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This book introduces new concepts and mechanisms regarding the usage of both social media interactions and artifacts for peer education in digital educational games. Digital games in general, and digital educational games in particular, represent an area with a high potential for interdisciplinary innovation, not only from an information technology standpoint, but also from social science, psychological and didactic perspectives. This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to educational games, which is centered on information technology and aims at: (1) improving digital management by focusing on the exchange of learning outcomes and solution assessment in a peer-to-peer network of learners; (2) achieving digital implementation by using forms of interaction to change the course of educational games; and (3) providing digital support by fostering group-formation processes in educational situations to increase both the effects of educational games and knowledge exchange at the individual level. In addition to a systematic analysis of the relationship between software architecture, educational games and social media applications, the book also presents the implemented IT systems' architectures and algorithmic solutions as well as the resulting applicable evaluation findings from the field of interactive multimedia learning.

Engineering. --- Communications Engineering, Networks. --- Computers and Education. --- Applications of Mathematics. --- Educational Technology. --- Pedagogic Psychology. --- Education. --- Mathematics. --- Telecommunication. --- Education --- Ingénierie --- Mathématiques --- Télécommunications --- Psychology. --- Educational games. --- Interactive multimedia. --- Peer teaching. --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Electrical Engineering --- Computer-assisted instruction. --- Multimedia systems. --- Instructional systems --- Design. --- Hypermedia systems --- Interactive media --- Instructional design --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- CAI (Computer-assisted instruction) --- Computer-aided instruction --- Computer-assisted learning --- Computer based instruction --- Computer-enhanced learning --- Electronic data processing in programmed instruction --- ILSs (Integrated learning systems) --- Integrated learning systems --- Microcomputer-aided instruction --- Microcomputer-assisted instruction --- Microcomputer-assisted learning --- Microcomputer-based instruction --- Teaching --- Data processing --- Applied mathematics. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Educational technology. --- Electrical engineering. --- Educational psychology. --- Data processing. --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Educational technology --- Programmed instruction --- Telematics --- Computer software --- Psychology, Educational --- Psychology --- Child psychology --- Math --- Science --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Training --- Electric communication --- Mass communication --- Telecom --- Telecommunication industry --- Telecommunications --- Communication --- Information theory --- Telecommuting --- Education—Data processing. --- Instructional technology --- Technology in education --- Technology --- Educational innovations --- Engineering --- Engineering analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- Electric engineering --- Aids and devices --- Mathematics

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Leading anthropologist reconsiders his notes and interviews from his fieldwork in the Congo in order to comment on ethnographic practices.

Ethnology --- Communication in ethnology. --- Communication and culture. --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Communication en ethnologie --- Communication et culture --- Computer network resources. --- Authorship. --- Ressources Internet --- Art d'écrire --- #SBIB:39A3 --- Culture and communication --- Culture --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- Communication in ethnology --- Communication and culture --- Computer network resources --- Authorship --- Art d'écrire --- Ethnology - Computer network resources --- Ethnology - Authorship --- Social Science --- Cultural & Social --- Ethnologie --- Recherche

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The story broke in 2006: Since 9/11, US intelligence services have had access to practically any international money transfer data by infiltrating the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) network. Banks worldwide transfer money orders and personal customer data through this network. While the surveillance was all-embracing in 2001, it was gradually limited over the course of the last few years. Revealed by the New York Times, the SWIFT affair has had global as well as national implications. While this dissertation first examines the international dimension of the SWIFT surveillance, the analysis mainly focuses on the national repercussions for Switzerland. Arditi Prize 2010 in International Affairs.

Finance --- Business & Economics --- Banking --- privacy protection --- terrorism --- money laundering --- conflict security and peacebuilding --- banking secrecy --- Swiss banking --- finance

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Johannes Schötz presents the first measurements of optical electro-magnetic near-fields around nanostructures with subcycle-resolution. The ability to measure and understand light-matter interactions on the nanoscale is an important component for the development of light-wave-electronics, the control and steering of electron dynamics with the frequency of light, which promises a speed-up by several orders of magnitude compared to conventional electronics. The experiments presented here on metallic nanotips, widely used in experiments and applications, do not only demonstrate the feasibility of attosecond streaking as a unique tool for fundamental studies of ultrafast nanophotonics but also represent a first important step towards this goal. Contents Electron Scattering in Solids Attosecond Streaking from Metal Nanotips Target Groups Lecturers and students of physics, especially in the area of nanophotonics and attosecond physics About the Author Johannes Schötz received his Master's degree in physics and currently works as a PhD student in the field of ultrafast nanophotonics at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics Garching.

Technology - General --- Atomic Physics --- Physics --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Plasmons (Physics) --- Nanostructured materials. --- Picosecond pulses. --- Picosecond phenomena --- Pulses, Picosecond --- Ultrafast phenomena --- Nanomaterials --- Nanometer materials --- Nanophase materials --- Nanostructure controlled materials --- Nanostructure materials --- Ultra-fine microstructure materials --- Plasma oscillation quanta --- Laser pulses, Ultrashort --- Microstructure --- Nanotechnology --- Exciton theory --- Plasma oscillations --- Plasma waves --- Quasiparticles (Physics) --- Solids --- Plasma effects --- Nanoscale Science and Technology. --- Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. --- Nanoscale science. --- Nanoscience. --- Nanostructures. --- Lasers. --- Photonics. --- New optics --- Optics --- Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation --- Masers, Optical --- Optical masers --- Light amplifiers --- Light sources --- Optoelectronic devices --- Nonlinear optics --- Optical parametric oscillators --- Nanoscience --- Nano science --- Nanoscale science --- Nanosciences --- Science

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The protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) is a contentious issue in developing and emerging economies. While countries like China are often reluctant to strengthen IPRs, industrialized countries complain about welfare losses in their markets due to foreign counterfeiting and piracy. In this context, Johannes Liegsalz empirically analyzes the legal framework and the economic relevance of patents in the People’s Republic of China. His results show that IPRs play a vital role in contemporary China and that they have a positive impact on international trade flows and foreign direct investments.

Intellectual property -- China. --- Intellectual property -- Economical aspects. --- Patent. --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Management Theory --- Intellectual property --- Investments, Foreign --- Business. --- Leadership. --- Management. --- Industrial management. --- Business and Management. --- Business Strategy/Leadership. --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Ability --- Command of troops --- Followership --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Business --- Industrial organization