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Fundamentals of Brain Network Analysis

Author : Alex Fornito
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0124081185
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Brain Network Analysis written by Alex Fornito and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamentals of Brain Network Analysis is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to methods for unraveling the extraordinary complexity of neuronal connectivity. From the perspective of graph theory and network science, this book introduces, motivates and explains techniques for modeling brain networks as graphs of nodes connected by edges, and covers a diverse array of measures for quantifying their topological and spatial organization. It builds intuition for key concepts and methods by illustrating how they can be practically applied in diverse areas of neuroscience, ranging from the analysis of synaptic networks in the nematode worm to the characterization of large-scale human brain networks constructed with magnetic resonance imaging. This text is ideally suited to neuroscientists wanting to develop expertise in the rapidly developing field of neural connectomics, and to physical and computational scientists wanting to understand how these quantitative methods can be used to understand brain organization. - Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Biomedicine & Neuroscience and the 2017 British Medical Association (BMA) Award in Neurology - Extensively illustrated throughout by graphical representations of key mathematical concepts and their practical applications to analyses of nervous systems - Comprehensively covers graph theoretical analyses of structural and functional brain networks, from microscopic to macroscopic scales, using examples based on a wide variety of experimental methods in neuroscience - Designed to inform and empower scientists at all levels of experience, and from any specialist background, wanting to use modern methods of network science to understand the organization of the brain

Lift

Author : Ryan W. Quinn
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1626564027
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Lift written by Ryan W. Quinn and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as the Wright Brothers combined science and practice to finally realize the dream of flight, Ryan and Robert Quinn combine research and personal experience to demonstrate how to reach a psychological state that elevates us and those around us to greater heights of achievement, integrity, openness, and empathy. It's the psychological equivalent of aerodynamic lift, and it is the fundamental state of leadership. This book draws on recent advances in positive psychology and organizational science to describe four questions that, when asked in any situation, will help us experience the fundamental state of leadership. Engaging personal stories illustrate how the Quinns and others have applied these concepts at work, at home, and in the community. --

From Valuing to Value

Author : David Sobel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191021261
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book From Valuing to Value written by David Sobel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subjective accounts of well-being and reasons for action have a remarkable pedigree. The idea that normativity flows from what an agent cares about-that something is valuable because it is valued-has appealed to a wide range of great thinkers. But at the same time this idea has seemed to many of the best minds in ethics to be outrageous or worse, not least because it seems to threaten the status of morality. Mutual incomprehension looms over the discussion. From Valuing to Value, written by an influential former critic of subjectivism, owns up to the problematic features to which critics have pointed while arguing that such criticisms can be blunted and the overall view rendered defensible. In this collection of his essays David Sobel does not shrink from acknowledging the real tension between subjective views of reasons and morality, yet argues that such a tension does not undermine subjectivism. In this volume the fundamental commitments of subjectivism are clarified and revealed to be rather plausible and well-motivated, while the most influential criticisms of subjectivism are straightforwardly addressed and found wanting.

Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science

Author : Daniela M. Bailer-Jones
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822971232
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Book Synopsis Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science by : Daniela M. Bailer-Jones

Download or read book Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science written by Daniela M. Bailer-Jones and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2009-09-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists have used models for hundreds of years as a means of describing phenomena and as a basis for further analogy. In Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science, Daniela Bailer-Jones assembles an original and comprehensive philosophical analysis of how models have been used and interpreted in both historical and contemporary contexts. Bailer-Jones delineates the many forms models can take (ranging from equations to animals; from physical objects to theoretical constructs), and how they are put to use. She examines early mechanical models employed by nineteenth-century physicists such as Kelvin and Maxwell, describes their roots in the mathematical principles of Newton and others, and compares them to contemporary mechanistic approaches. Bailer-Jones then views the use of analogy in the late nineteenth century as a means of understanding models and to link different branches of science. She reveals how analogies can also be models themselves, or can help to create them. The first half of the twentieth century saw little mention of models in the literature of logical empiricism. Focusing primarily on theory, logical empiricists believed that models were of temporary importance, flawed, and awaiting correction. The later contesting of logical empiricism, particularly the hypothetico-deductive account of theories, by philosophers such as Mary Hesse, sparked a renewed interest in the importance of models during the 1950s that continues to this day. Bailer-Jones analyzes subsequent propositions of: models as metaphors; Kuhn's concept of a paradigm; the Semantic View of theories; and the case study approaches of Cartwright and Morrison, among others. She then engages current debates on topics such as phenomena versus data, the distinctions between models and theories, the concepts of representation and realism, and the discerning of falsities in models.

