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Connectomics in NeuroImaging: First International Workshop, CNI 2017, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2017, Quebec City, QC, Canada, September 14, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10511)
by Guorong Wu Brent C. Munsell Paul Laurienti Leonardo BonilhaThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Connectomics in NeuroImaging, CNI 2017, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2017 in Quebec City, Canada, in September 2017. The 19 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers deal with new advancements in network construction, analysis, and visualization techniques in connectomics and their use in clinical diagnosis and group comparison studies as well as in various neuroimaging applications.
Connectomics in NeuroImaging: Third International Workshop, CNI 2019, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2019, Shenzhen, China, October 13, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11848)
by Archana Venkataraman Minjeong Kim Islem Rekik Markus D. Schirmer Ai Wern ChungThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Connectomics in NeuroImaging, CNI 2019, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2019 in Shenzhen, China, in October 2019.The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The papers deal with new advancements in network construction, analysis, and visualization techniques in connectomics and their use in clinical diagnosis and group comparison studies as well as in various neuroimaging applications.
Connexity: How to Live in a Connected World
by Geoff MulganCONNEXITY is the philosophical counterpart to Will Hutton's essentially political book. It looks at the profound tension that exists between two recent achievements of humanity: greater freedom (over how to live, who to love, what to believe and say, where to trade), and greater interdependence, or 'connexity' (through the financial markets, military structures, the internet, the ecosystem). This tension has led to crisis: institutions, including governments, sense themselves to be inadequate; individuals are faced with a mass of conflicting information and values. The issue we face, which will ultimately determine human survival in our densely packed planet, is how the tension between these two can be resolved, and a new order established. Mulgan presents his own powerful solution to this crisis. It is based around the notion of 'connexity': breaking down our rigid sense of ourselves as isolated units and seeing our lives as part of a system, a positive network of co-responsibility.
Conquer the Web: The Ultimate Cybersecurity Guide
by Jonathan Reuvid Nick Wilding Tim Mitchell Maureen Kendal Nick IoannouTons of malicious content floods the internet which can compromise your system and your device, be it your laptop, tablet or phone. <P><P> How often do you make payments online? Do you have children and want to ensure they stay safe online? How often do you sit at a coffee shop and log onto their free WIFI? How often do you use social media on the train or bus? If you believe using an antivirus software will keep devices safe... you are wrong. This book will guide you and provide solutions to avoid common mistakes and to combat cyber attacks. This Guide covers areas such as: <P><P> Building resilience into our IT Lifestyle Online Identity Cyber Abuse: Scenarios and Stories Protecting Devices Download and share Gaming, gamble and travel Copycat websites I Spy and QR Codes Banking, apps and Passwords
Conquering Big Data with High Performance Computing
by Ritu AroraThis book provides an overview of the resources and research projects that are bringing Big Data and High Performance Computing (HPC) on converging tracks. It demystifies Big Data and HPC for the reader by covering the primary resources, middleware, applications, and tools that enable the usage of HPC platforms for Big Data management and processing. Through interesting use-cases from traditional and non-traditional HPC domains, the book highlights the most critical challenges related to Big Data processing and management, and shows ways to mitigate them using HPC resources. Unlike most books on Big Data, it covers a variety of alternatives to Hadoop, and explains the differences between HPC platforms and Hadoop. Written by professionals and researchers in a range of departments and fields, this book is designed for anyone studying Big Data and its future directions. Those studying HPC will also find the content valuable.
Conquering Complexity
by Mike Hinchey Lorcan CoyleSoftware has long been perceived as complex, at least within Software Engineering circles. We have been living in a recognised state of crisis since the first NATO Software Engineering conference in 1968. Time and again we have been proven unable to engineer reliable software as easily/cheaply as we imagined. Cost overruns and expensive failures are the norm. The problem is fundamentally one of complexity: software is fundamentally complex because it must be precise. Problems that appear to be specified quite easily in plain language become far more complex when written in a more formal notation, such as computer code. Comparisons with other engineering disciplines are deceptive. One cannot easily increase the factor of safety of software in the same way that one could in building a steel structure, for example. Software is typically built assuming perfection, often without adequate safety nets in case the unthinkable happens. In such circumstances it should not be surprising to find out that (seemingly) minor errors have the potential to cause entire software systems to collapse. The goal of this book is to uncover techniques that will aid in overcoming complexity and enable us to produce reliable, dependable computer systems that will operate as intended, and yet are produced on-time, in budget, and are evolvable, both over time and at run time. We hope that the contributions in this book will aid in understanding the nature of software complexity and provide guidance for the control or avoidance of complexity in the engineering of complex software systems.
