Author : Muriel Leung
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781643620732
Winner of the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, Imagine Us, The Swarm offers seven powerful texts that form a constellation of voices, forms, and approaches to confront loneliness, silence, and death.
Author : Bruce T. Clough
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Drone aircraft
ISBN :
Swarming. Imagine unmanned aerial vehicles blotting out the sky, obliterating anything that moves, and injecting terror into every observer's heart. Impossible? Maybe not. The aerospace research community is working hard at developing UAV control technology that requires as little human supervision as possible, and concepts using swarms are receiving serious attention. Swarming is not just a scare tactic, but also a viable control technology for multiple autonomous vehicles that system designers can use. Swarming itself is a type of emergent behavior, a behavior that isn't explicitly programmed, but results as the natural interaction of multiple entities. Swarms used correctly could be terribly effective, but used the wrong way could be as vulnerable as gnats to Raid(Trademark). This paper looks at what the author considers swarming to be, how you get it, what it might be (and might not be) good for, and the questions we need to answer on the way forward to evaluate and implement it.
Author : Taylor Moone
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 12,9 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 3842374194
Taylor Moone places the human soul at the center of God's creation plan. With his remarks on the nature of the human soul, which he makes under-standable through the soul code, the author shows in a clear manner that is neither God nor the Uni-verse but every single person who fulfills crea-tion. The soul itself with its simple code becomes the basic principle of creation. His thesis states that every man will experience happiness, suc-cess, and wish fulfillment upon recognizing the soul code.
Author : Barbara J Becker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040236146
William Huggins (1824–1910) was celebrated in his lifetime as the father of astrophysics. The letters and observatory notebooks contained in this edition allow Huggins’ important role in the development of astrophysics to fully emerge. Material comes from archives around the world and is previously unpublished.
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Publisher : Jeffrey Frank Jones
Page : 3840 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
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Page : 916 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 1890
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Author : Muriel Leung
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2024-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1324076356
A dark and tender debut set against a writhing backdrop of postapocalyptic New York City. Acid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one apartment building, an unlikely family of humans and ghosts survives. Mira reels from a devastating breakup with her partner, Mal, whose whereabouts are unknown, while her mother is plagued by furious dreams and her grandfather, Grandpa Why, stakes his claims as a rambunctious ghost. Across the hall, the cockroach Shin, also a ghost. As the world around them worsens, each character must learn to redefine what it means to live, die, and love at the end of the world.
Author : Heiko Hamann
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 2889663116
This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.
Author : Andrew Schumann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2018-05-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3319915428
This book presents fundamental theoretical results for designing object-oriented programming languages for controlling swarms. It studies the logics of swarm behaviours. According to behaviourism, all behaviours can be controlled or even managed by stimuli in the environment: attractants (motivational reinforcement) and repellents (motivational punishment). At the same time, there are two main stages in reactions to stimuli: sensing (perceiving signals) and motoring (appropriate direct reactions to signals). This book examines the strict limits of behaviourism from the point of view of symbolic logic and algebraic mathematics: how far can animal behaviours be controlled by the topology of stimuli? On the one hand, we can try to design reversible logic gates in which the number of inputs is the same as the number of outputs. In this case, the behaviouristic stimuli are inputs in swarm computing and appropriate reactions at the motoring stage are its outputs. On the other hand, the problem is that even at the sensing stage each unicellular organism can be regarded as a logic gate in which the number of outputs (means of perceiving signals) greatly exceeds the number of inputs (signals).
Author : Chera Kee
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1477313303
The zombie apocalypse hasn't happened—yet—but zombies are all over popular culture. From movies and TV shows to video games and zombie walks, the undead stalk through our collective fantasies. What is it about zombies that exerts such a powerful fascination? In Not Your Average Zombie, Chera Kee offers an innovative answer by looking at zombies that don't conform to the stereotypes of mindless slaves or flesh-eating cannibals. Zombies who think, who speak, and who feel love can be sympathetic and even politically powerful, she asserts. Kee analyzes zombies in popular culture from 1930s depictions of zombies in voodoo rituals to contemporary film and television, comic books, video games, and fan practices such as zombie walks. She discusses how the zombie has embodied our fears of losing the self through slavery and cannibalism and shows how "extra-ordinary" zombies defy that loss of free will by refusing to be dehumanized. By challenging their masters, falling in love, and leading rebellions, "extra-ordinary" zombies become figures of liberation and resistance. Kee also thoroughly investigates how representations of racial and gendered identities in zombie texts offer opportunities for living people to gain agency over their lives. Not Your Average Zombie thus deepens and broadens our understanding of how media producers and consumers take up and use these undead figures to make political interventions in the world of the living.
