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Kazuyuki Ikeda, Matsuyuki Doi, Tomiei Kazama, Kazuo Sato, Tsutomu Oyama Computing And Monitoring In Anesthesia And Intensive Care 80.99 GBP Computing and Monitoring in Anesthesia and Intensive Care. Paperback. By Kazuyuki Ikeda, Matsuyuki Doi, Tomiei Kazama, Kazuo Sato, Tsutomu Oyama

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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K Illustrated Manual Of Regional Anesthesia : Part 1: Transparencies 1–28 41.39 GBP

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Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Case Studies Of Near Misses In Clinical Anesthesia 64.39 GBP All anesthesiologists eventually face the fear of a “near miss,” when a patient’s life has been put at risk. Learning from the experience is crucial to professionalism and the ongoing development of expertise.Drawing on forty-plus years of practice in major metropolitan hospitals in the United States, Norway, and South Africa, John Brock-Utne, MD presents 80 carefully selected cases that provide the basis for lessons and tips to prevent potential disaster. The cases emphasize problem-centered learning and span a broad range of topics—from an outbreak of operating room infection (could it be the anesthesia equipment?), complications of fiberoptic intubations, and problems with epidural drug pumps, to performing an urgent tracheostomy for the first time, working with an aggressive surgeon, and what to do when a patient falls off the operating table during surgery. 80 true-story clinical “near misses” never before published, ideal for problem-centered learning, recommendations, references, and discussions accompany most cases, rich basis for teaching discussions both in or out of the operating room, settings include sophisticated as well as rudimentary anesthetic environments, complements the author’s other case book, Clinical Anesthesia: Near Misses and Lessons Learned (Springer, 2008).

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Springer Verlag Anesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care And Emergency Medicine - A.P.I.C.E. : Proceeding Of The 14th Postgraduate Course In Critical Care Medicine Trieste, Italy - November 16-19, 1999 41.39 GBP The end of the second millenium is distinguished for the increasing interest in the field of critical care medicine, not only among physicians and clinical scientists but also on the part of the mass media.This is an interdisciplinary area of medicine drawing upon the specialties of anesthesiology, internal medicine and surgery, and relying upon the essential contributions and support from basic research.Advances in critical care medicine depend on the application of new technologies to the clinic, the full integration of computers and informatics, the continual training of physicians and technicians, and the consideration of ethical issues in the clinical setting.Within this complex panorama of complementary approaches and viewpoints, it is apparent that critical care medicine is one of the best examples of evidence-based medicine.

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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K Introduction To Evolutionary Computing 36.79 GBP The overall structure of this new edition is three-tier: Part I presents the basics, Part II is concerned with methodological issues, and Part III discusses advanced topics.In the second edition the authors have reorganized the material to focus on problems, how to represent them, and then how to choose and design algorithms for different representations.They also added a chapter on problems, reflecting the overall book focus on problem-solvers, a chapter on parameter tuning, which they combined with the parameter control and "how-to" chapters into a methodological part, and finally a chapter on evolutionary robotics with an outlook on possible exciting developments in this field. The book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in artificial intelligence and computational intelligence, and for self-study by practitioners and researchers engaged with all aspects of bioinspired design and optimization.

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Springer Verlag, Singapore Concepts Of Soft Computing : Fuzzy And Ann With Programming 59.79 GBP This book discusses soft computing, which provides an efficient platform to deal with imprecision, uncertainty, vagueness and approximation in order to attain robustness and reliable computing.It explores two major concepts of soft computing: fuzzy set theory and neural networks, which relate to uncertainty handling and machine learning techniques respectively.Generally, fuzzy sets are considered as vague or uncertain sets having membership function lying between 0 and 1, and ANN is a type of artificial intelligence that attempts to imitate the way a human brain works by configuring specific applications, for instance pattern recognition or data classification, through learning processes. The book also presents C/MATLAB programming codes related to the basics of fuzzy set, interval arithmetic and ANN in a concise, practical and adaptable manner along, with simple examples and self-validation unsolved practice questions in few cases

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Springer Verlag, Singapore Big Data And Social Computing : 7th China National Conference, Bdsc 2022, Hangzhou, China, August 11-13, 2022, Revised Selected Papers 64.39 GBP This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 7th China National Conference on Big Data and Social Computing, BDSC 2022, held in Hangzhou, China, from August 11-13, 2022The 24 full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 99 submissions.The papers in the volume are organised according to the following topical headings: urban computing and social governance; artificial intelligence and cognitive science; social network and group behavior; digital society and public security; digital government and public big data

