This book contains about 23 short stories about Americans and Japanese dealing with each other. However most of the stories deal with American students going to work in scientific labs in Japan. The author was responsible for sending interns from an American University to Japan so she uses a lot of these experiences for her book. This limits the usefulness of the book for other involvement. The author tries to tie the stories together with 4 stages of progress in the relationship but I found it hard to make the connection. The book is very readable. I finished it within 24 hours of receiving it. The stories are each little dramas and I was captivated to find out how each person would do. In sum, a good starter but I think there is much more to the subject.

Gercik's book is full of interesting cases demonstrating the differences and difficulties most Americans face when confronting the Japanese. Whether personal or business, these two worlds are diametric - neither truly understands the other. The analyses after each chapter provide insight for a successful Japanese-American relationship. Having myself been an intern in Japan, I can safely say that her words of wisdom are worth reading.

If you are looking for a source that brings together concepts such as diffraction, spatial averaging and ultrasound I would have to say this monograph is a must have. The first chapter takes the reader into the basics of diffraction and ultrasound. More importantly, in the section that follows on can discover a short but indispensable review of past works related to the subject. What follows is a intense presentation of the Fourier equivalence of the arccos and Lommel diffraction formulations as an approximate pair. What is attractive in this section was that both the unfocused and focused case is presented. The remaining contents of the monograph deal with derivation of spatially averaged one-way and two-way diffraction for unfocused transducers. In both sections on can find a wealth of pictorial as well as mathematical analysis.

The best part about the monograph, is its intimate quality. It reads as a conversation, or a presentation. I very much appreciate that fluidity.

If you are looking for a source that brings together concepts such as diffraction, spatial averaging and ultrasound I would have to say this monograph is a must have. The first chapter takes the reader into the basics of diffraction and ultrasound. More importantly, in the section that follows on can discover a short but indispensable review of past works related to the subject. What follows is a intense presentation of the Fourier equivalence of the arccos and Lommel diffraction formulations as an approximate pair. What is attractive in this section was that both the unfocused and focused case is presented. The remaining contents of the monograph deal with derivation of spatially averaged one-way and two-way diffraction for unfocused transducers. In both sections on can find a wealth of pictorial as well as mathematical analysis.

The best part about the monograph, is its intimate quality. It reads as a conversation, or a presentation. I very much appreciate that fluidity.

The readability of this book is next only to the book by William Hayt. This book is amazingly easy to follow, and the way the author states and reinforces concepts is quite good.

The reader would do well to concentrate on the chapter-end problems in this text.

Despite being used for decades controlling safety/time-critical non-linear manufacturing processes (and other applications), the neural networks/AI label evokes images from science fiction by the general media. Beyond the initially intimidating title, this book is of real use to researchers addressing complex problems, and those trying to use neural networks. Without resorting to hardwired neural networks, or MATLAB with neural networks toolbox, one can readily understand and use the included (dated now) C++ neural network code (C compiler excluded- but use Borland/Microsoft).

The basic neural network steps include: model process (e.g. manufacturing), gather data, pre-process data, compile, link & run the neural network code, let it iterate & learn, analyse output data sets, then use to hard-code a PID-controller (say). Even a 486-66/Win3.1/16MB RAM CPU can readily handle 25 variable/1000+ data point (pultrusion) manufacturing process (1994). As I often tend to use fuzzy-pre processing, and C/C++ for hacking demonstrators, the combined treatment of fuzzy logic, C++ and neural networks works very well.

Topics include: fuzzy logic introduction, constructing a neural network, C++ and object orientation, models and Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART), learning, self organization & resonance, backpropogation and non-linear optimization, Bidirectional Associative Memory (BAM), Fuzzy Associative Memory (FAM), and applications for financial modelling.

Weaknesses include: the now dated and programming-novice unfriendly software, and the ultimately limited software- far better when you are experienced to use MATLAB with neural networks toolbox for developing fast, usable networks.

Overall, the style is approachable, and the content readily understandable and usable by the typical professional engineer/graduate engineering student audience. This book includes much helpful annotated pseudo-code, examples, references, defined terms, and mathematical explanations.

