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Storied Lives

Japanese American Students and World War II

By: Gary Y. Okihiro

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Storied Lives

Japanese American Students and World War II

By: Gary Y. Okihiro

During World War II over 5,500 young Japanese Americans left the concentration camps to which they had been confined with their families in order to attend college. Storied Lives describes�often in their own words�how nisei students found schools to attend outside the West Coast exclusion zone and the efforts of white Americans to help them. The book is concerned with the deeds of white and Japanese Americans in a mutual struggle against racism, and argues that Asian American studies�indeed, race relations as a whole�will benefit from an understanding not only of racism but also of its opposition, antiracism. To uncover this little known story, Gary Okihiro surveyed the colleges and universities the nisei attended, collected oral histories from nisei students and student relocation staff members, and examined the records of the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council and other materials.

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University of Washington Press

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0295803401

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Demobilizing Irregular Forces

By: Eric Y. Shibuya

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Demobilizing Irregular Forces

By: Eric Y. Shibuya

From Afghanistan and Sierra Leone to East Timor, the aftermath of any armed conflict presents a complex set of challenges. Whatever political agreements may have been reached, conflicts are often at risk of reigniting, and the fates of their former participants remain uncertain. Armed groups may not be easily dissuaded from pursuing belligerent activities which they see as both profitable and understandable behaviour. In the face of these difficulties, the process of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) attempts to convince combatants to relinquish their weapons and return to civilian life. It is a crucial first step towards lasting peace. Demobilizing Militias is the first comprehensive introduction to DDR in the contemporary world. Examining regions as varied as Africa, Asia and Central America, it guides readers through the different stages of the DDR process as well as assessing competing perspectives surrounding its implementation. Attentive to the problems faced by practitioners, Eric Shibuya argues against a 'one size fits all' approach, emphasizing the importance of social and psychological contexts in fostering the trust that is necessary for DDR to succeed. Accessible and incisive, it will be an ideal resource for students of politics, security and conflict studies, as well as anyone interested in the dynamics of peacebuilding today.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745660967

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Nature Behind Barbed Wire

An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration

By: Connie Y. Chiang

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Nature Behind Barbed Wire

An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration

By: Connie Y. Chiang

The mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in United States history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanese Americans spent the war years in desolate camps in the nation's interior. Photographers including Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange visually captured these camps in images that depicted the environment as a source of both hope and hardship. And yet the literature on incarceration has most often focused on the legal and citizenship statuses of the incarcerees, their political struggles with the US government, and their oral testimony. Nature Behind Barbed Wire shifts the focus to the environment. It explores how the landscape shaped the experiences of both Japanese Americans and federal officials who worked for the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the civilian agency that administered the camps. The complexities of the natural world both enhanced and constrained the WRA's power and provided Japanese Americans with opportunities to redefine the terms and conditions of their confinement. Even as the environment compounded their feelings of despair and outrage, the incarcerees also found that their agency in transforming and adapting to the natural world could help them survive and contest their incarceration. Japanese Americans and WRA officials negotiated the terms of confinement with each other and with a dynamic natural world. Ultimately, as Connie Chiang demonstrates, the Japanese American incarceration was fundamentally an environmental story.

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Oxford University Press

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0190842083

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Carbon Alloys

Novel Concepts to Develop Carbon Science and Technology

By: E. Yasuda,Michio Inagaki,K. Kaneko,M. Endo,A. Oya,Y. Tanabe

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Carbon Alloys

Novel Concepts to Develop Carbon Science and Technology

By: E. Yasuda,Michio Inagaki,K. Kaneko,M. Endo,A. Oya,Y. Tanabe

In recent years the Japanese have funded a comprehensive study of carbon materials which incorporate other elements including boron, nitrogen and fluorine, hence the title of the project "Carbon Alloys".Coined in 1992, the phrase "Carbon Alloys" can be applied to those materials mainly composed of carbon materials in multi-component systems. The carbon atoms of each component have a physical and/or chemical interactive relationship with other atoms or compounds. The carbon atoms of the components may have different hybrid bonding orbitals to create quite different carbon components.Eiichi Yasuda and his team consider the definition of Carbon Alloys, present the results of the Carbon Alloys projects, describe typical Carbon Alloys and their uses, discuss recent techniques for their characterization, and finally, illustrate potential applications and future developments for Carbon Alloy science. The book contains over thirty chapters on these studies from as many researchers.The most modern of techniques, particularly in the area of spectroscopy, were used as diagnostic tools, and many of these are applicable to pure carbons also. Porosity in carbons received considerable attention.

