Strategies to reduce and preserve power distribution networks using new technologies and renewable energy for remote areas
- Authors: Howgrave-Graham, Alan , Panther, Barbara
- Date: 2011
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Teaching 14-19 Learners in the lifelong learning sector
- Authors: Peart, Sheine , Atkins, Liz
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Achieving QTLS Series
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- Description: More and more, teachers in the lifelong learning sector are required to teach the 14-19 age group. This book is a practical guide to delivering learning to 14-19s. It begins by looking at the background to teaching 14-19 in FE and covers current pathways for achievement. Coverage of effective delivery of the new Diploma qualification is included, giving guidance on planning and assessment. It goes on to explore the challenges of behaviour, participation and re-engaging disaffected learners. Finally, it considers the wider context of building partnerships with schools and the needs of industry and employers.
Technologies for supporting reasoning communities and collaborative decision making: Cooperative approaches
- Authors: Yearwood, John , Stranieri, Andrew
- Date: 2011
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- Description: The information age has enabled unprecedented levels of data to be collected and stored. At the same time, society and organizations have become increasingly complex. Consequently, decisions in many facets have become increasingly complex but have the potential to be better informed. Technologies for Supporting Reasoning Communities and Collaborative Decision Making: Cooperative Approaches includes chapters from diverse fields of enquiry including decision science, political science, argumentation, knowledge management, cognitive psychology and business intelligence. Each chapter illustrates a perspective on group reasoning that ultimately aims to lead to a greater understanding of reasoning communities and inform technological developments.
Zooplankton and phytoplankton : types, characteristics, and ecology
- Authors: Kattel, Giri
- Date: 2011
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Approaches for community decision making and collective reasoning: Knowledge technology support
- Authors: Yearwood, John , Stranieri, Andrew
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Approaches for Community Decision Making and Collective Reasoning: Knowledge Technology Support
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- Description: Technology currently encourages the capture and storage of vast quantities of data and information and so thinkers, reasoners, and decision-makers have available large resources to support their tasks. At the same time, there is a need to engage with an enormous range of complex issues that require reasoning and decisions that are actionable to address them. Approaches for Community Decision Making and Collective Reasoning: Knowledge Technology Support acts to provide knowledge for each individual in a group with the broad structural wealth of reasoning. It also acts as an explicit structure that technological devices for supporting reasoning within a group can hook onto. If you are interested in how groups can structure their activities towards making better decisions or in developing technologies for the support of decision-making in groups, then this book is an excellent way to understand the state of the art and possible ways forward.
Black Gold: Aboriginal people on the goldfields of Victoria 1850-1870
- Authors: Cahir, David (Fred)
- Date: 2012
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- Description: This detailed examination of Aboriginal people on the goldfields of Victoria provides striking evidence which demonstrates that Aboriginal people participated in gold mining and interacted with non-Aboriginal people in a range of hitherto neglected ways.
Cycles, crises and innovation : path to sustainable development--a Kaleckian-Schumpeterian synthesis.
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2012
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- Description: Cycles, crises and innovation are the major economic forces that shape capitalist economies. Central to this book is a critical realist political economy approach based on the works of Joseph Schumpeter and Michal Kalecki who identified cycles, crises and innovation as the three dynamic forces plotting the path of economic development. The book examines how the rise of capital, through investment, enshrines innovation in profit and power which determines the course of cycles and crises. Based on this analysis, strategic intervention by transformative eco-innovation is proposed as a public policy path to ecologically sustainable development
Employer power and weakness: How local and global factors have shapped Australia's meat industry and industrial relations
- Authors: O'Leary, Patrick , Sheldon, Peter
- Date: 2012
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- Description: This book explores the choices employers have made and the reasons behind those choices in the context of the national economy, global meat trade and period severe booms and busts.
Family tourism : Multidisciplinary perspectives
- Authors: Schanzel, Heike , Yeoman, Ian , Backer, Elisa
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Aspects of tourism No. 56
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- Description: The family remains at the emotional heart of society, and makes up a significant proportion of the tourism market. However, the concept of family has changed over the decades and there are now different types of families that have their own unique attributes and needs. Families may have one parent or two, who may or may not be of different genders. This cutting-edge book constructs a multidisciplinary perspective on family tourism by discussing various types of families; how parents and children influence travel behaviours now and in the future and how family holidays may also be linked to stress. Family Tourism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives provides a compilation of issues from academic writers around the globe, to provide a range of perspectives linked by a common theme of family tourism with a futures perspective.
From silent witnesses to active agents: Student voice in re-engaging with learning
- Authors: Smyth, John , McInerney, Peter
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Adolescent cultures, school & society No. 55
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Human resource management in Australia & New Zealand
- Authors: du Plessis, Andries , Mackinnon, Bruce Hearn , Fazey, Mike , Nel, Pieter , Erwee, Ronel , Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2012
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Interculturalism, meaning and identify
- Authors: Tsolidis, Georgina
- Date: 2012
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Machine learning algorithms for problem solving in computational applications: Intelligent techniques
- Authors: Kulkarni, Siddhivinayak
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Machine Learning Algorithms for Problem Solving in Computational Applications: Intelligent Techniques
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- Description: Machine learning is an emerging area of computer science that deals with the design and development of new algorithms based on various types of data. Machine Learning Algorithms for Problem Solving in Computational Applications: Intelligent Techniques addresses the complex realm of machine learning and its applications for solving various real-world problems in a variety of disciplines, such as manufacturing, business, information retrieval, and security. This premier reference source is essential for professors, researchers, and students in artificial intelligence as well as computer science and engineering.
Mining Towns: Making a Living, Making a Life
- Authors: Eklund, Erik
- Date: 2012
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- Description: At any given moment in our history Australia has been in the middle of a mining boom. This book is a history of iconic Australian towns that have emerged as a result of these booms: Broken Hill, Mount Isa, Queenstown, Mount Morgan, Port Pirie and Kambalda.
Minorities in entrepreneurship : an international review
- Authors: Wood, Glenice
- Date: 2012
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Organisational behaviour
- Authors: Creed, Andrew , Phillips, Paul , Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2012
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Pipes, Ponds and people: Adaptive water management in drylands
- Authors: Graymore, Michelle , McRae-Williams, Pamela , Barton, Andrew , Lehmann, La Vergne
- Date: 2012
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- Description: Water is a scarce resource around the world, but particularly in dryland regions of Australia where droughts and the impact of climate change have dramatically reduced water availability. For communities living in dryland areas, and for global food security, this is a critical issue. This book contains case studies of innovative applied research for adaptive water management in the dryland regions of Australia. Each of these studies tells a story of an approach to adaptive water management that not only provides solutions to the water scarcity challenges in dryland areas, but also helps sustainability of regional communities around this issue.
Qualitative research in education
- Authors: Wallace, Susan , Atkins, Liz
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Bera/Sage research methods in education
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Seeking authenticity in place, culture, and the self: The Great urban escape
- Authors: Osbaldiston, Nicholas
- Date: 2012
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Snarls from the tea-tree :Big cat folklore
- Authors: Waldron, David , Townsend, Simon
- Date: 2012
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