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This book presents state-of-the-art scientific evidence and
technological innovations to restore lands on the Loess Plateau of
China, known worldwide for its serious land degradation and
desertification problems. Supported by a rapidly developing Chinese
economy and the dissemination of effective technology, the
Grain-for-Green Project and Western Development Action launched by
the Chinese government have resulted in successful ecological
restoration and protection over the past 30 years. These programs
have contributed not only to conservation of soil and water, but
also to economic development. At the same time, however, these
developmental interventions have brought new challenges that have
not yet been fully addressed. The book describes (1) case studies
of success and failure in practice, including rare success stories
of combating desertification; (2) technical issues such as erosion
control and breeding of stress-tolerant plant species, and
socioeconomic measures taken by the Chinese government and lending
policies with support from the World Bank; and (3) comprehensive
measures against desertification, such as water and wind erosion,
salinization, and deforestation. This volume is recommended for
researchers and students above the undergraduate level in diverse
fields including soil science, rural engineering, social technology
and civil engineering, biology, ecology, climatology, physical and
human geography, and developmental economics, among others. It also
serves as a valuable resource for engineers, government officials,
and NPOs and NGOs involved in afforestation, ecological
restoration, combating desertification, disaster prevention, and
sustainable rural development.
Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant
destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North
America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the
face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong,
Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates how the
crossing of geographical boundaries should also be recognized as a
crossing of cultural and social categories that reveals the
extraordinary variation in the migrants' origins and trajectories.
These migrants span the spectrum: from Korean bar hostesses in
Osaka to African entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, from Vietnamese women
seeking husbands across the Chinese border to Pakistani Muslim men
marrying women in Japan, from short-term business travelers in
China to long-term tourists from Japan who ultimately decide to
retire overseas. Illuminating the ways in which an Asian-based
analysis of migration can yield new data on global migration
patterns, the contributors provide important new theoretical
insights for a broader understanding of global migration, and
innovative methodological approaches to the spatial and temporal
complexity of human migration.
In this thesis the author discusses the phenomenology of
supersymmetric models by means of experimental data set analysis of
the electric dipole moment. There is an evaluation of the
elementary processes contributing to the electric dipole moments
within R-parity-violating supersymmetry, which call for
higher-order perturbative computations.
A new method based on linear programming is developed and for
the first time the non-trivial parameter space of R-parity
violation respecting the constraints from existing experimental
data of the electric dipole moment is revealed. As well, the
impressive efficiency of the new method in scanning the parameter
space of the R-parity-violating sector is effectively demonstrated.
This new method makes it possible to extract from the experimental
data a more reliable constraint on the R-parity violation.
Bacteria change the surface of the Earth. All kinds of bacteria
reside in the biosphere, and although sometimes they may cause
damage, they also help in cleaning the surface of the Earth and in
the circulation of various substances. Chemolithoautotrophic
bacteria in particular have a unique and intimate relationship with
inorganic substances and human beings. This book covers in detail
advances in the biochemistry and physiology of several
chemolithoautotrophic bacteria as well as their relationship to
certain environments. Included are recent findings regarding the
oxidation mechanisms of ammonia, nitrite, sulfur compounds, and
ferrous iron by special bacteria. The characteristics of many
cytochromes are described to further advance the understanding of
bacterial oxidation systems of inorganic compounds. Applications of
bacteria, such as in sewage treatment and in biohydometallurgy,
among others, are detailed, and bacteria considered closest to the
origins of life are discussed in the final chapter.
This graduate text gives an introductory overview of the fundamentals of quantum nonlinear optics. It deals with the organization of radiation field, interaction between electronic system and radiation field, statistics of light, mutual manipulation of light and matter, laser oscillation, dynamics of light, nonlinear optical response, nonlinear spectroscopy as well as ultrashort and ultrastrong laser pulse. In addition, latest results of the frontier of this science are presented. Problems and solutions help the reader to become familiar with the material given.
I. Prostatic Cancer Bone Metastasis: An International Perspective.-
Clinical Dilemmas and Problems in Assessing Prostatic Metastasis to
Bone: The Scientific Challenge.- Comparative Study of Prostatic
Carcinoma Bone Metastasis among Japanese in Japan and Japanese
Americans and Whites in Hawaii.- Prostate Cancer in the United
States and Japan.- Analysis of Survival of Prostate Cancer Patients
in Japan and the USA.- II. Biology.- The Cellular Basis for
Prostate Cancer Metastasis.- Cytogenetic and Molecular Genetic
Aspects of Human Prostate Cancer: Primary and Metastatic.-
Hemodynamics of Prostate Bone Metastases.- Role of the Vertebral
Venous System in Metastatic Spread of Cancer Cells to the Bone.-
Clinical Significance of the Vertebral Vein in Prostate Cancer
Metastasis.- Effects of Various Growth Factors on a Chondrocyte
Differentiation Model.- Potential Role of HBGF (FGF) and TGF-Beta
on Prostate Growth.- Hormone Refractory Prostatic Cancer: The Role
of Radiolabelled Diphosphonates and Growth Factor Inhibitors.- III.
