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Common Circuits

Hacking Alternative Technological Futures

by Luis Felipe R. Murillo ...

How hackers facilitate community technology projects that counter the monoculture of "big tech" and point us to brighter, innovative horizons.A digital world in relentless movement—from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing—has been captured and reinvented as a monoculture by Silicon Valley "big tech" and venture capital firms. Yet very little is discussed in the public sphere about ... Read more

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How hackers facilitate community technology projects that counter the monoculture of "big tech" and point us to brighter, innovative horizons.A digital world in relentless movement—from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing—has been captured and reinvented as a monoculture by Silicon Valley "big tech" and venture capital firms. Yet very little is discussed in the public sphere about
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Gamification and Design Thinking in Higher Education

Case Studies for Instructional Innovation in the Economics Classroom

by Carmen Bueno Muñoz, Núria Hernández Nanclares, Luis R. Murillo Zamorano, José Ángel López Sánchez ...

Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
This book analyzes the use of gamification and design thinking in higher education, examining how both techniques can be combined and used together to promote motivation, engagement, and participation among students.Using two in-depth examples, the authors show that the introduction of a gamified design in a design thinking activity can be a powerful tool to enhance the experiences of students in ... Read more

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This book analyzes the use of gamification and design thinking in higher education, examining how both techniques can be combined and used together to promote motivation, engagement, and participation among students.Using two in-depth examples, the authors show that the introduction of a gamified design in a design thinking activity can be a powerful tool to enhance the experiences of students in
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Crowdsourcing during COVID-19

Case Studies in Health and Education

by Carmen Bueno Muñoz, Luis R Murillo Zamorano, José Ángel López Sánchez ...

Crowdsourcing is a means by which public interest is sought and leveraged to achieve specific goals, and this fascinating study highlights how the model has been used to challenge the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.The book investigates what factors have encouraged the use of crowdsourcing during the pandemic, as well as those issues which have restricted its use. It is illustrated with four ... Read more

$33.99 USD

Crowdsourcing is a means by which public interest is sought and leveraged to achieve specific goals, and this fascinating study highlights how the model has been used to challenge the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.The book investigates what factors have encouraged the use of crowdsourcing during the pandemic, as well as those issues which have restricted its use. It is illustrated with four
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Gamification and Artificial Intelligence during COVID-19: Case Studies in Health and Education

by Luis R. Murillo Zamorano, Carmen Bueno Muñoz, José Ángel López Sánchez ...

The health emergency caused by COVID-19 has been a global challenge. During this period, it was necessary to quickly develop solutions that were able to cope with the pandemic and help mitigate the effects that the new coronavirus was causing in many sectors. This book analyzes how gamification and artificial intelligence (AI) have been used during the COVID-19 pandemic in health and education. To ... Read more

$32.99 USD

The health emergency caused by COVID-19 has been a global challenge. During this period, it was necessary to quickly develop solutions that were able to cope with the pandemic and help mitigate the effects that the new coronavirus was causing in many sectors. This book analyzes how gamification and artificial intelligence (AI) have been used during the COVID-19 pandemic in health and education. To
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Preventing food losses and waste to achieve food security and sustainability

by Prof Elhadi M. Yahia, Dr Jorge L. Chávez-Servín, Dr Roberto A. Ferriz Martínez, Dr Dima Faour-Klingbeil, Dr Ewen Todd, Dr Hamid El Bilali, Dr José de Jesús Ornelas-Paz, Dr Puran Bridgemohan, Dr Santiago Vergara, Dr Hanne Møller0, Dr Aina Elstad Stensgård1, Dr Silvia Gaiani2, Dr Ole Jørgen Hanssen3, Dr Reiner Jedermann4, Dr Ulrike Praeger5, Dr Martin Geyer6, Dr Walter Lang7, Dr Marie Mourad8, Dr Sampsa Nisonen9, Dr Kirsi Silvennoinen0, Dr Tadele Tefera1, Dr Esayas Mendesil2, Dr Jorge Fonseca3, Prof Martini Binti Mohammad Yusoff4, Dr Azizah Binti Misran5, Dr Salah El-Safty6, Dr Carlos F. Sosa-Ferreyra7, Dr Pilar Santacoloma8, Dr Laura Brenes-Peralta9, Dr Sara Granados0, Dr Maria Fernanda Jimenez Morales1, Dr Luis Saez2, Dr Moez El Shohdi3, Dr Rasha El Shafei4, Dr Jesús R. Rodríguez-Núñez5, Dr Armida Rodríguez-Félix6, Dr Tomas Jesús Madera-Santana7, Dr Sandra Davison8, Dr Anne Sharp9, Prof F. Ascencio0, Dr T. Sandoval-Contreras1, Dr Leigh Prezkop2, Dr Amanda Stone3, Dr Camelia Bucatariu4, Dr Gregory A. Baker5, Dr Lisa K. Johnson6, Dr Jonathan Deutsch7, Dr Tanya Stathers8, Prof. Brighton M. Mvumi9, Dr Murillo Freire Junior0, Dr Walter Belik1, Dr Natalia Basso2, Dr Gustavo Polenta3, Dr Catalina Giraldo4, Dr Abdallah Mohammed Omezzine5, Prof. I. Higuera-Ciapara6, Dr R. Lugo-Melchor7, Dr L. O. Noriega-Orozco8 ...

