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.