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Currency boards in retrospect and prospect
Employing economic theory, cross-country empirical comparison and case studies, this work analyses the effect of currency boards on inflation, output growth and macroeconomic performance. The case studies come from Argentina, Estonia Lithuania, Bulgaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286411
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages) :illustrations.
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School choice international :exploring public-private partnerships
This volume analyses and studies public-private partnerships in education and the varied forms they take in different parts of the world, for example it studies publicly-funded vouchers in Chile and Columbia and private schools in India.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262270113
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- 1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) :illustrations
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Scholarship in the digital age :information, infrastructure, and the Internet
Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and collaborative research. Although much attention has been paid to the new technologies making this possible, from digitized books to sensor networks, it is the underlying social and policy…
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- 9780262255783
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 336 pages) :illustrations
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Handbook of developmental cognitive neuroscience
"A Bradford book."The second edition of an essential resource to the evolving field of developmental cognitive neuroscience, completely revised, with expanded emphasis on social neuroscience, clinical disorders, and imaging genomics.The publication of the second edition of this handbook testifies to the rapid evolution of developmental cognitive neuroscience as a distinct field. Brain imaging a…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262280532
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- 1 online resource (xi, 923 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Mining the biomedical literature
A concise introduction to fundamental methods for finding and extracting relevant information from the ever-increasing amounts of biomedical text available.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305167
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- 1 online resource (xi, 138 pages) :illustrations.
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Sport 2.0 :transforming sports for a digital world
Ramifications of the convergence of sports and digital technology, from athlete and spectator experience to the role of media innovation at the Olympics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343114
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- 1 online resource (x, 274 pages)
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Predicting structured data
Collected papers based on talks presented at two Neural Information Processing Systems workshops.State-of-the-art algorithms and theory in a novel domain of machine learning, prediction when the output has structure.Machine learning develops intelligent computer systems that are able to generalize from previously seen examples. A new domain of machine learning, in which the prediction must sati…
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- 9780262255691
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- 1 online resource (viii, 348 pages) :illustrations.
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Standard Basque :a progressive grammar
Vol. 2: by Rudolf P.G. de Rijk and Armand De Coene.The first modern pedagogically oriented reference to the grammar of standard Basque (Euskara Batua), in two volumes: Part 1 presents detailed grammar lessons, Part 2 glosses and supplementary materials.A pre-Indo-European language with no known relatives, the Basque language survives in the Basque region of Spain and France, with about half a m…
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- 9780262271356
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- 1 online resource (2 volumes) :map.
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Handbook of mobile communication studies
This volume offers a view of the cultural, interpersonal and family consequences of mobile communication across the globe. The contributors analyse the effects of moble communications on all aspects of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of phones, to the use of ringtones as a form of social exchange.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262276818
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- 1 online resource (ix, 472 pages) :illustrations, map
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Red Prometheus: engineering and dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990
This analysis of the relationship between science and totalitarian rule in one of the most technically advanced countries in the East bloc examines professional autonomy under dictatorship and the place of technology in Communist ideology. In Cold War-era East Germany, the German tradition of science-based technology merged with a socialist system that made technological progress central to its…
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- 9780262267458
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- 1 online resource (xxx, 381 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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