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Elsevier

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0080528538

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Chiral Separations By Liquid Chromatography And Related Technologies

By: Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein,Imran Ali

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Chiral Separations By Liquid Chromatography And Related Technologies

By: Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein,Imran Ali

Unique in its systematic and detailed description of the various types, structures, and properties of chiral stationary phases (CSPs) and their preparation, application, and future scope, this volume highlights an assortment of liquid chromatographic approaches, including sub- and super-critical fluid chromatography, capillary electrochromatography

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CRC Press

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0203911113

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Natural, Metal, Fiber, and Macromolecular Carcinogens

Structural Bases and Biological Mechanisms

By: Yin-Tak Woo,David Y. Lai,Joseph C. Arcos

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Natural, Metal, Fiber, and Macromolecular Carcinogens

Structural Bases and Biological Mechanisms

By: Yin-Tak Woo,David Y. Lai,Joseph C. Arcos

Chemical Induction of Cancer: Structural Bases and Biological Mechanisms, Volume IIIC: Natural, Metal, Fiber, and Macromolecular Carcinogens covers structure-carcinogenicity relationships of carcinogenic mycotoxins, carcinogenic substances generated by plants, carcinogenic metals and metalloids, and foreign-body carcinogens. The book discusses the metabolism and mechanism of carcinogenic action, physicochemical properties, other biological activities (principally mutagenicity and teratogenicity), modification of carcinogenic activity, formation and environmental significance. The text also describes the carcinogenic water-soluble high polymers and explores the intriguing problems of the carcinogenic effect of osmotic imbalance in tissue microenvironment, as well as of spontaneous malignant transformation occurring in cell cultures in vitro. Studies on tumor induction and carcinogenesis modification by nonviral nucleic acids, by nucleases, proteases, histones, and by antigenic stimulation as well as by antibodies are also considered. The book further tackles tumor-released factors as possible modifiers of carcinogenesis. The text will prove invaluable to chemists and people involved in cancer research.

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Academic Press

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1483216020

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The Use of Nano Composites in Automotive Applications

By: Y Charles Lu,Srikanth Pilla

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The Use of Nano Composites in Automotive Applications

By: Y Charles Lu,Srikanth Pilla

With their high specific strength and stiffness, composites have the potential to significantly lower the vehicle weight, which can have a dramatic effect on improving fuel efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. For the past decade or so, composites have been experiencing several transitions, including the transition from micro-scale reinforcement fillers to nano-scale reinforcement fillers, resulting in the nanocomposite. The effectiveness of the nano-sized fillers in composites can be explained by one of their unique geometric properties: the length-to-thickness aspect ratio. Therefore, nano-sized fillers have exceptionally higher reinforcing efficiency than the conventional, large fillers. The effectiveness of the nano-sized fillers in composites is also due to their large surface area and surface energy. This book consists of a collection of technical papers selected from the automotive composites and other relevant sessions that the editors have organized for the SAE World Congress over the past decade. It begins with a section on the perspectives of nanocomposites in the automotive industry, with of three excellent papers given by experts from the industry and academia. Following, it brings to the reader in-depth information on the three major nanocomposites categories: o Nano-fiber reinforced composites o Nano-platelet reinforced composites o Nano-particle reinforced composites

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SAE International

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0768082374

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9780768082371

Science and Engineering of Short Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites

By: Shao-yun Fu,Bernd Lauke,Y.-W. Mai

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Science and Engineering of Short Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites

By: Shao-yun Fu,Bernd Lauke,Y.-W. Mai

When fibres in a composite are discontinuous and are shorter than a few millimetres, the composite is called a 'short fibre reinforced composite (SFRP)'. SFRPs have found extensive applications in automobiles, business machines, durable consumer items, sporting goods and electrical industries owing to their low cost, easy processing and superior mechanical properties over the parent polymers. The book summarises recent developments in this area, focusing on the fundamental mechanisms that govern the mechanical properties including strength, modulus, fracture toughness and thermal properties of SFRP materials.This book covers the following topics: extrusion compounding and injection moulding, major factors affecting mechanical performance, stress transfer, strength, elastic modulus flexural modulus, thermal conductivity and expansion, non-linear stress-strain behaviour and fracture mechanics of short fibre reinforced polymers.With its distinguished team of authors, Science and engineering of short fibre reinforced polymer composites is a standard reference for anyone involved in the development, manufacture and use of SFRPs. It will also provide an in-depth understanding of the behaviour of these versatile materials. - Reviews the mechanical properties and functions of short fibre reinforced polymer composites (SFRP) - Examines recent developments in the fundamental mechanisms of SFRP's - Assesses major factors affecting mechanical performance such as stress transfer and strength

