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In order to bridge the gap between artificial and synthetic
intelligence, we must first understand our own intelligence. 'What
is intelligence?' might appear as a simple question, but many great
minds have agreed that there is no singular answer. Unlocking
Consciousness attempts to examine this central question through
exploring the convergence of computing, philosophy, cognitive
neuroscience and biogenetics.The book is the first of its kind to
compare comprehensive definitions of both information and
intelligence, an essential component to the advancement of
computing into the realms of artificial intelligence. In examining
explanations for intelligence, consciousness, memory and meaning
from the perspective of a computer scientist, it offers routes that
can be taken to augment natural and artificial intelligence,
improving our own individual abilities, and even considering the
potential for creating a prosthetic brain.Unlocking Consciousness
demonstrates that understanding intelligence is not just for the
benefit of computer scientists, it is also of great value to those
working in evolutionary, molecular and systems biology, cognitive
neuroscience, genetics and biotechnology. In unlocking the secrets
of intelligence and laying out the methods of which information is
structured and processed, we can unlock a completely new theory of
consciousness.For additional published articles and appendices
referenced in this title, readers can visit www.brainmindforum.org/
for further information.
In From Flintlock to Rifle, Professor Ross traces the development
of infantry tactics from the mid-eighteenth century, when infantry
fought in rigid linear formations, until the second half of the
nineteenth century, by which time infantrymen with rifled weapons
were learning to advance in open order and use aimed fire. The
author demonstrates that this transition in tactics involved social
and technological change as well as military innovation. Old Regime
armies, recruited from a narrow social base and armed with
slow-firing, short-range, inaccurate weapons, relied upon harsh
discipline and formalized evolutions to attain tactical
proficiency. When the French Royal Army collapsed it was replaced
with a mass citizen army. This contained elements of the old
tactical system but placed a new emphasis on mobility, flexibility,
and individual initiative. Napoleon's rivals either imitated
aspects of the French system or sought to copy the spirit of the
new tactics, engineering social reforms from above and creating
their own citizen armies. After 1815, generals and politicians
continued to develop tactical doctrines that embodied the lessons
of the Napoleonic wars. Industrialization had a swift impact on
weapons technology and firearms improved in range, accuracy, and
rate of fire. As a result, military men had to modify their drill
and battle tactics to cope with increased firepower. A process
initiated by the French Revolution was thus accelerated by the
Industrial Revolution.
The highly anticipated second volume of Freshwater Fishes of North
America, a monumental, fully illustrated reference that provides
comprehensive details on the freshwater fishes of the United
States, Canada, and Mexico. When the first volume of Freshwater
Fishes of North America was published, it was immediately hailed as
the definitive reference in the field. Readers have been fervently
awaiting the next volume in this encompassing three-book set ever
since. Now complete, volume 2, covering families Characidae to
Poeciliidae, is the result of decades of analysis by leading fish
experts from universities and research laboratories across North
America. Each volume in this authoritative synthesis covers the
ecology, morphology, reproduction, distribution, behavior,
taxonomy, conservation, and the fossil record of the included North
American fish families. The encyclopedic reviews of each family are
accompanied by color photographs (nearly 250 in this volume alone),
range maps, and artwork created by noted fish illustrator Joseph R.
Tomelleri. The result is a rich textual and visual experience that
covers everything known about the diversity, natural history,
ecology, and biology of North American freshwater fishes. Volume 2
covers the following North American families of fishes: Characidae
(Characins) Ictaluridae (North American Catfishes) Ariidae (Sea
Catfishes) Heptapteridae (Three-barbeled Catfishes) Osmeridae
(Smelts) Esociformes (Esocidae, Pikes and Umbridae, Mudminnows)
Percopsidae (Trout-perches) Amblyopsidae (Cavefishes)
Aphredoderidae (Pirate Perches) Gadidae (Cods and Cuskfishes)
Mugilidae (Mullets) Atherinopsidae (New World Silversides)
Beloniformes (Needlefishes and Halfbeaks) Rivulidae (New World
Rivulines) Profundulidae (Middle American Killifishes) Goodeidae
(Goodeids) Fundulidae (Topminnows) Cyprinodontidae (Pupfishes)
Poeciliidae (Livebearers) The chapter authors of Volume 2 are:
Gianetta Adams Clyde Barbour Micah Bennett Ricardo Bentancur-R.
