Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Volume 14 : Dedicated to the Memory of R.E. Emmerick. by Scherrer-Schaub, Cristina

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Community Practices for Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan edited by Rajib Shaw. by Shaw, Rajib

Table of Contents: “…Disaster Risk Reduction and Community Approaches -- Kobe Earthquake: Turning Point of Community-based Risk Reduction in Japan -- Typhoon, Flood and Landslide Related Disasters in Japan: Role of Communities -- Social Capital in Disaster Recovery in Japan: An Overview -- Concepts and Approaches of School-centered Disaster Resilient Communities -- Building Disaster Resilient Community through Healthcare Networking -- Roles of Community Radio in Disaster Management: Reflections from Japan -- Community Development and Disaster Preparedness in a Depopulated Society: Case of Tosashimizu City, Kochi Prefecture -- Traditional Community-based Disaster Management in World Heritage Site of Shirakawa Village -- Community Practices of Transmitting Daily and Disaster Information in Reihoku Area -- Community Resilience after Chuetsu Earthquake in 2004: Extinction or Relocation? …”
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Planning and place in the city : mapping place identity / Marichela Sepe. by Sepe, Marichela

Table of Contents: “…The concept of place -- Place identity -- New spaces for living -- Urban containers -- Networks and infrastructures -- New places of perceptions -- Monitored places -- Placemaking: origins and changes -- The virtual approach -- The lateral approach -- The people-oriented approach -- The multi-scale approach -- The configurational approach -- The complex-sensitive approach -- The method -- The software -- The sustainable place identity index -- Rome: the Trevi-Pantheon route -- Los Angeles: South Broadway -- Kobe: Kitano-cho -- San Francisco: Market Street -- London: Oxford Street -- Barcelona: Las Ramblas -- Helsinki: the Esplanadi area.…”

The global world of Indian merchants, 1750-1947 : traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama / Claude Markovits. by Markovits, Claude

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Maps; Tables; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Introduction; 1 South Asian merchant networks; 2 The regional context: Sind economy and society, c. 1750 ... 1950; 3 The Gate of Khorrassan: the Shikarpuri network, c. 1750 ... 1947; 4 From Kobe to Panama: the Sindworkies of Hyderabad; 5 Patterns of circulation and business organization in two merchant networks; 6 The business of the Sind merchants; 7 The politics of merchant networks; 8 Community and gender in two merchant networks; 9 Epilogue: the Sindhi diaspora after 1947; Conclusion.…”
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Disaster Resilience of Education Systems Experiences from Japan / edited by Koichi Shiwaku, Aiko Sakurai, Rajib Shaw.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Governance of the Education Sector and Risk Reduction -- Local Governance and School Disaster Education -- Disaster Prevention Education in the Japanese School Curricula in Recent Years -- Schools, Teachers, and Training in Risk Reduction after the 2011 Tohoku Disaster -- Curriculum of Maiko High School in Kobe -- Community Linkages and Disaster Risk Reduction Education -- School Disaster Resilience Assessment -- Training Project in Higher Education -- International cooperation -- Role of International NGOs in Education Sector Recovery in Japan -- International cooperation -- International cooperation -- Future Perspectives of Disaster Resilience of Education System in Japan and Abroad.…”
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Waro Kishi : buildings and projects / with an essay by Hiroshi Watanabe. by Kishi, Warō, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…. -- House in Higashinada-ku, Kobe -- House in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Pref. -- National Library, Kansai Division, Seiko-cho, Kyoto -- House in Nara -- Head office for Arakigumi, Okayama -- House in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Pref. -- iCB, Paris -- Details of selected works -- Collaborators -- Biography of Waro Kishi -- Photo credits.…”

Cryotherapy : Chill your Way to Faster Recovery? / Ivanhoe Broadcast News.

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The thinking hand : tools and traditions of the Japanese carpenter / Mark Mulligan and Yukio Lippit. by Mulligan, Mark (Mark Edward), Mulligan, Mark (Mark Edward), Lippit, Yukio, 1970-

J, Robot Japanese Designers Push the Boundaries of Humanoid AI / Garrigues, Michael.

Table of Contents: “…Kobe's Natural Disaster (1:56) -- Japan's Love of Robotics (3:15) -- "Mobile Fighter Gundam" (1:40) -- ROBO-ONE Humanoid Robot Humanoid Robot Competition (2:33) -- Battle of Technology and Creativity (2:17) -- Reality Imitating Anime (0:41) -- Reborg Q (2:11) -- Robot Development (1:09) -- Humanoid Robot Project (1:38) -- Wakamaru Robot (2:35) -- Robots in Japanese Culture (2:31) -- Karakuri Mechanized Dolls (2:05) -- Robotics as an Art Form (3:16) -- Bringing an Anime Hero to Life (1:26) -- State Supported Artificial Intelligence (1:47) -- Assisting the Elderly (1:18) -- Bolstering the Workforce (2:57) -- Artificial Intelligence in Service Industries (3:45) -- Tetsujin 28 Near Completion (1:00) -- Animism in Japanese Culture (7:42) -- Geminoid Prototype (1:51) -- Final Assembly (1:18) -- Metaverse Robot (2:56) -- Being Realistic Artificial Intelligence (1:18) -- Unveiling Tetsujin 28 (3:20) -- Future of Artificial Intelligence in Japan (2:40) -- Credits: J, Robot: Japanese Designers Push the Boundaries of Humanoid A.I. (1:00)…”
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LEGO and Philosophy. by Irwin, William

Table of Contents: “…; The Building Bricks of Race; Kobe Bryant, Ninjas, and Race; Race in The LEGO Movie; Notes; 10 Girl, LEGO® Friends is not your Friend! …”
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Scientific Basis of Tobacco Product Regulation. by WHO

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Permeation grouting for liquefaction countermeasures : implementation and performance evaluation / edited by Kiyonobu Kasama, Yoshihisa Sugimura.

