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The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

The Woman Who Changed Her Brain

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn—or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no sense of an analogue clock. But by relying on her formidable memory and iron will, she made her way to graduate school, where she chanced upon research that inspired her to invent cognitive exercises to “fix” her own brain. The Woman Who Changed Her Brain interweaves her personal tale with riveting case histories from her more than thirty years of working with both children and adults. Recent di...

Mathematical Problems in Semiconductor Physics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Mathematical Problems in Semiconductor Physics

On the the mathematical aspects of the theory of carrier transport in semiconductor devices. The subjects covered include hydrodynamical models for semiconductors based on the maximum entropy principle of extended thermodynamics, mathematical theory of drift-diffusion equations with applications, and the methods of asymptotic analysis.

The Metalog FieldBook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

The Metalog FieldBook

The METALOG® FieldBook METALOG® training tools in 58 Case Studies Tobias & Daniela Voss (publ.) Tobias & Daniela Voss (publ.) 58 case studies from nine countries demonstrate the full range of uses for METALOG® training tools in areas as diverse as business, public administration, schools, religious institutions, social work, national conflicts and global sports. The incredible potential of the tools across nearly every field of modern life becomes clear in the first ever METALOG® FieldBook. A must-have for anyone working to create sustainably effective and meaningful change, teams, or organizations, using real-world insights that transform people, industries and countries.

Video Games as Tools to Achieve Insight into Cognitive Processes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 89

Video Games as Tools to Achieve Insight into Cognitive Processes

Though traditionally designed for entertainment, video games are being used more and more by psychologists to understand topics such as skill acquisition, cognitive capacity and plasticity, aging, individual differences, and development. The appeal of using video games over simpler laboratory paradigms partly comes from their ability to present rich and complex cognitive challenges more representative of the demands of the complex everyday tasks we perform outside of the laboratory. However, this complexity also presents a host of methodological and analytic challenges. This Research Topic brings together research using games to explore cognitive processes, with a special focus on the challenges of this approach. Challenges are in terms of design, implementation, or data analysis.

Work and the Welfare State
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Work and the Welfare State

Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK, Australia, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. An international group of scholars contribute organizational studies that shed new light on old debates about policies of workfare and activation. Peeling back the political rhetoric and technical policy jargon, these studies investigate what really goes on in the name of workfare and activation policies and what that means for the poor, unemploye...

Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 323

Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-11-17
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 2003, held in Paris, France, in November 2003. The 21 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 88 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on adaptation and separation of concerns; deployment; security and transactions; replication; networking and routing; discovery, context-awareness, and ontologies; and asynchronous messaging.

Recommendations of the Committee for Waterfront Structures Harbours and Waterways EAU 2004
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 590

Recommendations of the Committee for Waterfront Structures Harbours and Waterways EAU 2004

Since 1949 the "Committee for Waterfront Structures" has operated on honorary base as a committee of the Society for Harbour Engineering (HTG), Hamburg, and since 1951 also as working group of the German Society for Geotechnics (DGGT), Essen. Its full designation reads "Committee for Simplification an Standardization of Calculation and Construction of Waterfront Structures", which also outlines its goals. Following on from the previous joint publications, this new edition of EAU 2004 contains the safety concept with partial safety factors in accordance with the Eurocodes or the European prestandards as well as with the new edition of the corresponding German standard, partially differing on account of practice experiences. The recommendations continue to satisfy the requirements for international acknowledgement and application with regard to planning, design tendering, the awarding of contracts, building and building supervision. Further, the inspection and accounting procedures for harbour and waterway constructions are given from uniform points of view.

Woman Who Changed Her Brain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Woman Who Changed Her Brain

In the vein of Oliver Sacks, the remarkable story of how one woman built herself a better brain - and how she created a learning system that would in turn change many hundreds of lives.

Around the Writer's Block
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Around the Writer's Block

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-02
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  • Publisher: Penguin

Discover the tricks that your brain uses to keep you from writing—and how to beat them. Do you: Want to write, but find it impossible to get started? Keep your schedules so full that you don’t have any time to write? Wait until the last minute to write, even though you know you could do a better job if you gave yourself more time? Suddenly remember ten other things that you need to do whenever you sit down to write? Sabotage your own best efforts with lost files, missed deadlines, or excessive self-criticism? The good news is that you’re not lazy, undisciplined, or lacking in willpower, talent or ambition. You just need to learn what’s going on inside your brain, and harness the powe...

Mind the Fungi
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 156

Mind the Fungi

Dieses Buch berichtet über die Bündelung der Kreativitätsmotoren Wissenschaft und Kunst und wie daraus ein lebendiges Dreigespann aus Wissenschaft, Kunst und Gesellschaft geschmiedet werden kann. Eine schöpferische Triade, die sich über einen Zeitraum von zwei Jahren hinweg gemeinsam der Utopie verschrieben hat, eine Synthese aus nachhaltiger Wirtschaft, gesunder Umwelt und einer gerechten Gesellschaft zu ermöglichen. Das Projekt Mind the Fungi („Achtung Pilze“) ist ein Citizen-Science-Forschungsvorhaben, welches aus der Kooperation der Fachgebiete für Angewandte und Molekulare Mikrobiologie und Bioverfahrenstechnik der TU Berlin sowie der Kunst- und Forschungsplattform Art Labora...