Volcanic gas reservoirs are the new natural gas frontier. Once thought too complex, too harsh on the drilling bit, and too difficult to characterize, reservoir engineers and petroleum geologists alike now manage more advanced seismic and logging tools, making these 'impossible' field developments possible. Bridging meaningful information about these complicated provinces and linking various unconventional methods and techniques, Volcanic Gas Reservoir Characterization:

• Describes a set of leading-edge integrated volcanic gas reservoir characterization techniques, helping to ensure the effective development of the field
• Reveals the grade and relationship of volcanic stratigraphic sequence
• Presents field identification and prediction methods, and interpretation technology of reservoir parameters, relating these to similar complex fields such as shale

These innovative approaches and creative methods have been successfully applied to actual development of volcanic gas reservoirs. By sharing the methods and techniques used in this region with reservoir engineers and petroleum geologists all over the world, those with better understanding of these unconventional basins will begin to consider volcanic rock like any other reservoir.

• Summarizes the research and explains detailed case studies of volcanic gas reservoir developments, showing the latest achievements and lessons learned
• Supplies knowledge on volcanic gas reservoir basins to provide meaningful insight into similar complex reservoirs such as shale, coal bed methane, and heavy oil basins
• Contains extensive methodology, strong practicality and high innovation, making this an ideal book for both the practicing and seasoned reservoir engineer and petroleum geologists working with complex reservoirs

After losing his parents, Minoru supports himself and his two younger siblings by working at a gay bar, where he meets the mysterious Kan. At first, Kan's sudden advances daunt Minoru, but as he gradually gets to know Kan - a man who is, at times, wildly passionate; at others, kind and caring, like he's always been a member of the family.

The fourth edition of CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits: Analysis and Design continues the well-established tradition of the earlier editions by offering the most comprehensive coverage of digital CMOS circuit design, as well as addressing state-of-the-art technology issues highlighted by the widespread use of nanometer-scale CMOS technologies. In this latest edition, virtually all chapters have been re-written, the transistor model equations and device parameters have been revised to reflect the sigificant changes that must be taken into account for new technology generations, and the material has been reinforced with up-to-date examples.

The broad-ranging coverage of this textbook starts with the fundamentals of CMOS process technology, and continues with MOS transistor models, basic CMOS gates, interconnect effects, dynamic circuits, memory circuits, arithmetic building blocks, clock and I/O circuits, low power design techniques, design for manufacturability and design for testability.

This book covers nine countries of ASEAN and the East Asian area, including major Asian countries, and compares their respective policies to attract Foreign Direct Investments (FDI). Through comparative study of FDI promotion policies, this book will give policy makers in the area of FDI promotion an overview and comparison of the FDI policies of other countries. In addition, researchers at graduate, post-graduate or professional level will gain from the econometric methodology and detailed definitions of various spillover effects (horizontal and vertical), which will be beneficial to their research.

In addition to FDI policy comparison, this book focuses on the various spillover effects of FDI. It separates it into categories: own productivity effects; intra-industry spillover effects; and inter-industry spillover effects (forward and backward linkage effects). While most other studies have only taken econometric tests on own-productivity and intra-industry spillovers, a key advantage to this book is that it also covers the separate effects of inter-industry linkages.

Through policy comparison and econometric tests on various spillover effects on economic growth, employment and exports, this book will give policy makers and researchers an innovative and constructive guide to FDI.

This book presents a road map for applying the stages in conceptualization, evaluation, and testing of biomedical devices in a systematic order of approach, leading to solutions for medical problems within a well-deserved safety limit. The issues discussed will pave the way for understanding the preliminary concepts used in modern biomedical device engineering, which include medical imaging, computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, particle image velocimetry, and rapid prototyping. This book would undoubtedly be of use to biomedical engineers, medical doctors, radiologists, and any other professionals related to the research and development of devices for health care.

'This book highlights new research and an original framework that brings together foreign language teaching, experiments and testing practices that utilize the most recent and widely used e-learning resources'--Provided by publisher.

Si tratta di 58 racconti pubblicati negli anni 70/'80 sulla rivista medica giapponese 'Ningen-igaku' ('Medicina per l'umanità'), raccolti poi in un libro edito nel 1980 e ripubblicato nel 1994 in versione ampliata. In ogni racconto, dopo una parte introduttiva/descrittiva, Shizuto Masunaga propone la strategia di trattamento, basata principalmente sullo sho (diagnosi di hara o della schiena). Ciò che emerge è sempre il consiglio di prendersi cura del proprio corpo e della propria vita, ed anche il rispetto che l'operatore deve avere nei confronti del paziente, adottando un atteggiamento di attesa per poter 'entrare nel profondo'. Alla fine di ogni racconto vengono esposte le ispirate riflessioni filosofiche e religiose di Masunaga in relazione al trattamento eseguito e al paziente.

