Philosophical reflections on the environment began with early philosophers' invocation of a cosmology that mixed natural and supernatural phenomena. Today, the central philosophical problem posed by the environment involves not what it can teach us about ourselves and our place in the cosmic order but rather how we can understand its workings in order to make better decisions about our own cond…
Schools do not define education, and they are not the only institutions in which learning takes place. After-school programs, music lessons, Scouts, summer camps, on-the-job training, and home activities all offer out-of-school educational experiences. In "Learning at Not-School," Julian Sefton-Green explores studies and scholarly research on out-of-school learning, investigating just what it i…
"How will low-income communities be affected by the waves of social, economic, political, and cultural change that surround the new information technologies? How can we influence the outcome? This action-oriented book identifies the key issues, explores the evidence, and suggests some answers. Avoiding both utopianism and despair, the book presents the voices of technology enthusiasts and skept…
Papers presented at the Conference on Household Portfolios, held in Florence, Italy, Dec. 17-18, 1999.Theoretical and empirical analysis of the structure of household portfolios.Until recently, researchers in economics and finance paid relatively little attention to household portfolios. Reasons included the tendency of most households to hold simple portfolios, the inability of the dominant as…
A proposal for a categorization of cognition based on core properties of the constituent processes that integrates theory and empirical findings across domains.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities - in financial, political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a set of six urban environmental issues. These cities have different patterns of develo…
Kadang-kadang dalam karier profesional seseorang, Anda menyadari bahwa tangan sejarah ada di pundak Anda. Hal serupa terjadi pada bulan Juli 2003, di Brussels, ketika para anggota Kelompok Kerja Pakar (EWG) Konferensi Internasional tentang Harmonisasi (ICH) bidang kualitas menyepakati visi dan strategi baru untuk ICH. Dirangkum dalam pernyataan, “Sistem mutu farmasi yang selaras dan dapat dit…
Keberhasilan proyek bangunan perumahan bertingkat tinggi swasta terkait erat dengan penilaian yang cermat dan pemilihan bahan dan desain selubung bangunan yang memenuhi persyaratan berbagai pemangku kepentingan. Persyaratan ini biasanya berfokus pada pencapaian keberlanjutan dan kemampuan membangun dalam desain selubung bangunan. Meskipun keberlanjutan dan kemampuan membangun semakin penting da…
Meskipun dimulai hampir dua dekade lalu sebagai proyek akademis murni, perangkat lunak R telah memantapkan dirinya sebagai bahasa terdepan untuk analisis data statistik di banyak bidang. Sebuah artikel tahun 2009 di The New York Times menyoroti transisi ini, mencatat betapa pentingnya perusahaan seperti IBM, Google, dan Pfizer telah menggunakan R untuk banyak tugas analisis data mereka. Pengaru…
Diketahui bahwa perekonomian Tiongkok telah mencapai kesuksesan besar selama 30 tahun terakhir. Namun, pendidikan tinggi masih menghadapi tantangan yang signifikan. Terlepas dari komitmen pemerintah Tiongkok untuk membangun universitas kelas dunia sejak pertengahan tahun 1990an, universitas-universitas Tiongkok berjuang untuk mencapai status ini dengan karakteristik unik mereka. Baru-baru ini, …