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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K Algorithmics : The Spirit Of Computing 50.59 GBP Computer science is the science of the future, and already underlies every facet of business and technology, and much of our everyday lives.In addition, it will play a crucial role in the science the 21st century, which will be dominated by biology and biochemistry, similar to the role of mathematics in the physical sciences of the 20th century. In this award-winning best-seller, the author and his co-author focus on the fundamentals of computer science, which revolve around the notion of the algorithm.They discuss the design of algorithms, and their efficiency and correctness, the inherent limitations of algorithms and computation, quantum algorithms, concurrency, large systems and artificial intelligence.Throughout, the authors, in their own words, stress the ‘fundamental and robust nature of the science in a form that is virtually independent of the details of specific computers, languages and formalisms'.This version of the book is published to celebrate 25 years since its first edition, and in honor of the Alan M.Turing Centennial year. Turing was a true pioneer of computer science, whose work forms the underlying basis of much of this book.

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Springer Verlag, Singapore Knowledge Graph And Semantic Computing: Knowledge Graph Empowers The Digital Economy : 7th China Conference, Ccks 2022, Qinhuangdao, China, August 24–27, 2022, Revised Selected Papers 59.79 GBP This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing: Knowledge Graph Empowers the Digital Economy, CCKS 2022, in Qinhuangdao, China, August 24–27, 2022. The 15 full papers and 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions.They were organized in topical sections as follows: knowledge representation and reasoning; knowledge acquisition and knowledge base construction; linked data, knowledge integration, and knowledge graph storage managements; natural language understanding and semantic computing; knowledge graph applications; and knowledge graph open resources.

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Springer Verlag, Singapore Cloud Computing Technology 41.39 GBP This open access book introduces cloud computing and related technologies from the concept, technology, and architecture of cloud computing, combined with typical application cases of cloud; provides students with a more complete knowledge framework in the field of cloud computing; and lays the foundation for future research, development, and further study in cloud computing, big data, and other related fields. As the world's leading provider of ICT (information and communication technology) infrastructure and intelligence terminals, Huawei's products are already available in a number of areas, including connectivity, security, wireless, storage, cloud computing, intelligent computing, and artificial intelligence.

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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K Computer Algebra In Scientific Computing Casc’99 : Proceedings Of The Second Workshop On Computer Algebra In Scientific Computing, Munich, May 31 – June 4, 1999 41.39 GBP The development of powerful computer algebra systems has considerably ex tended the scope of problems of scientific computing which can now be solved successfully with the aid of computers.However, as the field of applications of computer algebra in scientific computing becomes broader and more complex, there is a danger of separation between theory, systems, and applications.For this reason, we felt the need to bring together the researchers who now ap ply the tools of computer algebra for the solution of problems in scientific computing, in order to foster new and closer interactions.CASC'99 is the second conference devoted to applications of computer al gebra in scientific computing.The first conference in this sequence, CASC'98, was held 20-24 April 1998 in St.Petersburg, Russia. This volume contains revised versions of the papers submitted by the par ticipants and accepted by the program committee after a thorough reviewing process.The collection of papers included in the proceedings covers various topics of computer algebra methods, algorithms and software applied to scien tific computing: symbolic-numeric analysis and solving differential equations, efficient computations with polynomials, groups, matrices and other related objects, special purpose programming environments, application to physics, mechanics, optics and to other areas.In particular, a significant group of papers deals with applications of com puter algebra methods for the solution of current problems in group theory, which mostly arise in mathematical physics.

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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K Space-Filling Curves : An Introduction With Applications In Scientific Computing 73.59 GBP The present book provides an introduction to using space-filling curves (SFC) as tools in scientific computing.Special focus is laid on the representation of SFC and on resulting algorithms.For example, grammar-based techniques are introduced for traversals of Cartesian and octree-type meshes, and arithmetisation of SFC is explained to compute SFC mappings and indexings. The locality properties of SFC are discussed in detail, together with their importance for algorithms.Templates for parallelisation and cache-efficient algorithms are presented to reflect the most important applications of SFC in scientific computing.Special attention is also given to the interplay of adaptive mesh refinement and SFC, including the structured refinement of triangular and tetrahedral grids.For each topic, a short overview is given on the most important publications and recent research activities.

