This anthology examines the practical role of well-being in contemporary society. It discusses developments such as globalization, consumerism and the rapid innovation and use of new and emerging technologies and focuses on the significant impact of these developments on the well-being of people living today. The anthology brings together researchers from various disciplines, including psycholo…
"This book addresses the need for scientists to understand the framework and approach in large science projects, both from the technical project management side as well as the sociology and governance of large science collaborations"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Provides a necessary and practical guide to the research enterprise that will introduce graduate students, postdocs, and new faculty across the disciplines to this multifaceted, complex system"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Instead of arguing for a specific animal model, Striedter will review the history and philosophy of animal models in biomedical research, examining their various advantages and limitations"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Playful Wearables presents foundational thinking about wearables and play. As play becomes ever more immersive, tools used to increase that immersiveness have to change with it"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This book tells the history of Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA, and how it came to be one of the world's premiere innovation districts"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
How the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics--paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism. In Think Tank Aesthetics , Pamela Lee traces the complex encounters between Cold War think tanks and the art of that era. Lee shows how the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operations research,…
How biases, the desire for a good narrative, reliance on citation metrics, and other problems undermine confidence in modern science. Modern science is built on experimental evidence, yet scientists are often very selective in deciding what evidence to use and often disagree about how to interpret it. In The Matter of Facts, Gareth and Rhodri Leng explore how scientists produce and use evidence…
"How to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, "Is that plant poisonous?"). We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: we Google it--"Japan population" or "Nobel Peace Prize" or "poison ivy" …
Why America's data system is broken, and how to fix it.Why, with data increasingly important, available, valuable and cheap, are the data produced by the American government getting worse and costing more' State and local governments rely on population data from the US Census Bureau; prospective college students and their parents can check data from the National Center for Education Statistics;…