The rapid success of for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) only recently has caught the attention of scholars in academe. The continuing expansion of the proprietary higher education sector has lead to fundamental questions regarding the purpose and function of FPCUs. As new technologies continue to emerge, education is becoming of increasing import to employees seeking to upgrade their …
The emergence of the Internet and the digital world has changed the way people access, produce and share information and knowledge. Yet people in Africa face challenges in accessing scholarly publications, journals and learning materials in general. At the heart of these challenges, and solutions to them, is copyright, the branch of intellectual property rights that covers written and related w…
Captain Frederick Marryat (1792–1848) was a distinguished naval officer, today best remembered as a novelist (particularly of stories for children), often drawing on his own experiences. He also edited a radical journal, and wrote non-fiction, including an attack on press-gangs, which damaged his career. He spent 1837 and 1838 travelling in North America, publishing his impressions in this un…
In Platonic Occasions, Richard Begam and James Soderholm reflect upon a wide range of thinkers, writers and ideas from Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche to Shakespeare, the Romantics and the Moderns—from Evil, Love and Death to Art, Memory and Mimesis. The dialogues suggest that Percy Shelley was right when he claimed “We are all Greeks,” and yet what have we learned about the initiatives of…
One Word – Yak Kaleme is one of the first treatises in the Middle East to demonstrate that Islam is compatible with modern western forms of government, and specifically that sharia principles can be incorporated in a codified law comparable to that found in Europe. Unlike many fellow Oriental travellers, the author observed that European dominance is not derived from a few technological advan…
Classroom Assessment and Educational Measurement explores the ways in which the theory and practice of both educational measurement and the assessment of student learning in classroom settings mutually inform one another. Chapters by assessment and measurement experts consider the nature of classroom assessment information, from student achievement to affective and socio-emotional attributes; h…
Create low power, higher performance circuits with shorter design times using this practical guide to asynchronous design. This practical alternative to conventional synchronous design enables performance close to full-custom designs with design times that approach commercially available ASIC standard cell flows. It includes design trade-offs, specific design examples, and end-of-chapter exerci…
Rekayasa jaringan adalah bidang baru yang menggabungkan biologi, kimia, dan ilmu material untuk memperbaiki, memulihkan, atau meregenerasi jaringan hidup. Hal ini didasarkan pada konstruksi matriks, umumnya dari polimer yang dapat terbiodegradasi, yang harus memenuhi persyaratan berikut: stabilitas mekanis untuk membawa beban sel, struktur berpori yang saling berhubungan untuk memungkinkan infi…
Dasar-dasar fotonik, yang merupakan teknologi optik berteknologi tinggi, menggunakan sumber cahaya dan fotodetektor serta berbagai jenis pandu gelombang untuk aplikasinya. Bandwidth produk dan perangkat yang ada di pasaran hadir di setiap bagian dari kehidupan kita sehari-hari. Mulai dari laser pointer hingga sistem kasir di lorong-lorong pasar hingga sistem telekomunikasi dan penerangan untuk …
Dasar-dasar fotonik, yang merupakan teknologi optik berteknologi tinggi, menggunakan sumber cahaya dan fotodetektor serta berbagai jenis pandu gelombang untuk aplikasinya. Bandwidth produk dan perangkat yang ada di pasaran hadir di setiap bagian dari kehidupan kita sehari-hari. Mulai dari laser pointer hingga sistem kasir di lorong-lorong pasar hingga sistem telekomunikasi dan penerangan untuk …