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Engaging the Online Learner
by J. Ana Donaldson Rita-Marie ConradThis is a revision of the first title in Jossey-Bass' Online Teaching & Learning series. This series helps higher education professionals improve the practice of online teaching and learning by providing concise, practical resources focused on particular areas or issues they might confront in this new learning environment.This revision includes updated activities and resources for instructors teaching online. Based on changes in technology and best practices learned from the field the revision provides new information for even seasoned online instructors.
Engaging the Rewired Brain
by David A. SousaTechnology is not only affecting students’ brains—it is TRANSFORMING them! In a world where technology is increasingly dominant, it is critical to understand how it affects students′ brains and behavior—for better and for worse. This new edition from bestselling educational neuroscience author David Sousa offers research-based, practical solutions and serves as a framework for educators who want to effectively leverage technology to enhance student learning in an environment that demands constant engagement and stimulation. Inside you’ll discover The impact of technology on students′ brains, including how technology affects cognition, memory, attention, and behavior Strategies for using technology to improve students’ social and emotional skills New information on artificial intelligence, the after-effects of the pandemic, gaming, and productive struggle A glossary of terms and a resources section to connect educators with supplemental materials and information Students are engaging with technology in new ways every day, and educators must shift their instructional practices accordingly. Engaging the Rewired Brain is a must-read for today’s educators and parents striving to understand technology′s impact on the developing brain and prepare today′s learners for an increasingly complex future.
Engaging the Rewired Brain
by David A. SousaTechnology is not only affecting students’ brains—it is TRANSFORMING them! In a world where technology is increasingly dominant, it is critical to understand how it affects students′ brains and behavior—for better and for worse. This new edition from bestselling educational neuroscience author David Sousa offers research-based, practical solutions and serves as a framework for educators who want to effectively leverage technology to enhance student learning in an environment that demands constant engagement and stimulation. Inside you’ll discover The impact of technology on students′ brains, including how technology affects cognition, memory, attention, and behavior Strategies for using technology to improve students’ social and emotional skills New information on artificial intelligence, the after-effects of the pandemic, gaming, and productive struggle A glossary of terms and a resources section to connect educators with supplemental materials and information Students are engaging with technology in new ways every day, and educators must shift their instructional practices accordingly. Engaging the Rewired Brain is a must-read for today’s educators and parents striving to understand technology′s impact on the developing brain and prepare today′s learners for an increasingly complex future.
Engaging Virtual Environments: Creative Ideas and Online Tools to Promote Student Interaction, Participation, and Active Learning
by Joanne Ricevuto Laura McLaughlinIn a classroom setting interaction among students is the norm. How do you replicate that informality, spontaneity, and focus online? This book provides you with a framework to think about the different kinds of engagement you want to foster -- whether participation, collaboration, or quick feedback -- and then introduces you to available online tools, some of which may be in your LMS, offers practical tips, and guides you to how make the most of commonly available technologies to achieve your goals.Within the context and progression of a course -- from developing a welcome page, presenting yourself and the purpose of your course, to icebreakers, assignments, and alternative forms of assessment -- the authors introduce you to a range of easy-to-use online tools that they have introduced to the faculty and teachers in their classes, and that foster active learning and student engagement. In doing so they provide a checklist that you can also access and print from the Web, to help you review additional tools from the wide and ever-growing range of tools that are available online and determine whether they are appropriate for what you want to accomplish.This book will help you connect with students, whether you’re teaching synchronously or asynchronously, regardless of the devices students may be using; develop community; and introduce you to gamification to add enjoyment and variety to your students’ experience of your class.Recognizing that using new tools with confidence requires practice, the authors offer ideas for implementing them in private online spaces. Each chapter concludes with reflection questions that can be addressed individually by the reader or within a learning community to encourage faculty to work together and support each other in virtual teaching and learning. This book addresses the challenge of embracing new models of course offerings to students in the evolving landscape of virtual learning.
