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Ghost Protocol

Author : Carlos Rojas

Publisher : Duke University Press

Page : 248 pages

File Size : 27,93 MB

Release : 2016-08-04

Category : History

ISBN : 0822374021

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Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present. This volume's contributors see contemporary China as haunted by the promises of capitalism, the institutional legacy of the Maoist regime, and the spirit of Marxist resistance. China's development does not result from historical imperatives or deliberate economic strategies, but from the effects of discrete practices the contributors call protocols, which stem from an overlapping mix of socialist and capitalist institutional strategies, political procedures, legal regulations, religious rituals, and everyday practices. Analyzing the process of urbanization and the ways marginalized communities and migrant workers are positioned in relation to the transforming social landscape, the contributors show how these protocols constitute the Chinese national imaginary while opening spaces for new emancipatory possibilities. Offering a nuanced theory of contemporary China's hybrid political economy, Ghost Protocol situates China's development at the juncture between the world as experienced and the world as imagined. Contributors. Yomi Braester, Alexander Des Forges, Kabzung, Rachel Leng, Ralph A. Litzinger, Lisa Rofel, Carlos Rojas, Bryan Tilt, Robin Visser, Biao Xiang, Emily T. Yeh



Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol

Author : David James

Publisher : Insight Editions

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 43,60 MB

Release : 2011-12-20

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 9781608870981

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LOS ANGELES. PRAGUE. DUBAI. VANCOUVER. THE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL CAST AND CREW TRAVELED THE GLOBE FOR SIX MONTHS OF INTENSIVE SHOOTING TO CREATE THE MOST SPECTACULAR FILM IN THE BLOCKBUSTER FRANCHISE TO DATE. Veteran unit photographer David James was there, documenting every moment of principal production with stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, and Paula Patton. An unusually daring team, they braved sandstorms and crashed cars in the streets of Dubai, dove underwater in British Columbia, evaded explosions in an old Czech prison, and scaled the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa. James's Shooting Diary is a remarkable visual record of these exhilarating stunts and exotic locations-the features that make Mission: Impossible one of the most exciting film series in history.



GhostProtocol Development Language: Volume One

Author : David J. Andrew

Publisher : David J. Andrew

Page : 61 pages

File Size : 35,28 MB

Release : 2018-06-14

Category : Computers

ISBN :

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Primary and initial release of a series of instructional texts in regard to the upcoming software development language: GhostProtocol. Covering the basis of functions necessary to gain a moderately capable understanding within the flow and syntax of the language.



From Traditional Fault Tolerance to Blockchain

Author : Wenbing Zhao

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 464 pages

File Size : 41,56 MB

Release : 2021-05-18

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1119682118

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This book covers the most essential techniques for designing and building dependable distributed systems, from traditional fault tolerance to the blockchain technology. Topics include checkpointing and logging, recovery-orientated computing, replication, distributed consensus, Byzantine fault tolerance, as well as blockchain. This book intentionally includes traditional fault tolerance techniques so that readers can appreciate better the huge benefits brought by the blockchain technology and why it has been touted as a disruptive technology, some even regard it at the same level of the Internet. This book also expresses a grave concern on using traditional consensus algorithms in blockchain because with the limited scalability of such algorithms, the primary benefits of using blockchain in the first place, such as decentralization and immutability, could be easily lost under cyberattacks.



