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Spectral Photon Counting Computed Tomography Technology and Applications

Spectral Photon Counting Computed Tomography Technology and Applications

Spectral Photon Counting Computed Tomography is a comprehensive cover of the latest developments in the most prevalent imaging modality (x-ray computed tomography (CT)) in its latest incarnation: Spectral Dual-Energy and Photon Counting CT. Disadvantages of the conventional single-energy technique used by CT technology are that different materials cannot be distinguished and that the noise is larger. To address these problems a novel spectral CT concept has been proposed. Spectral Dual-Energy CT (DE-CT) acquires two sets of spectral data and Spectral Photon Counting CT (PC-CT) detects energy of x-ray photons to reveal additional material information of objects by using novel energy-sensitive photon-counting detectors. The K-edge imaging may be a gateway for functional or molecular CT. The book covers detectors and electronics image reconstruction methods image quality assessments a simulation tool nanoparticle contrast agents and clinical applications for spectral CT. | Spectral Photon Counting Computed Tomography Technology and Applications

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Handbook of Lichenology Volume 1

Handbook of Lichenology Volume 1

First published in 1988: This easy-to-read handbook provides a comprehensive review of the current knowledge on lichens. The structure of lichens and their dual nature is explained as well as the physiology of interaction of the symbionts. The way lichens reproduce and their ecology is included with methods for cultivating them and their isolated symbionts. Extremely useful as a text of lichenology this handbook will benefit students of lichenology and allied fields those interested in symbiotic associations and ecology and teachers of biology botany and ecology courses. | Handbook of Lichenology Volume 1

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Concepts in Composition Theory and Practices in the Teaching of Writing

Concepts in Composition Theory and Practices in the Teaching of Writing

Concepts in Composition is designed to foster reflection on how theory impacts practice allowing prospective teachers to assume the dual role of both teacher and student as they enter the discipline of Writing Studies and become familiar with some of its critical conversations. Now in its third edition the volume offers up-to-date scholarship and a deeper focus on diversity both in the classroom and in relation to Writing Studies and literacy more broadly. This text continues to offer a wealth of practical assignments classroom activities and readings in each chapter. It is the ideal resource for the undergraduate or graduate student looking to pursue a career in writing instruction. | Concepts in Composition Theory and Practices in the Teaching of Writing

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Emotional Development across the Lifespan

Emotional Development across the Lifespan

Unique in its dual focus on emotion and lifespan development this text weaves together theory research and practical clinical implications for fostering children's emotional well-being. The author examines how emotions are experienced expressed understood and regulated from infancy through later adulthood surveying both typical and atypical development. For each stage chapters highlight the interrelated influences of temperament neurobiology and the social environment and distinguish universal processes from those that vary across cultures. The book presents current knowledge about specific emotions probes the causes and consequences of emotional maladjustment and reviews evidence-based and promising interventions. Innovative methods examples and meta-analyses are described; key terms are defined within chapters and in an end-of-book glossary. | Emotional Development across the Lifespan

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Power Management Integrated Circuits

Power Management Integrated Circuits

Power Management Integrated Circuits and Technologies delivers a modern treatise on mixed-signal integrated circuit design for power management. Comprised of chapters authored by leading researchers from industry and academia this definitive text: Describes circuit- and architectural-level innovations that meet advanced power and speed capabilities Explores hybrid inductive-capacitive converters for wide-range dynamic voltage scaling Presents innovative control techniques for single inductor dual output (SIDO) and single inductor multiple output (SIMO) converters Discusses cutting-edge design techniques including switching converters for analog/RF loads Compares the use of GaAs pHEMTs to CMOS devices for efficient high-frequency switching converters Thus Power Management Integrated Circuits and Technologies provides comprehensive state-of-the-art coverage of this exciting and emerging field of engineering.

