Child Development: A Topical Approach - Hardcover

Clarke–Stewart, Alison; Friedman, Susan; Koch, Joanne Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471843229 ISBN 13: 9780471843221

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1986

Synopsis

This text is a comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of all the most important topics in child development, organized by areas, cognitive, social, moral etc. It provides detailed treatment of recent and important studies to give students a "feel" for research and includes discussions of emotional development, physical development, health and environment.

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Review

"a useful source of reference" (World Surface Coatings Abstracts, January 2002) "The author has done GSM industry a great service with this book–without it in twenty years time no one would remember anything about the early days of GSM." (GSM Daily)

From the Back Cover

GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) provides a service to more than 500 million users throughout 168 countries worldwide. It is the world market leader serving 69 % of all mobile digital users and is currently evolving into UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System). By describing the critical decisions and the phases of the development this key text explains how the GSM initiative became a success in Europe and how it evolved to the global mobile communication system. Initially the strategy and technical specifications were agreed for Europe and the subsequent evolution to a global solution was achieved by incorporating all non–European requirements and by inviting all committed parties worldwide to participate. The process started in 1982 and the first GSM networks went into commercial service in 1992. The first UMTS networks are expected in 2002 and the fourth generation discussions have begun. ∗ Presents a complete technical history of the development of GSM and the early evolution to UMTS ∗ Clarifies the creation of the initial GSM second generation system in CEPT GSM, the evolution to a generation 2.5 system in ETSI SMG and the evolution to the Third Generation (UMTS) in ETSI SMG and 3GPP ∗ Covers all of the services and system features together with the working methods and organisational aspects GSM and UMTS provides an interesting and informative read and will appeal to everyone involved in the mobile communications market needing to know how GSM and UMTS technologies evolved. The accompanying CD–ROM provides nearly 500 reference documents including reports of all standardisation plenary meetings, strategy documents, key decisions, the GSM Memorandum of Understanding and the report of the UMTS Task Force.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471843229
• ISBN 13: 9780471843221
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 702