Rethinking innateness; A Connectionist Perspective on Development

Rethinking Innateness mengajukan pertanyaan, "Apa sebenarnya arti dari mengatakan bahwa suatu perilaku bersifat bawaan?" Para penulis menggambarkan kerangka kerja baru di mana interaksi, yang terjadi di semua tingkatan, memunculkan bentuk dan perilaku yang muncul. Hasil-hasil ini sering kali mungkin sangat terbatas dan universal, namun tidak secara langsung terkandung dalam gen dengan cara yang…

Rethinking media change; The Aesthetics of Transition

Esai-esai dalam Rethinking Media Change berpusat pada berbagai bentuk media pada saat-saat disrupsi dan transformasi budaya. Pengantar editor menggambarkan estetika transisi media--pola perkembangan dan penyebaran sosial yang beroperasi lintas era, bentuk media, dan budaya. Buku ini mencakup studi kasus media sebelumnya seperti buku, fonograf, sinema awal, dan televisi. Buku ini juga meneliti b…

Rethinking rights and regulations; Institutional Responses to New Communicati…

Para kontributor volume ini meneliti berbagai isu yang diangkat oleh persimpangan teknologi komunikasi baru dan kebijakan publik di era pasca-ledakan dan pasca-kehancuran ini. Awalnya dipresentasikan pada Konferensi Riset ke-30 tentang Kebijakan Komunikasi, Informasi, dan Internet (TPRC 2002)--yang secara tradisional merupakan ajang pameran untuk penelitian akademis terbaik tentang topik ini--k…

Future Intelligence

The first quarter of the 21st century introduced the world to rapid uncertainty, be it the social-political and financial crises, or pandemics, or the shaking up of well-established democracies with an increasing rise in populism. At the same time, the technological promise has taken off with automation, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnologies increasingly becoming an economic reality. Th…

Under Drake's flag : a tale of the Spanish Main

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Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition

This open access book examines how different economic systems impacted the development of East Germany and Poland. Through comparing these countries while they were centrally planned socialist economies with the periods when they transitioned to capitalism, the inability of socialist economies to modernize effectively and produce sustained economic growth is highlighted. Particular attention is…

Public Financial Management and Internal Control

This open access book focuses on the ‘downstream’ element of PFM, that is how public organisations utilise public resources. It argues that improvements in PFM/IC will only flow from a recognition that what really matters is the quality of management. Management reform is an essential precondition to the successful implementation of many new techniques. Only when a managerial capacity exis…

The blowpipe manual

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First-in-Family Students, University Experience and Family Life

This open access book, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the experiences of First in Family (FiF) or first-generation students in higher education. It draws upon narratives of students and their family members and spans the entire university student life cycle (pre-entry, commencement, progression and graduation) with a focus on specific cohorts including mature-aged…

Integrated Treatment Technology of Rural Domestic Sewage

This open access book provides integrated treatment technology of rural domestic sewage, and highlights ten typical cases in China. The integrated sewage treatment system (ISTE) combine sewage pretreatment, biological treatment, sedimentation, and disinfection, which particularly suitable for decentralized domestic wastewater treatment in rural areas without pipe networks. The main advantages o…