Can We Read Letters? Reflections on Fundamental Issues in Reading and Dyslexi…

FREELY AVAILABLE ONLINE AS OPEN ACCESS BOOK! Careful reflection on the concepts and methods used is a prerequisite for further development in any field of research. The authors think cognitive psychology has become too dominant in reading and dyslexia research, arguing that it should be combined with behaviourism and connectionism—in part by focusing on the concept of ‘skill’. The key…

Megatrends in Agriculture, Food Industry and Food Markets : An Empirical and …

This book offers a research-based, holistic overview of the entire value chain of the global food industry. It captures and defines over 80 contemporary ‘megatrends’ in agriculture and the food market that can be empirically documented and have a major impact on business, economies, industries, societies, and individuals. Today the world is characterized by more uncertainty and unpredict…

Kulturelle Teilhabe durch Immaterielles Kulturerbe

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9783658440862

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Challenging Global Development

This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice.Recognising global poverty and inequalities as historic injustices, the book addresses how these can be challenged through teaching, research, and engagement in policy and practice, and the sorts of po…

Learning and Teaching in Adult Education : Contemporary Theories

‘Nothing is as practical as a good theory.’ The great theorist of psychology, Kurt Lewin, is said to have coined this statement, although it was probably made earlier. A sweeping proposition like this one certainly eases the work of the scholarly writer tremendously, since no justification or excuse has to be provided for filling shelf after shelf with sophisticated theoretical treatises, w…

Cloud-Based Benchmarking of Medical Image Analysis

Medical imaging

Can We Read Letters? : Reflections on Fundamental Issues in Reading and Dysle…

“In their new book, Finn Egil Tønnessen and Per Henning Uppstad provide a set of theoretical and philosophical reflections on research in reading and dyslexia. It is a pleasure to welcome this book, which reflects the many contributions made by researchers at the National Centre for Reading Education and Research in Stavanger, Norway.” – Professor Usha Goswami, University of Cambridge. …

Working with Stem Cells

The content covered encompass not only the theoretic and methodological aspects for culturing human pluripotent stem cells, but also the establishment of induced pluripotent stem cells and their differentiation into specific cellular subtypes. This book has the most updated methods and technologies in an accessible and clear language, presenting protocols developed and optimized by researchers …

Modeling and Using Context

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT 2015, held in Larnaca, Cyprus, in November 2015. The 33 full papers and 13 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The main theme of CONTEXT 2015 was "Back to the roots", focusing on the importance of interdisciplinary…

Certifying Software Component Performance Specifications

In component-based software engineering, performance prediction approaches support the design of business information systems on the architectural level. They are based on behavior specifications of components. This work presents a round-trip approach for using, assessing, and certifying the accuracy of parameterized, probabilistic, deterministic, and concurrent performance specifications. Its …