Authors:Gjalt Huppes, Gjalt Huppes;Masanobu Ishikawa,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: eco, efficiency, science, industry, quantified
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2007-02-21
List price: $219.00
ISBN-10: 1402053983
ISBN-13: 9781402053986

Eco-efficiency has long been a concept: the intention of reducing environmental impact while increasing environmental value. Its origins are with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. However, in a globalized world with sustained economic growth environmental degradation is threatening. Macro level requirements on sustainability should be reflected in the eco-efficiency of choices at a micro level, like on technologies, supply chains and product systems. Eco-efficiency analysis has come to fruition as a fully quantified method for analysis, linking to specific domains of econ

Authors:Masumi Ishikawa, Masumi Ishikawa, Kenji Doya, Hiroyuk
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: part, papers, selected, lecture, computer, issues, general, science, revised, november, international, processing, information, confernce, iconip, japan, kitakyushu, neural
Number of Pages: 1147
Published: 2008-07-24
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 3540691545
ISBN-13: 9783540691549

The two volume set LNCS 4984 and LNCS 4985 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2007, held in Kitakyushu, Japan, in November 2007, jointly with BRAINIT 2007, the 4th International Conference on Brain-Inspired Information Technology. The 228 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous ordinary paper submissions and 15 special organized sessions. The 116 papers of the first volume are organized in topical sections on computational neuroscience, learning an

Author: Masanobu Endo
Publisher: Paul Mohr Verlag
Keywords: creation, accounts, wissunt, zum, testament, neuen, jewish, light, amp, christology, study, johannine, prologue
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2002-07
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 3161477898
ISBN-13: 9783161477898

The author examines Jewish theological concerns in contexts where reference is made to the Genesis creation account in early writings (2nd Century BC to 1st Century AD) and finds a link to the theological background of the Johannine Prologue.

Author: Masanobu Fukuoka
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Keywords: york, review, books, classics, new, farming, straw, revolution, introduction, natural, one
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2009-06-02
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1590173139
ISBN-13: 9781590173138

Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book “is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. It is an inspiring, necessary book about agriculture because it is not

Authors:Gerald T. Keusch, Masanobu Kawakami,
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Keywords: gut, cholera, cytokines
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1997-01
List price: $98.00
ISBN-10: 905199298X
ISBN-13: 9789051992984

This book covers the role of peptide mediators in the intestinal responses to infectious and inflammatory challenges presented by diverse disease states, including inflammatory bowel disease and infectious diarrheas and dysenteries, and the epidemiology and pathogenesis of cholera and related diarrheal diseases. The more than 40 papers included in the volume are written by leading researchers working on cytokines and mucosal responses. The papers are the results of interactive scientific research between investigators from the U.S. and Japan, through a group of panels focusing on the following

Authors:Masanobu Taniguchi, Junichi Hirukawa, Kenichiro Ta
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Keywords: engineering, financial, inference, statistical, optimal
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-11-26
List price: $93.95
ISBN-10: 1584885912
ISBN-13: 9781584885917

Until now, few systematic studies of optimal statistical inference for stochastic processes had existed in the financial engineering literature, even though this idea is fundamental to the field. Balancing statistical theory with data analysis, Optimal Statistical Inference in Financial Engineering examines how stochastic models can effectively describe actual financial data and illustrates how to properly estimate the proposed models.After explaining the elements of probability and statistical inference for independent observations, the book discusses the testing hypothesis and discriminant a

Author: Akira Ishikawa
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: new, development, business, product, creative, marketing
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-09-08
List price: $68.00
ISBN-10: 9812772189
ISBN-13: 9789812772183

New products and new business development require innovative, creative marketing solutions in order to successfully differentiate them from competing products in the marketplace. This important book explores and elucidates the essence of creativity, with an emphasis on how to proceed with R&D activities strategically and how to connect them with successful products, services and commercialization. Using interesting, real case studies such as "Healthy Tea " developed by Japan Coca-Cola, Inc., the recommendation engine "Teach Me Electronic Appliances", and the development of various robots,