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Tsunami: To Survive From Tsunami (Second Edition)

By: Susumu Murata,Fumihiko Imamura,Kazumasa Katoh,Yoshiaki Kawata,Shigeo Takahashi,Tomotsuka Takayama

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Tsunami: To Survive From Tsunami (Second Edition)

By: Susumu Murata,Fumihiko Imamura,Kazumasa Katoh,Yoshiaki Kawata,Shigeo Takahashi,Tomotsuka Takayama

The book is organized into two parts: the first part covers (i) the precious lessons obtained from recent actual tsunami disasters including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster, (ii) fundamental knowledge of tsunami for our survival, and (iii) concludes the lessons learnt and listing measures for tsunami disaster mitigation for saving human lives. The second part presents tsunami from academic perspective in two chapters: one describes tsunami occurrence mechanism and near-shore behavior; the other mentions numerical simulation and forecasting of tsunami.

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9813239409

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Innovating EFL Teaching in Asia

By: Theron Muller,Steven Herder,John Adamson,Philip Shigeo Brown

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Innovating EFL Teaching in Asia

By: Theron Muller,Steven Herder,John Adamson,Philip Shigeo Brown

This collection offers a distinctly Asian voice for English language education and addresses some of the unique needs of Asian learners in EFL contexts. Teachers and researchers from nine Asian countries present some of the most current and innovative research in five distinct and fascinating areas of EFL teaching and learning.

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324

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Springer

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0230347827

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9780230347823

Support Vector Machines for Pattern Classification

By: Shigeo Abe

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Support Vector Machines for Pattern Classification

By: Shigeo Abe

I was shocked to see a student’s report on performance comparisons between support vector machines (SVMs) and fuzzy classi?ers that we had developed withourbestendeavors.Classi?cationperformanceofourfuzzyclassi?erswas comparable, but in most cases inferior, to that of support vector machines. This tendency was especially evident when the numbers of class data were small. I shifted my research e?orts from developing fuzzy classi?ers with high generalization ability to developing support vector machine–based classi?ers. This book focuses on the application of support vector machines to p- tern classi?cation. Speci?cally, we discuss the properties of support vector machines that are useful for pattern classi?cation applications, several m- ticlass models, and variants of support vector machines. To clarify their - plicability to real-world problems, we compare performance of most models discussed in the book using real-world benchmark data. Readers interested in the theoretical aspect of support vector machines should refer to books such as [109, 215, 256, 257].

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1846282195

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Tsunami: To Survive From Tsunami

By: Tomotsuka Takayama,Susumu Murata,Fumihiko Imamura,Kazumasa Katoh,Yoshiaki Kawata,Shigeo Tahashi

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Tsunami: To Survive From Tsunami

By: Tomotsuka Takayama,Susumu Murata,Fumihiko Imamura,Kazumasa Katoh,Yoshiaki Kawata,Shigeo Tahashi

This book provides comprehensive scientific information and knowledge survival tips on how to survive a tsunami. It is especially useful to those living (or about to live) in tsunami-prone areas, and to travelers who may visit such areas. The book is composed of two parts: the first consisting of three chapters on how to survive a tsunami by (i) describing precious lessons obtained from actual tsunami disasters, (ii) imparting fundamental knowledge of tsunami science for survival, and (iii) listing measures for tsunami disaster mitigation. The second part provides more detailed scientific knowledge on tsunamis and consists two chapters: one describes tsunami occurrence mechanism and near-shore behavior; the other mentions numerical simulation and tsunami forecasting. This book has been awarded the 2009 Book of the Year Award by the Japan Society of Civil Engineers.