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Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-Colonial West Africa

Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-Colonial West Africa

Originally published in 1976 this book combines detailed technical studies of the diplomacy of the land and waterborne warfare of pre-colonial West Africa. It draws attention to the connexion between these topics as dual aspects of international relations and refers to those parts of West African indigenous diplomacy showing how these resembled and diverged from practice elsewhere. The causes and consequences of West African wars are analysed and the wide range of weaponry armour and transport used by armies is also discussed. Strategy and tactics of the wars in relation to defensive operations are also examined. Throughout the book a considerable body of evidence from many sources is deployed to justify both the factual content and the conclusions which are drawn. | Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-Colonial West Africa

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Clothed in the Body Asceticism the Body and the Spiritual in the Late Antique Era

Clothed in the Body Asceticism the Body and the Spiritual in the Late Antique Era

Hunt examines the apparent paradox that Jesus' earthly existence and post resurrection appearances are experienced through consummately physical actions and attributes yet some ascetics within the Christian tradition appear to seek to deny the value of the human body to find it deadening of spiritual life. Hunt considers why the Christian tradition as a whole has rarely managed more than an uneasy truce between the physical and the spiritual aspects of the human person. Why is it that the 'Church' has energetically argued through centuries of ecumenical councils for the dual nature of Christ but seems still unwilling to accept the full integration of physical and spiritual within humanity despite Gregory of Nazianzus's comment that 'what has not been assumed has not been redeemed'? | Clothed in the Body Asceticism the Body and the Spiritual in the Late Antique Era

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Functional Analysis Calculus of Variations and Numerical Methods for Models in Physics and Engineering

Functional Analysis Calculus of Variations and Numerical Methods for Models in Physics and Engineering

The book discusses basic concepts of functional analysis measure and integration theory calculus of variations and duality and its applications to variational problems of non-convex nature such as the Ginzburg-Landau system in superconductivity shape optimization models dual variational formulations for micro-magnetism and others. Numerical Methods for such and similar problems such as models in flight mechanics and the Navier-Stokes system in fluid mechanics have been developed through the generalized method of lines including their matrix finite dimensional approximations. It concludes with a review of recent research on Riemannian geometry applied to Quantum Mechanics and Relativity. The book will be of interest to applied mathematicians and graduate students in applied mathematics. Physicists engineers and researchers in related fields will also find the book useful in providing a mathematical background applicable to their respective professional areas. | Functional Analysis Calculus of Variations and Numerical Methods for Models in Physics and Engineering

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Decision Modes in Complex Task Environments

Decision Modes in Complex Task Environments

Despite intense research on decision-making in action we still know little about when decision-makers rely on deliberate vs. intuitive decision-making in decision situations under complexity and uncertainty. Building on default-interventionist dual-processing theory this book studies decision-making modes (deliberate vs. intuitive) in complex task environments contingent on perceived complexity experience and decision style preference. We find that relatively inexperienced decision-makers respond to increases in subjective complexity with an increase in deliberation and tend to follow their decision style preference. Experienced decision-makers are less guided by their decision preference and respond to increases in subjective complexity only minimally. This book contributes to a developing stream of research linking decision-making with intra-personal and environmental properties and fosters our understanding of the conditions under which decision-makers rely on intuitive vs. deliberate decision modes. In doing so we go one step further towards a comprehensive theory of decision-making in action. | Decision Modes in Complex Task Environments

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Gangs and Organized Crime

Gangs and Organized Crime

In Gangs and Organized Crime George W. Knox Gregg W. Etter and Carter F. Smith offer an informed and carefully investigated examination of gangs and organized crime groups covering street gangs prison gangs outlaw motorcycle gangs and organized crime groups from every continent. The authors have spent decades investigating gangs as well as researching their history and activities and this dual professional-academic perspective informs their analysis of gangs and crime groups. They take a multidisciplinary approach that combines criminal justice public policy and administration law organizational behavior sociology psychology and urban planning perspectives to provide insight into the actions and interactions of a variety of groups and their members. This textbook is ideal for criminal justice and sociology courses on gangs as well as related course topics like gang behavior gang crime and the inner city organized crime families and transnational criminal groups. Gangs and Organized Crime is also an excellent addition to the professional’s reference library or primer for the general reader. More information is available at the supporting website – www. gangsandorganizedcrime. com

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Contested Domains Debates in International Labour Studies

Contested Domains Debates in International Labour Studies

Originally published in 1991 this volume discusses the urban working class international migrants and the so-called lumpenproletariat. The book exhibits the fruitful interaction that has taken place between sociological theory new views of the changing world economy and the empirical realities of working class experience and struggles. The dual theme of the book is the control which the state and employers seek to impose and maintain over labouring people and the resistance put up by workers to these often new and unacceptable disciplines. With case studies – both historical and contemporary – drawn from North America Britain and various parts of Africa the author develops an interlocking theory of habituation and resistance. Against the background of profound changes in the global economy Robin Cohen explores ways in which labouring people respond to the structural and managerial constrains on the development of their class consciousness and self-organisation. This will be of interest to urban and industrial sociologists as well as those concerned with comparative social theory and the relationship between developing world and industrialised societies. | Contested Domains Debates in International Labour Studies

