Nakamura: 114 books
Japanese Firms During the Lost Two Decades
The Recovery of Zombie Firms and Entrenchment of Reputable Firms
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Why has Japan's lost decade become the lost two decades? This book attempts to provide a novel perspective on causes of stagnant productivity growth of the Japanese corporate sector during the lost two decades. Exploiting the corporate financial dataset compiled by the Development Bank of Japan, it...
by Sumio Ishikawa, Sibel Mrs. Yelten, Damien Eastman
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2006
Cambodia's reconstruction and reform efforts have spanned almost 25 years following the Khmer Rouge period, which ended in 1979. Economic reforms began in earnest in the early 1990s, but reform efforts were beset by ongoing internal tensions and civil unrest. Although external factors, including sizable...
by Katsuro Nakamura
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
In this thesis, the measurement of double-spin asymmetry for electron production from heavy flavor decays was performed in a Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in the PHENIX experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory to measure the polarized parton distribution function of gluon in the small...
by Odagiri Hideo, Hirano Ken, Sasaki Kiichi
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In the wake of its defeat in World War II, as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation, literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue...
Learning Android
Develop Mobile Apps Using Java and Eclipse
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Want to build apps for Android devices? This book is the perfect way to master the fundamentals. Written by experts who have taught this mobile platform to hundreds of developers in large organizations and startups alike, this gentle introduction shows experienced object-oriented programmers how to...
The Prime Ministers of Postwar Japan, 1945–1995
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book examines the lives and times of Japan’s postwar prime ministers, covering the period from 1945 to 1995. Written by Japan’s leading scholars, it is the first English-language biographical portrait of these twenty-three individuals who helped lead Japan on its road to recovery, its return...
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies
Conversations on Race and Racializations
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies is a unique collection of essays derived from a series of dialogues held in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Los Angeles on the issues of racializations, gender, communities, and the positionalities of scholars involved in Japanese American studies. The book brings together...
by Robert E. Hyatt, Paul D. Scanlon, Masao Nakamura
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Interpretation of Pulmonary Function Tests, 4th edition provides practical, clinically relevant coverage of all types of pulmonary function testing as it applies to a host of disease conditions. It is aimed at any reader with a basic knowledge of pulmonary physiology and provides a solid basis for administering...
Inverse Modeling
An introduction to the theory and methods of inverse problems and data assimilation
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the techniques, tools and methods for inverse problems and data assimilation, and is written at the interface between mathematics and applications for students, researchers and developers in mathematics, physics, engineering, acoustics, electromagnetics,...
by Jorge Soberón, Enrique Martínez-Meyer, Miguel Nakamura
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography, linking individual- and population-level processes to geographic distributions and biodiversity patterns. Problems in evolutionary ecology, macroecology, and biogeography are illuminated by this integrative...
by Rainer E. Gruhn, Wolfgang Minker, Satoshi Nakamura
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2011
In this work, the authors present a fully statistical approach to model non--native speakers' pronunciation. Second-language speakers pronounce words in multiple different ways compared to the native speakers. Those deviations, may it be phoneme substitutions, deletions or insertions, can be modelled...
Growth Alternatives of the Japanese Economy
Structure and Simulations of Dynamic Econometric Model with Input-Output System (DEMIOS)
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
The book describes the structure of the Keynes-Leontief Model (KLM) of Japan and discusses how the Japanese economy can overcome the long-term economic deflation that has taken place since the mid-1990s. The large-scale econometric model and its analysis have been important for planning several policy...
Mixed Family Life in the UK
An Ethnographic Study of Japanese-British Families
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017
This book offers a nuanced picture of mixed family life in the UK. Specifically, the book explores how parents from different backgrounds create a place of belonging for their children, while also negotiating difference and attempting to transmit various aspects of their cultures, including religion,...
by Natalia Gendina, Yuriko Nakamura
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
In recent years, interest in International Librarianship has grown rapidly and will continue to grow as globalization influences education and librarianship. In countries around the world, public and school libraries have unique roles and their staffs collaborate across types of libraries to varying...