Science in the Age of Computer Simulation

Science in the Age of Computer Simulation Review

Computer simulation was first pioneered as a scientific tool in meteorology and nuclear physics in the period following World War II, but it has grown rapidly to become indispensible in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including astrophysics, high-energy physics, climate science, engineering, ecology, and economics. Digital computer simulation helps study phenomena of great complexity, but how much do we know about the limits and possibilities of this new scientific practice? How do simulations compare to traditional experiments? And are they reliable? Eric Winsberg seeks to answer these questions in Science in the Age of Computer Simulation.

Scrutinizing these issue with a philosophical lens, Winsberg explores the impact of simulation on such issues as the nature of scientific evidence; the role of values in science; the nature and role of fictions in science; and the relationship between simulation and experiment, theories and data, and theories at different levels of description. Science in the Age of Computer Simulation will transform many of the core issues in philosophy of science, as well as our basic understanding of the role of the digital computer in the sciences.

Easy Simulations: Explorers: A Complete Tool Kit With Background Information, Primary Sources, and More That Help Students Build Reading and Writing Skills-and Deepen Their Understanding of History

Easy Simulations: Explorers: A Complete Tool Kit With Background Information, Primary Sources, and More That Help Students Build Reading and Writing Skills-and Deepen Their Understanding of History Review

Students are sure to get caught up in the drama that comes with sailing on the high seas.In this weeklong simulation, students discover what it's like to embark on a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean as an explorer during the time of Christopher Columbus. Along the way, they learn about problem solving, seafaring, and navigation. Includes step-by-step directions, plus reproducible student worksheets, charts, maps, and rubrics. For use with Grades 5 & Up.

Blueprints Computer-Based Case Simulation Review: USMLE Step 3 (Blueprints Series)

Blueprints Computer-Based Case Simulation Review: USMLE Step 3 (Blueprints Series) Review

Blueprints Computer-Based Case Simulation Review: USMLE Step 3 is the first and only book to break down the computer-based case simulations administered on day two of the Step 3 exam. Many review books help you study for the multiple-choice question portion of the USMLE Step 3, but none of them prepare you for the computer-based cases.

More than a practical guide, this must-have resource is your key to scoring high. The focused strategy for handling cases lets you apply your clinical knowledge to the exam with confidence.

If you want to maximize your Step 3 test score, you need Blueprints Computer-Based Case Simulation Review: USMLE Step 3. The book will help you

• master the CCS test format
• understand the tricks to treating computerized patients
• predict your CCS Case topics before the exam
• learn how your exam is scored

Special advice for International Medical Graduates is included.

Fluid Simulation

Fluid Simulation Review

Animating fluids like water, smoke, and fire using physics-based simulation is increasingly important in visual effects, in particular in movies, like The Day After Tomorrow, and in computer games. This book provides a practical introduction to fluid simulation for graphics. The focus is on animating fully three-dimensional incompressible flow, from understanding the math and the algorithms to the actual implementation.

Developing Successful Health Care Education Simulation Centers: The Consortium Model

Developing Successful Health Care Education Simulation Centers: The Consortium Model Review

"Pam Jefferies and Jim Battin provide a very thoughtful, step by step approach to create a collaborative health care simulation consortium. It is inspiring to witness many stakeholders come together in Southeast Indiana to effectively educate and train people entering the healthcare profession (and current nurses, doctors, and allied health professionals)! [This book] isn't just about health care and simulation it offers a terrific road-map for any community, region, or industry focused on developing human potential as the means to economic prosperity and quality of life!"

---John Burnett, Chief Executive Officer, Community Education Coalition of Columbus, Indiana

"This book provides an important road map for health care professionals to develop collaborations effectively in simulation, regardless of discipline or domain. Readers can also use it to evaluate existing collaborations [The] book will improve both developing programs and existing programs, so that educators and administrators can focus their attention on teaching and learning through simulation."

--Bonnie Driggers, MS, MPA, RN SimHealth Consultants, CEO and Senior Consultant Oregon Health & Science University, Faculty Emeritus

--Michael Seropian, MD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Oregon Health & Science University Past Chair and Founder, Oregon Simulation Alliance President, Society for Simulation in Healthcare

Over two thirds of magnet hospitals in the United States use simulation in staff education programs, and many educators have introduced simulation into their nursing and healthcare curricula. This highly practical volume meets a growing need for guidelines on planning, organizing, and implementing a health care education simulation center, using the collaborative and cost effective consortium model.

