The Illusion Of Linearity

Author : Dirk de Bock
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387711643
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illusion of Linearity written by Dirk de Bock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the reader with a comprehensive overview of the major findings of the recent research on the illusion of linearity. It discusses: how the illusion of linearity appears in diverse domains of mathematics and science; what are the crucial psychological, mathematical, and educational factors being responsible for the occurrence and persistence of the phenomenon; and how the illusion of linearity can be remedied.

Author : Aleksandar S. Jovanović
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illusion of Linearity written by Aleksandar S. Jovanović and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the reader with a comprehensive overview of the major findings of the recent research on the illusion of linearity. It discusses: how the illusion of linearity appears in diverse domains of mathematics and science; what are the crucial psychological, mathematical, and educational factors being responsible for the occurrence and persistence of the phenomenon; and how the illusion of linearity can be remedied.

Author : Lieven Verschaffel
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058674692
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Powerful Environments for Promoting Deep Conceptual and Strategic Learning written by Lieven Verschaffel and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past years a substantial amount of research has been undertaken relating to the development of powerful learning environments for the acquisition in students of worthwhile educational objectives focussing on conceptual understanding, higher-order cognitive and metacognitive skills, and self-regulated learning. This research has been mainly undertaken from three distinct, but related perspectives in the study of learning and instruction, namely instructional psychology, instructional technology, and instructional design. Against this background a "research community" involving 14 European research teams has recently been initiated with the aim of interactively contributing to the advancement of theory and methodology relating to the design, implementation, and evaluation of powerful learning environments.This volume, based on the plenary lectures and working sessions during the community's third workshop, constitutes a collective output of this research community, focussing on the identification and analysis of major components and dimensions of powerful learning environments aimed at the promotion of deep conceptual and strategic learning in major domains of school curricula, like mathematics, physics, history, and social sciences.In Part I of the volume three chapters present general perspectives on the central theme of the third workshop. In Part II six studies are reported wherein novel learning environments for elementary and secondary mathematics education have been designed, implemented and evaluated. In Part III of the volume another set of five investigations is presented relating to the design, implementation and evaluation of powerful learning environments in other subject-matter domains (physics, history, social sciences) and in teacher training.

Author : Blair Fix
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319128264
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Economic Growth Theory From a Biophysical Perspective written by Blair Fix and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoclassical growth theory is the dominant perspective for explaining economic growth. At its core are four implicit assumptions: 1) economic output can become decoupled from energy consumption; 2) economic distribution is unrelated to growth; 3) large institutions are not important for growth; and 4) labor force structure is not important for growth. Drawing on a wide range of data from the economic history of the United States, this book tests the validity of these assumptions and finds no empirical support. Instead, connections are found between the growth in energy consumption and such disparate phenomena as economic redistribution, corporate employment concentration, and changing labor force structure. The integration of energy into an economic growth model has the potential to offer insight into the future effects of fossil fuel depletion on key macroeconomic indicators, which is already manifested in stalled or diminished growth and escalating debt in many national economies. This book argues for an alternative, biophysical perspective to the study of growth, and presents a set of "stylized facts" that such an approach must successfully explain. Aspects of biophysical analysis are combined with differential monetary analysis to arrive at a unique empirical methodology for investigating the elements and dependencies of the economic growth process.

Author : Timothy Devinney
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857240862
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Past, Present and Future of International Business and Management written by Timothy Devinney and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume that concentrates on the substantive gaps in the IB/IM field and addresses whether these gaps are resolvable with the theoretical and methodological toolkit.

Author : William R. Uttal
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317669045
Total Pages : 2995 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uttal Tetralogy of Cognitive Neuroscience written by William R. Uttal and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 2995 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These four volumes, originally published between 1973 and 1988, were intended to provide a broad survey of cognitive neuroscience, a field known variously as physiological psychology or psychobiology in the 1970s and 1980s when the books were written. The general goal was to summarize what was known about the relation between brain and mind at that time, with an emphasis on sensory and perceptual topics. Out of print for many years, the Tetralogy is now available again, as a set for the first time (which is as the author envisaged it), or as individual volumes.

