Authors:Clifford Jones, Mitsuo Matsushita,
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Keywords: competition, international, law, series, volume, usa, perspectives, policy, global, trading, system, japan
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $186.00
ISBN-10: 904111758X
ISBN-13: 9789041117588

While the global trade regime has made significant strides in eliminating tariffs and other barriers to free trade, it has yet to develop a consistent and enforceable antitrust and competition policy that combats monopolies, cartels, and other private arrangements that continue to hamper equitable access to the world’s goods and services. This book takes a giant step toward achieving this goal. Based on a conference of national authorities and leading scholars in antitrust and competition law and policy, Competition Policy in the Global Trading System: Perspectives from the EU, Japan and

Authors:Mitsuo Matsushita, Thomas J. Schoenbaum, Petros C.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: law, oxford, international, library, policy, practice, trade, organization, world
Number of Pages: 1104
Published: 2006-10-12
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 019920800X
ISBN-13: 9780199208005

The WTO is one of the most important intergovernmental organizations in the world, yet the way in which it functions as an organization and the scope of its authority and power are still poorly understood. This comprehensively updated new edition of the acclaimed book by an outstanding team of WTO law specialists, provides a complete overview of the law and practice of the WTO. The authors explain the origins and development, via the GATT, of all of the substantive legal areas covered by the WTO, as well as the sources of law and remedies of the Dispute Settlement system.

Authors:Mitsuo Gen, Mitsuo Gen, David Green, Osamu Katai, Bob
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: computational, intelligence, studies, systems, evolutionary, intelligent
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2009-03-12
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 3540959777
ISBN-13: 9783540959779

Artificial evolutionary systems are computer systems, inspired by ideas from natural evolution and related phenomena. The field has a long history, dating back to the earliest days of computer science, but it has only become an established scientific and engineering discipline since the 1990s, with packages for the commonest form, genetic algorithms, now widely available. Researchers in the Asia-Pacific region have participated strongly in the development of evolutionary systems, with a particular emphasis on the evolution of intelligent solutions to highly complex problems. The Asia-Pacific S

Author: Teruo Matsushita
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: superconductors, pinning, flux
Number of Pages: 517
Published: 2006-12-19
List price: $259.00
ISBN-10: 3540445145
ISBN-13: 9783540445142

The book deals with the flux pinning mechanisms and properties and the electromagnetic phenomena caused by the flux pinning common for metallic, high-temperature and MgB2 superconductors. The loss originates from the ohmic dissipation of normal electrons in the normal core driven by the electric field induced by the flux motion. The readers will learn why the resultant loss is of hysteresis type in spite of such mechanism. The influence of the flux pinning on the vortex phase diagram in high-temperature superconductors is also discussed and the dependencies of the irreversibility field on vari

Author: Mitsuo Saito
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Keywords: leading, century, ideas, economic, economy, japanese
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-08
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 9810223897
ISBN-13: 9789810223892

Author: Mitsuo Morimoto
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: mathematical, monographs, translations, sphere, functionals, analytic
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $86.00
ISBN-10: 0821805851
ISBN-13: 9780821805855

This book treats spherical harmonic expansion of real analytic functions and hyperfunctions on the sphere. Because a one-dimensional sphere is a circle, the simplest example of the theory is that of Fourier series of periodic functions. The author first introduces a system of complex neighborhoods of the sphere by means of the Lie norm. He then studies holomorphic functions and analytic functionals on the complex sphere. In the one-dimensional case, this corresponds to the study of holomorphic functions and analytic functionals on the annular set in the complex plane, relying on the Laurent se

Author: Mitsuo Fukuda
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: devices, semiconductor, optical
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 1998-12-10
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0471149594
ISBN-13: 9780471149590

This book is devoted to optical semiconductor devices and their numerous applications in telecommunications, optoelectronics, and consumer electronics-areas where signal processing or the transmission of signals across fiber optic cables is paramount. It introduces a new generation of devices that includes optical modulators, quantum well (QW) lasers, and photodiodes and explores new applications of more established devices such as semiconductor lasers, light-emitting diodes, and photodiodes. Mitsuo Fukuda examines the material properties, operation principles, fabrication, packaging, reliabil