This book reflects the paradigm shift now manifesting in Bangladesh’s education system by highlighting recent empirical research. It shares essential insights by presenting research conducted on diverse aspects of current day education in Bangladesh, including policy and governance, equity, access and participation, curriculum and pedagogy, assessment, and education programs and projects run by NGOs. Further, it offers a platform for these unique studies to be showcased and disseminated to scholars and researchers from developing and developed countries alike, and represents a unique reference resource for the education research community in Bangladesh, Asia and all over the world. <div> <br> </div> <div> With Foreword from Professor Serajul Islam Choudhury. </div>
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<div> This book explores poetry and pedagogy in practice across the lifespan. Poetry is directly linked to improved literacy, creativity, personal development, emotional intelligence, complex analytical thinking and social interaction: all skills that are crucial in contemporary educational systems. However, a narrow focus on STEM subjects at the expense of the humanities has led educators to deprioritize poetry and to overlook its interdisciplinary, multi-modal potential. The editors and contributors argue that poetry is not a luxury, but a way to stimulate linguistic experiences that are formally rich and cognitively challenging. To learn through poetry is not just to access information differently, but also to forge new and different connections that can serve as reflective tools for lifelong learning. This interdisciplinary book will be of value to teachers and students of poetry, as well as scholars interested in literacy across the disciplines. <br> </div>
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This book provides a comprehensive review of China’s Internet development in the past 23 years since the country’s first access to the Internet, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. It offers a systematic account of China’s experience in Internet development and governance, and establishes and presents China’s Internet Development Index System, covering network infrastructure, information technology, digital economy, e-governance, cyber security, and international cyberspace governance.
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<p>This book argues that the 2007/08 financial crisis revealed fundamental flaws in how the financial sector had evolved over the previous three decades. While access to financial services has improved, the total stock of debt in the global economy has risen to more than twice the size of global GDP. Financial services now play a far bigger role in all economies, developed and developing, than in the 1960s. This development has produced few, if any, worthwhile benefits. The book concludes that the largely deregulated financial sector needs to be radically reformed.</p> <p>The first of these reforms would be to establish the pre-eminence of the public interest in how financial services operate. The second would involve breaking up financial institutions that have become much too big. Third, the phenomenon of financialization needs to be regulated and controlled. Finally, all countries need to work- both nationally and internationally- towards a more democratized, more robust, and less laissez faire system of socially progressive financial sector regulation to make it subservient to the needs of society rather than the other way round.  </p> <p>This Palgrave Pivot will be of interest to economists, financiers and banking specialists, interested in an informed debate on the causes and consequences of the 2007/2008 financial crisis.</p> <div> <br> </div> <p></p>
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<div> <p>Develop Android apps with Kotlin to create more elegant programs than the Java equivalent. This book covers the various aspects of a modern Android app that professionals are expected to encounter. There are chapters dealing with all the important aspects of the Android platform, including GUI design, file- and data-handling, coping with phone calls, multimedia apps, interaction with location and mapping services, monetizing apps, and much more.</p> <p><i>Pro Android with Kotlin</i> is an invaluable source for developers wanting to build real-world state-of-the-art apps for modern Android devices.</p> <p><b>What You Will Learn</b><br></p> <p></p> <ul> <li>Integrate activities, such as intents, services, toasts and more, into your Android apps<br></li> <li>Build UIs in Android using layouts, widgets, lists, menus, and action bars <br></li> <li>Deal with data in your Android apps using data persistence and cloud access <br></li> <li>Design for different Android devices<br></li> <li>Create multimedia apps in Android<br></li> <li>Secure, deploy, and monetize your Android apps<br></li> </ul> <p></p> <b>Who This Book Is For</b> <br> <p></p> <p>Professional Android app developers.</p> </div>
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<div> <div> Gain a practical introduction to DataOps, a new discipline for delivering data science at scale inspired by practices at companies such as Facebook, Uber, LinkedIn, Twitter, and eBay. Organizations need more than the latest AI algorithms, hottest tools, and best people to turn data into insight-driven action and useful analytical data products. Processes and thinking employed to manage and use data in the 20th century are a bottleneck for working effectively with the variety of data and advanced analytical use cases that organizations have today. This book provides the approach and methods to ensure continuous rapid use of data to create analytical data products and steer decision making. </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <b><i>Practical DataOps</i></b> shows you how to optimize the data supply chain from diverse raw data sources to the final data product, whether the goal is a machine learning model or other data-orientated output. The book provides an approach to eliminate wasted effort and improve collaboration between data producers, data consumers, and the rest of the organization through the adoption of lean thinking and agile software development principles. </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> This book helps you to improve the speed and accuracy of analytical application development through data management and DevOps practices that securely expand data access, and rapidly increase the number of reproducible data products through automation, testing, and integration. The book also shows how to collect feedback and monitor performance to manage and continuously improve your processes and output.  </div> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <b>What You Will Learn</b> </div> <div> <div> <ul> <li>Develop a data strategy for your organization to help it reach its long-term goals<br></li> <li>Recognize and eliminate barriers to delivering data to users at scale<br></li> <li>Work on the right things for the right stakeholders through agile collaboration<br></li> <li>Create trust in data via rigorous testing and effective data management<br></li> <li>Build a culture of learning and continuous improvement through monitoring deployments and measuring outcomes<br></li> <li>Create cross-functional self-organizing teams focused on goals not reporting lines<br></li> <li>Build robust, trustworthy, data pipelines in support of AI, machine learning, and other analytical data products<br></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <b>Who This Book Is For</b> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> Data science and advanced analytics experts, CIOs, CDOs (chief data officers), chief analytics officers, business analysts, business team leaders, and IT professionals (data engineers, developers, architects, and DBAs) supporting data teams who want to dramatically increase the value their organization derives from data. The book is...
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<i>Mobile Brain–Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity</i> is a trans-disciplinary, collective, multimedia collaboration that critically uncovers the challenges and opportunities for transformational and innovative research and performance at the nexus of art, science and engineering.  <p></p> <p>This book addresses a set of universal and timeless questions with a profound impact on the human condition: </p> <p></p> <ul> <li>How do the creative arts and aesthetic experiences engage the brain and mind and promote innovation?<br></li> <li>How do arts–science collaborations employ aesthetics as a means of problem-solving and thereby create meaning?<br></li> <li>How can the creative arts and neuroscience advance understanding of individuality and social cognition, improve health and promote life-long learning?<br></li> <li>How are neurotechnologies changing science and artistic expression?<br></li> <li>How are the arts and citizen science innovating neuroscience studies, informal learning and outreach in the public sphere?<br></li> </ul> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p>Emerging from the 2016 and 2017 International Conferences on Mobile Brain–Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity held in Cancun, Mexico and Valencia, Spain to explore these topics, this book intertwines disciplines and investigates not only their individual products—art and data—but also something more substantive and unique; the international pool of contributors reveals something larger about humanity by revealing the state of the art in collaboration between arts and sciences and providing an investigational roadmap projected from recent advances. <p></p> <p><i>Mobile Brain–Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity</i> is written for academic researchers, professionals working in industrial and clinical centers, independent researchers and artists from the performing arts, and other readers interested in understanding emergent innovations at the nexus of art, science, engineering, medicine and the humanities. The book contains language, design features (illustrations, diagrams) to develop a conversational bridge between the disciplines involved supplemented by access to video, artistic presentations and the results of a hackathon from the MoBI conferences. </p>
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<p>Social entrepreneurs often experience difficulties when attempting to scale. The reason for this is that scaling isn’t just about an entrepreneur’s willingness to grow, but also—and, perhaps, even more importantly—his or her capacity to develop a scaling strategy that reflects an understanding of the various components that must be adjusted to accomplish scaling goals. Once entrepreneurs decided to scale the impact of their enterprise, they must develop new capabilities in order to access new resources and skills.</p> <p>This book will help social entrepreneurs create effective scaling strategies by providing a detailed, three-phased market approach to scaling. Cases based on social entrepreneurs who have successfully worked in low-income markets in Latin America then illustrate three main strategies for scaling impact: co-creating in low income contexts, collective impact, and replicating business models. The market approach to scaling described in this book is based on the theory of negotiating impact for resources, as introduced in this book, and a corresponding study of more than 100 entrepreneurs in the Latin American region.</p> <p> </p> <p>By offering a conceptual three phased approach as a guide for reflecting on practical case studies, this book appeals to business academics, leaders of incubators and those working with social entrepreneurs as well as current and aspiring social entrepreneurs themselves seeking to improve their management practices in order to scale their impact.</p> <br>
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