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Animal thinking :contemporary issues in comparative cognition
"Eighth Ernst Str?ungmann Forum held Sep. 26-Oct. 1, 2010, Frankfurt am Main.""Do animals have cognitive maps? Do they possess knowledge? Do they plan for the future? Do they understand that others have mental lives of their own? This volume provides a state-of-the-art assessment of animal cognition, with experts from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, ecology, and evolutionary biology addre…
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- 9780262298988
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- 1 online resource (xi, 342 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Living standards and the wealth of nations :successes and failures in real co…
A group of prominent international economists consider what makes for successful convergence--what policies and economic conditions help poor countries catch up to the living standards of rich countries.The question of convergence, or under what conditions the per capita income levels of developing countries can catch up to those found in advanced economies, is critical for understanding econom…
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- 9780262267618
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- 1 online resource (vi, 434 pages) :illustrations
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Learning to Diagnose with Simulations: Examples from Teacher Education and Me…
This open access book presents 8 novel approaches to measure and improve diagnostic competences with simulation. The book compares the effects of interventions on these diagnostic competences in both teacher and medical education. It includes analyses showing that important aspects of diagnostic competences and effects of instructional interventions aiming to facilitate them are comparable for …
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Prosiding : Privacy and Identity Management for the Future Internet in the Ag…
Teknologi baru seperti media sosial, komputasi awan, data besar, dan teknologi yang ada di mana-mana dan ambien beroperasi dalam skala global, penggunaannya tidak hanya menyentuh negara tempat asalnya (dalam banyak kasus, Amerika Serikat), tetapi juga individu dan kelompok di seluruh dunia. Pengungkapan baru-baru ini mengenai praktik pengawasan lebih lanjut membuktikan bahwa data pribadi dikomu…
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- 457
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- 978-3-319-18621-4
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- Manajemen Privasi dan Identitas
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- 004.678 CAM p
Research in Interactive Design (Vol. 4)
Covering key topics in the field such as technological innovation, human-centered sustainable engineering and manufacturing, and manufacture at a global scale in a virtual world, this book addresses both advanced techniques and industrial applications of key research in interactive design and manufacturing. Featuring the full papers presented at the 2014 Joint Conference on Mechanical Design En…
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- 978-3-319-26121-8
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Relativity for Everyone
This book, now in a revised and updated second edition, explains the theory of special and general relativity in detail without approaching Einstein's life or the historical background. The text is formulated in such a way that the reader will be able to understand the essence intuitively, and new sections have been added on time machines, the twin paradoxes, and tensors. The first part of the …
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Optimal Sequence-Based Control of Networked Linear Systems
In Networked Control Systems (NCS), components of a control loop are connected by data networks that may introduce time-varying delays and packet losses into the system, which can severly degrade control performance. Hence, this book presents the newly developed S-LQG (Sequence-Based Linear Quadratic Gaussian) controller that combines the sequence-based control method with the well-known LQG ap…
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- 978-3-7315-0305-7
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- XI, 156 S.
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- Karlsruhe Series on Intelligent Sensor-Actuator-Systems / Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Intelligent Sensor-Actuator-Systems Laboratory ; 15
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Agency : The Entrepreneurial Self in Narratives of Transformation : Debuting …
Which forms of agency does literature offer to the reader in the twenty-first century? This study investigates migrant lives in contemporary fiction published by young British Asian writers. Examining the protagonists’ ideas of ›success‹ in becoming a full member of their society, Jessica Fischer carves out the naturalised model of homo economicus in these texts and in contemporary fictio…
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- 9783826070365
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Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business 12th International Conferenc…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business, TrustBus 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2015 in conjunction with DEXA 2015. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: access control; t…
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A Concise History of Albania
A Concise History of Albania charts the history of Albania and its people, within their Balkan and European contexts. It shows the country's journey from its ancient past, still shrouded in mystery and controversy, through its difficult transition from a particularly brutal form of communism to an evolving form of democracy and a market economy. Bernd Fischer and Oliver Schmitt challenge some o…
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