Peter B. Z. Berendzen Brooks M. Burr Mollie Cashner Robert C.
Cashner Bruce B. Collette Matthew Davis Alice F. Echelle Anthony A.
Echelle Fernando Galvez Michael Ghedotti Nicholas Gidmark Terry
Grande Robert L. Hopkins Lauren M. Kuehne Frank McCormick Norman
Mercado-Silva Ann U. O'Connell Martin T. O'Connell Julian D. Olden
Claudia Patricia Ornelas-Garcia Mark Sabaj Perez Kyle R. Piller
Steven Powers Jacob Schaefer Juan J. Schmitter-Soto Andrew M.
Simons Roger A. Tabor Cheryl Thiele Matthew Thomas Melvin L.
Warren, Jr. Mark V. H. Wilson
In order to bridge the gap between artificial and synthetic
intelligence, we must first understand our own intelligence. 'What
is intelligence?' might appear as a simple question, but many great
minds have agreed that there is no singular answer. Unlocking
Consciousness attempts to examine this central question through
exploring the convergence of computing, philosophy, cognitive
neuroscience and biogenetics.The book is the first of its kind to
compare comprehensive definitions of both information and
intelligence, an essential component to the advancement of
computing into the realms of artificial intelligence. In examining
explanations for intelligence, consciousness, memory and meaning
from the perspective of a computer scientist, it offers routes that
can be taken to augment natural and artificial intelligence,
improving our own individual abilities, and even considering the
potential for creating a prosthetic brain.Unlocking Consciousness
demonstrates that understanding intelligence is not just for the
benefit of computer scientists, it is also of great value to those
working in evolutionary, molecular and systems biology, cognitive
neuroscience, genetics and biotechnology. In unlocking the secrets
of intelligence and laying out the methods of which information is
structured and processed, we can unlock a completely new theory of
consciousness.For additional published articles and appendices
referenced in this title, readers can visit www.brainmindforum.org/
for further information.
The French Revolution rocketed from Paris and made its influence
felt throughout the world. Vast changes occurred in the way people
related to their governing bodies. Instead of acting as passive
onlookers, the people of France directly involved themselves in the
affairs of state. The monumental changes brought about by the
French Revolution also changed the nature of warfare. A period of
nearly uninterrupted conflict existed both within and outside of
France from 1792 to 1802. To rise to this daunting challenge, the
armies of the French Republic developed a new approach to waging
war. Under assault by Europe's great powers and faced with internal
struggles, the French Republic mobilized the full range of its
natural and human resources. The call for volunteers produced a
mass citizen army, and the government moved to provide new
officers, new organizations, and new tactics. The French Republic
nationalized the economy to equip its patriotic army for a
decade-long struggle to preserve the ideals of the revolution. The
A to Z of the Wars of the French Revolution describes significant
persons, places, events, encounters, and battles that substantially
changed the nature of warfare at the end of the 18th century in
Europe. Additionally, it gives a sense of the impact of these
changes on the general course of human history, drawing connections
between events to map out an entire time period of eventful change.
The dictionary contains a detailed chronology from the declaration
of the French Republic in 1792 to the Treaty of Amiens in 1802.
Numerous maps help to orient the reader. The entries are efficient
and generously referenced, giving the reader detailed knowledge
while simultaneously allowing a broad picture of this crucial time
period. An introduction provides a useful overview for the general
reader.