Models.- Localization of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor (bFGF) in a
Metastatic Cell Line (AT-3) Established from the Dunning Prostatic
Carcinoma of Rat: Application of a Specific Monoclonal Antibody.-
Use of a Reconstituted Basement Membrane to Study the Invasiveness
of Tumor Cells.- Animal Prostate Carcinoma Models: Limited
Potential for Vertebral Metastasis.- A Model for Studies on Human
Prostatic Carcinoma.- IV. Pathology.- Studies on the Pathogenesis
of Osteoblastic Metastases by Prostate Cancer.- Analysis of Bone
Metastasis of Prostatic Adenocarcinoma in 137 Autopsy Cases.-
Nucleolar Organizer Regions in Prostate Cancer.- Flow Cytometric
Analysis of Prostatic Carcinoma with and without Bone Marrow
Metastasis.- V. Evaluation.- Evaluation of the Response of Bone
Metastases to Therapy.- Computed Tomographic Evaluation of Bone
Metastases in Prostatic Cancer Patients.- Magnetic Resonance
Imaging of Bone Metastases.- Bone Marrow MRI in Prostate Cancer.-
Bone Mineral Density for Patients with Bone Metastasis of Prostate
Cancer: A Preliminary Report.- Quantification of Changes in Bone
Scans of Patients with Osseous Metastases of Prostatic Carcinoma.-
The Usefulness of Serum Acid Phosphatase in Monitoring Patients
with Advanced Prostate Carcinoma.- VI. Treatment.- Radiation
Treatment of Prostate Bone Metastases and the Biological
Considerations.- Clinical Course of Bone Metastasis from Prostatic
Cancer Following Endocrine Therapy: Examination with Bone X-Ray.-
Palliative Radiotherapy of Bone Metastasis.- Clinical Study of
Bone-Related Relapse in Prostate Carcinoma.- Surgical Treatment of
Metastatic Tumors of Long Bones and the Spine.- Hormone Therapy of
Prostatic Bone Metastases.
Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant
destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North
America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the
face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong,
Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates how the
crossing of geographical boundaries should also be recognized as a
crossing of cultural and social categories that reveals the
extraordinary variation in the migrants' origins and trajectories.
These migrants span the spectrum: from Korean bar hostesses in
Osaka to African entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, from Vietnamese women
seeking husbands across the Chinese border to Pakistani Muslim men
marrying women in Japan, from short-term business travelers in
China to long-term tourists from Japan who ultimately decide to
retire overseas. Illuminating the ways in which an Asian-based
analysis of migration can yield new data on global migration
patterns, the contributors provide important new theoretical
insights for a broader understanding of global migration, and
innovative methodological approaches to the spatial and temporal
complexity of human migration.
David W. Haines is Professor of Anthropology at George Mason
University. He is the author of Safe Haven? A History of Refugees
in America (2010), has twice been a Fulbright scholar, and is a
former president of the Society for Urban, National, and
Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA).
Keiko Yamanaka is a Lecturer in the Departments of Ethnic
Studies and International and Area Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley. Her work appears in a range of books and
journals, including Paci c Affairs; Ethnic and Racial Studies;
Diaspora; Asian and Paci c Migration Journal; and Publications of
the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
(UNRISD).
Shinji Yamashita is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the
University of Tokyo and former president of the Japanese Society of
Cultural Anthropology, the world's second largest national
anthropology association. He is the author of Bali and Beyond:
Explorations in the Anthropology of Tourism (2003).
Research into the field of stem cell biology has developed
exponentially over recent years, and is beginning to offer
significant promise for unravelling the molecular basis of a
multitude of disease states. Importantly, in addition to offering
the opportunity to delve deeply into the mechanisms that drive
disease aetiology the research is realistically opening the doors
for development of targeted and personalized therapeutic
applications that many considered, until recently, to be nothing
more that a far fetched dream. This volume provides a timely
glimpse into the methods that have been developed to instigate, and
the mechanisms that have been identified to drive, the process of
nuclear reprogramming, chronicling how the field has developed over
the last 50-60 years. Since the early 1950s a small number of
notable experiments have provided significant impetus to the field,
primarily the demonstration of reprogramming ability, first by the
complex cytoplasmic milieu that constitutes the amphibian egg, then
that of the mammalian egg, and finally that of the mammalian
embryonic stem cell. Most recently, the demonstration that a
limited pool of defined molecules is capable of reprogramming a
multitude of cell types has provided massive impetus and
facilitated transition towards realistic therapeutic application.
