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Preparing for Life in a Digital World = IEA International Computer and Inform…
This Open Access book summarizes the key findings from the second cycle of IEA’s International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), conducted in 2018. ICILS seeks to establish how well schools around the globe are responding to the need to provide young people with the necessary digital participatory competencies. Effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) i…
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- 9783030387815
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- XXII, 297 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Pangenome = Diversity, Dynamics and Evolution of Genomes
This open access book offers the first comprehensive account of the pan-genome concept and its manifold implications. The realization that the genetic repertoire of a biological species always encompasses more than the genome of each individual is one of the earliest examples of big data in biology that opened biology to the unbounded. The study of genetic variation observed within a species…
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- 9783030382810
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- XIV, 307 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Compound Histories
Compound Histories: Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840 offers a new view of the period during which Europe took on its modern character and globally dominant position. By exploring the intertwined realms of production, governance and materials, it places chemists and chemistry at the center of processes most closely identified with the construction of the modern world. This include…
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- 978-90-04-32549-4
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- Cultural Dynamics of Science, Volume: 2
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Their Use and Materiality in China, Japan and Korea between the Mid-17th and …
With a multi-perspective approach and transdisciplinary methods (humanities and sciences), this book offers an in-depth and systematic study of hand-drawn and hand-coloured maps from East Asia. Map colouring provides an insight into past societies, landscapes and territories. Colour is an important key to a more precise understanding of the map’s content, purposes and uses; moreover, colours …
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- 978-90-04-50999-3
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- Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
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Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913
In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The precision of surveyors and other colonial technicians lent these enterprises an illusion of irreproachable objecti…
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- 978-90-04-27233-0
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- African Social Studies Series, Volume: 33
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Differential Equations for Studies in Computational Electrophysiology
This open access text aims at giving you the simplest possible introduction to differential equations that are used in models of electrophysiology. It covers models at several spatial and temporal scales with associated numerical methods. The text demonstrates that a very limited number of fundamental techniques can be used to define numerical methods for equations ranging from ridiculously sim…
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- 978-3-031-30852-9
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- Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing
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Children’s Constitutional Rights in the Nordic Countries
The book presents a comparative study of children’s constitutional rights in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The authors discuss the value of enshrining children’s rights in national constitutions in addition to implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Central issues are whether enshrining children’s rights in the Constitution improves implementation and…
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- 978-90-04-38281-7
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Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century
Over the past century, Vietnam has undergone a remarkable series of transformations. If we could go back in time to the mid-nineteenth century, we would find an early modern kingdom deeply influenced by Sinitic culture. By the end of the nineteenth century, some members of that elite, now under French colonial rule but still connected to a broader East Asian intellectual network, began t…
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- 9789819736119
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- XI, 204
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Monte Carlo N-Particle Simulations for Nuclear Detection and Safeguards
he authors acknowledge the Office of International Nuclear Safeguards–Human Capital Development Subprogram for the support and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Research Library for the support in publishing the book as an open-access book. An important contribution to the quality of the manuscript was made by members of the XCP-3 group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, who r…
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- 9783031041297
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- XV, 307
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Arts, Religion, and the Environment: Exploring Nature's Texture
Humans have been described as “meaning-making animals.” At the threshold of the Anthropocene, how might humans artistically envision their place in the world? Do humans possess cultural tools, which will allow us to imagine new possibilities and relationships with the natural environment at a time when our material surroundings are under siege? Exploring Nature’s Texture looks at the ima…
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- 978-90-04-35898-0
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