Springer Singapore: 3660 books
Robots and Art
Exploring an Unlikely Symbiosis
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
The first compendium on robotic art of its kind, this book explores the integration of robots into human society and our attitudes, fears and hopes in a world shared with autonomous machines. It raises questions about the benefits, risks and ethics of the transformative changes to society that are...
by Deevia Bhana
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book is an ethnography of teachers and children in grades 1 and 2, and presents arguments about why we should take gender and childhood sexuality seriously in the early years of South African primary schooling. Taking issue with dominant discourses which assumes children’s lack of agency, the...
Learning and Teaching with Technology in the Knowledge Society
New Literacy, Collaboration and Digital Content
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
This book discusses learning and teaching with modern technology in the new knowledge society. It focuses specifically on new literacy and technology in classroom environments. Based on a social-constructivist approach, this book covers a wide range of new technology use examples, such as participatory...
Electronics, Communications and Networks V
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNet 2015)
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This book comprises peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 5th International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNet 2015), held in Shanghai, China, 12-15 December, 2015. It includes new multi-disciplinary topics spanning a unique depth and breadth of cutting-edge research...
Engaging University Students
International Insights from System-Wide Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
This book provides university teachers, leaders and policymakers with evidence on how researchers in several countries are monitoring and improving student engagement—the extent to which students are exposed to and participate in effective educational practices. It captures insights from international...
Intervention Research
A Practical Guide for Developing Evidence-based School Prevention Programmes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This book offers a step-by-step guide to intervention research, including the methods and techniques that researchers, higher degree research students and others can use when pursuing intervention research in schools and other settings. Guided by the Intervention Research Framework, it also provides...
by Jiahong He
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
This book offers the first theoretical approach to rules of evidence and the practice of judicial proof in China written in English by a Chinese professor. As Prof. He’s first representative work, based on over three decades of studying and researching evidence law, it clarifies concepts relevant...
Man-Machine Speech Communication
14th National Conference, NCMMSC 2017, Lianyungang, China, October 11–13, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication, NCMMSC 2017, held in Lianyungang, China, in October 2017.
The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers address...
Perezhivanie, Emotions and Subjectivity
Advancing Vygotsky’s Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book draws upon Vygotsky’s idea of perezhivanie, emotions and imagination, and introduces the concepts of subjective sense and subjective configuration. These concepts are crucial for explaining and understanding children’s development from a cultural-historical perspective. A book which...
Consensus Problem of Delayed Linear Multi-agent Systems
Analysis and Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
In the context of coupled-coordination control mechanisms, this book focuses on the delay robustness of consensus problems with asynchronously coupled and synchronously coupled consensus algorithms respectively. Moreover, constructive consensus algorithms that tolerate larger communication delays...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This book examines the process of population aging in China and its unique features, considers the social progress implied in China becoming a society with an aging population, and assesses the tremendous risks and challenges involved. Based on the development of pension security systems around the...
by Bita Mokhlesabadifarahani, Vinit Kumar Gunjan
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Neuro-muscular and musculoskeletal disorders and injuries highly affect the life style and the motion abilities of an individual. This brief highlights a systematic method for detection of the level of muscle power declining in musculoskeletal and Neuro-muscular disorders. The neuro-fuzzy system is...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
This book brings together the perspectives of eminent and emerging scholars on contemporary issues relevant to the practice, pedagogy and institutionalization of the humanities in the three Chinese contexts of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. It addresses the need to investigate how humanities...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book provides a description of advanced multi-agent and artificial intelligence technologies for the modeling and simulation of complex systems, as well as an overview of the latest scientific efforts in this field. A complex system features a large number of interacting components, whose aggregate...