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This book explores, analyzes, and compares the use of German and
Chinese demonstratives. Discourse and textual uses of the forms are
considered, as well as their locative and temporal uses. The author
observes that in both languages the demonstratives can be used to
refer to referents. However, she departs from the common assumption
that proximal demonstratives refer to entities or places close to
the speaker, while non-proximal demonstratives refer to entities or
places far from the speaker. Having analyzed a representative
sampling consisting of a German text and a Chinese text, the author
argues that both German and Chinese proximal demonstratives can
signal the meaning of HIGH DEIXIS in a system of DEIXIS in the
Columbia School of linguistics framework, whereas their
non-proximal demonstratives can signal the meaning of LOW DEIXIS.
In addition, Chinese demonstratives can be used under more
circumstances than German demonstratives due to the lack of
articles in Chinese. The author also argues that Cognitive
Linguistic analysis is more helpful for new language learners,
whereas the Columbia School of linguistics may be better suited to
advanced learners who wish to know more about the intrinsic
differences between words with similar meanings and uses. This book
aims to help German learners better understand the German reference
system. Readers with a Chinese language background will definitely
benefit more from the book, as well as Chinese learners with a
German language background. For pure linguistic enthusiasts and
multi-linguals, the book offers an extensive introduction to the
Columbia School of linguistics, and can open a new horizon for
learning a new language comparatively.
This multidisciplinary reference takes the reader through all
four major phases of interdisciplinary inquiry: adequate
conceptualization, rigorous formulation, substantive
interpretation, and innovative implementation. The text introduces
a novel synthetic paradigm of public health reasoning and epidemic
modelling, and implements it with a study of the infamous 14th
century AD Black Death disaster that killed at least one-fourth of
the European population.
Network models are critical tools in business, management, science
and industry. "Network Models and Optimization" presents an
insightful, comprehensive, and up-to-date treatment of multiple
objective genetic algorithms to network optimization problems in
many disciplines, such as engineering, computer science, operations
research, transportation, telecommunication, and manufacturing. The
book extensively covers algorithms and applications, including
shortest path problems, minimum cost flow problems, maximum flow
problems, minimum spanning tree problems, traveling salesman and
postman problems, location-allocation problems, project scheduling
problems, multistage-based scheduling problems, logistics network
problems, communication network problem, and network models in
assembly line balancing problems, and airline fleet assignment
problems. The book can be used both as a student textbook and as a
professional reference for practitioners who use network
optimization methods to model and solve problems.
This book proposes a method for calculating China's debt based on a
quantitative econometric analysis. This is conducted by measuring
the relationship between China's debt size and economic growth. The
conclusion that is reached is as follows: China's current debt has
already exceeded the inflection point, and that means that it is
now having an adverse effect on its economic performance. The book
also focuses on China's debt problems as a whole, highlighting debt
issues faced by different entities and industries, as well as the
ratio and structure of the virtual and real economies. The contents
are presented in three major principles: theory, oriented,data, and
oriented policy.
Established in the aftermath of World War II, UNESCO succinctly
states its peace mission as well as its peaceful resolution to
peace in its Constitution-constructing the "defenses of peace" in
the minds of peoples on the "intellectual and moral" grounds. For
more than seven decades, UNESCO has been consistently positioning
peace as its unwavering core and ultimate goal through promoting
international understanding and cooperation in and across its five
major sectors of competence in education, natural sciences,
communication and Information, and social and human Sciences.
Historical Dictionary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Second Edition contains a
chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The
dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on
UNESCO's initiatives, programs, projects, normative instruments,
and partners over the past 76 years. This book is an excellent
resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more
about UNESCO.
This edited volume is based on contributions from the TCET-AECT
"Human-Technology Frontier: Understanding the Learning of Now to
Prepare for the Work of the Future Symposium" held in Denton, Texas
on May 16-18, sponsored by AECT. The authors embrace an integrative
approach to designing and implementing advances technologies in
learning and instruction, and focus on the emerging themes of
artificial intelligence, human-computer interactions, and the
resulting instructional design. The volume will be divided into
four parts: (1) Trends and future in learning and learning
technologies expected in the next 10 years; (2) Technologies likely
to have a significant impact on learning in the next 10 years; (3)
Challenges that will need to be addressed and resolved in order to
achieve significant and sustained improvement in learning; and (4)
Reflections and insights from the Symposium that should be pursued
and that can form the basis for productive research collaborations.