Author : T. K. Das
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1641131039
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Behavioral Strategy written by T. K. Das and published by IAP. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behavioral strategy continues to attract increasing research interest within the broader field of strategic management. Research in behavioral strategy has clear scope for development in tandem with such traditional streams of strategy research that involve economics, markets, resources, and technology. The key roles of psychology, organizational behavior, and behavioral decision making in the theory and practice of strategy have yet to be comprehensively grasped. Given that strategic thinking and strategic decision making are importantly concerned with human cognition, human decisions, and human behavior, it makes eminent sense to bring some balance in the strategy field by complementing the extant emphasis on the "objective" economics-based view with substantive attention to the “subjective” individual-oriented perspective. This calls for more focused inquiries into the role and nature of the individual strategy actors, and their cognitions and behaviors, in the strategy research enterprise. For the purposes of this book series, behavioral strategy would be broadly construed as covering all aspects of the role of the strategy maker in the entire strategy field. The scholarship relating to behavioral strategy is widely believed to be dispersed in diverse literatures. These existing contributions that relate to behavioral strategy within the overall field of strategy has been known and perhaps valued by most scholars all along, but were not adequately appreciated or brought together as a coherent subfield or as a distinct perspective of strategy. This book series on Research in Behavioral Strategy will cover the essential progress made thus far in this admittedly fragmented literature and elaborate upon fruitful streams of scholarship. More importantly, the book series will focus on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for the growing scholarship in behavioral strategy. In particular, the volumes in the series will cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models (dealing with all behavioral aspects), significant practical problems of strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series will also include comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial, government, and nonprofit activities with potential for wider application of behavioral strategy. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series will seek to disseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that will enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the subject of behavioral strategy. Culture and Behavioral Strategy contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of behavioral strategy research. The 10 chapters in volume deal with a number of significant issues relating to the intersection of culture and behavioral strategy, covering topics such as cultural diversity and strategic choice, the cultural intelligence of executives, business model innovation in entrepreneurship, paradoxical frames in culture and behavioral strategy, culture in M&As, network citizenship behavior, and organizational routines. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on the confluence of culture and behavioral strategy.

Author : Liz Pásztor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019108414X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory-Based Ecology written by Liz Pásztor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecology is in a challenging state as a scientific discipline. While some theoretical ecologists are attempting to build a definition of ecology from first principles, many others are questioning even the feasibility of a general and universal theory. At the same time, it is increasingly important that ecology is accurately and functionally defined for a generation of researchers tackling escalating environmental problems in the face of doubt and disagreement. The authors of Theory-Based Ecology have written a textbook that presents a robust, modern, and mathematically sound theory of ecology, maintaining a strong link between empirical data, models, and theory. It is firmly based in Darwinian thought, since it was Darwin who first revealed the ecological principles of the origin of species, and gave the evolution of diversity a process-based, mechanistic explanation. The authors base their synthetic theory of Darwinian ecology on seven key principles: exponential growth, growth regulation, inherited individual differences, finiteness and stochasticity, competitive exclusion, robust coexistence, and constraints and trade-offs. Within this solid conceptual framework, they integrate classic and actual empirical knowledge from ecology and evolutionary biology, clarifying methodological and mathematical detail in clear and helpful text boxes. A wealth of illustrated examples pertaining to different organisational levels (alleles, clones and species) helps to explain how the principles operate. This is an invaluable resource for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in the fields of ecology, genetics, evolutionary ecology, and mathematical biology.

Author : Laura Tosi
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476631948
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio written by Laura Tosi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) and Carlo Collodi’s Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) are among the most influential classics of children’s literature. Firmly rooted in their respective British and Italian national cultures, the Alice and Pinocchio stories connected to a worldwide audience almost like folktales and fairy tales and have become fixtures of postmodernism. Although they come from radically different political and social backgrounds, the texts share surprising similarities. This comparative reading explores their imagery and history, and discusses them in the broader context of British and Italian children’s stories.

Author : Max Corradi
Publisher : Jaborandi Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Age Ontology written by Max Corradi and published by Jaborandi Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Age Ontology is a compendium of ancient spiritual, ontological and philosophical Wisdom teachings which aim to guide the individual towards total Liberation from the bondage of time. No Age Ontology rejects the notion of a fixed, essential nature of things and living beings based on permanent identities and claims that an entity’s identity is shaped by a complex interplay of factors, including cultural and social context, individual experience and habitual tendencies which are ever changing and impermanent. No Age Ontology encourages us to rethink all our assumptions about time and to recognize that the diversity and complexity of human experience and perception is nothing but an illusion.