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This book offers an original assessment of the ways in which the
sociocultural code of blood revenge and its modern remnants shape
irregular warfare. Despite being a common driver of communal
violence, blood revenge has received little attention from
scholars. With many civil wars and insurgencies occurring in areas
where the custom lingers, strengthening our understanding of blood
revenge is essential for discerning how conflicts change and
evolve. Drawing upon extensive multidisciplinary evidence, this
book is the first in the literature on civil war and insurgency to
analyse the impact of blood revenge and its modern remnants on
irregular warfare. Even when blood revenge undergoes erosion, its
unregulated version still shapes the social fabric of insurgency,
although in different ways than its institutionalised counterpart.
At times of political instability, the presence of a culture of
retaliation weighs heavily on the dynamics of violent mobilisation,
target selection, recruitment, and disengagement. The book brings
in evidence from dozens of conflicts, providing unprecedented
insights into how a better understanding of blood revenge can
improve military blueprints for irregular warfare. This book will
be of much interest to students of insurgency, terrorism, military
and strategic studies, anthropology, and sociology, as well as to
decision-makers and irregular warfare professionals.
This book offers the first analysis of the brutalisation paradigm
in counter-insurgency warfare. Minimising the use of force and
winning over the population's opinion is said to be the cornerstone
of success in modern counterinsurgency (COIN). Yet, this tells only
one side of the story. Drawing upon primary data collected during
interviews with eyewitnesses of the Second Russian-Chechen War, as
well as from secondary sources, this book is the first to offer a
detailed analysis of the long-neglected logic underpinning
brutalisation-centred COIN campaigns. It offers a comprehensive
systematisation of the brutalisation paradigm and challenges the
widespread assumption of brutalisation as an underperforming
paradigm of COIN warfare. It shows that, although appalling,
brutalisation-centred measures can deliver success. The book also
outlines a stigmatised yet widely deployed set of COIN measures and
provides critical insights into how Western military blueprints can
be improved without compromising important moral and ethical
requirements. This book will be of much interest to students of
counterinsurgency, military and strategic studies, Russian
politics, and International Relations.
Rehabilitation Robotics gives an introduction and overview of all
areas of rehabilitation robotics, perfect for anyone new to the
field. It also summarizes available robot technologies and their
application to different pathologies for skilled researchers and
clinicians. The editors have been involved in the development and
application of robotic devices for neurorehabilitation for more
than 15 years. This experience using several commercial devices for
robotic rehabilitation has enabled them to develop the know-how and
expertise necessary to guide those seeking comprehensive
understanding of this topic. Each chapter is written by an expert
in the respective field, pulling in perspectives from both
engineers and clinicians to present a multi-disciplinary view. The
book targets the implementation of efficient robot strategies to
facilitate the re-acquisition of motor skills. This technology
incorporates the outcomes of behavioral studies on motor learning
and its neural correlates into the design, implementation and
validation of robot agents that behave as 'optimal' trainers,
efficiently exploiting the structure and plasticity of the human
sensorimotor systems. In this context, human-robot interaction
plays a paramount role, at both the physical and cognitive level,
toward achieving a symbiotic interaction where the human body and
the robot can benefit from each other's dynamics.
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Computational Neuroscience - Second Latin American Workshop, LAWCN 2019, Sao Joao Del-Rei, Brazil, September 18-20, 2019, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Vinicius Rosa Cota, Dante Augusto Couto Barone, Diego Roberto Colombo Dias, Laila Cristina Moreira Damazio
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the
Second International Workshop of Computational Neuroscience, held
in Sao Joao Del-Rei, Brazil, in September 2019. The 17 full papers
and 3 short papers presented have been thoroughly reviewed and
selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical
sections: artificial intelligence, machine learning, and related
topics; complex systems and complex networks; computational
neuroscience of learning and memory; neural signal processing;
software and hardware implementations in neuroscience;
brain-machine interfaces and neurostimulation; and seizure
prediction.
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