Tag: Approaches

New Approaches in Teaching History Using Science Fiction to Introduce Students to New Vistas in Historical Thought


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English | ISBN: 1475869517 | 2024 | 142 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Science fiction literature and film are an underappreciated source for the teaching of history. Finding material that can excite a student’s curiosity can be a key towards greater student engagement, especially among students who are taking history as a requirement, rather than from interest. The discovery that they can read or watch science fiction as part of their classwork often comes as a pleasant surprise. Beyond its popularity, however, utilizing science fiction for class assignments has certain pedagogical advantages: it introduces students to new vistas in historical thought, helps them learn how literature and film can be applied as a primary source, and can encourage participation in projects that are enjoyable.

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Integrated Facility Environmental Management Approaches Lessons from Industry for Department of Defense Facilities


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English | 2001 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 0833029959 | PDF | 1,0 mb
This report demonstrates how commercial facilities similar to DoD installations implement integrated approaches to environmental management successfully.

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Reading and Learning Difficulties Approaches to Teaching and Assessment


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English | 2001 | pages: 145 | ISBN: 086431390X | PDF | 0,9 mb
A comprehensive guide to teaching and reading for effectively to a wide range of children. By examining the way readers process text, it suggests what can be done to prevent or overcome reading difficulties.

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Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism


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2013 | 578 Pages | ISBN: 1461453100 | PDF | 13 MB
Terrorist groups throughout the world have been studied primarily through the use of social science methods. However, major advances in IT during the past decade have led to significant new ways of studying terrorist groups, making forecasts, learning models of their behaviour, and shaping policies about their behaviour. Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism provides the first in-depth look at how advanced mathematics and modern computing technology is shaping the study of terrorist groups. This book includes contributions from world experts in the field, and presents extensive information on terrorism data sets, new ways of building such data sets in real-time using text analytics, introduces the mathematics and computational approaches to understand terror group behaviour, analyzes terror networks, forecasts terror group behaviour, and shapes policies against terrorist groups. Auxiliary information will be posted on the book’s website. This book targets defence analysts, counter terror analysts, computer scientists, mathematicians, political scientists, psychologists, and researchers from the wide variety of fields engaged in counter-terrorism research. Advanced-level students in computer science, mathematics and social sciences will also find this book useful.

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Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems VII Post-Proceedings of The AESCS International Workshop 2012


Free Download Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems VII: Post-Proceedings of The AESCS International Workshop 2012 By Yusuke Goto, Shingo Takahashi (auth.), Tadahiko Murata, Takao Terano, Shingo Takahashi (eds.)
2013 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 4431542787 | PDF | 7 MB
Agent-based modeling/simulation is an emergent approach to the analysis of social and economic systems. It provides a bottom-up experimental method to be applied to social sciences such as economics, management, sociology, and politics as well as some engineering fields dealing with social activities. This book includes selected papers presented at the Seventh International Workshop on Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems held in Osaka, Japan, in 2012.At the workshop, 24 reviewed full papers were presented, and of those, 17 were selected to be included in this volume. The papers are divided into two groups as "Fundamentals of Agent-Based Modeling" and "Applications of Agent-Based Modeling".

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Software Engineering Approaches to Enable Digital Transformation Technologies


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English | November 13, 2023 | ISBN: 1032571306 | 182 pages | PDF | 7.59 Mb
Software Engineering Approaches to Enable Digital Transformation Technologies features contributions reflecting ideas and research in enabling digital transformation technologies through software engineering. To date, multiple, different approaches have been adopted to develop software solutions for a variety of different problems. Of all the available approaches, the main approaches are level-oriented, data flow-oriented, data structure-oriented, and object-oriented design approaches. The other focus of the book is digital transformation, which can be defined as the adoption of digital technology to improve efficiency, value, and innovation

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Critical Discourse and Corpus Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar


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English | ISBN: 3736973470 | 2021 | 272 pages | PDF | 19 MB
The present volume draws on the experience of the Workshop held in Germany in late 2018 to combine the specialisations of the two linguistic research teams of the two partner universities, Sun Yat-sen University in China and Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany. It combines more theoretical approaches by experienced scholars and case studies by young researchers on topics and texts on current Chinese developments. The contributions can also serve as a general model for open and critical international and intercultural academic discourse.

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Catastrophes and Conflicts Scientific Approaches to Their Control


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English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138311030 | EPUB | pages: 274 | 0.7 mb
First published in 1999, this book describes what the International community of scientific institutions could do to reverse this trend, by pooling its know-how and resources in International and interdisciplinary working groups and standing committees, by preparing options for action and by standing the possibilities for overcoming the political and economic obstacles to the implementation of expert advice. The reasons are given why neighboring groups of people sooner or later start fighting each other unless certain conditions are fulfilled. These conditions are enumerated. Historical examples are presented. Since lack of mutual trust, often based on inherited enemy images, is at the roots of many conflicts is shown how trust among former opponents can be created by working on joint projects, particularly when both sides are threatened by the same danger. In previous history this danger was often a common enemy. Today we must learn that all of mankind is threatened by environmental and other global problems which can only be mastered by joint efforts, forgetting the enmities of earlier generations. Furthermore, it is explained that many catastrophes could be avoided if risks were properly assessed and taken seriously and necessary precautions not avoided for financial reasons, just hoping for the best.

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