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Report of a Workshop on the Scope and Nature of ...

Report of a Workshop on the Scope and Nature of ...

National Research Council

3 See, for example, Uri Wilensky and Kenneth Reisman, 2006, “Thinking Like a Wolf, a Sheep, or a Firefly: Learning Biology Through Constructing and Testing Computational Theories—an Embodied Modeling Approach,” Cognition and Instruction 24(2):171-209; Uri Wilensky and Mitchel Resnick, 1999, “Thinking in Levels: A Dynamic Systems Approach to Making Sense of the World,” Journal of Science Education and Technology 8(1):3-19; Uri Wilensky, 2001, “Modeling Nature''s ...
An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling: Modeling Natural, ...

An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling: Modeling Natural, ...

Uri Wilensky

Rand, W., & Wilensky, U. (2007). NetLogo El Farol model. http://ccl.northwestern. edu/netlogo/models/ ElFarol. Center for Connected Learning and Computer- Based Modeling, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Wilensky, U. (1997a).
Artificial Life Models in Software

Artificial Life Models in Software

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Wilensky, U.: NetLogo 3D Preview 5 (Computer Program). Center for ... Wilensky, U.: NetLogo website. Center for Connected Learning and Computer Based Modeling, Northwestern University (2008). http://ccl.northwestern.edu/ netlogo 87 . Wilensky, U., Levy, S., Novak, M.: Connected Chemistry Curriculum (Computer Program). Center for ... J Theor Biol 244(1), 96–107 (2007) Chapter 8 Discrete Dynamics Lab: Tools for Investigating Cellular Automata 214 Gary An and Uri Wilensky.
Models: 306090 11

Models: 306090 11

Emily Abruzzo

Principle lnvestigators include: Uri Wilensky, Director of the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, and Associate Professor of Learning Sciences and Computer Science at Northwestern University: and, Benjamin Watson, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University. Co-Principal of UrbanLab is Sarah Dunn. Additional Collaborators and Credits: References 1. Wilensky, Uri. NetLogo:
Computer Games and New Media Cultures: A Handbook of Digital ...

Computer Games and New Media Cultures: A Handbook of Digital ...

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Connected Chemistry. (2005). Uri Wilensky (Dev.). http://ccl.northwestern.edu/ curriculum/ ConnectedChemistry/ NetLogo. (1999). Uri Wilensky (Dev.). http://ccl. northwestern.edu/netlogo/ Second Life. (since 2003). Linden Research Inc. (Dev. ). http://www.secondlife.com Sim City. (1989). Maxis (Dev.); Broderbund, Maxis ( Pub.). http://simcity.ea.com StarLogo TNG. (2008). MIT Teacher Education Program (Dev.). http://education.mit.edu/projects/ starlogo-tng The Sims. (2000). Maxis (Dev.); ...
The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences

The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences

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Uri Wilensky and Michael J. Jacobson A complex system is a system composed of many elements that interact with each other andtheir environment. For example, an economy is composed of many individual buyers and sellers; an ecological system of many animals and plants; a weather system of fronts, precipitation, and air; and so on. A key feature of complex systems is that it is often difficult to predict or make sense of the behavior of the systems as a whole, even when all the ...
Applying Anthropology in the Global Village

Applying Anthropology in the Global Village

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Although computational modeling of complex adaptive systems can become very , well, complex, relatively simple agentbased computer models can be developed that display surprising emergent adaptive behavior: see Uri Wilensky''s work in using Net Logo/Star Logo to develop models that highschool students and even middleschool students can use to learn about how to think about multileveled systems and understand such phenomena as why traffic jams can travel backwards ...
The Song of the Whales

The Song of the Whales

Uri Orlev

Written with a quiet simplicity that wins the reader over at once Uri Orlev writes in a style so sure and yet so unassuming that it is certain to linger in reader’s minds long after turning the last page.
La ricerca della terra felice

La ricerca della terra felice

Uri Orlev

Ispirato a una vicenda vera come Corri ragazzo, corri, il nuovo romanzo di Uri Orlev è un'avventura densa di emozioni, ma anche una fonte preziosa per conoscere la Storia più recente e l'impatto che ogni guerra produce sulla vita di ...
The Courts of Babylon: Dispatches From The Golden Age of Tennis