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Springer Verlag, Singapore Applications Of Cognitive Computing Systems And Ibm Watson : 8th Ibm Collaborative Academia Research Exchange 64.39 GBP This book presents reports and methods that demonstrate the ease with which cognitive applications can be built using IBM Watson application program interfaces (APIs).It includes application reports from two IBM Watson API-based competitions – Hackathon (24 hours) and a Challenge task (~3 months).It also features a selection of papers presented at I-CARE 2016, the IBM Collaborative Academia Research Exchange event, from the areas of “Theory and Cognitive Computing”, “Data Platforms and Systems,” and “Societal Applications.” IBM has a long tradition of research collaboration with colleagues in academia, and I-CARE is an annual event initiated in 2009 to promote collaborative innovation and learning, and explore new ways of fostering a culture of innovation.I-CARE’s main goal is to “amalgamate” the thought leadership in Indian academia with that in industry, and foster a symbiotic environment for establishing a rich research culture in India. The 8th edition of I-CAREpresents a collection of thought-provoking ideas and novel Indian research projects related to three crucial areas: cognitive computing, systems and platforms that support large-scale data processing and practical systems that are designed for the public good.

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Springer Verlag, Singapore Communication, Networks And Computing : Second International Conference, Cnc 2020, Gwalior, India, December 29–31, 2020, Revised Selected Papers 64.39 GBP This book constitutes selected and revised papers presented at the Second International Conference on Communication, Networks and Computing, CNC 2020, held in Gwalior, India, in December 2020.The 23 full papers and 7 short papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 102 submissions.They are organized in topical sections on wired and wireless communication systems; high dimensional data representation and processing; networking and information security; computing Techniques for efficient networks design; vehicular technology and application; electronics circuit for communication system.

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Springer Verlag, Singapore Social Network Computing 59.79 GBP In the era of digital economy with highly-connected world, the ability to comprehend social network computing has become an indispensable skill.This book serves as a vital guide for academics and professionals engaged in research within this rapidly expanding field. The book is organized into three parts, each dedicated to different facets of social network computing.The journey commences with an exploration of foundational principles, encompassing triadic closure, strong and weak ties, network homophily, and positive and negative balance.This lays the groundwork for an in-depth examination of fundamental theories governing social networks.Subsequently, the focus shifts to the laws dictating social networks, elucidating phenomena like the small world effect, power law distribution, community detection, diffusion processes, game theory dynamics, and hypernetworks, also including multiplex networks, multi-mode networks and temporal networks.The final section of the book centers on the practical aspects of social network analysis, delving into topics such as link prediction, influence evaluation, dynamic analysis, random experiments, modeling and simulation, and representation learning.This provides a comprehensive exploration of the applicability of social network analysis in real-world scenarios. This book seamlessly integrates theory with practice by incorporating popular social network computing software, including igraph, Gephi, Ucinet, and Netlogo.By mastering the computational thinking methods presented in this book, readers will deepen their understanding of social network computing and acquire the skills to effectively apply it in various real-world contexts.

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Springer Verlag, Singapore Ccks 2021 - Evaluation Track : 6th China Conference On Knowledge Graph And Semantic Computing, Ccks 2021, Guangzhou, China, December 25-26, 2021, Revised Selected Papers 50.59 GBP This volume constitutes papers presented at the Evaluation Track of the 6th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing, CCKS 2021, held in Guangzhou, China, in December 2021. The 17 competition papers went through a rigorious peer review and were accepted for publication.CCKS 2021 technology evaluation track aims to provide researchers with platforms and resources for testing knowledge and semantic computing technologies, algorithms and systems, promote the technical development in the field of domestic knowledge, and the integration of academic achievements and industrial needs.

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Springer Verlag, Singapore Engineering Mathematics And Computing 41.39 GBP This book contains select papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Engineering Mathematics and Computing (ICEMC 2020), held at the Haldia Institute of Technology, Purba Midnapur, West Bengal, India, from 5–7 February 2020.The book discusses new developments and advances in the areas of neural networks, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, cellular automata, self-organizing systems, soft computing, fuzzy systems, hybrid intelligent systems, etc.The book, containing 19 chapters, is useful to the researchers, scholars, and practising engineers as well as graduate students of engineering and applied sciences.

