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Akua Loves Math
Artika R. Tyner; Illustrated by Bilal Karaca
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The Neuroscience of Expertise examines the ways in which the brain
accommodates the incredible feats of experts. It builds on a
tradition of cognitive research to explain how the processes of
perception, attention, and memory come together to enable experts'
outstanding performance. The text explains how the brain adapts to
enable the complex cognitive machinery behind expertise, and
provides a unifying framework to illuminate the seemingly
unconnected performance of experts in different domains. Whether it
is a radiologist who must spot a pathology in a split second, a
chess grandmaster who finds the right path in a jungle of possible
continuations, or a tennis professional who reacts impossibly
quickly to return a serve, The Neuroscience of Expertise offers
insight into the universal cognitive and neural mechanisms behind
these achievements.
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Akua Loves Math
Artika R. Tyner; Illustrated by Bilal Karaca
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R725
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This textbook provides a concise introduction to Management
Information Systems. It introduces core concepts in an accessible
style and adopts a contemporary approach that reflects the
opportunities and challenges faced as businesses and technologies
continue to evolve. Key features:
·       Coverage of key
issues including sustainability and green IT, ethics and privacy,
smart technologies, corporate social responsibility and big data
·       Definition boxes
to consolidate understanding of key terms
·       Illustrative
examples to engage and apply theory in the real-world
·       Pause for
thought boxes to check understanding and encourage reflection
·       End of chapter
case studies to illustrate key topics in practice, encourage
critical thinking, application of knowledge and enhance learning
·       Comprehensive
online support including PowerPoints, tutor’s guide and testbank
of questions This textbook is suitable for undergraduate and
postgraduate students studying introductory Management or Business
Information Systems courses with no prior knowledge. Dr Tomayess
Issa is a Senior Lecturer at Curtin University, Australia. Dr
Theodora Issa is a Senior Lecturer at Curtin University, Australia.
Dr Sarita Hardin-Ramanan is Head Faculty of IT at Curtin
University, Mauritius. Dr Bilal Abu Salih is a
Associate Professor at The University of Jordan, Jordan. Dr
Lydia Maketo is a Lecturer at Curtin University, Australia. Dr
Rohini Balapumi is a Lecturer at Curtin University, Australia. Dr
S. Zaung Nau is a Lecturer at Curtin University, Australia. Dr
Raadila Hajee Ahmud-Boodoo is a Teaching Instructor at Curtin
University, Australia.
A comprehensive overview of Hajj, one of the central pillars of
Islam. Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage consists of twenty-seven
essays addressing objects in the remarkable collection of Nasser
David Khalili. The collection features more than five thousand
objects relating to the arts of pilgrimage, from the eighth century
to today, and includes Qur'ans, illustrated manuscripts, rare
books, scientific instruments, textiles, coins, paintings, prints,
and photo-postcards, as well as archival material, unique
historical documents, and examples of the work of some of the
earliest Muslim photographers of Hajj. Together the essays
collected in Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage provide a
comprehensive overview of Hajj, illustrating the religious,
spiritual, cultural, and artistic aspects of pilgrimage to the Holy
Sanctuaries of Islam and the cosmopolitan nature of Hajj itself.
Each essay is written by a prominent specialist in the field and
beautifully illustrated with full-color images of objects from the
collection, some of which have never been seen in print before.
Taking readers from the early history of Islam to the fascinating
story of the Western view of Muslim pilgrimage, these essays will
transform our perception of Hajj.
This up-to-date reference book discusses the effects of climate
change on the biodiversity of insect pests. The changing climate
and agricultural intensification practices impact negatively on
insect biodiversity. The book explains the significance of insect
pests for evaluating climatic impacts on a wide range of ecological
systems. It covers the effect of climate change on pollinators, and
household and agricultural insect pests. It explains how
climate-smart agriculture can enhance productivity and food
security. Key points - Reviews the effects of climate change on
plant-insect interactions Includes topics such insect biodiversity
informatics and conservation Discusses food security, pest
management, and beneficial and social insects Covers topics like
precision agriculture and climate-smart agriculture Provides
insights on the relation between agriculture intensification and
insect biodiversity This book is meant for scientists, researchers,
and students working in the fields of agriculture, entomology,
ecology, plant science, environmental biology, and biotechnology.