The book takes the reader step-by-step through the process of building a coalition of key stakeholders, gathering and analyzing data, assigning leadership roles within the consortium, developing a strategic plan, and implementing and sustaining it. Case studies in each chapter provide real-life insight from a successful existing consortium by examining how it operates and highlighting successes, mistakes, and lessons learned.

Key Features:

Demonstrates the financial benefits of expense-sharing

Co-written by a successful professional educator and a prominent business leader with consortia-building expertise

Provides step-by-step plans for building and maintaining momentum and sustainability

Includes useful tools for achieving and evaluating excellence

Written for nursing and healthcare administrators, managers, educational leaders, and regional community leaders

Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds: Strategies for Online Instruction (Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning)

Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds: Strategies for Online Instruction (Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning) Review

Higher education institutions are increasingly delivering content online, but the content is often not sufficiently engaging. Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds provides a simple and practical guide to identifying when and what kind of games, simulations, and virtual environments should be used, how to get them, how to deploy them, and how to measure their effectiveness. Using frameworks, tips, case studies, real examples, and resources, this cutting-edge tool will help faculty members and instructional designers comfortably use games, simulations, and virtual environments to enhance learning.

Mastering the Art of Equity Trading Through Simulation, + Web-Based Software: The TraderEx Course (Wiley Trading)

Mastering the Art of Equity Trading Through Simulation, + Web-Based Software: The TraderEx Course (Wiley Trading) Review

An interactive guide to successfully trading in today's markets

Mastering the Art of Equity Trading Through Simulation is a guidebook to interactive computer trading simulation designed to provide participants with hands-on experience in making tactical decisions and implementing them in different market environments-from continuous order drive markets to call auction markets, and from dealer markets to dark liquidity pools.

By showing traders how to operate in these different markets, this reliable resource quickly reveals a good deal about what trading involves and how market design impacts trading decisions.

• Provides a virtual platform that gives users hands-on experience in making tactical trading decisions
• Shows exactly how prices are established in the marketplace
• Teaches how the structure of a marketplace influences participant decisions

Learning to trade through study is like learning about a roller coaster ride verbally. You may get the idea of going up and down and around curves, but will lack the actual experience. Mastering the Art of Equity Trading Through Simulation will get you as close as possible to the markets-without actually going in them-and prepare you to profit once you're really there.

Simulation Scenarios for Nursing Education

Simulation Scenarios for Nursing Education Review

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SIMULATION SCENARIOS FOR NURSING EDUCATION, 1E is a unique and innovative resource for incorporating simulation scenarios into both an LPN/LVN and RN nursing curriculum. This book contains ten pre-written scenarios for use with any simulation device in any simulation lab. The student work text provides all necessary information needed by students for simulation preparation and completion, as well as a case study to encourage critical thinking. Each dynamic scenario provides goals/objectives, patient data, instruction on simulation preparation, a list of patient medications and the simulation scenario with student simulation roles and a grading rubric. The fully loaded INSTRUCTOR'S RESOURCE TO ACCOMPANY SIMULATION SCENARIOS FOR NURSING EDUCATION, 1E starts with a comprehensive first chapter outlining the benefits of simulation, in addition to detailed information on how to assemble a simulation environment, needed supplies for lab development and information on how to conduct a simulation exercise. For each scenario a grading grid is provided (also included on the accompanying CD-ROM for download), along with patient ID band, medication labels, grading information, and everything needed to evaluate student performance during the simulation. Added features include a basic simulation lab supply list, a human patient simulator confidentiality agreement and sample nurses notes/physician order sheets. Each scenario is presented separately for the LPN/LVN student and the RN student, with accompanying instructor resources.

Applied Groundwater Modeling: Simulation of Flow and Advective Transport

Applied Groundwater Modeling: Simulation of Flow and Advective Transport Review

Creating numerical groundwater models of field problems requires careful attention to describing the problem domain, selecting boundary conditions, assigning model parameters, and calibrating the model. This unique text describes the science and art of applying numerical models of groundwater flow and advective transport of solutes.

