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Features a snapshot of the process of transforming the Soviet economy from a planned, state-owned system to a market economy. This work offers a study of the development of the cooperative movement in the Soviet Union and provides insight into the dynamics of the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market-oriented system.
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This book analyzes the Soviet Union's social problems, focusing on those it shares with Western industrial societies. It assesses the social concerns confronting Gorbachev, including poverty; prostitution; health, education, and family issues; and the difficulty of adapting to technological change.
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Due to the pace of change in the USSR, monographs and textbooks in the field are quickly becoming dated. This book is the inaugural edition of a series that seeks to fill that void by presenting a biannual, systematic summary and analysis of developments in Soviet affairs. In this first volume, noted experts cover the years 1989-1990, examining the full range of political, economic, social, and ethnic changes of these two tumultuous years. Additional chapters focus on the Soviet Union's foreign relations and key developments abroad as well as at home. Scholars and students as well as general readers will find this series to be of great value as a means of staying current in an era of constant change.
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This book analyzes the Soviet Union's social problems, focusing on those it shares with Western industrial societies. It assesses the social concerns confronting Gorbachev, including poverty; prostitution; health, education, and family issues; and the difficulty of adapting to technological change.
642 kr
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Due to the pace of change in the USSR, monographs and textbooks in the field are quickly becoming dated. This book is the inaugural edition of a series that seeks to fill that void by presenting a biannual, systematic summary and analysis of developments in Soviet affairs. In this first volume, noted experts cover the years 1989-1990, examining the full range of political, economic, social, and ethnic changes of these two tumultuous years. Additional chapters focus on the Soviet Union's foreign relations and key developments abroad as well as at home. Scholars and students as well as general readers will find this series to be of great value as a means of staying current in an era of constant change.
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Serious criticisms of research on IT in education have been published recently in both the UK and the USA. Researching IT in Education aims to provoke thought and discussion among practising researchers by considering a range of approaches to undertaking quality research. Establishing priorities and directions for future research in the sub-discipline of IT in education, the book is structured around five foci: theory history research directions methodology research topics. This book argues for the enormous power of IT to enable fundamental research that both refines and develops theory and practice in education. High quality research that advances knowledge and educational practice in this area will generally require longer timelines and more complex data collection and analysis methods. The authors draw attention to the value of theoretical frameworks used in mainstream educational research and highlight the early theoretical work on the subject of IT in education. Researching IT in Education is the only book in its area to focus on methodological and research design issues. The individual chapters are contributed by expert researchers and leaders in the field from ten countries, thus providing an unusually broad but coherent international set of perspectives for the issues examined in the book.This book will benefit anyone interested in or undertaking research on IT in education, including academics, research students, teachers and policy-makers.
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Serious criticisms of research on IT in education have been published recently in both the UK and the USA. Researching IT in Education aims to provoke thought and discussion among practising researchers by considering a range of approaches to undertaking quality research. Establishing priorities and directions for future research in the sub-discipline of IT in education, the book is structured around five foci: theory history research directions methodology research topics. This book argues for the enormous power of IT to enable fundamental research that both refines and develops theory and practice in education. High quality research that advances knowledge and educational practice in this area will generally require longer timelines and more complex data collection and analysis methods. The authors draw attention to the value of theoretical frameworks used in mainstream educational research and highlight the early theoretical work on the subject of IT in education. Researching IT in Education is the only book in its area to focus on methodological and research design issues. The individual chapters are contributed by expert researchers and leaders in the field from ten countries, thus providing an unusually broad but coherent international set of perspectives for the issues examined in the book.This book will benefit anyone interested in or undertaking research on IT in education, including academics, research students, teachers and policy-makers.
State of College Access and Completion
Improving College Success for Students from Underrepresented Groups
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
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Despite decades of substantial investments by the federal government, state governments, colleges and universities, and private foundations, students from low-income families as well as racial and ethnic minority groups continue to have substantially lower levels of postsecondary educational attainment than individuals from other groups. The State of College Access and Completion draws together leading researchers nationwide to summarize the state of college access and success and to provide recommendations for how institutional leaders and policymakers can effectively improve the entire spectrum of college access and completion.Springboarding from a seminar series organized by the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, chapter authors explore what is known and not known from existing research about how to improve student success. This much-needed book calls explicit attention to the state of college access and success not only for traditional college-age students, but also for the substantial and growing number of "nontraditional" students. Describing trends in various outcomes along the pathway from college access to completion, this volume documents persisting gaps in outcomes based on students’ demographic characteristics and offers recommendations for strategies to raise student attainment. Graduate students, scholars, and researchers in higher education will find The State of College Access and Completion to be an important and timely resource.