Monadological Intimacy

Author : Jeff Lambert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666925926
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Monadological Intimacy written by Jeff Lambert and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monadological Intimacy: The Relational Operation of Folds in Leibniz and Deleuze analyzes and explains G.W. Leibniz’s theories of folds and relations to claim there is a common operation of inclusion inherent to both theories, an operation that produces a uniquely monadic form of intimacy. Utilizing key insights from Gilles Deleuze’s The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, Jeff Lambert considers the role of what is “virtual” and “ideal” for Leibniz in his theory of relations. However, Deleuze’s interpretation is not without flaws, and this book proposes an understanding of the operations of inclusion that is quite different from the view given by Deleuze in The Fold. Specifically, Lambert contends that relational inclusion has four primary “orders” that coincide with the four types of relations found across Leibniz’s oeuvre: complexion, comparison, congruence, and concurrence. Throughout each order of relations, different forms of interconnection play out through an intimate and immediate representation of the universe. Monadological Intimacy argues that the intimate and immediate representation of the universe within each monad utilizes the same operation of inclusion at work in how Leibniz describes the ideal continuum in each distinct fold of motion.

The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness

Author : Uriah Kriegel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198749678
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness written by Uriah Kriegel and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a panoramic view of current philosophical research on consciousness. Bringing together contributions from experts in the field, it covers the various types of consciousness, the many related psychological phenomena, and the relationship between consciousness and physical reality.

Hope as Atmosphere

Author : Xu Wang
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647568589
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Hope as Atmosphere written by Xu Wang and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thesis, the phenomenon of fundamental hope is understood as atmosphere. As a metaphor, hope as atmosphere finds a new expression of hope other than the light-metaphor that dominates the discourse of hope. Hope is not only the light that illuminates the dark moments of life, but also, more fundamentally, in the air, it lies in the sphere in-between and saturates each life experience and every living moment. As an existential reality, hope as atmosphere reveals our hopeful way of atmospheric co-existence. Communal love constitutes the ground of this hopeful co-existence, it keeps the hopeful co-existence constantly refreshed and open, guaranteeing more possibilities of hope. On the basis of communal love, hopeful co-existence shows its ontological meaning as a way towards life. The thesis of hope as atmosphere finds resonance and expression not only in Christian trinitarianly based understanding of hope, but also in the most central doctrine of co-humanity in Confucianism.

Anatomy of a Robot

Author : Despina Kakoudaki
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813572762
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Anatomy of a Robot written by Despina Kakoudaki and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we find artificial people fascinating? Drawing from a rich fictional and cinematic tradition, Anatomy of a Robot explores the political and textual implications of our perennial projections of humanity onto figures such as robots, androids, cyborgs, and automata. In an engaging, sophisticated, and accessible presentation, Despina Kakoudaki argues that, in their narrative and cultural deployment, artificial people demarcate what it means to be human. They perform this function by offering us a non-human version of ourselves as a site of investigation. Artificial people teach us that being human, being a person or a self, is a constant process and often a matter of legal, philosophical, and political struggle. By analyzing a wide range of literary texts and films (including episodes from Twilight Zone, the fiction of Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, Metropolis, The Golem, Frankenstein, The Terminator, Iron Man, Blade Runner, and I, Robot), and going back to alchemy and to Aristotle’s Physics and De Anima, she tracks four foundational narrative elements in this centuries-old discourse— the fantasy of the artificial birth, the fantasy of the mechanical body, the tendency to represent artificial people as slaves, and the interpretation of artificiality as an existential trope. What unifies these investigations is the return of all four elements to the question of what constitutes the human. This focused approach to the topic of the artificial, constructed, or mechanical person allows us to reconsider the creation of artificial life. By focusing on their historical provenance and textual versatility, Kakoudaki elucidates artificial people’s main cultural function, which is the political and existential negotiation of what it means to be a person.