This book provides readers with a variety of algorithms and software tools, dedicated to the physical design of through-silicon-via (TSV) based, three-dimensional integrated circuits. It describes numerous “manufacturing-ready” GDSII-level layouts of TSV-based 3D ICs developed with the tools covered in the book. This book will also feature sign-off level analysis of timing, power, signal integrity, and thermal analysis for 3D IC designs. Full details of the related algorithms will be provided so that the readers will be able not only to grasp the core mechanics of the physical design tools, but also to be able to reproduce and improve upon the results themselves. This book will also offer various design-for-manufacturability (DFM), design-for-reliability (DFR), and design-for-testability (DFT) techniques that are considered critical to the physical design process.

This beautifully photographed book catalogs the collection of nearly five hundred Alutiiq cultural items held by the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, or the Kunstkamera, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Gathered between 1780 and 1867, many of the artifacts are composed of fur, feathers, gut, hair, and other delicate materials, which prevent their transport for display or study.

The Secret to Healing Cancer: A Chinese Psychiatrist and Family Doctor Presents His Amazing Method For Curing Cancer Through Psychological And Spiritual Growth by Dr Tien-Sheng Hsu. Dr. Tien-Sheng Hsu is a highly respected medical doctor and psychiatrist in Taiwan who uses a very different approach from traditional medicine. He is the founder of a Holistic Clinic in Taipei which treats cancer, other physical illnesses and mental illness based on the idea that all illness is a reflection of inner problems which disrupt the powerful immune system that is our natural state. This inner dis-ease can be described as unresolved issues, blockages, repressed emotion, habitual negative patterns of thought, or unhealthy behavior that exists in the individual's psychology, life, and heart . Dr Hsu's emphasis is on helping the patient to grow, and heal their psyche and life, and thus reinvigorate and unleash the body's powerful natural healing and recuperative powers. The many people who have dramatically improved or completely healed themselves with the aid of Dr Hsu, have resulted in a burgeoning interest in this approach throughout Asia

Korean science is closely related to traditional Chinese technology but Jean Sang-woon's A History of Korean Science and Technology follows a different course of development.' Building on Chinese foundations, Korean scientists, engineers and technicians developed technologies that were adapted to the natural elements, seasons and climate of the Korean peninsula. The writer develops this thesis by considering the creative legacy of Korean practitioners in a number of different areas: astronomy and meteorology ('the sciences of the heavens'), metal, glass and gunpowder ('the sciences of earth and fire), printing, geography and cartography. He concludes with a comparison of science and technology in Korea and Japan, and with a discussion of important scientists active in the Choson Period.

The book is filled with new information and arguments, and frequently with deep insights. Much of what the author says will be useful for professional scholars in the history of science and technology and for general historians as well, as it provides topics for academic debate and fruitful research subjects for young scholars. The lavish illustrations support the writer's thesis and are themselves part of Korea's rich artistic heritage.

The global spread of English both reproduces and reinforces oppressive structures of inequality. But such structures can no longer be seen as imposed from an imperial center, as English is now actively adopted and appropriated in local contexts around the world. This book argues that such conditions call for a new critique of global English, one that is sensitive to both the political economic conditions of globalization and speakers’ local practices.

Linking Bourdieu’s theory of the linguistic market and his practice-based perspective with recent advances in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, this book offers a fresh new critique of global English. The authors highlight the material, discursive, and semiotic processes through which the value of English in the linguistic market is constructed, and suggest possible policy interventions that may be adopted to address the problems of global English. Through its serious engagement with current sociolinguistic theory and insightful analysis of the multiple dimensions of English in the world, this book challenges the readers to think about what we need to do to confront the social inequalities that are perpetuated by the global spread of English

Proceedings of the 3rd China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC2012) presents selected research papers from CSNC2012, held on 15-19 May in Guanzhou, China. These papers discuss the technologies and applications of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and the latest progress made in the China BeiDou system especially. They are divided into 9 topics to match the corresponding sessions in CSNC2012, which broadly covered key topics in GNSS. Readers can learn about the BeiDou system and keep abreast of the latest advances in GNSS techniques and applications. SUN Jiadong is the Chief Designer of the Compass/BeiDou system, and the Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences; LIU Jingnan is a professor at Wuhan University, and the Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering; YANG Yuanxi is a professor at China National Administration of GNSS and Applications, and the Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences; FAN Shiwei is a researcher on satellite navigation.

After meeting at a transvestite bar, Kan falls in love with Minoru, who is worn out from taking care of his siblings and enjoys having someone take care of him for a change, but Kan has a secret that could destroy their relationship.

Rainbow connections are natural combinatorial measures that are used in applications to secure the transfer of classified information between agencies in communication networks. Rainbow Connections of Graphs covers this new and emerging topic in graph theory and brings together a majority of the results that deal with the concept of rainbow connections, first introduced by Chartrand et al. in 2006. The authors begin with an introduction to rainbow connectedness, rainbow coloring, and  rainbow connection number. The work is organized into the following categories, computation of the exact values of the rainbow connection numbers for some special graphs, algorithms and complexity analysis, upper bounds in terms of other graph parameters, rainbow connection for dense and sparse graphs, for some graph classes and graph products, rainbow k-connectivity and k-rainbow index, and, rainbow vertex-connection number.Rainbow Connections of Graphs appeals to researchers and graduate students in the field of graph theory. Conjectures, open problems and questions are given throughout the text with the  hope for motivating young graph theorists and graduate students to do further study in this subject.