Conquering JavaScript: D3.js (Conquering JavaScript)
by Sufyan Bin UzayrJavaScript has become the de facto standard when it comes to both web and cross-platform development. D3.js is an extremely popular JS framework, meant for rapid web and application development. Conquering JavaScript: D3.js helps the reader master the D3.js framework for faster and more robust development. This book is a detailed guide that will help developers and coders do more with D3.js. It discusses the basics in brief, and then moves on to more advanced and detailed exercises to help readers quickly gain the required knowledge. Key Features: Provides industry-specific case-based examples. Discusses visual implementation of D3.js for project work. Emphasizes how to write clean and maintainable code. This book is a valuable reference for D3.js developers as well as those involved in game development, mobile apps, progressive applications, and now even desktop apps.
Conquering JavaScript: Node.js (Conquering JavaScript)
by Sufyan Bin UzayrJavaScript is without a question among the most prominent and commonly used client-side programming languages available. JavaScript's scope of use has expanded in recent years, and it is now also used for server-side development. Node.js is an extremely popular JS framework, meant for rapid web and application development. Conquering JavaScript: Node.js helps the reader master the Node.js framework for faster and more robust development. This book is a detailed guide that will help developers and coders do more with Node.js. It discusses the basics in brief, and then moves on to more advanced and detailed exercises to help readers quickly gain the required knowledge. Key Features: Discusses how to use Node.js for real-world practical solutions Provides complete coverage of full-stack development Covers server-side development with Node.js This book is a valuable reference for Node.js developers as well as those involved in game development, mobile apps, progressive applications, and now even desktop apps.
Conquering JavaScript: The Practical Handbook (Conquering JavaScript)
by Sufyan Bin UzayrConquering JavaScript: The Practical Handbook helps the reader master the JavaScript (JS) programming language for faster and more robust development. JS is a highly popular language and is often termed as the ‘language of the web.’ In addition to the internet, JS is also being used actively in game development, mobile apps, progressive applications, and now even desktop apps. As such, it is safe to say that JS is probably the most cross-platform language currently in use, and it rises in popularity with each passing day. This book covers the basics and moves on to advanced concepts using a hands-on approach with practical lessons and tutorials. JS programming, JS frameworks and various use-case scenarios are discussed in detail. Bridging the gap between beginner and intermediate-level JS literature, this book is a valuable resource to build robust knowledge. .
Conquering JavaScript: Three.js (Conquering JavaScript)
by Sufyan Bin UzayrHave you ever considered how these visuals and games are shown in a web browser? What technology is at the heart of it? Of course, employing HTML and CSS alone will not be sufficient. Three.js is a free JavaScript toolkit for displaying images, 3D, and 2D objects in web browsers that enables you to render graphics and 3D objects on a canvas in the web browser using your GPU (Graphics Processing Unit). Conquering JavaScript: Three.js helps the reader master the Three.js framework for faster and robust development. The book is a detailed guide that will help developers and coders do more with Three.js. It covers the basics in brief, and then moves on to more advanced and detailed exercises to help readers quickly gain the required knowledge. Key Features: Examines JavaScript specific content, with emphasis on graphics libraries Discusses using Three.js for animated graphic creation Provides code optimization tips and solutions This book is a valuable reference for Three.js developers as well as those involved in game development, mobile apps, progressive applications, and now even desktop apps.
Conquering the Content
by Robin M. SmithAs the sixth volume of the Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning series, Conquering the Content provides a highly-practical blue-print for course development and content presentation for web-based courses. While providing guidance for incorporating learning theory into online courses, this book primarily furnishes online instructors with the practical templates, learning guides, and sample files to construct and manage their course content. Unlike other books about online instruction that cover theories of teaching and learning, instructional design, or even graphic design this book gives the "how to" of preparing an online course by focusing on content. The much needed step-by-step guidance in this book will result in fully formed courses where high-quality content is the central feature.
