Superstates

Superstates
Author: Alasdair Roberts
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2022-11-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1509544496

In this century, the world will conduct an extraordinary experiment in government. In 2050, forty percent of the planet's population will live in just four places: India, China, the European Union, and the United States. These are superstates – polities that are distinguished from normal countries by expansiveness, population, diversity, and complexity. How should superstates be governed? What must their leaders do to hold these immense polities together in the face of extraordinary strains and shocks? Alasdair Roberts looks to history for answers. Superstates, he contends, wrestle with the same problems of leadership, control, and purpose that plagued empires for centuries. But they also bear heavier burdens than empires – including the obligation to improve life for ordinary people and respect human rights. One axiom of history was that empires always died. Size and complexity led to fragility, and imperial rulers improvised constantly to put off the day of reckoning. Leaders of superstates are doing the same today, pursuing radically different strategies for governing at scale that have profound implications for democracy and human rights. History shows that there are ways to govern these sprawling and diverse polities well. But this requires a different way of thinking about the art and methods of statecraft.

Super States! (ENHANCED eBook)

Super States! (ENHANCED eBook)
Author: Cindy Barden
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1995-03-01
Genre: Geographical recreations
ISBN: 1429111178

Where can you find dinosaur footprints or rune stones? How salty is the Great Salt Lake? Where can you find a moon bow? From Maine to Hawaii, from Alaska to Florida, students tour the USA with a collection of fun facts, games and puzzles. Enhance your geography and social studies curriculum with reproducible activities such as Alabama Bingo, Florida Tic-Tac-Toe and Louisiana Question Game.

Conference Record

Conference Record
Author: Johannes Huber (Prof. Dr.-Ing.)
Publisher: Margret Schneider
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2004
Genre: Coding theory
ISBN: 3800728028

Superstate

Superstate
Author: Graham Coxon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2022-03-22
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1940878551

The Superstate is everywhere, and it's authority is absolute. Yoga Town is a city divided. While they wait to leave the earth, the 1% can bend reality to their will, they live in a consequence free world where anything goes. Meanwhile, the masses are pacified by a drugged out, government mandated digital dreamscape while they wait to perish on this dying planet. But there is still hope, for angels roam the earth. With their help, maybe some rebellious spirits can start to make a change. Experience 15 surreal and disturbing tales of rebellious fembots, celebrity turkey shoots, violent astral projection and an all-new take on the TV dinner.

ReCombinatorics

ReCombinatorics
Author: Dan Gusfield
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2014-07-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0262324482

Combinatorial structure and algorithms for deducing genetic recombination history, represented by ancestral recombination graphs and other networks, and their role in the emerging field of phylogenetic networks. In this book, Dan Gusfield examines combinatorial algorithms to construct genealogical and exact phylogenetic networks, particularly ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs). The algorithms produce networks (or information about networks) that serve as hypotheses about the true genealogical history of observed biological sequences and can be applied to practical biological problems. Phylogenetic trees have been the traditional means to represent evolutionary history, but there is a growing realization that networks rather than trees are often needed, most notably for recent human history. This has led to the development of ARGs in population genetics and, more broadly, to phylogenetic networks. ReCombinatorics offers an in-depth, rigorous examination of current research on the combinatorial, graph-theoretic structure of ARGs and explicit phylogenetic networks, and algorithms to reconstruct or deduce information about those networks. ReCombinatorics, a groundbreaking contribution to the emerging field of phylogenetic networks, connects and unifies topics in population genetics and phylogenetics that have traditionally been discussed separately and considered to be unrelated. It covers the necessary combinatorial and algorithmic background material; the various biological phenomena; the mathematical, population genetic, and phylogenetic models that capture the essential elements of these phenomena; the combinatorial and algorithmic problems that derive from these models; the theoretical results that have been obtained; related software that has been developed; and some empirical testing of the software on simulated and real biological data.

