1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464856503321

Titolo

600 basic Japanese verbs : the essential reference guide / / compiled by Hirō Japanese Center

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tokyo, Japan : , : Tuttle Publishing, , 2013

Singapore : , : Asia Pacific, , [date of distribution not identified]

©2013

ISBN

1-4629-1336-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (647 p.)

Disciplina

495.682421

Soggetti

Japanese language

Japanese language - Verb

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction for the Revised Edition; Introduction; VERB GROUPINGS; EXPLANATION OF VERB FORMS; POLITE LANGUAGE: HONORIFIC AND HUMBLE SPEECH; TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE; KEY TO SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS; A Guide to Japanese Verbs; A List of Compound Verbs; A List of Suru Verbs; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

600 Basic Japanese Verbs is a handy, easy-to-use guide to one of the building blocks of Japanese grammar-verbs.This book will be an essential resource for students wishing to learn Japanese as it shows how to conjugate the 600 most common Japanese verbs quickly, and with very little effort. This is the only guide to list all verb forms in both Japanese script and romanized form.Compiled by Japanese language experts at The Hiro Japanese Center, more than 30 different verbal forms are given for each verb including all forms used in contemporary spok



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453703903321

Autore

Walcott Susan M. <1949->

Titolo

A profile of the furniture manufacturing industry : global restructuring / / Susan M. Walcott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-60649-657-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (100 p.)

Collana

Industry profiles collection

Disciplina

684.08068

Soggetti

Furniture industry and trade

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Part of: 2013 digital library.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-80) and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of figures -- List of tables -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Structure of the furniture industry -- 3. How the industry operates -- 4. Industry organization and competition -- 5. Market forces inside and outside the industry -- 6. Regulation of the furniture industry, domestic and global -- 7. Challenges and opportunities for the furniture industry -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The furniture industry (NAICS 337) plays an important role in the U.S. economy as a bellwether for manufacturing through its utilization of a global production network. Types of furniture range from household to institutional, with particular growth in firms supplying medical and government-related commodities. The industry is highly responsive to fashion trends, but is partitioned into high, medium, and low cost segments that reveal different locational and market responses to changes. Recent developments indicate that the post-1980s migration of furniture manufacturing to offshore, low labor cost countries has stabilized and shows some faint signs of reshoring in the United States for high end customized and technologically intensive products utilizing the remaining embedded skilled labor and locally clustered industry components. Businesses that survived the recessionary "creative destruction" largely adopted lean manufacturing processes and took advantage of available lower cost equipment and buildings to upgrade their production practices, absorbing market from former



competitors. New partnerships occurred with branch and headquarter relocations in Asia, along with cooperative supplier relationships with former U.S. and new foreign companies. Industry survivors adopted practices that could be highly instructive for other manufacturers challenged by globalization to grow stronger by increasing their adaptive capacity. An overview of the industry and its global production network includes the manufacturing technologies of each sector.