The Courts of Babylon: Dispatches From The Golden Age of Tennis

Peter Bodo

Jennifer Rhodes probably provided a morevivid illustration of the broaderissues faced by mostyoung women and their parents ... Wilensky attacked Jennifer and Sonya Rhodes witha cattle prodoutside the motel where they were staying.
RUINS OF THE ROMAN CITY OF URI

RUINS OF THE ROMAN CITY OF URI

Thomas 1810-1877 Wright

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The Island on Bird Street

The Island on Bird Street

Uri Orlev

During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
The Lady with the Hat

The Lady with the Hat

Uri Orlev

Seventeen-year-old Yulek, having survived the concentration camps of the Holocaust, prepares for kibbutz life in Palestine, while his long-lost Aunt Malka, married to a Christian, attempts to find him.
The Man from the Other Side

The Man from the Other Side

Uri Orlev

Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, fourteen-year-old Marek and his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before the Jewish uprising.
Neurobiological Foundations for EMDR Practice

Neurobiological Foundations for EMDR Practice

Uri Bergmann, PhD

This volume introduces the most current research about the neural underpinnings of consciousness and EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) in regard to attachment, traumatic stress, and dissociation.
Gorbachev’s USSR: A System in Crisis

Gorbachev’s USSR: A System in Crisis

Uri Ra'anan

16, 1987, pp. 92–102; Cf. John P. Hardt and Jean F. Boone, “Perestroika and Interdependence: Implications for East Europe', in forthcoming Joint Economic Committee, Pressure for Reform in the Eastern European Economies (1989). 2.
Making Waves:

Making Waves:

Marilyn Miler Harlin

When I moved to URI, she and I undertook research projects together, most notably the invasion ofa species of red seaweed Anne Adams Helms & Boyce Thorne Miller at the Corcoran. (Grateloupia), but also the seasonal distribution of  ...
Run, Boy, Run

Run, Boy, Run

Uri Orlev

Based on a true story, Srulik, an eight-year-old boy, escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside. An ALA Notable Book for Children. Reprint.
The Concealment of the State

The Concealment of the State

Jason Royce Lindsey

Thanks to the series editors—Laurence Davis, Alex Prichard, Uri Gordon, and Nathan Jun—for their interest and constructive criticism. Alex Prichard is owed particular thanks for his guidance on how to put together a better book proposal.
El león de regalo

El león de regalo

Uri Orlev

Miguelito recibió el mejor regalo de cumpleaños: una camiseta con el dibujo de un león. El esta muy emocionado, hasta que descubre que el león se ha despertado y que tiene su propio carácter.
The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

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... factual material but little more, is Corinne Miller Simon's John Uri Lloyd: His Life and His Works, 1849-1936, with a History of the Uoyd Library (Cincinnati, 1972), 185-232. lect, and manners. Theoretically the local color story should be ...
The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel

The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel

Uri Bar-Joseph

Drawing on meticulous research and exclusive interviews with key figures involved, The Angel is the first book to discuss Marwan’s motives, how his identity as a Mossad spy was deliberately exposed by none other than the former chief of ...
False Dawn: The United Religions Initiative, Globalism, and ...

False Dawn: The United Religions Initiative, Globalism, and ...

Lee Penn

'That,' the priest said, 'has led to incredible bloodshed.' According to Gibbs, the solution is spirituality, not religion."2 During the 1997 URI summit conference at Stanford, the gay activist Christian de la Huerta had made a statement on gay ...
RESTful Web Services

RESTful Web Services

Leonard Richardson

This book: Emphasizes the power of basic Web technologies -- the HTTP application protocol, the URI naming standard, and the XML markup language Introduces the Resource-Oriented Architecture (ROA), a common-sense set of rules for designing ...
Lydia, Queen of Palestine

Lydia, Queen of Palestine

Uri Orlev

Ten-year-old Lydia describes her childhood escapades in pre-World War II Romania, her struggles to understand her parents' divorce amid the chaos of the war, and her life on a kibbutz in Palestine.

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