Published October, 2010
By Tateo Yamanaka
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
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Included are recent findings regarding the oxidation mechanisms of ammonia, nitrite, sulfur compounds, and ferrous iron by special bacteria. Applications of bacteria, such as in sewage treatment and in biohydometallurgy, among others, are detailed, and bacteria considered closest to the origins of life are discussed in the final chapter.

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Published October, 2010
By Kimitaka Kaga and Toshihisa Murofushi
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, Robert Barany proposed the caloric test as a clinical test of the lateral semicircular canal. However, as far as the other compartments were concerned, there was no simple clinical test equal to the caloric test for the lateral semicircular canal function.

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Published October, 2010
By Tetsuhiko Tachikawa, Nose Kiyoshi, Tohru Ohmori and Mitsuru Adachi
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As cancer research is becoming a multidisciplinary endeavor, close cooperation across the basic, translational, and clinical research fields holds the promise of further advances in cancer therapeutics.

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Published October, 2010
By Hisao Tajiri, Masatsugu Nakajima, Kenjiro Yasuda, Hirohumi Niwa and Kenji Yasuda
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Gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy has become indispensable in both diagnosis and treatment of GI disorders.

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Published October, 2010
By Kenneth J. Gergen, Toshio Sugiman, Wolfgang Wagner and Yoko Yamada
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Within the natural range of variation of capacities and armed with biologically conditioned learning mechanisms we live out lives of meaning - in which we hold some things to be real, rational, valuable or morally right, and others not.

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Published October, 2010
By Rikiya Fujita and Hiroshi Takahashi
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Since a number of mucosal digestive tract cancer detected has increased in recent years with an advance of endoscopic instruments, endoscopic treatment of digestive tract cancer is widely spread in Japan but not in other countries.

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Published October, 2010
By Naoyuki Osaka, Ingo Rentschler and Irving Biederman
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Human object recognition is a classical topic both for philosophy and for the natural sciences. It contains chapters that address the ways in which humans and machines attend to, recognize, and act toward objects in the visual environment.

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Published October, 2010
By Y. Watanabe, Brigitta Evengard, Benjamin H. Natelson, L.A. Jason, Hirohiko Kuratsune, B. Evengard, B.H. Natelson and H. Kuratsune
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To provide a forum for discussion, the International Conference on Fatigue Science was organized, the first being held in 2002 in Sandhamn, Sweden, and the second in 2005 in Karuizawa, Japan.

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Published September, 2010
By Naofumi Nakagawa, Masayuki Nakamichi and Hideki Sugiura
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
Series: Primatology Monographs
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Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) have been studied by primatologists since 1948, and considerable knowledge of the primate has been accumulated to elucidate the adaptation of the species over time and to distinct environments in Japan.

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Published August, 2010
By Koho Miyoshi, Yasushi Morimura and Kiyoshi Maeda
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This concise and updated monograph comprises the latest findings in the field and includes chapters on delusional symptoms, mood disorders and neurotic symptoms, cognitive impairment, behavioral and personality changes, and recently, cerebral alterations revealed in PTSD patients and in endogenous psychoses through neuroimaging and neuropathology.

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