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Springer Verlag GmbH Intracranial Pressure And Brain Monitoring Xii 165.59 GBP 88 short papers originating from the 12th International Symposium on Intracranial Pressure and Brain Monitoring held in August 2004 in Hong Kong present experimental as well as clinical research data on invasive and non-invasive intracranial pressure and brain biochemistry monitoring.The papers have undergone a peer-reviewing and are organized in nine sections: ICP management in head injury, neurochemical monitoring, intracranial hypertension, neuroimaging, hydrocephalus, clinical trails, experimental studies, brain compliance and biophysics.

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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K Monitoring And Mitigation Of Volcano Hazards 101.19 GBP By the year 2000, the population worldwide at risk from volcanic hazards is likely to increase to about half a billion.Since 1980, significant advances have been made in volcano monitoring, data from which provide the sole scientific basis for eruption prediction.In this book, internationally renowned specialists provide 25 comprehensive articles covering a wide range of related topics: monitoring techniques and data analysis; modelling of monitoring data and eruptive pheneomena; volcanic hazards and risk assessment; and volcanic emergency management.Reviews of selected case histories of recent volcanic disasters demenostrate that effective communication - between scientists, civil authorities, news media and population - are essential to reduce volcanic risks.

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Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Single-Cell Mutation Monitoring Systems : Methodologies And Applications 41.39 GBP There is general agreement that increased environmental pollution poses a potential health hazard to humans and that effective control of such genetic injury requires monitoring the exposed individuals for genetic damage and identifying chemicals that may cause mutation or cancer.Tests available for identifying mutagens or carcinogens range from relatively simple, rapid assays in prokaryotes and test systems utilizing mammalian cells in tissue culture to highly elaborate tests in intact animals.No single test can provide data for an unequivocal assessment of the mutagenicity of a given chemical and the risk it might pose to human health.A tier approach, therefore, was suggested for mutagenicity testing in which the suspected agents would be initially evaluated with simple, inexpensive tests that would give qualitative results.Chemicals found to be positive in the first-tier testing would then be evaluated with more complex tests, including those based on mammalian cells in culture.Testing in the final tier requires whole-animal studies, and is expensive and time-consum ing, and even the results from these studies need to be extrapolated for human risk assessment.The mutation systems based on whole animals require scoring large num bers of animals, and therefore are not practical for the routine testing of muta gens.As an alternative to monitoring the pedigree, cells from exposed individ uals may be considered for screening for point mutations through the use of an appropriate marker protein.

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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Collaboration Technologies And Social Computing : 25th International Conference, Criwg+collabtech 2019, Kyoto, Japan, September 4–6, 2019, Proceedings 45.99 GBP This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference, CRIWG+CollabTech 2019, held in Kyoto, Japan in September 2019. The 12 full papers presented in this book together with 8 work-in-progress papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions, and the program also included an invited talk.This year presented a merger of the CRIWG and CollabTech conferences after having been jointly held since 2014.The papers published in this proceedings focus on innovative collaboration technologies and social computing.

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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Future Of Financial Systems In The Digital Age : Perspectives From Europe And Japan 41.39 GBP This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. The increasing capacity of digital networks and computing power, together with the resulting connectivity and availability of “big data”, are impacting financial systems worldwide with rapidly advancing deep-learning algorithms and distributed ledger technologies.They transform the structure and performance of financial markets, the service proposition of financial products, the organization of payment systems, the business models of banks, insurance companies and other financial service providers, as well as the design of money supply regimes and central banking. This book, The Future of Financial Systems in the Digital Age: Perspectives from Europe and Japan, brings together leading scholars, policymakers, and regulators from Japan and Europe, all with a profound and long professional background in the field of finance, to analyze the digital transformation of the financial system.The authors analyze the impact of digitalization on the financial system from different perspectives such as transaction costs and with regard to specific topics like the potential of digital and blockchain-based currency systems, the role of algorithmic trading, obstacles in the use of cashless payments, the challenges of regulatory oversight, and the transformation of banking business models.The collection of chapters offers insights from Japanese and European discourses, approaches, and experiences on a topic otherwise dominated by studies about developments in the USA and China.

