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Legal Thoughts between the East and the West in the Multilevel Legal Order
A Liber Amicorum in Honour of Professor Herbert Han-Pao Ma
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This book focuses on the interaction and mutual influences between the East and the West in terms of their legal systems and practices. In this regard, it highlights Professor Herbert H.P. Ma’s achievements and his efforts to bring Eastern and Western legal concepts and systems closer together.
The...
by Thayer Scudder
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book highlights the long-term resettlement process of the Egyptian Nubian people along the Aswan High Dam. Assessing the resettlement of 48,000 Egyptian Nubians in connection with the High Dam is especially important for three main reasons: firstly, this resettlement process is one of the rare...
Marriage and Fertility Behaviour in Japan
Economic Status and Value-Orientation
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This monograph examines the influence of ideational and socio-economic factors on Japanese marriage and fertility behaviour. It also investigates the historical change in attitudes toward partnership and family in Japan, which, if current trends continue, can lead to population shrinkage and an asymmetrical...
Playful User Interfaces
Interfaces that Invite Social and Physical Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
The book is about user interfaces to applications that have been designed for social and physical interaction. The interfaces are ‘playful’, that is, users feel challenged to engage in social and physical interaction because that will be fun. The topics that will be present in this book are interactive...
Wearable Sensors and Robots
Proceedings of International Conference on Wearable Sensors and Robots 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
These proceedings present the latest information on regulations and standards for medical and non-medical devices, including wearable robots for gait training and support, design of exoskeletons for the elderly, innovations in assistive robotics, and analysis of human–machine interactions taking...
Advances in Mechanical Design
Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Mechanical Design (ICMD2017)
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Focusing on innovation, these proceedings present recent advances in the field of mechanical design in China and offer researchers, scholars and scientists an international platform to present their research findings and exchange their ideas. In the context of the “Made in China 2025” development...
Digital Watermarking
Techniques and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This book presents the state-of-the-arts application of digital watermarking in audio, speech, image, video, 3D mesh graph, text, software, natural language, ontology, network stream, relational database, XML, and hardware IPs. It also presents new and recent algorithms in digital watermarking for...
by Guangyu Hu
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
This book focuses on the future of China and its sustainable development, and summarizes the implications, forms, causes, countermeasures and related rules of the main costs generated during a country’s period of development, so as to provide a theoretical reference and decision-making consulting...
by Przemyslaw Marcin Sowa
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
This book presents a novel view of healthcare system transition in post-communist countries. It is the first region-wide comparative study of hospital governance in Eastern Europe. Comprehensive new material shows the evolution and significance of governance, complementing recent publications on the...
Japanese Advance into the Pacific Ocean
The Albatross and the Great Bird Rush
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
This book asserts that the albatross was the reason for the advance of the Japanese into the isolated islands in the Pacific after the abolition of the Japanese “closed-door” policy that had been in effect from the seventeenth century to the latter part of the nineteenth century. The birds’...
Law, Normative Pluralism, and Post-Disaster Recovery
Evaluating the Post-Disaster Relocation and Housing Project of Typhoon Ketsana Victims in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This book looks at how the multiplicity of formal and informal normative systems that actualize the post-disaster recovery goals of the country’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 has resulted in the inadequate housing and relocation of Typhoon Ketsana victims in the Philippines....
Theory and Practice of Export Control
Balancing International Security and International Economic Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This is the first book to focus on the theoretical and practical issues of export control. It combines the points of view of Japanese and French academics and practitioners, including personnel at several governmental institutions and private companies. Presenting the results of a collaboration between...
Plant-Microbe Interactions in Agro-Ecological Perspectives
Volume 2: Microbial Interactions and Agro-Ecological Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
This book puts an updated account on functional aspects of multiphasic microbial interactions within and between plants and their ecosystem. Multipronged interaction in the soil microbial communities with the plants constitute a relay of mechanisms that make profound changes in plant and its micro-environment...
Agriculturally Important Microbes for Sustainable Agriculture
Volume I: Plant-soil-microbe nexus
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book presents a compilation of case studies from different countries on achieving agricultural sustainability. The book stresses that, in order to meet the needs of our rapidly growing population, it is imperative to increase agricultural productivity. If global food production is to keep pace...