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It is called a theory but is actually a combination of various psychological theories, for which no axiomatic systems-such as those associated with the utility theory widely used in economics-have been established. The utility theory is often limited to qualitative knowledge;

This book mainly addresses the position, function, influence, and values of folk oral literature in the history of Chinese literature.

This book highlights the theory and practical applications of the chemical master equation (CME) approach for very large biochemical networks, which provides a powerful general framework for model building in a variety of biological networks.

This book comprehensively outlines synchrotron-based X-ray imaging technologies and their associated applications in gaining fundamental insights into the physical and chemical properties as well as reaction mechanisms of energy materials.

This book offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) technology, which is a fundamental and essential component for many applications in robotics, wearable devices, and autonomous driving vehicles. The book starts from very basic mathematic background knowledge such as 3D rigid body geometry, the pinhole camera projection model, and nonlinear optimization techniques, before introducing readers to traditional computer vision topics like feature matching, optical flow, and bundle adjustment. The book employs a light writing style, instead of the rigorous yet dry approach that is common in academic literature. In addition, it includes a wealth of executable source code with increasing difficulty to help readers understand and use the practical techniques. The book can be used as a textbook for senior undergraduate or graduate students, or as reference material for researchers and engineers in related areas.

This book is a compilation of the latest achievements of leading researchers in marine natural products with extremely diverse structures and biological activities.

This book aims to develop systematic design methodologies to model-based nonlinear control of aeroengines, focusing on (1) modelling of aeroengine systems-both component-level and identification-based models will be extensively studied and compared;

This book examines how fifty police officers in South Australia keep well and "bounce back" from duty-related traumatic experience in the absence of practical, accessible and timely organisational support.

This book is an essential guide on surrogacy, discussing various legal issues that arise in surrogacy cases.

This book explores the state of open education in terms of self-directed learning on the African continent. Apart from presenting existing wider trends regarding open education, this book also reports on effective open practices in support of self-directed learning.

This book provides insight on processing mechanics during ship and offshore structure, and researchers, scientists, and engineers in the field of manufacturing process mechanics can benefit from the book. This book is written by subject experts based on the recent research results in FE computation on accuracy fabrication of ship and offshore structures based on processing mechanics. In order to deal with actual engineering problems during construction of ship and offshore structure, it proposes advanced computational approaches such as thermal elastic¿plastic and elastic FE computations and employed to examine physical behavior and clarifies generation mechanism of mechanical response. As such, this book provides valuable knowledge, useful methods, and practical algorithms that can be considered in manufacturing process mechanics.

This book presents how Digital Transformation is a requirement to upgrade Latin American universities to a next level in management, lecturing and learning processes and strategies. The book starts with a thorough introduction of the Latin American context addressing the three main topics in the book: Digital Transformation, Higher Education and Artificial Intelligence & Industry 4.0. They will be depicted by region, with a clear distribution between Central America & Mexico, Comunidad Andina (Perú, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia), Mercosur (Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay and Uruguay), and other countries.The book also shows how online learning is a key part of the transformation, with a clear focus on learning management systems, innovation and learning analytics. Further, personalised services for every single profile at the university (students, lecturers, academic managers) are presented to guarantee inclusive education service aggregation for networked campuses. Following, the book addresses strategy and overall services that concentrate on sustainability and revenue models integrated with a strategic planning.Finally a set of chapters will show specific experiences and case studies of direct application of Artificial Intelligence and Technology 4.0, where the readers can learn from and transfer directly into their educational contexts.

