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FUTURE TRADE RESEARCH AREAS THAT MATTER TO DEVELOPING COUNTRY POLICYMAKERS
This chapter analyzes preferential trade in Asia and the PacificPreferential trade, Asia and the Pacific, noodel bowl, GATT, WTO
Lighting Design and Pre-Visualization Software
The Advanced Lighting Technology course I took offered me the opportunity to get hands on experience with the new and rapidly advancing technology of pre-visualization. I was able to learn more about these programs and how the connect with one another while designing the lights to a song in a virtual space created in a pre-visualization software while using a computer port of a software traditionally available on a different technological medi
Book Review of The World Cafe: Shaping our Futures through Conversations that Matter,
Conversation is the process humans use to think and manage together. The active process of conversation is at the core of creative activity and collec- tive learning. It is the way human beings invent, change, and sustain our common experiences.
The World Caje: Shaping Our Futures through Conversations that Mat- ter is an ode to significant conversations. Through an explanation of how and why to organize and execute meaningful exchanges, Brown and Isaacs present a process for collaborative problem solving and innovative thinking
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This book brings together for the first time the collected wisdom of international leaders in the theory and practice in the emerging field of cultural heritage crowdsourcing. It features eight accessible case studies of groundbreaking projects from leading cultural heritage and academic institutions, and four thought-‐provoking essays that reflect on the wider implications of this engagement for participants and on the institutions themselves
Response through the Intentional Arc: Merleau-Ponty, Dreyfus and Second Language Acquisition
Language, when considered as part of the lived experience of human beings, fails to be reduced to mere representation. In line with non-representationalist understandings of the mind and knowledge-how centered understandings of knowledge, purposiveness in skill acquisition and second language acquisition may be understood through Dreyfus’s skillful coping, based in Merleau-Ponty’s intentional arc and maximal grip. Such an approach to second language acquisition decentralizes rule-based representationalist understandings of the process, such as universal grammar, and instead sees language and communication as responsive, dynamic and dyadic
Sleep-Wake Disorders and a Look at Insomnia through Biological and Behavioral Perspectives
Insomnia is defined by difficulties in falling asleep, maintaining sleep, and problems with early morning awakenings. Unfortunately, due to these symptoms daytime fatigue often follows. Daytime fatigue may have a severe impact on an individual’s day. Insomnia symptoms may not exist alone, however. Individuals who are diagnosed with insomnia have another disorder present as well. Often insomnia is paired with anxiety and mood disorders. Therefore, insomnia can be viewed through the biological and behavioral perspectives. Insomnia is a disorder that can be treated. The most common treatment would be cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, but treatment is not limited to just that
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