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World Scientific

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9814338532

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9789814338530

Energy Conversion Efficiency of Solar Cells

By: Takashi Kita,Yukihiro Harada,Shigeo Asahi

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Energy Conversion Efficiency of Solar Cells

By: Takashi Kita,Yukihiro Harada,Shigeo Asahi

This book offers a concise primer on energy conversion efficiency and the Shockley-Queisser limit in single p-n junction solar cells. It covers all the important fundamental physics necessary to understand the conversion efficiency, which is indispensable in studying, investigating, analyzing, and designing solar cells in practice. As such it is valuable as a supplementary text for courses on photovoltaics, and bridges the gap between advanced topics in solar cell device engineering and the fundamental physics covered in undergraduate courses. The book first introduces the principles and features of solar cells compared to those of chemical batteries, and reviews photons, statistics and radiation as the physics of the source energy. Based on these foundations, it clarifies the conversion efficiency of a single p-n junction solar cell and discusses the Shockley-Queisser limit. Furthermore, it looks into various concepts of solar cells for breaking through the efficiency limit given in the single junction solar cell and presents feasible theoretical predictions. To round out readers’ knowledge of p-n junctions, the final chapter also reviews the essential semiconductor physics. The foundation of solar cell physics and engineering provided here is a valuable resource for readers with no background in solar cells, such as upper undergraduate and master students. At the same time, the deep insights provided allow readers to step seamlessly into other advanced books and their own research topics.

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Springer

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9811390894

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9789811390890

Non-Stock Production

The Shingo System of Continuous Improvement

By: Shigeo Shingo

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Non-Stock Production

The Shingo System of Continuous Improvement

By: Shigeo Shingo

Shingo, whose work at Toyota provided the foundation for JIT, teaches how to implement non-stock production in your JIT manufacturing operations. The culmination of his extensive writings on efficient production management and continuous improvement, this book is an essential companion volume to his other landmark books on key elements of JIT, including SMED and poka-yoke. It covers-- Fundamental flaws in European and American production philosophies. Basic concepts for improving production systems. The "scientific thinking mechanism" -- a new approach to improvement. Implementing a production method in an age of authorized stock production. Development of production functions in the age of non-stock production. Significance of the different production systems. Dr. Shingo pulls together all the pieces of the production puzzle and thoroughly destroys the myth of the inevitability of waste and inventory.

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CRC Press

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1040290817

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9781040290811

Long-term effects of Learning English

Experiences from Japanese Primary Schools

By: Shigeo Uematsu

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Long-term effects of Learning English

Experiences from Japanese Primary Schools

By: Shigeo Uematsu

This book presents a pioneering longitudinal study on English language instruction at the elementary school (ELES) level in the Japanese public school system. It attempts to identify those domains most sensitive to early English instruction by employing a state-of-the-art quantitative research methodology. English education was formally introduced in Japan for fifth and sixth graders in 2011 and is still in its infancy as a program. This study compares two groups (Grade 7 and 8) of students, one with ELES and one without, in order to shed light on their experiences. Comparisons are carried out not only quantitatively, measuring changes in English skills (listening, speaking, reading, and vocabulary / grammar) and the ELES students’ affective aspects, but also qualitatively through in-depth interviews. Thus, this study attempts to capture the ELES students’ experiences from a multi-dimensional perspective. The comprehensive literature review provided offers a valuable resource not only for researchers looking for a quick digest of the literature in this field before undertaking their own research, but also for policy-makers seeking to assess how to best implement ELES.

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165

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9812874933

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9789812874931

Computational Plasma Science

Physics and Selected Simulation Examples

By: Shigeo Kawata

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Computational Plasma Science

Physics and Selected Simulation Examples

By: Shigeo Kawata

The book presents fundamentals of plasma physics with rich references and computational techniques in a concise manner. It particularly focuses on introductions to numerical simulation methods in plasma physics, in addition to those to physics and mathematics in plasma physics. It also presents the fundamentals of numerical methods, which solve mathematical models of plasmas, together with examples of numerical results. A discretization method, the so-called finite difference method, is introduced for particle-in-cell methods and fluid codes, which have been widely employed in plasma physics studies. In addition to the introduction to numerical solutions, it also covers numerical stability. The instabilities and numerical errors significantly influence the results, and for correct results, great efforts are required to avoid such numerical artifacts. The book also carefully discusses the numerical errors, numerical stability, and uncertainty in numerical computations. Readers are expected to have an understanding of fundamental physics of mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, statistical physics, relativity, fluid dynamics, and mathematics, but the book does not assume background knowledge on plasma. Therefore, it is a first book of plasma physics for upper undergraduate and early graduate students who are interested in learning it.