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1845696492

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Human Body Temperature

Its Measurement and Regulation

By: Y. Houdas,E.F.J. Ring

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Human Body Temperature

Its Measurement and Regulation

By: Y. Houdas,E.F.J. Ring

The physiology of man is a complex subject. Unfortunately the regulation of temperature in the human body is not always well explained in textbooks. Many conference proceedings on the subject have been produced that give excellent detail on research topics. However, the subject matter is rarely presented as a composite whole. New technology has broadened the scope of methods available for studying body temperature. Thermography in particular has made it possible to record in real time the temperature distribution of large areas of the body surface. Modem image processing methods permit dynamic studies to be carried out and detailed analyses made retrospectively-a tremendous advance over the complex and slow techniques formerly used by physiologists. Yet although the associa tion between disease and temperature is as old as medicine itself, beyond the implicit faith in the clinical mercury thermometer, other measuring techniques are finding a slow acceptance. This book is designed to put into perspective the critical factors that make up "body temperature. " Body temperature cannot be viewed as a static entity but rather must be seen as a dynamic process. An understanding of this phenomenon is important to all who use thermal imaging and measuring techniques in clinical medi cine. These methods have, in recent years, brought engineers, physi cists, technicians, and clinicians together. Inevitably, however, there v vi Preface are gaps and overlaps in technology and understanding.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489903453

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Robust Design of Microelectronics Assemblies Against Mechanical Shock, Temperature and Moisture

By: E-H Wong,Y.-W. Mai

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Robust Design of Microelectronics Assemblies Against Mechanical Shock, Temperature and Moisture

By: E-H Wong,Y.-W. Mai

Robust Design of Microelectronics Assemblies Against Mechanical Shock, Temperature and Moisture discusses how the reliability of packaging components is a prime concern to electronics manufacturers. The text presents a thorough review of this important field of research, providing users with a practical guide that discusses theoretical aspects, experimental results, and modeling techniques. The authors use their extensive experience to produce detailed chapters covering temperature, moisture, and mechanical shock induced failure, adhesive interconnects, and viscoelasticity. Useful program files and macros are also included. - Discusses how the reliability of packaging components is a prime concern to electronics manufacturers - Presents a thorough review of this important field of research, providing users with a practical guide that discusses theoretical aspects, experimental results, and modeling techniques - Includes program files and macros for additional study

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Woodhead Publishing

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0857099116

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9780857099112

The Yin and Yang of American Culture

A Paradox

By: Eun Y. Kim

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The Yin and Yang of American Culture

A Paradox

By: Eun Y. Kim

You can't not have a reaction to this book! Based on over thirty years of conversations and interactions with Americans and Asians, Korean American Eun Kim presents American virtues and vices from an Asian perspective, using the ancient Asian concepts of yin and yang, which coexist in everything and complete each other to maintain cosmic harmony. In this way, Kim draws us to look at the yang (light) mirror of American vices and the yin (dark) mirror or American virtues. Examples of the virtues she discusses are generosity, competitive spirit, openness, and volunteerism. Some of the vices she explores are insistence on rights, refusal to grow up, arrogance, and tolerance of violence. In her fifty entries, the author describes and illustrates an American value and provides an Asian perspective on it as well as what she believes to be the dangers and opportunities inherent to each value. She uses personal experience, anecdotes and quotes from Asians and Americans both famous and unknown, historical background, general wisdom, and proverbs to enrich her writing. Eun Kim straddles two cultures, her Asian homeland and her adopted country, the United States. This is a highly personal and readable book, with insights that may make the American reader squirm uncomfortably in one paragraph and glow with pride in the next.

