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Have the social safety nets, environmental protections, and
policies to redress wealth and income inequality enacted after
World War II contributed to declining rates of dementia today-and
how do we improve brain health in the future? Winner of the
American Book Fest Health: Aging/50+ by the American Book Fest,
Living Now Book Award: Mature Living/Aging by the Living Now Book
Awards For decades, researchers have chased a pharmaceutical cure
for memory loss. But despite the fact that no disease-modifying
biotech treatments have emerged, new research suggests that
dementia rates have actually declined in the United States and
Western Europe over the last decade. Why is this happening? And
what does it mean for brain health in the future? In American
Dementia, Daniel R. George, PhD, MSc, and Peter J. Whitehouse, MD,
PhD, argue that the current decline of dementia may be strongly
linked to mid-twentieth century policies that reduced inequality,
provided widespread access to education and healthcare, and brought
about cleaner air, soil, and water. They also * explain why
Alzheimer's disease, an obscure clinical label until the 1970s, is
the hallmark illness of our current hyper-capitalist era; * reveal
how the soaring inequalities of the twenty-first century-which are
sowing poverty, barriers to healthcare and education, loneliness,
lack of sleep, stressful life events, environmental exposures, and
climate change-are reversing the gains of the twentieth century and
damaging our brains; * tackle the ageist tendencies in our culture,
which disadvantage both vulnerable youth and elders; * make an
evidence-based argument that policies like single-payer healthcare,
a living wage, and universal access to free higher education and
technical training programs will build collective resilience to
dementia; * promote strategies that show how local communities can
rise above the disconnection and loneliness that define our present
moment and come together to care for our struggling neighbors.
Ultimately, American Dementia asserts that actively remembering
lessons from the twentieth century which help us become a
healthier, wiser, and more compassionate society represents our
most powerful intervention for preventing Alzheimer's and
protecting human dignity. Exposing the inconvenient truths that
confound market-based approaches to memory enhancement as well as
broader social organization, the book imagines how we can act as
citizens to protect our brains, build the cognitive resilience of
younger generations, and rise to the moral challenge of caring for
the cognitively frail.
This open access book gathers authoritative contributions
concerning multiscale problems in biomechanics, geomechanics,
materials science and tribology. It is written in memory of Sergey
Grigorievich Psakhie to feature various aspects of his multifaceted
research interests, ranging from theoretical physics, computer
modeling of materials and material characterization at the atomic
scale, to applications in space industry, medicine and
geotectonics, and including organizational, psychological and
philosophical aspects of scientific research and teaching as well.
This book covers new advances relating to orthopedic implants,
concerning the physiological, tribological and materials aspects of
their behavior; medical and geological applications of permeable
fluid-saturated materials; earthquake dynamics together with
aspects relating to their managed and gentle release; lubrication,
wear and material transfer in natural and artificial joints;
material research in manufacturing processes; hard-soft matter
interaction, including adhesive and capillary effects; using
nanostructures for influencing living cells and for cancer
treatment; manufacturing of surfaces with desired properties;
self-organization of hierarchical structures during plastic
deformation and thermal treatment; mechanics of composites and
coatings; and many more. Covering established knowledge as well as
new models and methods, this book provides readers with a
comprehensive overview of the field, yet also with extensive
details on each single topic.
This volume features a critical evaluation of the recent work of
the philosopher, Prof. Raimo Tuomela and it also offers it offers
new approaches to the collectivism-versus-individualism debate. It
specifically looks at Tuomela's book Social Ontology and its
accounts of collective intentionality and related topics. The book
contains eight essays written by expert contributors that present
different perspectives on Tuomela's investigation into the
philosophy of sociality, social ontology, theory of action, and
(philosophical) decision and game theory. In addition, Tuomela
himself gives a comprehensive response to each essay and defends
his theory in terms of the new arguments presented here. Overall,
readers will gain a deeper insight into group reasoning and the
"we-mode" approach, which is used to account for collective
intention and action, cooperation, group attitudes, social
practices, and institutions as well as group solidarity. This book
will be of interest to a wide range of readers and graduate
students and researchers interested in contemporary philosophy of
sociality, sociological theory, social ontology as well as the
philosophy of mind, decision and game theory, and cognitive
science. Tuomela's book stands as a model of excellence in social
ontology, an especially intractable field of philosophical inquiry
that benefits conspicuously from the devotion of Tuomela's keen
philosophical mind. His book is must reading in social ontology. J.