Chapter 1. Teacher Education Policy and Research: An Overview.- Chapter 2. Teacher Education/Ors in Australia: Still Shaping the Profession Despite Policy Intervention.- Chapter 3. A Critical Examination of the Conception of Teacher Professionalism Enacted in Current Teacher Education Policy in Flanders (Belgium).- Chapter 4. Teaching and Teacher Education for a Post-Pandemic Canada: Context, Crisis, Critique and Complication.- Chapter 5. The Complex Policy Landscape of Teacher Education in England: What''s the Problem Represented to be?.- Chapter 6. Analyzing Research, Practice and Accountability Turns in Finnish Academic Teacher Education.- Chapter 7. Preparing High Quality Teacher Education Graduates in an Era of Unprecedented Uncertainties: The Case of Hong Kong.- Chapter 8. Quality Under Pressure in Dutch Teacher Education.- Chapter 9. Teacher Education Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand: Global Trends Meet Local Imperatives.- Chapter 10. Teacher Education in Northern Ireland: Policy, Practice and Pragmatism.- Chapter 11. Educating Teachers in the Post-Bologna Context in Portugal: Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges.- Chapter 12. Measuring Quality in Initial Teacher in the Scottish Context: A Context-Specific Endeavour.- Chapter 13. Teacher Education in The United States Of America: An Overview of the Policies, Pathways, Issues and Relevant Research.- Chapter 14. A Research Informed Approach to Initial Teacher Education in Wales: Intentions, Examples and Reflections.- Chapter 15. Teacher Education Policy: Future Research, Teaching in Contexts of Super-Diversity and Early Career Teaching.

This book provides an introduction to what it means to be numerate, and how numeracy can best be developed and nurtured in children and in adults. This book identifies skills and concepts involved in achieving functional numeracy, and provides practical advice on effective teaching, learning and assessment.

The book presents results related to studying the common trends of innovation and entrepreneurship education at the times of economic globalization and the experience of major countries, exploring the cultivation model of key innovation and entrepreneurship talents and mechanism of the innovation and entrepreneurship education ecosystem.

This book includes the original, peer-reviewed research articles from the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing (ICCIC 2020), held in September 2020 on a virtual platform jointly organized by SR Group of Institutions, Jhansi, India, IETE, Kolkata Centre, India, and Eureka Scientech Research Foundation, Kolkata India. It covers the latest research in image processing, computer vision and pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining, big data and analytics, information security and privacy, wireless and sensor networks and IoT applications, artificial intelligence, expert systems, natural language processing, image processing, computer vision, artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary optimization, rough sets, web intelligence, intelligent agent technology, virtual reality, and visualization.

This book highlights the practical aspects of computer modelling and simulation of complex dynamical systems for students. Mechanical systems are considered in the book as representative examples of dynamical systems. Wolfram SystemModeler, in combination with Learning Management System Sakai, is used as an instrument for studying features of various physical and technical phenomena and processes. Each of the presented virtual labs may be considered a stand-alone mini project to enable students to go through all the steps of mathematical modelling and computer simulation¿from the problem statement to mathematical and physical analysis of the obtained result. The book is useful for teachers to organize the educational process, allowing gradual monitoring of the learning process and assessment of students¿ competencies. It also allows tutors to design individual educational trajectories for students to achieve educational properties. The subject of the book is an extension of activitystarted by the international team of authors within the InMotion project of the European programme ERASMUS+.

This edited book is a collection of keynote speeches in the 3rd Global Teacher Education Summit in Beijing Normal University from October 14 to 16, 2017. The speeches intend to raise international response in the field of teacher education to the enduringly changing education policy environment.

In the age of sustainability, we increasingly see how designers and consumers begin to think beyond a product's look&feel and operation, and are especially concerned about what has happened during its manufacturing process and what will happen once its useful life comes to an end.

This volume covers the following topics: 1) basic introduction of non-coding RNA and bone development, how 2) microRNAs and 3) long noncoding RNAs (LncRNAs) regulate bone formation, 4) how ncRNAs and the corresponding pathways participate in bone metabolism diseases, 5) RNA synthesis technology and the possible RNA therapies in bone disease.

Indian mycologists have extensively studied various groups of fungi such as soil fungi, aquatic fungi, marine fungi, endophytic fungi, fungi associated with man and animals.