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Science and Social Science Research in British India, 1780-1880 - The Role of Anglo-Indian Associations and Government... Science and Social Science Research in British India, 1780-1880 - The Role of Anglo-Indian Associations and Government (Hardcover, New)
Edward W. Ellsworth
R2,776 Discovery Miles 27 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This important volume by Edward W. Ellsworth examines the conflicting interests, programs, and goals which influenced the emergence of Anglo-Indian social purpose and scientific organizations between 1780 and 1880. The intellectual energy that promoted the growth of these multi-racial associations and their efforts toward reform was often diverted by British government structures, financial limitations, and Indian resistance. Ellsworth's study traces how, despite these obstacles, these Anglo-Indian groups became the foundation for both the official and reformist programs which were integral to the formation of the Indian Congress at the end of the 19th century. After a brief historical introduction, Ellsworth offers an overview of social science ideology from British and Anglo-Indian perspectives with specific emphasis on the progressive intellectual development, both social and personal, advanced by members of the Bengal, Bombay, and Punjab associations. The author traces government involvement in select areas of science associational research and the relationship of that research to official policies and regulations, agribusiness goals and the commonweal. He also deals with key elements of Anglo-Indian science associational programs shaped by needs of the community but also by the British science world and British and Anglo-Indian economic interests. The creation of a colonial science is thus outlined. Concluding with a selected bibliography and full index, the book proves a comprehensive account of an intellectually vital period in Indian history.

Networks of Echoes - Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Bruce J. West, Malgorzata Turalska,... Networks of Echoes - Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Bruce J. West, Malgorzata Turalska, Paolo Grigolini
R3,904 R2,034 Discovery Miles 20 340 Save R1,870 (48%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Networks of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders" is a mathematically rigorous and data rich book on a fascinating area of the science and engineering of social webs. There are hundreds of complex network phenomena whose statistical properties are described by inverse power laws. The phenomena of interest are not arcane events that we encounter only fleetingly, but are events that dominate our lives. We examine how this intermittent statistical behavior intertwines itself with what appears to be the organized activity of social groups. The book is structured as answers to a sequence of questions such as: How are decisions reached in elections and boardrooms? How is the stability of a society undermined by zealots and committed minorities and how is that stability re-established? Can we learn to answer such questions about human behavior by studying the way flocks of birds retain their formation when eluding a predator? These questions and others are answered using a generic model of a complex dynamic network one whose global behavior is determined by a symmetric interaction among individuals based on social imitation. The complexity of the network is manifest in time series resulting from self-organized critical dynamics that have divergent first and second moments, are non-stationary, non-ergodic and non-Poisson. How phase transitions in the network dynamics influence such activity as decision making is a fascinating story and provides a context for introducing many of the mathematical ideas necessary for understanding complex networks in general. The decision making model (DMM) is selected to emphasize that there are features of complex webs that supersede specific mechanisms and need to be understood from a general perspective. This insightful overview of recent tools and their uses may serve as an introduction and curriculum guide in related courses."

Learning Technology in the European Communities 1990 - DELTA Conference on Research and Technology Proceedings (Hardcover):... Learning Technology in the European Communities 1990 - DELTA Conference on Research and Technology Proceedings (Hardcover)
Stefano A Cerri, John Whiting
R2,666 Discovery Miles 26 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