Research-intensive universities have long struggled to reconcile
the imperative of specialized learning with the need for a broader,
more liberal education. Combining Two Cultures provides a
comprehensive account of a degree program at a distinguished
Canadian university, McMaster, aimed at accomplishing this
synthesis. This innovative program has stood up well over more than
two decades. It has a curriculum balanced between arts and sciences
and is committed to developing broadly applicable intellectual
skills, above all those that underlie scholarly inquiry into
questions of importance to students and to the society they live
in. It attempts to harmonize the excitement of exploring a broad
range of fields with students' needs to meet the requirements for
advanced study in professional and academic graduate disciplines.
This book offers insights into the challenges of planning and
establishing a program of this kind. Brief personal reflections
from many of the program's graduates, firsthand observations from
current students, and instructors' accounts of their experiences
give a vivid sense of what the program has meant to its
participants.
Research-intensive universities have long struggled to reconcile
the imperative of specialized learning with the need for a broader,
more liberal education. Combining Two Cultures provides a
comprehensive account of a degree program at a distinguished
Canadian university, McMaster, aimed at accomplishing this
synthesis. This innovative program has stood up well over more than
two decades. It has a curriculum balanced between arts and sciences
and is committed to developing broadly applicable intellectual
skills, above all those that underlie scholarly inquiry into
questions of importance to students and to the society they live
in. It attempts to harmonize the excitement of exploring a broad
range of fields with students' needs to meet the requirements for
advanced study in professional and academic graduate disciplines.
This book offers insights into the challenges of planning and
establishing a program of this kind. Brief personal reflections
from many of the program's graduates, firsthand observations from
current students, and instructors' accounts of their experiences
give a vivid sense of what the program has meant to its
participants.
By the close of the 19th century, the United States was no longer a
continental power, but had become a nation with interests that
spanned the globe from the Caribbean to China. Consequently, the
country faced a new set of strategic concerns, ranging from
enforcing the Monroe Doctrine to defending the Philippines.
As a result of the United States' new geostrategic environment, the
armed services had to establish a system for the creation of war
plans to defend the country's interests against possible foreign
aggression. A Joint Army and Navy Board, established in 1903,
ordered the creation of war plans to deal with real and potential
threats to American security. Each major country was assigned a
colour: Germany was Black, Great Britain Red, Japan Orange, Mexico
Green and China Yellow. War plans were then devised in case
Washington decided to use force against these or other
powers.
In late 1945, American military planners began to develop
strategies to deal with the frightening possibility of a war with
the Soviet Union when it becaeme clear that the Soviet Union was an
aggressive power that sought to exercise its power. This work
examines those plans and describes both how the Soviet military
threat was perceived and how the American Joint Chiefs of Staff
intended to defeat the Russians. This account provides a view of
what might have happened had the two superpowers attempted to
settle their differences by force.
In late 1945, it became clear that the Soviet Union was an
aggressive power. American military planners began to develop
strategies to deal with the frightening possibility of a war with
the Soviet Union. This work examines those plans.
This is a comprehensive study of the major changes in infantry
tacticts from the time of Frederick the Great to the beginning of
what many see as the era of modern war, in the 1860s. Ross lays
social and political change side by side with technical change. He
argues that the French revolution, due to the fervour and loyalty
it inspired in its participants, led to huge citizen armies of
devolved command which were able to make use of new tactics that
swept the poorly paid and poorly treated professional armies of
their enemies from the field. Shortly after the Napoleonic wars
other European countries experienced similar social change and by
the middle of the Nineteenth Century these massive conscript armies
were equipped with breech-loading rifles and more powerful
artillery. The battlefield of the late 1860's had become a place
where close infantry formations could not survive for long in the
linear formations of the past.
By the close of the 19th century, the United States was no longer a
continental power, but had become a nation with interests that
spanned the globe from the Caribbean to China. Consequently, the
country faced a new set of strategic concerns, ranging from
enforcing the Monroe Doctrine to defending the Philippines.
