Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Handbook of Research on Decision-Making Capabilities Improvement With Serious Games
How can a group be empowered to improve their ability to make decisions while also reinforcing the group’s intended values, beliefs, and behaviors? Like positive reinforcement, which introduces a desirable or pleasant stimulus after a behavior has been completed and has been found to be effective for reinforcing such behavior, serious games introduce the behavior as a pleasant experience through engagement and entertainment. Where positive reinforcement relies heavily on the willpower of the subject to complete the behavior on their own, serious games introduce a motivational factor from the beginning of the behavior. Serious games are designed for purposes other than entertainment, such a...
The Literary Institution in Portugal Since the Thirties
Despite the numerous studies of the politics, economy, culture, and society of the Estado Novo, the relations established between publishers, authors, and governmental institutions and their contribution to the making of the literary canon are still marginal subjects of analysis. Based on the systems theories developed by Bourdieu, Dubois and Even-Zohar, this study focuses on the cultural production produced during the Estado Novo (1933-1974) and after the Revolution (1974-2004), within their political, economic and social framework. The chapters on José Saramago and José Luís Peixoto show them as examples of literary consecration that confirm the systemic relations in the Portuguese literary field. This research makes use of a survey on habits of purchase of Portuguese fiction, interviews with publishers, original statistical analyses, and takes a new approach to the study of Portuguese literature.
Critical Citizens for an Intercultural World
This book examines the acquisition of requests in English by a seven- year-old Japanese girl during her 17-month residence in Australia. The study focuses on the linguistic repertoire available to the child as she attempts to make requests and vary these to suit different goals and addressees. This book helps unravel features of pragmatic development in the child's interlanguage, a subject about which we yet know very little.
New Perspectives and Paradigms in Applied Economics and Business
This book features a collection of high-quality and peer-reviewed papers from the 2022 6th International Conference on Applied Economics and Business (ICAEB), which was held in Stockholm, Sweden, during August 24-26, 2022. ICAEB serves as a platform for presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of applied economics and business. Applied economics is used to improve the quality of practice in business and public policy by thinking meticulously about new ways to approach old problems. Presentations at the conference include the topical areas of development, ecological, financial, forensic, information, institutional, international, labor, managerial, mathematical, monetary, and other related economic aspects. All these topics relate to an overall theme of sustainable development from an economic perspective. The conference brings together scientists from different fields of applied economic research in order to exchange ideas and experiences leading to improved methods of economic analysis.
Brain Connectivity in Autism
The brain's ability to process information crucially relies on connectivity. Understanding how the brain processes complex information and how such abilities are disrupted in individuals with neuropsychological disorders will require an improved understanding of brain connectivity. Autism is an intriguingly complex neurodevelopmental disorder with multidimensional symptoms and cognitive characteristics. A biological origin for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) had been proposed even in the earliest published accounts (Kanner, 1943; Asperger, 1944). Despite decades of research, a focal neurobiological marker for autism has been elusive. Nevertheless, disruptions in interregional and functional ...
Machine Ethics
This book offers the first systematic guide to machine ethics, bridging between computer science, social sciences and philosophy. Based on a dialogue between an AI scientist and a novelist philosopher, the book discusses important findings on which moral values machines can be taught and how. In turn, it investigates what kind of artificial intelligence (AI) people do actually want. What are the main consequences of the integration of AI in people’s every-day life? In order to co-exist and collaborate with humans, machines need morality, but which moral values should we teach them? Moreover, how can we implement benevolent AI? These are just some of the questions carefully examined in the ...
P.S. - eu amo-te
Quase todas as noites Holly e Gerry tinham a mesma discussão - qual dos dois se ia levantar da cama e voltar tacteando pateticamente o caminho de regresso ao apetecível leito? Comprar um candeeiro de mesa-de-cabeceira parecia não fazer parte dos planos, e assim o episódio da luz repetia-se a cada noite, num rito conjugal de pendor cómico a que nenhum desejava pôr termo. Agora, ao recordar esses momentos de pura felicidade, Holly sentia-se perdida sem Gerry. Simplesmente não sabia viver sem ele. Mas ele sabia-o, conhecia-a demasiado bem para a deixar no mundo sozinha e sem rumo. Por isso, imaginou uma forma de perpetuar ainda por algum tempo a sua presença junto da mulher, incentivando-a a viver de novo. Mas como se sobrevive à perda de um grande amor? Holly ter-nos-ia respondido; não se sobrevive! Mas Holly sobreviveu!
Aries
None
Foundations in Sound Design for Embedded Media
This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to foundational topics in sound design for embedded media, such as physical computing; interaction design; auditory displays and data sonification; speech synthesis; wearables; smart objects and instruments; user experience; toys and playful tangible objects; and the new sensibilities entailed in expanding the concept of sound design to encompass the totality of our surroundings. The reader will gain a broad understanding of the key concepts and practices that define sound design for its use in computational products and design. The chapters are written by international authors from diverse backgrounds who provide multidisciplinary perspectives on sound in its many embedded forms. The volume is designed as a textbook for students and teachers, as a handbook for researchers in sound, programming and design, and as a survey of key trends and ideas for practitioners interested in exploring the boundaries of their profession.
Devastação
Espécie de breviário fantasmático, Devastação confronta-nos com vidas destroçadas pelo preconceito, por sobressaltos políticos, fantasmas do passado, a crise económica e os danos colaterais da pandemia. O que aconteceu no baile de finalistas onde Ema debutaria? João Pedro fez tudo para não passar o Natal na companhia do pai. Ofélia não hesitou em denunciar o neto à polícia. Gilberta nunca mais foi a mesma desde que a impediram de celebrar o vigésimo quinto aniversário. Inês descobriu nas dunas do Guincho que era verdade o que ouvira dizer acerca dos dedos grossos dos homens. De que modo a mulher de Zé Maria destruiu a auto-estima do marido? Afinal, o que une os protagonistas destes contos?
