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Campaigning to the New American Electorate
by Marisa AbrajanoAbrajano (political science, U. of California-San Diego) investigates whether ethnic political campaigns are successful at winning ethnic minority votes, and examines the consequences, if any, that ethnic political campaigns have on the political health and well being of that segment of the ethnic group being targeted. To these ends, she looks at the Spanish-language and English-language televised political advertisements created for the 2000 and 2004 election cycles, and examines their effect on Latino political behavior. Her topics include a theory of information-based advertising, candidates' advertising strategies, advertising effects on the Latino vote, and the future of ethnically targeted campaigns. An epilogue considers the 2008. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
Campaigns and Elections American Style: The Changing Landscape of Political Campaigns
by Candice J. Nelson James A. Thurber David A. DulioWith new and revised chapters throughout, the sixth edition of Campaigns and Elections American Style allows academics and campaign professionals the chance to explain how the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 general election, and 2022 midterm election upended the campaign process and changed the landscape of political campaigns forever. Offering a unique and careful mix of Democrat and Republican, academic and practitioner, and male and female campaign perspectives, this volume scrutinizes national and local-level campaigns. Students, citizens, candidates, and campaign managers learn not only how to win elections but also why it is imperative to do so in a safe and ethical way. Perfect for a variety of courses in American government, this book is especially valuable to schools of campaign management and campaign professionals working at every level from the local to the global. Highlights of the Sixth Edition Covers the 2020 and 2022 elections with an eye to 2024. Examines changes to the campaign process as a result of COVID-19 and puts them in context with campaign traditions over time. Includes a new organization that moves campaign finance up front to emphasize the centrality of fundraising to successful campaigns. Offers more data to inform campaign planning and management, especially related to key topics such as the change in news media coverage, the growth and use of social media, the use of "big data" in campaigns, and changes in field and voting rules and policies.
Campaigns and Elections (Fourth Edition)
by Matt Grossmann John Sides Keena Lipsitz Daron ShawThe #1 book examines contemporary campaigns and elections—now updated through 2020 Thoroughly revised and updated through the 2020 elections, the Fourth Edition of Campaigns & Elections uses a consistent framework to reveal the strategies and choices that face candidates and other practitioners in the American political system. The authors have set out to help students answer the many questions they have about campaigns while spotlighting contemporary political science research to help them do so. This purchase offers access to the digital ebook only.
Campaigns and Elections (Fourth Election Update Edition): 2022 Election Update
by Matt Grossmann John Sides Keena Lipsitz Daron ShawThe #1 book examines contemporary campaigns and elections—now updated through 2022. Thoroughly revised and updated through the 2022 elections, the Fourth Edition of Campaigns and Elections uses a consistent framework to reveal the strategies and choices that face candidates and other practitioners in the American political system. The authors help students answer the many questions they have about campaigns while spotlighting contemporary political science research in the process. This purchase offers access to the digital ebook only.
Campus-Management Systeme als Administrative Systeme: Basiswissen und Fallbeispiele zur Gestaltung und Einführung (essentials)
by Jan Vom Brocke Thorsten Spitta Marco Carolla Henning Brune Thomas Grechenig Stefan StroblDie Autoren vermitteln, was den Softwaretyp Campus-Management ausmacht, welche Funktionen zum Kern eines CMS gehören und welche nicht benötigt werden. Sie skizzieren die Datenbasis solcher Systeme in einem Referenz-Datenmodell. Vertiefend wird dieses Modell im Buch Ein Referenz-Datenmodell für Campus-Management-Systeme in deutschsprachigen Hochschulen (Carolla 2015) empirisch validiert beschrieben. Neben den Charakteristika Administrativer Systeme im Hochschulbereich illustrieren die Autoren die Einführung zweier produktiver CMS, die als Eigenentwicklungen in Bielefeld und Wien entstanden sind.
Campus Network Architectures and Technologies (Data Communication Series)
by Ningguo Shen Bin Yu Mingxiang Huang Hailin XuCampus Network Architectures and Technologies begins by describing the service challenges facing campus networks, and then details the intent-driven campus network architectures and technologies of Huawei Cloud Campus Solution. After reading this book, you will have a comprehensive understanding of next-generation campus network solutions, technical implementations, planning, design, and other know-how. Leveraging Huawei’s years of technical expertise and practices in the campus network field, this book systematically describes the use of technical solutions such as virtualization, big data, AI, and SDN in campus networks. You will be able to reconstruct campus networks quickly and efficiently utilizing this informative description. Additionally, this book provides detailed suggestions for campus network design and deployment based on Huawei's extensive project implementation experience, assisting with the construction of automated and intelligent campus networks required to cope with challenges. This is a practical, informative, and easy-to-understand guide for learning about and designing campus networks. It is intended for network planning engineers, network technical support engineers, network administrators, and enthusiasts of campus network technologies. Authors Ningguo Shen is Chief Architect for Huawei’s campus network solutions. He has approximately 20 years' experience in campus network product and solution design, as well as a wealth of expertise in network planning and design. Mr. Shen previously served as a system engineer for the campus switch, data center switch, and WLAN product lines, and led the design of Huawei’s intent-driven campus network solution. Bin Yu is an Architect for Huawei's campus network solutions. He has 12 years’ experience in campus network product and solution design, as well as extensive expertise in network planning and design and network engineering project implementation. Mr. Yu once led the design of multiple features across various campus network solutions. Mingxiang Huang is a Documentation Engineer for Huawei’s campus network solutions. He has three years of technical service experience, and four years of expertise in developing campus network product documentation. Mr. Huang was previously in charge of writing manuals for Huawei router and switch products. He has authored many popular technical series, including Be an OSPF Expert, Insight into Routing Policies, and Story behind Default Routes. Hailin Xu is a Documentation Engineer for Huawei’s campus network solutions. He has two years of marketing experience in smart campus solutions, and six years of expertise in developing network products and solution documentation. Extremely familiar with Huawei's campus network products and solutions, Mr. Xu was previously in charge of writing manuals for Huawei routers, switches, and campus network solutions. In addition, he has participated in smart campus marketing projects within such sectors as education, government, and real estate.
Camtasia Studio 8: Advanced Editing and Publishing Techniques
by Claire Broadley Mathew DixonA practical guide packed with examples that will show you how to implement the different features of Camtasia Studio 8 and create professional looking projects.If you are familiar with Camtasia Studio and you want to experiment with more advanced techniques, then this is the guide you have been looking for!
Can Animals And Machines Be Persons?: A Dialogue
by Justin Leiber"This is a dialogue about the notion of a person, of an entity that thinks and feels and acts, that counts and is accountable. Equivalently, it's about the intentional idiom --the well-knit fabric of terms that we use to characterize persons. Human beings are usually persons (a brain-dead human might be considered a human but not a person). However, there may be persons, in various senses, that are not human beings. Much recent discussion has focused on hypothetical computer-robots and on actual nonhuman great apes. The discussion here is naturalistic, which is to say that count and accountability are, at least initially, presumed to be naturally well-knit with the possession of a cognitive and affective life. " --Justin Leiber, from the Introduction
CAN System Engineering: From Theory to Practical Applications
by Wolfhard LawrenzThis book addresses the various challenges and open questions relating to CAN communication networks. Opening with a short introduction into the fundamentals of CAN, the book then examines the problems and solutions for the physical layout of networks, including EMC issues and topology layout. Additionally, a discussion of quality issues with a particular focus on test techniques is presented. Each chapter features a collection of illuminating insights and detailed technical information supplied by a selection of internationally-regarded experts from industry and academia. Features: presents thorough coverage of architectures, implementations and application of CAN transceiver, data link layer and so-called higher layer software; explains CAN EMC characteristics and countermeasures, as well as how to design CAN networks; demonstrates how to practically apply and test CAN systems; includes examples of real networks from diverse applications in automotive engineering, avionics, and home heating technology.
Can the Media Serve Democracy?
by Stephen Coleman Giles Moss Katy ParryThis landmark collection brings leading scholars in the field of political communication to debate one of the most important questions of our age: Can the media serve democracy? For the media to be democratic, they must enter into a positive relationship with their readers, viewers and listeners as citizens rather than consumers who buy things, audiences who gaze upon spectacles or isolated egos, obsessed with themselves. The media's first task is to remind people that they are inhabitants of a world in which they can make a difference. By enabling citizens to encounter and make sense of events, relationships and cultures of which they have no direct experience, the media constitute a public arena in which members of the public come together as more than passing strangers.