As a result of the United States' new geostrategic environment, the
armed services had to establish a system for the creation of war
plans to defend the country's interests against possible foreign
aggression. A Joint Army and Navy Board, established in 1903,
ordered the creation of war plans to deal with real and potential
threats to American security. Each major country was assigned a
colour: Germany was Black, Great Britain Red, Japan Orange, Mexico
Green and China Yellow. War plans were then devised in case
Washington decided to use force against these or other
powers.
This monograph offers an introduction to finite Blaschke products
and their connections to complex analysis, linear algebra, operator
theory, matrix analysis, and other fields. Old favorites such as
the Caratheodory approximation and the Pick interpolation theorems
are featured, as are many topics that have never received a modern
treatment, such as the Bohr radius and Ritt's theorem on
decomposability. Deep connections to hyperbolic geometry are
explored, as are the mapping properties, zeros, residues, and
critical points of finite Blaschke products. In addition, model
spaces, rational functions with real boundary values, spectral
mapping properties of the numerical range, and the Darlington
synthesis problem from electrical engineering are also covered.
Topics are carefully discussed, and numerous examples and
illustrations highlight crucial ideas. While thorough explanations
allow the reader to appreciate the beauty of the subject, relevant
exercises following each chapter improve technical fluency with the
material. With much of the material previously scattered throughout
mathematical history, this book presents a cohesive, comprehensive
and modern exposition accessible to undergraduate students,
graduate students, and researchers who have familiarity with
complex analysis.
If H is a Hilbert space and T : H ? H is a continous linear
operator, a natural question to ask is: What are the closed
subspaces M of H for which T M ? M? Of course the famous invariant
subspace problem asks whether or not T has any non-trivial
invariant subspaces. This monograph is part of a long line of study
of the invariant subspaces of the operator T = M (multiplication by
the independent variable z, i. e. , M f = zf )on a z z Hilbert
space of analytic functions on a bounded domain G in C. The
characterization of these M -invariant subspaces is particularly
interesting since it entails both the properties z of the functions
inside the domain G, their zero sets for example, as well as the
behavior of the functions near the boundary of G. The operator M is
not only interesting in its z own right but often serves as a model
operator for certain classes of linear operators. By this we mean
that given an operator T on H with certain properties (certain
subnormal operators or two-isometric operators with the right
spectral properties, etc. ), there is a Hilbert space of analytic
functions on a domain G for which T is unitarity equivalent to M .
A classic collection of time-proven physical techniques for the
examination of the nervous system, written by one of North
America's most respected neurologists. With simple prose and
numerous helpful illustrations, the author describes in detail
reliable bedside examination techniques that will pinpoint the
location of a lesion in the nervous system and lead to a resolution
of the problem. The techniques cover a wide variety of problem
areas, including the visual pathways, the sensory system, upper
motor neurons, cranial nerves, the cerebellar system, upper and
lower limbs, reflexes, the corticospinal system, disorders of
speech, and problems of stance, gait, and balance.
The chapters in this volume describe bottom-up strategies and
chronicle cutting-edge advances from several of the world's leading
laboratories engaged in the development of molecular machines. The
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 was awarded jointly to Jean-Pierre
Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa "for the
design and synthesis of molecular machines". Both Jean-Pierre
Sauvage and Sir J. Fraser Stoddart have also contributed to this
book.
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konsentreer op een tema byvoorbeeld die ruimte, perde, muise, sade
en blomme, en die see. Elke titel word in drie dele verdeel: 'n
avontuur verhaal, feitelike inligting, en 'n tradisionele verhaal.
Die titels sal leerders aanmoedig om hul belangstelling uit te brei
en ook om ander boeke oor hierdie temas te lees.
Laudato Si’ insists on a revolutionary human response to the
public challenges of our time concerning the ecological crisis. The
volume takes up the revolutionary spirit of Pope Francis and speaks
to the economic, technological, political, educational, and
religious changes needed to overcome the fragile relationships
between humans and Earth. This volume identifies various systemic
factors that have produced the anthropogenic ecological crisis that
threatens the planet and uses the ethical vision of Laudato
Si’ to promote practical responses that foster fundamental
changes in humanity’s relationships with Earth and each other.
