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This volume is on 'modem geometric computing for visualization' which is at the forefront of mult...

In modern mathematics, a Lie group means a group which is also a manifold. While Lie groups are g...

This book formulates an evolutionary and pluralistic view of social systems in the global age, es...

This book focuses on a very important and still controversial topic in Japan, namely, whether a f...

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This book focuses on fast algorithms for computing scalar multiplication (or point multiplication...

Characteristics of Japanese visual narratives are depicted in this book, shedding light on cultur...

This book integrates value balance, material balance and energy balance into the interaction mode...

This monograph presents a proposal for interdisciplinary and international research that uses var...

This book integrates diversified disciplines, research approaches, and methodologies of area stud...

This is the first book to present a new approach of institutional design as an evolutionary appli...

This book assesses the importance of the cultural dimensions of water management, which differ fr...

Comprehensively covering various techniques such as ERCP, EUS, EST and lithotripsy, this book hig...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the multitude of different forms of thermotherapy ...

This book provides accurate, comprehensive, and convenient reference for usages of the 'freely ro...

In this thesis, the author has developed a high-resolution spin-resolved photoemission spectromet...

Portal hypertension is the abnormal pathophysiologic state that develops in liver cirrhosis and c...

The second congress of the Paci?c Asian Society of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (PASMISS) hel...

Global warming poses a serious threat to the quality of life in the 21st century. Taking Japan as...

In a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder. M. Shelley (1818) Genom...

In this thesis, novel Monte Carlo methods for precisely calculating the critical phenomena of the...

This book treats ensembles of Young diagrams originating from group-theoretical contexts and inve...

Comparative investigations of mineralization and demineralization mechanisms by leading researche...

The 20th century has witnessed the great benefits of the development of antibi otics, which becam...

This book covers seismic probabilistic risk assessment (S-PRA) and related studies which have bec...

This book provides a unique contribution to the science of sustainable societies by challenging t...

This book covers an approach to conversational informatics which encompasses science and technolo...

In this thesis, the author explains the background of problems in quantum estimation, the necessa...

This book highlights recent advances in natural computing, including biology and its theory, bio-...

This is the first book to examine social learning and innovation in hunter-gatherers from around ...

This book discusses the new roles that the VLSI (very-large-scale integration of semiconductor ci...

Recent advances in gastroenterology and hepatology as well as new findings in biliary and pancrea...

Hepatic sinusoidal cells such as sinusoidal endothelial cells, Kupffer cells, hepatic stellate ce...

Intractable illnesses such as advanced cancer, AIDS, and chronic progressive neurological disease...

Advances in cellular physiology and molecular biology have now disclosed the metabolic changes an...

Intravascular ultrasound imaging (IVUS) plays very important roles in clinical cardiology. This b...

This is the first English book to address the current development of closed recirculating aquacul...

Self-organization is a generic term describing the capacity of a system to change its own structu...

Air pollution is ubiquitous in industrialized societies, causing a host of environmental problems...

This book is an excellent resource for scientists, political decision makers, and students intere...

The first single-topic annual conference on hepatology in Japan was held in November 2002 to disc...

Social sciences are moving to the next stage. One ofthe promising methodologies is agent-based co...

Comprehensively covering various techniques such as ERCP, EUS, EST and lithotripsy, this book hig...

At the Fifth International Neuromuscular Meeting held in Tokyo in 1994, leading experts in the fi...

In April of 1991, 425 partICIpants from 18 countries met in Hamamatsu in Japan for the 6th Intern...

Econophysics is a newborn field of science bridging economics and physics. A special feature of t...

Integrating basic to applied science and technology in medicine, pharmaceutics, molecular biology...