Author: Junichi Ishiwata
Publisher: Productivity Press
Keywords: process, engineering, techniques, systematic, eliminate, productivity, floor, analy, shop, analysis
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 1997-06-09
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1563271850
ISBN-13: 9781563271854

Provides a thorough introduction to process analysis as a bottom-up work improvement method, teaching how to prepare process analysis charts and process diagrams. Paper. DLC: Factory management.

Author: Junichi Ujiie
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Ltd
Keywords: markets, financial, japanese
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2002-10-31
List price: $275.00
ISBN-10: 1855735962
ISBN-13: 9781855735965

Author: Junichi Kawata
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: clientelism, corruption, political, comparing
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2006-07-30
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0754643565
ISBN-13: 9780754643562

Past modernization literature has assumed that corruption and clientelism reflect a pre-modern social structure and could be referred to as a pathologic phenomenon of the political system. Very few have considered corruption and clientelism as structural products of an interwoven connection between capital accumulation, bureaucratic rationalization, interest intermediation and political participation from below. This volume analyzes key aspects of the debate such as: Should corruption and clientelism be evaluated as a ’lubricant’ in terms of administrative efficiency - legitimate d

Authors:Ryohei Nakatsu, Junichi Hoshino,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: information, communication, technology, advances, ifip, computing, technologies, applications, entertainment
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2003-02-28
List price: $157.00
ISBN-10: 1402073607
ISBN-13: 9781402073601

With the advancement of computers and networks, new types of entertainment have emerged such as video games, entertainment robots, and network games. This volume brings together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in the area of entertainment computing, and covers a wide range of issues, from theoretical to hardware/software, systems, human interfaces, and applications. Entertainment Computing presents the latest research and developments in: *Computers and Games; *Home/Arcade Games and Interactive Movies; *Entertainment Robots and Physical Systems;*Music Informatics; *Sociolog

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

Authors:Junichi Saga,  John Bester,
Publisher: Kodansha International
Keywords: underworld, japan, life, yakuza, confessions
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1995-07-15
List price: $11.00
ISBN-10: 4770019483
ISBN-13: 9784770019486

This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasnÕt a "good" life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he has to tell presents an honest and oddly attractive picture of an insider in that separate, unofficial world. In his low, hoarse voice, he describes the random events that ]ed the son of a prosperous country shopkeeper to become a member, and ultimately the leader, of a gang organizing illegal dice games in Tokyo’s liveliest entertainment are

Authors:Hyun Seung Yang, Rainer Malaka, Junichi Hoshino, Jung
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: icec, applications, computer, incl, notes, internet, hci, web, lecture, proceedings, international, computing, conference, seoul, september, korea, entertainment
Number of Pages: 521
Published: 2010-10-14
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 3642153984
ISBN-13: 9783642153983

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2010, held in Seoul, Korea, in August 2010, under the auspices of IFIP. The 19 revised long papers, 27 short papers and 33 poster papers and demos presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers cover all main domains of entertainment computing, from interactive music to games, taking a wide range of scientific domains from aesthetic to computer science.