Author: Takeshi Yao
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: energy, global, program, science, coe, system, technology, warming, symposium, kyoto, carbon, proceedings, first, international, zero
Number of Pages: 390
Published: 2010-04-02
List price: $249.00
ISBN-10: 4431997784
ISBN-13: 9784431997788

Emissions of CO2 have come to be regarded as the main factor in climate change in recent years, and how to control them has become a pressing issue. The problem cannot simply be labeled a technological one, however, because it is deeply involved with social and economic issues. Since 2008, the Global Center of Excellence (COE) program titled “Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward a CO2 Zero-Emission Energy System” has been held at Kyoto University, Japan. The program aims to establish an international education and research platform to foster educators, researchers, and poli

Author: Takeshi Furuichi
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: primatology, progress, prospects, developments, conservation, behavior, ecology, bonobos
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2008-03-03
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0387747850
ISBN-13: 9780387747859

Among all great ape species, the bonobo is still the least studied in both captivity and the wild. Nevertheless we have observed a considerable increase in knowledge across various fields of bonobo research in recent years. In part due to the ongoing peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo, research and conservation activities on the bonobo have resumed and multiplied since 2001. Part One of The Bonobos: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation focuses on scientific research. Behavioral studies in captivity propose to answer why bonobos have some unique characteristics such as high soc

Author: Takeshi Matsuda
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: cold, dependency, war, international, project, history, permanent, japan, perils, power, cultural, policy, postwar, soft
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 2007-07-23
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0804700400
ISBN-13: 9780804700405

This book examines the cultural aspects of U.S.-Japan relations during the postwar Occupation and the early years of the Cold War and analyzes their effect on the adoption of democratic values by the Japanese. Matsuda finds that the results were mixed: Japan is an electoral democracy but intellectually remains elitist and submissive—in part because of U.S. efforts to reinforce the domestic importance of intellectual elites. The author is especially concerned with the development of American Studies in Japan, and U.S. efforts to foster it. Soft Power and Its Perils brings forward a great deal

Author: Takeshi Ogura
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: chemistry, products, natural, aspects, dynamic
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1997-11-21
List price: $173.95
ISBN-10: 9057022095
ISBN-13: 9789057022098

Preface: Natural products chemistry has a long history, and could be regarded as having its roots in the use of many kinds of herbal mixtures as crude drugs in traditional medicine. Systems of traditional medicine have been practiced in China and Japan for thousands of years, and virtually all regions of the world have used natural materials to treat human disease. It was clear that many plants, herbs, etc. contain components with powerful biological activities. The dawn of modern natural products chemistry began with the isolation of the active component, morphine, from opium. Subsequently, v

Author: Takeshi Amemiya
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: econometrics, statistics, introduction
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1994-04-28
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 0674462254
ISBN-13: 9780674462250

This outstanding text by a foremost econometrician combines instruction in probability and statistics with econometrics in a rigorous but relatively nontechnical manner. Unlike many statistics texts, it discusses regression analysis in depth. And unlike many econometrics texts, it offers a thorough treatment of statistics. Although its only mathematical requirement is multivariate calculus, it challenges the student to think deeply about basic concepts. The coverage of probability and statistics includes best prediction and best linear prediction, the joint distribution of a continuous an

Author: Takeshi Amemiya
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: econometrics, advanced
Number of Pages: 521
Published: 1985-11-07
List price: $82.00
ISBN-10: 0674005600
ISBN-13: 9780674005600

Advanced Econometrics is both a comprehensive text for graduate students and a reference work for econometricians. It will also be valuable to those doing statistical analysis in the other social sciences. Its main features are a thorough treatment of cross-section models, including qualitative response models, censored and truncated regression models, and Markov and duration models, as well as a rigorous presentation of large sample theory, classical least-squares and generalized least-squares theory, and nonlinear simultaneous equation models. Although the treatment is mathematically ri

Author: Takeshi Natsuno
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: strategy, mode
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2003-01-14
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0470851015
ISBN-13: 9780470851012

First introduced in 1999, i-mode was the world’s first smart phone for Web browsing. The i-mode wireless data service offers color and video over a variety of handsets. Its mobile computing service enables users to do telephone banking, make airline reservations, conduct stock transactions, send and receive e-mail, play games, access weather reports and have access to the Internet. It can offer a wide array of websites from internationally known companies such as CNN to very local information. In Japan, the number of i-mode users is close to a sensational 13 million. This means that 100