The primary audience for this volume is academics and researchers
in disciplines such as artificial intelligence, cognitive science,
computer science, educational psychology, instructional design,
human-computer interactions, information science, library science,
and technology integration.
This book presents a study on corpus-driven distribution as the
main method of prediction, concentrating on individual semantic
features to predict the senses of non-defined words by using
corpora and tools, such as the Chinese Gigaword Corpus, HowNet,
Chinese Wordnet, and XianDai HanYu CiDian (Xian Han). With the help
of these corpora, the study determines the collocation clusters of
four target words: chi1 "eat," wan2 "play," huan4 "change" and
shao1 "burn" through character and concept similarities. The
results of this sense prediction study demonstrate that it was able
to use off-line tasks to test some participants' intuition, which
supports the theory that different clusters can represent different
senses when pursuing a corpus-based, computational approach.
As technology becomes increasingly integrated into our society,
cultural expectations and needs are changing. Social understanding,
family roles, organizational skills, and daily activities are all
adapting to the demands of ever-present technology, causing changes
in human brain, emotions, and behaviors. An understanding of the
impact of technology upon our lives is essential if we are to
adequately educate children for the future and plan for meaningful
learning environments for them. Mind, Brain and Technology provides
an overview of these changes from a wide variety of perspectives.
Designed as a textbook for students in the fields and
interdisciplinary areas of psychology, neuroscience, technology,
computer science, and education, the book offers insights for
researchers, professionals, educators, and anyone interested in
learning more about the integration of mind, brain and technology
in their lives. The book skilfully guides readers to explore
alternatives, generate new ideas, and develop constructive plans
both for their own lives and for future educational needs.
There are two distinct professional communities that share an
interest in using innovative approaches and emerging technologies
to design and implement effective support for learning. This edited
collection addresses the growing divide between the learning
sciences community and the instructional design and technology
community, bringing leading scholars from both fields together in
one volume in an attempt to find productive middle ground. Chapters
discuss the implications of not bridging this divide, propose
possible resolutions, and go on to lay a foundation for continued
discourse in this important area.
Seeing Autism is a comprehensive but easy-to-understand guidebook
for caretakers, parents, educators, counselors, therapists, and
researchers on various aspects of rearing and supporting children
with autism spectrum disorder. It provides textual and visual
information on technology tools, symptoms, diagnosis, auditory,
sensory, visual, physical, and educational issues, as well as
strategies and practices to help children on the Autism Spectrum
reach their potential. Seeing Autism uniquely capitalizes on
sketchnotes, a visual thinking tool, to communicate information and
practices. Sketchnotes provide a unique space that can help the
reader think differently, generate a variety of ideas, explore
alternatives, and develop constructive points for expressing ideas
and developing visual communication aids. This book will assist
parents, educators, and professionals in schools (counselors,
school psychologists, librarians) who work with children diagnosed
with ASD; it will help readers increase their knowledge of autism
and gain an appreciation for evidence-based practices and forms of
technology that can be used to support learners on the autism
spectrum. "This book is a call to arms and is as much a resource
for the family friend as it is for the provider coming to the home.
In the book Seeing Autism, Dr. Demetria Ennis-Cole helps
individuals gain an incredible perspective and learn the struggles,
challenges and joys of families rearing children, teens and adults
on the spectrum. This book covers the entire spectrum and is a
fantastic mix of research, parent perspective, and even sketchnotes
for visual learners. The material is well-balanced and is a great
resource to support individuals on the spectrum at home, in the
community or in the classroom." Brad McGarry Father, Speaker,
Author and Director of the Autism Initiative at Mercyhurst
University
China's venture capital market is not just the world's largest and
fastest developing market, it also has the unique distinction of
being engineered through heavy governmental intervention. This book
breaks new ground by examining and testing established legal
theories regarding the law of venture capital through the lens of
the Chinese venture capital market. Using a hand-collected dataset
of venture capital agreements, interviews with practitioners, and
Chinese court judgements, it provides a comprehensive and
insightful analysis of the Chinese venture capital market from the
legal perspective. Topics covered include the roles of law and
governmental intervention in developing the market, the state of
investor protection, unique contractual developments and exits of
venture capital investments. By providing an in-depth comparative
analysis against the American venture capital market, it provides
critical context and makes the Chinese venture market accessible.
