An optics experiment is the product of intricate planning and imagination, best learned through practice. Bringing forth the creative side of experimental physics through optics, this book introduces its readers to the fundamentals of optical design through seven key experiments. The book includes several topics to support readers preparing to enter industrial or academic research laboratories.…
Futures for English Studies brings together chapters by leading writers across the curriculum area of English to investigate how the component parts of English (literature, language, and creative writing) are located institutionally in higher education and to explore the interdisciplinary prospects of a subject which spans the humanities and social sciences. Through explorations of changing foc…
Krisis keuangan baru-baru ini mengungkapkan kelemahan substansial dalam kerangka peraturan perbankan Uni Eropa (UE). Regulasi sebelum krisis dibangun terutama berdasarkan pedoman Basel II dan aturan-aturan yang diselaraskan untuk bank-bank Uni Eropa berdasarkan Petunjuk Perbankan Kedua dan Rencana Aksi Jasa Keuangan. Solusi regulasi tersebut ternyata tidak cukup untuk mencegah ledakan kredit ya…
The Educational Significance of Human and Non-Human Animal Interactions explores human animal/non-human animal interactions from different disciplinary perspectives, from education policy to philosophy of education and ecopedagogy. The authors refute the idea of anthropocentrism (the belief that human beings are the central or most significant species on the planet) through an ethical investiga…
This book provides a perspective on a number of approaches to financial modelling and risk management. It examines both theoretical and practical issues. Theoretically, financial risks models are models of a real and a financial “uncertainty”, based on both common and private information and economic theories defining the rules that financial markets comply to. Financial models are thus cha…
This updated second edition presents an analytical description of the education systems of all European countries, following common guidelines. These conceptual guidelines consider various criteria concerning presumptions as to the quality of a good education system. One of the book central aims is to explore the paradoxical character of education, i.e. the relationship between universal values…
Pada saat ini dalam sejarah Kedokteran Nuklir di Filipina ketika terjadi peningkatan tajam dalam jumlah fasilitas atau pusat tomografi emisi positron yang akan terjadi dalam waktu sekitar satu tahun ke depan, saya percaya bahwa tanggung jawab ada di tangan para perintis modalitas ini untuk memastikan bahwa lahan ini akan terus berkembang dan dapat dimanfaatkan oleh generasi mendatang. Hal ini h…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Future Network Systems and Security, FNSS 2015, held in Paris, France, in June 2015. The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers focus on the technology, communications, systems and security aspects of relevance to the network of the future.
This volume examines selected aspects of the foreign language learning process from an ecological perspective, adopting a holistic view on complex interrelations among and within organisms (L2 language learners) and their milieus (family, school and society). First of all, the personal ecosystem of the learner is taken into consideration, whereby two powerful influences are intertwined: cogniti…
This edited book tells the story of the multifaceted efforts devoted by a “future school” in Singapore—The Nan Chiau Primary School—in shaping future learning. It documents the various measures implemented by one primary school to improve student learning outcomes in a technology-rich teaching and learning environment. With the current interest in Singapore’s “Masterplan for ICT (in…