Bottlenecks

Author : David C. Evans
Publisher : Apress
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781484225806

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Learn the psychological constrictions of attention, perception, memory, disposition, motivation, and social influence that determine whether customers will be receptive to your digital innovations. Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology fills a need for entrepreneurs, designers, and marketing professionals in the application of foundational psychology to user-experience design. The first generation of books on the topic focused on web pages and cognitive psychology. This book covers apps, social media, in-car infotainment, and multiplayer video games, and it explores the crucial roles played by behaviorism, development, personality, and social psychology. Author David Evans is an experimental psychology Ph.D. and senior manager of consumer research at Microsoft who recounts high-stakes case studies in which behavioral theory aligned digital designs with the bottlenecks in human nature to the benefit of users and businesses alike. Innova tors in design and students of psychology will learn: The psychological processes determining users’ perception of, engagement with, and recommendation of digital innovations Examples of interfaces before and after simple psychological alignments that vastly enhanced their effectiveness Strategies for marketing and product development in an age of social media and behavioral targeting Hypotheses for research that both academics and enterprises can perform to better meet users’ needs Who This Book Is For Designers and entrepreneurs will use this book to give their innovations an edge on what are increasingly competitive platforms such as apps, bots, in-car apps, augmented reality content. Usability researchers and market researchers will leverage it to enhance their consulting and reporting. Students and lecturers in psychology departments will want it to help land employment in the private sector. Praise “Bottlenecks’ is a tight and eminently actionable read for business leaders in startups and enterprises alike. Evans gives us a rich sense of key psychological processes and even richer examples of them in action.” - Nir Eyal, Author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products “Clients frequently ask our UX researchers and designers for deeper truths about why certain designs work and others fail. Bottlenecks offers practical explanations and evidence based on the idea that human cognition did not begin with the digital age.” - John Dirks, UX Director and Partner, Blink UX “Bottlenecks brings together two very important aspects of user experience design: understanding users and translating this into business impact. A must-read for anyone who wants to learn both.” - Josh Lamar, Sr. UX Lead, Microsoft Outlook

Author : Joseph Fishkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199812141

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Based on author's thesis (doctoral--Oxford University, 2009) under title: Opportunity pluralism.

Author : Joan Middendorf,Leah Shopkow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000981216

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Overcoming Student Learning Bottlenecks by Joan Middendorf,Leah Shopkow Pdf

Decoding the Disciplines is a widely-used and proven methodology that prompts teachers to identify the bottlenecks – the places where students get stuck – that impede learners’ paths to expert thinking in a discipline. The process is based on recognizing the gap between novice learning and expert thinking, and uncovering tacit knowledge that may not be made manifest in teaching.Through “decoding”, implicit expert knowledge can be turned into explicit mental tasks, and made available to students. This book presents a seven-step process for uncovering bottlenecks and determining the most effective way to enable students to surmount them.The authors explain how to apply the seven steps of Decoding the Disciplines – how to identify bottlenecks, unpack the critical thinking of experts, teach students how to do this kind of thinking, and how to evaluate the degree to which students have learned to do it. They provide in-depth descriptions of each step and, at the end of each chapter, at least one exercise the reader can do on his or her own. Because the decoding process works well with groups, they also provide exercises for leading groups through the process, making available to informal groups as well as groups led by professional developers, the tools to transform their understanding of teaching and learning by getting the student view that they refer to as “the bottleneck perspective”. Because it focuses on the mental moves that underlie the cognitive competencies we want students to develop, spelling out what critical thinking consists of for any field, the methodology helps teachers to get beyond focus on content delivery and transmission and provides criteria to select from the bewildering array of teaching tools the methods most appropriate to what they are teaching.This is a book for faculty who want their students to develop disciplinary forms of reasoning, and are moreover interested in a methodology with the potential to transform and reinvigorate their teaching. It is particularly suitable for use in communities of practice, and should be indispensable for any one engaged in cross-disciplinary teaching, as it enables co-teachers to surface each other’s tacit knowledge and disciplinary assumptions.

