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Aligning modern business processes and legacy systems :a component-based pers…
Distributed business component computing--the assembling of business components into electronic business processes, which interact via the Internet--caters to a new breed of enterprise systems that are flexible, relatively easy to maintain and upgrade to accommodate new business processes, and relatively simple to integrate with other enterprise systems. Companies with unwieldy, large, and hete…
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- 9780262257138
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 206 pages) :illustrations.
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Culture and Subjective Well-Being
The question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the last decades has the study of well-being become a scientific endeavor. This book is based on the idea that we can empirically study quality of life and make cross-society comparisons of subjective well-being (SWB).
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- 9780262316194
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- 1 online resource (viii, 355 pages) :illustrations.
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At a distance :precursors to art and activism on the Internet
Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance -- geographical, temporal, or emotional -- theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. By providing a context for…
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- 9780262270144
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 486 pages) :illustrations.
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Human footprints on the global environment: Threats to sustainability
"The colossal human ecological footprint now threatens the sustainability of the entire planet. Scientists, policymakers, and other close observers know that any understanding of the causes of global environmental change is a function of understanding its human dimension - the range of human choices and actions that affect the environment. This book offers a state-of-the-art assessment of resea…
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- 9780262259163
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- 1 online resource (xi, 329 pages) :illustrations
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Firms in the International Economy :Firm Heterogeneity Meets International Bu…
International Economics (IE) and International Business (IB) are usually treated as two separate disciplines. With the advent of new trade theory the firm was reintroduced in IE and the fields more and more discuss the same topics. This book shows that IE as well as IB could benefit from each other.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Teaching Computational Thinking: An Integrative Approach for Middle and High …
A guide for educators to incorporate computational thinking—a set of cognitive skills applied to problem solving—into a broad range of subjects. Computational thinking—a set of mental and cognitive tools applied to problem solving—is a fundamental skill that all of us (and not just computer scientists) draw on. Educators have found that computational thinking enhances learning across…
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Computational Thinking Education in K–12: Artificial Intelligence Literacy …
A guide to computational thinking education, with a focus on artificial intelligence literacy and the integration of computing and physical objects. Computing has become an essential part of today's primary and secondary school curricula. In recent years, K–12 computer education has shifted from computer science itself to the broader perspective of computational thinking (CT), which is les…
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Modeling neural development
Studies neural development using computational and mathematical modeling. Modeling provides precise and exact ways of expression, which allow us to go beyond the insights that intuitive or commonsense reasoning alone can yield. Most neural modeling focuses on information processing in the adult nervous system. This book shows how models can be used to study the development of the nervous system…
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Neural Basis of Motivational and Cognitive Control
This volume offers a range of perspectives on a simple problem How does the brain choose efficiently and adaptively among options to ensure coherent, goal-directed behaviour?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298490
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 449 pages) :illustrations
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nternational Currency Exposure
Issues in debates about foreign currency exposure -- the denomination of liabilities or assets in foreign currency.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262340922
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