New technology has brought with it new tools for learning, and research has shown that the educational potential of video games resonates with teachers and pupils alike. Klopfer here describes the largely untapped potential of mobile learning games to make a substantial impact on education.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book."Here, leading scientists and philosophers examine new problems with new analytic tools, considering such topics as the psychophysical measurement of colour and its implications, and questions that arise from what we now know about the neural processing of colour information, colour consciousness, and colour language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This is a guide to computational modelling methods in neuroscience covering a range of modelling scales from molecular reactions to large neural networks.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This title explores recent developments in the tools and techniques of data acquisition and analysis in cognitive electrophysiology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Contributors explore the potential benefits, risks & ethical aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Much of the difficulty in creating information technology systems that truly meet people's needs lies in the problem of pinning down system requirements. This book offers a new approach to the requirements challenge, based on modeling and analyzing the relationships among stakeholders. Although the importance of the system-environment relationship has long been recognized in the requirements en…
"A Bradford book.""In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human (as opposed to other primate) social interaction."--Inside jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Over the course of less than 20 years, inventor Frank J Sprague (1857-1934) achieved an astonishing series of breakthroughs. Frederick Dalzell tells Sprague's story, setting it against the backdrop of one of the most dynamic periods in the history of technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This is a comprehensive review of evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment, skills, wage and income distributions, and longer-term labour market outcomes, and concludes that the minimum wage is not a good policy tool.Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has increas…
"Biomedical signal analysis has become one of the most important visualization and interpretation methods in biology and medicine. Many new and powerful instruments for detecting, storing, transmitting, analyzing, and displaying images have been developed in recent years, allowing scientists and physicians to obtain quantitative measurements to support scientific hypotheses and medical diagnose…