Akira: 199 books
On New Shores
Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of...
Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Bulk and Surface Electronic Structures
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Photoelectron spectroscopy is now becoming more and more required to investigate electronic structures of various solid materials in the bulk, on surfaces as well as at buried interfaces. The energy resolution was much improved in the last decade down to 1 meV in the low photon energy region. Now...
by Yuriko Aoki, Yuuichi Orimoto, Akira Imamura
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This brief provides an overview of theoretical research in organic ferromagnetic material design using quantum chemical approaches based on molecular orbital theory from primary Hückel to ab initio levels of theory. Most of the content describes the authors’ approach to identify simple and efficient...
Acute Aneurysm Surgery
Pathophysiology and Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
During recent years, major advances in surgical techniques, diagnostic methods, anesthesia and adjunctive treatment in the care of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage have been achieved. Nevertheless, the overall outcome of patients with SAH cannot be regarded as satisfactory. The first part of...
Clinical Neuroembryology
Development and Developmental Disorders of the Human Central Nervous System
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the human central nervous system (CNS) in the context of its many developmental disorders due to genetic, environmental, and hypoxic/ischemic causes. The introductory chapters give an overview of the development of the human brain and...
The Changing Academic Profession
Major Findings of a Comparative Survey
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
This book provides an overview on the major findings of a questionnaire survey of academic profession in international perspective. More than 25,000 professors and junior staff at universities and other institutions of higher education at almost 20 countries from all over the world provide information...
Preventive Measures
Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1998
State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening...
Introduction to Practice of Molecular Simulation
Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo, Brownian Dynamics, Lattice Boltzmann and Dissipative Particle Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
This book presents the most important and main concepts of the molecular and microsimulation techniques. It enables readers to improve their skills in developing simulation programs by providing physical problems and sample simulation programs for them to use.
Provides tools to develop skills...
by Akira Furusawa
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
This book explains what quantum states of light look like. Of special interest, a single photon state is explained by using a wave picture, showing that it corresponds to the complementarity of a quantum. Also explained is how light waves are created by photons, again corresponding to the complementarity...
Wireless Communication and Network
Proceedings of 2015 International Workshop on Wireless Communication and Network (IWWCN2015)
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
This book is a collection of all papers presented at the 2015 International Workshop on Wireless Communication and Network (IWWCN 2015), which was held on August 21–23, 2015 in Kunming, Yunnan, China. The book provides cutting-edge development and signification contributions to all major fields...
by Akira Mitsumasu
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
This book attempts to bridge academic knowledge and practitioner's knowledge regarding the control and coordination of subsidiaries in Japan. It specifically explores two questions: why do corporations establish subsidiaries and form corporate groups? How do corporate groups manage their subsidiaries?...
by Yoshitaka Higashi, Akira Mizushima, Hirotsugu Matsumoto
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Akira Azushima
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book provides an in-depth description of the fundamental tribological aspects of cold and hot sheet rollings. The author describes new developments in the rolling processes, the rolling oils, the rolling rolls and the structural materials resulting from sheet rolling technology and their practical...
by Akira Chiba, Tadashi Fukao, Osamu Ichikawa
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
The application of bearingless drives is emerging as an important technique in the areas of high-speed machinery and motion-control, and this book aims to provide a thorough grounding in the principles behind this cutting-edge technology. Basic principles are described in detail with practical examples...