Springer Japan: 783 books
Stereoscopic HDTV
Research at NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
This book focuses on the two psychological factors of naturalness and ease of viewing of three-dimensional high-definition television (3D HDTV) images. It has been said that distortions peculiar to stereoscopic images, such as the “puppet theater” effect or the “cardboard” effect, spoil the...
Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems
The 12th International Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This volume of proceedings includes 32 original contributions presented at the 12th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2014), held in November 2014. The selected papers in this volume are authored by leading researchers from Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas,...
Mathematical Progress in Expressive Image Synthesis II
Extended and Selected Results from the Symposium MEIS2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
The material included in this book provides selected presentations given at the international symposium MEIS2014. The book aims to provide a unique venue where various issues in computer graphics (CG) application fields are discussed by mathematicians as well as CG researchers and practitioners. The...
Serviceology for Designing the Future
Selected and Edited Papers of the 2nd International Conference on Serviceology
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
This book provides a useful overall guide to the state of the art in theory and practice of services. It can also serve as a reference book for researchers in various fields, including engineering, marketing, economics, and other disciplines. Advanced works presented here were selected from the proceedings...
Fungicide Resistance in Plant Pathogens
Principles and a Guide to Practical Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This volume offers a comprehensive coverage of the general principles and recent advances in fungicide resistance. It describes the development, mechanisms, monitoring, and management of resistance and covers the most important group of fungicides that have caused resistance on various crops. An historical...
Neurogenesis in the Adult Brain II
Clinical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The discovery of adult neurogenesis caused a paradigm shift in the neurosciences. For more than 100 years, it was believed that adult neurons do not regenerate. Joseph Altman and Fernando Nottebohm found proof to the contrary and changed the course of history. Their research, included here, provides...
Annual, Lunar, and Tidal Clocks
Patterns and Mechanisms of Nature's Enigmatic Rhythms
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
There is more to biological rhythms than circadian clocks. This book aims at promoting the exciting potential of a deeper understanding of circannual, circatidal, and circalunar clocks. It highlights new developments, summarizes existing knowledge, and integrates different perspectives with the tools...
Drebrin
From Structure and Function to Physiological and Pathological Roles
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book is the first comprehensive review of drebrin, which plays pivotal roles in various cellular events, via forming unique actin cytoskeletons, including synapse formation and in synaptic function. Particularly the loss of drebrin from dendritic spines is used as a marker of dementia in neurological...
by Kosuke Ohsawa
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
This book focuses on thielocin B1 (TB1), which was found to be an inhibitor of protein–protein interactions (PPIs) of proteasome assembling chaperone (PAC) 3 homodimer, and elucidates the mechanism by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies. Interfaces of PPIs recently have been expected to be...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Recent advances have revolutionized diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in pediatric cardiology. Powerful new diagnostic techniques include color Doppler echocardiography, computerized tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. Catheter-directed treatment of cardiac lesions with balloons and stents...
Land Use Management in Disaster Risk Reduction
Practice and Cases from a Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book provides a wide range of studies on methods of assessing natural disaster risks and reducing those risks in the context of land use. A major benefit of the book is that it presents extensive research and practices from interdisciplinary perspectives through case studies of land use management...
Harnessing Biological Complexity
An Introduction to Computational Physiology
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
The challenge for the biosciences in the twenty-first century is to integrate genome sequencing information into a better understanding of biology, physiology, and human pathology. Such attempts at integration are moving the world toward a new generation of bioscience and bioengineering, where biological,...
by Kimitaka Kaga
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Many congenitally deaf infants and children suffer vestibular failure, which produces problems with their postural control, locomotion and gait. However it is known that these children can eventually catch up with their normal balance control status in terms of development and growth as a result of...