Can We Trust AI? (Johns Hopkins Wavelengths)
by Rama ChellappaArtificial intelligence is part of our daily lives. How can we address its limitations and guide its use for the benefit of communities worldwide?Artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from an experimental computer algorithm used by academic researchers to a commercially reliable method of sifting through large sets of data that detect patterns not readily apparent through more rudimentary search tools. As a result, AI-based programs are helping doctors make more informed decisions about patient care, city planners align roads and highways to reduce traffic congestion with better efficiency, and merchants scan financial transactions to quickly flag suspicious purchases. But as AI applications grow, concerns have increased, too, including worries about applications that amplify existing biases in business practices and about the safety of self-driving vehicles. In Can We Trust AI?, Dr. Rama Chellappa, a researcher and innovator with 40 years in the field, recounts the evolution of AI, its current uses, and how it will drive industries and shape lives in the future. Leading AI researchers, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs contribute their expertise as well on how AI works, what we can expect from it, and how it can be harnessed to make our lives not only safer and more convenient but also more equitable. Can We Trust AI? is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the potential—and pitfalls—of artificial intelligence. The book features:• an exploration of AI's origins during the post–World War II era through the computer revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, and its explosion among technology firms since 2012;• highlights of innovative ways that AI can diagnose medical conditions more quickly and accurately;• explanations of how the combination of AI and robotics is changing how we drive; and• interviews with leading AI researchers who are pushing the boundaries of AI for the world's benefit and working to make its applications safer and more just. Johns Hopkins WavelengthsIn classrooms, field stations, and laboratories in Baltimore and around the world, the Bloomberg Distinguished Professors of Johns Hopkins University are opening the boundaries of our understanding of many of the world's most complex challenges. The Johns Hopkins Wavelengths book series brings readers inside their stories, illustrating how their pioneering discoveries and innovations benefit people in their neighborhoods and across the globe in artificial intelligence, cancer research, food systems' environmental impacts, health equity, planetary science, science diplomacy, and other critical arenas of study. Through these compelling narratives, their insights will spark conversations from dorm rooms to dining rooms to boardrooms.
Can You Become a Pro Gamer?: An Interactive Adventure (You Choose: Chasing Fame and Fortune)
by Eric BraunCan you hone your virtual gaming skills enough to make you a star in the world of pro gaming? First, find your game and pick your platform. Then, set out to see if you’ve got what it takes. Make real-life choices that can lead to disappointment, a future in the gaming industry, or realizing your dream of becoming king or queen of the console.
Can You Become a Social Media Influencer?: An Interactive Adventure (You Choose: Chasing Fame and Fortune)
by Eric BraunDo you want to make social media your microphone to the world? Maybe you're a trend-setter or a social justice leader. Now is your chance to set out a path to social media domination. Face real-life choices that will help you learn about marketing, messaging, and what it takes to make it as a social media star.
Can Your Smartphone Change the World? (PopActivism #1)
by Erinne PaisleyCan Your Smartphone Change the World? is a twenty-first-century guide for anyone who has access to a smartphone. This how-to manual looks at specific ways you can create social change through the tap of a screen. Filled with examples of successful hashtag campaigns, viral videos and new socially conscious apps, the book provides practical advice for using your smartphone as a tool for social justice. This is the first book in the PopActivism series. Can Your Outfit Change the World? comes out in spring 2018 and Can Your Conversations Change the World? in fall 2018.
Cancel Culture: The Latest Attack on Free Speech and Due Process
by Alan DershowitzIn Cancel Culture, Alan Dershowitz—New York Times bestselling author and one of America&’s most respected legal scholars—makes an argument for free speech, due process, and restraint against the often overeager impulse to completely cancel individuals and institutions at the ever-changing whims of social media-driven crowds. Alan Dershowitz has been called &“one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America&” by Politico and &“the nation&’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights&” by Newsweek. Yet he has come under intense criticism for his steadfast and consistent championing of those same principles, and his famed &“shoe‑on‑the‑other‑foot test,&” to those who have been &“cancelled&” for any number of faults, both real and imagined. Cancel Culture is a defense of due process, free speech, and even-handedness in the application of judgment. It makes the case for restraint and care in decisions about whom and what to cancel, boycott, deplatform, and bar from public life, and offers recommendations for when, why, and to what degree these steps may be appropriate, as long as objective, fair-minded criteria can be determined and met. While Dershowitz argues against the worst excesses of cancel culture—the rush to judgment and the devastating results it can have on those who may be innocent, the power of social media to effect punishment without a thorough examination of evidence, the idea that historical events can be viewed through the same lens as actions in the present day—he also acknowledges that its defenders ostensibly try to use it to create meaningful, positive change, and notes that cancelling may itself be a constitutionally protected form of free speech. In the end, Cancel Culture represents an icon in the defense of free speech and due process reckoning with the greatest challenge and threat to these rights since the rise of McCarthyism. It is essential reading for anyone interested in or concerned about cancel culture, its effects on our society, and its significance in a greater historical and political context.
The Cancel Culture Curse: From Rage to Redemption in a World Gone Mad
by Evan Nierman Mark SachsIn a groundbreaking first, cancel culture and its core elements are clearly defined, and a convincing case is made against this fundamentally un-American practice. Cancel culture is an insidious force in society today. In the seconds it takes to make one regrettable social media post—or wind up on the wrong side of a false accusation or misunderstanding—reputations, relationships, and careers are destroyed. Have we entered an era when people cannot make mistakes; where no apology or change of heart can ever deliver forgiveness? Making a comeback used to be a celebrated American ideal. But have the roads to redemption been permanently blocked by internet mobs seeking vengeance? In The Cancel Culture Curse, global crisis manager Evan Nierman and his colleague Mark Sachs examine the impact of cancel culture in today&’s media-driven world. The authors also explore the history of cancel culture and the trends that have fostered it, defining the telltale elements that are hallmarks of such campaigns. Nierman and Sachs provide fascinating case studies and interviews with well-known victims of cancel culture, including philosopher Peter Boghossian, Mumford & Sons cofounder Winston Marshall, and &“San Francisco Karen,&” among others. Also featured, is a playbook for rebounding from public shame, helping readers avoid becoming the latest targets of &“cancel vultures&” who enjoy picking apart the remains of those left to die on the side of the Internet highway.
Cancer Bioinformatics
by Ying Xu Juan Cui David PuettThis book provides a framework for computational researchers studying the basics of cancer through comparative analyses of omic data. It discusses how key cancer pathways can be analyzed and discovered to derive new insights into the disease and identifies diagnostic and prognostic markers for cancer. Chapters explain the basic cancer biology and how cancer develops, including the many potential survival routes. The examination of gene-expression patterns uncovers commonalities across multiple cancers and specific characteristics of individual cancer types. The authors also treat cancer as an evolving complex system, explore future case studies, and summarize the essential online data sources. Cancer Bioinformatics is designed for practitioners and researchers working in cancer research and bioinformatics. It is also suitable as a secondary textbook for advanced-level students studying computer science, biostatistics or biomedicine.
Cancer Mortality and Morbidity Patterns in the U.S. Population: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Statistics for Biology and Health)
by Julia Kravchenko Igor Akushevich K. G. MantonThe purpose of this book is to examine the etiology of cancer in large human populations using mathematical models developed from an inter-disciplinary perspective of the population epidemiological, biodemographic, genetic and physiological basis of the mechanisms of cancer initiation and progression. In addition an investigation of how the basic mechanism of tumor initiation relates to general processes of senescence and to other major chronic diseases (e.g., heart disease and stroke) will be conducted.
Cancer Prediction for Industrial IoT 4.0: A Machine Learning Perspective (Chapman & Hall/CRC Internet of Things)
by Meenu GuptaCancer Prediction for Industrial IoT 4.0: A Machine Learning Perspective explores various cancers using Artificial Intelligence techniques. It presents the rapid advancement in the existing prediction models by applying Machine Learning techniques. Several applications of Machine Learning in different cancer prediction and treatment options are discussed, including specific ideas, tools and practices most applicable to product/service development and innovation opportunities. The wide variety of topics covered offers readers multiple perspectives on various disciplines. Features • Covers the fundamentals, history, reality and challenges of cancer • Presents concepts and analysis of different cancers in humans • Discusses Machine Learning-based deep learning and data mining concepts in the prediction of cancer • Offers real-world examples of cancer prediction • Reviews strategies and tools used in cancer prediction • Explores the future prospects in cancer prediction and treatment Readers will learn the fundamental concepts and analysis of cancer prediction and treatment, including how to apply emerging technologies such as Machine Learning into practice to tackle challenges in domains/fields of cancer with real-world scenarios. Hands-on chapters contributed by academicians and other professionals from reputed organizations provide and describe frameworks, applications, best practices and case studies on emerging cancer treatment and predictions. This book will be a vital resource to graduate students, data scientists, Machine Learning researchers, medical professionals and analytics managers.
Cancer Prevention, Detection, and Intervention: Third MICCAI Workshop, CaPTion 2024, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, October 6, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15199)
by Sharib Ali Fons van der Sommen Bartłomiej Władysław Papież Noha Ghatwary Yueming Jin Iris KolenbranderThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Cancer Prevention Through Early Detection, CaPTion, held in conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2024, in Marrakesh, Morocco, on October 6, 2024. The 22 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Classification and characterization; detection and segmentation; cancer/early cancer detection, treatment and survival prognosis.
Cancer Prevention Through Early Detection: Second International Workshop, CaPTion 2023, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 12, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14295)
by Sharib Ali Fons van der Sommen Maureen Van Eijnatten Bartłomiej W. Papież Yueming Jin Iris KolenbranderThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the second International Workshop on Cancer Prevention through Early Detection, CaPTion, held in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023, in Vancouver, Canada, in October 2023.The 11 papers presented at CaPTion 2023 were carefully reviewed and selected from 12 submissions. The workshop invites researchers to submit their work in the field of medical image analysis around the central theme of cancer and early cancer detection, progression, inflammation understanding, multimodality data, and computer-aided navigation.
Cancer Prevention Through Early Detection: First International Workshop, CaPTion 2022, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2022, Singapore, September 22, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13581)
by Sharib Ali Fons van der Sommen Bartłomiej Władysław Papież Maureen Van Eijnatten Yueming Jin Iris KolenbranderThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the first International Workshop on Cancer Prevention through Early Detection, CaPTion, held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022, in Singapore, Singapore, in September 2022. The 16 papers presented at CaPTion 2022 were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The workshop invites researchers to submit their work in the field of medical imaging around the central theme of early cancer detection, and it strives to address the challenges that are required to be overcomed to translate computational methods to clinical practice through well designed, generalizable (robust), interpretable and clinically transferable methods.
Cancer Systems Biology (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Biology Series)
by Edwin WangThe unprecedented amount of data produced with high-throughput experimentation forces biologists to employ mathematical representation and computation to glean meaningful information in systems-level biology. Applying this approach to the underlying molecular mechanisms of tumorgenesis, cancer research is enjoying a series of new discoveries and biological insights. Unique in its dualistic approach, this book introduces the concepts and theories of systems biology and their applications in cancer research. It presents basic cancer biology and cutting-edge topics of cancer research for computational biologists alongside systems biology analysis tools for experimental biologists.
Cancer Systems Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine: Research and Clinical Applications
by Frederick Marcus Alfredo CesarioThis teaching monograph on systems approaches to cancer research and clinical applications provides a unique synthesis, by world-class scientists and doctors, of laboratory, computational, and clinical methods, thereby establishing the foundations for major advances not possible with current methods. Specifically, the book: 1) Sets the stage by describing the basis of systems biology and bioinformatics approaches, and the clinical background of cancer in a systems context; 2) Summarizes the laboratory, clinical, data systems analysis and bioinformatics tools, along with infrastructure and resources required; 3) Demonstrates the application of these tools to cancer research; 4) Extends these tools and methods to clinical diagnosis, drug development and treatment applications; and 5) Finishes by exploring longer term perspectives and providing conclusions. This book reviews the state-of-the-art, and goes beyond into new applications. It is written and highly referenced as a textbook and practical guide aimed at students, academics, doctors, clinicians, industrialists and managers in cancer research and therapeutic applications. Ideally, it will set the stage for integration of available knowledge to optimize communication between basic and clinical researchers involved in the ultimate fight against cancer, whatever the field of specific interest, whatever the area of activity within translational research.