Springer Japan: 783 books
Principia Designae － Pre-Design, Design, and Post-Design
Social Motive for the Highly Advanced Technological Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
This book presents a broad design purview within the framework of “pre-design, design, and post-design” by focusing on the “motive of design,” which implies an underlying reason for the design of a product. The chapters are comprised of papers based on discussions at the “Design Research...
Recent Advances in Natural Computing
Selected Results from the IWNC 8 Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This book highlights recent advances in natural computing, including biology and its theory, bio-inspired computing, computational aesthetics, computational models and theories, computing with natural media, philosophy of natural computing, and educational technology. It presents extended versions...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Stroke is one of the major causes of disability in the world. Consequently, an effective rehabilitation regimen is the goal of specialists working in the field worldwide. The implementation of rehabilitation programs for the stroke patient is broad in scope and requires, first of all, an objective...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book describes the latest modalities such as tau PET imaging for diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and also provides information on handling and analyzing imaging data that is not found in other books. In addition, it introduces routine imaging studies in the management...
Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future
Lectures Given at the Plenary Sessions of the International Geographical Union Kyoto Regional Conference, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The title of this book, Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future, is from the theme of the 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union. Over the past few decades, globalization has strengthened connections among countries and regions of the world...
Autonomous Control Systems and Vehicles
Intelligent Unmanned Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
The International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems 2011 was organized by the International Society of Intelligent Unmanned Systems and locally by the Center for Bio-Micro Robotics Research at Chiba University, Japan. The event was the 7th conference continuing from previous conferences held...
Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2010
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Global COE Program "Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward CO2 Zero-emission Energy System"
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Since 2008, the Global Center of Excellence (COE) at Kyoto University, Japan, has been engaged in a program called “Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward a CO2 Zero-Emission Energy System.” Its aim is to establish an international education and research platform to foster educators,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
East Asia enjoyed a role as a growth center of the world economy from the 1960s until the currency and economic crisis of 1997. In 1993, the World Bank issued a report entitled "The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy," in which the bank expressed its admiration for the...
Environmental Issues in China Today
A View from Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Economic development and environmental issues in China are attracting more and more attention internationally as the country’s large population and vast demands for food, energy, water, minerals, and other resources play an increasingly important role in deciding the fate of the world. There is...
Tohoku Recovery
Challenges, Potentials and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
The March 11 disaster in 2011, known as the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, caused extensive damage in various sectors. Through the recovery process, special lessons are being learned and applied in the affected region. This book attempts to draw lessons from different issues and sectors...
The Smart City and the Co-creation of Value
A Source of New Competitiveness in a Low-Carbon Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The original point that differentiates this text from otherwise similar texts is that it looks at the building of smart cities from the viewpoint of an interchange of knowledge among companies in different industries, or “Ba” as shared context in motion, and emphasizes that the resulting value...
Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific
Policy and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The Asia-Pacific region is one of the most vulnerable to a variety of natural and manmade hazards. This edited book productively brings together scholars and senior public officials having direct experience in dealing with or researching on recent major natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific. The chapters...
Medaka
A Model for Organogenesis, Human Disease, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Oryzias latipes, known as medaka, is a model organism from East Asia. Breeding of this small, egg-laying freshwater teleost fish has long been popular among hobbyists in Japan. Now, as biological science has entered the genome era, the medaka provides significant advantages that make it one of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Biological diversity, or biodiversity, refers to the universal attribute of all living organisms that each individual being is unique - that is, no two organisms are identical. The biology of biodiversity must include all the aspects of evolutionary and ecological sciences analyzing the origin, changes,...