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-Provides engaging and accessible introduction to current research
in sociology of race and ethnicity designed for undergraduate
students and readers -Examines the key theoretical and cultural
constructions of race, ethnicity, power, and social relations
-Highlights the critical function of white privilege in social,
cultural, political, and economic relations -Highly relevant
discussion and contextual analysis of understanding race, racism,
and social relations in the age of Black Lives Matter, police
abolition/reform movements, and the wake left behind by the era of
Trump -Includes important case studies of key social and political
movements and events, such as the Standing Rock protests,
Confederate statue removals, and movements for climate change
action
-Provides engaging and accessible introduction to current research
in sociology of race and ethnicity designed for undergraduate
students and readers -Examines the key theoretical and cultural
constructions of race, ethnicity, power, and social relations
-Highlights the critical function of white privilege in social,
cultural, political, and economic relations -Highly relevant
discussion and contextual analysis of understanding race, racism,
and social relations in the age of Black Lives Matter, police
abolition/reform movements, and the wake left behind by the era of
Trump -Includes important case studies of key social and political
movements and events, such as the Standing Rock protests,
Confederate statue removals, and movements for climate change
action
Modern medicine has produced many wonderful technological
breakthroughs that have extended the limits of the frail human
body. However, much of the focus of this medical research has been
on the physical, often reducing the human being to a biological
machine to be examined, understood, and controlled. This book
begins by asking whether the modern medical milieu has overly
objectified the body, unwittingly or not, and whether current
studies in bioethics are up to the task of restoring a fuller
understanding of the human person. In response, various authors
here suggest that a more theological/religious approach would be
helpful, or perhaps even necessary. Presenting specific
perspectives from Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the book is
divided into three parts: "Understanding the Body," "Respecting the
Body," and "The Body at the End of Life." A panel of expert
contributors-including philosophers, physicians, and theologians
and scholars of religion- answer key questions such as: What is the
relationship between body and soul? What are our obligations toward
human bodies? How should medicine respond to suffering and death?
The resulting text is an interdisciplinary treatise on how medicine
can best function in our societies. Offering a new way to approach
the medical humanities, this book will be of keen interest to any
scholars with an interest in contemporary religious perspectives on
medicine and the body.
As the world grows increasingly interconnected, data communications
has become a critical aspect of business operations. Wireless and
mobile technology allows us to seamlessly transition from work to
play and back again, and the Internet of things has brought our
appliances, vehicles, and homes into the network; as life
increasingly takes place online, businesses recognize the
opportunity for a competitive advantage. Today's networking
professionals have become central to nearly every aspect of
business, and this book provides the essential foundation needed to
build and manage the scalable, mobile, secure networks these
businesses require. Although the technologies evolve rapidly, the
underlying concepts are more constant. This book combines the
foundational concepts with practical exercises to provide a
well-grounded approach to networking in business today. Key
management and technical issues are highlighted and discussed in
the context of real-world applications, and hands-on exercises
reinforce critical concepts while providing insight into day-to-day
operations. Detailed technical descriptions reveal the tradeoffs
not presented in product summaries, building the analytical
capacity needed to understand, evaluate, and compare current and
future technologies.
This book examines the forces that shape psychoactive drug use. The
approach, informed by poststructuralist semiotics, culture,
phenomenology and contemporary theories of affect, illuminates the
connections between drugs, bodies, space, economy and crime.
This book is concerned with the processing of signals that have
been sam pled and digitized. The fundamental theory behind Digital
Signal Process ing has been in existence for decades and has
extensive applications to the fields of speech and data
communications, biomedical engineering, acous tics, sonar, radar,
seismology, oil exploration, instrumentation and audio signal
processing to name but a few [87]. The term "Digital Signal
Processing", in its broadest sense, could apply to any operation
carried out on a finite set of measurements for whatever purpose. A
book on signal processing would usually contain detailed de
scriptions of the standard mathematical machinery often used to
describe signals. It would also motivate an approach to real world
problems based on concepts and results developed in linear systems
theory, that make use of some rather interesting properties of the
time and frequency domain representations of signals. While this
book assumes some familiarity with traditional methods the emphasis
is altogether quite different. The aim is to describe general
methods for carrying out optimal signal processing.
Modern medicine has produced many wonderful technological
breakthroughs that have extended the limits of the frail human
body. However, much of the focus of this medical research has been
on the physical, often reducing the human being to a biological
machine to be examined, understood, and controlled. This book
begins by asking whether the modern medical milieu has overly
objectified the body, unwittingly or not, and whether current
studies in bioethics are up to the task of restoring a fuller
understanding of the human person. In response, various authors
here suggest that a more theological/religious approach would be
helpful, or perhaps even necessary. Presenting specific
perspectives from Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the book is
divided into three parts: "Understanding the Body," "Respecting the
Body," and "The Body at the End of Life." A panel of expert
contributors-including philosophers, physicians, and theologians
and scholars of religion- answer key questions such as: What is the
relationship between body and soul? What are our obligations toward
human bodies? How should medicine respond to suffering and death?
The resulting text is an interdisciplinary treatise on how medicine
can best function in our societies. Offering a new way to approach
the medical humanities, this book will be of keen interest to any
scholars with an interest in contemporary religious perspectives on
medicine and the body.
This book is concerned with the processing of signals that have been sampled and digitized. The authors present algorithms for the optimization, random simulation, and numerical integration of probability densities for applications of Bayesian inference to signal processing. In particular, methods are developed for the computation of marginal densities and evidence, and are applied to previously intractable problems either involving large numbers of parameters or where the signal model is of a complex form. The emphasis is on the applications of these methods notably to the restoration of digital audio recordings and biomedical data. After a chapter which sets out the main principles of Bayesian inference applied to signal processing, subsequent chapters cover numerical approaches to these techniques, the use of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, the identification of abrupt changes in data using the Bayesian piecewise linear model, and identifying missing samples in digital audio signals.
If we want our students to be prepared for a life involved with
artificial intelligence, global awareness, cultural understanding,
racial, religious and lifestyle diversity, and changing economic
and political realities, then we have to change what we are doing
in our schools from pre-school to graduate school. We can no longer
wait for large-scale reforms to develop, because those reforms will
only occur due to some kind of tragedy. If schools are going to
reform proactively, educators in each school and in each district
have to lead the way.
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