New Perspectives in Advanced Learning Technology.- R&D on Advanced Learning Technologies in the New Framework Programme.- Cognitive and Educational Problems of the New Learning Technologies.- Educational Requirements of Vocational Training Using Expert Systems.- The Learner's View of Hypermedia.- Deep-Knowledge Acquisition for Learner Modelling in Second Language Learning.- Communications-Centred Multi-Media Learning Systems.- A Functional Architecture for Intelligent Simulation Learning Environments.- An Overview of Key Issues to the Development of a "Learning Services based on Technology" European Market.- The Integration of Advanced Learning Technologies in Corporate Training Activities.- Pro-DELTA Portuguese Research on Delta.- The Influence of Public Policies on the Structure, Conduct and Performance of the Advanced Learning Technology Market.- Flexible Distance Learning; Barriers to Growth.- Computer-Based Training Producers: A Market for Delta R&D Products.- Educational Technologies for SME's; Problems & Ways towards solutions.- State of the art in the application of telecommunications to learning.- Eurostep: An Experiment of Crucial Importance for the Developement of Distance Education by Satellite in Europe.- Flexible Distance Learning Education for Doctors - The SATDOC Project.- Communications Infrastructure for Interactiv Video Using DBS and ISDN.- An 'Intelligent' Database System of Audio-Visual Material.- XTEC Online In-Service Teacher Training Project.- Multimedia Interactive applications & ISDN for Distant Learning.- Telecommunication in Distance Education: User-Demands and Technological Possibilities.- Learner Places for European Learning - the LAT Approach to Deriving Functions.- Information Retrieval and Interactive Learning in a Broadband Information System.- EPOS: Telecommunication in Computer-Delivered Training and Education.- Telecommunication Aspects of OLE.- Video Conferencing in a Learning Context.- Tools for Building Learner Models.- The ECAL Teaching Engine: Pragmatic AI for Education.- Artificial Intelligence: The Key to Open Learning.- Experiments on Knowledge Acquisition for Learner Modelling.- NOBILE: An Object-Based User Model Acquisition Shell.- Student Modelling Toolkits.- An Adaptive Environment for Open Learning in DELTA.- Generation and Maintenance of Computational Viewpoints in Student Models.- Belief-Based Bounded User Modelling.- Connectionist Models for Dialogue Systems.- Connectionist Models for the Simulation of Student Mistakes in Learning a Foreign Language.- Hypermedia: How Will The Author Cope?.- The I.C.A.T. Project (ILVA Computer Aided Training).- An Object-Oriented Data Model for Hypermedia Systems.- Multilingual Aspects of a Multimedia Database of Learning Materials.- Perpetuating the Myth.- Next Generation Authoring Systems: Integration of Multiple Methodologies and Tools.- On the Concept of Reusability in Educational Design.- A Framework for Authoring Tool Integration.- The Relationship between PETE and PCTE.- Multi-Strategy Authoring Toolkit for Intelligent Courseware: Better Courses for Less.- Generic Tool for Courseware Authoring.- The CAMCE Project: An Environment for Cooperative and Distributed Authoring.- The DEEP Methodology for Authoring.- Authoring for Intelligent Simulation Based Instruction: A Model Based Approach.- Authoring for Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- Intelligent Multimedia Authoring: Advancing Towards Users in a European Context.- A Courseware Production Model which Integrates the Results of the Development Systems.- Transferring Knowledge in a Cross-Cultural Perspective.- Sociological Questions in Open Learning Standards and the Learner Environment.- Video Conference: Intercultural Learning in the Virtual Classroom.- Issues in Instructional Design for CAL: Problems and Possible Solutions.- Delta and the Back of Beyond.- European School Project: On Cultural Conversations.

Meaningful Making - Projects and Inspirations for Fab Labs and Makerspaces (Hardcover): Paulo Blikstein, Sylvia Libow Martinez,... Meaningful Making - Projects and Inspirations for Fab Labs and Makerspaces (Hardcover)
Paulo Blikstein, Sylvia Libow Martinez, Heather Allen Pang
R1,468 Discovery Miles 14 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Richard Ned Lebow: Key Texts in Political Psychology and International Relations Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Richard Ned... Richard Ned Lebow: Key Texts in Political Psychology and International Relations Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Richard Ned Lebow
R2,747 R1,927 Discovery Miles 19 270 Save R820 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This third out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series includes texts on psychology and international relations, causation, counterfactual analysis. The political psychology contributions draw on richer, ancient Greek understandings of the psyche and offer novel insights into strategies of conflict management, the role of emotions in international relations, and the modern fixation on identity.

Researching a Posthuman World - Interviews with Digital Objects (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Catherine Adams, Terrie-Lynn Thompson Researching a Posthuman World - Interviews with Digital Objects (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Catherine Adams, Terrie-Lynn Thompson
R1,993 Discovery Miles 19 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides a practical approach for applying posthumanist insights to qualitative research inquiry. Adams and Thompson invite readers to embrace their inner - and outer - cyborg as they consider how today's professional practices and everyday ways of being are increasingly intertwined with digital technologies. Drawing on posthuman scholarship, the authors offer eight heuristics for "interviewing objects" in an effort to reveal the unique - and sometimes contradictory - contributions the digital is making to work, learning and living. The heuristics are drawn from Actor Network Theory, phenomenology, postphenomenology, critical media studies and related sociomaterial approaches. This text offers a theoretically informed yet practical approach for asking critical questions of digital and non-digital things in professional and personal spaces, and ultimately, for considering the ethical and political implications of a technology mediated world. A thought-provoking and innovative study, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of technology studies, digital learning, and sociology.

