Authors:Wilfried Draber, Toshio Fujita,
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: ecotoxicology, agrochemicals, activity, structure, approaches, rational
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 1992-07-14
List price: $404.95
ISBN-10: 0849358590
ISBN-13: 9780849358593

This book presents discussions of the most important aspects in the development of agrochemicals. The book covers such broad areas as structure activity and ecotoxicological analyses in comprehensive reviews for general methods and chronicles for individual examples. Topics in structure-activity relationships include how to combine submolecular structures of pharmacological interests and modify them according to chemorational models with computer-aided procedures such as the traditional Hansch-type QSAR, the sequential, simplex optimization, and molecular modeling. Topics in the ecotoxicology

Authors:Toshio Inui, James L. McClelland,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: perception, communication, integration, information, performance, xvi, attention
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 1996-04-24
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0262090333
ISBN-13: 9780262090339

The contributions to this volume, the sixteenth in the prestigious Attention and Performance series, revisit the issue of modularity, the idea that many functions are independently realized in specialized, autonomous modules. Although there is much evidence of modularity in the brain, there is also reason to believe that the outcome of processing, across domains, depends on the synthesis of a wide range of constraining influences. The twenty-four chapters in Attention and Performance XVI look at how these influences are integrated in perception, attention, language comprehension, and motor

Authors:Kaoru Hirota, Toshio Fukuda,
Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD
Keywords: soft, computing, fuzziness, mechatronics, studies
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1999-09-29
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 3790812129
ISBN-13: 9783790812121

Recently soft computing, which covers fuzzy, neuro, probabilistic reasoning, chaos, and evolutionary computation, has been studied in mechatronics by many researchers. Such research trends are summarized in this volume. The topics include fundamentals of control and learning, navigation, vision, multimedia, and several robotics implementation such as inverted pendulum, autonomous vehicle, and ping-pong robot. The contributors are leading experts from various countries. The book will be a great help to those who have an interest in mechatronics and soft computing, e.g., senior or graduate stude

Authors:Gideon S. Golany, Toshio Ojima,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: design, urban, space, geo
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 1996-08
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0471162523
ISBN-13: 9780471162520

This book presents a pragmatic approach to developing below ground space for transportation, delivery systems, living quarters, retail space and cultural activities. It discusses challenges such as legal rights to underground space and social, behavioral, economic and psychological implications of designing and using that space.

Authors:Toshio Kuwabara,  Yoshiro Yamada,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: springs, materials
Number of Pages: 377
Published: 2007-10-23
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 3540738118
ISBN-13: 9783540738114

Materials for springs is basically intended for engineers related to spring materials and technologies who graduated from metallurgical or mechanical engineering courses in technical high school, or in other higher engineering schools, as well as those who are related to the purchase or sales of spring materials. The first chapter introduces into the fundamental selection processes of spring materials including the information sources on materials database. It is followed by the basic mechanisms and theories of spring failures such as fatigue fracture, creep/stress relaxation and stress corros

Authors:Toshio Miyata, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Masaomi Nangaku,
Publisher: Humana Press
Keywords: basic, research, clinical, practice, applied, stress, renal, disorders, oxidative, studies
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2010-12-15
List price: $279.00
ISBN-10: 1607618567
ISBN-13: 9781607618560

Conditions such as oxidative stress and hypoxia, which have a generalized impact on the oxygen metabolism, have been implicated in the genesis of kidney disease. This means that deepening our understanding of the pathobiology of oxygen metabolism in such diseases could be a fruitful path towards tangible clinical benefits. Studies in Renal Disorder collects reviews from leading researchers and clinical scientists working in exactly this field, providing an overview of the latest advances. The causal role of impaired oxygen metabolism in kidney disease has numerous clinical implications. It

Authors:Masayoshi Shimoseki, Toshio Hamano, Toshiyuki Imai
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: springs, fem
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 2003-03-10
List price: $219.00
ISBN-10: 3540000461
ISBN-13: 9783540000464

While there are many books about Finite Element Methods, this is among the first volume devoted to the application of FEM in spring design. It has been compiled by the working group on Finite Element Analysis of Springs, sponsored by the Japan Society of Spring Research. The monograph considers the wide spectrum of spring shapes and functions, enabling readers to use FEM to optimize designs for even the most advanced engineering cases. This book provides the theoretical background and state-of-the-art methodologies for numerical spring analysis. It also employs and explains many real-world des