Yu (environmental toxicology and environmental health, Western Washington U.) et al. provide upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students in environmental science, toxicology, and health and related fields, as well as professionals and researchers, with a text on environmental toxicology that focuses on the chemical and biological characteristics of major pollutants in the air, water, and soil and their relationship to the health of humans, animals, and plants. They discuss the sources, production, metabolism, and damage processes of toxicants, and the environmental, biological, and nutritional factors that influence toxicity, as well as natural defense systems, including mechanisms for detoxification on a cellular level. They look at major toxicants--air pollutants, environmental fluoride, volatile organic compounds, environmental metals and metalloids involved in soil and water pollution, and pesticides--and their relationship to occupational toxicology, endocrine disruption, environmental cancer, and DNA mutation, with an appendix on ecological risk assessment. This edition incorporates new and updated material and a new chapter on occupational toxicology contributed by new co-authors. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Power consumption becomes the most important design goal in a wide range of electronic systems. There are two driving forces towards this trend: continuing device scaling and ever increasing demand of higher computing power. First, device scaling continues to satisfy Moore's law via a conventional way of scaling (More Moore) and a new way of exploiting the vertical integration (More than Moore). Second, mobile and IT convergence requires more computing power on the silicon chip than ever. Cell phones are now evolving towards mobile PC. PCs and data centers are becoming commodities in house and a must in industry. Both supply enabled by device scaling and demand triggered by the convergence trend realize more computation on chip (via multi-core, integration of diverse functionalities on mobile SoCs, etc.) and finally more power consumption incurring power-related issues and constraints. Energy-Aware System Design: Algorithms and Architectures provides state-of-the-art ideas for low power design methods from circuit, architecture to software level and offers design case studies in three fast growing areas of mobile storage, biomedical and security.Important topics and features:- Describes very recent advanced issues and methods for energy-aware design at each design level from circuit and architecture to algorithm level, and also covering important blocks including  low power main memory subsystem and on-chip network at architecture level- Explains efficient power conversion and delivery which is becoming important as heterogeneous power sources are adopted for digital and non-digital parts - Investigates 3D die stacking emphasizing temperature awareness for better perspective on  energy efficiency- Presents three practical energy-aware design case studies; novel storage device (e.g., solid state disk), biomedical electronics (e.g., cochlear and retina implants), and wireless surveillance camera systems.Researchers and engineers in the field of hardware and software design will find this book an excellent starting point to catch up with the state-of-the-art ideas of low power design.

Now head of a management and trust company, Lee was Korea's Minister of Finance 1988-90 and Minister of Finance and Economy 1998-99. He details events and circumstances from 1996 just before the crisis until 1999 when Korea's economy began to rebound. Among his topics are the origin of the crisis, initial responses, securing foreign currency liquidity and laying the groundwork for reform and restructuring from December 1997 to April 1998, getting the economy back on track and quickening the pace of restructuring October to December 1998, and the settlement of the Daewoo shock and the expanded economic recovery in July-December 1999. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Erden, la capitale del Regno Anarchico, dove criminalità e violenza sono all'ordine del giorno. Per vivere, i soldi sono necessari e qui l'attività più redditizia è il 'cracking', ovvero violare i dungeon più pericolosi per trovare tesori nascosti. Maria Rose è un cracker professionista e ha un disperato bisogno di denaro. Un cracker dai capelli color rubino.

Esplorando Underground, Maria Rose ne passa di cotte e di crude e decide di tornare in città a recuperare energie, ma anche lì fa capolino Asian e i due finiscono coinvolti in vicende inaspettate... Ecco a voi il secondo volume delle avventure dell'incantevole 'cracker' Maria Rose!

Gli ZOO si avventurano nell'esplorazione, ma nel dungeon li attende una trappola e finiscono per dividersi. Maria Rose è in pericolo e giunge in suo aiuto Asian, ma c'è qualcosa che non va e le cose non fanno che peggiorare. Ecco l'ultimo numero delle avventure di Maria Rose!

Having narrowly escaped financial ruin, Lawrence turns his attention to helping Holo find her ancient homeland in the North. But how long can a traveling merchant afford to wander the countryside looking for a village that he suspects may have ceased to exist long ago? When a rival merchant sets his sights on Lawrence's beautiful companion, though, can Lawrence truly be confident that Holo will remain by his side? Has the time come when Lawrence must ask himself whether his relationship with the Wisewolf is business or pleasure?

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Brain Informatics, BI 2010, held in Toronto, China, in August 2010.The 60 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 222 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cognitive computing; data brain and analysis; neuronal modeling and brain modeling; perception and information processing; learning; cognition-inspired applications; and WICI perspectives on brain informatics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the fourth Asian Semantic Web Conference, ASWC 2009, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2009.The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. These submissions cover a broad range of topics including, query languages and optimization, rule and logics, scalable reasoning, semantic content generation, database and semantics, semantic web services, eSemantics (e.g., e-Business, e-Science, e-Learning, e-Culture, e-Health), social web and semantics, semantic graph mining, security for semantic web, ontology modeling, ontology management, to name a few.