Engaños digitales, víctimas reales: Historias de estafas por internet y hackeos en la Argentina
by Sebastián DavidovskyA partir de nueve casos reales ocurridos en la Argentina, Sebastián Davidovsky, periodista especializado en tecnología, explica delitos como grooming, hackeo, phishing y ransomware. Cada caso sirve para conocer cómo operan los criminales, cómo funcionan las estafas y cómo estar prevenidos para evitarlas. Usamos mail, apps, WhatsApp, home banking, archivamos, compramos, subimos fotos. Y no percibimos que, del otro lado, alguien acecha todos nuestros datos y la intimidad. A partir de nueve casos argentinos, Sebastián Davidovsky explica cómo operan los criminales a través del grooming, phishing, ransomware y otros delitos a los que todos estamos expuestos. Dice María O'Donnell que "a los que nos acercamos a la tecnología con ingenuidad, pero agradecidos por las oportunidades que ofrece, este libro resulta tan ameno como inquietante. No abruma con datos ni pretende convertirnos al nerdismo, pero con hechos reales -que reconstruye con precisión- alerta sobre riesgos poco evidentes. Las historias iluminan sobre qué pasa cuando las cosas funcionan mal en una red a la que entregamos más información de lo prudente. Sebastián nos saca de la zona de comodidad, porque estamos acostumbrados a disfrutar de las soluciones, pero no nos ponemos a pensar en qué nos quitan". Para Tomás Balmaceda, "por su volumen e impacto, es posible que estos nuevos delitos estén a punto de tenernos como víctimas (si no es que ya nos pasó). Con olfato para las grandes historias, rigor investigativo y un ritmo que no descansa, en este libro hay casos de la Argentina que nos obligan a repensar nuestra conducta digital. Además de entretener y crear conciencia, Sebastián brinda consejos para evitar ser víctimas de estos nuevos criminales, que no usan máscaras ni llevan ganzúas, sino que se esconden detrás de un usuario y una pantalla".
The Engine of Complexity: Evolution as Computation
by John MayfieldThe concepts of evolution and complexity theory have become part of the intellectual ether permeating the life sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, and, more recently, management science and economics. In this book, John E. Mayfield elegantly synthesizes core concepts from multiple disciplines to offer a new approach to understanding how evolution works and how complex organisms, structures, organizations, and social orders can and do arise based on information theory and computational science. Intended for the intellectually adventuresome, this book challenges and rewards readers with a nuanced understanding of evolution and complexity that offers consistent, durable, and coherent explanations for major aspects of our life experiences. Numerous examples throughout the book illustrate evolution and complexity formation in action and highlight the core function of computation lying at the work's heart.
Engineering a Robust DNA Circuit for the Direct Detection of Biomolecular Interactions (Springer Theses)
by Ang Yan ShanThis book provides essential insights into designing a localized DNA circuit to promote the rate of desired hybridization reactions over undesired leak reactions in the bulk solution. The area of dynamic DNA nanotechnology, or DNA circuits, holds great promise as a highly programmable toolbox that can be used in various applications, including molecular computing and biomolecular detection. However, a key bottleneck is the recurring issue of circuit leakage. The assembly of the localized circuit is dynamically driven by the recognition of biomolecules – a different approach from most methods, which are based on a static DNA origami assembly. The design guidelines for individual reaction modules presented here, which focus on minimizing circuit leakage, are established through NUPACK simulation and tested experimentally – which will be useful for researchers interested in adapting the concepts for other contexts. In the closing section, the design concepts are successfully applied to the biomolecular sensing of a broad range of targets including the single nucleotide mutations, proteins, and cell surface receptors.
Engineering Adaptive Software Systems: Communications Of NII Shonan Meetings (Lecture Notes In Computer Science / Programming And Software Engineering Ser. #7475)
by Yijun Yu Arosha Bandara Shinichi Honiden Zhenjiang Hu Tetsuo Tamai Hausi Muller John Mylopoulos Bashar NuseibehThis book discusses the problems and challenges in the interdisciplinary research field of self-adaptive software systems. Modern society is increasingly filled with software-intensive systems, which are required to operate in more and more dynamic and uncertain environments. These systems must monitor and control their environment while adapting to meet the requirements at runtime. This book provides promising approaches and research methods in software engineering, system engineering, and related fields to address the challenges in engineering the next-generation adaptive software systems. The contents of the book range from design and engineering principles (Chap. 1) to control–theoretic solutions (Chap. 2) and bidirectional transformations (Chap. 3), which can be seen as promising ways to implement the functional requirements of self-adaptive systems. Important quality requirements are also dealt with by these approaches: parallel adaptation for performance (Chap. 4), self-adaptive authorization infrastructure for security (Chap. 5), and self-adaptive risk assessment for self-protection (Chap. 6). Finally, Chap. 7 provides a concrete self-adaptive robotics operating system as a testbed for self-adaptive systems. The book grew out of a series of the Shonan Meetings on this ambitious topic held in 2012, 2013, and 2015. The authors were active participants in the meetings and have brought in interesting points of view. After several years of reflection, they now have been able to crystalize the ideas contained herein and collaboratively pave the way for solving some aspects of the research problems. As a result, the book stands as a milestone to initiate further progress in this promising interdisciplinary research field.