State of College Access and Completion
Improving College Success for Students from Underrepresented Groups
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
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Despite decades of substantial investments by the federal government, state governments, colleges and universities, and private foundations, students from low-income families as well as racial and ethnic minority groups continue to have substantially lower levels of postsecondary educational attainment than individuals from other groups. The State of College Access and Completion draws together leading researchers nationwide to summarize the state of college access and success and to provide recommendations for how institutional leaders and policymakers can effectively improve the entire spectrum of college access and completion.Springboarding from a seminar series organized by the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, chapter authors explore what is known and not known from existing research about how to improve student success. This much-needed book calls explicit attention to the state of college access and success not only for traditional college-age students, but also for the substantial and growing number of "nontraditional" students. Describing trends in various outcomes along the pathway from college access to completion, this volume documents persisting gaps in outcomes based on students’ demographic characteristics and offers recommendations for strategies to raise student attainment. Graduate students, scholars, and researchers in higher education will find The State of College Access and Completion to be an important and timely resource.
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Professions and the State
Expertise and Autonomy in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Inbunden, Engelska, 1991
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Unlike autonomous professionals in Western industrialized democracies, professionals in a socialist, bureaucratic setting operate as employees of the state. The change in environment has important Implications not only for the practice of professions but also for the concept of professionalism itself. This collection of nine essays is the first to survey the major professions In the USSR, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The contributors investigate the implications of professional experience in a socialist economy as well as relating changes in professional organization and power to reform movements in general and perestroika in particular.In the series Labor and Social Change, edited by Paula Rayman and Carmen Sirianni.
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DESCRIPTION
Most software applications must handle user or system-generated events. The most widely-accepted event handling model is the Observer pattern, in which an object "listens" for changes in the application's state and then reacts by executing a unit of code—the problems is that this approach is prone to bugs.
Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) is an alternative to the Observer pattern. It’s designed to deal with events as a stream of values over time rather than as a series of unique responses to discrete changes in state, keeping logic tidy and eliminating the bugs that plague event handling code with no loss of expressiveness. FRP is useful anywhere the Observer pattern is common, including user interfaces, video games, networking, and industrial applications.
Functional Reactive Programming teaches the concepts and applications of FRP. It begins with a careful walk-through of the FRP core operations and introduces the concepts and techniques needed to use FRP in any language. Following easy-to-understand examples, readers will learn how to use FRP in greenfield applications and how to refactor existing applications. Along the way, the book introduces the basics of functional programming in a just-in-time style, so readers never learn anything before they need to use it. By the end of the book, readers will be able to use FRP to spend more time adding features and less time fixing problems.
KEY SELLING POINTS
Step by step guide to developing FRP applications
Think differently about data and events
Spend less time fixing problems and more time adding features
AUDIENCE
This book presents examples in Java, C++, and JavaScript using the Sodium, Flapjax, and BaconJS libraries. No prior experience with functional programming is required.
ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY
Reactive programming is a broad concept, where programs are event-based and viewed as a data flow. Functional Reactive Programming is a specific type of reactive programming that improves the quality of interactive applications, allowing developers to spend more time adding features and less time fixing problems.
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Adrenal Fatigue
Restoring Your Hormones and Controlling Thyroidism (Healing Your Hormones, and Transforming Your Lifestyle to Reclaim Your Health)
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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Education and Technology for a Better World
9th IFIP TC 3 World Conference on Computers in Education, WCCE 2009, Bento Gonçalves, Brazil, July 27-31, 2009, Proceedings
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
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Education and Technology for a Better World was the main theme for WCCE 2009. The conference highlights and explores different perspectives of this theme, covering all levels of formal education as well as informal learning and societal aspects of education. The conference was open to everyone involved in education and training. Additionally players from technological, societal, business and political fields outside education were invited to make relevant contributions within the theme: Education and Technology for a Better World. For several years the WCCE (World Conference on Computers in Education) has brought benefits to the fields of computer science and computers and education as well as to their communities. The contributions at WCCE include research projects and good practice presented in different formats from full papers to posters, demonstrations, panels, workshops and symposiums. The focus is not only on presentations of accepted contributions but also on discussions and input from all participants. The main goal of these conferences is to provide a forum for the discussion of ideas in all areas of computer science and human learning. They create a unique environment in which researchers and practitioners in the fields of computer science and human learning can interact, exchanging theories, experiments, techniques, applications and evaluations of initiatives supporting new developments that are potentially relevant for the development of these fields. They intend to serve as reference guidelines for the research community.
