This open access book provides a readable narrative of the bubbles and the banking crisis Japan experienced during the two decades between the late 1980s and the early 2000s. Japan, which was a leading competitor in the world’s manufacturing sector, tried to transform itself into an economy with domestic demand-led mature growth, but the ensuing bubbles and crisis instead made the country suf…
"A comprehensive overview of the field of cognitive robotics"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
software development; process management; collaboration; software-driven innovation
The need for a scientifically literate citizenry, one that is able to think critically and engage productively in the engineering design process, has never been greater. By raising engineering design to the same level as scientific inquiry the Next Generation Science Standards' (NGSS) have signaled their commitment to the integration of engineering design into the fabric of science education. T…
This important book proposes revising the current informed consent protocol for predictive genetic testing to reflect the trend toward patient-centered medicine. Emphasizing the predictive aspect of testing, the author analyzes the state of informed consent procedure in terms of three components: comprehension of risk assessment, disclosure to select appropriate treatment, and voluntariness. Th…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development, ICCBR 2015, held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in September 2015. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of CBR topics that are of interest both to researchers and practit…