It is an invaluable resource for venture capital scholars,
policymakers and practitioners.
China's venture capital market is not just the world's largest and
fastest developing market, it also has the unique distinction of
being engineered through heavy governmental intervention. This book
breaks new ground by examining and testing established legal
theories regarding the law of venture capital through the lens of
the Chinese venture capital market. Using a hand-collected dataset
of venture capital agreements, interviews with practitioners, and
Chinese court judgements, it provides a comprehensive and
insightful analysis of the Chinese venture capital market from the
legal perspective. Topics covered include the roles of law and
governmental intervention in developing the market, the state of
investor protection, unique contractual developments and exits of
venture capital investments. By providing an in-depth comparative
analysis against the American venture capital market, it provides
critical context and makes the Chinese venture market accessible.
It is an invaluable resource for venture capital scholars,
policymakers and practitioners.
This book explores, analyzes, and compares the use of German and
Chinese demonstratives. Discourse and textual uses of the forms are
considered, as well as their locative and temporal uses. The author
observes that in both languages the demonstratives can be used to
refer to referents. However, she departs from the common assumption
that proximal demonstratives refer to entities or places close to
the speaker, while non-proximal demonstratives refer to entities or
places far from the speaker. Having analyzed a representative
sampling consisting of a German text and a Chinese text, the author
argues that both German and Chinese proximal demonstratives can
signal the meaning of HIGH DEIXIS in a system of DEIXIS in the
Columbia School of linguistics framework, whereas their
non-proximal demonstratives can signal the meaning of LOW DEIXIS.
In addition, Chinese demonstratives can be used under more
circumstances than German demonstratives due to the lack of
articles in Chinese. The author also argues that Cognitive
Linguistic analysis is more helpful for new language learners,
whereas the Columbia School of linguistics may be better suited to
advanced learners who wish to know more about the intrinsic
differences between words with similar meanings and uses. This book
aims to help German learners better understand the German reference
system. Readers with a Chinese language background will definitely
benefit more from the book, as well as Chinese learners with a
German language background. For pure linguistic enthusiasts and
multi-linguals, the book offers an extensive introduction to the
Columbia School of linguistics, and can open a new horizon for
learning a new language comparatively.
This book proposes a method for calculating China's debt based on a
quantitative econometric analysis. This is conducted by measuring
the relationship between China's debt size and economic growth. The
conclusion that is reached is as follows: China's current debt has
already exceeded the inflection point, and that means that it is
now having an adverse effect on its economic performance. The book
also focuses on China's debt problems as a whole, highlighting debt
issues faced by different entities and industries, as well as the
ratio and structure of the virtual and real economies. The contents
are presented in three major principles: theory, oriented,data, and
oriented policy.
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Innovative Technologies and Learning - First International Conference, ICITL 2018, Portoroz, Slovenia, August 27-30, 2018, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Tingting Wu, Yueh-Min Huang, Rustam Shadiev, Lin Lin, Andreja Istenic Starcic
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First
International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Learning,
ICITL 2018, held in Portoroz, Slovenia, in August 2018. The 66
revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers were
carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers
are organized in the following topical sections: Augmented and
Virtual Reality in Education; Collaborative Learning; Design and
Framework of Learning Systems; Instructional Strategies; Learning
Analytics and Education Data Mining; Mind, Brain and Education;
Pedagogies to Innovative Technologies; Personalized and Adaptive
Learning; Social Media and Online Learning; Technologies Enhanced
Language Learning; Application and Design of Innovative Learning
Software; Educational Data Analytics Techniques and Adaptive
Learning Applications; and Innovative Thinking Education and Future
Trend Development.