Key Features
* Explains how to formulate a conceptual model of a system and how to translate it into a numerical model
* Includes the application of modeling principles with special attention to the finite difference flow codes PLASM and MODFLOW, and the finite-element code AQUIFEM-1
* Covers model calibration, verification, and validation
* Discusses pathline analysis for tracking contaminants with reference to newly developed particle tracking codes
* Makes extensive use of case studies and problems

PhysioEx(TM) 9.0: Laboratory Simulations in Physiology

PhysioEx(TM) 9.0: Laboratory Simulations in Physiology Review

PhysioEx^™ 9.0: Laboratory Simulations in Physiology is an easy-to-use laboratory simulation software and lab manual that consists of 12 exercises containing 66 physiology lab activities that can be used to supplement or substitute wet labs. PhysioEx allows you to repeat labs as often as you like, perform experiments without harming live animals, and conduct experiments that are difficult to perform in a wet lab environment because of time, cost, or safety concerns.

 

The PhysioEx 9.0 software features a brand new online format with step-by-step instructions and assessment so that everything you need to do and complete your lab is located in one convenient place. New Pre-lab and Post-lab Quizzes for each activity and Stop & Think and Predict Questions within the steps of each experiment help students make the connection between the activities and the physiological concepts they demonstrate. Your answers to all of these questions and the results from the experiments can be saved in a PDF Lab Report. The PhysioEx 9.0 CD-ROM comes packaged with every new copy of the PhysioEx 9.0 lab manual. Each new copy of the PhysioEx 9.0 lab manual also includes access to the online version of PhysioEx 9.0.

 

Note: For PhysioEx 9.0, there is one version only of PhysioEx. We have combined the previous A&P and Physiology versions of PhysioEx into one product.

Understanding Molecular Simulation, Second Edition: From Algorithms to Applications (Computational Science Series, Vol 1)

Understanding Molecular Simulation, Second Edition: From Algorithms to Applications (Computational Science Series, Vol 1) Review

Understanding Molecular Simulation: From Algorithms to Applications explains the physics behind the "recipes" of molecular simulation for materials science. Computer simulators are continuously confronted with questions concerning the choice of a particular technique for a given application. A wide variety of tools exist, so the choice of technique requires a good understanding of the basic principles. More importantly, such understanding may greatly improve the efficiency of a simulation program. The implementation of simulation methods is illustrated in pseudocodes and their practical use in the case studies used in the text.

Since the first edition only five years ago, the simulation world has changed significantly -- current techniques have matured and new ones have appeared. This new edition deals with these new developments; in particular, there are sections on:

· Transition path sampling and diffusive barrier crossing to simulaterare events
· Dissipative particle dynamic as a course-grained simulation technique
· Novel schemes to compute the long-ranged forces
· Hamiltonian and non-Hamiltonian dynamics in the context constant-temperature and constant-pressure molecular dynamics simulations
· Multiple-time step algorithms as an alternative for constraints
· Defects in solids
· The pruned-enriched Rosenbluth sampling, recoil-growth, and concerted rotations for complex molecules
· Parallel tempering for glassy Hamiltonians

Examples are included that highlight current applications and the codes of case studies are available on the World Wide Web. Several new examples have been added since the first edition to illustrate recent applications. Questions are included in this new edition. No prior knowledge of computer simulation is assumed.

Simulation and Optimization in Finance + Website: Modeling with MATLAB, @Risk, or VBA (Frank J. Fabozzi Series)

Simulation and Optimization in Finance + Website: Modeling with MATLAB, @Risk, or VBA (Frank J. Fabozzi Series) Review

An introduction to the theory and practice of financial simulation and optimization

In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the use of simulation and optimization methods in the financial industry. Applications include portfolio allocation, risk management, pricing, and capital budgeting under uncertainty.

This accessible guide provides an introduction to the simulation and optimization techniques most widely used in finance, while at the same time offering background on the financial concepts in these applications. In addition, it clarifies difficult concepts in traditional models of uncertainty in finance, and teaches you how to build models with software. It does this by reviewing current simulation and optimization methodology-along with available software-and proceeds with portfolio risk management, modeling of random processes, pricing of financial derivatives, and real options applications.

