The term "soft power" describes a country's ability to get what it wants by attracting rather than coercing others - by engaging hearts and minds through cultural and political values and foreign policies that other countries see as legitimate and conducive to their own interests.This book analyzes the soft power assets of the United States and Japan, and how they contributed to one of the most successful, if unlikely, bilateral relationships of the twentieth century. Sponsored by the U.S. Social Science Research Council and the Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership, the book brings together anthropologists, political scientists, historians, economists, diplomats, and others to explore the multiple axes of soft power that operate in the U.S.-Japanese relationship, and between the United States and Japan and other regions of the world.The contributors move beyond an "either-or" concept of hard versus soft power to a more dynamic interpretation, and demonstrate the important role of non-state actors in wielding soft power. They show how public diplomacy on both sides of the Pacific - bolstered by less formal influences such as popular cultural icons, product brands, martial arts, baseball, and educational exchanges - has led to a vibrant U.S.-Japanese relationship since World War II despite formidable challenges. Emphasizing the essentially interactive nature of persuasion, the book highlights an approach to soft power that has many implications for the world today.
This book provides a broad spectrum of insights into the optical principle, resource, fabrication, nanoscience, and nanotechnology of noble metal. It also looks at the advanced implementation of noble metal in the field of nanoscale materials, catalysts and biosystem. This book is ideal not only for scientific researchers but also as a reference for professionals in material science, engineering, nonascience and plasmonics.
The goal of this book is to introduce the visional application by excellent researchers in the world currently and offer the knowledge that can also be applied to another field widely. This book collects the main studies about machine vision currently in the world, and has a powerful persuasion in the applications employed in the machine vision. The contents, which demonstrate that the machine vision theory, are realized in different field. For the beginner, it is easy to understand the development in the vision servoing. For engineer, professor and researcher, they can study and learn the chapters, and then employ another application method.
The term "soft power" describes a country's ability to get what it wants by attracting rather than coercing others - by engaging hearts and minds through cultural and political values and foreign policies that other countries see as legitimate and conducive to their own interests.This book analyzes the soft power assets of the United States and Japan, and how they contributed to one of the most successful, if unlikely, bilateral relationships of the twentieth century. Sponsored by the U.S. Social Science Research Council and the Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership, the book brings together anthropologists, political scientists, historians, economists, diplomats, and others to explore the multiple axes of soft power that operate in the U.S.-Japanese relationship, and between the United States and Japan and other regions of the world.The contributors move beyond an "either-or" concept of hard versus soft power to a more dynamic interpretation, and demonstrate the important role of non-state actors in wielding soft power. They show how public diplomacy on both sides of the Pacific - bolstered by less formal influences such as popular cultural icons, product brands, martial arts, baseball, and educational exchanges - has led to a vibrant U.S.-Japanese relationship since World War II despite formidable challenges. Emphasizing the essentially interactive nature of persuasion, the book highlights an approach to soft power that has many implications for the world today.
This book is a concise introduction to the stochastic calculus of variations for processes with jumps. The author provides many results on this topic in a self-contained way for e.g., stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with jumps. The book also contains some applications of the stochastic calculus for processes with jumps to the control theory, mathematical finance and so. This third and entirely revised edition of the work is updated to reflect the latest developments in the theory and some applications with graphics.
This title contains the most up-to-date and comprehensive information on the development of the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD), which makes possible the widespread use of consumer camcorders and broadcasting color cameras. It is comprehensive enough to be of great value to researchers, industrialists and post-graduate students in image technology.
This volume presents the new objectives of physics on self-organizing systems composed of multi-components, in order to create a new field and establish universal comprehension in physics. The book covers broad topics such as the thermodynamic time asymmetry in both transient and stationary nonequilibrium states, the seriousness of auxiliary conditions in physicochemical processes and biological systems, the quantum-classical and micro-macro interfaces which are familiar in mesoscopic physics, the purification scheme of quantum entanglement, topics on gamma-ray bursts, and the walking mechanism of single molecular motors. Sample Chapter(s). Bio-Physics Manifesto for the Futureof Physics and Biology (570 KB). Contents: Biophysics: Bio-Physics Manifesto OCo For the Future of the Physics and Biology (Y Oono); Single Molecule Force Measurement for Protein Synthesis on the Ribosome (S Uemura); A Rod Probe Reveals Gait of Myosin V (K Shiroguchi); Mechanism of Spontaneous Oscillation Emerging from Collective Molecular Motors (Y Shimamoto and S Ishiwata); Simulated Rotational Diffusion of F o Molecular Motor (H Yamasaki & M Takano); Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics and Related Topics: Thermodynamic Time Asymmetry and Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics (P Gaspard); A Measurement-Based Purification Scheme and Decoherence (H Nakazato); Quantum Fluctuation Theorem in the Existence of the Tunneling and the Thermal Activation (T Monnai); Statistical Properties of the Inter-Occurrence Times in the Two-Dimensional Stick-Slip Model of Earthquakes (T Hasumi & Y Aizawa); Second Harmonic Generation and Polarization Microscope Observations of Quantum Relaxor Lithium Doped Potasium Tantalate (H Yokota & Y Uesu); Thermoelectric Properties of Ni-Doped LaRh0 3 (S Shibasaki et al.); Collective Precession of Chiral Liquid Crystals Under Transmembrane Mass Flow (G Watanabe et al.); Interplay of Excitons with Free Carriers in Carrier Tunneling Dynamics (S Lu et al.); Astrophysics as Interdisciplinary Science: New View on Quantum Gravity: Micro-Structure of Spacetime and Origin of the Universe (B L Hu); Colliding Branes and Its Application to String Cosmology (Y Takamizu); One-Loop Corrections to Scalar and Tensor Perturbations During Inflation (Y Urakawa & K Maeda); Variational Calculation for the Equation of State of Nuclear Matter Toward Supernova Simulations (H Kanzawa et al.); Two Strong Radio Bursts at High and Medium Galactic Latitude (S Kida & T Daishido); Effects of QCD Phase Transition on the Ejected Elements from the Envelopes of Compact Stars (Y Yasutake et al.). Readership: Physicists, biologists and material scientists.
Mountain Songs is a collection of folk songs edited by the famous writer Feng Menglong (1574-1646). By this innovative work - mainly written in the Suzhou dialect - he aimed to revitalize poetry through the power of popular songs. This collection is very significant to the understanding of the characters of the mobile society of Jiangnan and the vitality of its intellectual world. The songs deal with the lives of common people: women, often prostitutes, boatmen, peasants, hunters, fishers and paddlers. Their spirit is far from the orthodox moral intents that Zhu Xi advocated for interpreting the Shijing, and their language is often vulgar and full of crude expressions or salacious double meanings and contains allusions to sexual and erotic behaviour.
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