Computer-Aided Intelligent Recognition Techniques and Applications

Computer-Aided Intelligent Recognition Techniques and Applications
Author: Dr. Muhammad Sarfraz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2005-11-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 047009415X

Intelligent recognition methods have recently proven to be indispensable in a variety of modern industries, including computer vision, robotics, medical imaging, visualization and the media. Furthermore, they play a critical role in the traditional fields such as character recognition, natural language processing and personal identification. This cutting-edge book draws together the latest findings of industry experts and researchers from around the globe. It is a timely guide for all those require comprehensive, state-of-the-art advice on the present status and future potential of intelligent recognition technology. Computer-Aided Intelligent Recognition Techniques and Applications: Provides the user community with systems and tools for application in a very wide range of areas, including: IT, education, security, banking, police, postal services, manufacturing, mining, medicine, multimedia, entertainment, communications, data visualization, knowledge extraction, pattern classification and virtual reality. Disseminates information in a plethora of disciplines, for example pattern recognition, AI, image processing, computer vision and graphics, neural networks, cryptography, fuzzy logic, databases, evolutionary algorithms, shape and numerical analysis. Illustrates all theory with real-world examples and case studies. This valuable resource is essential reading for computer scientists, engineers, and consultants requiring up-to-date comprehensive guidance on the latest developments in computer-aided intelligent recognition techniques and applications. Its detailed, practical approach will be of interest to senior undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers and industry experts in the field of intelligent recognition.

Strategies for Governing

Strategies for Governing
Author: Alasdair Roberts
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2020-01-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 150174559X

With the fields of public administration and public management suffering a crisis of relevance, Alasdair Roberts offers a provocative assessment of their shortfalls. The two fields, he finds, no longer address urgent questions of governance in a turbulent and dangerous world. Strategies for Governing offers a new path forward for research, teaching, and practice. Leaders of states, Roberts writes, are constantly reinventing strategies for governing. Experts in public administration must give advice on the design as well as execution of strategies that effective, robust, and principled. Strategies for Governing challenges us to reinvigorate public administration and public management, preparing the fields for the challenges of the twenty-first century.

EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN

EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN
Author: CHATTOPADHYAY, SANTANU
Publisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2023-02-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9391818625

Embedded system, as a subject, is an amalgamation of different domains, such as digital design, architecture, operating systems, interfaces, and algorithmic optimization techniques. This book acquaints the students with the alternatives and intricacies of embedded system design. It is designed as a textbook for the undergraduate students of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Information Communication Technology (ICT), as well as for the postgraduate students of Computer Applications (MCA). While in the hardware platform the book explains the role of microcontrollers and introduces one of the most widely used embedded processors, ARM; it also deliberates on other alternatives, DSP, FPD and IC. It provides a good overview of the interfacing standards covering RS232C, RS422, RS485, USB, IrDA, Bluetooth, and CAN. In the software domain, the book introduces the features of real-time operating systems for use in embedded applications. Various scheduling algorithms have been discussed with their merits and demerits. The existing real-time operating systems have been surveyed. Guided by cost and performance requirements, embedded applications are often implemented partly in hardware and partly in software. This book covers the different optimization techniques proposed in the literature to take a judicious decision about this partitioning of application tasks. Power-aware design of embedded systems has also been dealt with. KEY FEATURES • Presents a considerably wide range of the field of embedded systems • Discusses the ARM microcontroller in detail • Enumerates various sensors and actuators used in embedded system design • Provides numerous exercises to assess the learning process • Offers a good discussion on hardware–software codesign • Provides a detailed study on security aspects of embedded systems NEW TO THE EDITION The new edition introduces: • Two new chapters—Sensors and Actuators, and Security in Embedded Systems. • Various security issues with a case study on the security in Smart Cards. • Design challenges of a secure embedded system. • Different types of security attacks and their probable prevention strategies. TARGET AUDIENCE • B.E./B.Tech (EE/ECE/EIE/CSICT) • M.E./M.Tech (EE/ECE/EIE/CSICT) • MCA

Design of Multithreaded Software

Design of Multithreaded Software
Author: Bo I. Sanden
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2011-04-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1118102738

This book assumes familiarity with threads (in a language such as Ada, C#, or Java) and introduces the entity-life modeling (ELM) design approach for certain kinds of multithreaded software. ELM focuses on "reactive systems," which continuously interact with the problem environment. These "reactive systems" include embedded systems, as well as such interactive systems as cruise controllers and automated teller machines. Part I covers two fundamentals: program-language thread support and state diagramming. These are necessary for understanding ELM and are provided primarily for reference. Part II covers ELM from different angles. Part III positions ELM relative to other design approaches.

Network Reliability

Network Reliability
Author: Ilya Gertsbakh
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811514585

This introductory book equips the reader to apply the core concepts and methods of network reliability analysis to real-life problems. It explains the modeling and critical analysis of systems and probabilistic networks, and requires only a minimal background in probability theory and computer programming. Based on the lecture notes of eight courses taught by the authors, the book is also self-contained, with no theory needed beyond the lectures. The primary focus is on essential “modus operandi,” which are illustrated in numerous examples and presented separately from the more difficult theoretical material.