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The Craft of Economics
Lessons from the Heckscher-Ohlin Framework
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
A review of the Heckscher–Ohlin framework prompts a noted economist to consider the methodology of economics.
In this spirited and provocative book, Edward Leamer turns an examination of the Heckscher–Ohlin framework for global competition into an opportunity to consider the craft of economics:...
Biological Clocks, Rhythms, and Oscillations
The Theory of Biological Timekeeping
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
An introduction to the mathematical, computational, and analytical techniques used for modeling biological rhythms, presenting tools from many disciplines and example applications.
All areas of biology and medicine contain rhythms, and these behaviors are best understood through mathematical...
The Metainterface
The Art of Platforms, Cities, and Clouds
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
How the interface has moved from the PC into cultural platforms, as seen in a series of works of net art, software art and electronic literature.
The computer interface is both omnipresent and invisible, at once embedded in everyday objects and characterized by hidden exchanges of information...
Digital Lifeline?
ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of new information technologies, including mobile phones, wireless networks, and biometric identification, in the global refugee crisis.
Today's global refugee crisis has mobilized humanitarian efforts to help those fleeing persecution and armed conflict...
Research Misconduct Policy in Biomedicine
Beyond the Bad-Apple Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
An analysis of current biomedical research misconduct policy that proposes a new approach emphasizing the context of misconduct and improved oversight.
Federal regulations that govern research misconduct in biomedicine have not been able to prevent an ongoing series of high-profile cases of...
In-Game
From Immersion to Incorporation
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
An investigation of what makes digital games engaging to players and a reexamination of the concept of immersion.
Digital games offer a vast range of engaging experiences, from the serene exploration of beautifully rendered landscapes to the deeply cognitive challenges presented by strategic...
Hermeneutica
Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
An introduction to text analysis using computer-assisted interpretive practices, accompanied by example essays that illustrate the use of these computational tools.
The image of the scholar as a solitary thinker dates back at least to Descartes' Discourse on Method. But scholarly practices...
Infrastructural Ecologies
Alternative Development Models for Emerging Economies
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
An integrated, holistic model for infrastructure planning and design in developing countries.
Many emerging nations, particularly those least developed, lack basic critical infrastructural services—affordable energy, clean drinking water, dependable sanitation, and effective public transportation,...
The Measure of Madness
Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Delusional Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Drawing on the latest work in cognitive neuroscience, a philosopher proposes that delusions are narrative models that accommodate anomalous experiences.
In The Measure of Madness, Philip Gerrans offers a novel explanation of delusion. Over the last two decades, philosophers and cognitive scientists...
Technology Choices
Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technology
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
An analysis of the occupational factors that shape the technology choices made by people who perform the same type of work.
Why do people who perform largely the same type of work make different technology choices in the workplace? An automotive design engineer working in India, for example,...
by Kevin Werbach
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
How the blockchain—a system built on foundations of mutual mistrust—can become trustworthy.
The blockchain entered the world on January 3, 2009, introducing an innovative new trust architecture: an environment in which users trust a system—for example, a shared ledger of information—without...
How Not to Network a Nation
The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists.
Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer...
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The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
What we can learn from the aftermath of cybersecurity breaches and how we can do a better job protecting online data.
Cybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. Each breach—the theft of 145.5 million Americans' information from Equifax, for example, or the Russian government's...
Open Space
The Global Effort for Open Access to Environmental Satellite Data
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
An examination of environmental satellite data sharing policies, offering a model of data-sharing policy development, case and practical recommendations for increasing global data sharing.
Key to understanding and addressing climate change is continuous and precise monitoring of environmental...