Conquering the Content: A Blueprint for Online Course Design and Development (Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning)
by Robin M. SmithPut your course online now, without sacrificing pedagogical quality Conquering the Content: A Blueprint for Online Course Design and Development, Second Edition is a highly practical guide to creating online courses. With guidance on incorporating learning theory into online course content, as well as a host of templates, learning guides, and sample files, this book furnishes instructors and instructional designers with the information and tools they need to design and develop their course content to better serve online students. This second edition introduces relevance statements and time-saving tips as well as content maps which provide a scaffold for content organization and help students anchor the topics in their memories for retrieval. Readers will gain expert insight and best practices for designing within the rapidly changing online learning environment and learn to incorporate recent advances that can improve student outcomes. Because the book is designed to focus on online teaching pedagogy, it won't go out of date as specific tools change. Nearly one-third of all students in higher education are taking at least one online class, and online hybrid classes are becoming more widespread. Distance learning is becoming the norm, but creating an online class is more complex than just posting course content on a website. Conquering the Content demonstrates how instructors can best revamp their course content to suit the online learning environment, and provides the tools and resources instructors need to transfer their effectiveness from the classroom to the online environment. Learn how to: Create student-friendly navigation structures that support what is known about the brain and learning Organize content based on priority, flow, and easy navigation Create assessments that work within the parameters of an online course "Chunk" information to facilitate better processing Time is of the essence in getting a course online, but it's important that pedagogy not get lost in the crush of new content. Course design is just as critical as course content when it comes to distance learning outcomes, and Conquering the Content provides a holistic and practical approach to effective online course development.
Conquest In Cyberspace: National Security And Information Warfare
by Martin C. LibickiModern societies and militaries, both pervaded by computers, are supposedly at risk. As Conquest in Cyberspace explains, however, information systems and information itself are too easily conflated, and persistent mastery over the former is difficult to achieve. The author also investigates how far 'friendly conquest' in cyberspace extends, such as the power to persuade users to adopt new points of view. He discusses the role of public policy in managing cyberspace conquests and shows how the Internet is becoming more ubiquitous and complex, such as in the use of artificial intelligence.
Consciousness Inside and Out: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, And The Nature Of Experience (Studies in Brain and Mind #6)
by Richard BrownThis volume is product of the third online consciousness conference, held at http://consciousnessonline.com in February and March 2011. Chapters range over epistemological issues in the science and philosophy of perception, what neuroscience can do to help us solve philosophical issues in the philosophy of mind, what the true nature of black and white vision, pain, auditory, olfactory, or multi-modal experiences are, to higher-order theories of consciousness, synesthesia, among others. Each chapter includes a target article, commentaries, and in most cases, a final response from the author. Though wide-ranging all of the papers aim to understand consciousness both from the inside, as we experience it, and from the outside as we encounter it in our science. The Online Consciousness Conference, founded and organized by Richard Brown, is dedicated to the rigorous study of consciousness and mind. The goal is to bring philosophers, scientists, and interested lay persons together in an online venue to promote high-level discussion and exchanging of views, ideas and data related to the scientific and philosophical study of consciousness.
Consciousness and Science Fiction (Science and Fiction)
by Damien BroderickScience fiction explores the wonderful, baffling and wildly entertaining aspects of a universe unimaginably old and vast, and with a future even more immense. It reaches into that endless cosmos with the tools of rational investigation and storytelling. At the core of both science and science fiction is the engaged human mind--a consciousness that sees and feels and thinks and loves. But what is this mind, this aware and self-aware consciousness that seems unlike anything else we experience? What makes consciousness the Hard Problem of philosophy, still unsolved after millennia of probing? This book looks into the heart of this mystery - at the science and philosophy of consciousness and at many inspiring fictional examples - and finds strange, challenging answers.The book's content and entertaining style will appeal equally to science fiction enthusiasts and scholars, including cognitive and neuroscientists, as well as philosophers of mind. It is a refreshing romp through the science and science fiction of consciousness.
Consciousness, Cognition and Crosstalk: The Evolutionary Exaptation of Nonergodic Groupoid Symmetry-Breaking (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
by Rodrick WallaceThis book makes application to the dynamics of arousal and distraction, and to other examples. A modified version of the Kadanoff picture of phase transitions in consciousness emerges from the Morse Function itself in a surprisingly standard manner, closely associated with the breaking of groupoid symmetries driven by fundamental equivalence class algebras. Although this is far indeed from the familiar world of physical theory, it should be possible, on the basis of the probability models developed in the book, to develop new statistical tools for the analysis of observational and empirical data regarding cognition and consciousness.