Engineering Agile Big-Data Systems (River Publishers Series In Software Engineering Ser.)
by Kevin Feeney Jim Davies James WelchTo be effective, data-intensive systems require extensive ongoing customisation to reflect changing user requirements, organisational policies, and the structure and interpretation of the data they hold. Manual customisation is expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone. In large complex systems, the value of the data can be such that exhaustive testing is necessary before any new feature can be added to the existing design. In most cases, the precise details of requirements, policies and data will change during the lifetime of the system, forcing a choice between expensive modification and continued operation with an inefficient design.Engineering Agile Big-Data Systems outlines an approach to dealing with these problems in software and data engineering, describing a methodology for aligning these processes throughout product lifecycles. It discusses tools which can be used to achieve these goals, and, in a number of case studies, shows how the tools and methodology have been used to improve a variety of academic and business systems.
Engineering Analysis: Interactive Methods and Programs with FORTRAN, QuickBASIC, MATLAB, and Mathematica (Allyn And Bacon Series In Mechanical Engineering)
by Yen-Ching PaoThis book provides a concise introduction to numerical concepts in engineering analysis, using FORTRAN, QuickBASIC, MATLAB, and Mathematica to illustrate the examples. Discussions include:matrix algebra and analysissolution of matrix equationsmethods of curve fitmethods for finding the roots of polynom
Engineering and Management of IT-based Service Systems
by Manuel Mora Jorge Marx Gómez Leonardo Garrido Francisco Cervantes PérezIntelligent Decision-Making Support Systems (i-DMSS) are specialized IT-based systems that support some or several phases of the individual, team, organizational or inter-organizational decision making process by deploying some or several intelligent mechanisms. This book pursues the following academic aims: (i) generate a compendium of quality theoretical and applied contributions in Intelligent Decision-Making Support Systems (i-DMSS) for engineering and management IT-based service systems (ITSS); (ii) diffuse scarce knowledge about foundations, architectures and effective and efficient methods and strategies for successfully planning, designing, building, operating, and evaluating i-DMSS for ITSS, and (iii) create an awareness of, and a bridge between ITSS and i-DMSS academicians and practitioners in the current complex and dynamic engineering and management ITSS organizational. The book presents a collection of 11 chapters referring to relevant topics for both IT service systems and i-DMSS including: problems of selection of IT service providers, optimization of supply chain systems, IT governance decisions, clinical decision support, dynamic user-interface adaptation, re-engineering of processes, and generic decision problems. Advanced IT technologies used in some chapters are: fuzzy multi-criteria mechanisms, semantic processing, data mining processing, and rough sets. Other chapters report traditional DSS mechanisms but used or suggested to be used in innovative mode for IT service engineering and management tasks.
Engineering and Medicine in Extreme Environments
by Tobias Cibis Carolyn McGregor AmThis book brings together in-depth information on a wide array of bio-engineering topics and their application to enhance human health, performance, comfort, and survival in extreme environments. Contributions from biomedical engineering, information systems, medicine and physiology, and medical engineering are presented in relation to a broad range of harsh and extreme environmental scenarios, including underwater, terrestrial (both natural and man-made), and space travel. Physicians, engineers, and scientists, as well as researchers and graduate students, will find the book to be an invaluable resource.Details effects of extreme environments on human physiology;Presents human-environment interaction in different scenarios;Overview of engineering challenges and problems in extreme environments.
Engineering and Sciences Teaching and Learning Activities: New Systems Throughout COVID-19 Pandemics (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control #381)
by Samsul Ariffin Abdul Karim Saiful Azmi HusainThis book comes from genuine research from various universities in Asia, such as in South East Asia and India. Since COVID-19 pandemic is spreading all over the world, most schools and institutions of higher learning have opted online-based learning for their teaching and learning (T&L) activities. Previously, the common practices in T&L are face to face (F2F). Therefore, online T&L is a new normal not just for the students but also for the instructors as well as the parents. In this book, different online teaching methods via technology-supported teaching have been implemented, and at the end of the lesson, based on the feedback from students on these online technology-supported teaching tools, most educators found that there are positive responses from majority of students, in terms of their learning, attitudes, thinking and decision-making process, apart from the challenges faced by the students in the beginning, with regards to the new approaches and methodology used by their teachers during online teaching. There are eight contributed chapters in this book covering secondary school-level curriculum up to higher institutional-level curriculum that forming a new system of T&L for post-COVID-19 pandemic. The topics under consideration include active learning (AL) and cooperative learning (CL) for T&L, task-based instruction (TBI), transition students’ adaptability to post-COVID-19, creative and innovative teaching methods for secondary school-level mathematics, project-based learning (PPBL) for geophysics and impact of Socratic method and SOLO taxonomy. This book is suitable for postgraduate students, teachers, instructor, educational researchers, as well as policy makers in education and other scientists who are dedicated in teaching and educate students.
