Download or read book The Evolution of Begging written by J. Wright and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begging by nestling birds has become the model system for investigating evolutionary conflicts of interest within families and their theoretical resolution provided by honest signals of offspring need. In response to the recent explosions of scientific papers on the revolution of begging; we have brought together twenty-four original contributions from major researchers in all areas of this dynamic field. Organised into six sections: I: Theoretical approaches; II: Begging as a signal; III: Nestling physiology; IV: Sibling competition; V: Brood parasitism; and VI: Statistical approaches; this book is primarily aimed at research scientists and those at the graduate student level. For the first time, the theoretical and empirical literature on begging is fully reviewed. New ideas and data are also presented from a wide range of natural systems, and each chapter ends with suggestions for future study.
Download or read book How Digital Communication Technology Shapes Markets written by Swati Bhatt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Palgrave Pivot explores how communication technology such as the Internet has changed the nature of trade, focusing especially on economy-wide reductions in company size (granularity) and the role of retailers (disintermediation). By increasing access to comparative data, influencing conceptions of time, and reducing the number of intermediaries between creator and consumer, technological connectivity is changing the very definition of competition. In the new network economy, disintermediation and granularity are turning cooperative information gathering and sharing into a vital market institution. To exemplify the effects of communication technology, Bhatt focuses on two markets with particularly powerful effects on the economy: labor and education, and CIME (communication, information services, media, and entertainment). Mobile connectivity is radically changing the extent, capabilities, and operations of these markets, both in terms of the services they provide and how they interact with consumers. Bhatt also explores how these benefits intersect with new concerns about privacy and security when the line between public and private information is becoming ever more fluid.
Download or read book Competition and Cooperation in Social and Political Sciences written by Isbandi Rukminto Adi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains essays on current issues in Social and Political Sciences, such as the issues of governance and social order; social development and community development; global challenges and inequality; civil society and social movement; IT-based community and social transformation; poverty alleviation and corporate social responsibility; and gender issues. Asia and the Pacifi c are the particular regions that the conference focuses on as they have become new centers of social and political development. Therefore, this book covers areas that have been traditionally known as the social and political areas such as communication studies, political studies, governance studies, criminology, sociology, social welfare, anthropology and international relations.
Download or read book Public Relations Cooperation and Justice written by Charles Marsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern approaches to public relations cluster into three camps along a continuum: conflict-oriented egoism, e.g. forms of contingency theory that focus almost exclusively on the wellbeing of an entity; redressed egoism, e.g. subsidies to redress PR’s egoistic nature; and forms of self-interested cooperation, e.g. fully functioning society theory. Public Relations, Cooperation, and Justice draws upon interdisciplinary research from evolutionary biology, philosophy, and rhetoric to establish that relationships built on cooperation and justice are more productive than those built on conflict and egoistic competition. Just as important, this innovative book shuns normative, utopian appeals, offering instead only empirical, materialistic evidence for its conclusions. This is a powerful, multidisciplinary, and well-documented analysis, including specific strategies for the enactment of PR as a quest for cooperation and justice, which aligns the discipline of public relations with basic human nature. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of public relations and communication ethics.
Download or read book The Evolution of Cooperation written by Robert Axelrod and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A famed political scientist's classic argument for a more cooperative world We assume that, in a world ruled by natural selection, selfishness pays. So why cooperate? In The Evolution of Cooperation, political scientist Robert Axelrod seeks to answer this question. In 1980, he organized the famed Computer Prisoners Dilemma Tournament, which sought to find the optimal strategy for survival in a particular game. Over and over, the simplest strategy, a cooperative program called Tit for Tat, shut out the competition. In other words, cooperation, not unfettered competition, turns out to be our best chance for survival. A vital book for leaders and decision makers, The Evolution of Cooperation reveals how cooperative principles help us think better about everything from military strategy, to political elections, to family dynamics.
Download or read book Nonsequential and Distributed Programming with Go written by Christian Maurer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Band bietet eine kompakte Einführung in die Nichtsequentielle Programmierung als gemeinsamen Kern von Vorlesungen über Betriebssysteme, Verteilte Systeme, Parallele Algorithmen, Echtzeitprogrammierung und Datenbanktransaktionen. Basiskonzepte zur Synchronisation und Kommunikation nebenläufiger Prozesse werden systematisch dargestellt: Schlösser, Semaphore, Monitore, lokaler und netzweiter Botschaftenaustausch. Die Algorithmen sind in der Programmiersprache Google Go formuliert, mit der viele Synchronisationskonzepte ausgedrückt werden können.
