Away

3D Video and Its Applications

3D Video and Its Applications

SIGMA

SIGMA

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