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The essays in this collection seek to reflect on global governance
and to provide a better critical understanding of the various
practices that fall under its rubric. The first part challenges the
concept of global governance, the second part focuses on
organizational and institutional aspects, and the last part
examines the rule systems implemented by global governance
practices. The vocabulary of (global) governance has become a
serious contender to imagine world order in the post cold war
world. Using different strategies of critique, the contributors
argue that global governance denotes a political vocabulary where
acts of definition themselves are political moves.
Drugs in professional sports. Today''s news? Not to the authors who
take you behind the scenes into the backrooms, the board rooms and
the high perches of politics where the quest for a state''s profit
often outweighs giving the public a fair return for their loyalty
and support. This is not your average sports story. It delves into
the experiences of two people who defied fierce opposition and
personal threat to do the right thing in the management of
Thoroughbred Racing and Professional Hockey and in the evaluating
and negotiating of Pro Baseball and Football teams. We are not born
with integrity. It is the product of our pasts, how we meet life''s
challenges, and in our case, the deep faith which gave us the
courage to confront our enemies and realize our goals. Biographical
in form, you will relive the author''s early years and travel the
diverse paths their lives took. You may often ponder how this
successful partnership evolved, Man/Woman. Catholic/Jew. Poor
Boy/Rich Girl. New England Newspaper columnist/ New York
entertainment writer. Running sports facilities, hosting thousands
of patrons daily at an arena, stadium or paying field was a unique
challenge. Vin Bartimo had the prime responsibility for the action,
Roz Muller was the champion of the fans. Together, they made
winners of losing entities, shared their largesse with the
communities in which they operated and gave the public what they
wanted and deserved.
From the establishment of a coherent doctrine on sacramental
marriage to the eve of the Reformation, late medieval church courts
were used for marriage cases in a variety of ways. Ranging widely
across Western Europe, including the Upper and Lower Rhine regions,
England, Italy, Catalonia, and Castile, this study explores the
stark discrepancies in practice between the North of Europe and the
South. Wolfgang P. Muller draws attention to the existence of
public penitential proceedings in the North and their absence in
the South, and explains the difference in demand, as well as
highlighting variations in how individuals obtained written
documentation of their marital status. Integrating legal and
theological perspectives on marriage with late medieval social
history, Muller addresses critical questions around the
relationship between the church and medieval marriage, and what
this reveals about both institutions.
This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called
'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological
and psychological theories of mind. Complexity theory has gained
increasing attention over the past 20 years across diverse areas of
inquiry, including mathematics, physics, economics, biology, and
the social sciences. Complexity theory concerns itself with how
nonlinear dynamical systems evolve and change over time and draws
on research arising from chaos theory, self-organization,
artificial intelligence and cellular automata, to name a few. This
emerging discipline shows many points of convergence with
psychological theory and practice, emphasizing that history is
irreversible and discontinuous, that small early interventions can
have large and unexpected later effects, that each life trajectory
is unique yet patterned, that measurement error is not random and
cannot be justifiably distributed equally across experimental
conditions, that a system's collective and coordinated organization
is emergent and often arises from simple components in interaction,
and that change is more likely to emerge under conditions of
optimal turbulence.
This volume addresses the topic of embodiment in psychoanalysis
from both theoretical and clinical points of view. Freud's
development of a psychoanalytic theory and treatment originated
from his consideration of neurology, aphasia, and the great range
of embodied signs constituting the hysterical neuroses. Symptoms
and signs, Freud noted in 1895, 'join in the conversation' by
taking bodily form. The body and the mind form a nexus, which is
the proper area of study for psychoanalysis. Because this is a vast
field of inquiry, a pluralistic perspective is taken by this
collection of papers, ranging from philosophic and semiotic
understandings of the body, to Freudian, Lacanian, feminist, and
object relations hypotheses. Clinical phsnomena such as
self-mutilation, fantasy about the body and its representations and
meanings, enactment, sexuality, and psychotic fragmentation are
addressed in an attempt to extend our understanding of the
psychoanalytic traditions that have evolved in relation to Freud's
discoveries. This volume includes representative work from
established psychoanalysts (Kalinich, Modell), psychoanalysts with
sophisticated philosophical grounding (Frie, Simpson), and
clinicians working with severely disturbed patients (Elmendorf,
Plakun, Tillman, Fromm).