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Springer Verlag, Japan Community Currency : An Evolutionist Institutional Design Approach 82.8 GBP This is the first book to present a new approach of institutional design as an evolutionary applied policy based on coherent conceptualization and methodology, and to study the actuality and implications of diversifying real/virtual community currencies.In contrast to a de facto standard theory, an institutional ecosystem can be composed of various institutions that continue to coexist with changing relative frequencies.In this view, diversified monetary institutions with local rules are feasible and realistic.Community currencies are worldwide attempts to redress such problems as financial instability, chronic stagnation, and decline of communities caused by globalization of the economy.Considering those alternative movements as a new type of policy, “evolutionist institutional design”, this book clarifies the feasibility and significance of community currencies in the current era of globalization.The book also provides a better understanding than mainstream approaches of such platform institutions as money that determine fundamental means of cognition and action of interacting agents.Money is a symbolically generalized communication medium in the mesodomain that mediates between socioeconomic performance and patterns in the macrodomain and motives and cognitive frameworks in the microdomain.Conventional national systems of money and finance are platform institutions that determine basic replicators for a capitalistic market economy to evolve.In contrast, community currencies conveying both economic and social/cultural values are distinct platform institutions that are expected to endogenously change such basic replicators in outer and inner institutions for agents to a noncapitalistic market economy.These currencies are considered target institutions for “media design” in the framework of evolutionist institutional design.

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Springer Verlag, Japan Vertigo And Balance Disorders In Children 73.59 GBP Many congenitally deaf infants and children suffer vestibular failure, which produces problems with their postural control, locomotion and gait.However it is known that these children can eventually catch up with their normal balance control status in terms of development and growth as a result of central vestibular compensation.In Vertigo and Balance Disorders in Children the author provides comprehensive and integrative information on the vestibular system.The materials presented range from the history of its study, basic anatomy and physiology of vestibular organs, mechanism of balance and motor function development, to clinical aspects of vestibular disorders including their evaluation and pediatric neurology.Although there have been books discussing postural responses of infants and children with vestibular disorders, this is the first to present the influence of peripheral vestibular disorders and central vestibular compensation comprehensively.This book will benefit not only practitioners in this field such as pediatric otolaryngologists, pediatricians, child neurologists and neurologists, but also clinical specialists such as neonatologists, physical therapists and speech therapists, helping them to better care for patients with vestibular failure.

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Springer Verlag, Japan Veins : Their Functional Role In The Circulation 41.39 GBP The 8th International Congress of Biorheology was held at the Pacifico Yokohama, Japan, a brand new, versatile convention center for international meetings, from August 3 through 8, 1992.There were many plenary lectures and symposia, one of which was entitled "Mechanics of the Venous System." It was at this symposium that we, the editors of this monograph, each presented papers.We then moved to Gifu, Japan, for the Gifu Workshop on Veins and Vascular Capacitance.This was held on August 9, 1992, with the Second Department of Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, serving as the host.Nine papers were presented in the oral sessions and there were five poster presentations.This monograph, which is intended to provide a bird's eye view of recent trends in studies of the venous system, is an outgrowth of the Gifu Workshop.While it is not exactly the Proceedings ofthat workshop, materials in the monograph were developed from ideas presented there.

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Springer Verlag, Japan Long-Term Care For Frail Older People : Reaching For The Ideal System 41.39 GBP The aging of society is a growing concern in all advanced nations, and at the forefront of concern is long-term care for frail older people.Enactment of a new public long-term care insurance program by the Japanese government in 1997 provided an excellent opportunity for a conference focusing on an ideal long-term care system for frail older people.The conference was organized around four major themes: Social aspects, including family dynamics and the role of formal providers; Clinical aspects, including effective treatments for physical and mental disabilities; Macroeconomic and macropolitical settings for public policy; Program design and management issues.With contributions from the fields of medicine, nursing, social work, gerontology, political science, economics, and sociology, this volume provides an overview of key problems and possible solutions in programs for frail older people from a unique international perspective.

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Springer Verlag, Japan Macroeconomic Policy For Rice Agriculture In Japan : Resuscitation In The Liberalized Competitive Market 82.8 GBP This book focuses on a very important and still controversial topic in Japan, namely, whether a future exists for Japanese farmers, especially rice-producing farmers.Dealt with here is the prospect along with a personal view of the course that Japanese agriculture should follow, that is, a prescription for enriching the international competitiveness of the agricultural sector, especially rice production, in a more market-oriented economy.Toward restoration of Japanese agriculture, prescriptions are pursued from different aspects.One is the planting schedule of various farm products at the micro level such as the crop rotation system, derived from the mixed-integer dynamic programming model.Another is a macroeconomic policy to enhance the export of the restored 2 million tons of rice by the abolition of the policy of reducing rice acreage—a policy considered unreasonable by some.The path that agriculture in Japan should take has been argued by scholars and experts in related fields.However, no argument has been based on scientific and objective proof.Some applications of mixed-integer dynamic programming model are shown, which are very useful for policy makers as well as graduate students in the field of economic policy (esp. regional & dynamics) and dynamic agricultural planning (esp. planting & comprehensive management).