Angelo Corlett, Julia Lyons Strobel
This volume features a critical evaluation of the recent work of
the philosopher, Prof. Raimo Tuomela and it also offers it offers
new approaches to the collectivism-versus-individualism debate. It
specifically looks at Tuomela's book Social Ontology and its
accounts of collective intentionality and related topics. The book
contains eight essays written by expert contributors that present
different perspectives on Tuomela's investigation into the
philosophy of sociality, social ontology, theory of action, and
(philosophical) decision and game theory. In addition, Tuomela
himself gives a comprehensive response to each essay and defends
his theory in terms of the new arguments presented here. Overall,
readers will gain a deeper insight into group reasoning and the
"we-mode" approach, which is used to account for collective
intention and action, cooperation, group attitudes, social
practices, and institutions as well as group solidarity. This book
will be of interest to a wide range of readers and graduate
students and researchers interested in contemporary philosophy of
sociality, sociological theory, social ontology as well as the
philosophy of mind, decision and game theory, and cognitive
science. Tuomela's book stands as a model of excellence in social
ontology, an especially intractable field of philosophical inquiry
that benefits conspicuously from the devotion of Tuomela's keen
philosophical mind. His book is must reading in social ontology. J.
Angelo Corlett, Julia Lyons Strobel
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Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology - 9th International Conference, RSKT 2014, Shanghai, China, October 24-26, 2014, Proceedings (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Duoqian Miao, Witold Pedrycz, Dominik Slezak, Georg Peters, Qinghua Hu, …
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference
proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Rough Sets and
Knowledge Technology, RSKT 2014, held in Shanghai, China, in
October 2014. The 70 papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected from 162 submissions. The papers in this volume cover
topics such as foundations and generalizations of rough sets,
attribute reduction and feature selection, applications of rough
sets, intelligent systems and applications, knowledge technology,
domain-oriented data-driven data mining, uncertainty in granular
computing, advances in granular computing, big data to wise
decisions, rough set theory, and three-way decisions, uncertainty,
and granular computing.
When comparing the number of contributions for the proceedings of
the third symposium on The Influence of Antibiotics on the
Host-Parasite Relationship with those of its two predecessors, one
becomes aware of the progress that has been made in this field. It
is obvious that the design of experiments has substantially refined
and therefore the clinical relevance of the results has gained in
significance. The editors of this volume would like to thank all
the colleagues who contributed to this book. It is hoped that
interest in this field will develop further and that it will
finally yield results which one day may be the basis for an
improvement of antibiotic therapy. Bochum WOLFGANG OPFERKUCH
Contents Opening Remarks P. G. Quie .... Interactions Between
Antibiotics, Phagocytes, and Bacteria W. L. Hand, N. L.
King-Thompson, T. H. Steinberg, and D. L. Hand. With 2 Figures and
5 Tables . . . . . . .. 4 Influence of Antibiotics on the Cell
Surface of Escherichia coli H. Leying, S. Suerbaum, H.-P. Kroll, J.
Gmeiner, and W. Opferkuch. With 2 Figures and 3 Tables . . . . . 17
Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Alterations Induced by Low Concentrations
of 4-Quinolones M. T. Labro, A. Bryskier, C. Babin-Chevaye, and J.
Hakim.
Originally published in the "International Quarterly of Community
Health Education", this work presents twenty-one chapters about the
state of HIV/AIDS prevention programs in a global context.
Aims to describe why and how applied research carried out in a
national public health program sometimes influenced program action
in the field - and sometimes did not. This title presents and
analyses a number of modified case studies to draw some practical
lessons and to provide a theoretical basis for future program
action.
One main interest of philosophy is to become clear about the
assumptions, premisses and inconsistencies of our thoughts and
theories. And even for a formal language like mathematics it is
controversial if consistency is acheivable or necessary like the
articles in the firt part of the publication show. Also the role of
formal derivations, the role of the concept of apriority, and the
intuitions of mathematical principles and properties need to be
discussed. The second part is a contribution on nominalistic and
platonistic views in mathematics, like the "indispensability
argument" of W. v. O. Quine H. Putnam and the "makes no difference
argument" of A. Baker. Not only in retrospect, the third part shows
the problems of Mill, Frege's and the unity of mathematics and
Descartes's contradictional conception of mathematical essences.
Together, these articles give us a hint into the relationship
between mathematics and world, that is, one of the central problems
in philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of science.
The present volume contains the edited proceedings of the Vth
Symposium of the "Gesellschaft fiir Nephrologie" held in Lausanne,
Switzerland, from September 21 to September 23, 1967. The
manuscripts were arranged according to their contents rather than
to their titles. An attempt was made to divide the allotted space
between different contributors according to the apparent importance
or originality of the contributions. Most of the papers submitted
were written in either German or a rather inarticulate English, and
subsequently, have been translated into English by the editors and
their collaborators. The editors are indebted to Mr. R. Darling,
student of medicine of the Faculte de Medicine de l'Universite de
Lausanne, for reviewing the English translation. Editing was
limited to requirements based on form rather than on content. In a
few instances, manuscripts which were inadequate in form were
accepted because their contents appeared interesting or important.
