Springer Japan: 783 books
Economics of Pessimism and Optimism
Theory of Knightian Uncertainty and Its Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
This is the first book to investigate individual’s pessimistic and optimistic prospects for the future and their economic consequences based on sound mathematical foundations. The book focuses on fundamental uncertainty called Knightian uncertainty, where the probability distribution governing uncertainty...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This book describes newly developed methods of assessing the autonomic nervous system. Up-to-date information on microneurographic analysis of human cardiovascular and thermoregulatory function in humans, heart rate variability, and 131I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) scintigraphy are provided.
Microneurography,...
Computational Simulation in Architectural and Environmental Acoustics
Methods and Applications of Wave-Based Computation
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
This book reviews a variety of methods for wave-based acoustic simulation and recent applications to architectural and environmental acoustic problems.
Following an introduction providing an overview of computational simulation of sound environment, the book is in two parts: four chapters on...
Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics A
Synthetic Approaches to Human Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics is the first introductory book on this new interdisciplinary area. This book consists of two volumes, the first of which, Synthetic Approaches to Human Understanding, advances human understanding from a robotics or engineering point of view. The second, Analytic Approaches...
Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics B
Analytic Approaches to Human Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics is the first introductory book on this new interdisciplinary area. This book consists of two volumes, the first of which, Synthetic Approaches to Human Understanding, advances human understanding from a robotics or engineering point of view. The second, Analytic Approaches...
The Myanmar Economy
Its Past, Present and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
With motivated human resources and a rich natural bounty, Myanmar is expected to take off with sustained growth and eventually attain a unique welfare state. On the basis of the authors’ field surveys and innumerable dialogues with public officials, private professionals, scholars, and others, in...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
This book presents a life-oriented approach, which is an interdisciplinary methodology proposed for cross-sectoral urban policy decisions such as transport, health, and energy policies. Improving people’s quality of life (QOL) is one of the common goals of various urban policies on the one hand,...
Serviceology for Services
Selected papers of the 1st International Conference of Serviceology
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Services are key activities in the globalization of the economy and also underlie the quality of life of local residents. The advanced work presented in this book was selected from the proceedings of the First International Conference on Serviceology (ICServ2013), held October 16–18, 2013 in Tokyo....
The Impact of Applications on Mathematics
Proceedings of the Forum of Mathematics for Industry 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
This book is a collection of papers presented at the Forum “The Impact of Applications on Mathematics” in October 2013. It describes an appropriate framework in which to highlight how real-world problems, over the centuries and today, have influenced and are influencing the development of mathematics...
Soils, Ecosystem Processes, and Agricultural Development
Tropical Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The main objective of this book is to integrate environmental knowledge observed in local agriculture, based on the understanding of soils science and ecology, and to propose possible technical solutions and a more integrated approach to tropical agriculture. The chapters describe and analyze the...
Groundwater and Subsurface Environments
Human Impacts in Asian Coastal Cities
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Excessive groundwater pumping, groundwater contamination, and subsurface thermal anomalies have occurred frequently in Asian coastal cities, greatly disturbing the urban aquifer and the subsurface environment. In this volume, the relationship between the stage of a city’s development and subsurface...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This book presents an overview of the recent advances in clinical applications of magnetoencephalography (MEG). With the expansion of MEG to neuroscience, its clinical applications have also been actively pursued. Featuring contributions from prominent experts in the fields, the book focuses on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This book draws examples from food security issues in Bangladesh. The book is structured around those issues and underlying causes of food security, the implications from different sectors, policy analysis, and the role and actions of various stakeholders from different sectors to ensure food security.
Bangladesh...
Neutrino Oscillations
A Practical Guide to Basics and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Neutrino oscillation (N.O.) is the only firm evidence of the physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics and is one of the hottest topics in elementary particle physics today. This book focuses on the N.O., from its history to the future prospects, from the basic theories to the experiments.
Various...