This book seeks to present a comprehensive review of Singapore's ICT Masterplans in education, providing a rare behind-the-scenes look at policy planning, as well as the lessons learnt and insights gained from the past decade of the use of ICT in teaching and learning. Since 1997 (when the First Masterplan was launched) to 2008, schools and teachers have made great strides in their use of ICT for education at all levels: primary, secondary and junior college. The seeds of this change were planted in the Pioneer Years (1980-1996) which marked the pre-Masterplan period, and they began to germinate in the momentous Foundation Years (1997-2002) when the First Masterplan got underway. The subsequent period of the Engaging Years (2003-2008) outlines the growth of the Second Masterplan, while the Future Years present the vision of what the future of ICT will look like in Singapore schools in 2009 and beyond.This comprehensive coverage of the evolution of ICT use in Singapore schools includes views and reflections from key individuals involved in the planning and implementation of the two ICT Masterplans, students, teachers, ICT experts, and policy makers. It also includes articles detailing significant projects and programmes of the First and Second ICT Masterplans.

Contents: Experiment:Hadron Production in High Energy Collisions of Leptons with Nucleons and Nuclei (N Schmitz)Particle Production in Continuum e+e- Annihilation at High Energy (M Derrick & Abachi)Selected Results on Multihadron Production at ISR Energies (R Campanini)Hadron-Nuclear Interactions (W D Walker & P C Bhat)Diffractive Multiparticle Production (K Goulianos)Bose-Einstein Correlations: From Statistics to Dynamics (W A Zajc)Multihadron Events in Cosmic Rays (T Stanev & G B Yodh)Theory:The Pomeron in QCD (A R White)Problems in Hadronization Physics (B Andersson)The Concept of Inelasticity in High Energy Reactions (G Wilk)Dual Parton Model (A Capella et al.)Application of the Methods of Quantum Optics to Multihadron Production (G N Fowler & R M Weiner)A Unified Physical Picture of Multiparticle Emission in pp and e+e- Collisions (T T Chou & C N Yang)Branching Processes in Multiparticle Production (R C Hwa)Multiparticle Production at High Energy and Superclustering Processes (C C Shih)“Fireball” Models and Statistical Methods in Multiparticle Production Processes (T C Meng)Toward a Statistical Description of Deconfinement Transition (P Carruthers & I Sarcevic) Readership: High energy physicists. Keywords:Hadron Production;High Energy Collisions;Bose-Einstein Correlations;Pomeron;Hadronization Physics

In this book, Dr Mak views the financial market from a scientific perspective. The book attempts to provide a realistic description of what the market is, and how future research should be developed. The market is a complex phenomenon, and can be forecasted only with errors — if that particular market can be forecasted at all.The book reviews the scientific literatures on the financial market and describes mathematical procedures which demonstrate that some markets are non-random. How the markets are modeled — phenomenologically and from first principle — is explained.It discusses indicators, which are quite objective, rather than price patterns, which are rather subjective. Similarities between indicators in market trading and operators in mathematics are noted, and particularly, between oscillator indicators and derivatives in Calculus. It illustrates why some indicators, e.g., Stochastics, have limited usage. Several new indicators are designed and tested on theoretical waveforms to check their validity and applicability. The indicators have a minimal time lag, which is significant for trading purposes. Common market behaviors like divergences between price and momentum are explained. A skipped convolution technique is introduced to allow traders to pick up market movements at an earlier time. The market is treated as a nonlinear phenomenon. Forecasting of when the market is going to turn is emphasized.

Nice monograph intended to serve the practical needs of graduate students and researchers. Detail and coverage in good balance; in seven chapters treats relativistic fundamentals, the kinematics of two-particle and three-particle decays, multiple hadron production (including statistical, thermodynamics and hydrodynamic models) and related topics. For the price (which will keep the book out of the hands of many of those to whom it is addressed) one might have expected professionally-drawn figures and mathematical typography a bit easier on the eye. (NW) Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR