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Societal Dynamics
Understanding Social Knowledge and Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
At both a micro-information level and a macro-societal level, the concepts of “knowledge” and “wisdom” are complementary – in both decisions and in social structures and institutions. At the decision level, knowledge is concerned with how to make a proper choice of means, where “best”...
New Software Engineering Paradigm Based on Complexity Science
An Introduction to NSE
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
This book describes a complete revolution in software engineering based on complexity science through the establishment of NSE – Nonlinear Software Engineering paradigm which complies with the essential principles of complexity science, including the Nonlinearity principle, the Holism principle,...
New Developments in Quantitative Psychology
Presentations from the 77th Annual Psychometric Society Meeting
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The 77th Annual International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) brought together quantitative researchers who focus on methods relevant to psychology. The conference included workshops, invited talks by well-known scholars, and presentations of submitted papers and posters. It was hosted...
Measurement for the Social Sciences
The C-OAR-SE Method and Why It Must Replace Psychometrics
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
This book proposes a revolutionary new theory of construct measurement – called C-OAR-SE – for the social sciences. The acronym is derived from the following key elements: construct definition; object representation; attribute classification; rater entity identification; selection of item type;...
Microbial Endocrinology
Interkingdom Signaling in Infectious Disease and Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Microbial endocrinology represents a newly emerging interdisciplinary field that is formed by the intersection of the fields of neurobiology and microbiology. This book will introduce a new perspective to the current understanding not only of the factors that mediate the ability of microbes to cause...
The Kolmogorov-Obukhov Theory of Turbulence
A Mathematical Theory of Turbulence
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Turbulence is a major problem facing modern societies. It makes airline passengers return to their seats and fasten their seatbelts but it also creates drag on the aircraft that causes it to use more fuel and create more pollution. The same applies to cars, ships and the space...
by Hilary Ockendon, John R. Ockendon
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Now in its second edition, this book continues to give readers a broad mathematical basis for modelling and understanding the wide range of wave phenomena encountered in modern applications. New and expanded material includes topics such as elastoplastic waves and waves in plasmas, as well as new...
by Keiji Tanaka, Koichi Shimakawa
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
"Amorphous Chalcogenide Semiconductors and Glasses" describes developments in the science and technology of this class of materials. This book offers an up-to-date treatment of chalcogenide glasses and amorphous semiconductors from basic principles to applications while providing the reader...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Operations research tools are ideally suited to providing solutions and insights for the many problems health policy-maker's face. Indeed, a growing body of literature on health policy analysis, based on operations research methods, has emerged to address the problems mentioned above and several others....
by Loukas Grafakos
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This text is aimed at graduate students in mathematics and to interested researchers who wish to acquire an in depth understanding of Euclidean Harmonic analysis. The text covers modern topics and techniques in function spaces, atomic decompositions, singular integrals of nonconvolution type and the...
China’s Road Ahead
Problems, Questions, Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
This book provides a critical commentary on China's situation and future outlook from the perspective of the 2012-13 generational power transfer. In this power transfer, taking place against the background of an increasingly unstable domestic situation, an apparently outstandingly successful generation...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Four years have passed since the last edition (3rd) of this book was published. In the intervening years, several reviews of this book have provided highly encouraging remarks about the value of this book in transmitting information on classification and treatment of psychiatric disorders to the...
Auditory Prostheses
New Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Cochlear implants are currently the standard treatment for profound sensorineural hearing loss. In the last decade, advances in auditory science and technology have not only greatly expanded the utility of electric stimulation to other parts of the auditory nervous system in addition to the cochlea,...
Soft City Culture and Technology
The Betaville Project
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Soft City Culture and Technology: The Betaville Project discusses the complete cycle of conception, development, and deployment of the Betaville platform.
Betaville is a massively participatory online environment for distributed 3D design and development of proposals for changes to the built...