A very few manuscripts were either not submitted or could not be
included in the present proceedings, because they did not satisfy
the editorial standards. Some papers are published in the present
proceedings in abstract form because they have been submitted
elsewhere for full publication. The editors' responsibility does
not extend to the factual content of the manuscripts. The editors
wish to apologize for the long delay in publishing these
proceedings, a delay which may be attributed to difficulties in
communication and cooperation with various authors.
Rough Set Theory, introduced by Pawlak in the early 1980s, has
become an important part of soft computing within the last 25
years. However, much of the focus has been on the theoretical
understanding of Rough Sets, with a survey of Rough Sets and their
applications within business and industry much desired. "Rough
Sets: Selected Methods and Applications in Management and
Engineering" provides context to Rough Set theory, with each
chapter exploring a real-world application of Rough Sets.
"Rough Sets" is relevant to managers striving to improve their
businesses, industry researchers looking to improve the efficiency
of their solutions, and university researchers wanting to apply
Rough Sets to real-world problems.
This open access book gathers authoritative contributions
concerning multiscale problems in biomechanics, geomechanics,
materials science and tribology. It is written in memory of Sergey
Grigorievich Psakhie to feature various aspects of his multifaceted
research interests, ranging from theoretical physics, computer
modeling of materials and material characterization at the atomic
scale, to applications in space industry, medicine and
geotectonics, and including organizational, psychological and
philosophical aspects of scientific research and teaching as well.
This book covers new advances relating to orthopedic implants,
concerning the physiological, tribological and materials aspects of
their behavior; medical and geological applications of permeable
fluid-saturated materials; earthquake dynamics together with
aspects relating to their managed and gentle release; lubrication,
wear and material transfer in natural and artificial joints;
material research in manufacturing processes; hard-soft matter
interaction, including adhesive and capillary effects; using
nanostructures for influencing living cells and for cancer
treatment; manufacturing of surfaces with desired properties;
self-organization of hierarchical structures during plastic
deformation and thermal treatment; mechanics of composites and
coatings; and many more. Covering established knowledge as well as
new models and methods, this book provides readers with a
comprehensive overview of the field, yet also with extensive
details on each single topic.
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Rough Sets - International Joint Conference, IJCRS 2016, Santiago de Chile, Chile, October 7-11, 2016, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Victor Flores, Fernando Gomide, Andrzej Janusz, Claudio Meneses, Duoqian Miao, …
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International
Joint Conference on Rough Sets, IJCRS 2016, held in Santiago de
Chile, Chile, in October 2016. The 46 revised full papers presented
together with 7 keynotes, tutorials and expert papers were
carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. The papers
are grouped in topical sections on Rough Sets, Approximation and
Granulation; Rough Sets, Non-Determinism and Incompleteness; Rough
Sets and Three-way Decisions; Fuzziness and Similarity in Knowledge
Representation; Machine Learning and Decision Making; Ranking and
Clustering; Derivation and Application of Rules and Trees;
Derivation and Application of Feature Subsets.
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Social Structure
George Peter Murdock
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Der zunehmende Einsatz der Mikroprozessortechnik im Bereich der
Gebaudeautomation und anderen versorgungs- und
verfahrenstechnischen Bereichen verdrangt die klassische analoge
Regel- und Steuerungstechnik. Dieses Buch fuhrt in die Grundlagen
ein, schildert die Moglichkeiten der Anwendung und nennt die
Probleme. Beispiele machen das Buch insbesondere auch fur den
Praktiker in der Industrie und in Planungsburos interessant."
Die wissenschaftliche Diskussion ihrer Grundbegriffe hat gezeigt,
dass eine soziologische Theorie der Gegenwartsgesellschaft nicht
mehr fachspezifisch selbstgenugsam gestaltet werden kann.
Veranderte Grenzziehungen auf Seiten der Gesellschaft treffen auf
neue und zu verandernde Grenzen auf Seiten ihrer Wissenschaft:
Globalisierung, Mitgliedschaft und Gruppe sind in ihrer zunehmenden
Dynamisierung begrifflich in einem transdisziplinaren Kontext neu
zu fassen. Die Beitrage gehen diesem Forschungsproblem aus
verschiedenen Perspektiven nach und werfen einen Blick auf die
veranderte asthetische Erfahrung in der gesellschaftlichen
Kommunikation. "
Der zunehmende Einsatz der Mikroprozessortechnik im Bereich der Geb
udeautomation und anderen versorgungs- und verfahrenstechnischen
Bereichen verdr ngt die klassische analoge Regel- und
Steuerungstechnik. Dieses Buch f hrt in die Grundlagen ein,
schildert die M glichkeiten der Anwendung und nennt die Probleme.
Beispiele machen das Buch insbesondere auch f r den Praktiker in
der Industrie und in Planungsb ros interessant.
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