Preface -- 1. Reflections on the Future of Instructional Design Research -- Part I. A Global Conversation about Competencies and Challenges for 21st Century -- 2. Competencies Challenges, and Changes: A U.S. Perspective on Preparing 21st Century Teachers and Leaders -- 3. Initiation and Implementation: Changes to Teacher Education in Ireland -- 4. Digital Learnings and Digital Teachers: Challen…
Open AccessThis book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. This book analyses and discusses the recent developments for assessing research quality in the humanities and related fields in the social sciences. Research assessments in the humanities are highly controversial and the evaluation of humanities research is delicate. While citation-based research performan…
Sampling, Recruiting and Fieldwork Management -- Longitudinal Measurement of Educational Processes: Surveys and Constructs -- Longitudinal Measurement of Skills: Competence Testing -- Assessing Data Quality -- Data Management, Coding, Dissemination and User Support.This book addresses a broad array of pressing challenges of longitudinal surveys and provides innovative solutions to methodologica…
Bank Risk Management -- Basel II and the Effects on the Banking Sector -- Conflicts of Interest and Market Discipline in Financial Services Firms -- Risk Management and Value Creation in Banks -- The New Basel Capital Accord -- Value at Rist: Regulatory and Other Applications, Methods, and Criticism -- Parsimonious Value at Risk for Fixed Income Portfolios -- Risk Budgeting with Value at Risk L…
Contribution of Socionics to the Scalability of Complex Social Systems: Introduction -- Contribution of Socionics to the Scalability of Complex Social Systems: Introduction -- I Multi-layer Modelling -- From “Clean” Mechanisms to “Dirty” Models: Methodological Perspectives of an Up-Scaling of Actor Constellations -- Sociological Foundation of the Holonic Approach Using Habitus-Field-The…
to Endocrinology -- Hormone Secretion and Action -- Receptors -- Second-Messenger Systems and Signal Transduction Mechanisms -- Steroid Hormones -- Plasma Membrane Receptors for Steroid Hormones in Cell Signaling and Nuclear Function -- Growth Factors -- Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes -- The Neuroendocrine-Immune Interface -- Insects/Plants/Comparative -- Insect Hormones -- Phytohormones and S…
Preface -- Acknowledgement -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Urbanisation and Migration: Histories, Patterns, and Challenges -- Background: China in a Snapshot -- A Penetrating Overview of Urbanisation in China -- Household Registration System in China and the Institutionalised Class Distinction -- A Synoptic Review of Migration -- Chapter Summary: Framing Floating and Left-Behind Childre…
Invited Papers -- Automata-Theoretic Techniques for Analyzing Infinite-State Systems -- Enumerating Regular Expressions and Their Languages -- Contributed Papers -- A General Weighted Grammar Library -- On the Complexity of Hopcroft’s State Minimization Algorithm -- Implementation of Catalytic P Systems -- Code Selection by Tree Series Transducers -- Some Non-semi-decidability Problems for Li…
Signs and Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis -- Differential Diagnosis, Clinical Features, and Prognosis of Multiple Sclerosis -- Role of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Multiple Sclerosis -- Cognitive Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis -- Multiple Sclerosis, Genetics, and Autoimmunity -- B-Cell Immunity in Multiple Sclerosis -- Multiple Sclerosis -- Pregnancy and Multip…
Adaptation, Power Consumption and Scheduling -- Energy Management for Embedded Multithreaded Processors with Integrated EDF Scheduling -- Reducing System Level Power Consumption for Mobile and Embedded Platforms -- Implementing Control Algorithms Within a Multithreaded Java Microcontroller -- Adaptivity for Quality and Timeliness Flexible Real-Time Systems -- Adaptation and Agents -- Apricot Ag…