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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K Japan In The Early Modern World : Religion, Translation, And Transnational Relations 41.39 GBP Open Access. Early modern transnational relations and personal encounters were influenced by interactions between Japan and the regions that had become connected to it through expanding global trade and missionary networks.Translation activities linked to Christian missionary activities, overseas trade, and political upheaval in these places all contributed to shaping these interactions.Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume explores religion, translation, and transnational relations in the context of the colonial and missionary enterprises involving Japan, between 1550 and 1800.It focuses on the early Catholic mission to Japan, discussing both Protestant and local religious reactions to it, and the publications of the Jesuit mission press in Japan.A survey of the subsequent centuries of scholarly involvement with translational materials in Asian languages further suggests that translation had a formative influence on the intellectual world in the Early Modern period.

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Springer Verlag, Singapore Social Media And Civil Society In Japan 68.99 GBP This book offers an overview of social media usage in Japan and describes its role in society during mid-level disruptions by natural disasters.Conceived during and after the Great East Japan Earthquake that devastated large portions of the north-eastern area of Japan, this volume addresses the links between Japanese civil society and the social media scene, using both traditional hypothesis testing, social surveys and large-scale big data analysis to provide insight into the development of an online community for connecting citizens.Considering the connection of civil society organizations, citizens and local governments through online communication, notably social media, and how to promote higher levels of citizen engagement in Japan, it offers solutions for a more prepared, resilient communication network among citizens in case of another large scale disaster.

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Springer Verlag, Japan Systemic Design : Theory, Methods, And Practice 147.19 GBP This book presents emerging work in the co-evolving fields of design-led systemics, referred to as systemic design to distinguish it from the engineering and hard science epistemologies of system design or systems engineering.There are significant societal forces and organizational demands impelling the requirement for “better means of change” through integrated design practices of systems and services.Here we call on advanced design to lead programs of strategic scale and higher complexity (e.g., social policy, healthcare, education, urbanization) while adapting systems thinking methods, creatively pushing the boundaries beyond the popular modes of systems dynamics and soft systems.Systemic design is distinguished by its scale, social complexity and integration – it is concerned with higher-order systems that that entail multiple subsystems.By integrating systems thinking and its methods, systemic design brings human-centred design to complex, multi-stakeholder service systems.Asdesigners engage with ever more complex problem areas, it is necessary to draw on a basis other than individual creativity and contemporary “design thinking” methods.Systems theories can co-evolve with a new school of design theory to resolve informed action on today’s highly resilient complex problems and can deal effectively with demanding, contested and high-stakes challenges.

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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Demography Of Remarriage In Japan 41.39 GBP This book provides the first comprehensive demographic overview of remarriage in Japan.Despite the fact that nearly one in five marriages in Japan now involves at least one formerly married spouse, very little is known about the nature of remarriages and how they differ from first marriages.One important focus of this book is to examine fertility intentions and outcomes in remarriages and to compare them with marriages in which both partners are in their first marriage.It is well known that low rates of first marriage contribute to Japan’s very low total fertility rate (TFR), but there is currently no theoretical or empirical basis for understanding how levels and patterns of remarriage are related to the TFR. To understand trends and patterns of remarriage in Japan, the book begins with an overview of the voluminous research literature on remarriage in the USA and other Western countries.This overview consists of a summary of trends and theoretical frameworks for understanding remarriage and is followed by a summary of existing research on correlates of remarriage and outcomes associated with higher-order marriages.Of particular importance is the attention paid to stepfamily fertility and the extent to which remarriage is associated with overall levels of fertility. An important contribution of this book is its presentation of basic descriptive information about levels and correlates of remarriage in Japan.These descriptive analyses are based on published data in the vital statistics reports and individual-level data from the National Fertility Surveys conducted by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research and the National Survey of Households with Children conducted by the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training.

