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Preparing Students for College and Careers : Theory, Measurement, and Educati…
Preparing Students for College and Careers addresses measurement and research issues related to college and career readiness. Educational reform efforts across the United States have increasingly taken aim at measuring and improving postsecondary readiness. These initiatives include developing new content standards, redesigning assessments and performance levels, legislating new developmental e…
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- 9781317221616
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- 204 halaman
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- 370 PRE
Escape Philosophy Journeys Beyond the Human Body
The physical body has often been seen as a prison, as something to be escaped by any means necessary: technology, mechanization, drugs and sensory deprivation, alien abduction, Rapture, or even death and extinction. Taking in horror movies from David Cronenberg and UFO encounters, metal bands such as Godflesh, ketamine experiments, AI, and cybernetics, Escape Philosophy is an exploration of the…
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- 9781685710637
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Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation
Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation uses original readings of Machiavelli’s texts to develop a new theoretical model of democratic practice. Christopher Holman identifies two unique ideas in Machiavelli through his rearrangement of Machiavellian concepts. The first, drawn primarily from The Prince, is an image of the individual human being as a creative subject that seeks th…
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- 9781487531591
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Aspect-Oriented Security Hardening of UML Design Models
This book comprehensively presents a novel approach to the systematic security hardening of software design models expressed in the standard UML language. It combines model-driven engineering and the aspect-oriented paradigm to integrate security practices into the early phases of the software development process. To this end, a UML profile has been developed for the specification of security h…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-16106-8
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- XVIII, 237
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- 005.1 ASP a
Artificial Neural Network Modelling
This book covers theoretical aspects as well as recent innovative applications of Artificial Neural networks (ANNs) in natural, environmental, biological, social, industrial and automated systems. It presents recent results of ANNs in modelling small, large and complex systems under three categories, namely, 1) Networks, Structure Optimisation, Robustness and Stochasticity 2) Advances in Mo…
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- 978-3-319-28495-8
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- VII, 472
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- Studies in Computational Intelligence
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- 006.3 ART a
Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents: First International Symposium, ALIA 2…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents, ALIA 2014, held in Bangor, UK, in November 2014. The 10 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning and evolution; human interaction; robotic simulation.
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- 978-3-319-18084-7
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- XI, 141
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- Communications in Computer and Information Science
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- 006.3 ART a
Artificial Intelligent Approaches in Petroleum Geosciences
This book presents several intelligent approaches for tackling and solving challenging practical problems facing those in the petroleum geosciences and petroleum industry. Written by experienced academics, this book offers state-of-the-art working examples and provides the reader with exposure to the latest developments in the field of intelligent methods applied to oil and gas research, explor…
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- 978-3-319-16531-8
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- XII, 290
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- 006.3 ART a
Capitalism and Cloves : An Archaeology of Plantation Life on Nineteenth-Centu…
This study of nineteenth-century clove plantations on Zanzibar provides an important contribution to debates in global historical archaeology. Broadening plantation archaeology beyond the Atlantic World, this work addresses plantations run by Omani Arab colonial rulers of Zanzibar. Drawing on archaeological and historical data, this book argues for the need to examine non-Western contexts of co…
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- 978-1-4419-8471-5
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- XIII, 256
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- 900
Digital Scholarly Editing : Theories and Practices
This volume presents the state of the art in digital scholarly editing. Drawing together the work of established and emerging researchers, it gives pause at a crucial moment in the history of technology in order to offer a sustained reflection on the practices involved in producing, editing and reading digital scholarly editions—and the theories that underpin them.
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- 9781783742400
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- 290 halaman
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- Digital Humanities Series
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- 370 DRI d
Cross-Cultural Management and Quality Performance Chinese Construction Firms …
This book explores China?s global competitiveness in the building of infrastructures with a particular interest in the resource-rich African countries. The book begins with a comprehensive literature review on total quality management (TQM) and national culture, followed by reviews of the construction industries in China and Nigeria. This provides better understanding of the linkages between TQ…
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- 9789812873620
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- XIX, 462
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- 951
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