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Nicholas Brealey

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0585434433

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Climate, Fire and Human Evolution

The Deep Time Dimensions of the Anthropocene

By: Andrew Y. Glikson,Colin Groves

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Climate, Fire and Human Evolution

The Deep Time Dimensions of the Anthropocene

By: Andrew Y. Glikson,Colin Groves

The book outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere during the last 4 million years in relation with the evolution from primates to the genus Homo – which uniquely mastered the ignition and transfer of fire. The advent of land plants since about 420 million years ago ensued in flammable carbon-rich biosphere interfaced with an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Born on a flammable Earth surface, under increasingly unstable climates descending from the warmer Pliocene into the deepest ice ages of the Pleistocene, human survival depended on both—biological adaptations and cultural evolution, mastering fire as a necessity. This allowed the genus to increase entropy in nature by orders of magnitude. Gathered around camp fires during long nights for hundreds of thousandth of years, captivated by the flickering life-like dance of the flames, humans developed imagination, insights, cravings, fears, premonitions of death and thereby aspiration for immortality, omniscience, omnipotence and the concept of god. Inherent in pantheism was the reverence of the Earth, its rocks and its living creatures, contrasted by the subsequent rise of monotheistic sky-god creeds which regard Earth as but a corridor to heaven. Once the climate stabilized in the early Holocene, since about ~7000 years-ago production of excess food by Neolithic civilization along the Great River Valleys has allowed human imagination and dreams to express themselves through the construction of monuments to immortality. Further to burning large part of the forests, the discovery of combustion and exhumation of carbon from the Earth’s hundreds of millions of years-old fossil biospheres set the stage for an anthropogenic oxidation event, affecting an abrupt shift in state of the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere system. The consequent ongoing extinction equals the past five great mass extinctions of species—constituting a geological event horizon in the history of planet Earth.

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331922512X

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Sequence — Evolution — Function

Computational Approaches in Comparative Genomics

By: Eugene Koonin,Michael Y. Galperin

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Sequence — Evolution — Function

Computational Approaches in Comparative Genomics

By: Eugene Koonin,Michael Y. Galperin

Sequence - Evolution - Function is an introduction to the computational approaches that play a critical role in the emerging new branch of biology known as functional genomics. The book provides the reader with an understanding of the principles and approaches of functional genomics and of the potential and limitations of computational and experimental approaches to genome analysis. Sequence - Evolution - Function should help bridge the "digital divide" between biologists and computer scientists, allowing biologists to better grasp the peculiarities of the emerging field of Genome Biology and to learn how to benefit from the enormous amount of sequence data available in the public databases. The book is non-technical with respect to the computer methods for genome analysis and discusses these methods from the user's viewpoint, without addressing mathematical and algorithmic details. Prior practical familiarity with the basic methods for sequence analysis is a major advantage, but a reader without such experience will be able to use the book as an introduction to these methods. This book is perfect for introductory level courses in computational methods for comparative and functional genomics.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402072740

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Introduction to Mathematical Economics

By: M.C. Kemp,Y. Kimura

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Introduction to Mathematical Economics

By: M.C. Kemp,Y. Kimura

Our objectives may be briefly stated. They are two. First, we have sought to provide a compact and digestible exposition of some sub-branches of mathematics which are of interest to economists but which are underplayed in mathematical texts and dispersed in the journal literature. Second, we have sought to demonstrate the usefulness of the mathematics by providing a systematic account of modern neoclassical economics, that is, of those parts of economics from which jointness in production has been excluded. The book is introductory not in the sense that it can be read by any high-school graduate but in the sense that it provides some of the mathematics needed to appreciate modern general-equilibrium economic theory. It is aimed primarily at first-year graduate students and final-year honors students in economics who have studied mathematics at the university level for two years and who, in particular, have mastered a full-year course in analysis and calculus. The book is the outcome of a long correspondence punctuated by periodic visits by Kimura to the University of New South Wales. Without those visits we would never have finished. They were made possible by generous grants from the Leverhulme Foundation, Nagoya City University, and the University of New South Wales. Equally indispensible were the expert advice and generous encouragement of our friends Martin Beckmann, Takashi Negishi, Ryuzo Sato, and Yasuo Uekawa.

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146126278X

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Community Volunteers in Japan

Everyday Stories of Social Change

By: Lynne Y. Nakano

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Community Volunteers in Japan

Everyday Stories of Social Change

By: Lynne Y. Nakano

Based on extensive original research, this book explores the reality of volunteering in an urban residential Japanese neighbourhood.

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Psychology Press

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0415323169

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Evolution of the Atmosphere, Fire and the Anthropocene Climate Event Horizon

By: Andrew Y. Glikson

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Evolution of the Atmosphere, Fire and the Anthropocene Climate Event Horizon

By: Andrew Y. Glikson

Unique among all creatures, further to the increase in its cranial volume from Australopithecus to Homo sapiens, the use of tools and cultural and scientific creativity, the genus Homo is distinguished by the mastery of fire, which since about two million years ago has become its blueprint. Through the Holocene and culminating in the Anthropocene, the burning of much of the terrestrial vegetation, excavation and combustion of fossil carbon from up to 420 million years-old biospheres, are leading to a global oxidation event on a geological scale, a rise in entropy in nature and the sixth mass extinction of species.

