Author: Ichiro Kawachi
Publisher: Springer New York
Keywords: health, capital, social
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-12-28
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 1441924353
ISBN-13: 9781441924353

Social Capital and Health discusses social capital—a concept that originated in the social sciences—and its application to the field of public health. The editors take care to define the concept of social capital, describe its theoretical origins, and discuss the controversies and debates surrounding the use of the concept in public health research and practice. The book provides a comprehensive "tool kit" of current approaches to measure social capital. Further, the book surveys the empirical evidence linking social capital to physical and mental health outcomes, health-related behaviors

Authors:Lisa F. Berkman, Ichiro Kawachi,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: epidemiology, social
Number of Pages: 391
Published: 2000-03-15
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0195083318
ISBN-13: 9780195083316

The authors of this excellent text define social epidemiology as the epidemiologic study of the social distribution and social determinants of states of health, implying that the aim is to identify socio-environmental exposures which may be related to a broad range of physical and mental health outcomes. In the first systematic account of this field, they focus on methodological approaches but draw widely from related disciplines such as sociology, psychology, physiology, and medicine in the effort to develop and evaluate testable hypotheses about the pathways between social conditions and he

Authors:Ichiro Kawachi, Lisa F. Berkman,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: medicine, health, neighborhoods
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-03-20
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0195138384
ISBN-13: 9780195138382

Do places make a difference to people’s health and well-being? The authors of this groundbreaking textbook demonstrate convincingly how the physical and social characteristics of a neighborhood can shape the health of its residents. Drawing on the expertise of a renowned cast of researchers, this book presents a state-of-the art account of the theories, methods, and empirical evidence linking neighborhood conditions to population health. Represented in the volume are contributions from the world’s leading investigators in the field, including social epidemiologists, demographers,

Author: Ichiro Sunagawa
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: perfection, morphology, growth, crystals
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2005-04-25
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0521841895
ISBN-13: 9780521841894

How do crystals nucleate and grow? Why and how do crystals form such a wide variety of morphologies? These questions have been posed since the seventeenth century, and are still vitally important for modern technology and understanding the Earth’s interior and formation of minerals by living organisms. Including a range of case studies of complex systems, from diamond, calcite and pyrite to crystals formed through biomineralization, this book establishes the atomic processes behind crystal growth.Book DescriptionHow do crystals nucleate and grow? Why and how do crystals form such a wide

Author: Ichiro Shigekawa
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: monographs, mathematical, translations, analysis, stochastic
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2004-05-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0821826263
ISBN-13: 9780821826263

Stochastic analysis is often understood as the analysis of functionals defined on the Wiener space, i.e., the space on which the Wiener process is realized. Since the Wiener space is infinite-dimensional, it requires a special calculus, the so-called Malliavin calculus. This book provides readers with a concise introduction to stochastic analysis, in particular, to the Malliavin calculus. It contains a detailed description of all the technical tools necessary to describe the theory, such as the Wiener process, the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, and Sobolev spaces. It also presents applications of

Author: Ei-Ichiro Ochiai
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: survey, chemistry, bioinorganic
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2008-07-21
List price: $93.95
ISBN-10: 0120887568
ISBN-13: 9780120887569

The study of the chemistry of living processes - biochemistry - has traditionally centered on the behavior of organic chemical compounds in water, the principle solvent in all cells. Organic compounds and water account for 99 % of the matter in living systems. Some 20 inorganic elements are also essential for life, and they are found in similar amounts in most living systems. Bioinorganic Chemistry is essentially the border between inorganic chemistry and biology.The overall purpose of bioinorganic research is to study the relationship between inorganic metal ions such as copper and iron, and

Author: Ken-ichiro Mori
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: processing, material, simulation
Number of Pages: 1156
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $319.95
ISBN-10: 9026518226
ISBN-13: 9789026518225

This volume contains about 180 papers including seven keynotes presented at the 7th NUMIFORM Conference. It reflects the state-of-the-art of simulation of industrial forming processes such as rolling, forging, sheet metal forming, injection moulding and casting.