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Autonomous control for a reliable internet of services : methods, models, app…
This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1304 “Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS)”. The book contains 14 chapters and constitutes a show-case of the main outcome of the Action in line with its scientific goals. It will serve as a valuable reference for undergraduate and post-graduate students, educators, faculty members, res…
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- 9783319904153
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- xvi, 400p. : ill.
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- 004.678 AUT a
Planning and analyzing teaching: using the variation theory of learning
Using illustrative teaching case studies, this book demonstrates how teaching informed by a learning theory, specifically variation theory, can equip teachers to facilitate possibilities for students' learning in effective and powerful ways. For a long period of time teaching has been "black-boxed", in favour of other explanations of why students learn or not, such as motivation and social inte…
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- 9781003194903
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- xiii, 103 pages; illustration
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- 371.102 KUL p
Law and policy for the quantum age
This book is the result of a chance meeting between the authorsm in the summer of 2019 on a 12-hour international flight. This was not a case of quantum superposition, but it certainly demonstrates the power of chance.The Oxford English Dictionary defines quantum as “A discrete quantity of electromagnetic energy proportional in magnitude to the frequency of the radiation it represents.”1 In…
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- 9781108883719
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- 602 p
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- 530.12 HOO l
World protests : a study of key protest issues in the 21st century
This book analyzes almost three thousand protests that occurred between 2006 and 2020 in 101 countries covering over 93 per cent of the world population. The study focuses on the major demands driving world protests, such as those for real democracy, jobs, public services, social protection, civil rights, global justice, and those against austerity and corruption. It also analyzes who was demon…
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- 1
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- 9783030885137
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- xix, 185p. : ill.
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- 327.101 ISA w
Power, alliances, and redistribution : the politics of social protection for …
Latin America is considered the most unequal continent in the world. Paradoxically, the development of resource-intensive social systems has done little to change the social imbalance. The author traces this paradox using Argentina as an example, uncovering the underlying conflicts of power and interests, and identifying successful strategies for implementing inclusive policies. As the first st…
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- 9783966650281
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- 373p
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- 306.0982 BOS
Quaternion algebras
This open access textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of the arithmetic theory of quaternion algebras and orders, a subject with applications in diverse areas of mathematics. Written to be accessible and approachable to the graduate student reader, this text collects and synthesizes results from across the literature. Numerous pathways offer explorations in many different directions, whi…
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- 1
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- 9783030566944
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- XXIII, 885 p. : ill.
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- Graduate Texts in Mathematics
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- 512.5 VOI g
Information politics : liberation and exploitation in the digital society
Conflict over information has become a central part of modern politics and culture. The sites of struggle are numerous, the actors beyond count. Currents of liberation and exploitation course through the debates about Edward Snowden and surveillance, Anonymous, search engines and social media. In Information Politics, Tim Jordan identifies all these issues in relation to a general understanding…
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- 24
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- 9781783712977
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- viii, 230 p
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- 306.4 JOR i
Speaking for the social : A catalog of Methods
What does it mean to “speak for the social” in projects of technical and infrastructural change? This is the problem that the contributors to Speaking for the Social: A Catalogue of Methods set out to explore through a series of creative interventions that reimagine the role for qualitative social science in understanding and shaping design and engineering projects. The book departs from fa…
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- 9781685710538
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- 334p
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- 301 SPE s
Snow white and the seven dwarfs : new perspectives on production, reception, …
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937) occupies a central place within the history of global animation. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the film was the first feature-length animated film produced by the Disney Stu…
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- 9781501351198
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- 791.4372 PAL s
Animating Unpredictable Effects : Nonlinearity in Hollywood's RetD Complex
Uncanny computer-generated animations of splashing waves, billowing smoke clouds, and characters’ flowing hair have become a ubiquitous presence on screens of all types since the 1980s. This Open Access book charts the history of these digital moving images and the software tools that make them. Unpredictable Visual Effects uncovers an institutional and industrial history that saw media indus…
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- 9783030742270
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- xi + 206 p
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- 791.4334 GOW a
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