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Motivation in Online Education
This work explores and explicates learner motivation in online learning environments. More specifically, it uses a case-study approach to examine undergraduate students’ motivation within two formal and separate online learning contexts. In doing so, it recognizes the mutually constitutive relationship of the learner and the learning environment in relation to motivation. This is distinctive …
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- 978-981-10-0698-2
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- XXIII, 134
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Evidence-Based Critical Care
This is the premier evidence-based textbook in critical care medicine. The Third Edition features updated and revised chapters, numerous new references, streamlined content, and new chapters on key topics such as the new paradigm in critical care medicine, cardiac output monitoring, surgical optimization, vital signs, and arterial blood gas analysis. The book maintains the author’s trademark …
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- 978-3-319-11020-2
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- 37 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
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Labor’s Share of Income: Another Key to Understand China’s Income Inequality
This book analyzes the decrease in labor share in China, which is a ratio of national income distribution to capital at three different levels (macro, meso, and micro) and from three different perspectives (growth, transition and opening up). The worsening income distribution has been a key issue for both Chinese and global economies in recent decades. The book shows that the decrease in labor …
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- 978-981-10-0173-4
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Physical Modeling in MATLAB
Most books that use MATLAB are aimed at readers who know how to program. This book is for people who have never programmed before. As a result, the order of presentation is unusual. The book starts with scalar values and works up to vectors and matrices very gradually. This approach is good for beginning programmers, because it is hard to understand composite objects until you understand basic…
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- 005 DOW p
Evidence-Based Approaches in Positive Education Implementing a Strategic Fra…
Based on action research and implementation at one of the world’s great schools, this book provides a much-needed exploration of how to implement positive education at a whole school level. Evidence-Based Approaches in Positive Education summarises the integration of a whole-school mental health and well-being strategy, positive psychology programs and pastoral care models from 3 – 18 years…
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- 978-94-017-9667-5
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- 27 b/w illustrations
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Modeling in Biopharmaceutics, Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
The state of the art in Biopharmaceutics, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics Modeling is presented in this new second edition book. It shows how advanced physical and mathematical methods can expand classical models in order to cover heterogeneous drug-biological processes and therapeutic effects in the body. The book is divided into four parts; the first deals with the fundamental princ…
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- 978-3-319-27596-3
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- XXII, 483
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- Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics
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Motivating Cooperation and Compliance with Authority
This volume explores the various ways in which trust is thought about and studied in contemporary society. In doing so, it aims to advance both theoretical and methodological perspectives on trust. Trust is an important topic in this series because it raises issues of both motivation and emotion. Specifically, notions of trust and fairness motivate individuals to behave in a manner they deem ap…
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- 978-3-319-16150-1
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- XIII, 220
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- Nebraska Symposium on Motivation
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Evidence Based Treatments for Trauma-Related Psychological Disorders A Pract…
This book offers an evidence based guide for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and other clinicians working with trauma survivors in various settings. It provides easily digestible, up-to-date information on the basic principles of traumatic stress research and practice, including psychological and sociological theories as well as epidemiological, psychopathological, and n…
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- 978-3-319-07109-1
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- 4 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
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Modern Mathematical Methods and High Performance Computing in Science and Tec…
The book discusses important results in modern mathematical models and high performance computing, such as applied operations research, simulation of operations, statistical modeling and applications, invisibility regions and regular meta-materials, unmanned vehicles, modern radar techniques/SAR imaging, satellite remote sensing, coding, and robotic systems. Furthermore, it is valuable as a ref…
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- 978-981-10-9358-6
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- XXI
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- Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics
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Labor Unions, Management Innovation and Organizational Change in Police Depar…
This Brief examines the role of Police Unions in law enforcement policy development. It provides an overview of the historical and political background of police labor unions, and takes a critical look at the shifting perception of labor unions from generally positive to somewhat negative, to compare this perception with their real impact. It examines the perceived role that unions play, whethe…
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- 978-3-319-21584-6
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