This book addresses the widespread use of digital personal media in daily life. With a sociological and historical perspective, it explores the media-enhanced individualization and rationalization of the lifeworld, discussing the dramatic mediatization of daily life and calling on theorists such as McLuhan, Habermas and Goffman.
Brandtzæg, P. B. and Stav, B. H. (2004) Barn og unges skravling på nettet –
sosial støtte i Cyberspace? [Social support in Cyberspace among children and
young people?] Tidsskrift for ungdomsforskning 4(1) 27–47. Brody, F. (2000) 'The
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Understanding child health and wellness through a holistic lens. Complementing his book for professionals, here Scott Shannon equips parents and caregivers with a better way to understand the mental health challenges their children face, including how cutting-edge scientific concepts like epigenetics and neuroplasticity mean new hope for overcoming them. Readers learn how the most common stressors in kids—inadequate nutrition, unaddressed trauma, learning problems, family relationships, and more—are often at the root of behavioral and emotional issues, and what steps can be taken to restore health and wholeness, without immediately turning to medication.
versity tested the flexibility of the adolescent sleep pattern. They found that unlike
younger children or adults, adolescents had severe difficulty adjusting their sleep
start times (a teenager's brain needs to sleep from roughly 11:00 p.m. to 8:00 ...
Bestselling author Elizabeth George includes the Bible's answers to timely questions women have about running their busy lives while doing what is right.
Bestselling author Elizabeth George includes the Bible's answers to timely questions women have about running their busy lives while doing what is right.
Men have questions? God has answers! God's Wisdom for Your Life: Men’s Edition is a compilation of more than 1,000 Bible verses, categorized under 70 key life topics. Drawing from varied Bible translations for ease of reading, this book features subjects such as Brothers, Competitiveness, Emotions, Exercise, Fatherhood, Leadership, Legacy, Lust, Mentoring, Service, Sports, and Temptation. Each category is accompanied by a contemporary “life application” introduction, while quotations, prayers, and brief devotional thoughts are also scattered throughout—making God's Wisdom for Your Life: Men’s Edition your one-stop resource for encouragement, challenge, and hope.
This work is a guide to the general trends one can expect in each year of a person's life. Organized first by decade, then specific year within each decade, this guide gives new insights and helpful prognostications to the total sweep of the human life span. Each one of us is given different chances and choices. Our families, friends, personal horoscopes, and above all, the decisions we make during our lifetimes all interact with these more general influences to shape our lives.
This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 9th Italian Workshop on Advances in Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy, in May 2014, in conjunction with the 24th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks, WIRN 2014. The 16 papers presented have been thoroughly reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They cover the following topics: artificial neural networks; fuzzy inference systems; rough set; approximate reasoning; and optimization methods such as evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, particle swarm optimization.
Examples of the Usage of Infinities and Infinitesimals in Numerical Computations
Yaroslav D. Sergeyev1,2,3(B) 1 ... 2 N.I. Lobatchevsky State University, Nizhni
Novgorod, Russia 3 Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking, ...
The Italian community in Artificial Life and Evolutionary computation has grown remarkably in recent years, and this book is the first broad collection of its major interests and achievements (including contributions from foreign countries). The contributions in Artificial Life as well as in Evolutionary Computation allow one to see the deep connections between the two fields. The topics addressed are extremely relevant for present day research in Artificial Life and in Evolutionary Computation, which include important contributions from very well-known researchers. The volume provides a very broad picture of the Italian activities in this field. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Cognitive Dynamics in an Automata Gas (906 KB). Contents: Diffusion of Shapes (R S Shaw & N H Packard); FDC-Based Particle Swarm Optimization (A Azzini et al.); An Evolutionary Predictive Approach to Design High Dimensional Experiments (D De March et al.); Prefrontal Cortex and Action Sequences: A Review on Neural Computational Models (I Gaudiello et al.); Bio-Inspired ICT for Evolutionary Emotional Intelligence (M Villamira & P Cipresso); Cooperation in Corvids: A Simulative Study with Evolved Robots (O Miglino et al.); Distributed Processes in a Agent-Based Model of Innovation (L Ansaloni et al.); Imaginary or Actual Artificial Worlds Using a New Tool in the ABM Perspective (P Terna); Dynamics of Interconnected Boolean Networks with Scale-Free Topology (C Damiani et al.); Semi-Synthetical Minimal Cells (P Stano & P L Luisi); and other papers. Readership: Graduate students, academics and researchers in the field of complex systems, artificial intelligence and robotics.
to Python and vice versa (via the Python-UNO bridge, incorporated in OOo); (iii)
do symbolic calculations in Python (via http://code.google.com/p/sympy/); and (iv)
use Social Network Analysis from Python, with tools like the Igraph library ...
