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Measurement and Probability
A Probabilistic Theory of Measurement with Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Measurement plays a fundamental role both in physical and behavioral sciences, as well as in engineering and technology: it is the link between abstract models and empirical reality and is a privileged method of gathering information from the real world.
Is it possible to develop a single theory...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
In the face of the recent financial crisis there is increased focus on long-term investment strategies. This is particularly true for institutional investors who manage our retirement savings. Simultaneously there is increased demand that financial assets be invested with an understanding of long-term...
Computers and Education
Towards a Lifelong Learning Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This volume contains a selection of papers on the most up-to-date experiences in the field of computers and education. It includes most relevant case studies and novel research results addressing technical and methodological aspects of computers and educations. It is relevant to researchers, practitioners,...
The Optional Society
An Essay on Economic Choice and Bargains of Communication in an Affluent World
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Long before today's electronic media made us aware of articulate "world opinions" across the globe, there were other dramatic international com munications. One current of opinion was expressed by the many gener ations of different nationalities who "voted with their feet"...
by Randal Helten
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Economic growth after World War II was made possible through dramatic increases in the use of material resources and energy. It is apparent that current development patterns followed by industrialized countries are causing serious environmental problems and that they are neither ecologically nor socially...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2011
Managing biosecurity is everybody’s business. The book’s multi-site, multi-sectoral research contributes to an holistic, evidence-based strategy for managing plant biosecurity in complex contexts. The intent is to provide a starting point for all stakeholders in the biosecurity endeavor – policy...
by Michela Betta
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Ethicmentality is an innovative book. It blends ethics with mentality to capture the interdependence of ethical life and social life creatively. The book is also innovative because of the way this interdependence is explored. By focusing on practical ethical behavior in today’s economy, business,...
Self-Study of Practice as a Genre of Qualitative Research
Theory, Methodology, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2009
Teacher educators live hectic lives at institutional and discipline boundaries. Our greatest potential for influence is through developing relationships with others in our practice. Our work is fundamentally relational and emotional. We are obligated to the teachers we teach and the public students...
What Counts in Teaching Mathematics
Adding Value to Self and Content
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
In this book, internationally recognised scholars and practitioners synthesise current practice and research developments in the area of mathematics teacher education and mathematics education. The book’s two sections examine the role and significance of collaborations and critical friends in the...
Conceptualising and Measuring Work Identity
South-African Perspectives and Findings
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
This book provides a systematic overview on issues and challenges related to work identity and identification at work in the ‘new’ South African workplace. It shares results and measures of a work identity research project that was conducted in a variety of modern South African workplaces. It...
International Bioenergy Trade
History, status & outlook on securing sustainable bioenergy supply, demand and markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
The trade of global bioenergy commodities, such as ethanol, biodiesel and wood pellets has been growing exponentially in the past decade, and have by 2013 reached true “commodity” volumes, i.e. tens of millions of tonnes traded each year, and billions (both in US$/€) of annual turnover.
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Cars and Carbon
Automobiles and European Climate Policy in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
This volume contains articles from leading analysts and researchers on sustainable transportation, who provide critical reflections on how automobile-related climate policies have evolved up to now in Europe and around the world, in view of the widely recognized need to substantially curb global emissions...
Energy for Development
Resources, Technologies, Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
This collection of contributions from a diverse group of prominent international scientists and policy makers brings together their in-depth analyses and innovative ideas about how to resolve the ‘energy for development’ predicament. It includes studies quantifying the role of energy in socioeconomic...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This volume explores various aspects of risk taking. It offers an analysis of financial, entrepreneurial and social risks, as well as a discussion of the ethical implications of empirical findings. The main issues examined in the book are the financial crisis and its implications for business ethics....