Author : Huaxin Liu
Publisher : GITO mbH Verlag
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783942183772

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A Dynamic Bottleneck-oriented Manufacturing Control System by Huaxin Liu Pdf

Author : Caroline Melly
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226489063

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Bottleneck by Caroline Melly Pdf

In Bottleneck, anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal—a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a successful future. Melly opens with an account of the generation of urban men who came of age on the heels of the era of structural adjustment, a diverse cohort with great dreams of building, moving, and belonging, but frustratingly few opportunities to do so. From there, she moves to a close study of taxi drivers and state workers, and shows how bottlenecks—physical and institutional—affect both. The third section of the book covers a seemingly stalled state effort to solve housing problems by building large numbers of concrete houses, while the fourth takes up the thousands of migrants who attempt, sometimes with tragic results, to cross the Mediterranean on rickety boats in search of new opportunities. The resulting book offers a remarkable portrait of contemporary Senegal and a means of theorizing mobility and its impossibilities far beyond the African continent.

Author : A. J. Goldberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Debugging in computer science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001710701

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Multiprocessor Performance Debugging and Memory Bottlenecks by A. J. Goldberg Pdf

Author : Bernhard C. Geiger,Gernot Kubin
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783036508023

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Information Bottleneck by Bernhard C. Geiger,Gernot Kubin Pdf

The celebrated information bottleneck (IB) principle of Tishby et al. has recently enjoyed renewed attention due to its application in the area of deep learning. This collection investigates the IB principle in this new context. The individual chapters in this collection: • provide novel insights into the functional properties of the IB; • discuss the IB principle (and its derivates) as an objective for training multi-layer machine learning structures such as neural networks and decision trees; and • offer a new perspective on neural network learning via the lens of the IB framework. Our collection thus contributes to a better understanding of the IB principle specifically for deep learning and, more generally, of information–theoretic cost functions in machine learning. This paves the way toward explainable artificial intelligence.

Author : Fred Sokolow
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781619117648

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Learn to Play Bottleneck Guitar by Fred Sokolow Pdf

A popular and easy to understand book which teaches and explores the many aspects of bottleneck/slide guitar techniques developed nearly a century ago and made famous through the recordings of legendary blues greats like Robert Johnson, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Muddy Waters. Much of the book is dedicated to teaching you how to use these assorted techniques to make original improvised solos. You will learn to play bottleneck guitar in open D tuning, open E tuning, open A tuning, and standard tuning. Written in notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.

Author : Clarke Ching
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1983022691

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The Bottleneck Rules by Clarke Ching Pdf

Working hard, but still can't keep up?This short, insightful book will teach you how to speed up at work, by slowing down, looking at your workplace slightly differently, then thinking a little.** Spoiler Alert **The world's best manufacturers have known the secret for decades: every workplace, big or small, has one resource that is slower than the rest. It's called The Bottleneck. Find it, speed it up, and your entire workplace speeds up. The problem is that, although this secret is well known inside manufacturing, it's been hidden from the rest of us, deep inside complicated manufacturing texts and sophisticated computer algorithms. Until now, that is. Clarke Ching, author of Rolling Rocks Downhill, has spent the last 20 years adapting and simplifying manufacturing's techniques so that everyone can use them, no matter where they work. In this book, he reveals a surprisingly simple process - called the FOCCCUS Formula - that you can use to find your bottleneck then manage it. The book takes roughly 90 minutes to read, and most readers figure out where their bottleneck is before they've finished.One reviewer wrote, "What a great and - dare I say it - inspirational read. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm grateful for the stories and the lack of business mumbo-jumbo. Your readers will find it a useful kick-start for their minds because it shows them how to look at their problems in different ways."Read The Bottleneck Rules today, and you'll start running faster tomorrow.

