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The Ecology of Home
Education researchers worldwide face a basic question: Is their purpose to use people to develop knowledge, or use knowledge to develop people This book offers an exploration to this fundamental question by examining what three core disciplines – ecology, economics, and ecumenism – have in common. These disciplines have roots in the ancient Greek notion of the household (oikos). By examini…
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- 978-94-6300-579-1
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- XVI, 106
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- Researching Environmental Learning
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The Early Period of the Calculus of Variations
This book will be of interest to anyone studying the calculus of variations who wants a deeper intuition for the techniques and ideas that are used, as well as historians of science and mathematics interested in the development and evolution of modern calculus and analysis.
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- XII, 293
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The Dynamics of Transculturality
The purpose of this volume is to identify and analyze the mechanisms and processes through which concepts and institutions of transcultural phenomena gain and are given momentum. Applied to a range of cases, including examples drawn from ancient Greece and modern India, the early modern Portuguese presence in China and politics of elite-mass dynamics in the People’s Republic of China, the boo…
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- 978-3-319-09740-4
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- IX, 277
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- Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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Model-Driven Design Using IEC 61499:A Synchronous Approach for Embedded and A…
This book describes a novel approach for the design of embedded systems and industrial automation systems, using a unified model-driven approach that is applicable in both domains. The authors illustrate their methodology, using the IEC 61499 standard as the main vehicle for specification, verification, static timing analysis and automated code synthesis. The well-known synchronous approach i…
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- 978-3-319-10520-8
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- XVIII, 194
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Model Choice in Nonnested Families
This book discusses the problem of model choice when the statistical models are separate, also called nonnested. Chapter 1 provides an introduction, motivating examples and a general overview of the problem. Chapter 2 presents the classical or frequentist approach to the problem as well as several alternative procedures and their properties. Chapter 3 explores the Bayesian approach, the limitat…
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- 978-3-662-53735-0
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- X, 96; 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
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- SpringerBriefs in Statistics
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Mod-ϕ Convergence: Normality Zones and Precise Deviations
The canonical way to establish the central limit theorem for i.i.d. random variables is to use characteristic functions and Lévy’s continuity theorem. This monograph focuses on this characteristic function approach and presents a renormalization theory called mod-ϕ convergence. This type of convergence is a relatively new concept with many deep ramifications, and has not previously been pub…
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- 978-3-319-46821-1
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- XII, 152; 8 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
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- SpringerBriefs in Probability and Mathematical Statistics
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Model-Based Processing for Underwater Acoustic Arrays
This monograph presents a unified approach to model-based processing for underwater acoustic arrays. The use of physical models in passive array processing is not a new idea, but it has been used on a case-by-case basis, and as such, lacks any unifying structure. This work views all such processing methods as estimation procedures, which then can be unified by treating them all as a form of joi…
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- 978-3-319-17556-0
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- X, 113; 11 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
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- SpringerBriefs in Physics
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Traditional and Innovative Approaches in Seismic Design
This special issue collects selected papers about a wide range of innovative applications in earthquake engineering. These studies were presented during the 2nd Edition of the International Workshop “Traditional and Innovative Approaches in Seismic Engineering”, held in Pisa in March 2017. The topics refer to the investigation of traditional and innovative materials for earthquake engineeri…
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- 978-3-03842-748-3
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- 624 TRA
Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning: 13th International Conference, …
This volume contains the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, LPNMR 2015, held in September 2015 in Lexington, KY, USA. The 290long and 11 short papers presented together with 3 invited talks, the paper reporting on the Answer Set Programming competition, and four papers presented by LPNMR student attendees at the doctoral co…
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- 978-3-319-23264-5
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Local Languages as a Human Right in Education: Comparative Cases from Africa
There seems to be general agreement that children learn better when they understand what the teacher is saying. In Africa this is not the case. Instruction is given in a foreign language, a language neither pupils nor the teachers understand well. This is the greatest educational problem there is in Africa. This is the problem this book discusses and it is therefore an important book. The recen…
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- 978-94-6209-947-0
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