Hasegawa thought he’d always be a wallflower, but now he’s going out with heartthrob Hiyama. They’ve had their first date and even their first kiss, and it feels like they’re starting to truly close the distance between them, but… Is Hiyama’s affection so intense that he made Hasegawa cry!? Not to mention, both of them are approaching crossroads in their lives that threaten to drive a wedge between them… What kind of futures do they see for themselves—and do those futures have room for one...

Hasegawa is a bit of a high school nobody. He’s plain, quiet, and unassuming…so it’s a huge shock when Hiyama, the sunny social butterfly of the class, suddenly confesses to him! And how exactly does Hiyama intend to date a classmate he’s never even spoken to before? By starting a good old-fashioned exchange diary, of course! That level of innocence from his popular peer comes as a surprise to Hasegawa, but he’s game to give it a shot. Entry by entry, the mismatched couple manages to bridg...

Appliqué Your Way to Stunning Art Glass Quilts! Julie Hirota is known for her colorful, contemporary art-glass-style quilts. Now she shares the secrets of her Subtractive Appliqué™ technique so you can create your own beautiful version of Art Glass quilts! • Learn Julie's innovative Subtractive Appliqué™ technique for adding colorful fabric patches as you "subtract" from the outline of your design • 4 original Art Glass projects allow you to practice the technique...

This book discusses toxic Microcystis and the toxins from various viewpoints such as classification, cultivation, occurrences in lakes, and relations to zooplankton. The text presents new information on the chemistry, analytical chemistry, toxicology, molecular modeling, and liver tumor promotion of the toxins. Microcystis species are described in relation to morphological features, allozyme genotype, and toxin content. Seasonal changes of Microcystis population are described with special ...

Fusing developments in optics, electronics, and mechanics, this reference systematically explores and describes an abundance of micro-optomechatronic devices and applications. The authors outline the power and position control of a laser beam, as well as fundamental principles in optical technology. Micro-Optomechatronics systematically explains the devices based upon the fusion of optics, electronics, and mechanics via MEMS technology. The book first demonstrates how devices are classifie...

Historians have long assumed that immigration to the United States was free from regulation until anti-Asian racism on the West Coast triggered the introduction of federal laws to restrict Chinese immigration in the 1880s. Studies of European immigration and government control on the East Coast have, meanwhile, focused on Ellis Island, which opened in 1892. In this groundbreaking work, Hidetaka Hirota reinterprets the origins of immigration restriction in the United States, especially depo...

This book develops a new framework - the stakeholder model - that helps to understand corporate finance and governance in modern society, where the sources of people’s happiness have shifted from monetary to non-monetary factors. The book takes a more comprehensive approach than is typically found in the standard economics and finance literature, by explicitly incorporating both the monetary and non-monetary interests of stakeholders and by examining the value creation of corporations from...

Circadian rhythms have been shown to be ubiquitous and critically important in the experimental laboratory, accounting for the difference between life and death in response to identical stimulus. The partly endogenous nature of circadian rhythms has been well documented and methods for their characterisation have been developed enabling the cellular and molecular mechanisms to be understood. Chronobiology and Chronomedicine aims to provide a review of these mechanisms unde...

This book provides quantitative evidence on the issues in fiscal and monetary policies in Mongolia and presents necessary policy recommendations for policymakers and academic circles. Mongolia belongs to a natural resource-based, transition economy and thus has faced the risk of the so-called resource curse—including the “Dutch Disease” and immaturity in market-based systems, particularly in financial markets. Consequently, reformations of resource allocation and policy governance in fisca...

Domain Oriented Systems Development is the sixth volume in the Advanced Information Processing Technology series of the Information Processing Society of Japan. It draws together a collection of research papers on domain analysis and modeling written by a group of software engineers and researchers from Japan, Korea, Canada and Austria. The

This book examines social and natural environmental changes in present-day Laos and presents a new research framework for environmental studies from an interdisciplinary point of view. In Laos, after the Lao version of perestroika, Chintanakaan Mai, in 1986, for better or worse, rural development and urbanization have progressed, and people’s livelihoods are about to change significantly. Compared to those of the neighboring countries of mainland Southeast Asia, however, many trad...

This book focuses on the key technologies and scientific problems involved in emotional robot systems, such as multimodal emotion recognition (i.e., facial expression/speech/gesture and their multimodal emotion recognition) and emotion intention understanding, and presents the design and application examples of emotional HRI systems. Aiming at the development needs of emotional robots and emotional human–robot interaction (HRI) systems, this book introduces basic concepts, system architect...