The essays address not only the immediate behavioral changes needed
in individual human lives, but also the deeper, societal changes
required if human communities are to live sustainable lives within
Earth’s integral ecology. Thus, this volume intentionally focuses
on a plurality of cultural contexts and proposes solutions to
problems encountered in a variety of global contexts. Accordingly,
the contributors to this volume are scholars from a breadth of
interdisciplinary and cultural backgrounds, each exploring an
ethical theme from the encyclical and proposing systemic changes to
address deeply entrenched injustices. Collectively, their essays
examine the social, political, economic, gender, scientific,
technological, educational, and spiritual challenges of our time as
these relate to the ecological crisis.
Alabama State University is well known as a historically black
university and for the involvement of its faculty and students in
the civil rights movement. Less attention has been paid to the
school's remarkable origins, having begun as the Lincoln Normal
School in Marion, Alabama, founded by nine former slaves. These men
are rightly considered the progenitors of Alabama State University,
as they had the drive and perseverance to face the challenges posed
by a racial and political culture bent on preventing the
establishment of black schools and universities. It is thanks to
the actions of the Marion Nine that Alabama's rural Black Belt
produces a disproportionate number of African American Ph.D.
recipients, a testament to the vision of the Lincoln Normal
School's founders. From Marion to Montgomery is the story of the
Lincoln Normal School's transformation into the legendary Alabama
State University, including the school's move to Montgomery in 1887
and evolution from Normal School to junior college to full-fledged
four-year university. It's a story of visionary leadership, endless
tenacity, and a true belief in the value of education.
The classical $\ell^{p}$ sequence spaces have been a mainstay in
Banach spaces. This book reviews some of the foundational results
in this area (the basic inequalities, duality, convexity, geometry)
as well as connects them to the function theory (boundary growth
conditions, zero sets, extremal functions, multipliers, operator
theory) of the associated spaces $\ell^{p}_{A}$ of analytic
functions whose Taylor coefficients belong to $\ell^p$. Relations
between the Banach space $\ell^p$ and its associated function space
are uncovered using tools from Banach space geometry, including
Birkhoff-James orthogonality and the resulting Pythagorean
inequalities. The authors survey the literature on all of this
material, including a discussion of the multipliers of
$\ell^{p}_{A}$ and a discussion of the Wiener algebra
$\ell^{1}_{A}$. Except for some basic measure theory, functional
analysis, and complex analysis, which the reader is expected to
know, the material in this book is self-contained and detailed
proofs of nearly all the results are given. Each chapter concludes
with some end notes that give proper references, historical
background, and avenues for further exploration.
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Look at the paintings of Bosch, Breugel, Gauguin, and Picasso, and
discover how varied the art of painting can be.
A classic collection of time-proven physical techniques for the
examination of the nervous system, written by one of North
America's most respected neurologists. With simple prose and
numerous helpful illustrations, the author describes in detail
reliable bedside examination techniques that will pinpoint the
location of a lesion in the nervous system and lead to a resolution
of the problem. The techniques cover a wide variety of problem
areas, including the visual pathways, the sensory system, upper
motor neurons, cranial nerves, the cerebellar system, upper and
lower limbs, reflexes, the corticospinal system, disorders of
speech, and problems of stance, gait, and balance.
Aimed at graduate students, this textbook provides an accessible
and comprehensive introduction to operator theory. Rather than
discuss the subject in the abstract, this textbook covers the
subject through twenty examples of a wide variety of operators,
discussing the norm, spectrum, commutant, invariant subspaces, and
interesting properties of each operator. The text is supplemented
by over 600 end-of-chapter exercises, designed to help the reader
master the topics covered in the chapter, as well as providing an
opportunity to further explore the vast operator theory literature.
Each chapter also contains well-researched historical facts which
place each chapter within the broader context of the development of
the field as a whole.
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