Download or read book International Cooperation and Competition in Civilian Space Activities written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abduction Belief and Context in Dialogue written by Harry C. Bunt and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title delves into the world of pragmatics; of abduction and induction, and looks at topics such as context modelling, and an activity-based approach to pragmatics, as well as discourse focus tracking.
Download or read book Cooperation in Wireless Networks Principles and Applications written by Frank H. P. Fitzek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Principles and Applications covers the underlying principles of cooperative techniques as well as several applications demonstrating the use of such techniques in practical systems. The book is written in a collaborative manner by several authors from Asia, America, and Europe. This book puts into one volume a comprehensive and technically rich appraisal of the wireless communications scene from a cooperation point of view.
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Download or read book Co Opetition written by Adam M. Brandenburger and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, with an all new Reader's guide, The New York Times and Business Week bestseller Co-opetition revolutionized the game of business. With over 40,000 copies sold and now in its 9th printing, Co-opetition is a business strategy that goes beyond the old rules of competition and cooperation to combine the advantages of both. Co-opetition is a pioneering, high profit means of leveraging business relationships. Intel, Nintendo, American Express, NutraSweet, American Airlines, and dozens of other companies have been using the strategies of co-opetition to change the game of business to their benefit. Formulating strategies based on game theory, authors Brandenburger and Nalebuff created a book that's insightful and instructive for managers eager to move their companies into a new mind set.
Download or read book The Handbook of Conflict Resolution written by Morton Deutsch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-09-18 with total page 959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Conflict Resolution, Second Edition is written for both the seasoned professional and the student who wants to deepen their understanding of the processes involved in conflicts and their knowledge of how to manage them constructively. It provides the theoretical underpinnings that throw light on the fundamental social psychological processes involved in understanding and managing conflicts at all levels—interpersonal, intergroup, organizational, and international. The Handbook covers a broad range of topics including information on cooperation and competition, justice, trust development and repair, resolving intractable conflict, and working with culture and conflict. Comprehensive in scope, this new edition includes chapters that deal with language, emotion, gender, and personal implicit theories as they relate to conflict.
Download or read book Conflict and Cooperation in National Competition for High Technology Industry written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-10-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume contains a powerful set of recommendations on issues at the center of international discussions on investment, trade, and technology policy. They take into account the globalization of industrial activity and the special characteristics of high-technology industries while recognizing the continued policy role of national governments. The book identifies the rationale for promotional measures for high-technology industries, delineates sources of friction among the leading industrial countries, and proposes policies to enhance international cooperation and strengthen the multilateral trading regime. This volume also examines the factors driving collaboration among otherwise competing firms and national programs, highlights the need to develop principles of equitable public and private international cooperation, and emphasizes the linkage between investment, government procurement, and other trade policies and prospects for enhanced international cooperation.
Download or read book Team Challenges written by Kris Bordessa and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directed to teachers, facilitators, and counselors, offers more than 170 cooperative activities for classrooms, summer camps, and family occasions designed to improve children's problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate.
Download or read book Social Signal Processing written by Judee K. Burgoon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Signal Processing is the first book to cover all aspects of the modeling, automated detection, analysis, and synthesis of nonverbal behavior in human-human and human-machine interactions. Authoritative surveys address conceptual foundations, machine analysis and synthesis of social signal processing, and applications. Foundational topics include affect perception and interpersonal coordination in communication; later chapters cover technologies for automatic detection and understanding such as computational paralinguistics and facial expression analysis and for the generation of artificial social signals such as social robots and artificial agents. The final section covers a broad spectrum of applications based on social signal processing in healthcare, deception detection, and digital cities, including detection of developmental diseases and analysis of small groups. Each chapter offers a basic introduction to its topic, accessible to students and other newcomers, and then outlines challenges and future perspectives for the benefit of experienced researchers and practitioners in the field.
Download or read book Cooperation and Competition Readings on Mixed motive Games written by Lawrence S. Wrightsman and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
