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Author : Mrunal D Nakhare
Publisher : OrangeBooks Publication
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
doesnt some one often come to an a flash of a second like though where we ourself get asked by a question but we ignore somethin like a glitch i came mostly into writting this book after ancient vedas and upanishads.
Author : Allison Scott
Publisher : Wellfleet
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781577153290
Awaken your self-knowledge through guided rituals and activities, including examining your personal birth chart, to identify your purpose and motivation.
Author : Barry R. Zeeberg
Publisher : Barry Zeeberg
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780965721905
Author : Günter Rudolph,Anna V. Kononova,Hernán Aguirre,Pascal Kerschke,Gabriela Ochoa,Tea Tušar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031147210
This two-volume set LNCS 13398 and LNCS 13399 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN 2022, held in Dortmund, Germany, in September 2022. The 87 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The conference presents a study of computing methods derived from natural models. Amorphous Computing, Artificial Life, Artificial Ant Systems, Artificial Immune Systems, Artificial Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Computing, Self-Organizing Systems, Chemical Computation, Molecular Computation, Quantum Computation, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence approaches using Natural Computing methods are just some of the topics covered in this field.
Author : Paul Fudulu
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781787149663
Analyzing seven religions through Fudulu’s own model, the author delves into the criteria that make all religions amenable to economic analysis. Of interest to economics scholars, students, and those studying religions, Fudulu shows how each religious dogma can be ranked in terms of their consistency with economic performance.
Author : Kenneth A. Kavale,Steven R. Forness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136484421
The category of learning disabilities continues to be among the most contentious in special education. Much of the debate and dissent emanates from a lack of understanding about its basic nature. The failure to evolve a comprehensive and unified perspective about the nature of learning disabilities has resulted in the concept being lost. The loss is best illustrated through the failure to answer this seemingly simple question: What is a learning disability? Using historical, empirical, theoretical, conceptual, and philosophical analyses, this volume explores a number of problems and issues facing the field of learning disabilities. The chapters cover historical influences, definitional problems, primary characteristics, assessment practices, theoretical development, major themes, research and measurement models, and long-term outcomes. The goal is to explicate the nature of learning disabilities by analyzing what it was supposed to be, what it has become, and what it might be. A predominant theme running through this text is the necessity for the field of learning disabilities to regain integrity by recapturing its essence.
Author : Thomas Bäck,Mike Preuss,André Deutz,Hao Wang,Carola Doerr,Michael Emmerich,Heike Trautmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030581152
This two-volume set LNCS 12269 and LNCS 12270 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN 2020, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in September 2020. The 99 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 268 submissions. The topics cover classical subjects such as automated algorithm selection and configuration; Bayesian- and surrogate-assisted optimization; benchmarking and performance measures; combinatorial optimization; connection between nature-inspired optimization and artificial intelligence; genetic and evolutionary algorithms; genetic programming; landscape analysis; multiobjective optimization; real-world applications; reinforcement learning; and theoretical aspects of nature-inspired optimization.
Author : Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262343466
How data science and the analysis of networks help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences. Social life is full of paradoxes. Our intentional actions often trigger outcomes that we did not intend or even envision. How do we explain those unintended effects and what can we do to regulate them? In Decoding the Social World, Sandra González-Bailón explains how data science and digital traces help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences—offering the solution to a social paradox that has intrigued thinkers for centuries. Communication has always been the force that makes a collection of people more than the sum of individuals, but only now can we explain why: digital technologies have made it possible to parse the information we generate by being social in new, imaginative ways. And yet we must look at that data, González-Bailón argues, through the lens of theories that capture the nature of social life. The technologies we use, in the end, are also a manifestation of the social world we inhabit. González-Bailón discusses how the unpredictability of social life relates to communication networks, social influence, and the unintended effects that derive from individual decisions. She describes how communication generates social dynamics in aggregate (leading to episodes of “collective effervescence”) and discusses the mechanisms that underlie large-scale diffusion, when information and behavior spread “like wildfire.” She applies the theory of networks to illuminate why collective outcomes can differ drastically even when they arise from the same individual actions. By opening the black box of unintended effects, González-Bailón identifies strategies for social intervention and discusses the policy implications—and how data science and evidence-based research embolden critical thinking in a world that is constantly changing.
