Keynote Speech -- Track 1: Network Protocols, Routing, Algorithms -- Track 2: Languages and Compilers for HPC -- Track 3: Parallel/Distributed System Architectures -- Track 4: Embedded Systems -- Track 5: Parallel/Distributed Algorithms -- Track 6: Wireless and Mobile Computing -- Track 7: Web Services and Internet Computing -- Track 8: Peer-to-Peer Computing -- Track 9: Grid and Cluster Comput…
Ema Progress -- Challenges for Environmental Management Accounting -- Current Trends in Environmental Cost Accounting — and Its Interaction with Ecoefficiency Performance Measurement and Indicators -- Environmental Accounting Dimensions: Pros and Cons of Trajectory Convergence and Increased Efficiency -- Process and Content: Visualizing the Policy Challenges of Environmental Management Accoun…
Large Interactive Economies -- Modeling a Large Number of Agents by Types: Models as Large Random Decomposable Structures -- An ABM-Evolutionary Approach: Bilateral Exchanges, Bargaining and Walrasian Equilibria -- A Genetic Algorithms Approach: Social Aggregation and Learning with Heterogeneous Agents -- Structure and Macroeconomic Performance: Heterogeneous Firms and Financial Fragility -- Fi…
Concepts and Models -- Brief Historical Perspective for Virtual Organizations -- Base Concepts -- Modeling for Virtual Organizations -- Reference Models for Virtual Organisations -- Ontology and Knowledge Management -- Collaborative Networks: A New Scientific Discipline -- Infrastructures -- ICT Infrastructures for VO -- Emerging Technologies and Standards -- Security Frameworks for Virtual Org…
1. Introduction -- 2. Literature Review -- 3. Parental Involvement in PIRLS-2011 -- 4. Modeling Parental Involvement -- 5. Relation between Parental Involvement and Student Achievement in PIRLS-2011 -- 6. Conclusion and Discussion -- References -- Appendix: Technical details on the implementation of the bi-factor model.Open AccessThis volume offers insights from modelling measures of parental i…
Dedication -- Foreword by Leila E. Villaverde -- Poem—We talked over sweet rolls and coffee by Norman Denzin -- Introduction by Mary Frances Agnello and William “Bill” Reynolds -- Part I - Joe L. Kincheloe: As Pillar -- "Hey, Hey, My, My": Joe L. Kincheloe, Friend, Teacher, Scholar, and Musician by William M. Reynolds -- Mad Soul For Joe: The Sociological and Epistemological Kincheloe by …
Introduction -- Constructing yourself in school science, Professor Kathrin Otrel-Cass -- Learning science in a collaborative and technological environment, Éric Durocher -- Applying Computer Assisted Assessment as a learning enhancement approach: Teachers' perception in the Greek context, Zacharoula Smyrnaiou, Evangelia Petropoulou, Eleni Spinou, Kathrin Otrel Cass -- Brain activity during obs…
1 Introduction -- PART I. Theoretical and methodological background -- 2 State of research on devotional fitness -- 3 Goal, theory, and method -- PART II. Body and religion in twentieth century America -- 4 From New Thought to Bod4God -- PART III. Analysis of empirical data: products, narratives, and theologies -- 5 Devotional fitness as discourse and embodied practice6 Between inclusion and ex…
An Overview of Our Research -- Transfer of Radiocesium to Rice in Contaminated Paddy Fields -- Cesium Translocation in Rice -- Absorption of radioceasium in soybean -- An observational study of pigs exposed to radiation -- A Composting System to Decompose Radiocesium Contaminated Baled Grass Silage -- Weathered Biotite: A Key Material of Radioactive Contamination in Fukushima -- Radiocesium acc…