This volume addresses the topic of embodiment in psychoanalysis
from both theoretical and clinical points of view. Freud's
development of a psychoanalytic theory and treatment originated
from his consideration of neurology, aphasia, and the great range
of embodied signs constituting the hysterical neuroses. Symptoms
and signs, Freud noted in 1895, "join in the conversation" by
taking bodily form. The body and the mind form a nexus, which is
the proper area of study for psychoanalysis. Because this is a vast
field of inquiry, a pluralistic perspective is taken by this
collection of papers, ranging from philosophic and semiotic
understandings of the body, to Freudian, Lacanian, feminist, and
object relations hypotheses. Clinical phsnomena such as
self-mutilation, fantasy about the body and its representations and
meanings, enactment, sexuality, and psychotic fragmentation are
addressed in an attempt to extend our understanding of the
psychoanalytic traditions that have evolved in relation to Freud's
discoveries. This volume includes representative work from
established psychoanalysts (Kalinich, Modell), psychoanalysts with
sophisticated philosophical grounding (Frie, Simpson), and
clinicians working with severely disturbed patients (Elmendorf,
Plakun, Tillman, Fromm).
This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called
'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological
and psychological theories of mind. Complexity theory has gained
increasing attention over the past 20 years across diverse areas of
inquiry, including mathematics, physics, economics, biology, and
the social sciences. Complexity theory concerns itself with how
nonlinear dynamical systems evolve and change over time and draws
on research arising from chaos theory, self-organization,
artificial intelligence and cellular automata, to name a few. This
emerging discipline shows many points of convergence with
psychological theory and practice, emphasizing that history is
irreversible and discontinuous, that small early interventions can
have large and unexpected later effects, that each life trajectory
is unique yet patterned, that measurement error is not random and
cannot be justifiably distributed equally across experimental
conditions, that a system's collective and coordinated organization
is emergent and often arises from simple components in interaction,
and that change is more likely to emerge under conditions of
optimal turbulence.
In this original work of psychoanalytic theory, John Muller
explores the formative power of signs and their impact on the mind,
the body and subjectivity, giving special attention to work of the
French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and the American philosopher
Charles Sanders Peirce. Muller explores how Lacan's way of
understanding experience through three dimensions--the real, the
imaginary and the symbolic--can be useful both for thinking about
cultural phenomena and for understanding the complexities involved
in treating psychotic patients. Muller develops Lacan's perspective
gradually, presenting it as distinctive approaches to data from a
variety of sources, such as cognitive, social and developmental
psychology, literature, history, art, and psychoanalytic treatment.
The book's first four chapters present Muller's reading of
selected data from child development research, psychology and
linguistics, approximating a semiotic model of "normal"
development. The following three chapters examine in a Lacanian
framework the structural basis of psychotic stages as indicative of
massive semiotic failure in development. The final chapters on
human narcissism suggest reasons that "normal" development may be
impossible.
This work explores the formative power of signs and their impact on the mind, the body and subjectivity, giving special attention to work of the French analyst Jacques Lacan and the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.
The work on Autonomic Road Transport Support (ARTS) presented here
aims at meeting the challenge of engineering autonomic behavior in
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) by fusing research from
the disciplines of traffic engineering and autonomic computing.
Ideas and techniques from leading edge artificial intelligence
research have been adapted for ITS over the last 30 years. Examples
include adaptive control embedded in real time traffic control
systems, heuristic algorithms (e.g. in SAT-NAV systems), image
processing and computer vision (e.g. in automated surveillance
interpretation). Autonomic computing which is inspired from the
biological example of the body's autonomic nervous system is a more
recent development. It allows for a more efficient management of
heterogeneous distributed computing systems. In the area of
computing, autonomic systems are endowed with a number of
properties that are generally referred to as self-X properties,
including self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization,
self-protection and more generally self-management. Some isolated
examples of autonomic properties such as self-adaptation have found
their way into ITS technology and have already proved beneficial.
This edited volume provides a comprehensive introduction to
Autonomic Road Transport Support (ARTS) and describes the
development of ARTS systems. It starts out with the visions,
opportunities and challenges, then presents the foundations of ARTS
and the platforms and methods used and it closes with experiences
from real-world applications and prototypes of emerging
applications. This makes it suitable for researchers and
practitioners in the fields of autonomic computing, traffic and
transport management and engineering, AI, and software engineering.
Graduate students will benefit from state-of-the-art description,
the study of novel methods and the case studies provided.
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Multiagent System Technologies - 12th German Conference, MATES 2014, Stuttgart, Germany, September 23-25, 2014, Proceedings (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Joerg P. Muller, Michael Weyrich, Ana L.C. Bazzan
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th German Conference
on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2014, held in Stuttgart,
Germany, in September 2014. The 9 full papers and 7 short papers
included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from
31 submissions. The book also contains 2 invited talks. The papers
are organized in topical sections named: mechanisms, negotiation,
and game theory; multiagent planning, learning, and control; and
multiagent systems engineering, modeling and simulation.
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Agents and Data Mining Interaction - 9th International Workshop, ADMI 2013, Saint Paul, MN, USA, May 6-7, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Longbing Cao, Yifeng Zeng, Andreas L Symeonidis, Vladimir Gorodetsky, Joerg P. Muller, …
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and revised selected
papers from the 9th International Workshop on Agents and Data
Mining Interaction, ADMI 2013, held in Saint Paul, MN, USA in May
2013. The 10 papers presented in this volume were carefully
selected for inclusion in the book and are organized in topical
sections named agent mining and data mining.
