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World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities
Here, experts examine ways in which the use of increasingly powerful and versatile digital information and communication technologies are transforming research activities across all disciplines.
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Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution
An argument for a major federal program to stimulate innovation in energy technology and a proposal for a policy approach to implement it.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255516
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- 1 online resource (xi, 318 pages)
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Beyond bibliometrics :harnessing multidimensional indicators of scholarly impact
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available tools and data that can reveal patterns of intellectual activity and impact that were previously invisible: mentions, acknowledgments, endorsements, downloads, recommendations, blog posts, tweets. This book describes recent the…
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- 9780262323284
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- 1 online resource (viii, 466 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Global institutions and social knowledge : generating research at the Scripps…
This theoretical and empirical study examines the influence of global institutions on the generation of scientific knowledge. Virginia Walsh's approach reverses the traditional focus of international relations literature--which most often deals with how scientific knowledge influences institutions--and offers an original way to look at international environmental governance. After proposing a t…
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- 9780262285704
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 171 pages)
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- Politics, Science, and the Environment
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Democracy's Arsenal: Creating a Twenty-First-Century Defense Industry
The author describes the transformations needed in government and industry to achieve a new, more effective system of national defense.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295260
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 432 pages) :illustrations
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Revolutionizing innovation :users, communities, and open innovation
The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process that emphasizes users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to solve important technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation, pioneered by the economist Eric von Hi…
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- 9780262331524
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- 1 online resource (xv, 577 pages) :illustrations
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Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete?
When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled "Made in Russia"? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders' ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia is economically dependent on gas and o…
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- 9781461942979
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- 1 online resource (xi, 204 pages)
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Data science
A concise introduction to the emerging field of data science, explaining its evolution, relation to machine learning, current uses, data infrastructure issues, and ethical challenges.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262347020
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- 1 online resource (xi, 264 pages) :illustrations.
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Numbered lives :life and death in quantum media
A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities. Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death registers put numbers to life's endings. Today we count our daily steps with fi…
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- 9780262350174
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- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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Perspectives on Defense Systems Analysis
"The Department of Defense and the military continually grapple with complex scientific, engineering, and technological problems. Defense systems analysis offers a way to reach a clearer understanding of how to approach and think about complex problems. It guides analysts in defining the question, capturing previous work in the area, assessing the principal issues, and understanding how they ar…
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