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9400773323

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The Invisible Link

Japan's Sogo Shosha and the Organization of Trade

By: Michael Y. Yoshino,Thomas B. Lifson

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The Invisible Link

Japan's Sogo Shosha and the Organization of Trade

By: Michael Y. Yoshino,Thomas B. Lifson

A sogo shosha is like no other type of company. "The Invisible Link "provides a systematic and well-balanced description that covers virtually all aspects of sogo shosha operations, from finance to personnel.The sogo shosha is not defined by the products it handles or even by the services it performs, for it offers a broad and changing array of goods and functions. Its business goals are equally elusive, for maximization of profits from each transaction is clearly not the major goal, at either the operating or philosophical level. The sogo shosha could be broadly defined as a large, diversified, multinational enterprise engaged primarily in trading. Yet it is a uniquely Japanese business operation whose structural and strategic dynamics have no close counterparts in North America and Europe.There are only nine sogo shosha in Japan - six of them of major significance - and the largest employs fewer than 15,000. Among them, they handle about one-half of all of Japan's exports and imports. The sogo shosha typically deal in bulk in products that are highly standardized and technologically unsophisticated - raw materials, commodities, intermediary products. A large sogo shosha will finance, develop, manufacture and/or carry over 20,000 different items, "from noodles to missiles" as one slogan has it."The Invisible Link "gives detailed coverage to such topics as historical evolution of the sogo shosha, strategic responses and competitive dynamics, culture and organization, administrative structures and processes, human resource systems, career outcomes, interunit and interfirm coordination, sectional and network organization, and emerging challenges as the nature of the Japanese economy changes.M. Y Yoshino is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Two of his books, "Japan's Managerial System" and "The Japanese Marketing System," were published by The MIT Press. Thomas B. Lifson is an Associate in the Program on US-Japan Relations at Harvard University.

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MIT Press

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0262240254

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9780262240253

Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics

By: Y. Suzuki,Y. Totsuka

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Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics

By: Y. Suzuki,Y. Totsuka

The scientific program of these important proceedings was arranged to cover most of the field of neutrino physics. In light of the rapid growth of interest stimulated by new interesting results from the field, more than half of the papers presented here are related to the neutrino mass and oscillations, including atmospheric and solar neutrino studies. Neutrino mass and oscillations could imply the existence of a mass scale many orders of magnitudes higher than presented in current physics and will probably guide scientists beyond the standard model of particle physics.

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0080548768

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Inflationary Cosmology

By: L. F. Abbott,S.-Y. Pi

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Inflationary Cosmology

By: L. F. Abbott,S.-Y. Pi

Inflation has revolutionized cosmology primarily because it has eliminated the dependence of cosmological modelling on initial conditions. Thus inflationary cosmology is able to account for the present universe starting from a wide range of initial conditions. This volume reviews the presents state of subject. Each chapter consists of a brief introduction followed by reprints of important papers. Experts in the field are also provided with a unifying view point.

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World Scientific

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9971978652

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Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling

By: Y. Kamide,Wolfgang Baumjohann

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Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling

By: Y. Kamide,Wolfgang Baumjohann

In the past two decades a succession of direct observations by satellites, and of extensive computer simulations, has led to the realization that the polar ionosphere plays a principal role in large-scale magnetospheric processes - a manifestation of the physics linkage involved in solar-terrestrial interactions. Spatial/temporal variations in high-latitude electromagnetic phenomena, such as dynamic aurorae, electric fields and currents, have proved to be extremely complex. Now the challenge is to comprehend the vast amount of complicated measurements made in this magnetosphere-ionosphere sysstem of the Earth. This book addresses the electrical coupling between the hot, but dilute, magnetospheric plasma and the cold, but dense, plasma in the ionosphere. In five major chapters, this book presents: - basic properties of magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling; - morphology of electric fields and currents at high latitudes; - global modeling of magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling; - modeling of ionospheric electrodynamics; - current issues, such as auroral particle acceleration, substorms, penetration of high-latitude fields into low latitudes.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642500625

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Neuro-oncology, An Issue of Neurologic Clinics

By: Patrick Y Wen,Eudocia Quant Lee

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Neuro-oncology, An Issue of Neurologic Clinics

