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$Math Puzzles and Games, Grades 6-8: Over 300 Reproducible Puzzles that Teach Math and Problem Solving$

Math Puzzles and Games, Grades 6-8: Over 300 Reproducible Puzzles that Teach Math and Problem Solving

Jossey-Bass, 2009

In the 1950s we punished misbehaving students in middle school or junior high school by making them stay after school to do 100 multiplication or long-division math problems. Mathematics was taught in a highly ordered and mechanically repetitive manner with the objective being to master basic arithmetic skills. A decade later New Math emerged as a...

Identification of Pathogenic Fungi

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Since the first edition of Identification of Pathogenic Fungi, there has been incredible progress in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of fungal diseases: new methods of diagnosis have been introduced, and new antifungal agents have been licensed for use. However, these developments have been offset by the emergence of resistance...

The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s

Cambridge University Press, 2012

Chronicling the emergence of an international society in the 1920s, Daniel Gorman describes how the shock of the First World War gave rise to a broad array of overlapping initiatives in international cooperation. Though national rivalries continued to plague world politics, ordinary citizens and state officials found common causes in...

Wavelets and Their Applications (Digital Signal and Image Processing series)

ISTE Publishing Company, 2007

Showing how wavelets combine signal in image processing, mathematics, physics, and electrical engineering, this introduction to wavelet technology helps engineers master the basic techniques for using wavelets in such applications as image compression, turbulence, human vision, radar, and earthquake prediction. Among the topics covered are the...

The Coming Robot Revolution: Expectations and Fears About Emerging Intelligent, Humanlike Machines

Springer, 2009

Making a robot that looks and behaves like a human being has been the subject of many popular science fiction movies and books. Although the development of such a robot faces many challenges, the making of a virtual human has long been potentially possible. With recent advances in various key technologies related to hardware and...

High Definition Audio for the Digital Home: Proven Techniques for Getting It Right the First Time

Intel Press, 2006

Digital technology is driving the development of new types of content, a variety of media distribution options and innovative digital devices, all of which point to the emergence of a new digital entertainment industry. As we focus on making digital entertainment easier to access and view on different devices throughout the home, a vast number of...

Handbook of Parenting: Volume 5: Practical Issues in Parenting, Second Edition

Psychology Press, 2002

Completely revised and expanded from four to five volumes, this new edition of the Handbook of Parenting appears at a time that is momentous in the history of parenting. Parenting and the family are today in a greater state of flux, question, and redefinition than perhaps ever before. We are witnessing the emergence of striking...

Handbook of Parenting: Volume 4: Social Conditions and Applied Parenting, Second Edition

Routledge, 2002

Financialization as Welfare: Social Impact Investing and British Social Policy, 1997-2016

Springer, 2019

Providing an in-depth case study on the emergence of social impact investing in the UK, this book develops a new perspective on financialization processes that highlights the roles of non-financial actors. In contrast to the common view that impact investing gears finance toward the solution of social problems, the author analyzes...

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

Addison Wesley, 2002

The practice of enterprise application development has benefited from the emergence of many new enabling technologies. Multi-tiered object-oriented platforms, such as Java and .NET, have become commonplace. These new tools and technologies are capable of building powerful applications, but they are not easily implemented....

Systematics as Cyberscience: Computers, Change, and Continuity in Science (Inside Technology)

MIT Press, 2008

The use of information and communication technology in scientific research has been hailed as the means to a new larger-scale, more efficient, and cost-effective science. But although scientists increasingly use computers in their work and institutions have made massive investments in technology, we still have little idea how computing affects the...

Computer Vision Systems: 8th International Conference, ICVS 2011, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 20-22, 2011, Proceedings

Springer, 2011

Computer Vision is the science and technology of machines that see. The dominant scientific conferences in computer vision, such as ICCV, CVPR and ECCV, concentrate on theories and models for obtaining information from images and image sequences. The intensely competitive nature of these conferences leaves little room to...

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