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Springer Verlag, Japan What Annually Laminated Sediments Reveal About The History Of Environment And Civilization 41.39 GBP This monograph presents a proposal for interdisciplinary and international research that uses varve as an essential tool.The discovery and subsequent palaeoenvironmental studies of the annually laminated sediments of Lake Suigetsu (Japan) revealed the directionality of a new discipline in the traditional field of historical science.The historical evidence of environmental changes and natural disasters provided by annually laminated sediments promote an integration of human and natural histories on a common time scale.To explore the impact of climatic changes and natural disasters on civilized society in the present and past, we simply open this door and enter a new phase in world history.The high resolution data about environmental history like climate, sea level, vegetation changes and natural disasters under the most reliable varve chronology will be discussed in relation to the development of human history and the rise and fall of civilizations.The book shows the direction of anew world history and new cosmology of the future civilization in relation to the environmental changes.

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Springer Verlag, Japan Systems Sciences Of Symbiosis 82.8 GBP Symbiosis originally means a close and often long-term interaction between two or more different biological species.This book presents symbiosis and related concepts such as cooperation, conflicts, and confrontations between two or more autonomous decision makers from a systems sciences perspective.Such autonomous decision makers can be called agents and include human beings, companies, and governments.Indeed, these agents are not able to exist in isolation, so that interactions and mutualistic relationships with others is absolutely essential for sustainable global development. "System" is generally defined as "a set or arrangement of elements so related or connected as to form a unity or organic whole", while systems sciences are concerned with the nature of interactions among the elements rather than that of the elements themselves.Hence it is methodologically sound and natural to apply systems scientific approaches to investigate symbiosis phenomena. This book consists of twoparts. In Part I a wide range of research tools, from mathematical modeling and social simulation to conceptual systems modeling, are adopted to describe, explain, and analyze symbiosis, cooperation, conflicts, and confrontations between agents by identifying them as adaptive complex systems.These are called agent-based modeling approaches. In Part II there is a discussion of how to support autonomous agents with conflicting values and opinions by facilitating and accommodating them to realize symbiosis.The focus is on applied systems thinking in particular.The concept of the thinking is first introduced, then is classified into four types.Finally, meta-methodology is referred to for investigating how to choose a specific type for a specific problematic situation.

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Springer Verlag, Japan Atlas Of Posterior Fundus Changes In Pathologic Myopia 41.39 GBP Pathologic myopia that is due to axial elongation causes thinning of the retina and choroid, especially in cases of posterior staphyloma.The result of this myopia is the development of various kinds of chorioretinal atrophy in the posterior pole, with a gradual progression of the atrophic changes extending over several decades.Until now, studies of atrophic lesions and their clinical course have been incomplete, and diagnostic standards and classification of chorioretinopathy have been unclear.The Atlas of Posterior Fundus Changes in Pathologic Myopia discusses these and other important questions on the basis of long-term observation and research.A major feature of the book is the presentation of many case studies, with generous use of full-color photographs to show in detail the course of fundus changes.The atlas is valuable resource not only for ophthalmologists interested in myopia but for optometrists, opticians, and medical students.

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Springer Verlag, Japan Experimental Techniques In Modern High-Energy Physics : A Beginner‘s Guide 50.59 GBP This open access book offers a concise overview of how data from large scale experiments are analyzed and how technological tools are used in practice, as in the search for new elementary particles.It focuses on interconnects between physics and detector technology in experimental particle physics, and includes descriptions of mathematical approaches.Readers find all the important steps in analysis, including reconstruction of the momentum and energy of particles from detector information, particle identification, and also the general concept of simulating particle production from collisions and detector responses.As the scale of scientific experiments becomes larger and data-intensive science emerges, the techniques used in the data analysis become ever more complicated, making it difficult for beginners to grasp the overall picture.The book provides an explanation of the idea and concepts behind the methods, helping readers understand journal articles on high energy physics.This book is engaging as it does not overemphasize mathematical formalism and it gives a lively example of how such methods have been applied to the Higgs particle discovery in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments, which led to Englert and Higgs being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2013. Graduate students and young researchers can easily obtain the required knowledge on how to start data analyses from these notes, without having to spend time in consulting many experts or digesting huge amounts of literature.