Author : P.T. Durbin,F. Rapp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400971240
Only recently has the phenomenon of technology become an object of in terest for philosophers. The first attempts at a philosophy of technology date back scarcely a hundred years - a span of time extremely short when com pared with the antiquity of philosophical reflections on nature, science, and society. Over that hundred-year span, speculative, critical, and empiricist approaches of various sorts have been put forward. Nevertheless, even now there remains a broad gap between the importance of technology in the real world and the sparse number of philosophical works dedicated to the under standing of modern technology. As a result of the complex structure of modern technology, it can be dealt with in very different ways. These range from metaphysical exposition to efforts aimed at political consensus. Quite naturally, within such a broad range, certain national accents can be discovered-; they are shaped by a com mon language, accepted philosophical traditions, and concrete problems requiring consideration. Even so, the worldwide impact of technology, its penetration into all spheres of individual, social, and cultural life, together with the urgency of the problems raised in this context - all these demand a joint philosophical discussion that transcends the barriers of language and cultural differences. The papers printed here are intended to exemplify such an effort at culture-transcending philosophical discussion.
Author : Xin-She Yang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319676692
This book reviews the state-of-the-art developments in nature-inspired algorithms and their applications in various disciplines, ranging from feature selection and engineering design optimization to scheduling and vehicle routing. It introduces each algorithm and its implementation with case studies as well as extensive literature reviews, and also includes self-contained chapters featuring theoretical analyses, such as convergence analysis and no-free-lunch theorems so as to provide insights into the current nature-inspired optimization algorithms. Topics include ant colony optimization, the bat algorithm, B-spline curve fitting, cuckoo search, feature selection, economic load dispatch, the firefly algorithm, the flower pollination algorithm, knapsack problem, octonian and quaternion representations, particle swarm optimization, scheduling, wireless networks, vehicle routing with time windows, and maximally different alternatives. This timely book serves as a practical guide and reference resource for students, researchers and professionals.
Author : Pooh Ho Sim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789811231292
This book interprets the Tao Te Ching from the perspective of personal cultivation. The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu is regarded as one of the greatest books of wisdom ever written in history, but few can grasp what it says in entirety. Embedded in each of its 5,000 Chinese characters are highly profound messages. Master Sim Pooh Ho is a Tai Chi Master and the leader of a Tai Chi lineage that traces back centuries. In his book Decoding the Tao Te Ching, he combines the ancestral teachings of Tai Chi with his practice and provides readers with unique insights into Lao Tzu's ancient book.The Tao Te Ching is difficult to comprehend because many of the concepts it introduces are elusive. What is Tao and Te, being and non-being or yin and yang? The concepts, however, are discernible in Tai Chi because they are what make the practice work. Decoding the Tao Te Ching is written in a simple manner by a Tai Chi master, and translated in an accessible way by his senior disciple Tekson TEO, thus making it an enlightening read to all English readers interested in this topic.
Author : Daniel C. Maguire,Larry L. Rasmussen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438411682
This book offers an original assessment of the crisis caused by the combined impact of overpopulation, overconsumption, and economic and political injustice. It summons religious scholarship into urgent dialogue with the other disciplines and with the world's policymakers. The authors seek a new understanding of religion and its power since, for good or for ill, the world's religions will be players in the crises relating to population and the threat of ecocide. Two-thirds of the world's people affiliate with these religions and the other third cannot escape the influence of these symbol-filled cultural powerhouses. Ethics for a Small Planet offers complementary studies by two major social ethicists on these issues. Daniel C. Maguire indicts our male-dominated religions for the problems they have caused for our ecology and reproductive ethics. He raises the controversial questions of whether the very concept of God is a problem and whether Christianity's notions of afterlife and a divinized male have done more harm than good. Larry L. Rasmussen also recognizes that the problems of our planet are largely male-made and rich-dominated. He writes that Europeans packaged a form of earth-unfriendly capitalism and shipped it all over the world with missionary zeal. He ably scans the long history that led to the current manic rush to push the earth beyond its limits, and goes on to suggest moral norms and policy guidelines for sustainable communities and genuinely shared power. Both authors argue that there are positive and renewable moral energies in the world's religions and that unless religion, understood as a response to the sanctity of life, animates our ethical debates, the prospects for the world are grim. The sense of the sacred is presented here as the nucleus of the good and the only force that can bring about the lifestyle changes and power reallocations that are necessary to prevent terracide.
Author : Vlatko Vedral
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : COMPUTERS
ISBN : 9780198815433
For a physicist, all the world is information. The Universe and its workings are the ebb and flow of information. We are all transient patterns of information, passing on the recipe for our basic forms to future generations using a four-letter digital code called DNA. In this engaging and mind-stretching account, Vlatko Vedral considers some of the deepest questions about the Universe and considers the implications of interpreting it in terms of information. He explains the nature of information, the idea of entropy, and the roots of this thinking in thermodynamics. He describes the bizarre effects of quantum behaviour -- effects such as 'entanglement', which Einstein called 'spooky action at a distance', and explores cutting edge work on harnessing quantum effects in hyperfast quantum computers, and how recent evidence suggests that the weirdness of the quantum world, once thought limited to the tiniest scales, may reach into the macro world. Vedral finishes by considering the answer to the ultimate question: where did all of the information in the Universe come from? The answers he considers are exhilarating, drawing upon the work of distinguished physicist John Wheeler. The ideas challenge our concept of the nature of particles, of time, of determinism, and of reality itself. This edition includes a new foreword from the author, reflecting on changes in the world of quantum information since first publication. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.