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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering V - 5th International Workshop, AOSE 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 2004, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2005 ed.)
James Odell, Paolo Giorgini, Joerg P. Muller
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The explosive growth of application areas such as electronic
commerce, ent- prise resource planning and mobile computing has
profoundly and irreversibly changed our views on software systems.
Nowadays, software is to be based on open architectures that
continuously change and evolve to accommodate new components and
meet new requirements. Software must also operate on di?- ent
platforms, without recompilation, and with minimal assumptions
about its operating environment and its users. Furthermore,
software must be robust and ] autonomous, capable of serving a
naive user with a minimum of overhead and interference. Agent
concepts hold great promise for responding to the new realities of
software systems. They o?er higher-level abstractions and
mechanisms which address issues such as knowledge representation
and reasoning, communication, coordination, cooperation among
heterogeneous and autonomous parties, p- ception, commitments,
goals, beliefs, and intentions, all of which need conceptual
modelling. On the one hand, the concrete implementation of these
concepts can lead to advanced functionalities, e.g., in
inference-based query answering, tra- action control, adaptive
work?ows, brokering and integration of disparate inf- mation
sources, and automated communication processes. On the other hand,
their rich representational capabilities allow more faithful and
?exible treatments of complex organizational processes, leading to
more e?ective requirements an- ysis and architectural/detailed
design."
Zoogeography aims to explain the structure, function and history of
the geo graphical ranges of animals. The absence or presence of a
species in a given place has ecological as well as historical
causes. It is therefore a mistake to suppose that reconstructing
the phylogenetic connections of a taxon will by itself give a
definite picture of how its range originated. A purely ecological
interpretation of the range could be equally misleading if it did
not take into account the population-genetic structure underlying
the geographical range. Phylogenetic systematics, population
genetics, autecology and synecology have all their own methods,
none of which can be substituted for another, without which a range
cannot be studied or interpreted. The present book covers only
certain aspects of the wide field of zoogeo graphy. These are in
the form in which they were crystallised in the course of
innumerable discussions with my teachers, my colleagues at home and
abroad and my fellow workers, postgraduates and students at
Saarbriicken, as well as in the zoogeographical part of may basic
lectures on biogeography for the year 1973-1974. The chief emphasis
is laid on the genetic and ecological macro structure of the
biosphere as an arena for range structures and range dynamics, on
urban ecosystems, which have hitherto been grossly neglected, and
on the most recent history of ranges (the dispersal centre
concept). The marine and fresh-water biocycles, on the other hand,
have been dealt only briefly."
In This Volume dedicated to medieval canon law expert Kenneth
Pennington, leading scholars from around the world discuss the
contribution of medieval church law to the origins of the western
legal tradition. The stellar cast assembled by editors Wolfgang P.
Muller and Mary E. Sommar includes younger scholars as well as
long-established specialists in the field. Muller's introduction
provides the first comprehensive survey of investigative trends in
the field in more than twenty years. Subdivided into four topical
categories, the essays cover the entire range of the history of
medieval canon law from the sixth to the sixteenth century. The
first section concentrates on the canonical tradition before the
advent of academic legal studies in the twelfth century. The second
addresses the formation of canonistic theory. The third and fourth
sections consider the intellectual exchanges between canon law and
other fields of study, as well as the practical application of
canons in day-to-day court proceedings. Though the twenty-seven
essays included in this volume are quite diverse, taken together
they provide an outstanding overview of the latest research and
cutting-edge scholarship on the topic. Kenneth Pennington is
Kelly-Quinn Professor of Ecclesiastical and Legal History at the
Catholic University of America. He is the author of numerous works
including Pope and Bishops: The Papal Monarchy in the Twelfth and
Thirteenth Centuries and The Prince and the Law, 1200-1600:
Sovereignty and Rights in the Western Legal Tradition, and is
coeditor of the CUA Press series, History of Medieval Canon Law.
Handbook of the Behavioral Neurobiology of Serotonin, Second
Edition, builds on the success of the first edition by continuing
to provide a detailed and comprehensive overview of the many facets
of behavioral serotonin research. The text expands on the two key
topics, behavioral control (sensory processing, ultrasonic
vocalization, and melatonin and sleep control) and psychiatric
disorders, including its role on psychostimulant abuse and
addiction. The new edition includes two new sections on the
serotonin systems interactions and the involvement of serotonin in
neurological disorders and associated treatment. Serotonin is a
major neurotransmitters in the serotonergic system which one of the
best studied and understood transmitter systems. Both are
critically involved in the organization of all behaviors and in the
regulation of emotion and mood.
