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Economic and psychology share common intellectual roots. At least as they are practised in the English-speaking world, both have their origins in the philosophy of the 'British empiricist' school of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. But as…

While, formerly, there existed such fundamental differ-
ences in style as the clay architecture of Central Africa
and Chinese wooden edifices that they could not pos-
sibly be considered as comparable forms of artistic ex-pression, the criteria of…

Neuroergonomics is the study of brain and behavior at work (Parasuraman, 2003). This interdisciplinary area of research and practice merges the
disciplines of neuroscience and ergonomics (or
human factors) in order to maximize the benefits
of…

The book seeks new methods to inform debates about the value of neuroeconomic methods. Somewhat as the field of epidemiology has categorized medical experiments, it describes the different methods of study
and the levels of evidence they provide.…

1.1 Historical Overview of Natural Ventilation in High-Rise Office Buildings The 19th century marked the emergence of the office building typology as we know it today. Controlling the indoor environment in these early office buildings was achieved by…

“Oleg Grabar has probably had a more profound
and far-reaching infl uence on the study of Islamic
art and architecture, not only through his own work
but through inspiring innumerable students, scholars,
teachers, and curators around the…

ThissecondeditionofMultipleIntelligences and Instructional Technologyoffersadditional
insights into the relationshipbetweenhumanintelligence, technology, andeffectiveinstruction. Thetitle andsubjectmatterderive,ofcourse,from…

Interest in Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences and its appli- cation to education has been substantial since the publication of Frames of Mind in 1983 and Gardner’s keynote address in early 1984, for a standing- room-only crowd at…

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that is designed to record and analyze numbers
and data. Excel is very widely used for accounting and financial purposes.

This series, Contesting Early Childhood, opens up space for questioning the current dominant discourses in early childhood education and for offering alternative narratives that demonstrate the multiplicity of theories and perspectives that are not…