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Environmental Ergonomics - The Ergonomics of Human Comfort, Health, and Performance in the Thermal Environment

By: Yutaka Tochihara,Tadakatsu Ohnaka

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Environmental Ergonomics - The Ergonomics of Human Comfort, Health, and Performance in the Thermal Environment

By: Yutaka Tochihara,Tadakatsu Ohnaka

Environmental Ergonomics addresses the problems of maintaining human comfort, activity and health in stressful environments. Its subject areas include thermal environments, illumination, noise and hypo- and hyperbaric environments. The book concentrates fundamentally on the way the thermal environment has affected human comfort, health and performance from the age of cave-dwellings to our age of skyscrapers. This book contains only papers selected from the 10th ICEE held in Japan 23-27 September 2002. The ICEE has been held biannually since 1982, and has firmly established itself as the world's most distinguished conference in its field, offering the ideal forum for research scientists, medical doctors, engineers, administrators, technicians, healthcare professionals and students to share their work and ideas. - Selected papers from the 10th International Conference on Environmental Ergonomics held in Japan, 23-27 September 2002. They have been revised and peer-reviewed. - Papers included in this text have been widely recognised as the catalyst for the recent advances witnessed in Environmental Ergonomics in Asia. They strike a balance between academia and industries' views on environmental ergonomics. - Add this volume to your copy of the Elsevier Ergonomics Book Series.

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Elsevier

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0080455700

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9780080455709

Neighborhood Associations and Local Governance in Japan

By: Robert J. Pekkanen,Yutaka Tsujinaka,Hidehiro Yamamoto

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Neighborhood Associations and Local Governance in Japan

By: Robert J. Pekkanen,Yutaka Tsujinaka,Hidehiro Yamamoto

Although local neighborhood associations are found in many countries, Japan’s are distinguished by their ubiquity, scope of activities, and very high participation rates, making them important for the study of society and politics. Most Japanese belong to one local neighborhood association or another, making them Japan’s most numerous civil society organization, and one that powerfully shapes governance outcomes in the country. And, they also often blur the state-society boundary, making them theoretically intriguing. Neighborhood Associations and Local Governance in Japan draws on a unique and novel body of empirical data derived from the first national survey of neighborhood associations carried out in 2007 and provides a multifaceted empirical portrait of Japan’s neighborhood associations. It examines how local associational structures affect the quality of local governance, and thus the quality of life for Japan’s citizens and residents, and illuminates the way in which these ambiguous associations can help us refine civil society theory and show how they contribute to governance. As well as outlining the key features of neighbourhood associations, the book goes on to examine in detail the way in which neighbourhood associations contribute to governance, in terms of social capital, networks with other community organizations, social service provision, cooperation with local governments and political participation. This book will be welcomed by students and scholars of Japanese politics, Japanese society, anthropology, urban studies as well as those interested in social capital and civil society.

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317

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Routledge

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1317754425

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9781317754428

System-Materials Nanoarchitectonics

By: Yutaka Wakayama,Katsuhiko Ariga

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System-Materials Nanoarchitectonics

By: Yutaka Wakayama,Katsuhiko Ariga

This book is the first publication to widely introduce the contributions of nanoarchitectonics to the development of functional materials and systems. The book opens up pathways to novel nanotechnology based on bottom-up techniques. In fields of nanotechnology, theoretical and practical limitations are expected in the bottom-up nanofabrication process. Instead, some supramolecular processes for nano- and microstructure formation including molecular recognition, self-assembly, and template synthesis have gained great attention as novel key technologies to break through expected limitations in current nanotechnology. This volume describes future images of nanotechnology and related materials and device science as well as practical applications for energy and biotechnology. Readers including specialists, non-specialists, graduate students, and undergraduate students can focus on the parts of the book that interest and concern them most. Target fields include materials chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, nanotechnology, and even biotechnology.

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Book's by Yutaka Wakayama

Environmental Ergonomics - The Ergonomics of Human Comfort, Health, and Performance in the Thermal Environment

Environmental Ergonomics - The Ergonomics of Human Comfort, Health, and Performance in the Thermal Environment

Neighborhood Associations and Local Governance in Japan

Neighborhood Associations and Local Governance in Japan

System-Materials Nanoarchitectonics

System-Materials Nanoarchitectonics

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