Author : Anne P. Sweet,Judith I. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135444013
Through the years, research on reading has made enormous contributions to helping us understand how students learn to read and how teachers can best instruct them. Research continues to add to our fundamental knowledge of reading in significant ways, thus adding more pieces to the puzzle -- for example, finding answers to how students learn content in other school subjects through reading, and what strategies teachers can use to help their students do this more effectively. Reading Research into the Year 2000 describes the dynamic process that the Department of Education engages in to plan and execute a reading research agenda. It was written to inform a wide ranging public -- those who will benefit directly or indirectly, from reading research findings, including those who use research applications, as well as those who conduct the research. Moreover, it was written to make public the process of establishing a national R&D Center. Few people outside the Department of Education are aware of the procedures that are undertaken. The editors believe that if more people are "in the know," they will be more likely to participate in the entire process -- from generating research ideas to submitting applications -- and that this greater participation is essential if we are to garner divergent thinking about how to solve critical education research issues. They have made a significant step toward breaking down barriers to full participation, and paved the way for greater involvement of "non-traditional" players in competing for a national R&D Center award.
Author : Ahmed H Zewail
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781908978875
This is an avant-garde book edited by Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail with contributions from eminent scientists including four Nobel prize winners. The perspectives of these world leaders in physics, chemistry, and biology define potential new frontiers at the interface of disciplines and including physical, systems, and synthetic biology. This book brings about the confluence of concepts and tools, and that of different disciplines, to address significant problems of our time: visualization; theory and computation for complexity; macromolecular function, protein folding and misfolding; and systems integration from cells to consciousness. The scope of tools is wide-ranging, spanning imaging, crystallography, microfluidics, single-molecule spectroscopy, and synthetic probe targeting. Concepts such as dynamic self-assembly, molecular recognition, non-canonical amino acids, and others are covered in various chapters as they are cornerstones in building the trilogy description of behavior-structure, dynamics, and function. The volume is uniquely structured to provide overviews with historical perspectives on the evolution of ideas and on the future of physical biology and biological complexity, from atoms to medicine. Contents: The Preoccupations of Twenty-First-Century Biology (D Baltimore)The World as Physics, Mathematics and Nothing Else (A Varshavsky)Physical Biology: 4D Visualization of Complexity (A H Zewail)Revolutionary Developments from Atomic to Extended Structural Imaging (J M Thomas)Physical Biology at the Crossroads (C Bustamante)The Challenge of Quasi-Regular Structures in Biology (R D Kornberg)The Future of Biological X-Ray Analysis (D C Rees)Reinterpreting the Genetic Code: Implications for Macromolecular Design, Evolution and Analysis (D A Tirrell)Designing Ligands to Bind Tightly to Proteins (G M Whitesides et al.)Biology by the Numbers (R Phillips)Eppur si muove (M Parrinello)Protein Folding and Beyond: Energy Landscapes and the Organization of Living Matter in Time and Space (P G Wolynes)Protein Folding and Misfolding: From Atoms to Organisms (C M Dobson)A Systems Approach to Medicine Will Transform Healthcare (L Hood)The Neurobiology of Consciousness (C Koch & F Mormann)Computer-Aided Drug Discovery: Physics-based Simulations from the Molecular to the Cellular Level (J A McCammom)Precision Measurements in Biology (S R Quake)Potassium Channels and the Atomic Basis of Selective Ion Conduction (R MacKinnon)Symmetry Breaking, Delocalization and Dynamics in Electron Transfer Systems (N S Hush)The Initial Value Representation of Semiclassical Theory: A Practical Way for Adding Quantum Effects to Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Complex Molecular Systems (W H Miller) Readership: Graduate students and researchers in life sciences (structural biology, genomics, systems biology, molecular biology, neuroscience), biochemistry, physical chemistry, chemical engineering, and biophysics. Keywords:Visualization;Complexity;Macromolecular Function;Protein Folding;Molecular Recognition;Systems Integration;Cells;Consciousness;Crystallography;Microfluidics;Spectroscopy;Synthetic Probe TargetingReviews:“Even the shorter contributions, written by masters of their fields, are penetrating.”Chemistry World “The scope of this collection of overviews of the present state and future possible developments in physical biology is very broad. The result is both informative and readable. Anyone interested in how physics, engineering and mathematics can contribute to research in biology and medicine, be it on the molecular level or on the healthcare level, should be able to find useful information and inspiration in this book.”Acta Paediatrica