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Peer Participation and Software: What Mozilla Has to Teach Government
An examination of Mozilla's unique approach to software development considers how this model of participation might be applied to political and civic engagement. Firefox, a free Web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation, is used by an estimated 270 million people worldwide. To maintain and improve the Firefox browser, Mozilla depends not only on its team of professional programmers and…
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Open development : networked innovations in international development
"The emergence of open networked models made possible by digital technology has the potential to transform international development. Open network structures allow people to come together to share information, organize, and collaborate. Open development harnesses this power, to create new organizational forms and improve people's lives; it is not only an agenda for research and practice but als…
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Lessons from the economics of crime : what reduces offending?
Reporting on research in the United States, Europe, and South America, this book discusses such topics as a cost-benefit analysis of additional police hiring, the testing of innovative policy interventions through field experiments, imprisonment and recidivism rates, incentives and disincentives for sports hooliganism and much more.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (vi, 241 pages).
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Kids and Credibility: An Empirical Examination of Youth, Digital Media Use, a…
How well do children navigate the ocean of information that is available online? The enormous variety of Web-based resources represents both opportunities and challenges for Internet-savvy kids, offering extraordinary potential for learning and social connection but little guidance on assessing the reliability of online information. This book reports on the first large-scale survey to examine c…
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Firms in the International Economy :Firm Heterogeneity Meets International Bu…
International Economics (IE) and International Business (IB) are usually treated as two separate disciplines. With the advent of new trade theory the firm was reintroduced in IE and the fields more and more discuss the same topics. This book shows that IE as well as IB could benefit from each other.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Networked affect
"Our encounters with websites, avatars, videos, mobile apps, discussion forums, GIFs, and nonhuman intelligent agents allow us to experience sensations of connectivity, interest, desire, and attachment -- as well as detachment, boredom, fear, and shame. Some affective online encounters may arouse complex, contradictory feelings that resist dualistic distinctions. In this book, leading scholars …
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- 1 online resource (vii, 267 pages) :illustrations.
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Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories
In this work, David Pesetsky argues that the peculiarities of Russian nominal phrases provide significant clues concerning the syntactic side of morphological case. Pesetsky argues against the traditional view that case categories such as nominative or genitive have a special status in the grammar of human languages.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xii, 173 pages) :illustrations.
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Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture
Differences brings together ten essays written over the past decade by the distinguished Spanish architect and theorist Ignasi de Solà-Morales. Differences brings together ten essays written over the past decade by the distinguished Spanish architect and theorist Ignasi de Sola-Morales. Many of the essays have never previously been translated, and the author has provided a new introduction …
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Classical NEG raising : an essay on the syntax of negation
This title provides an extended argument for a syntactic view of NEG raising with consequences for the syntax of negation and negative polarity items.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Distributed morphology today : morphemes for Morris Halle
"This festschrift honors Morris Halle, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, for his many foundational and lasting contributions to our understanding of morphology."This book offers a snapshot of current research in distributed morphology, highlighting the lasting influence of Morris Halle, a pioneer in generative linguistics. Distributed morphology, which integrates the morphological with the …
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