Data Analysis in Management with SPSS Software (Hardcover, 2013 ed.): J.P. Verma Data Analysis in Management with SPSS Software (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
J.P. Verma
R3,504 Discovery Miles 35 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides readers with a greater understanding of a variety of statistical techniques along with the procedure to use the most popular statistical software package SPSS. It strengthens the intuitive understanding of the material, thereby increasing the ability to successfully analyze data in the future. The book provides more control in the analysis of data so that readers can apply the techniques to a broader spectrum of research problems. This book focuses on providing readers with the knowledge and skills needed to carry out research in management, humanities, social and behavioural sciences by using SPSS.

Design and Inference in Finite Population Sampling (Hardcover): A.S. Hedayat Design and Inference in Finite Population Sampling (Hardcover)
A.S. Hedayat
R6,960 Discovery Miles 69 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Inference infinite sampling is a new development that is essential for the field of sampling. In addition to covering the majority of well known sampling plans and procedures, this study covers the important topics of superpopulation approach, randomized response, non-response and resampling techniques. The authors also provide extensive sets of problems ranging in difficulty, making this book beneficial to students.

Decision and Interaction in Crisis - A Model of International Crisis Behavior (Hardcover, New): Ben Mor Decision and Interaction in Crisis - A Model of International Crisis Behavior (Hardcover, New)
Ben Mor
R2,764 Discovery Miles 27 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides an analysis of strategic behavior in international crises. Various aspects of crisis decision and interaction, such as initiation, misperception, deception, learning, and termination, are studied by means of a game model that incorporates psychological variables. This integrative approach is designed to narrow the gap between psychological and game-theoretical studies of crisis, which are generally considered to be incompatible. The utility of the approach is demonstrated by means of an in-depth case study of the 1967 Middle East crisis. This study will be of interest to scholars in political science and international relations and political science, crisis theory, and game theory.

Quantitative Research Methods in Communication - The Power of Numbers for Social Justice (Hardcover): Erica Scharrer, Srividya... Quantitative Research Methods in Communication - The Power of Numbers for Social Justice (Hardcover)
Erica Scharrer, Srividya Ramasubramanian
R4,501 Discovery Miles 45 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This textbook is an advanced introduction to quantitative methods for students in communication and allied social science disciplines that focuses on why and how to conduct research that contributes to social justice. Today's researchers are inspired by the potential for scholarship to make a difference for society, to push toward more just and equitable ends, and to engage in dialogue with members of the public so that they can make decisions about how to navigate the social, cultural, and political world equipped with accurate, fair, and up-to-date knowledge. This book illustrates the mechanics and the meaning behind quantitative research methods by illustrating each step in the research design process with research addressing questions of social justice. It provides practical guidance for researchers who wish to engage in the transformation of structures, practices, and understandings in society through community and civic engagement and policy formation. It contains step-by-step guidance in quantitative methods-from conceptualization through all the stages of execution of a study, including providing a detailed guide for statistical analysis-and demonstrates how researchers can engage with social justice issues in systematic, rigorous, ethical, and meaningful ways. This text serves as a core or supplementary textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in research methods for communication and social sciences and fills a gap for a methods text that is responsive to the desire of scholars to conduct socially impactful research.

Evaluating Police Management Development Programs (Hardcover, New): William Markham, B. Keith Simerson Evaluating Police Management Development Programs (Hardcover, New)
William Markham, B. Keith Simerson
R2,198 Discovery Miles 21 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Designed to meet the growing demand for evaluation material, this volume fills a major gap in criminal justice literature. It details the first comprehensive, broad based, and theoretically grounded model for evaluating police management training programs. In a clear and concise style it develops a complete set of instruments for evaluation and then illustrates use of the model and the instruments on a specific program. Byron Simerson and William Markham have included all of the instruments needed to conduct a comprehensive evaluation and the instructions for their use. Alleviating the problem of haphazard evaluation, this volume was designed for police chiefs and training directors in larger jurisdictions, state criminal justice academies, the Training and Standards Divisions of State Departments of Justice, and state and federal law enforcement agencies.

Administrators are now recognizing the importance of determining training program efficiency, particularly in light of the growing concerns over legal liability. "Evaluating Police Management Development ProgramS" provides the tools and expertise needed to conduct a comprehensive program evaluation. Chapters provide: an overview of existing literature, model description, research procedures, model application to a specific police executive development program, reaction by North Carolina police chiefs, and a description of how the model can be applied to any police management development program. Appendices provide all instruments including precourse surveys, observation evaluation forms, course critiques, follow up surveys and chiefs' evaluation surveys.