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Political and Military Sociology an Annual Review Volume 44 Democracy Security and Armed Forces

Political and Military Sociology an Annual Review Volume 44 Democracy Security and Armed Forces

The latest volume of the Political and Military Sociology annual review features empirical research on topics that focus on security military training culture and the challenges of bureaucracy law and violence in democracies. The articles cover an impressive geographic range from Europe to Africa and to the Middle East. Two essays address threats to democratic polities by corrupt governmental and legal institutions and by electoral violence and intimidation. The first argues that a culture of dualism in Greece helps produce problems. The second analyzes the power of military student fraternities in Nigeria arguing that democracy is threatened by these organizations. Two contributors then address the security and military challenges in Iraq. The first argues that successful military advisors must play dual roles as both peacekeeper-diplomats and warriors. The second poses that Iraqi government policies privileging the Shia population have alienated other groups and helped support for groups such as ISIS. The final essay analyzes the acculturation of new soldiers to Zimbabwean military life through the training experiences of recruits. The volume also includes reviews of recent books on military and security matters. | Political and Military Sociology an Annual Review Volume 44 Democracy Security and Armed Forces

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Supervision in Social Work Contemporary Issues

Supervision in Social Work Contemporary Issues

Supervision is currently a hot topic in social work. The editors of this volume both social work educators and researchers believe that good supervision is fundamental to the development and maintenance of effective practice in social work. Supervision is seen as a key vehicle for continuing development of professional skills the safeguarding of competent and ethical practice and oversight of the wellbeing of the practitioner. As a consequence the demand for trained and competent supervisors has increased and a perceived gap in availability can create a call for innovation and development in supervision. This book offers a collection of chapters which contribute new insights to the field. Authors from Australia and New Zealand where supervision inquiry is strong offer research-informed ideas and critical commentary with a dual focus on supervision of practitioners and students. Topics include external and interprofessional supervision retention of practitioners practitioner resilience and innovation in student supervision. This book will be of interest to supervisors of both practitioners and students and highly relevant to social work academics. This book was originally published as a special issue of Australian Social Work. | Supervision in Social Work Contemporary Issues

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Advanced Metal Ion Storage Technologies Beyond Lithium-Ion Batteries

Advanced Metal Ion Storage Technologies Beyond Lithium-Ion Batteries

This book focusses on the current research on materials for advanced battery technologies and proposes future directions for different types of batteries to meet the current challenges associated with the fuel cell. Furthermore it provides insights into scientific and practical issues in the development of various batteries like sodium potassium zinc magnesium aluminum calcium and dual metal ion to bring a new perspective to storage technologies beyond lithium-ion batteries. It introduces different themes of batteries to evaluate the opportunities and challenges of these battery systems from a commercial aspect. Key features: Deals with different potential rechargeable battery systems as suitable substitutes for LIBs Discusses different investigated materials as anode cathode and electrolytes for different energy storage systems Provides a complete and comprehensive review of all the existing metal-ion batteries Includes practical challenges and future opportunities of each battery category Reviews commercial aspects of different battery systems This book is aimed at researchers graduate students and professionals in industrial and applied chemistry renewable energy clean and sustainable processes chemical engineering materials science nanotechnology and battery chemistry. | Advanced Metal Ion Storage Technologies Beyond Lithium-Ion Batteries

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Concise Encyclopedia of Coding Theory

Concise Encyclopedia of Coding Theory

Most coding theory experts date the origin of the subject with the 1948 publication of A Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon. Since then coding theory has grown into a discipline with many practical applications (antennas networks memories) requiring various mathematical techniques from commutative algebra to semi-definite programming to algebraic geometry. Most topics covered in the Concise Encyclopedia of Coding Theory are presented in short sections at an introductory level and progress from basic to advanced level with definitions examples and many references. The book is divided into three parts: Part I fundamentals: cyclic codes skew cyclic codes quasi-cyclic codes self-dual codes codes and designs codes over rings convolutional codes performance bounds Part II families: AG codes group algebra codes few-weight codes Boolean function codes codes over graphs Part III applications: alternative metrics algorithmic techniques interpolation decoding pseudo-random sequences lattices quantum coding space-time codes network coding distributed storage secret-sharing and code-based-cryptography. Features Suitable for students and researchers in a wide range of mathematical disciplines Contains many examples and references Most topics take the reader to the frontiers of research

