The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars (Raymond Bryant, Michael K. Goodman, Benjamin Huybrechts, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Roger Lee, Peter North, and Katinka Weber) concerned with alternative modes of economic and social exchange. The cases addressed in these contributions - including credit unions, alternative currencies, sustainable consumption, and social enterprise…
Banyak sistem komputer modern, termasuk arsitektur homogen dan heterogen, mendukung memori bersama dalam perangkat keras. Dalam sistem memori bersama, setiap inti prosesor dapat membaca dan menulis ke satu ruang alamat bersama. Untuk mesin memori bersama, model konsistensi memori mendefinisikan perilaku sistem memorinya yang terlihat secara arsitektur. Definisi konsistensi memberikan aturan ten…
Kebanyakan orang dewasa mencoba untuk belajar bahasa kedua atau bahkan ketiga di beberapa titik dalam hidup mereka. Karena paparan bahasa adalah salah satu rejimen pelatihan kognitif paling intens yang dapat ditemui, tidak mengherankan bahwa penelitian sebelumnya menunjukkan bahwa multibahasa dapat menyebabkan perubahan mendalam dalam otak atau 'neuroplastisitas'. Yang masih belum jelas ada…
Ageing in Place in Urban Environments considers together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side and urbanisation on the other. Both have been identified as dominant demographic trends of the twenty-first century. Cities are where the majority of people of all ages now live and where they will spend their old age. Nevertheless, cities are typical…
Most adults attempt to learn a second or even third language at some point in their life. Since language exposure is one of the most intense cognitive training regimes one can encounter, it is not surprising that previous research has shown that multilingualism can induce profound change in the brain or ‘neuroplasticity’.What remains unclear is the scope of such adult language learning indu…
In two parts, this open access work offers a broad and often unconventional approach to animal ethics, written by a pioneer in animal welfare science and ethics. The author Clive Phillips, Australia's first professor of animal welfare, first describes his life experience and career in the field, which enabled him to provide thoughts and possible solutions to some of the key problems in human-an…
Buku akses terbuka ini menyajikan bab-bab yang telah direview rekan sejawat yang memperkenalkan subjek perubahan iklim dalam sektor pendidikan formal dan informal di Afrika, sebagai kunci untuk membangun kapasitas generasi saat ini dan masa depan untuk menangani isu global yang paling mendesak. Sebuah wawasan tentang praktik, persepsi, dan prospek pendidikan perubahan iklim yang ada di Afrika d…
Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. In the construction known as left-dislocation, an element appears in a fronted position, before the clause to which it belongs, usually introducing the topic of the sentence. Based on a detailed analysis of syntax, information structure and pragmatic organization, this study explores how left-dislocation is used i…
This open access book directs its attention to a desire for inter- and transdisciplinary, reciprocal collaborations in studies concerning young children. It focuses on the possibilities and obstacles in collaborative forms of inquiry involving those stakeholders and actors whom the research concerns, specifically the participating children. The backdrop of the discussions and theoretical invest…
n this book we explain the need for, and then propose a practical solution to the growing problem of false election information in Australia as well as other authentic democracies. Our aim is to help clean up the ‘preference formation’ stage of elections by developing a best practice regime to manage the problem of authorised political disinformation. This, of course, excludes the v…