Subject(s): Multiprocessors | Simultaneous multithreading processors | Computer architecture Summary: "The saturation of design complexity and clock frequencies for single-core processors has resulted in the emergence of multicore architectures as an alternative design paradigm. Nowadays, multicore/multithreaded computing systems are not on

Subject(s): Learning, Psychology of | Self-culture Summary: "Heutagogy, or self-determined learning, redefines how we understand learning and provides some exciting opportunities for educators. It is a novel approach to educational practice, drawing on familiar concepts such as constructivism, capability, andragogy and complexity theory. He

Subject(s): Creative thinking -- Study and teaching | Reflective learning -- Study and teaching Summary: "How to nurture creativity in tomorrow's innovators--today's college students. When asked what they want colleges to emphasize most, employers didn't put science, computing, math, or business management first. According to AA

Subject(s): Housing policy -- Great Britain | Community development -- Great Britain | Race discrimination -- Great Britain | Racism -- Great Britain Summary: "This book provides an important new contribution to debates around housing policy and its impact on community cohesion. There has never been a more prescient time to discuss these co

Subject(s): Islamic education -- Indonesia | Education, Higher -- Indonesia | Educational change -- Indonesia Summary: "Combining recent research with nearly 20 years' experience in Indonesia, Lukens-Bull looks closely at debates about institutions of Islamic higher education as they transform from being exclusively religious in nature

Subject(s): Teachers -- Training of -- United States | Urban schools -- United States | College-school cooperation -- United States Summary: "When teacher education is located on a university campus, set apart from urban schools and communities, it is easy to overlook the realities and challenges communities face as they struggle toward soc

Subject(s): Instructional systems -- Design Summary: "An Architectural Approach to Instructional Design is organized around a groundbreaking new way of conceptualizing instructional design practice. Both practical and theoretically sound, this approach is drawn from current international trends in architectural, digital, and industrial desi

Subject(s): Construction industry -- Technological innovations | Civil engineering -- Technological innovations | Competition Summary: "This book sets out the innovative practices that have been introduced from other industries and shows how the construction industry has learn from these. It explores the commercial significance of innovatio

Subject(s): Radioimmunoimaging | Image processing | Medical radiology Summary: "This book provides complete descriptions of the techniques involved in medical image processing, using sufficient descriptions and practical references. Chapters cover topics of deformable registration, segmentation, image reconstruction, and integration of thes

Subject(s): Chemical engieering | Chemical reactions Summary: "This up-to-date textbook fills a longstanding gap for graduate courses in chemical reaction engineering. It explores the interplay between transport processes and reaction kinetics, multiphase reactions and reactors, and optimization and reactor stability. The book includes a br