It is good book on superconductivity

I like this text tremendously. It has helped me to understand neuropsychiarty and relate it to clinical findings. It is easy to follow and has great illustrations.

hey, this book was very good! I love horses which is why someone picked it up for me, and was very glad they did! I love stories like this which have two people from different cultures that fall in love. I highly recommend this book to all, escpecially Christians like me. It great!

This dictionary is a first-of-a-kind in many respects: (1) This is compiled by a scientist, not by a poet or literary person. (2) This uses American spelling for the English part and simplified (colloquial) Telugu spelling. (3) This is aimed at students specializing in science, technology and commerce, journalists who are compelled to translate English news coming from the wire services into Telugu on short notice and writers who write science in Telugu. There are approximately 14,000 entries in the English-Telugu part and another 14,000 entries in the Telugu-English part. About 20% of the entries in the Telugu-English part are new technical words that are not generally found in established dictionaries like Brown and Sankarnarayan. Many of these new words came into vogue in the last thirty years and are not necessarily in widespread use. About 50% of the words are technical words (that is, words arising in science, technology, commerce, business, art, music, linguistics, etc.) and the remaining 50% are ordinary words of common usage. The striking thing about this book is its getup. It is very attractive and handy. The printing is crisp and clear with an easily readable font size.

The 57 pages of "front matter" is a unique feature of this dictionary. In "About this Dictionary," the author identifies his target audience and talks about how to use this dictionary, the ambiguity in defining what constitutes Telugu script, the alphabetical order in Telugu, and such other matters. Chapter 2 deals with the topic of Telugu as a language, the variations and dialects thereof and the difficulties in standardizing Telugu. Chapter 3 looks at the possibilities in simplifying Telugu script and Telugu spelling. Chapter 4 is a collection of miscellaneous things that would be of interest to a science student: the Greek alphabet, the Metric system of weights and measures, conversions from Metric to traditional measures, conventions used in naming chemicals, stars, plants and animals, prefixes and suffixes. Chapter 5 explains the transliteration system used to transliterate Telugu in Roman script. Chapter 6 is a brief introduction to pronunciation. In The "Usage Notes" inserted in boxes in the English-Telugu part should help the reader appreciate the subtle differences in the use of related English words.

The usage of many words is illustrated with examples. Synonyms, antonyms and etymological derivations are given are given only sometimes. Most of the time one-word translations are given rather than elaborate explanations. It would have been more useful if the author gave etymological derivations for all the newly coined words.

Of the 47 books cited as sources, 16 are dictionaries and glossaries of some kind. One book is on lexicography, 7 books are on grammar, style and translations, 10 are popular science books, and the rest represent a miscellaneous assortment of topics.

One criticism that can be leveled against this work is the extensive dependence on Sanskrit words or words derived from Sanskrit, although the author tried to explain this away as "inevitable" in his "front matter". If Sanskrit is as alien as English to a majority why not use English words as is? The author also addressed this in his "front matter." Therefore, it is essential that the user understand where the author is coming from.

While reviewing a book of this kind, one question that invariably arises is, "why another dictionary?" Brown's dictionary is about 150 years old. Sankarnarayan's is about 70 years and many of the meanings given in it are no longer current. Information technology and biotechnology revolutions have added innumerable new words to our lexicon. There is a constant need to update our dictionaries. This is a job that should have been taken up within Andhra Pradesh (India) either by the Telugu Akademi or Telugu University, but it has not been done. It is heartening to see that a non-resident-Indian, living in the United States, took this task upon himself. How well did the author succeed? The author admitted that a work of this kind is necessarily incomplete. Are there any errors of omission and commission? Yes, there are. I noticed some spelling errors both in English and Telugu, lapses into British spelling, and semantic errors here and there. These errors should be corrected in the next edition.

I have used this text three or four times as a professor. It provides a fine integration of environmental and business aspects. I fashion a mock business entity and have my learners use the principles in the book as applied to their part of their business. It works well.

This is a great book for persons who want an integrated approach to financial analysis.This book has developed a strong understanding of how funds are raised and allocated by today's businesses. It's easy-to-understand and it helps in motivating students toward self-discovery and application. Thanks to this book I have got great results in my university.