Action to Language via the Mirror Neuron System

Action to Language via the Mirror Neuron System
Author: Michael A. Arbib
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2006-09-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1139458132

In this book, internationally recognised experts from child development, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, primatology and robotics discuss the role of the mirror neuron system for the recognition of hand actions and the evolutionary basis for the brain mechanisms that support language.

Nutritional Biochemistry

Nutritional Biochemistry
Author: Chad Cox
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1771882859

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Nutrition is becoming ever more central to our understanding of metabolic processes. Nutritional biochemistry offers insight into the mechanisms by which diet influences human health and disease. This book focuses on five aspects of this complex field of study: nutritional genomics, clinical nut

Aesthetics and Style in Strategy

Aesthetics and Style in Strategy
Author: Gino Cattani
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781800432376

This book contains an Open Access chapter This volume is the first systematic survey of the interface between the aesthetic and strategic domains. The “aesthetic” turn in strategy encompasses the use of aesthetic features and style to create value, as well as the ways in which the useful and the beautiful can be brought together.

Learning Gain in Higher Education

Learning Gain in Higher Education
Author: Christina Hughes
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2021-01-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1838672818

Responding to the larger amount of students that are bearing an increasing proportion of the costs of their participation in higher education, this volume pays attention to the issue of what higher education does for its students. What do students gain from engaging in higher education, and how might this be accurately measured?

Organizational Hybridity

Organizational Hybridity
Author: Marya Besharov
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2020-12-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1839093544

This book contains Open Access chapters This volume integrates and redirects research on organizational hybridity, the mixing of logics, forms, and identities that do not conventionally go together. It sets a foundation for continued analytical rigor and real-world relevance.

Examining the Impact of Industry 4.0 on Libraries

Examining the Impact of Industry 4.0 on Libraries
Author: Josiline Phiri Chigwada
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781799842262

A number of changes have been taking place in library services and operations due to Industry 4.0. The transition brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution has included disruptive changes to the redesigning of library roles and remaking of information products and services. Therefore, it is important to understand the services and products that have been affected by the industrial revolution in the library. Examining the Impact of Industry 4.0 on Libraries is a critical scholarly publication that provides comprehensive research on how libraries can redesign their spaces and roles and remake, repackage, and provide information products and services to suit the student, staff, and society during the Fourth Industrial Revolution and examines the impact of these on libraries. Highlighting a range of topics such as data management, marketing, and library spaces, this book is essential for academicians, librarians, professionals, researchers, and students.