Education and Technology for a Better World
9th IFIP TC 3 World Conference on Computers in Education, WCCE 2009, Bento Gonçalves, Brazil, July 27-31, 2009, Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
1 038 kr
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Education and Technology for a Better World was the main theme for WCCE 2009. The conference highlights and explores different perspectives of this theme, covering all levels of formal education as well as informal learning and societal aspects of education. The conference was open to everyone involved in education and training. Additionally players from technological, societal, business and political fields outside education were invited to make relevant contributions within the theme: Education and Technology for a Better World. For several years the WCCE (World Conference on Computers in Education) has brought benefits to the fields of computer science and computers and education as well as to their communities. The contributions at WCCE include research projects and good practice presented in different formats from full papers to posters, demonstrations, panels, workshops and symposiums. The focus is not only on presentations of accepted contributions but also on discussions and input from all participants. The main goal of these conferences is to provide a forum for the discussion of ideas in all areas of computer science and human learning. They create a unique environment in which researchers and practitioners in the fields of computer science and human learning can interact, exchanging theories, experiments, techniques, applications and evaluations of initiatives supporting new developments that are potentially relevant for the development of these fields. They intend to serve as reference guidelines for the research community.
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Någonstans och Ingenstans kallas två grill- och festplatser som ligger utmed Svartån i Tranås, och som förr ofta användes när festsugna ungdomar ville vara i fred, långt borta från de vuxnas granskande blickar. Mellan Någonstans och Ingenstans heter antologin där det bjuds på poesi, både på svenska och engelska, i olika former. Allt från långa dikter till kortare poem och haiku. 29 poeter från hela världen som vistats i Tranås låter läsaren ta del av deras intryck av staden och dess människor, när de med utomståendes ögon blickar in i deras vardag, deras värld. En plats inte bara i ingenstans utan också i någonstans. Varken bättre eller sämre än andra städer. Tranås genom främlingars ögon: Jonas Bengt Svensson, Hanna Halgren, Bengt O Björklund, Joakim Becker, Ullias Berglund, Christer Boberg, Anthony Jones, Melanie Perry, Anisur Rahman Derek Coyle, Dominic Williams, Sine Ergün, Colm Ó Ciarnáin, Lucy Durneen, Ferhat Mahir Çakaloz, Dana Perry, Maria McManus, Freke Räihä, Ica Fisherstöm, Michelle Dooley Mahon, Chris Ozzard, Moheb Soliman, Inês Lampreia, Calvin Wharton, Tishani Doshi, Phelim Kavanagh, Eleanor Shaw, Rhian Elizabeth, Jeni Williams, Natalie Holborow
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This book provides a critical review of research in mathematics education published in or about the Australasian region in the four years from 2020 to 2023. Research in Mathematics Education in Australasia 2020-2023 (RiMEA 2020-2023) is the eleventh edition of the four-yearly review of mathematics education research in Australasia. It is compiled by the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA). It is primarily focused on research from Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore but also includes research from other Southeast Asian countries and the South Pacific. Although each edition of RiMEA is shaped by the preceding volumes, each new edition evolves in response to events coinciding with each new review period. Following an introduction by the editors, RiMEA 2020-2023 will contain a reflection chapter authored by the editors of the previous edition, 'Research in Mathematics Education in Australasia 2016–2019,' on how research in mathematics education in theAustralasian region has progressed over the four years since. This book provides a comprehensive critical review of research literature in the Australasian region on significant topics published within the review period. It serves as a resource for researchers and promotes quality research in the Australasian region. Furthermore, it provides an introduction to mathematics education research in the Australasian region for Ph.D. candidates, early career researchers, and other researchers beginning a new field of research.
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This book provides a critical review of research in mathematics education published in or about the Australasian region in the four years from 2020 to 2023. Research in Mathematics Education in Australasia 2020-2023 (RiMEA 2020-2023) is the eleventh edition of the four-yearly review of mathematics education research in Australasia. It is compiled by the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA). It is primarily focused on research from Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore but also includes research from other Southeast Asian countries and the South Pacific. Although each edition of RiMEA is shaped by the preceding volumes, each new edition evolves in response to events coinciding with each new review period. Following an introduction by the editors, RiMEA 2020-2023 will contain a reflection chapter authored by the editors of the previous edition, 'Research in Mathematics Education in Australasia 2016–2019,' on how research in mathematics education in theAustralasian region has progressed over the four years since. This book provides a comprehensive critical review of research literature in the Australasian region on significant topics published within the review period. It serves as a resource for researchers and promotes quality research in the Australasian region. Furthermore, it provides an introduction to mathematics education research in the Australasian region for Ph.D. candidates, early career researchers, and other researchers beginning a new field of research.
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