This book presents a study on corpus-driven distribution as the
main method of prediction, concentrating on individual semantic
features to predict the senses of non-defined words by using
corpora and tools, such as the Chinese Gigaword Corpus, HowNet,
Chinese Wordnet, and XianDai HanYu CiDian (Xian Han). With the help
of these corpora, the study determines the collocation clusters of
four target words: chi1 "eat," wan2 "play," huan4 "change" and
shao1 "burn" through character and concept similarities. The
results of this sense prediction study demonstrate that it was able
to use off-line tasks to test some participants' intuition, which
supports the theory that different clusters can represent different
senses when pursuing a corpus-based, computational approach.
This multidisciplinary reference takes the reader through all
four major phases of interdisciplinary inquiry: adequate
conceptualization, rigorous formulation, substantive
interpretation, and innovative implementation. The text introduces
a novel synthetic paradigm of public health reasoning and epidemic
modelling, and implements it with a study of the infamous 14th
century AD Black Death disaster that killed at least one-fourth of
the European population.
Network models are critical tools in business, management, science
and industry. "Network Models and Optimization" presents an
insightful, comprehensive, and up-to-date treatment of multiple
objective genetic algorithms to network optimization problems in
many disciplines, such as engineering, computer science, operations
research, transportation, telecommunication, and manufacturing. The
book extensively covers algorithms and applications, including
shortest path problems, minimum cost flow problems, maximum flow
problems, minimum spanning tree problems, traveling salesman and
postman problems, location-allocation problems, project scheduling
problems, multistage-based scheduling problems, logistics network
problems, communication network problem, and network models in
assembly line balancing problems, and airline fleet assignment
problems. The book can be used both as a student textbook and as a
professional reference for practitioners who use network
optimization methods to model and solve problems.
There are two distinct professional communities that share an
interest in using innovative approaches and emerging technologies
to design and implement effective support for learning. This edited
collection addresses the growing divide between the learning
sciences community and the instructional design and technology
community, bringing leading scholars from both fields together in
one volume in an attempt to find productive middle ground. Chapters
discuss the implications of not bridging this divide, propose
possible resolutions, and go on to lay a foundation for continued
discourse in this important area.
This book studies solutions of the Polubarinova-Galin and
Loewner-Kufarev equations, which describe the evolution of a
viscous fluid (Hele-Shaw) blob, after the time when these solutions
have lost their physical meaning due to loss of univalence of the
mapping function involved. When the mapping function is no longer
locally univalent interesting phase transitions take place, leading
to structural changes in the data of the solution, for example new
zeros and poles in the case of rational maps. This topic intersects
with several areas, including mathematical physics, potential
theory and complex analysis. The text will be valuable to
researchers and doctoral students interested in fluid dynamics,
integrable systems, and conformal field theory.
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Bio-inspired Information and Communication Technologies - 12th EAI International Conference, BICT 2020, Shanghai, China, July 7-8, 2020, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Yifan Chen, Tadashi Nakano, Lin Lin, Mohammad Upal Mahfuz, Weisi Guo
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This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the
12th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and
Communications Technologies, held in Shanghai, China, in July 2020.
Due to the safety concerns and travel restrictions caused by
COVID-19, BICT 2020 took place online in a live stream. BICT 2020
aims to provide a world-leading and multidisciplinary venue for
researchers and practitioners in diverse disciplines that seek the
understanding of key principles, processes and mechanisms in
biological systems and leverage those understandings to develop
novel information and communications technologies (ICT). The 20
full and 8 short papers were carefully revied and selected from 56
submissions. In addition to the main track targeting broad and
mainstream research topics, BICT 2020 includes four special tracks
with focused research topics on internet of everything, intelligent
internet of things and network applications, intelligent sensor
network, and data-driven intelligent modeling, application and
optimization.
DNA Repair, Volume 45 in The Enzymes series highlights new advances
in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters
on DNA polymerase beta and other gap-filling enzymes in mammalian
base excision repair, Translesion polymerases, mechanism and
function, The Rev1-Pol? Mutasome: Structure and Interactions in
Translesion Synthesis, Challenges for base excision repair enzymes:
acquiring access to damaged DNA in chromatin Nucleotide excision
repair, DNA damage recognition mechanisms in mammalian nucleotide
excision repair, Advances in understanding DNA mismatch repair, and
more.
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