Devolution and Governance - Wales Between Capacity and Constraint (Hardcover): Alistair Cole, Ian Stafford Devolution and Governance - Wales Between Capacity and Constraint (Hardcover)
Alistair Cole, Ian Stafford
R1,877 Discovery Miles 18 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the development of Welsh devolution in the context of great economic and political uncertainty. Drawing on research carried out over more than a decade, it explores whether Welsh devolution has developed the capacity to resist internal and external pressures and to continue to pursue a distinctive political and policy agenda.

Practice-Based Professional Development in Education (Hardcover): Crystal Loose Practice-Based Professional Development in Education (Hardcover)
Crystal Loose
R5,004 Discovery Miles 50 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Teachers, as life-long learners, engage in professional development to deepen their understanding of content and instructional methods. Teacher professional development is a form of adult education, and adults learn best if they are actively involved in their own learning and see it relative to their own needs. Grounding professional development in actual classroom practice is a highly powerful means of fostering effective teachers. Research has shown that, for professional development to be effective, several components of instruction should be considered: reflection on practice, problems arising in practice, subject matter content, and principles of adult learning. Practice-Based Professional Development in Education is a cutting-edge research publication that explores both effective and ineffective professional development practices and presents arguments for why adult learning theory should be considered when designing a professional development session. Highlighting a range of topics including social media, education reform, and teacher learning, this book is essential for teachers, academicians, education professionals, policymakers, curriculum designers, researchers, and students.

Handbook of Research on Urban Politics and Policy in the United States (Hardcover, New): Ronald K. Vogel Handbook of Research on Urban Politics and Policy in the United States (Hardcover, New)
Ronald K. Vogel
R2,507 Discovery Miles 25 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A comprehensive reference work which provides a way to access research on urban politics and policy in the United States. Experts in the field guide readers through major controversies, while evaluating and assessing the subfields of urban politics and policy. Each chapter follows the same basic organization with topics such as methodological and theoretical issues, current states of the field, and directions for future research. For students, this work provides a starting place to guide them to the most important works in a particular subfield and a context to place their work in a larger body of knowledge. For scholars, it serves as a reference work for immediately familiarity with subfields of the discipline, including classic studies and major research questions. For urban policymakers or analysts, the handbook provides a wealth of information and allows quick identification of existing academic knowledge and research relevant to the problem at hand.

Semantic Web Technologies and Legal Scholarly Publishing (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Silvio Peroni Semantic Web Technologies and Legal Scholarly Publishing (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Silvio Peroni
R3,209 R2,101 Discovery Miles 21 010 Save R1,108 (35%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work deals with the applications of Semantic Publishing technologies in the legal domain, i.e., the use of Semantic Web technologies to address issues related to the Legal Scholarly Publishing. Research in the field of Law has a long tradition in the application of semantic technologies, such as Semantic Web and Linked Data, to real-world scenarios. This book investigates and proposes solutions for three main issues that Semantic Publishing needs to address within the context of the Legal Scholarly Publishing: the need of tools for linking document text to a formal representation of its meaning; the lack of complete metadata schemas for describing documents according to the publishing vocabulary and the absence of effective tools and user interfaces for easily acting on semantic publishing models and theories.

In particular, this work introduces EARMARK, a markup meta language that allows one to create markup documents without the structural and semantic limits imposed by markup languages such as XML. EARMARK is a platform to link the content layer of a document with its intended formal semantics and it can be used with the Semantic Publishing and Referencing (SPAR) Ontologies, another topic in this book. SPAR Ontologies are a collection of formal models providing an upper semantic layer for describing the publishing domain. Using EARMARK as a foundation for SPAR descriptions opens up to a semantic characterisation of all the aspects of a document and of its parts. Finally, four user-friendly tools are introduced: LODE, KC-Viz, Graffoo and Gaffe. They were expressly developed to facilitate the interaction of publishers and domain experts with Semantic Publishing technologies by shielding such users from the underlying formalisms and semantic models of such technologies.