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Lives in Exile Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees

Lives in Exile Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees

This book recounts the life stories - stories of loss and hope of anxieties and aspirations - of generations of exiled Tibetans living in India since the late 1950s after the Chinese takeover of Tibet. Located in the realm of psycho-historical analysis this work has a dual focus in interpreting and analyzing these life stories. First a consistent effort is made to unravel the psychologically devastating consequences following refugeehood and torture. A simultaneous focus searches for symbols of human resilience - the opening up of creative possibilities and a return to renewed meanings in the lives of these exiles. Two central symbols of continuity among this community which are discussed are the Dalai Lama and the philosophy of Buddhism. This is a unique book that looks at issues of contemporary interest and relevance to the Tibetan community today providing a different view of their ‘place’ in the wider political sphere. Lives in Exile - Exploring the World of Tibetan Refugees will be of interest to scholars in the fields of psychology history and refugee studies and to the general reader. | Lives in Exile Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees

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Conventional Flowmeters Volume II

Conventional Flowmeters Volume II

Conventional Flowmeters covers origin principle of operation development advantages and disadvantages applications and frontiers of research for conventional technology flowmeters which include differential pressure and primary elements positive displacement turbine open channel and variable area. There are more conventional technology meters being used in the field than new-technology meters. New developments such as more accurate pressure transmitters new primary elements such as cone elements reversible flow and dual rotor turbine meters and variable area meters with transmitters and a signal output are discussed. Features: Offers a working knowledge of the origin and development of the more traditional technology flowmeters: differential pressure and primary elements positive displacement turbine open channel and variable area Describes how these conventional meters still fit into what is being called Industry 4. 0 Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of conventional technology meters and provides a rationale for retaining or replacing these meters Focuses on the origin development operating principles and applications for the meters Explores the development of each conventional flowmeter type including the roles of companies such as Siemens ABB Emerson Foxboro KROHNE and Endress+Hauser This book is designed for anyone involved with flowmeters and instrumentation including product and marketing managers strategic planners application engineers and distributors. | Conventional Flowmeters Volume II

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Mixed Towns Trapped Communities Historical Narratives Spatial Dynamics Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli Towns

Mixed Towns Trapped Communities Historical Narratives Spatial Dynamics Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli Towns

Modern urban spaces are by definition mixed socio-spatial configurations. In many ways their enduring success and vitality lie in the richness of their ethnic texture and ongoing exchange of economic goods cultural practices political ideas and social movements. This mixture however is rarely harmonious and has often led to violent conflict over land and identity. Focusing on mixed towns in Israel/Palestine this insightful volume theorizes the relationship between modernity and nationalism and the social dynamics which engender and characterize the growth of urban spaces and the emergence therein of inter-communal relations. For more than a century Arabs and Jews have been interacting in the workplaces residential areas commercial enterprises cultural arenas and political theatres of mixed towns. Defying prevailing Manichean oppositions these towns both exemplify and resist the forces of nationalist segregation. In this interdisciplinary volume a new generation of Israeli and Palestinian scholars come together to explore ways in which these towns have been perceived as utopian or dystopian and whether they are best conceptualized as divided dual or colonial. Identifying ethnically mixed towns as a historically specific analytic category this volume calls for further research comparison and debate. | Mixed Towns Trapped Communities Historical Narratives Spatial Dynamics Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli Towns

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Understanding Chinese Corporate Governance Practical Guidance for Working with Chinese Partners

Understanding Chinese Corporate Governance Practical Guidance for Working with Chinese Partners

