Showing posts with label Practices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Practices. Show all posts

Monday, September 28, 2015

Chemistry Education: Best Practices, Opportunities and Trends (repost)




Javier García-Martínez, Elena Serrano-Torregrosa, "Chemistry Education: Best Practices, Opportunities and Trends"


2015 | ISBN: 3527336052 | 792 pages | PDF | 9 MB




This comprehensive collection of top-level contributions provides a thorough review of the vibrant field of chemistry education. Highly-experienced chemistry professors and education experts cover the latest developments in chemistry learning and teaching, as well as the pivotal role of chemistry for shaping a more sustainable future.


Adopting a practice-oriented approach, the current challenges and opportunities posed by chemistry education are critically discussed, highlighting the pitfalls that can occur in teaching chemistry and how to circumvent them. The main topics discussed include best practices, project-based education, blended learning and the role of technology, including e-learning, and science visualization.


Hands-on recommendations on how to optimally implement innovative strategies of teaching chemistry at university and high-school levels make this book an essential resource for anybody interested in either teaching or learning chemistry more effectively, from experience chemistry professors to secondary school teachers, from educators with no formal training in didactics to frustrated chemistry students.









Monday, September 21, 2015

Biosignal Processing: Principles and Practices (Repost)




Biosignal Processing: Principles and Practices By Hualou Liang, Joseph D. Bronzino, Donald R. Peterson


2013 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 1439871434 | PDF | 28 MB








With the rise of advanced computerized data collection systems, monitoring devices, and instrumentation technologies, large and complex datasets accrue as an inevitable part of biomedical enterprise. The availability of these massive amounts of data offers unprecedented opportunities to advance our understanding of underlying biological and physiological functions, structures, and dynamics.


Biosignal Processing: Principles and Practices provides state-of-the-art coverage of contemporary methods in biosignal processing with an emphasis on brain signal analysis. After introducing the fundamentals, it presents emerging methods for brain signal processing, focusing on specific non-invasive imaging techniques such as electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIR). In addition, the book presents recent advances, reflecting the evolution of biosignal processing.


As biomedical datasets grow larger and more complicated, the development and use of signal processing methods to analyze and interpret these data has become a matter of course. This book is one step in the development of biosignal analysis and is designed to stimulate new ideas and opportunities in the development of cutting-edge computational methods for biosignal processing.







Laravel Design Patterns and Best Practices




Laravel Design Patterns and Best Practices by Arda Kilicdagi


English | July 25, 2014 | ISBN: 1783287985 | 99 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (True) | 3 MB

With: Code Files




By the end of the book, you will be accustomed to the best practices and the important design patterns used in Laravel to make a great website.




Enhance the quality of your web applications by efficiently implementing design patterns in Laravel




Create fully functional web applications using design patterns in Laravel


Explore various techniques to adapt different software patterns that suit your needs


Get to know the best practices to utilize when making a web application


Concise and practical guide to master the MVC approach of Laravel and its benefits




This book covers how to develop different applications and solve recurring problems using Laravel 4 design patterns. It will walk you through the widely used design patterns – the Builder (Manager) pattern, Factory pattern, Repository pattern, and Strategy pattern – and will empower you to use these patterns while developing various applications with Laravel. This book will help you find stable and acceptable solutions, thereby improving the quality of your applications. Throughout the course of the book, you will be introduced to a number of clear, practical examples about PHP design patterns and their usage in various projects. You will also get acquainted with the best practices for Laravel that will greatly reduce the probability of introducing errors into your web applications.




What you will learn from this book:




Learn about the design pattern fundamentals in OOP programming


Get acquainted with the structure of MVC architecture and use objects in your applications


Discover Laravel"s approach to MVC and its benefits


Work with various design patterns used in Laravel such as the Builder (Manager) pattern, Factory pattern, Repository pattern, and Strategy pattern


Create and maintain web applications using Laravel best practices


Implement PHP design patterns to solve commonly occurring problems




This book is a practical guide packed with clear examples that will help you get to grips with the best practices in Laravel design patterns to create advanced web applications.




This book is intended for web application developers working with Laravel who want to increase the efficiency of their web applications. It assumes that you have some experience with the Laravel PHP framework and are familiar with coding OOP methods.










Saturday, September 12, 2015

PAL Driven Organizational Learning: Theory and Practices: A Light on Learning Journey of Organizations (repost)




PAL Driven Organizational Learning: Theory and Practices: A Light on Learning Journey of Organizations by Kris Law and Kong Bieng Chuah


English | 2015 | ISBN: 3319180134 | 112 pages | PDF | 7,5 MB




Presenting an innovative concept and approach for organization management, this book serves to document an organization’s journey towards the ultimate goal of learning organization. This book also shares the experience on how a OL framework built on established learning theories, could be used effectively, overcoming many of the barriers in a real industrial setting. Utilizing a ready-to-use tool called Project Action Learning (PAL) to analyze real life case studies, the authors introduce a framework that allows teams of people to work and learn over the course of business projects. Equal emphasis is placed on the achievement of pre-set project outcomes and the learning objectives of the participants. In addition, a long term organizational learning strategy is put forward and the necessary supporting infrastructure, in the form of four ‘PAL Pillars’, is described. The concepts and development of the PAL driven Organizational Learning model are inspired by and grounded in, Western and Eastern business philosophies and case studies which offer important insights into the management of organizations who are keen to develop sustainable business practices.












Wednesday, September 9, 2015

ant Selection for Bioretention Systems and Stormwater Treatment Practices [Repost]




Plant Selection for Bioretention Systems and Stormwater Treatment Practices (SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology) by Bill Lord


English | 30 Nov. 2014 | ISBN: 9812872442 | 65 Pages | PDF | 8 MB




As cities develop, more land is converted into impervious surfaces, which do not allow water to infiltrate. Careful urban planning is needed to ensure that the hydrologic cycle and water quality of the catchment areas are not affected. There are techniques that can attenuate peak flow during rain events and reduce the amount of metals, nutrients, and bacteria that enter the urban water cycle.