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Evolving Norms Cognitive Perspectives in Economics
This book presents institutional evolution and individual choice as codependent results of behavioral patterns. Drawing on F.A. Hayek's concepts of cognition and cultural evolution, Teraji demonstrates how the relationship between the sensory and social orders can allow economists to track social norms and their effects on the global economy. He redirects attention from the conventional focus o…
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- 220220101007
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- 7 b/w illustrations
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Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellular Life Principles and mechanisms
The book integrates our understanding of the factors and processes underlying the evolution of multicellularity by providing several complementary perspectives (both theoretical and experimental) and using examples from various lineages in which multicellularity evolved. Recent years marked an increased interest in understanding how and why these transitions occurred, and data from various fiel…
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- 978-94-017-9642-2
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- 40 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
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Evolutionary Population Genetics of Drosophila ananassae
This book introduces readers to classical population genetics and the ways in which it can be applied to practical problems, including testing for natural selection, genetic drift, genetic differentiation, population structuring, gene flow and linkage disequilibrium. It provides a comprehensive monograph on the topic, addressing the theory, applications and evolutionary deductions, which are cl…
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- 978-81-322-2565-2
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- XI, 106
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Grounding Global Climate Change: Contributions from the Social and Cultural S…
This book traces the evolution of climate change research, which, long dominated by the natural sciences, now sees greater involvement with disciplines studying the socio-cultural implications of change. In their introduction, the editors chart the changing role of the social and cultural sciences, delineating three strands of research: socio-critical approaches which connect climate change to …
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- 978-94-017-9321-6
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- X, 181
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- 333.7 GRO
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) reflects a new direction in understanding the complex interactions among content, pedagogy, learners and technology that can result in successful integration of multiple technologies in teaching and learni
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- 978-1-4899-8080-9
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- XVII, 331
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Large-Scale Conservation in the Common Interest
Many people working toward sustainability recognize the important role of conservation but are inadequately prepared to deal with the large spatial, temporal and complexity scales that are involved in large-scale conservation efforts. Problems in large-scale conservation require navigating an intermixture of geophysical, biological and political dimensions. Coming to grips with these many natur…
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- 978-3-319-07419-1
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Techniques For Building Timing-predictable Embedded Systems
This book describes state-of-the-art techniques for designing real-time computer systems. The author shows how to estimate precisely the effect of cache architecture on the execution time of a program, how to dispatch workload on multicore processors to optimize resources, while meeting deadline constraints, and how to use closed-form mathematical approaches to characterize highly variable work…
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- 978-3-319-27198-9
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- XIV, 235
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Teaching And Learning In Lower Secondary Schools In The Era Of Pisa And Timss
This book explores teaching and learning in lower secondary classrooms in the three PISA domains science, mathematics and reading. Based on extensive video documentation from science, math and reading classrooms in Norwegian secondary schooling, it analyzes how offered and experienced teaching and learning opportunities in these three subject areas support students’ learning. The in-depth inv…
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- 978-3-319-17302-3
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- VI, 193
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- Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education
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Adoption of Innovation: Balancing Internal and External Stakeholders in the M…
This edited volume brings together academics from both innovation and marketing fields to explore the additional value for companies that can be generated with the innovations in marketing and the marketing of innovations. If ideas need to reach the marketplace, then marketing strategies, concepts and tools - such as the continuous development of new product and services - become vital for t…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-14523-5
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- VI, 230
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- 658.8 ADO a
Innovation, Democracy and Efficiency
Endogenous growth theory has significantly impacted most of the developing and developed countries, shifting priorities of industrial policies towards innovation. In line with this trend, the European Union significantly increased its budgetary allocation for R&D. However, statistical data show a weak correlation between R&D expenditure and the acceleration of economic growth. Regional innovati…
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- 978-1-349-56350-0
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- XVII, 237
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- 330 GRI i
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