By: Patrick Y Wen,Eudocia Quant Lee

This issue of Neurologic Clinics, edited by Drs. Patrick Y. Wen and Eudocia Quant Lee, will focus on Neuro-oncology. Topiocs include, but are not limited to, Epidemiology of brain tumors, Molecular pathogenesis of brain tumors, Changes in WHO classification of brain tumors, Neurologic and medical management of brain tumors, Grade 2 and 3 Gliomas, Glioblastoma, Benign brain tumors, Primary CNS lymphoma and neurologic complications of systemic lymphoma, Pediatric brain tumors, Brain metastases, Metastatic complications of cancer, Neurologic complications of radiation therapy, Neurologic complications of systemic anticancer therapies, Neurocognitive complaints in cancer patients, and Paraneoplastic syndromes.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323614035

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Realities, Challenges, Visions? Towards a New Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy

By: Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y.

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Realities, Challenges, Visions? Towards a New Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy

By: Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y.

Changing realities, global power shifts, and societal upheavals are resulting in new tasks and challenges for Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy. In an age of globalisation, digitisation, and growing nationalism, there is a particular need to inquire into the notion of responsibility and available spaces of action: How can strategies and networks for successful international and intercultural cooperation be drawn up, and what role do civil society actors play?

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KIT Scientific Publishing

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373151057X

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Hot-Carrier Effects in MOS Devices

By: Eiji Takeda,Cary Y. Yang,Akemi Miura-Hamada

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Hot-Carrier Effects in MOS Devices

By: Eiji Takeda,Cary Y. Yang,Akemi Miura-Hamada

The exploding number of uses for ultrafast, ultrasmall integrated circuits has increased the importance of hot-carrier effects in manufacturing as well as for other technological applications. They are rapidly movingout of the research lab and into the real world. This book is derived from Dr. Takedas book in Japanese, Hot-Carrier Effects, (published in 1987 by Nikkei Business Publishers). However, the new book is much more than a translation. Takedas original work was a starting point for developing this much more complete and fundamental text on this increasingly important topic. The new work encompasses not only all the latest research and discoveries made in the fast-paced area of hot carriers, but also includes the basics of MOS devices, and the practical considerations related to hot carriers. - Chapter one itself is a comprehensive review of MOS device physics which allows a reader with little background in MOS devices to pick up a sufficient amount of information to be able to follow the rest of the book - The book is written to allow the reader to learn about MOS Device Reliability in a relatively short amount of time, making the texts detailed treatment of hot-carrier effects especially useful and instructive to both researchers and others with varyingamounts of experience in the field - The logical organization of the book begins by discussing known principles, then progresses to empirical information and, finally, to practical solutions - Provides the most complete review of device degradation mechanisms as well as drain engineering methods - Contains the most extensive reference list on the subject

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0080926223

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Micelles

Theoretical and Applied Aspects

By: Y. Moroi

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Micelles

Theoretical and Applied Aspects

By: Y. Moroi

Almost thirty years ago the author began his studies in colloid chemistry at the laboratory of Professor Ryohei Matuura of Kyushu University. His graduate thesis was on the elimination of radioactive species from aqueous solution by foam fractionation. He has, except for a few years of absence, been at the university ever since, and many students have contributed to his subsequent work on micelle formation and related phenomena. Nearly sixty papers have been published thus far. Recently, in search of a new orientation, he decided to assemble his findings and publish them in book form for review and critique. In addition, his use of the mass action model of micelle has received much criticism, especially since the introduction of the phase separation model. Many recent reports have postulated a role for Laplace pressure in micellization. Although such a hypothesis would provide an easy explanation for micelle formation, it neglects the fact that an interfacial tension exists between two macroscopic phases. The present book cautions against too ready an acceptance of the phase separation model of micelle formation. Most references cited in this book are studies introduced in small group meetings of colloid chemists, the participants at which included Professors M. Saito, M. Manabe, S. Kaneshina, S. Miyagishi, A. Yamauchi, H. Akisada, H. Matuo, M. Sakai, and Drs. O. Shibata, N. Nishikido, and Y. Murata, to whom the author wishes to express his gratitude for useful discussions.

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Pyrazole Chemistry Synthesis and Medicinal Applications

By: Dr. Shravan Y. Jadhav,Dr. Raghunath B. Bhosale

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Pyrazole Chemistry Synthesis and Medicinal Applications

By: Dr. Shravan Y. Jadhav,Dr. Raghunath B. Bhosale

In recent years, eco-friendly chemical processes have attracted much attention both in the academic and industrial fields. There has been an increasing emphasis among researchers to design synthetic strategies keeping in view the principles of 'Green Chemistry'. Adopting the principles of green chemistry means to reduce or eliminate the generation and use of hazardous substances. Hazardous, toxic, and volatile organic solvents are being continuously replaced either by the use of solvent-free techniques or by using water, phase-transfer catalysts or ionic liquids.