International Perspectives on Supplementary Pensions - Actors and Issues (Hardcover): Lucy apRoberts, Bryn Davies, Gerard... International Perspectives on Supplementary Pensions - Actors and Issues (Hardcover)
Lucy apRoberts, Bryn Davies, Gerard Hughes, Emmanuel Reynaud
R2,784 Discovery Miles 27 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This international comparison of pension plans lends great understanding to the transformation taking place in almost every nation around the world. It covers ten of the twelve countries of the European Union, as well as the United States and Japan. The project is interdisciplinary, covering a number of fields, such as economics, law, actuarial science, sociology, and political science, that contribute to the analysis of retirement income systems. The chapters vary in scope - some are comparative, some are restricted to a single country or to one type of plan in one country. Despite their diversity, the chapters share a common awareness of three aspects of pension plans: the importance of actors' roles in shaping each system, the different economic and social domains affected by retirement plans, and the interconnections between social security and supplementary plans.

School Violence in South Korea - International Comparative Analysis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Seunghee Han School Violence in South Korea - International Comparative Analysis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Seunghee Han
R3,611 Discovery Miles 36 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines school violence in South Korea from an international comparative perspective. It analyses nationally representative samples and provides extensive literature reviews based on academic journals, various social and educational magazines and major media articles on school violence in South Korea. This book includes major data sets for the analysis such as Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and Nation Youth Policy Institute. These data show frequency, patterns and associated factors of school violence in South Korea and comparison of those in Japan and the United States.

Dynamics of Poverty in Rural Bangladesh (Hardcover, 2013 ed.): Pk MD Motiur Rahman, Noriatsu Matsui, Yukio Ikemoto Dynamics of Poverty in Rural Bangladesh (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
Pk MD Motiur Rahman, Noriatsu Matsui, Yukio Ikemoto
R3,868 R3,586 Discovery Miles 35 860 Save R282 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The study of poverty dynamics is important for effective poverty alleviation policies because the changes in income poverty are also accompanied by changes in socioeconomic factors such as literacy, gender parity in school, health care, infant mortality, and asset holdings. In order to examine the dynamics of poverty, information from 1,212 households in 32 rural villages in Bangladesh was collected in December 2004 and December 2009. This book reports the analytical results from quantitative and qualitative surveys from the same households at two points of time, which yielded the panel data for understanding the changes in situations of poverty. Efforts have been made to include the most recent research from diverse disciplines including economics, statistics, anthropology, education, health care, and vulnerability study. Specifically, findings from logistic regression analysis, polychoric principal component analysis, kernel density function, income mobility with the help of the Markov chain model, and child nutrition status from anthropometric measures have been presented. Asset holdings and liabilities of the chronically poor as well as those of three other economic groups (the descending non-poor, the ascending poor, and the non-poor) are analyzed statistically. The degrees of vulnerability to poverty are examined by years of schooling, landholding size, gender of household head, social capital, and occupation. The multiple logistic regression model was used to identify important risk factors for a household's vulnerability. In 2009, some of the basic characteristics of the chronically poor were: higher percentage and number of female-headed households, higher dependency ratio, lower levels of education, fewer years of schooling, and limited employment. There was a low degree of mobility of households from one poverty status to another in the period 2004-2009, implying that the process of economic development and high economic growth in the macroeconomy during this time failed to improve the poverty situation in rural Bangladesh.

Men and Poisons - The Edgewood Volunteers and the Army Chemical Warfare Research Program (Hardcover): Malcolm Baker Bowers Men and Poisons - The Edgewood Volunteers and the Army Chemical Warfare Research Program (Hardcover)
Malcolm Baker Bowers
R768 Discovery Miles 7 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Men and Poisons is a story about the Army Chemical Warfare Research Program at Edgewood, Maryland in the 1960's that used enlisted men as volunteers. The author was a physician assigned to this program for a three-year tour of duty. Characters and events have been fictionalized to some degree but are based upon individuals and circumstances encountered by the author.

A Life Devoted to Quality of Life - Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Filomena Maggino A Life Devoted to Quality of Life - Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Filomena Maggino
R3,074 R2,111 Discovery Miles 21 110 Save R963 (31%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This Festschrift is published in honor of Alex C. Michalos, a great scholar and inspiration to many upcoming and famous academics and practitioners. The Festschrift celebrates his lifelong, outstanding scientific and cultural contribution to Quality of Life Research. It contains contributions written by the most prestigious and renowned scholars in the field of social indicators research and quality of life studies. Taken together, the contributions from scholars around the world reflect Michalos' stance that even though there may be differences in individual scientific positions, the language in the field of quality of life has no limits and boundaries.