Consciousness: A Ladybird Expert Book (The Ladybird Expert Series #29)
by Hannah CritchlowPart of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.____________Are other animals, or even plants, conscious?Can we create conscious robots?Are we able to assume the consciousness of someone else?We all experience the world differently.REALITY is shaped by our individual memories.So we respond to THE WORLD in our own ways.Our UNIQUE EXPERIENCE underpins what it means to be CONSCIOUS.This raises so many questions such as where does consciousness live? And what is it for?Discover the answers and more inside Hannah Critchlow's Ladybird Expert - Consciousness, the thrilling and accessible account that explains what it means to be conscious - from what defines it, to questioning the existence of free will.
Consejos Profesionales de Línea de Comando Bash
by Jason Cannon Andrés ParraudSi alguna vez te has dicho: "Tiene que haber una mejor forma de hacer esto", sigue leyendo. Como alguien que ha utilizado el Shell Bash casi a diario durante más de 15 años, he acumulado varios "trucos" de línea de comandos que me han ahorrado tiempo y frustraciones. Consejos Profesionales de Línea de Comando Bash es una colección de 10 técnicas que puedes comenzar a utilizar inmediatamente para mejorar tu eficiencia en la línea de comando. Esto es lo que aprenderás leyendo Consejos Profesionales de Línea de Comando Bash: Consejo 1: Autocompletar Consejo 2: Cambiar al Directorio Anterior Consejo 3: Reutilizar el Último Ítem de la Línea Anterior Consejo 4: Volver a Ejecutar un Comando que comienza con una Cadena dada Consejo 5: Sustitución de Comando Consejo 6: Usar un Bucle for en la Línea de Comando Consejo 7: Volver a Ejecutar el Comando Anterior con Privilegios de Root Consejo 8: Volver a Ejecutar el Comando Anterior Sustituyendo una Cadena Consejo 9: Reutilizar una Palabra en la Misma Línea de Comando Consejo 10: Corregir Errores y Acortar Comandos Largos con Alias
Consensual Illusion: The Mind in Virtual Reality (Cognitive Systems Monographs #44)
by Vanja KljajevicThis book is inspired by the contemporary fascination with virtual reality and growing presence of this type of technology in everyday life. It explores the ways in which virtual reality evokes illusory transformation responses. The power of virtual reality is in making the mediation by technology in these experiences appear irrelevant to cognitive processes, so much so that it is often assumed that skills acquired in virtual environments are generally transferable to the physical world. However, cognition is affected by virtual reality technology, which is reflected in issues related to virtual embodiment, choice of spatial strategies, differences in neural and electrophysiological patterns associated with movement processing when navigating virtual vs. physical environments, and, at least to some extent, in virtual proxemics. In addition to spatial cognition, the book explores the sense of self in virtual reality, social interaction and virtual togetherness, action and motor cognition, calling to mind debates from philosophy, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.
Consensus Over Switching Network Topology: Characterizing System Parameters and Joint Connectivity (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control #393)
by Huijun Gao Wei Xing Zheng Yu Kang Jiahu Qin Qichao MaThis book aims to extend existing works on consensus of multi-agent systems systematically. The agents to be considered range from double integrators to generic linear systems. The primary goal is to explicitly characterize how agent parameters, which reflect both self-dynamics and inner coupling of each agent, and switching network topologies jointly influence the collective behaviors. A series of necessary and/or sufficient conditions for exponential consensus are derived. The contents of this book are as follows. Chapter 1 provides the background and briefly reviews the advances of consensus of multi-agent systems. Chapter 2 addresses the consensus problem of double integrators over directed switching network topologies. It is proven that exponential consensus can be secured under very mild conditions incorporating the damping gain and network topology. Chapter 3 considers generic linear systems with undirected switching network topologies. Necessary and sufficient conditions on agent parameters and connectivity of the communication graph for exponential consensus are provided. Chapter 4 furthers the study of consensus for multiple generic linear systems by considering directed switching network topologies. How agent parameters and joint connectivity work together for reaching consensus is characterized from an algebraic and geometric view. Chapter 5 extends the design and analysis methodology to containment control problem, where there exist multiple leaders. A novel analysis framework from the perspective of state transition matrix is developed. This framework relates containment to consensus and overcomes the difficulty of construction of a containment error.This book serves as a reference to the main research issues and results on consensus of multi-agent systems. Some prerequisites for reading this book include linear system theory, matrix theory, mathematics, and so on.
Consensus Problem of Delayed Linear Multi-agent Systems: Analysis and Design (SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering)
by Fei Liu Cheng-Lin LiuIn the context of coupled-coordination control mechanisms, this book focuses on the delay robustness of consensus problems with asynchronously coupled and synchronously coupled consensus algorithms respectively. Moreover, constructive consensus algorithms that tolerate larger communication delays are proposed according to idea of compensation. By providing rigorous theoretical proofs and numerous numerical simulations, it enhances readers' understanding of the consensus coordination control mechanism of multi-agent systems with communication delays.