Series Book 70 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
The first comprehensive review of the causes and prevention of food losses and waste (FLW), bringing together leading experts from around the world.Multi-dimensional approach in addressing the problem of FLW from a range of perspectives: key stages in the supply chain, different types of commodity and different regions in the world.Valuable case studies from different regions on practical measures ... Read more

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The first comprehensive review of the causes and prevention of food losses and waste (FLW), bringing together leading experts from around the world.Multi-dimensional approach in addressing the problem of FLW from a range of perspectives: key stages in the supply chain, different types of commodity and different regions in the world.Valuable case studies from different regions on practical measures
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Beyond Walls and Cages

Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis

by Alison Mountz, Anne Bonds, Bob Libal, Christopher Stenken, Cynthia Bejarano, Jodie Lawston, Joshua M. Price, Laura McTighe, Lauren Martin, Margo Tamez, Maria Morales0, Mariana Viturro1, Micol Seigel2, Monica Varsanyi3, Nicole Porter4, Olga Aksyutina5, Proma Tagore6, Rashad Shabazz7, Renee Feltz8, Ruben R. Murillo9, Said Saddiki0, Stokely Baksh1, Subhash Kateel2, Zoe Hammer-Tomizuka3, Jenna M. Loyd5, Joseph Nevins8, Borderlands Autonomist Collective9, Luis A. Fernandez0, Ruth Wilson Gilmore1, Amy Gottlieb2, Gael Guevara3, Julianne Hing4, Elizabeth Vargas5, Harsha Walia6, Seth Freed Wessler7 ...

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The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison ... Read more

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The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison
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Handbook of Latinos and Education

Theory, Research, and Practice

Edited by Enrique G. Murillo, Jr, Dolores Delgado Bernal, Socorro Morales, Luis Urrieta, Jr, Eric Ruiz Bybee, Juan Sánchez Muñoz, Victor B. Saenz, Daniel Villanueva, Margarita Machado-Casas, Katherine Espinoza ...

Now in its second edition, this Handbook offers a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship profiling the scope and terrain of academic inquiry on Latinos and education. Presenting the most significant and potentially influential work in the field in terms of its contributions to research, to professional practice, and to the emergence of related interdisciplinary ... Read more

$166.99 USD

Now in its second edition, this Handbook offers a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship profiling the scope and terrain of academic inquiry on Latinos and education. Presenting the most significant and potentially influential work in the field in terms of its contributions to research, to professional practice, and to the emergence of related interdisciplinary
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Recent Advances in Differential Equations and Applications

Edited by Juan Luis García Guirao, José Alberto Murillo Hernández, Francisco Periago Esparza ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
This work gathers a selection of outstanding papers presented at the 25th Conference on Differential Equations and Applications / 15th Conference on Applied Mathematics, held in Cartagena, Spain, in June 2017. It supports further research into both ordinary and partial differential equations, numerical analysis, dynamical systems, control and optimization, trending topics in numerical linear ... Read more

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This work gathers a selection of outstanding papers presented at the 25th Conference on Differential Equations and Applications / 15th Conference on Applied Mathematics, held in Cartagena, Spain, in June 2017. It supports further research into both ordinary and partial differential equations, numerical analysis, dynamical systems, control and optimization, trending topics in numerical linear
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Race After Technology

Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

by Ruha Benjamin ...

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even ... Read more

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From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even
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Leveraging Data Science for Global Health

Edited by Leo Anthony Celi, Maimuna S. Majumder, Patricia Ordóñez, Juan Sebastian Osorio, Kenneth E. Paik, Melek Somai ...

This open access book explores ways to leverage information technology and machine learning to combat disease and promote health, especially in resource-constrained settings. It focuses on digital disease surveillance through the application of machine learning to non-traditional data sources. Developing countries are uniquely prone to large-scale emerging infectious disease outbreaks due to ... Read more

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This open access book explores ways to leverage information technology and machine learning to combat disease and promote health, especially in resource-constrained settings. It focuses on digital disease surveillance through the application of machine learning to non-traditional data sources. Developing countries are uniquely prone to large-scale emerging infectious disease outbreaks due to
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Food Fix

How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet--One Bite at a Time

by Dr. Mark Hyman, MD ...

Series Book 9 - The Dr. Mark Hyman Library
An indispensable guide to food, our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD."Read this book if you're ready to change the world." —Tim Ryan, US RepresentativeWhat we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet, ... Read more

$11.99 USD

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An indispensable guide to food, our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD."Read this book if you're ready to change the world." —Tim Ryan, US RepresentativeWhat we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet,
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The Light in Their Eyes

Creating Multicultural Learning Communities: Tenth Anniversary Edition

by Sonia Nieto ...

Series series Multicultural Education Series
In this 10th Anniversary Edition of her popular text, Sonia Nieto reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools. With a new Introductory Chapter and a new Epilogue, Nieto addresses some of the changes we have experienced during the past decade that help explain the current sociopolitical environment—our ... Read more

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In this 10th Anniversary Edition of her popular text, Sonia Nieto reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools. With a new Introductory Chapter and a new Epilogue, Nieto addresses some of the changes we have experienced during the past decade that help explain the current sociopolitical environment—our
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