We have therefore reproduced some of the key articles that
elegantly document these dramatic stages of development of the
field in an inclusive appendix to the book, for the benefit of
readers keen to investigate the history of how the field of stem
cell biology has evolved. Owing to the ever broadening nature of
this field, and the incredible rate at which it is evolving, the
main content of this volume focuses on areas that have shown
significant movement in recent years, are most likely to translate
into personalized therapeutic application, and thus provide
greatest potential for significant impact on human health in the
not too distant future. We recognize that research into many other
disease states and cell types are all equally worthy of discussion.
We would therefore like to acknowledge those researchers involved
whose work we have not been able to include in this volume. Nuclear
Reprogramming and Stem Cells will serve as a valuable resource for
all researchers in the field of stem cell biology, including those
just setting out on their career path as well as those already
established in the field.
Because of severe domestic labor shortages, Japan has recently
joined the increasing number of advanced industrialized nations
that have begun importing large numbers of immigrant workers since
the 1980s. Although the citizenship status of foreign workers is
the most precarious in such recent countries of immigration, the
national governments of these countries have become increasingly
preoccupied with border enforcement, forcing local municipalities
and organizations to offer basic rights and social services to the
foreign residents who are settling in their local communities. This
book analyzes the development of local citizenship in Japan by
examining the role of local governments and NGOs as well as
grass-roots political and judicial activism in the expansion of
immigrant rights. In this manner, localities are emerging as
important sites for the struggle for immigrant citizenship and
social integration, enabling foreign workers to enjoy substantive
rights even in the absence of national citizenship. The
possibilities and limits of such local citizenship in Japan are
then compared to three other recent countries of immigration
(Italy, Spain, and South Korea).
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Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research - KEER 2020, 7-9 September 2020, Tokyo, Japan (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Hiroko Shoji, Shinichi Koyama, Takeo Kato, Keiichi Muramatsu, Toshimasa Yamanaka, …
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8th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion
Research 2020 (KEER 2020), which was held in Tokyo, Japan, 7-9
September 2020. The contributions address the latest advances in
and innovative applications of Kansei Engineering and Emotion
Research and related topics. This book caters researchers and
graduate students in the field of design, art, Kansei engineering,
and other engineering fields, psychology, physiology, and
education.
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Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research 2018 - KEER 2018, 19-22 March 2018, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Anitawati Mohd Lokman, Toshimasa Yamanaka, Pierre Levy, Kuohsiang Chen, Shinichi Koyama
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The proceedings gather a selection of refereed papers presented at
the 7th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion
Research 2018 (KEER 2018), which was held in Kuching, Malaysia from
19 to 22 March 2018. The contributions address the latest advances
in and innovative applications of Kansei Engineering and Emotion
Research. The subjects include: Kansei, Emotion and Games Kansei,
Emotion and Computing Kansei, Emotion and Wellbeing / Quality of
Life Kansei, Emotion and Design Kansei, Emotion and Health /
Ergonomics Kansei, Emotion and Multidisciplinary Fields Kansei,
Emotion and Culture Kansei, Emotion and Social computing Kansei,
Emotion and Evaluation Kansei, Emotion and User Experience The book
offers a valuable resource for all graduate students, experienced
researchers and industrial practitioners interested in the fields
of user experience/usability, engineering design, human factors,
quality management, product development and design.
In this thesis the author discusses the phenomenology of
supersymmetric models by means of experimental data set analysis of
the electric dipole moment. There is an evaluation of the
elementary processes contributing to the electric dipole moments
within R-parity-violating supersymmetry, which call for
higher-order perturbative computations. A new method based on
linear programming is developed and for the first time the
non-trivial parameter space of R-parity violation respecting the
constraints from existing experimental data of the electric dipole
moment is revealed. As well, the impressive efficiency of the new
method in scanning the parameter space of the R-parity-violating
sector is effectively demonstrated. This new method makes it
possible to extract from the experimental data a more reliable
constraint on the R-parity violation.
Treatment of glioma is currently one of the most challenging
problems in oncology, as well as in neurosurgery. Despite major
advances in our understanding of the pathomechanism, diagnosis by
imaging and the availability of powerful therapeutic tools, the
life expectancy of patients with glioblastoma has only been
slightly prolonged and a cure remains elusive. None of the
currently available surgical tools, including operative
microscopes, lasers and image-guided surgery, can enable the
detection and removal of all of the tumor tissue. In recent years,
however, the landscape has been changing immeasurably, and
molecular studies over the past two decades have identified a
variety of genetic aberrations that are specifically associated
with individual types of gliomas. In addition, certain molecular
abnormalities have been linked to therapy responses, thereby
establishing clinical biomarkers and molecular targets, and the use
of novel agents is being investigated. These agents have been
specifically engineered to exert specific cytotoxicity against
gliomas, either on their own as single agents or in combination
with other modalities. Moreover, there has been an enormous surge
of interest in the area of immunology and immunotherapy, which has
been facilitated by our understanding of the molecular basis of
gliomas. Although several kinds of immunotherapeutic trials have
been undertaken, we still await a great breakthrough in terms of
clinical efficacy to prolong the survival time of glioma patients.