Engineering and Technology Management in Challenging Times (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1137)
by Ferhan Çebi Ahmet Tezcan Tekin Adnan Çorum Gizem Deniz Cömert Gulin Idil S. BolatanThe book is an important resource to effectively combat these challenges and guide businesses and institutions toward success. Today's world is experiencing a period in which, on the one hand, technical advances, innovations, and changes are developing at an increasingly rapid pace, and on the other hand, uncertain global challenges are emerging. Managers in the field of engineering and technology must skillfully manage this complexity and uncertainty. Reasons to Consider Reading This Book: · Acquiring advanced methodologies and tools to efficiently oversee engineering and technology projects, especially in highly volatile circumstances. · Gaining valuable insights from industry experts and experienced professionals as they impart their knowledge, expertise, and groundbreaking ideas. · Experiencing practical approaches for learning effective strategies and tangible techniques to improve productivity, maximize resources, and promote creativity. The book helps · Engineers and technologists to be able to find solutions to the problems they encounter with the most up-to-date methods. · Business leaders to be able to have a deep understanding of how to effectively leverage technology to achieve strategic advantage and ensure the resilience of their companies · Students and educators to be able to acquire new knowledge by combining academic knowledge with practical application This book serves as a comprehensive guide that provides a clear path to adaptability, creativity, and achievement in an uncertain global landscape. The book emphasizes “Do not merely endure the difficulties and solve them; improve, shape, and take charge with assurance”.
Engineering and the Mind's Eye
by Eugene S. FergusonIn this insightful and incisive essay, Eugene Ferguson demonstrates that good engineering is as much a matter of intuition and nonverbal thinking as of equations and computation. He argues that a system of engineering education that ignores nonverbal thinking will produce engineers who are dangerously ignorant of the many ways in which the real world differs from the mathematical models constructed in academic minds.
Engineering Applications for New Materials and Technologies (Advanced Structured Materials #85)
by Andreas ÖchsnerThis book discusses the expertise, skills, and techniques needed for the development of new materials and technologies. It focuses on finite element and finite volume methods that are used for engineering simulations, and present many state-of-the-art applications and advances to highlight these methods’ importance. For example, modern joining technologies can be used to fabricate new compound or composite materials, even those formed from dissimilar component materials. These composite materials are often exposed to harsh environments, must deliver specific characteristics, and are primarily used in automotive and marine technologies, i.e., ships, amphibious vehicles, docks, offshore structures, and even robots. To achieve the desired material performance, computer-based engineering tools are widely used for simulation, data evaluation, and design processes.
Engineering Applications of AI and Swarm Intelligence (Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing)
by Xin-She YangThe book is focused on latest developments and findings on engineering applications of AI and swarm intelligence. It provides comprehensive reviews and surveys on implementations and coding aspects of case studies and applications where appropriate. The book is useful for scholars, lecturers, and practitioners from academia and industrial applications. The readership of this book also includes Ph.D. students and researchers with a wide experience in the subject areas.
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology)
by Aziza Chakir Johanes Fernandes Andry Arif Ullah Rohit Bansal Mohamed GhazouaniMaking intelligent devices and systems is the science and engineering of artificial intelligence (AI). In order to solve many of the most difficult problems in computer science, this important multidisciplinary discipline plays a crucial role in the field of technology nowadays. The book also addresses the topic of machine learning because it is closely related to AI. By no means is the list of subjects below intended to be comprehensive. The main objective of this book is to provide researchers, scientists, business professionals, and academics insight into original theories and research findings on the use of human cognitive models in diverse real-world computing applications. Through this book, the authors built an interdisciplinary forum where researchers from many fields may share their work and explore how to engineer human brain processes, learning mechanisms, and decision-making processes.