In a complex political and environmental global landscape it has never been more critical for global organizations to understand the past present and future of Chinese corporate governance: this book is the key. Leveraging her dual-cultural background and using a board-level practitioner’s lens Lyndsey Zhang offers insights that will help the global business community better understand Chinese companies’ corporate governance practices and economic development journeys shorten the learning curve for global business leaders and investors and explore different economic models that better suit emerging markets. She addresses important questions such as: • How does the Chinese government manage to retain its controlling position in Chinese companies while still making them attractive to global investors? • What are the drivers for Chinese companies’ future corporate governance improvement? • What is China’s position on the worldwide ESG and climate change movements? • How can global practitioners feel less like navigating in the dark when working with Chinese companies? This book will be an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand the rapidly changing world of Chinese corporate governance including global investors senior executives in multinational corporations consultants financial and political policymakers business and law students and researchers. | Understanding Chinese Corporate Governance Practical Guidance for Working with Chinese Partners

GBP 44.99
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Proportionate Share Impact Fees and Development Mitigation

Proportionate Share Impact Fees and Development Mitigation

After decades of evolving practice often tested in court development impact fees have become institutionalized in the American planning and local government finance systems. But they remain contentious especially as they continue to evolve. This book is the third in a series of impact fee guidebooks for practitioners following A Practitioner’s Guide to Development Impact Fees and Impact Fees: Proportionate Share Development Fees. Proportionate Share Impact Fees and Development Mitigation is the culmination of the authors’ careers devoted to pioneering applications of the dual rational nexus test. That test requires (1) establishing the rational nexus between the need for infrastructure broadly defined to mitigate the impacts of development and (2) ensuring that development mitigating its infrastructure impacts benefits proportionately. The book elevates professional practice in two ways. First it shows how the rational nexus test can be applied to all forms of development infrastructure impact mitigation. Second it establishes the link between professional ethics and equity as applied to proportionate share impact fees and development mitigation. The book is divided into four parts with the first reviewing policy and legal foundations the second detailing the planning calculation and implementation requirements the third exploring economic ethical and equity implications and the fourth presenting state-of-the-art case studies. Proportionate Share Impact Fees and Development Mitigation sets new standards for professional practice.

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Geometric Modeling and Mesh Generation from Scanned Images

Geometric Modeling and Mesh Generation from Scanned Images

Cutting-Edge Techniques to Better Analyze and Predict Complex Physical PhenomenaGeometric Modeling and Mesh Generation from Scanned Images shows how to integrate image processing geometric modeling and mesh generation with the finite element method (FEM) to solve problems in computational biology medicine materials science and engineering. Based on the author’s recent research and course at Carnegie Mellon University the text explains the fundamentals of medical imaging image processing computational geometry mesh generation visualization and finite element analysis. It also explores novel and advanced applications in computational biology medicine materials science and other engineering areas. One of the first to cover this emerging interdisciplinary field the book addresses biomedical/material imaging image processing geometric modeling and visualization FEM and biomedical and engineering applications. It introduces image-mesh-simulation pipelines reviews numerical methods used in various modules of the pipelines and discusses several scanning techniques including ones to probe polycrystalline materials. The book next presents the fundamentals of geometric modeling and computer graphics geometric objects and transformations and curves and surfaces as well as two isocontouring methods: marching cubes and dual contouring. It then describes various triangular/tetrahedral and quadrilateral/hexahedral mesh generation techniques. The book also discusses volumetric T-spline modeling for isogeometric analysis (IGA) and introduces some new developments of FEM in recent years with applications.

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Women Workers and Race in LIFE Magazine Hansel Mieth’s Reform Photojournalism 1934-1955

Women Workers and Race in LIFE Magazine Hansel Mieth’s Reform Photojournalism 1934-1955

The tension between social reform photography and photojournalism is examined through this study of the life and work of German émigré Hansel Mieth (1909-1998) who made an unlikely journey from migrant farm worker to Life photographer. She was the second woman in that role after Margaret Bourke-White. Unlike her colleagues Mieth was a working-class reformer with a deep disdain for Life's conservatism and commercialism. In fact her work often subverted Life's typical representations of women workers and minorities. Some of her most compelling photo essays used skillful visual storytelling to offer fresh views on controversial topics: birth control vivisection labor unions and Japanese American internment during the Second World War. Her dual role as reformer and photojournalist made her a desirable commodity at Life in the late 1930s and early 40s but this role became untenable in Cold War America when her career was cut short. Today Mieth's life and photographs stand as compelling reminders of the vital yet overlooked role of immigrant women in twentieth-century photojournalism. Women Workers and Race in LIFE Magazine draws upon a rich array of primary sources including Mieth's unpublished memoir oral histories and labor archives. The book seeks to unravel and understand the multi-layered often contested stories of the photographer's life and work. It will be of interest to scholars of photography history women's studies visual culture and media history. | Women Workers and Race in LIFE Magazine Hansel Mieth’s Reform Photojournalism 1934-1955