Dynamic Models of Conflict and Pacification - Dissenters, Officials, and Peacemakers (Hardcover, New): Dean Hoover, David... Dynamic Models of Conflict and Pacification - Dissenters, Officials, and Peacemakers (Hardcover, New)
Dean Hoover, David Kowalewski
R2,216 Discovery Miles 22 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work examines the conflict between movements and regimes using dynamic mathematical modeling methods. Most of the deaths from political violence in the world in this century have not been caused by war, but by conflict between governments and dissenters. It is hoped that scholars will improve their understanding of these conflicts, and thus help to reduce the costs.

The Measurement and Analysis of Housing Preference and Choice (Hardcover, 2011 ed.): Sylvia J.T. Jansen, Henny C.C.H. Coolen,... The Measurement and Analysis of Housing Preference and Choice (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
Sylvia J.T. Jansen, Henny C.C.H. Coolen, Roland W. Goetgeluk
R4,507 Discovery Miles 45 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What are the current trends in housing? Is my planned project commercially viable? What should be my marketing and advertisement strategies? These are just some of the questions real estate agents, landlords and developers ask researchers to answer. But to find the answers, researchers are faced with a wide variety of methods that measure housing preferences and choices. To select and value a valid research method, one needs a well-structured overview of the methods that are used in housing preference and housing choice research. This comprehensive introduction to this field offers just such an overview. It discusses and compares numerous methods, detailing the potential limitation of each one, and it reaches beyond methodology, illustrating how thoughtful consideration of methods and techniques in research can help researchers and other professionals to deliver products and services that are more in line with residents needs."

Morphisms for Quantitative Spatial Analysis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Daniel A. Griffith, Jean H.P. Paelinck Morphisms for Quantitative Spatial Analysis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Daniel A. Griffith, Jean H.P. Paelinck
R3,978 Discovery Miles 39 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book treats the notion of morphisms in spatial analysis, paralleling these concepts in spatial statistics (Part I) and spatial econometrics (Part II). The principal concept is morphism (e.g., isomorphisms, homomorphisms, and allomorphisms), which is defined as a structure preserving the functional linkage between mathematical properties or operations in spatial statistics and spatial econometrics, among other disciplines. The purpose of this book is to present selected conceptions in both domains that are structurally the same, even though their labelling and the notation for their elements may differ. As the approaches presented here are applied to empirical materials in geography and economics, the book will also be of interest to scholars of regional science, quantitative geography and the geospatial sciences. It is a follow-up to the book "Non-standard Spatial Statistics and Spatial Econometrics" by the same authors, which was published by Springer in 2011.

Spatial Synthesis - Computational Social Science and Humanities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Xinyue Ye, Hui Lin Spatial Synthesis - Computational Social Science and Humanities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Xinyue Ye, Hui Lin
R1,603 Discovery Miles 16 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book describes how powerful computing technology, emerging big and open data sources, and theoretical perspectives on spatial synthesis have revolutionized the way in which we investigate social sciences and humanities. It summarizes the principles and applications of human-centered computing and spatial social science and humanities research, thereby providing fundamental information that will help shape future research. The book illustrates how big spatiotemporal socioeconomic data facilitate the modelling of individuals' economic behavior in space and time and how the outcomes of such models can reveal information about economic trends across spatial scales. It describes how spatial social science and humanities research has shifted from a data-scarce to a data-rich environment. The chapters also describe how a powerful analytical framework for identifying space-time research gaps and frontiers is fundamental to comparative study of spatiotemporal phenomena, and how research topics have evolved from structure and function to dynamic and predictive. As such this book provides an interesting read for researchers, students and all those interested in computational and spatial social sciences and humanities.

Re-Examining The Crime Drop (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Stephen Farrall Re-Examining The Crime Drop (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Stephen Farrall
R2,008 Discovery Miles 20 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The crime drop is one of the most important puzzles in contemporary criminology: since the early-1990s many countries appear to exhibit a pronounced decline in crime rates. While there have been many studies on the topic, this book argues that the current crime drop literature relies too heavily on a single methodological approach, and in turn, provides a new method for examining the falling rates of crime, based on ideas from political science and comparative historical social science. Farrall's original new research forwards an understanding of trends in crime and responses to them by questioning the received theoretical assumptions. The book therefore encourages a 'deepening' in the nature of the sorts of studies which have been undertaken so far. Firmly grounded in Political Science, this innovative study is a must read for scholars of Critical Criminology, Criminological Theory, and Politics.

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