The International Workshop on “Human Interaction with Machines” is the sixth in a successful series of workshops that were established by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Technische Universität Berlin. The goal of those workshops is to bring together researchers from both universities in order to present research results to an...
Work in the field of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) has also been transformed by technology. This volume offers an overview of a variety of applications of IT in the field of LSP. It is addressed to a wide audience that includes LSP teachers and researchers, although the contents may also be relevant to applied linguists working in...
"Fusing digital technologies and cultural creativity, exploiting global networks of production and distribution with little regulation and embodying the liberal ideas of individual choice and agency, digital games seem to epitomize global post-industrial neo-liberal cultural products. Kerr finds reality a bit more complex. For all their...
In several practical circumstances we have to solve a problem whose instance
is not a priori completely known. Situations of this kind occur in computer
systems and networks management, in financial decision making, in robotics etc.
Problems that have to be solved without a complete knowledge of the instance
are called on-line...
Pro SQL Server 2005 Database Design and Optimization will teach you effective strategies for designing proper databases. It covers everything from how to gather business requirements to logical data modeling and normalization. It then shows you how to implement your design on SQL Server 2005.
Clustering is a fundamental problem that has numerous applications in many disciplines. Clustering techniques are used to discover natural groups in datasets and to identify abstract structures that might reside there, without having any background knowledge of the characteristics of the data. They have been used in various areas including...
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Neuroergonomics can be defined as the study of brain and behavior at work. It combines two disciplines--neuroscience, the study of brain function, and human factors, the study of how to match technology with the capabilities and limitations of people so they can work effectively and safely. The goal of merging these two fields is to use the...
This book contains contributions from some of the most eminent experts in the fields of genetics, biochemistry, and pathophysiology of diabetes. Through specific examples, with broad applications, this book provides a comprehensive look at how transcription factors may underline the pathogenetic mechanisms of diabetes and obesity.
In this context, it is less important that Langley excluded the striated part of the
oesophagus from his definition of the enteric nervous system (ENS). Much more
remarkable seems to be that for Langley, a physiologist, structural reasonswere the
most decisive for taking the nervous system within the wall of the gastrointestinal...