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Dolphin communication and cognition : past, present, and future
"Dolphin researchers have collected an impressive amount of data over the last twenty years, thanks to advances in technology for monitoring, recording, and analyzing dolphin behavior as well as increasing interest in exploring and modeling dolphins' cognitive capacities. This volume offers a comprehensive reference to the latest research on dolphin communication and cognition, reporting on fin…
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- 9780262331852
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) :illustrations
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Families at play connecting and learning through video games
"How family video game play promotes intergenerational communication, connection, and learning. Video games have a bad reputation in the mainstream media. They are blamed for encouraging social isolation, promoting violence, and creating tensions between parents and children. In this book, Sinem Siyahhan and Elisabeth Gee offer another view. They show that video games can be a tool for connecti…
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How not to network a nation : the uneasy history of the Soviet internet
"Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation -- to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists…
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- 9780262334198
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Coding literacy how computer programming is changing writing
The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear: everyone should learn to code. To emphasize the universality and importance of computer programming, promoters of coding for everyone often invoke the concept of "literacy," drawing parallels between reading and writing code and reading and writing text. In this book, Annette Vee examines the coding-as-literacy analo…
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- 9780262340236
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- 1 online resource (xi, 361 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities
In Knowledge Machines, Eric Meyer and Ralph Schroeder argue that digital technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Meyer and Schroeder show that digital tools and data, used collectively and in distributed mode -- which they term e-research -- have transformed not just the consumption of knowledge but also the production of know…
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- 9780262328180
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- 1 online resource (x, 271 pages) :illustrations.
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The shared world : perceptual common knowledge, demonstrative communication, …
A novel treatment of the capacity for shared attention, joint action, and perceptual common knowledge. In The Shared World, Axel Seemann offers a new treatment of the capacity to perceive, act on, and know about the world together with others. Seemann argues that creatures capable of joint attention stand in a unique perceptual and epistemic relation to their surroundings; they operate in an en…
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- 9780262352727
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- 1 online resource (248 pages) :illustrations
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Connecting democracy :online consultation and the flow of political communica…
From the publisher. The global explosion of online activity is steadily transforming the relationship between government and the public. The first wave of change, "e-government," enlisted the Internet to improve management and the delivery of services. More recently, "e-democracy" has aimed to enhance democracy itself using digital information and communication technology. One notable example o…
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- 9780262298803
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- 1 online resource (ix, 423 pages)
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Kesehatan Seluler
Sasan Adibi (BS’95, MS’99, MS’05, PhD’10, SMIEEE’11) has a PhD degree in Communication and Information Systems from University of Waterloo, Canada and the recipient of the best PhD thesis award from the IEEE Society. He is currently involved in the research, design, implementation, and application Electronic Health (eHealth) and Mobile Health (mHealth). Sasan’s research publication …
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- 978-3-319-12816-0
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- XI, 1172
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- Springer Series in Bio-/Neuroinformatics
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Privacy on the line :the politics of wiretapping and encryption
Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure. The Cold War culture of recording devices in telephone receivers and bugged embassy offices has been succeeded by a post-9/11 world of NSA wiretaps and demands for data retention. Although the 1990s battle for individual and commercial freedom to use cryptography was won, growth in the use of cryptography has been slow. Meanwhile, regulations r…
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- Updated and expanded ed.
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- 9780262256018
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 473 pages) :illustrations
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Emerging Trends and Advanced Technologies for Computational Intelligence Ext…
This book is a collection of extended chapters from the selected papers that were published in the proceedings of Science and Information (SAI) Conference 2015. It contains twenty-one chapters in the field of Computational Intelligence, which received highly recommended feedback during SAI Conference 2015 review process. During the three-day event 260 scientists, technology developers, young re…
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- 978-3-319-33353-3
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- 35 b/w illustrations, 140 illustrations in colour
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