This text outlines for the first time a structured articulation of
an emerging Islamic orientation to psychotherapy, a framework
presented and known as Traditional Islamically Integrated
Psychotherapy (TIIP). TIIP is an integrative model of mental health
care that is grounded in the core principles of Islam while drawing
upon empirical truths in psychology. The book introduces the basic
foundations of TIIP, then delves into the writings of early Islamic
scholars to provide a richer understanding of the Islamic
intellectual heritage as it pertains to human psychology and mental
health. Beyond theory, the book provides readers with practical
interventional skills illustrated with case studies as well as
techniques drawn inherently from the Islamic tradition. A
methodology of case formulation is provided that allows for
effective treatment planning and translation into therapeutic
application. Throughout its chapters, the book situates TIIP within
an Islamic epistemological and ontological framework, providing a
discussion of the nature and composition of the human psyche, its
drives, health, pathology, mechanisms of psychological change, and
principles of healing. Mental health practitioners who treat Muslim
patients, Muslim clinicians, students of the behavioral sciences
and related disciplines, and anyone with an interest in spiritually
oriented psychotherapies will greatly benefit from this
illustrative and practical text.
Advanced skin cancer is one that has already metastasized beyond
its primary origin, or one that has invaded underlying tissues such
that surgical resection either is technically impossible or would
lead to an unacceptable functional or cosmetic outcome. These skin
cancers present a complex problem that requires the input of
multiple specialties to delineate the best management plan.
National guidelines utilize the best available data to guide
management decisions. However, there is considerable leeway within
the guidelines, enabling the ultimate care decision to be molded to
best fit each individual patient. This book aims to provide
instructional examples of patient cases where the input of the
multidisciplinary team is critical in providing the most suitable
care plan for the patient. CONTENTS: Melanoma * Squamous Cell
Carcinoma * Basal Cell Carcinoma * Cutaneous Lymphoma * Kaposi's
Sarcoma * Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans * Merkel Cell Carcinoma *
Rare Cancer Presentations
Buckwheat: Forgotten crop for the Future offers an overview of this
globally important crop, including its history, origin and its
importance to functional food sector. Due to its short growth span,
ability to grow at higher altitudes and superior quality of its
protein, buckwheat is considered as an important crop for
addressing global food requirements. The book also provides upto
date information on the abiotic stress tolerance properties of the
crop including its hyperaccumulating potential. The book talks
about the issues and challenges being faced for adopting this crop
and the ways to address and overcome these limitations. The book
guides the readers through different varietal adaptations and
provides information on appropriate research directions. This book
would serve as an ideal guide for researchers and advanced-level
students seeking better understanding of the buckwheat crop.
Introduces the buckwheat's origin, history and diversity Summarizes
the distribution of buckwheat species around the world Presents
agro-techniques and cultivation practices of buckwheat Explores the
nutraceutical potential of buckwheat Includes adaptation of
buckwheat towards different environmental factors affecting growth
and production Discusses the reasons for declining buckwheat
production Addresses the strategies for buckwheat crop improvement
Plants and microbes have co-evolved and interacted with each other
in nature. Understanding the complex nature of the plant-microbe
interface can pave the way for novel strategies to improve plant
productivity in an eco-friendly manner. The microbes associated
with plants, often called plant microbiota, are an integral part of
plant life. The significance of the plant microbiome is a reliable
approach toward sustainability to meet future food crises and
rejuvenate soil health. Profiling plant-associate microbiomes
(genome assemblies of all microbes) is an emerging concept in
understanding plant-microbe interactions. Microbiota extends the
plant capacity to acclimatize fluctuating environmental conditions
through several mechanisms. Thus, unraveling the mystery of
plant-microbe dynamics through latest technologies to better
understand the role of metabolites and signal pathway mechanisms is
very important. This book shares the latest insight on omics
technologies to unravel plant-microbe dynamic interactions and
other novel phytotechnologies for cleaning contaminated soils.
Besides, it also provides brief insight on the recently discovered
clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
CRISPR-Cas9, which is a genome editing tool to explore
plant-microbe interactions and how this genome editing tool helps
to improve the ability of microbes/plants to combat abiotic/biotic
stresses.
This text outlines for the first time a structured articulation of
an emerging Islamic orientation to psychotherapy, a framework
presented and known as Traditional Islamically Integrated
Psychotherapy (TIIP). TIIP is an integrative model of mental health
care that is grounded in the core principles of Islam while drawing
upon empirical truths in psychology. The book introduces the basic
foundations of TIIP, then delves into the writings of early Islamic
scholars to provide a richer understanding of the Islamic
intellectual heritage as it pertains to human psychology and mental
health. Beyond theory, the book provides readers with practical
interventional skills illustrated with case studies as well as
techniques drawn inherently from the Islamic tradition. A
methodology of case formulation is provided that allows for
effective treatment planning and translation into therapeutic
application. Throughout its chapters, the book situates TIIP within
an Islamic epistemological and ontological framework, providing a
discussion of the nature and composition of the human psyche, its
drives, health, pathology, mechanisms of psychological change, and
principles of healing. Mental health practitioners who treat Muslim
patients, Muslim clinicians, students of the behavioral sciences
and related disciplines, and anyone with an interest in spiritually
oriented psychotherapies will greatly benefit from this
illustrative and practical text.
The Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development
Agenda explores the relationship between education and other key
sectors of development in the context of the new global Sustainable
Development Goals (SDG) agenda. While it is widely understood that
there is a positive relationship between education and other
dimensions of development, and populations around the world show a
clear desire for more and better education, education remains an
under-financed and under-prioritised sector within development.
When education does make it onto the agenda, investment is usually
diverted towards increasing access to formal schooling, without
focusing on the intrinsic value of education as a tool for
development within the international development community more
broadly. The authors explore these tensions through a review of
literature from a range of disciplines, providing a clearer picture
of the relationship between education and other development
sectors. The book challenges silo-thinking in the SDGs by exploring
how achieving the SDG education targets can be expected to support
or hinder progress towards other targets, and vice-versa. Drawing
on examples from both low and high income countries, the book
demonstrates how 'good' education functions as an 'enabling right',
impacting positively on many other areas. The book's scope ranges
across education and development studies, economics, geography,
sociology and environmental studies, and will be of interest to any
researchers and students with an interest in education and the
SDGs.
With an unprecedented population boom and rapid industrial
development, environmental pollution has become a severe problem
for the ecosystem and public health. Classical techniques for
sensing and determining environmental contaminants often require
complex pretreatments, expensive equipment, and longer testing
times. Therefore, new, and state-of-the-art sensing technologies
possessing the advantages of excellent sensitivity, rapid
detection, ease of use, and suitability for in situ, real-time, and
continuous monitoring of environmental pollutants, are highly
desirable. Metal-Organic Frameworks-based Hybrid Materials for
Environmental Sensing and Monitoring covers the
current-state-of-the-art hybrid nanomaterials based on
metal-organic frameworks for electrochemical monitoring purposes.
Accomplished authors cover various synthetic routes, methods, and
theories behind enhancing the electrochemical properties and
applications of metal-organic frameworks-based hybrid nanomaterials
for electrochemical sensing of environmental pollutants under one
roof. This book is essential reading for all academic and
industrial researchers working in the fields of materials science
and nanotechnology.
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Akua Is Great (Hardcover)
Artika R. Tyner; Illustrated by Bilal Karaca
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R725
Discovery Miles 7 250
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The results of decades of research shows that children and
adolescents encounter challenges and obstacles in searching for
information and retrieving relevant results, and have difficulty
interpreting results within various information environments.
However, a recent paradigm shift points to the changed information
behavior of the new generation of users; children and adolescents
born after the advent of the Web. Technologically savvy, they skim
and surf for information, multi-task, search collaboratively, and
share information on social networks. This book comprises
innovative research on the information behavior of various age
groups and special populations. It provides studies and reflections
on designing systems that help the new generation cope with a
complex knowledge society. In addition to information scholars,
this book will also be of interest to information professionals,
librarians, educators, Web designers, and human-computer
interaction researchers.
There is an intrinsic conflict between creating secure systems and
usable systems. But usability and security can be made synergistic
by providing requirements and design tools with specific usable
security principles earlier in the requirements and design phase.
In certain situations, it is possible to increase usability and
security by revisiting design decisions made in the past; in
others, to align security and usability by changing the regulatory
environment in which the computers operate. This book addresses
creation of a usable security protocol for user authentication as a
natural outcome of the requirements and design phase of the
authentication method development life cycle.
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Temple Folk (Hardcover)
Aaliyah Bilal
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R723
R549
Discovery Miles 5 490
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The slow pace of the Doha Round has boosted the proliferation of
regional and bilateral trade agreements. Paradoxically, the more
powerful actors, the US and the European Union, who at the same
time have benefited the most from the multilateral system, have
also been engaged in bilateral and regional negotiations in order
to sign WTO-plus agreements with developing countries. Combining a
clear theoretical exposition with systematic cross-regional
analysis, 'Asymmetric Trade Negotiations' offers a coherent picture
of strategic, design and political economy aspects of North-South
trade negotiation processes, from African, Asian and Latin American
perspectives. Skilled area specialists gather to provide
negotiators and policy makers in the South with recommendations,
best practices, and benchmarks and contribute to the understanding
of these recent processes.
