Founded in 1985 by Jean-Claude Falmagne and Jean-Paul Doignon, Knowledge Structure Theory (KST) constitutes a rigorous and current mathematical theory for the representation and the assessment of human knowledge. The seminal work of these authors initiated a highly active research strand with an ever-growing literature, mostly scattered across various technical journals.Starting from a concise but comprehensive introduction to the foundations of KST, this state-of-the-art review volume for the first time brings together the most important theoretical developments and extensions of the last decade and presents new areas of application beyond education, with contributions by key researchers in their respective fields.Among the important advances covered by this book are (1) a comprehensive treatment of probabilistic models in KST; (2) polytomous extensions of the theory; (3) KST-based psychological diagnostics and neuropsychological assessment; (4) the representation and assessment of cognitive skills in problem solving, as well as procedural skills. In addition, this book also includes an overview of available software for the application of KST.

Vor dem Hintergrund der engen wechselseitigen Bedingtheit von Experiment und Theorie erlautert der Autor die Grundlagen der Experimentellen Psychologie und vermittelt die Kompetenzen, die entscheidend fur die Planung, Durchfuhrung und Auswertung eigener psychologischer Experimente sind. Ausfuhrlich beschriebene Beispiele aus verschiedenen Teilbereichen der Psychologie illustrieren die konkrete Anwendung der experimentellen Methodik und machen deutlich, dass die Erforschung mentaler Vorgange ein enges Zusammenspiel von experimentellem Know-how und psychologischer Theorienbildung erfordert."

K1, UFC, Kyokushinkai and Muay Thai are enjoying ever increasing popularity. People practicing Martial Arts, who want to train and fight in the Full Contact manner, will find a systematic guide to the development and long-term build up of their training. This guidebook provides a concept for Full Contact training and effective self-defence. One can imagine that Full Contact training would be a very hard and demanding martial art form, however, given adequate training, it can be undertaken completely without any danger. Karateka, who have been training in the traditional Karate form, will see in this book a possibility of combining the training suggestions given with their own learned style, thus making their training more varied and even more interesting.