This book presents state-of-the-art scientific evidence and
technological innovations to restore lands on the Loess Plateau of
China, known worldwide for its serious land degradation and
desertification problems. Supported by a rapidly developing Chinese
economy and the dissemination of effective technology, the
Grain-for-Green Project and Western Development Action launched by
the Chinese government have resulted in successful ecological
restoration and protection over the past 30 years. These programs
have contributed not only to conservation of soil and water, but
also to economic development. At the same time, however, these
developmental interventions have brought new challenges that have
not yet been fully addressed. The book describes (1) case studies
of success and failure in practice, including rare success stories
of combating desertification; (2) technical issues such as erosion
control and breeding of stress-tolerant plant species, and
socioeconomic measures taken by the Chinese government and lending
policies with support from the World Bank; and (3) comprehensive
measures against desertification, such as water and wind erosion,
salinization, and deforestation. This volume is recommended for
researchers and students above the undergraduate level in diverse
fields including soil science, rural engineering, social technology
and civil engineering, biology, ecology, climatology, physical and
human geography, and developmental economics, among others. It also
serves as a valuable resource for engineers, government officials,
and NPOs and NGOs involved in afforestation, ecological
restoration, combating desertification, disaster prevention, and
sustainable rural development.
This volume contains essays by Keiichi Yamanaka on the history of
penology in Japan and the current legal doctrines of Japanese
criminal law. The themes of these essays also relate to Japan's
modern penology, which Yamanaka has studied extensively. The 23
essays are based on lectures that Yamanaka held in Europe, many of
which took place in Germany.
Research into the field of stem cell biology has developed
exponentially over recent years, and is beginning to offer
significant promise for unravelling the molecular basis of a
multitude of disease states. Importantly, in addition to offering
the opportunity to delve deeply into the mechanisms that drive
disease aetiology the research is realistically opening the doors
for development of targeted and personalized therapeutic
applications that many considered, until recently, to be nothing
more that a far fetched dream. This volume provides a timely
glimpse into the methods that have been developed to instigate, and
the mechanisms that have been identified to drive, the process of
nuclear reprogramming, chronicling how the field has developed over
the last 50-60 years. Since the early 1950s a small number of
notable experiments have provided significant impetus to the field,
primarily the demonstration of reprogramming ability, first by the
complex cytoplasmic milieu that constitutes the amphibian egg, then
that of the mammalian egg, and finally that of the mammalian
embryonic stem cell. Most recently, the demonstration that a
limited pool of defined molecules is capable of reprogramming a
multitude of cell types has provided massive impetus and
facilitated transition towards realistic therapeutic application.
We have therefore reproduced some of the key articles that
elegantly document these dramatic stages of development of the
field in an inclusive appendix to the book, for the benefit of
readers keen to investigate the history of how the field of stem
cell biology has evolved. Owing to the ever broadening nature of
this field, and the incredible rate at which it is evolving, the
main content of this volume focuses on areas that have shown
significant movement in recent years, are most likely to translate
into personalized therapeutic application, and thus provide
greatest potential for significant impact on human health in the
not too distant future. We recognize that research into many other
disease states and cell types are all equally worthy of discussion.
We would therefore like to acknowledge those researchers involved
whose work we have not been able to include in this volume. Nuclear
Reprogramming and Stem Cells will serve as a valuable resource for
all researchers in the field of stem cell biology, including those
just setting out on their career path as well as those already
established in the field.
This is a textbook on stochastic quantization which was originally
proposed by G. Parisi and Y. S. Wu in 1981 and then developed by
many workers. I assume that the reader has finished a standard
course in quantum field theory. The Parisi-Wu stochastic
quantization method gives quantum mechanics as the
thermal-equilibrium limit of a hypothetical stochastic process with
respect to some fictitious time other than ordinary time. We can
consider this to be a third method of quantization; remarkably
different from the conventional theories, i. e, the canonical and
path-integral ones. Over the past ten years, we have seen the
technical merits of this method in quantizing gauge fields and in
performing large numerical simulations, which have never been
obtained by the other methods. I believe that the stochastic
quantization method has the potential to extend the territory of
quantum mechanics and of quantum field theory. However, I should
remark that stochastic quantization is still under development
through many mathematical improvements and physical applications,
and also that the fictitious time of the theory is only a
mathematical tool, for which we do not yet know its origin in the
physical background. For these reasons, in this book, I attempt to
describe its theoretical formulation in detail as well as practical
achievements.
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