Engineers and scientists often need to solve complex problems with
incomplete information resources, necessitating a proper treatment
of uncertainty and a reliance on expert opinions. Uncertainty
Modeling and Analysis in Engineering and the Sciences prepares
current and future analysts and practitioners to understand the
fundamentals of knowledge and ignorance, how to model and analyze
uncertainty, and how to select appropriate analytical tools for
particular problems. This volume covers primary components of
ignorance and their impact on practice and decision making. It
provides an overview of the current state of uncertainty modeling
and analysis, and reviews emerging theories while emphasizing
practical applications in science and engineering. The book
introduces fundamental concepts of classical, fuzzy, and rough
sets, probability, Bayesian methods, interval analysis, fuzzy
arithmetic, interval probabilities, evidence theory, open-world
models, sequences, and possibility theory. The authors present
these methods to meet the needs of practitioners in many fields,
emphasizing the practical use, limitations, advantages, and
disadvantages of the methods.
Chris Killip (1946–2020) is one of the most influential British
photographers of his generation. He is best known for his black and
white images of people and places, especially in the North East of
England in the 1970s and 1980s. This volume focuses on his
remarkable Seacoal series, documenting a community at Lynemouth,
where, as he put it, ‘the Middle Ages and the twentieth century
intertwined’. The Tate Photography Series is a celebration of
photography by artists in the Tate collection, presenting the work
of some of the most significant photographers in the world today.
Each book features a specially selected sequence of images
alongside an introduction and a conversation with or about each
photographer’s practice. The unifying theme for this second group
of titles in the series is Ecology and Environment.
Tabbaa's Transformation offers an innovative approach to
understanding the profound changes undergone by Islamic art and
architecture during the often neglected Medieval Islamic period.
Examining devices such as calligraphy, arabesque, muqarnas, and
stonework, Tabbaa argues we propagated in a moment of confrontation
and facilitated the re-emergence of the Sunni Abbasid caliphate in
a more orthodox image. Tabbaa offers a timely and thought-provoking
alternative to conventional essentialist, positivist and
ethno-narrative interpretations of Islamic art.
Experts, despite their importance and value, can be double-edged swords. They can make valuable contributions from their deep base of knowledge, but those contributions may also contain their own biases and pet theories. Therefore, selecting experts, eliciting their opinions, and aggregating their opinions must be performed and handled carefully, with full recognition of the uncertainties inherent in those opinions.
Elicitation of Expert Opinions for Uncertainty and Risks illuminates those uncertainties and builds a foundation of philosophy, background, methods, and guidelines that helps its readers effectively execute the elicitation process. Based on the first-hand experiences of the author, the book is filled with illustrations, examples, case studies, and applications that demonstrate not only the methods and successes of expert opinion elicitation, but also its pitfalls and failures.
Studies show that in the future, analysts, engineers, and scientists will need to solve ever more complex problems and reach decisions with limited resources. This will lead to an increased reliance on the proper treatment of uncertainty and on the use of expert opinions. Elicitation of Expert Opinions for Uncertainty and Risks will help prepare you to better understand knowledge and ignorance, to successfully elicit expert opinions, to select appropriate expressions of those opinions, and to use various methods to model and aggregate opinions.
Provides insights into the various aspects of microbial genomics
and biotechnology for environmental cleanup In recent years, the
application of genomics to biodegradation and bioremediation
research has led to a better understanding of the metabolic
capabilities of microorganisms, their interactions with hazardous
and toxic chemical compounds, and their adaptability to changing
environmental conditions. Genomics to Bioremediation: Principles,
Applications, and Perspectives provides comprehensive and
up-to-date information on cutting-edge technologies and approaches
in bioremediation and biodegradation of environmental pollutants.
Edited by prominent researchers in the field, this authoritative
reference examines advanced genomics technologies, next-generation
sequencing (NGS), and state-of-the-art bioinformatics tools while
offering valuable insights into the unique functional attributes of
different microbial communities and their impact on the removal of
chemical contaminants. Each chapter includes numerous high-quality
illustrations, detailed tables, extensive references, and
step-by-step descriptions of various microbial metabolic pathways
of degradation and biotransformation of environments containing
various inorganic, metallic, organometallic, and organic
hydrocarbon contaminants. Describes methodologies and underlying
theory for the remediation, detoxification, and degradation of
contaminated environments Covers new genomics technologies that
address nutrient removal, resource recovery, and other major trends
in environmental cleanup Highlights recent advances in microbial
biotechnological approaches including the latest description of the
relationship between microbes and the environment focusing on their
impact on ecosystem services. Offers perspectives on energy saving,
production, sustainability, and community involvement Discusses
current challenges and future directions in the field of
bioremediation Genomics to Bioremediation: Principles,
Applications, and Perspectives is an essential resource for
biochemical and environmental engineers, environmental
microbiologists, academic researchers, process and treatment plant
managers, policymakers, and industry professionals working in the
areas of microbial degradation, bioremediation, and
phytoremediation.
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