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Advances in High-Performance Motion Control of Mechatronic Systems

Advances in High-Performance Motion Control of Mechatronic Systems

Mechatronic systems are used in a range of consumer products from large-scale braking systems in vehicular agents to small-scale integrated sensors in mobile phones. To keep pace in the competitive consumer electronics industry companies need to continuously improve servo evaluation and position control of these mechatronic systems. Advances in High-Performance Motion Control of Mechatronic Systems covers advanced control topics for mechatronic applications. In particular the book examines control systems design for ultra-fast and ultra-precise positioning of mechanical actuators in mechatronic systems. The book systematically describes motion control design methods for trajectory design sampled-data precise positioning transient control using switching control and dual-stage actuator control. Each method is described in detail from theoretical aspects to examples of actual industry applications including hard disk drives optical disk drives galvano scanners personal mobility robots and more. This helps readers better understand how to translate control theories and algorithms from theory to design and implementation in realistic engineering systems. The book also identifies important research directions and advanced control techniques that may provide solutions for the next generation of high-performance mechatronics. Bridging research and industry this book presents state-of-the-art control design methodologies that are widely applicable to industries such as manufacturing robotics home appliances automobiles printers and optical drives. It guides readers toward more effective solutions for high-performance mechatronic systems in their own products.

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International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning

International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning

The Routledge International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning is an authoritative reference work providing a balanced overview of current scholarship spanning the full breadth of the rapidly developing and expanding field of thinking and reasoning. It contains 35 chapters written by leading international researchers covering foundational issues as well as state-of-the-art developments in thinking and reasoning research. Topics covered range across all sub-areas of thinking and reasoning including deduction induction abduction judgment decision making argumentation problem solving expertise creativity and rationality. The contributors engage with cutting-edge debates such as the status of dual-process theories of thinking the role of unconscious intuitive emotional and metacognitive processes in thinking and the importance of probabilistic conceptualisations of thinking and reasoning. Authors also examine the importance of neuroscientific findings in informing theoretical developments and explore the situated nature of thinking and reasoning across a range of real-world contexts such as mathematics medicine and science. The Handbook provides a clear sense of the way in which contemporary ideas are challenging traditional viewpoints as new paradigm of the psychology of reasoning emerges. This paradigm-shifting research is paving the way toward a richer and more inclusive understanding of thinking and reasoning where important new questions drive a forward-looking research agenda. It is essential reading for both established researchers in the field of thinking and reasoning as well as advanced students wishing to learn more about both the historical foundations and latest developments in this rapidly growing field.

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Computer Architecture Fundamentals and Principles of Computer Design Second Edition

Computer Architecture Fundamentals and Principles of Computer Design Second Edition

Not only does almost everyone in the civilized world use a personal computer smartphone and/or tablet on a daily basis to communicate with others and access information but virtually every other modern appliance vehicle or other device has one or more computers embedded inside it. One cannot purchase a current-model automobile for example without several computers on board to do everything from monitoring exhaust emissions to operating the anti-lock brakes to telling the transmission when to shift and so on. Appliances such as clothes washers and dryers microwave ovens refrigerators etc. are almost all digitally controlled. Gaming consoles like Xbox PlayStation and Wii are powerful computer systems with enhanced capabilities for user interaction. Computers are everywhere even when we don’t see them as such and it is more important than ever for students who will soon enter the workforce to understand how they work. This book is completely updated and revised for a one-semester upper level undergraduate course in Computer Architecture and suitable for use in an undergraduate CS EE or CE curriculum at the junior or senior level. Students should have had a course(s) covering introductory topics in digital logic and computer organization. While this is not a text for a programming course the reader should be familiar with computer programming concepts in at least one language such as C C++ or Java. Previous courses in operating systems assembly language and/or systems programming would be helpful but are not essential. | Computer Architecture Fundamentals and Principles of Computer Design Second Edition

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