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Springer Verlag, Japan Statistical Mechanics Of Superconductivity 55.19 GBP This book provides a theoretical, step-by-step comprehensive explanation of superconductivity for undergraduate and graduate students who have completed elementary courses on thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.To this end, it adopts the unique approach of starting with the statistical mechanics of quantum ideal gases and successively adding and clarifying elements and techniques indispensible for understanding it.They include the spin-statistics theorem, second quantization, density matrices, the Bloch–De Dominicis theorem, the variational principle in statistical mechanics, attractive interaction and bound states.Ample examples of their usage are also provided in terms of topics from advanced statistical mechanics such as two-particle correlations of quantum ideal gases, derivation of the Hartree–Fock equations, and Landau’s Fermi-liquid theory, among others.With these preliminaries, the fundamental mean-field equations of superconductivity are derived with maximum mathematicalclarity based on a coherent state in terms of the Cooper-pair creation operator, a quasiparticle field for describing the excitation and the variational principle in statistical mechanics.They have the advantage that the phase coherence due to the Cooper-pair condensation can be clearly seen making the superfluidity comprehensible naturally.Subsequently, they are applied to homogeneous cases to describe the BCS theory for classic s-wave superconductors and its extension to the p-wave superfluidity of 3He.Later, the mean-field equations are simplified to the Eilenberger and Ginzburg–Landau equations so as to describe inhomogeneous superconductivity such as Abrikosov’s flux-line lattice concisely and transparently.Chapters provide the latest studies on the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity and a discovery of p-wave superfluidity in liquid 3He.The book serves as a standard reference for advanced courses of statistical mechanics withexercises along with detailed answers.

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Springer Verlag, Singapore Science Of Cyber Security - Scisec 2022 Workshops : Ai-Cryptosec, Ta-Bc-Nft, And Mathsci-Qsafe 2022, Matsue, Japan, August 10–12, 2022, Revised Selected Papers 59.79 GBP This volume constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Science of Cyber Security Workshops, SciSec 2022, held in Matsue, Japan, in August 10–12, 2022.The 15 revised full papers and 3 posters were presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions.They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI Crypto and Security Workshop (AI-CryptoSec); Theory and Application of Blockchain and NFT Workshop (TA-BC-NFT); and Mathematical Science of Quantum Safety and its Application Workshop (MathSci-Qsafe).

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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Territory Of Japan : Its History And Legal Basis 32.19 GBP This Open Access book carefully examines the legal and historical bases of the territory of Japan as a modern State from the Meiji period to 2002.A new preface summarizes key developments in the situation up through 2022. Japan’s current territory is stipulated by the Potsdam Declaration (1945) and the Treaty of Peace with Japan (1951); it includes the Northern Territories, the Senkaku Islands, and Takeshima. Japan has demanded the return of the Northern Territories, comprising the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and Habomai, which are occupied by Russia.China has claimed sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands, which are validly controlled by Japan; Japan has claimed sovereignty over Takeshima, which is occupied by the Republic of Korea. This book analyzes the current status of these territorial topics, drawing on historical documents and international legal precedent, and it suggests peaceful methods to address them.In discussing territorial land, sea, and air space, this work touches upon postwar concepts defining modern international law and relevant rules on these subjects—exclusive economic zones (EEZs), continental shelves, and air defense identification zones (ADIZs)—found in international treaties, such as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and related domestic laws.

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Springer Verlag, Japan Computational Biomechanics 41.39 GBP It is widely recognized that numerical analysis is a useful ta al common ta the fields of engineering, applied mathematics and mechanics, and medical science.Computer simulation and modeling have contributed much ta the understanding of a wide variety of biomedical phenomena.In particular the use of numerical techniques is essential for solving problems involving extremely complex geom- etry and physical properties that arise in a wide range of biomechanics.The increased speed and expanded storage capacity of modern computers, together with newly advanced numerical and programming techniques, have greatly im- proved the potential for studying complicated biomedical processes.Computer modeling techniques and their applications in the field of biome- chanics have shown remarkable development in J apan in the past few years.This book focuses an these advances and shows how computer modeling and simula- tion are being utilized ta aid and assist researchers, scientists, and clinicians in their understanding of biomedical systems from the biomechanical point of view. The papers included in this book falI within three main areas of interest: orthopedic, orthodontic, and skeletal mechanics; circulatory mechanics; and bio- logical and living systems.This book contains highly original papers that have been carefulIy selected from the studies financialIy supported by a 3-year Grant- in-Aid for Scientific Research an Priority Areas (Biomechanics, Nas.

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Springer Verlag, Japan Computing And Monitoring In Anesthesia And Intensive Care : Recent Technological Advances

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