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This book comprehensively reviews the anatomy, physiology, genetics
and pathology of laboratory animals as well as the principles and
practices of using laboratory animals for biomedical research.It
covers the design of buildings used for laboratory animals, quality
control of laboratory animals, and toxicology, and discusses
various animal models used for human diseases. It also highlights
aspects, such as handling and restraint and administration of
drugs, as well as breeding and feeding of laboratory animals, and
provides guidelines for developing meaningful experiments using
laboratory animals.Further, the book discusses various alternatives
to animal experiments for drug and chemical testing, including
their advantages over the current approaches. Lastly, it examines
the potential effect of harmful pathogens on the physiology of
laboratory animals and discusses the state of art in in vivo
imaging techniques.The book is a useful resource for research
scientists, laboratory animal veterinarians, and students of
laboratory animal medicine.
This book comprehensively reviews the anatomy, physiology, genetics
and pathology of laboratory animals as well as the principles and
practices of using laboratory animals for biomedical research.It
covers the design of buildings used for laboratory animals, quality
control of laboratory animals, and toxicology, and discusses
various animal models used for human diseases. It also highlights
aspects, such as handling and restraint and administration of
drugs, as well as breeding and feeding of laboratory animals, and
provides guidelines for developing meaningful experiments using
laboratory animals.Further, the book discusses various alternatives
to animal experiments for drug and chemical testing, including
their advantages over the current approaches. Lastly, it examines
the potential effect of harmful pathogens on the physiology of
laboratory animals and discusses the state of art in in vivo
imaging techniques.The book is a useful resource for research
scientists, laboratory animal veterinarians, and students of
laboratory animal medicine.
A call to action to include marginalized, non-western communities
in the continuously expanding digital revolution In the digital
age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global
village," where we all seem to be connected as an online community
as information travels to the farthest reaches of the planet with
the click of a mouse. Yet while we think of platforms such as
Twitter and Facebook as open and accessible to all, in reality,
these are commercial entities developed primarily by and for the
Western world. Considering how new technologies increasingly shape
labor, economics, and politics, these tools often reinforce the
inequalities of globalization, rarely reflecting the perspectives
of those at the bottom of the digital divide. This book asks us to
re-consider 'whose global village' we are shaping with the digital
technology revolution today. Sharing stories of collaboration with
Native Americans in California and New Mexico, revolutionaries in
Egypt, communities in rural India, and others across the world,
Ramesh Srinivasan urges us to re-imagine what the Internet, mobile
phones, or social media platforms may look like when considered
from the perspective of diverse cultures. Such collaborations can
pave the way for a people-first approach toward designing and
working with new technology worldwide. Whose Global Village seeks
to inspire professionals, activists, and scholars alike to think
about technology in a way that embraces the realities of
communities too often relegated to the margins. We can then start
to visualize a world where technologies serve diverse communities
rather than just the Western consumer.
How to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers
and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more
democratic internet.In this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan
describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless
efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, economics, and other
inefficient, inharmonious human activities. We may love the
immediacy of Google search results, the convenience of buying from
Amazon, and the elegance and power of our Apple devices, but it's a
one-way, top-down process. We're not asked for our input, or our
opinions--only for our data. The internet is brought to us by
wealthy technologists in Silicon Valley and China. It's time,
Srinivasan argues, that we think in terms beyond the Valley.
Srinivasan focuses on the disconnection he sees between designers
and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of
us. The recent Cambridge Analytica and Russian misinformation
scandals exemplify the imbalance of a digital world that puts
profits before inclusivity and democracy. In search of a more
democratic internet, Srinivasan takes us to the mountains of
Oaxaca, East and West Africa, China, Scandinavia, North America,
and elsewhere, visiting the "design labs" of rural, low-income, and
indigenous people around the world. He talks to a range of
high-profile public figures--including Elizabeth Warren, David
Axelrod, Eric Holder, Noam Chomsky, Lawrence Lessig, and the
founders of Reddit, as well as community organizers, labor leaders,
and human rights activists.. To make a better internet, Srinivasan
says, we need a new ethic of diversity, openness, and inclusivity,
empowering those now excluded from decisions about how technologies
are designed, who profits from them, and who are surveilled and
exploited by them.
A call to action to include marginalized, non-western communities
in the continuously expanding digital revolution In the digital
age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global
village," where we all seem to be connected as an online community
as information travels to the farthest reaches of the planet with
the click of a mouse. Yet while we think of platforms such as
Twitter and Facebook as open and accessible to all, in reality,
these are commercial entities developed primarily by and for the
Western world. Considering how new technologies increasingly shape
labor, economics, and politics, these tools often reinforce the
inequalities of globalization, rarely reflecting the perspectives
of those at the bottom of the digital divide. This book asks us to
re-consider 'whose global village' we are shaping with the digital
technology revolution today. Sharing stories of collaboration with
Native Americans in California and New Mexico, revolutionaries in
Egypt, communities in rural India, and others across the world,
Ramesh Srinivasan urges us to re-imagine what the Internet, mobile
phones, or social media platforms may look like when considered
from the perspective of diverse cultures. Such collaborations can
pave the way for a people-first approach toward designing and
working with new technology worldwide. Whose Global Village seeks
to inspire professionals, activists, and scholars alike to think
about technology in a way that embraces the realities of
communities too often relegated to the margins. We can then start
to visualize a world where technologies serve diverse communities
rather than just the Western consumer.
Electroencephalography (EEG) is practiced by neurologists,
cognitive neuroscientists, and others interested in functional
brain imaging. Whether for clinical or experimental purposes, all
studies share a common purpose-to relate scalp potentials to the
underlying neurophysiology. Electrical potentials on the scalp
exhibit spatial and temporal patterns that depend on the nature and
location of the sources and the way that currents and fields spread
through tissue. Because these dynamic patterns are correlated with
behavior and cognition, EEG provides a "window on the mind,"
correlating physiology and psychology.
This classic and widely acclaimed text, originally published in
1981, filled the large gap between EEG and the physical sciences.
It has now been brought completely up to date and will again serve
as an invaluable resource for understanding the principles of
electric fields in living tissue and for using hard science to
study human consciousness and cognition. No comparable volume
exists for it is no easy task to explain the problems of EEG in
clear language, with mathematics presented mainly in appendices.
Among the many topics covered by the Second Edition are micro and
meso (intermediate scale) synaptic sources, electrode placement,
choice of reference, volume conduction, power and coherence
measures, projection of scalp potentials to dura surface, dynamic
signatures of conscious experience, neural networks immersed in
global fields of synaptic action, and physiological bases for brain
source dynamics. The Second Edition is an invaluable resource for
neurologists, neuroscientists (especially cognitive
neuroscientists), biomedical engineers, and their students
andtrainees. It will also appeal to physicists, mathematicians,
computer scientists, psychiatrists, and industrial engineers
interested in EEG.
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