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1365756769

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Geriatric Otolaryngology, An Issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

By: Natasha Mirza,Jennifer Y. Lee

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Geriatric Otolaryngology, An Issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

By: Natasha Mirza,Jennifer Y. Lee

This issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Natasha Mirza and Jennifer Y. Lee, is devoted to Geriatric Otolaryngology. Articles in this issue include: Economics of the Aging Population: The expected growth and demand for Otolaryngology services; Hearing: Presbycusis and innovations in hearing augmentation; Vertigo and Dizziness: Understanding and Managing Falls Risk; Head and Neck Cancer; Endocrine Surgery; Voice Alteration; Dysphagia; Gastroesophageal/LaryngoPharyngeal Reflux; The Aging Face; Rhinitis and Sinusitis; Smell and Taste; Sleep Apnea and Sleep Disordered Breathing; Medical and Preoperative Evaluation of the Elderly Patient; and The Emerging Field of Geriatric Otolaryngology.

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0323614078

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Advances in Multi-photon Processes and Spectroscopy

Quantum Control of Molecular Reaction Dynamics : Proceedings of the US-Japan Workshop, Honolulu, USA, 12-15 December 1999

By: Y. Fujimura

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Advances in Multi-photon Processes and Spectroscopy

Quantum Control of Molecular Reaction Dynamics : Proceedings of the US-Japan Workshop, Honolulu, USA, 12-15 December 1999

By: Y. Fujimura

In view of the rapid growth in both experimental and theoretical studies of multi-photon processes and multi-photon spectroscopy of atoms, ions and molecules in chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, etc., it is desirable to publish an advanced series of volumes containing review papers that can be read not only by active researchers in these areas, but also by those who are not experts but who intend to enter the field. The present series aims to serve this purpose. Each review article is written in a self-contained manner by the expert(s) in the area, so that the reader can grasp the knowledge without too much preparation.

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World Scientific

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9812791949

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Japan's Outcaste Abolition

The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State

By: Noah Y. McCormack

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Japan's Outcaste Abolition

The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State

By: Noah Y. McCormack

The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups, known in Japanese as mibun. This book begins by examining the origins and evolution of the outcast groups within the Tokugawa status order.

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Routledge

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0415501326

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Colloid and Surface Science

By: Y. Iwasawa,N. Oyama,H. Kunieda

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Colloid and Surface Science

By: Y. Iwasawa,N. Oyama,H. Kunieda

The purpose of this Conference was to discuss the results of recent developments and the future prospect in science and technology of the field. The field has been growing and flourishing, while indicating many problems to be uncovered and solved. The conference was structured to encourage interaction and to stimulate the exchange of ideas to accomplish the above purpose.Key issues and materials related to the Conference were included as follows: • Molecular Assemblies in Solutions; • Fine Particles and Colloidal Dispersions; • Supramolecular Organized Films; • Nanostructural Solid Surfaces; • Industrial Applications and Products.The Conference comprised 2 plenary lectures, 42 invited lectures, 150 oral presentations and 266 poster presentations.

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0080529356

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9780080529356

Productive Performance of Chinese Enterprises

An Empirical Study

By: Y. Wu

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Productive Performance of Chinese Enterprises

An Empirical Study

By: Y. Wu

`The book is an excellent example of the application of modern econometric techniques to Chinese data, some of which was especially collected for the research. The results throw new light on aspects of industrial sector reform in China. The book deserves wide attention from those interested in the economic reforms in China, especially those interested in the implications of the reforms for industrial sector efficiency and productivity growth.' - Christopher Findlay, University of Adelaide As the rural township, village and private enterprises are becoming more and more significant in the Chinese economy, this book focuses on the comparison of the rural (non-state) and state firms in terms of performance. The analysis is based on the empirical results from estimating various production functions applied to cross-section and panel data. Both aggregate and firm-specific efficiencies are examined in the case studies, exploring potential sources of efficiency differentials such as ownership, scale, factor intensity, location and economic reforms. Special attention is also paid to the regional comparison of industrial development and performance. The implications of the findings in the book for economic and reform policy are thus highlighted.

