Many educational institutions today are focused on the notion of assurance of learning , an important element of many accreditation standards. Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts 8e is designed specifically to support your assurance of learning initiatives with a simple, yet powerful, solution. Each chapter in the book begins with a list of numbered learning objectives, which appear throu…
The relationship between thinking and feeling has puzzled philosophers for centuries, but more recently has become a dominant focus in psychology and in the brain sciences. This second edition of the highly praised Cognition and Emotion examines everything from past philosophical to current psychological perspectives in order to offer a novel understanding of both normal emotional experience an…
Welcome to Creating Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch 2. The goal of this book is to help you learn the Sencha Touch mobile development platform by guiding you through a series of complete applications. Each application will focus on a different aspect of the language and show off many of the capabilities of Sencha Touch. The Sencha Touch language is an HTML5 framework that uses JavaScript and CSS …
Public, Internet-based social networks can enable communication, collaboration and information collection and sharing in the health care space. About one-third of Americans who go online to research their health currently use social networks to find fellow patients and discuss their conditions,1,2 and 36 percent of social network users evaluate and leverage other consumers’ knowledge before m…
The present Guide aims to introduce potential partners into the world of URBACT Action Planning Networks. It will allow you to have a better understanding of what you can expect joining an URBACT Action Planning Network, in terms of resources, results and added value. It also clarifies the commitment and contributions expected from you. Enriched with concrete examples from networks funded un…
Create a “profile”: set up an account to create a digital representation of themselves 2) Select other members of the site as contacts or connections 3) Communicate and engage with these users 4) Recently: Use an interface (API) to build applications “the information a social network collects about a user” Includes contact information, location, associations, personal …
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This book deals with the evolving role of the teaching profession and the role of teacher networks in response to changing skills needs in society. It argues that teachers can be the main change agents for reforms of education, provided that they are well supported and enabled to do so. Recently, various teacher networks have emerged at the local and international scale, and questions around th…
Advances in communications technology to seamlessly connect all types of home devices and appliances are driving the vision to create an intelligent home ecosystem. This would enable control, access, and information sharing among all the devices and thereby a much more enhanced user experience. The future growth of electronics at home lies in the devices being able to wire- lessly communicate a…
With multiple cloud platforms out there, it is easy to get confused when making a technology decision for your projects. This gets further complicated with the plethora of development tools and frameworks available today. Microsoft Azure simplifies this problem by providing a scalable and manageable platform for customers to easily deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot their cloud-based application…
Firstly these questions are intriguing. How do trusted people and organizations become cheats? Not just once, but repeatedly and systematically. What motivates and possesses them? What explains these twists and turns? How come factory workers went so far as to regularly bind a colleague naked to a push cart and push it through the production room as a joke to lighten the mood? How did a manager…
This book provides an in-depth look at how to build web-based applications (web apps) for Google TV, a new platform that integrates the open web with traditional TV. This powerful and versatile new platform includes Google Chrome, a modern web browser that enables developers to deliver rich and sophisticated web apps to Google TV users. This book has three primary goals. First, this book aims t…
Online social networking sites like Orkut, YouTube, and Flickr are among the most popular sites on the Internet. Users of these sites form a social network, which provides a powerful means of sharing, organizing, and finding con- tent and contacts. The popularity of these sites provides an opportunity to study the characteristics of online social network graphs at large scale. Understanding th…