The Faith of the Christian Church

Author : Gustaf Aulen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579109446
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book The Faith of the Christian Church written by Gustaf Aulen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-04-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paperback reprinting of Gustaf Aulen's great textbook of systematic theology should be a welcome delight to the Christian theologian. The reputation if this second English edition, based on the fifth and most extensively revised Swedish edition, has steadily increased over the years as a clear and sound guide to the substance of the Christian faith. Besides treating the whole compass of traditional themes associated with the doctrines of God, Christ, and the church, Aulen in this edition has provided new chapters on the Communion of Saints and on the relation between scripture and tradition. The chapters on the biblical validation of the content of faith, the doctrine of the Lord's Supper, and the unity of the church and the disunity of the churches were rewritten. The statements on the relation between the two testaments, creation and redemption, natural law, the resurrection, the validity of infant baptism, and eschatology were substantially revised. Aulen's keen analysis and clear presentation of the fundamental motifs of the Christian faith, his sharp demarcation of these motifs from their aberrations in the history of Christian thought and in contemporary theology, and especially his profound sense of the oneness of the church's faith have endeared this book to students, theologians, clergymen, and hosts of intelligent and inquiring laity of every denomination.

Understanding Brain And Mind: A Connectionist Perspective

Author : Yehuda Salu
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9813102519
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Brain And Mind: A Connectionist Perspective written by Yehuda Salu and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001-11-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we understand a system as complex as the brain? Does the brain use the same operational principles to control physical and mental activities? How can we incorporate in a model what we know and what we do not know about the brain?The connectionist model presented in this book provides tools for addressing such questions. Its nodes represent well-established biological facts combined with observations of the overall behaviors of the system. The model is based on comparing and contrasting brains, computers, and neural networks. It defines a framework for understanding the relationships between the brain and the mind. It can serve both as a starting point for developing Artificial Intelligence applications for all levels of mental activities and as a guide in the search for biological correlates of observed behaviors.

All India Ayush Post Graduate Entrance Test [AIAPGET] Ayurveda Question Bank [MCQ] Book 1500+ Questions With Detail Explanations

Author : DIWAKAR EDUCATION HUBY
Publisher : DIWAKAR EDUCATION HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book All India Ayush Post Graduate Entrance Test [AIAPGET] Ayurveda Question Bank [MCQ] Book 1500+ Questions With Detail Explanations written by DIWAKAR EDUCATION HUBY and published by DIWAKAR EDUCATION HUB. This book was released on 2024-09-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All India Ayush Post Graduate Entrance Test [AIAPGET] Ayurveda Question Bank [MCQ] Book 1500+ Questions With Detail Explanations Highlight of MCQ Book- Cover All Chapters of Ayurveda As Per Syllabus Given Detail Explanations of Each MCQ Design by Expert Faculties As Per Updated Syllabus

Religion and Sustainable Agriculture

Author : Todd LeVasseur
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813167981
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Sustainable Agriculture written by Todd LeVasseur and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinct practices of eating are at the heart of many of the world's faith traditions—from the Christian Eucharist to Muslim customs of fasting during Ramadan to the vegetarianism and asceticism practiced by some followers of Hinduism and Buddhism. What we eat, how we eat, and whom we eat with can express our core values and religious devotion more clearly than verbal piety. In this wide-ranging collection, eminent scholars, theologians, activists, and lay farmers illuminate how religious beliefs influence and are influenced by the values and practices of sustainable agriculture. Together, they analyze a multitude of agricultural practices for their contributions to healthy, ethical living and environmental justice. Throughout, the contributors address current critical issues, including global trade agreements, indigenous rights to land and seed, and the effects of postcolonialism on farming and industry. Covering indigenous, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish perspectives, this groundbreaking volume makes a significant contribution to the study of ethics and agriculture.