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0230372538

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Recent Advances in Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations

International Conference on the Occasion of Stanley Osher's 60th Birthday, December 12-15, 2002, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

By: S.-Y. Cheng,Chi-Wang Shu,Tao Tang

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Recent Advances in Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations

International Conference on the Occasion of Stanley Osher's 60th Birthday, December 12-15, 2002, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

By: S.-Y. Cheng,Chi-Wang Shu,Tao Tang

The volume is from the proceedings of the international conference held in celebration of Stanley Osher's sixtieth birthday. It presents recent developments and exciting new directions in scientific computing and partial differential equations for time dependent problems and its interplay with other fields, such as image processing, computer vision and graphics. Over the past decade, there have been very rapid developments in the field. This volume emphasizes the strong interaction of advanced mathematics with real-world applications and algorithms. The book is suitable for graduate students and research mathematicians interested in scientific computing and partial differential equations.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821831550

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Reading the World's Stories

An Annotated Bibliography of International Youth Literature

By: Annette Y. Goldsmith,Theo Heras,Susan Corapi

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Reading the World's Stories

An Annotated Bibliography of International Youth Literature

By: Annette Y. Goldsmith,Theo Heras,Susan Corapi

Reading the World’s Stories is volume 5 in the Bridges to Understanding series of annotated international youth literature bibliographies sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People. USBBY is the United States chapter of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), a Switzerland-based nonprofit whose mission is bring books and children together. The series promotes sharing international children’s books as a way to facilitate intercultural understanding and meet new literary voices. This volume follows Children’s Books from Other Countries (1998), The World though Children’s Books (2002), Crossing Boundaries with Children’s Books (2006), and Bridges to Understanding: Envisioning the World through Children’s Books (2011) and acts as a companion book to the earlier titles. Centered around the theme of the importance of stories, the guide is a resource for discovering more recent global books that fit many reading tastes and educational needs for readers aged 0-18 years. Essays by storyteller Anne Pellowski, author Beverley Naidoo, and academic Marianne Martens offer a variety of perspectives on international youth literature. This latest installment in the series covers books published from 2010-2014 and includes English-language imports as well as translations of children’s and young adult literature first published outside of the United States. These books are supplemented by a smaller number of culturally appropriate books from the US to help fill in gaps from underrepresented countries. The organization of the guide is geographic by region and country. All of the more than 800 entries are recommended, and many of the books have won awards or achieved other recognition in their home countries. Forty children’s book experts wrote the annotations. The entries are indexed by author, translator, illustrator, title, and subject. Back matter also includes international book awards, important organizations and research collections, and a selected directory of publishers known for publishing books from other countries.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442270861

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Pediatric Ear Diseases

By: Y. Naito

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Pediatric Ear Diseases

By: Y. Naito

Due to the complex anatomical structure of the temporal bone, imaging diagnosis requires a very high degree of expertise. This atlas is not only helpful to assess pediatric ear disorders accurately, but also provides a treasure trove to experts. It consists of a pediatric temporal bone imaging atlas followed by case reports of typical pediatric ear diseases. In the first part complete contiguous temporal bone CT sections of an infant and an older child are shown along with a detailed listing of anatomical names of the structures. It further presents developmental changes in size, shape, location and orientation of the primary components of the temporal bone. The second part contains case images in combination with reference illustrations of a healthy child in the same age range allowing the reader to identify the key findings of the disorder with only one reference book at hand. Further images illustrate the posttreatment follow-up. This publication which is translated from the successful Japanese edition (2011) will be essential for otorhinolaryngologists and pediatricians particularly interested in pediatric ear diseases. Its unique layout makes it also a very effective tool for students learning image diagnosis.

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Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers

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3318022330

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The Fourth International Workshop on Neutrino Oscillations and Their Origin

Kanazawa, Japan, 10-14 February 2003

By: Y. Suzuki,Y. Itow,M. Nakahata,Y. Obayashi,M. Shiozawa

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The Fourth International Workshop on Neutrino Oscillations and Their Origin

Kanazawa, Japan, 10-14 February 2003

By: Y. Suzuki,Y. Itow,M. Nakahata,Y. Obayashi,M. Shiozawa

Annotation. Contents: Status and Future Prospects of Reactor Neutrinos, Solar Neutrinos, and Supernova Neutrinos; Status and Future Prospects of Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments, Atmospheric Neutrinos; Dark Matter Searches and Double Beta Decays; Lepton Number Violated Muon Decays; Proton Decay Searches; Neutrino Phenomenology and Model Building.

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9812703101

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