Consensus and Synchronization in Complex Networks (Understanding Complex Systems)
by Ljupco KocarevIn this book for the first time two scientific fields - consensus formation and synchronization of communications - are presented together and examined through their interrelational aspects, of rapidly growing importance. Both fields have indeed attracted enormous research interest especially in relation to complex networks. In networks of dynamic systems (or agents), consensus means to reach an agreement regarding a certain quantity of interest that depends on the state of all dynamical systems (agents). Consensus problems have a long history in control theory and computer sciences, and form the foundation of the field of distributed computing. Synchronization, which defines correlated-in-time behavior between different processes and roots going back to Huygens to the least, is now a highly popular, exciting and rapidly developing topic, with applications ranging from biological networks to mathematical epidemiology, and from processing information in the brain to engineering of communications devices. The book reviews recent finding in both fields and describes novel approaches to consensus formation, where consensus is realized as an instance of the nonlinear dynamics paradigm of chaos synchronization. The chapters are written by world-known experts in both fields and cover topics ranging from fundaments to various applications of consensus and synchronization.
Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom
by Rebecca Mackinnon<P>The Internet was going to liberate us, but in truth it has not. For every story about the web's empowering role in events such as the Arab Spring, there are many more about the quiet corrosion of civil liberties by companies and governments using the same digital technologies we have come to depend upon. <P> Sudden changes in Facebook's features and privacy settings have exposed identities of protestors to police in Egypt and Iran. Apple removes politically controversial apps at the behest of governments as well as for its own commercial reasons. Dozens of Western companies sell surveillance technology to dictatorships around the world. <P>Google struggles with censorship demands from governments in a range of countries--many of them democracies--as well as mounting public concern over the vast quantities of information it collects about its users. <P> In Consent of the Networked, journalist and Internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that it is time to fight for our rights before they are sold, legislated, programmed, and engineered away. Every day, the corporate sovereigns of cyberspace make decisions that affect our physical freedom--but without our consent. <P>Yet the traditional solution to unaccountable corporate behavior--government regulation--cannot stop the abuse of digital power on its own, and sometimes even contributes to it. <P> A clarion call to action, Consent of the Networked shows that it is time to stop arguing over whether the Internet empowers people, and address the urgent question of how technology should be governed to support the rights and liberties of users around the world.
Conservation of Leather and Related Materials
by Marion Kite Roy ThomsonThe conservation of skin, leather and related materials is an area that, until now, has had little representation by the written word in book form. Marion Kite and Roy Thomson, of the Leather Conservation Centre, have prepared a text which is both authoritative and comprehensive, including contributions from the leading specialists in their fields, such as Betty Haines, Mary Lou Florian, Ester Cameron and Jim Spriggs.The book covers all aspects of Skin and Leather preservation, from Cuir Bouillie to Bookbindings. There is significant discussion of the technical and chemical elements necessary in conservation, meaning that professional conservators will find the book a vital part of their collection. As part of the Butterworth-Heinemann Black series, the book carries the stamp of approval of the leading figures in the world of Conservation and Museology, and as such it is the only publication available on the topic carrying this immediate mark of authority.
Conservation of Photographs: Significance, Use and Care (Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology)
by Heather Brown Luisa CasellaConservation of Photographs: Significance, Use and Care provides a comprehensive and inclusive overview of theory, research, and practice in the conservation of photograph collections, from the analogue to the digital era.Including insights from nearly 100 leading international professionals, this book is a tribute to the synergistic advancements in photograph conservation in recent decades. Connecting material, imaging, computational and natural sciences, aesthetics, ethics and philosophy, history, art history, art and cultural context studies, these engaging writings contextualize our photographic heritage and its long-term preservation – past, present, and future. This book explores the philosophical underpinnings and evolution of the field, before moving on to detail innovative methodologies for assessing photographic heritage. The inclusion of material on characterization, imaging and authentication studies, conservation practice, innovation and ethical constraints, as well as on current approaches to effective collections management and preventive care, ensures that this volume is an invaluable resource and important practical reference.Conservation of Photographs: Significance, Use and Care will spark a collective drive towards a more complete understanding and preservation of the world’s photographic legacy. As such, the volume is useful for scholars, students, and practitioners working in the fields of photography, conservation, art, art history, history, and cultural heritage.