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299

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Springer Nature

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9819911370

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9789819911370

Unsafety

Disaster Management, Organizational Accidents, and Crisis Sciences for Sustainability

By: Shigeo Atsuji

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Unsafety

Disaster Management, Organizational Accidents, and Crisis Sciences for Sustainability

By: Shigeo Atsuji

This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and organizational accidents and disasters in the modern era and clarifies the mechanisms involved and the significance of emerging problems, from the aging of vital infrastructure for the supply of water, gas, oil, and electricity to the breakdown of pensions, healthcare, and other social systems. The book demonstrates how we might check the underlying civilizational collapse and then explore translational systems approaches toward resilient management and policy for sustainability. In Unsafety, the author focuses on the kinds of unnatural disasters and organizational accidents that arise as repercussions of natural hazards. Japan serves as an example, where earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons are common, with the Fukushima nuclear disaster as an outstanding case of this link between natural disasters and organizational accidents. Natural and human-made disasters happen worldwide and cause misery through loss of life; destruction of livelihoods as in agriculture, fisheries, and the manufacturing industry; and interruption of urban life. Unsafety from a disaster in one place increases uncertainty elsewhere, presenting urgent issues in all nations for individuals, organizations, regions, and the state. The author explains that one factor in the Fukushima catastrophe, which followed in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami in 2011, was the latent deterioration and aging of systems at all levels from the physical to the social, leading through a chain reaction to unsought and unforeseen consequences. Here, the aging of the nuclear reactor system, the breakdown of safety management, and inappropriate instructions from the regulatory authorities combined to create the three-fold disaster, in which technological, organizational, and governmental dysfunction have been diagnosed as reflecting a “systems pathology” infecting all levels.

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4431559248

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9784431559245

Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems

Theory and Applications

By: Shigeo Abe

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Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems

Theory and Applications

By: Shigeo Abe

Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems: Theory and Applications discusses theories that have proven useful in applying neural networks and fuzzy systems to real world problems. The book includes performance comparison of neural networks and fuzzy systems using data gathered from real systems. Topics covered include the Hopfield network for combinatorial optimization problems, multilayered neural networks for pattern classification and function approximation, fuzzy systems that have the same functions as multilayered networks, and composite systems that have been successfully applied to real world problems. The author also includes representative neural network models such as the Kohonen network and radial basis function network. New fuzzy systems with learning capabilities are also covered. The advantages and disadvantages of neural networks and fuzzy systems are examined. The performance of these two systems in license plate recognition, a water purification plant, blood cell classification, and other real world problems is compared.

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1461562538

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9781461562535

Tsunami: To Survive From Tsunami (Second Edition)

By: Susumu Murata,Fumihiko Imamura,Kazumasa Katoh,Yoshiaki Kawata,Shigeo Takahashi,Tomotsuka Takayama

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Tsunami: To Survive From Tsunami (Second Edition)

By: Susumu Murata,Fumihiko Imamura,Kazumasa Katoh,Yoshiaki Kawata,Shigeo Takahashi,Tomotsuka Takayama

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Book's by Shigeo Takahashi

Tsunami: To Survive From Tsunami (Second Edition)

Tsunami: To Survive From Tsunami (Second Edition)

Innovating EFL Teaching in Asia

Innovating EFL Teaching in Asia

Support Vector Machines for Pattern Classification

Support Vector Machines for Pattern Classification

Tsunami: To Survive From Tsunami

Tsunami: To Survive From Tsunami

Energy Conversion Efficiency of Solar Cells

Energy Conversion Efficiency of Solar Cells

Non-Stock Production

Non-Stock Production

Long-term effects of Learning English

Long-term effects of Learning English

Computational Plasma Science

Computational Plasma Science

Unsafety

Unsafety

Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems

Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems

Tsunami: To Survive From Tsunami (Second Edition)

Tsunami: To Survive From Tsunami (Second Edition)

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