In 1956 Jacques Lacan proposed an interpretation of Edgar Allan
Poe's "Purloined Letter" that at once challenged literary theorists
and revealed a radical new concept of psychoanalysis. Lacan's far
reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous
critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn spawned further
responses from other writers. "The Purloined Poe" brings Poe's
story together with these readings to provide a structured exercise
in the elaboration of text interpretation.
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Engineering Multi-Agent Systems - 4th International Workshop, EMAS 2016, Singapore, Singapore, May 9-10, 2016, Revised, Selected, and Invited Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Matteo Baldoni, Joerg P. Muller, Ingrid Nunes, Rym Zalila Wenkstern
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This book constitutes revised, selected, and invited papers from
the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems,
EMAS 2016, held in Singapore, in May 2016, in conjunction with
AAMAS. The 10 full papers presented in this volume were carefully
reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The book also contains 2
invited papers; extended versions of AAMAS 2016 demonstration
abstracts. EMAS deals with MAS software engineering processes,
methodologies and techniques; Programming languages for MAS; Formal
methods and declarative technologies for the specification,
validation and verification of MAS; and development tools.
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Multiagent System Technologies - 13th German Conference, MATES 2015, Cottbus, Germany, September 28 - 30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Joerg P. Muller, Wolf Ketter, Gal Kaminka, Gerd Wagner, Nils Bulling
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th German Conference
on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2015, held in Cottbus,
Germany, in September 2015. The 11 full papers papers presented
together with 2 short papers, 1 invited paper and 4 extended
abstracts of doctoral papers in this volume were carefully reviewed
and selected from 27 submissions. The papers are organized in
topical sections on MAS engineering, modeling, and simulation;
smart things working together; and innovative and emerging
applications of MAS.
The essays in this collection seek to reflect on global governance
and to provide a better critical understanding of the various
practices that fall under its rubric. The first part challenges the
concept of global governance, the second part focuses on
organizational and institutional aspects, and the last part
examines the rule systems implemented by global governance
practices. The vocabulary of (global) governance has become a
serious contender to imagine world order in the post cold war
world. Using different strategies of critique, the contributors
argue that global governance denotes a political vocabulary where
acts of definition themselves are political moves.
Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, often cited as 5-HT) is one of the
major excitatory neurotransmitter, and the serotonergic system is
one of the best studied and understood transmitter systems. It is
crucially involved in the organization of virtually all behaviours
and in the regulation of emotion and mood. Alterations in the
serotonergic system, induced by e.g. learning or pathological
processes, underlie behavioural plasticity and changes in mood,
which can finally results in abnormal behaviour and psychiatric
conditions. Not surprisingly, the serotonergic system and its
functional components appear to be targets for a multitude of
pharmacological treatments - examples of very successful drugs
targeting the serotoninergic system include Prozac and Zoloft.
The last decades of research have not only fundamentally expanded
our view on serotonin but also revealed in much more detail an
astonishing complexity of this system, which comprises a multitude
of receptors and signalling pathways. A detailed view on its role
in basal, but also complex, behaviours emerged, and, was presented
in a number of single review articles. Although much is known now,
the serotonergic system is still a fast growing field of research
contributing to our present understanding of the brains function
during normal and disturbed behaviour.
This handbook aims towards a detailed and comprehensive overview
over the many facets of behavioural serotonin research. As such, it
will provide the most up to date and thorough reading concerning
the serotonergic systems control of behaviour and mood in animals
and humans. The goal is to create a systematic overview and first
hand reference that can be used by students and scholars alike in
the fields of genetics, anatomy, pharmacology, physiology,
behavioural neuroscience, pathology, and psychiatry. The chapters
in this book will be written by leading scientists in this field.
Most of them have already written excellent reviews in their field
of expertise.
The book is divided in 4 sections. After an historical
introduction, illustrating the growth of ideas about serotonin
function in behaviour of the last forty years, section A will focus
on the functional anatomy of the serotonergic system. Section B
provides a review of the neurophysiology of the serotonergic system
and its single components. In section C the involvement of
serotonin in behavioural organization will be discussed in great
detail, while section D deals with the role of serotonin in
behavioural pathologies and psychiatric disorders.
* The first handbook broadly discussing the behavioral neurobiology
of the serotonorgic transmitter system
* Co-edited by one of the pioneers and opinion leaders of the past
decades, Barry Jacobs (Princeton), with an international list (10
countries) of highly regarded contributors providing over 50
chapters, and including the leaders in the field in number of
articles and citations: K. P. Lesch, T. Sharp, A. Caspi, P. Blier,
G.K. Aghajanian, E. C. Azmitia, and others
* The only integrated and complete resource on the market
containing the best information integrating international research,
providing a global perspective to an international community.
* Of great value not only for researchers and experts, but also for
students and clinicians as a background reference.
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