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Modeling and Simulation, plus Econophysics Colloquium 2014 edited by Hideki Takayasu, Nobuyasu Ito, Itsuki Noda, Misako Takaya...

Table of Contents: “…-Chapter 3 Interaction and Distribution -- Geographic Dependency of Population Distribution- Spatiotemporal Analysis of Influenza Epidemics in Japan -- A Universal Lifetime Distribution for Multi-Species Systems -- Firm Age Distributions and the Decay Rate of Firm Activities -- Empirical Analysis of Firm-Dynamics on Japanese Inter-firm trade Network -- Direct participants’ behavior through the lens of transactional analysis: the case of SPEI -- Chapter 4 Traffic and Pedestrian -- Pedestrian Dynamics in Jamology -- Qualitative Methods of Validating Evacuation Behaviors -- Collective dynamics of pedestrians with no fixed destination -- Traffic Simulation of Kobe-city -- MOSAIIC: city-level agent-based traffic simulation adapted to emergency situations -- GUI for Agent Based Modeling -- Chapter 5 Social Media -- Emotional Changes in Japanese Blog Space Resulting from the 3.11 Earthquake -- Modeling of ENJYO via process of consensus formation on SNS -- A network structure of emotional interactions in an electronic bulletin board -- Scale-free network topologies with clustering similar to online social networks -- Identifying Colors of Products and Associated Personalized Recommendation Engine in e-Fashion Business.…”
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Earthquake geotechnical case histories for performance-based design / editor, Takaji Kokusho.

Table of Contents: “….] -- Damage to subway station during the 1995 Hyogoken-Nambu (Kobe) earthquake / N. Yoshida -- Vertical array records during 1995 Hyogoken-Nambu earthquake by Kobe city, KEPCO and other organizations / Y. …”
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Earthquakes and animals : from folk legends to science / Motoji Ikeya. by Ikeya, M.

Table of Contents: “…Precursors before recent earthquakes -- Kobe, Izmit, Taiwan and India -- 3. Earth sciences and electromagnetism -- 4. …”
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GA document 7.

Table of Contents: “…Tadao Ando : Festival, Haha, Okinawa, Japan, projekter, indkøbscentre + BIGI Atelier House, Tokyo, Japan, atelier, modeskaberatelier + Rokko Housing, Kobe, Japan, boligbebyggelser, terrassehuse.…”

LEGO and Philosophy. by Irwin, William

Table of Contents: “…; The Building Bricks of Race; Kobe Bryant, Ninjas, and Race; Race in The LEGO Movie; Notes; 10 Girl, LEGO® Friends is not your Friend! …”
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Rape myths on trial : naming the unnamed conspirator / Media Education Foundation presents ; a lecture with Anne Munch ; produced and directed by Sut Jhally.

Table of Contents: “…(2:34) -- Rape myth 3: "it's her fault for drinking so much" (3:31) -- Rape myth 4: "it's her fault for dressing like that" (8:59) -- Rape myth 5: "she had sex with him before, so it's not real rape" (3:48) -- Rape myth 6: "she shouldn't have been walking along at night" (4:54) -- The culture of victim-blaming (3:22) -- The People v. Kobe Bryant (8:37) -- Conclusion (4:34).…”
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Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot.

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JP : architecture in Japan / Philip Jodidio. by Jodidio, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Features: Aoba-Tei Restaurant, Sendai, Miyagi / Hitoshi Abe - 4 x 4 House II, Kobe and HHstyle.com/casa, Tokyo / Tadao Ando - Louis Vuitton, Roppongi Hills / Jun Aoki - Shutter House for photographer and Glass Shutter House, Tokyo / Shigeru Ban - Springtecture O-Rush Tenpaku, Nagoya / Shuhei Endo - Natural Wedge, Tokyo / Endoh & Ikeda - Orimoto House, Ehime / Hiroshi Hara - Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media / Arata Isozaki - Tod's Omotesando, Tokyo and I-Project, Fukuoka / Toyo Ito - Luna de Miele Omotesando, Tokyo and House in Yoyogi-Uehara, Tokyo / Waro Kishi - Fukusaki Hanging Garden, Osaka and Nagasaki Prefecture Art Museum / Kengo Kuma - TV Asahi Headquarters, Tokyo / Fumihiko Maki - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishikawa and Christian Dior Omotesando, Tokyo / Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA - Gallery of Horyuji Treasures, Tokyo / Yoshio Taniguchi - Observatory House, Kanagawa and Matsunoyama Natural Science Museum / Tezuka Architects - Shin Minamata Station and Minamata-Mon, Kumamoto / Makoto Sei Watanabe - Tomihiro Art Museum, Gunma / Makoto Yokomizo.…”