I suspected something was wrong with the “facts of life” as they were presented to me when I was a kid. Sure, I then spent a little over thirty years trying to be “normal” and make that square peg fit the round hole, “looking for a reason to believe.” But then there was a memorable day when I finally grew up and...
Responding to the specific needs of each student, personalized learning has the potential to refocus education on the individual rather than the institution. Technology-Supported Environments for Personalized Learning: Methods and Case Studies explores the metaphor of anytime and anywhere individual education as well as the idea of...
When the first edition of this book was published, the idea of combining a text on digital
design with one on VHDL seemed novel. At about the same time, several other books
with similar themes were published. This book has now been adopted by several universities
as a core text. Moreover, the first edition has now been translated into...
As a programmer working for Logica UK in London in the mid-1980’s, I became a passionate advocate of formal methods. Extrapolating from small successes with VDM and JSP, I was sure that widespread use of formal methods would bring an end to the software crisis.
One approach especially intrigued me. John Guttag and Jim...
Centralize all your organization’s documentation in one place using Confluence. From installation to using add-ons, this is a complete, user-friendly tutorial that assumes virtually no prior knowledge.
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This essay deals with contemporary theory of conservation. Perhaps the boldest thesis in the text is the very idea that a contemporary theory of conservation actually exists. No one doubts that there are a number of schemes, ideas and opinions – of theories or fragments of theories that differ to a greater or lesser ...
The Social and Cognitive Impacts of E-Commerce on Modern Organizations includes articles addressing the social, cultural, organizational, and cognitive impacts of e-commerce technologies and advances on organizations around the world. Looking specifically at the impacts of electronic commerce on consumer behavior, as well as the impact...
The RAW file format used by digital cameras is essentially the raw data that a camera captures when it takes a photo. RAW files allow the digital photographer to edit and manipulate their photos with less data loss than in other file formats (such as JPEG). There are many RAW conversion tools, and it's often a good idea to use more than one to get...
This book is the second part of the two-volume set entitled The Big and the Small.
The first volume, Journey into the Microcosm: The Story of Elementary Particles,
dealt essentially with the small, i.e., elementary particles. The present volume
first takes the reader to the other extreme, the big or the cosmos, and then wraps
up...
With the growing awareness of drug-induced diseases in the last few decades, the trend of phar
maceutical research had shifted to drug targeting. The research community seems to be fascinated
with idea of delivering drugs at an optimal rate to their exact site of action. Once considered wishful
thinking, nanotechnology has made this...
Web Systems Design and Online Consumer Behavior takes an interdisciplinary approach toward systems design in the online environment by providing an understanding of how consumers behave while shopping online and how certain system design elements may impact consumers' perceptions, attitude, intentions, and actual behavior. This book...