Psychophysical Approaches to Cognition

Author : D. Algom
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080867464
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Psychophysical Approaches to Cognition written by D. Algom and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1992-08-20 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our lives are informed by perceptual and cognitive processes at all levels, from instrumental learning to metaphorical discourse to memorial representation. Yet, historically, these two branches of experimental psychology, perception and cognition, have developed separately using independent methods of experimentation and analysis. This volume is motivated by the assumption that a fundamental integration of the two fields is fruitful methodologically and indispensable theoretically. It explores how the notion of psychophysics aligned with cognitive processes shapes the study of perception and cognition, and illuminates a variety of contemporary research issues from a novel theoretical perspective. The papers raise conceptual and metatheoretical issues against the background of relevant empirical data.The authors provide a virtually narrative account of the most recent developments in their respective fields of expertise in psychophysics and cognitive psychology. Hence, this volume gives the interested reader an opportunity to reflect critically upon some of the current issues defining the two domains and their conjunction. Topics discussed include the psychology and psychophysics of similarity, the psychophysics of visual memory and cognitive factors in judgment. The emerging notion of cognitive psychophysics may well warrant the attention of experts in the field.

A Liturgical Companion to the Documents of the Second Vatican Council

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
ISBN 13 : 1618331981
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book A Liturgical Companion to the Documents of the Second Vatican Council written by Various Authors and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection presents a comprehensive evaluation of each document of the Second Vatican Council. Written by contemporary liturgical scholars and theologians, each article provides an overview of key theological themes, historical and pastoral considerations, and how the document relates to our understanding and experience of the liturgy as source and summit.

Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World After 1150

Author : Jonathan Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199641889
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World After 1150 written by Jonathan Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed introduction provides a broad geopolitical context to the contributions and discusses at length the broad themes which unite the articles and which transcend traditional interpretations of the eastern Mediterranean in the later medieval period.

Early Phenomenology in Central and Eastern Europe

Author : Witold Płotka
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030396231
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Early Phenomenology in Central and Eastern Europe written by Witold Płotka and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the origins of Central and Eastern European phenomenology. It features chapters that explore the movement's development, its most important thinkers, and its theoretical and historical context. This collection examines such topics as the realism-idealism controversy, the status of descriptive psychology, the question of the phenomenological method, and the problem of the world. The chapters span the first decades of the development of phenomenology in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Yugoslavia before World War II. The contributors track the Brentanian heritage of the development. They show how this tradition inspired influential thinkers like Celms, Špet, Ingarden, Frank, Twardowski, Patočka, and others. The book also puts forward original investigations. Moreover it elaborates new accounts of the foundations of phenomenology. While the volume begins with the Brentanian heritage, it situates phenomenology in a dialogue with other important schools of thought of that time, including the Prague School and Lvov-Warsaw School of Logic. This collection highlights thinkers whose writings have had only a limited reception outside their home countries due to political and historical circumstances. It will help readers gain a better understanding of how the phenomenological movement developed beyond its start in Germany. Readers will also come to see how the phenomenological method resonated in different countries and led to new philosophical developments in ontology, epistemology, psychology, philosophy of culture, and philosophy of religion.

The Bible, Christianity, and Culture

Author : Pavol Bargár
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN 13 : 8024654075
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book The Bible, Christianity, and Culture written by Pavol Bargár and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book originated in the Donatio Universitatis Carolinae award and research support that Professor Petr Pokorný received in 2017. It was envisioned, designed, and originally conducted as a project exploring the biblical roots of Christian culture. Experts in various theological and philosophical disciplines, both from the Czech Republic and abroad, were to probe this topic from their particular perspectives. The hoped-for output was to be a coherent collective study of the proposed topic. However, due to the unexpected passing away of Prof. Pokorný in early 2020, the project could not be executed according to the original plan. Rather than a collective monograph, therefore, the present book is a collection of essays that investigate various aspects of the Bible and Christianity in their relation to culture as a broad human phenomenon. The book is divided into two sections. While the first section focuses on particular issues in the Bible, the second addresses historical, philosophical, and cultural developments. As Petr Pokorný was actively and importantly involved in the initial stages of the project, two essays are written by him personally. The whole book, then, is dedicated in his honor.