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The Business of Social and Environmental Innovation
In the face of limited progress toward meeting Millennium Development Goals or addressing climate change and resource degradation, increasing attention turns to harnessing the entrepreneurial, innovative, managerial and financial capacities of business for improved social and environmental outcomes. A more proactive role for business in sustainable development is especially pertinent in sub-Sah…
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- 978-3-319-04051-6
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- XI, 235
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The Bumpy Road
This book examines the different areas of knowledge, traditions, and conceptual resources that contributed to the building of Max Planck’s theory of radiation. It presents an insightful comparative analysis that not only sheds light upon a fundamental chapter in the history of modern physics, but also enlarges our understanding of how theoreticians work.
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- 978-3-319-20031-6
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- XII, 112
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- SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
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The Behavioral Ecology of the Tibetan Macaque
This open access book summarizes the multi-disciplinary results of one of China’s main primatological research projects on the endemic Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana), which had continued for over 30 years, but which had never been reported on systematically. Dedicated to this exceptional Old World monkey, this book makes the work of Chinese primatologists on the social behavior, cooperati…
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- 978-3-030-27920-2
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- 590 BEH
Exploring Learning & Teaching in Higher Education
The focus of this book is on exploring effective strategies in higher education that promote meaningful learning and go beyond discipline boundaries, with a special emphasis on Subjectivity Learning, Refreshing Lecturing, Learning through Construction, Learning through Transaction, Transformative Learning, Using Technology, and Assessment for Learning and Teaching in particular. The research co…
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- 978-3-642-55352-3
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- 16 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
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Exploring Innovative Pedagogy in the Teaching and Learning of Chinese as a Fo…
Teachers of Chinese as a foreign language in many international contexts are searching for pedagogic solutions to promote effective learning. Models of innovative and successful approaches are urgently needed. This volume presents a collection of compelling and empirically rich research studies that showcases innovative developments in the practice of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. The…
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- 978-981-287-772-7
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- 23 b/w illustrations
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Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms Proceedings of the Fi…
It contains work on theories and facts concerning mechanisms and machines from antiquity to current times as viewed in the present day. Topics include modern reviews of past works; people, history, and their works; direct memories of the recent past; historic development theories; the history of the design of machines and mechanisms; developments of mechanical design and automation; the histori…
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- 978-3-319-31184-5
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- 194 b/w illustrations
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Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (IV): Proceedings of the Fourth Internati…
This volume is the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics (ICCN2013) held in Sweden in 2013. The included papers reflect the large span of research presented and are grouped in ten parts that are organized essentially in a top-down structure. The first parts deal with social/interactive (I) and mental (II) aspects of brain functions and their relation to perc…
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- 978-94-017-9548-7
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- XXIII, 618
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- Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics
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- 616.80076 ADV a
Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing: 14th Mexican Internat…
The two volume set LNAI 9413 + LNAI 9414 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2015, held in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, in October 2015. The total of 98 papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 297 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: natural language processing…
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- 978-3-319-27060-9
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- XXIX, 575
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 006.3 ADV a
Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications: 14th Mexican Intern…
The two volume set LNAI 9413 + 9414 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2015, held in Cuernavaca,. Morelos, Mexico, in October 2015. The total of 98 papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 297 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: natural language processing; logi…
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- 978-3-319-27101-9
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- XXIX, 619
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 006.3 ADV a
Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 28th Canadian Conference on Artificial I…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2015, held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in June 2015.The 15 regular papers and 12 short papers presented together with 8 papers from the Graduate Student Symposium were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such a…
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- 978-3-319-18356-5
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- XXI, 361
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 006.3 ADV a
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