Author : William R. Catton Jr.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1462808395

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Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse by William R. Catton Jr. Pdf

Ecological roots of our toubled time are deeper than its economic manifestations. Anguished posterity will look back on this 21st century as the bottleneck century. Bottleneck: Humanitys Impending Impasse was written to show how and why three converging trends have put humankind in much deeper peril than is generally acknowledged. First, there are many more of us inhabiting this planet than it can sustain. Second, technological advances of recent centuries have made gigantic and prodigal our per capita resource appetites and our per capita environmental impacts. Third, even though, as the symbol-using species, we humans conceivably could do better at anticipating future circumstances and planning ahead, our evolutionary heritage together with unanticipated dysfunctions of modern division of labor have kept us too preoccupied with short-term concerns. People today are dependent upon a fantastically intricate web of exchange relations (the market). Even when functioning normallyand not in a collapsed condition, as currentlythis system of relations has a serious and pervasive dehumanizing effect not adequately discerned by economists nor sociologists. Recognition of and adequate adaptation to the deteriorating ecological context of human life has been impeded. Human societies (even our own) are almost certainly going to act in ways that will make an inevitably difficult future unnecessarily worse. Factors analyzed in this book have made people seriously averse to the kind and extent of cooperation our difficult future will require. Together with the basic trio of disturbing trendshumans having become so numerous, so ravenous, and so short-sightedthis has made the nature of todays human prospect far more dire than most policymakers dare admit. It tempts even the wisest and most civic-minded to seek or promote remedial policies that will worsen the real predicament.

Author : Marilyn J. Roossinck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540757635

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Plant Virus Evolution by Marilyn J. Roossinck Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive look at the field of plant virus evolution. It is the first book ever published on the topic. Individual chapters, written by experts in the field, cover plant virus ecology, emerging viruses, plant viruses that integrate into the host genome, population biology, evolutionary mechanisms and appropriate methods for analysis. It covers RNA viruses, DNA viruses, pararetroviruses and viroids, and presents a number of thought-provoking ideas.

Author : Eliyahu M. Goldratt,Jeff Cox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351982115

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The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt,Jeff Cox Pdf

Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days - Jonah - to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done. Described by Fortune as a 'guru to industry' and by Businessweek as a 'genius', Eliyahu M. Goldratt was an internationally recognized leader in the development of new business management concepts and systems. This 20th anniversary edition includes a series of detailed case study interviews by David Whitford, Editor at Large, Fortune Small Business, which explore how organizations around the world have been transformed by Eli Goldratt's ideas. The story of Alex's fight to save his plant contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC) developed by Eli Goldratt. Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry - even to your bosses - but not to your competitors!

Author : Prabhu Sivabalan,James Wakefield,Roby B. Sawyers,Steve Jackson,Greg Jenkins
Publisher : Cengage AU
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Managerial accounting
ISBN : 9780170416863

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ACCT3 Management by Prabhu Sivabalan,James Wakefield,Roby B. Sawyers,Steve Jackson,Greg Jenkins Pdf

ACCT3 Management is the Asia-Pacific edition of the proven 4LTR press approach to management accounting, designed to enhance students’ learning experiences. The text is for teaching students learning the preparers/debits and credits approach and is presented in an easy-to-read and accessible style. This third edition includes a strong suite of student and instructor resources that enhance student learning and revision. New, print versions of this book come with bonus online study tools on the CourseMate Express platform Learn more about the online tools cengage.com.au/learning-solutions

Author : Selim G. Akl,F. Fiala
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540535047

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Advances in Computing and Information - ICCI '90 by Selim G. Akl,F. Fiala Pdf

This volume contains selected and invited papers presented at the International Conference on Computing and Information, ICCI '90, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 23-26, 1990. ICCI conferences provide an international forum for presenting new results in research, development and applications in computing and information. Their primary goal is to promote an interchange of ideas and cooperation between practitioners and theorists in the interdisciplinary fields of computing, communication and information theory. The four main topic areas of ICCI '90 are: - Information and coding theory, statistics and probability, - Foundations of computer science, theory of algorithms and programming, - Concurrency, parallelism, communications, networking, computer architecture and VLSI, - Data and software engineering, databases, expert systems, information systems, decision making, and AI methodologies.

Author : Christopher Strear,Danilo Sirias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1640551514

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Smash the Bottleneck by Christopher Strear,Danilo Sirias Pdf

"This book explains how to use the Theory of Constraints to improve patient flow in a hospital, medical office, urgent care center, or clinic"--