• Contains a unique combination of finance theory and rigorous mathematical modeling emphasizing a hands-on approach through implementation with software
• Highlights not only classical applications, but also more recent developments, such as pricing of mortgage-backed securities
• Includes models and code in both spreadsheet-based software (@RISK, Solver, Evolver, VBA) and mathematical modeling software (MATLAB)

Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, Simulation and Optimization Modeling in Finance offers essential guidance on some of the most important topics in financial management.

Games And Simulations in Online Learning: Research and Development Frameworks

Games And Simulations in Online Learning: Research and Development Frameworks Review

Nearly all early learning happens during play, and new technology has added video games to the list of ways children learn interaction and new concepts. Although video games are everywhere, on Web sites, in stores, streamed to the desktop, on television, they are absent from the classroom. Computer-based simulations, a form of computer games, have begun to appear, but they are not as wide-spread as email, discussion threads, and blogs. Games and Simulations in Online Learning: Research and Development Frameworks examines the potential of games and simulations in online learning, and how the future could look as developers learn to use the emerging capabilities of the Semantic Web. It presents a general understanding of how the Semantic Web will impact education and how games and simulations can evolve to become robust teaching resources.

Medical Moulage: How to Make Your Simulations Come Alive

Medical Moulage: How to Make Your Simulations Come Alive Review

Make your simulations come alive with this cookbook for medical moulage! Hear, feel, see, and smell like it s the real thing! Here s an easy-to-use guide to creating over 300 special effects for clinical simulations! Simple recipes with over 1,200 vibrant, full-color illustrations provide step-by-step directions that use readily available ingredients. Heighten the realism in your simulations whether using manikins or live actors! Check out these sample recipes: Abscesses Sutures Newborn and Pediatric

Learning by Doing: A Comprehensive Guide to Simulations, Computer Games, and Pedagogy in e-Learning and Other Educational Experiences (Wiley Desktop Editions)

Learning by Doing: A Comprehensive Guide to Simulations, Computer Games, and Pedagogy in e-Learning and Other Educational Experiences (Wiley Desktop Editions) Review

Designed for learning professionals and drawing on both game creators and instructional designers, Learning by Doing explains how to select, research, build, sell, deploy, and measure the right type of educational simulation for the right situation.  It covers simple approaches that use basic or no technology through projects on the scale of computer games and flight simulators. The book role models content as well, written accessibly with humor, precision, interactivity, and lots of pictures.  Many will also find it a useful tool to improve communication between themselves and their customers, employees, sponsors, and colleagues.  As John Coné, former chief learning officer of Dell Computers, suggests, “Anyone who wants to lead or even succeed in our profession would do well to read this book.”

PMP Exam Success Series: Bootcamp Manual (with Exam Simulation Download)

PMP Exam Success Series: Bootcamp Manual (with Exam Simulation Download) Review

This product is for those taking the PMP Exam after June 30, 2009. This aligns with the PMBOK Guide Fourth Edition.The PMP® Exam Success Series: Bootcamp Manual is the foundation of the PMP Exam Success Series (currently used in 67 countries). This is a must have for anyone preparing to take the PMP Exam. This book is complete with valuable exam preparation information, including "Crosswind Must Knows" for each exam topic, terms and definitions, formulas, exercises (matching, Earned Value and Network Diagram Analysis) and situational questions translation. It has a complete integrated test of 200 questions, like the real exam in the attached EXAM SIMULATION Application Download. As well as 30 questions with full explanation of the correct and incorrect answers for each topic area. It includes matching and Input/Tools & Techniques/Outputs (ITTO's) matching exercises to help reinforce PMI terminology and processes used on the exam. Included also are mind maps for every exam knowledge area. Also included in the download are PDF files of exercises in the book to allow repeated use of the exercises.

School Leadership and Administration: Important Concepts, Case Studies, and Simulations

School Leadership and Administration: Important Concepts, Case Studies, and Simulations Review

School Leadership and Administration is fundamentally a text about leadership for any situation. Primarily focused toward school leaders, School Leadership and Administration offers global application with its principles for those who may be in areas such as higher education administration, military educational training programs, agency management, and government services administration.