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Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments
This book deals with the theoretical, methodological, and empirical implications of bounded rationality in the operation of institutions. It focuses on decisions made under uncertainty, and presents a reliable strategy of knowledge acquisition for the design and implementation of decision-support systems. Based on the distinction between the inner and outer environment of decisions, the book ex…
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- 978-94-017-9427-5
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- XX, 232 pages
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- Law, Governance and Technology Series
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Toward Robotic Socially Believable Behaving Systems - Volume II Modeling Soc…
This volume presents a collection of research studies on sophisticated and functional computational instruments able to recognize, process, and store relevant situated interactional signals, as well as, interact with people, displaying reactions (under conditions of limited time) that show abilities of appropriately sensing and understanding environmental changes, producing suitable, autonomous…
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- 978-3-319-31053-4
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Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication
Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication is adapted from a work produced by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative. Though the publisher has requested that they and the original author not re…
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- 9781946135261
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- 384
Quinqui' Film in Spain: Peripheries of Society and Myths on the Margins
This volume of essays focuses on films of the so-called ‘quinqui’ genre, films created during the 1970s–1980s depicting the lives of young criminals from the outskirts of Spanish cities, that arose/spread during the uncertain transitional period in a Spain moving from a dictatorship to a democracy. The ‘quinqui’ films, produced and released on a shoestring budget, were nonetheless imm…
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- 9781785272301
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Food Law and Regulation for Non-lawyers: A US Perspective
The book offers a succinct overview of key topics and core concepts for food scientists, quality managers, and others who need to understand the regulation of food and dietary supplements in the U.S. It was designed and modeled after a six-week introduction to food law course currently taught at Northeastern University, and serves as a practical tool for regulatory professionals. The book inclu…
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- 978-3-319-12472-8
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- XII, 241 hlm.
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- Food Science Text Series
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The Shaping of Ambient Intelligence and the Internet of Things Historico-epi…
Recent advances in ICT have given rise to new socially disruptive technologies: AmI and the IoT, marking a major technological change which may lead to a drastic transformation of the technological ecosystem in all its complexity, as well as to a major alteration in technology use and thus daily living. Yet no work has systematically explored AmI and the IoT as advances in science and technolog…
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- 978-94-6239-142-0
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Online Political Communication
This book provides research findings and practical information on online communication strategies in politics. Based on communication research and real-world political-campaign experience, the author examines how to use the Web and social media to create public visibility, build trust and consensus and boost political participation. It offers a useful guide for practitioners working in the poli…
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- 978-3-319-17616-1
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- XV, 188
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Android Studio New Media Fundamentals: Content Production of Digital Audio/Vi…
This book is a brief primer covering concepts central to digital imagery, digital audio and digital illustration using open source software packages such as GIMP, Audacity and Inkscape. These are used for this book because they are free for commercial use. The book builds on the foundational concepts of raster, vector and waves (audio), and gets more advanced as chapters progress, covering what…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-4842-9867-1
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- XIII, 142
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- 003.5 JAC a
Analyzing Political Communication with Digital Trace Data: The Role of Twitte…
This book offers a framework for the analysis of political communication in election campaigns based on digital trace data that documents political behavior, interests and opinions. The author investigates the data-generating processes leading users to interact with digital services in politically relevant contexts. These interactions produce digital traces, which in turn can be analyzed to dra…
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- 978-3-319-20319-5
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- XXI, 220
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- Contributions to Political Science
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- 353.008 JUN a
Computational Inference and Control of Quality in Multimedia Services
This thesis focuses on the problem of optimizing the quality of network multimedia services. This problem spans multiple domains, from subjective perception of multimedia quality to computer networks management. The work done in this thesis approaches the problem at different levels, developing methods for modeling the subjective perception of quality based on objectively measurable parameters …
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