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New technologies have the potential to greatly mitigate cognitive, motor, and social impairments stemming from genetic or environmental factors. Recent Advances in Assistive Technologies to Support Children with Developmental Disorders raises awareness of disabled children and what can be done to help them grow and develop alongside their peers.

Provides a coherent account of artistic practices in virtual worlds and considers the contribution the Second Life platform has made in a historical, theoretical, and critical context within the fields of art and technology. This volume is intended for both artists and scholars in the areas of digital art, art and technology, media arts history, virtual worlds, and games studies.

Emerging technologies enable a wide variety of creative expression, from music and video to innovations in visual art. These aesthetics, when properly explored, can enable enhanced communication between all kinds of people and cultures. This title considers the latest research in education, communication, and creative social expression using digital technologies.

The development of fuzzy expert systems has provided new opportunities for problem solving amidst uncertainties. The medical field, in particular, has benefitted tremendously from advancing fuzzy system technologies. This title highlights the latest research in fuzzy rule-based methods used in the detection of medical complications and illness.

As population growth accelerates, researchers and professionals face challenges as they attempt to plan for the future. This title brings together the necessary research and interdisciplinary discussion to address dilemmas created by population growth and the expansion of urban environments.

Presents information about current online practices and research in teacher education programmes, and explores the opportunities, methods, and issues surrounding technologically innovative opportunities in teacher preparation. It presents empirical evidence of teacher candidate learning and assessment in the context of various online aspects of teacher licensure.

As mobile technologies become ever more pervasive in modern society, users find increasingly innovative methods to take advantage of the newest developments and mobile devices. This title concentrates on one particular and fast-growing application of mobile technologies: data acquisition for the tourism industry.

Educates executives and students on how to meet online advertising and Internet marketing challenges for both present and future tactics. It outlines the changes and challenges that have impacted how online advertising decisions are being made and how decision-makers are getting their information in an online world.

Offers the latest research on retrieval and storage methods for digital library systems, a burgeoning field of data sourcing. In order to stay abreast of the latest terminology, case studies, frameworks, architectures, methodologies, and research within the field of digital libraries, it is crucial to keep up with the latest literature.

Brings library automation to the forefront of cutting-edge research. In today's age of Web 2.0 and social networking, libraries are entering the new Library 2.0 era, and this reference will present current and future librarians with the necessary new library automation research they will need to keep their institutions up-to-date in today's constantly changing technological environment.

Examines topics related to Geographic Information in terms of the technologies available for retrieving, managing, and analysing geographical data. This book is useful for academic staff, as well as postgraduate students in GIS, remote sensing, economic geography, spatial planning, geostatistics, and related fields.

Although educators continue to face the issue of maintaining quality teaching practices, academic managers and educational developers face significant challenges when changing in higher education teaching strategies. This presents individual approaches and institutional examples to benefit teachers at the individual level as well as institutional leaders involved in change.

As customer orientation continues to gain importance in the marketing field, there has been a growing concern for organisations to implement effective customer centric policies. This title provides a more conceptual understanding on customer-centric marketing strategies as well as revealing the success factors of these concepts.

Presents the latest methods and research results in this emerging field of Multimedia Information Hiding (MIH). This comprehensive collection is beneficial to all researchers and engineers working globally in this field and aims to inspire new graduate-level students as they explore this promising field.