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English Language Education and Assessment
Recent Developments in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
This volume gathers contributions in the closely linked fields of English language assessment and language education. The contributors from China and Hong Kong represent a mixture of established and new scholars. Areas covered in the language education section range across major developments in the...
Problem-based Learning into the Future
Imagining an Agile PBL Ecology for Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
In this book we respond to a higher education environment that is on the verge of profound changes by imagining an evolving and agile problem-based learning ecology for learning. The goal of doing so is to humanise university education by pursuing innovative approaches to student learning, teaching,...
Studying the Effectiveness of Teacher Education
Early Career Teachers in Diverse Settings
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This book provides an evidentiary basis for policy decisions regarding initial teacher education and beginning teaching and informs the design and delivery of teacher preparation programs. Based on a rigorous analysis of international literature and the policy context for teacher education globally,...
Using Blended Learning
Evidence-Based Practices
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This book discusses evidence-based practices related to the use of blended learning in both K-12 and higher education settings. Specifically, this book features evidence-based practices in relation to the following five learning goals: (a) Fostering students’ attitude change toward country, (b)...
The Origin of the Capitalist Firm
An Entrepreneurial/Contractual Theory of the Firm
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2017
The book addresses the entrepreneurial origin of the capitalist firm and its asymmetric contractual relationships between capitalists, workers, managers and entrepreneurs, and explains the origin of the firm by focusing on entrepreneurship. A hidden action model shows how assigning residual claim...
Transboundary Game of Life
Memoir of Masahiko Aoki
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
The central part of this book is an English version of the memoir of Masahiko Aoki that was published in Japanese in 2008 (青木昌彦『私の履歴書 人生越境ゲーム』日本経済新聞出版社). In this memoir, Aoki goes over his life as a young boy immediately after World War II, as...
Land Policies in India
Promises, Practices and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
This book examines how property rights are linked to socio-economic progress and development. It also provides a theoretical analysis, an economic/social analysis of planning, case studies of the implementation of planning and regulation instruments, practices related to law and planning, analysis...
by Kohei Adachi
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
This book enables readers who may not be familiar with matrices to understand a variety of multivariate analysis procedures in matrix forms. Another feature of the book is that it emphasizes what model underlies a procedure and what objective function is optimized for fitting the model to data. The...
by M. Ataharul Islam, Rafiqul I Chowdhury
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book presents a broad range of statistical techniques to address emerging needs in the field of repeated measures. It also provides a comprehensive overview of extensions of generalized linear models for the bivariate exponential family of distributions, which represent a new development in analysing...
Characterizing Interdependencies of Multiple Time Series
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book introduces academic researchers and professionals to the basic concepts and methods for characterizing interdependencies of multiple time series in the frequency domain. Detecting causal directions between a pair of time series and the extent of their effects, as well as testing the non...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
This book examines the globalisation of technology and innovation in the modern world. Enterprises globalise in several ways, e.g. by exporting, sourcing components and materials from other countries (B2B commerce), outsourcing, licensing their technologies and production, and foreign direct investments...
Playable Cities
The City as a Digital Playground
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This book addresses the topic of playable cities, which use the ‘smartness’ of digital cities to offer their citizens playful events and activities. The contributions presented here examine various aspects of playable cities, including developments in pervasive and urban games, the use of urban...
Economic Transformation of a Developing Economy
The Experience of Punjab, India
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Foreword by Prof. Kaushik Basu
This book traces the development experience of one of India’s most dynamic and prosperous states, Punjab, which has provided the country with a much-needed degree of food security. The relative regression of Punjab’s economy in the post-economic reforms period...
Fly Ash Zeolites
Innovations, Applications, and Directions
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
This book presents a thorough review of the state-of-knowledge and recent innovations in the synthesis of pure and improved grades of fly ash zeolites (FAZ). Addressing improvements to conventional methods, it also showcases a novel technique for the synthesis of high cation exchangers from fly ash...