Engineering Applications of FPGAs
by Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle José de Jesús Rangel-Magdaleno Luis Gerardo De la FragaThis book offers readers a clear guide to implementing engineering applications with FPGAs, from the mathematical description to the hardware synthesis, including discussion of VHDL programming and co-simulation issues. Coverage includes FPGA realizations such as: chaos generators that are described from their mathematical models; artificial neural networks (ANNs) to predict chaotic time series, for which a discussion of different ANN topologies is included, with different learning techniques and activation functions; random number generators (RNGs) that are realized using different chaos generators, and discussions of their maximum Lyapunov exponent values and entropies. Finally, optimized chaotic oscillators are synchronized and realized to implement a secure communication system that processes black and white and grey-scale images. In each application, readers will find VHDL programming guidelines and computer arithmetic issues, along with co-simulation examples with Active-HDL and Simulink. The whole book provides a practical guide to implementing a variety of engineering applications from VHDL programming and co-simulation issues, to FPGA realizations of chaos generators, ANNs for chaotic time-series prediction, RNGs and chaotic secure communications for image transmission.
Engineering Applications of Modern Metaheuristics (Studies in Computational Intelligence #1069)
by Taymaz Akan Ahmed M. Anter A. Şima Etaner-Uyar Diego OlivaThis book is a collection of various methodologies that make it possible for metaheuristics and hyper-heuristics to solve problems that occur in the real world. This book contains chapters that make use of metaheuristics techniques. The application fields range from image processing to transmission power control, and case studies and literature reviews are included to assist the reader. Furthermore, some chapters present cutting-edge methods for load frequency control and IoT implementations. In this sense, the book offers both theoretical and practical contents in the form of metaheuristic algorithms. The researchers used several stochastic optimization methods in this book, including evolutionary algorithms and Swarm-based algorithms. The chapters were written from a scientific standpoint. As a result, the book is primarily aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students of Science, Engineering, and Computational Mathematics, but it can also be used in courses on Artificial Intelligence, among other things. Similarly, the material may be beneficial to research in evolutionary computation and artificial intelligence communities.
Engineering Applications of Neural Networks
by Giacomo Boracchi Lazaros Iliadis Chrisina Jayne Aristidis LikasThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2012, held in London, UK, in September 2012. The 49 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers describe the applications of neural networks and other computational intelligence approaches to intelligent transport, environmental engineering, computer security, civil engineering, financial forecasting, virtual learning environments, language interpretation, bioinformatics and general engineering.
Engineering Applications of Neural Networks: 23rd International Conference, EAAAI/EANN 2022, Chersonissos, Crete, Greece, June 17–20, 2022, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1600)
by Lazaros Iliadis Chrisina Jayne Anastasios Tefas Elias PimenidisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2022, held in Chersonisos, Crete, Greece, in June 2022.The 37 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Bio inspired Modeling / Novel Neural Architectures; Classification / Clustering; Machine Learning; Convolutional / Deep Learning; Datamining / Learning / Autoencoders; Deep Learning / Blockchain; Machine Learning for Medical Images / Genome Classification; Reinforcement /Adversarial / Echo State Neural Networks; Robotics / Autonomous Vehicles, Photonic Neural Networks; Text Classification / Natural Language.
Engineering Applications of Neural Networks: 24th International Conference, EAAAI/EANN 2023, León, Spain, June 14–17, 2023, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1826)
by Lazaros Iliadis Ilias Maglogiannis Serafin Alonso Chrisina Jayne Elias PimenidisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2023, held in León, Spain, in June 2023.The 41 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on artificial intelligence - computational methods - ethology; classification - filtering - genetic algorithms; complex dynamic networks' optimization/ graph neural networks; convolutional neural networks/spiking neural networks; deep learning modeling; deep/machine learning in engineering; LEARNING (reinforcemet - federated - adversarial - transfer); natural language - recommendation systems.
Engineering Applications of Neural Networks
by Chrisina Jayne Lazaros IliadisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2012, held in London, UK, in September 2012. The 49 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers describe the applications of neural networks and other computational intelligence approaches to intelligent transport, environmental engineering, computer security, civil engineering, financial forecasting, virtual learning environments, language interpretation, bioinformatics and general engineering.
Engineering Applications of Neural Networks: 20th International Conference, EANN 2019, Xersonisos, Crete, Greece, May 24-26, 2019, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1000)
by Chrisina Jayne Lazaros Iliadis Ilias Maglogiannis John MacintyreThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2019, held in Xersonisos, Crete, Greece, in May 2019.The 35 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on AI in energy management - industrial applications; biomedical - bioinformatics modeling; classification - learning; deep learning; deep learning - convolutional ANN; fuzzy - vulnerability - navigation modeling; machine learning modeling - optimization; ML - DL financial modeling; security - anomaly detection; 1st PEINT workshop.