Springer Japan: 783 books
Innovative ICT Industrial Architecture in East Asia
Offshoring of Japanese Firms and Challenges Faced by East Asian Economies
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book aims to shed light on the potentially innovative ICT (information and communication technology) architectures from an East Asian regional perspective. The business environment brought about by the development of ICT intensified global competition and caused dramatic changes in the industrial...
Anionic Polymerization
Principles, Practice, Strength, Consequences and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This book presents these important facts: a) The mechanism of anionic polymerization, a more than 50-year challenge in polymer chemistry, has now become better understood; b) Precise synthesis of many polymers with novel architectures (triblock, multi-block, graft, exact graft, comb, cyclic, many...
Imaging Mass Spectrometry
Protocols for Mass Microscopy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
Addressing the widespread need for a practical guide to imaging mass spectrometry (IMS), this book presents the protocols of IMS technology. As that technology expands, research groups around the world continue its development. Pharmaceutical companies are using IMS for drug analyses to study pharmacokinetics...
by Hiroaki Katsuragi
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
This book focuses on the impact dynamics and cratering of soft matter to describe its importance, difficulty, and wide applicability to planetary-related problems. A comprehensive introduction to the dimensional analysis and constitutive laws that are necessary to discuss impact mechanics and cratering...
Involvement of Fluids in Earthquake Ruptures
Field/Experimental Data and Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
This book furnishes state-of-the-art knowledge about how earthquake faulting is coupled with fluid flow. The authors describe the theoretical background of modeling of faulting coupled with fluid flow in detail. Field and laboratory evidence to suggest the fluid involvement in earthquake faulting...
Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2012
Special Edition of the Joint Symposium "Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming" of the Kyoto University Global COE Program and the JGSEE/CEE-KMUTT
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The Global COE is setting out a zero-emission technology roadmap and is promoting socioeconomic studies of energy, studies of new technologies for renewable energies, and research for advanced nuclear energy. It has also established the Global COE Unit for Energy Science Education to support young...
Production Control Systems
A Guide to Enhance Performance of Pull Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Selecting a suitable production control policy is a challenging task for managers because the superiority of one control over the other is controversial. This book analyzes pull production systems and provides a guideline to choose and implement a proper control policy in production processes....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Our societies need to solve difficult issues to attain sustainability. The main challenges include, among others, global warming, demographic change, an energy crisis, and loss of biodiversity. In tackling these issues, a holistic understanding of our living space is important. The field of landscape...
In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution
Views from Rice and Maize Farmers' Fields
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
This book explores recent experiences in the effort to bring about a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The chapters focus on rice and maize, which are promising and strategic smallholder crops. Significantly, we find that an African Rice Revolution has already begun in many irrigated areas,...
Progress of Nuclear Safety for Symbiosis and Sustainability
Advanced Digital Instrumentation, Control and Information Systems for Nuclear Power Plants
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
This book introduces advanced methods of computational and information systems allowing readers to better understand the state-of-the-art design and implementation technology needed to maintain and enhance the safe operation of nuclear power plants. The subjects dealt with in the book are (i) Full...
Reform of the International Monetary System
An Asian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
By providing a comprehensive overview of policy proposals for the international monetary system from an Asian perspective, this book aims to identify what innovations are needed to reform the international monetary and financial system to promote financial stability and sustainable economic growth...
Behavioral Decision Theory
Psychological and Mathematical Descriptions of Human Choice Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book provides an overview of behavioral decision theory and related research findings. In brief, behavioral decision theory is a general term for descriptive theories to explain the psychological knowledge related to decision-making behavior. It is called a theory, but actually it is a combination...
by Hideyuki Hotta
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
This thesis describes the studies on the solar interior where turbulent thermal convection plays an important role. The author solved, for the first time, one of the long-standing issues in solar physics, i.e., the maintenance mechanism of the solar differential rotation in the near-surface shear...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
As a step toward ultimate low-power computing, this book introduces normally-off computing, which involves inactive components of computer systems being aggressively powered off with the help of new non-volatile memories (NVMs). Because the energy consumption of modern information devices strongly...