Trapped in a Video Game: The Complete Series

Author : Dustin Brady

Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing

Page : 674 pages

File Size : 14,37 MB

Release : 2020-04-01

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1524862932

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Five books in one! With nonstop action, huge plot twists, and tons of humor, this series will quickly have your 7- to 12-year-old video game fan begging for just one more chapter. Getting sucked into a video game is not as much fun as you'd think. Sure, there are jetpacks, hover tanks, and infinite lives, but what happens when the game starts to turn on you? In this best-selling series, 12-year-old Jesse Rigsby finds out just how dangerous video games-and the people making those games - can be. Book One: Trapped in a Video Game Jesse hates video games - and for good reason. You see, a video game character is trying to kill him. After getting sucked into the new game Full Blast with his best friend, Eric, Jesse quickly discovers that he's being followed by a mysterious figure. If he doesn't figure out what's going on fast, he'll be trapped for good! Book Two: The Invisible Invasion Jesse's rescue mission has led him into the world of Go Wild, a Pokemon Go-style mobile game full of hidden danger and invisible monsters. Can Jesse stay alive long enough to sneak into the shady video game company and uncover what they're hiding? Book Three: Robots Revolt The robot villains from Super Bot World 3 have been released into the real world, and it's up to Jesse to get them back. This is Jesse's most dangerous mission yet, because this time, the video game is real. And in the real world, there are no extra lives. Book Four: Return to Doom Island In this retro adventure, Jesse will need to outsmart a superintelligent android, outlast a tireless drone, and outswim an eight-bit shark. If he can somehow pull all that off, Jesse will discover that he hasn't even gotten to the scary part yet. Book Five: The Final Boss Jesse and Eric have 10 minutes to save the world. In those 10 minutes, they're supposed to dive into a massive video game universe, track down an all-powerful madman, and stop his evil plan before it's too late. Sound impossible? It's super impossible. The clock is ticking.





New Approaches for Multidimensional Signal Processing

Author : Roumen Kountchev

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 287 pages

File Size : 31,58 MB

Release : 2022-12-02

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 9811978425

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This book is a collection of papers presented at the International Workshop on New Approaches for Multidimensional Signal Processing (NAMSP 2022), held at Technical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria, during 23–25 June 2022. The book covers research papers in the field of N-dimensional multicomponent image processing, multidimensional image representation and super-resolution, 3D image processing and reconstruction, MD computer vision systems, multidimensional multimedia systems, neural networks for MD image processing, data-based MD image retrieval and knowledge data mining, watermarking, hiding and encryption of MD images, MD image processing in robot systems, tensor-based data processing, 3D and multi-view visualization, forensic analysis systems for MD images and many more.



Financial Cryptography and Data Security

Author : Rainer Böhme

Publisher : Springer

Page : 572 pages

File Size : 39,93 MB

Release : 2015-07-15

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3662478544

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2014, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in January 2015. The 23 revised full papers and 10 short papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 102 full papers submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: sidechannels; cryptography in the cloud; payment and fraud detection; authentication and access control; cryptographic primitives; mobile security; privacy and incentives; applications and attacks; authenticated data structures.



Cross-Industry AI Applications

Author : Paramasivan, P.

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 412 pages

File Size : 47,73 MB

Release : 2024-06-17

Category : Computers

ISBN :

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The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) amidst the backdrop of a world that is changing at lightning speed presents a whole new set of challenges. One of our biggest hurdles is more transparency in AI solutions. It's a complex issue, but one that we need to address if we want to ensure that the benefits of AI are accessible to everyone. Across diverse sectors such as healthcare, surveillance, and human-computer interaction, the inability to understand and evaluate AI's decision-making processes hinders progress and raises concerns about accountability. Cross-Industry AI Applications is a groundbreaking solution to illuminate the mysteries of AI-driven human behavior analysis. This pioneering book addresses the necessity of transparency and explainability in AI systems, particularly in analyzing human behavior. Compiling insights from leading experts and academics offers a comprehensive exploration of state-of-the-art methodologies, benchmarks, and systems for understanding and predicting human behavior using AI. Each chapter delves into novel approaches and real-world applications, from facial expressions to gesture recognition, providing invaluable knowledge for scholars and professionals alike.



Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

Author : Subiya Zaidi

Publisher : I K International Pvt Ltd

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 17,53 MB

Release : 2020-10-23

Category : Computers

ISBN : 8194867606

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Blockchain is a system of recording information in a way that makes it difficult or impossible to change, hack, or cheat the system and this is done using Cryptography. A Cryptocurrency is a digital money that operates on the Blockchain technology. This book is intended to provide a detailed analysis of the effect of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency in the current market. It is designed with the focus to facilitate the students in understanding the working behind the raging technology. Blockchain and Cryptocurrency are vastly discussed nowadays in all research domains to bring decentralization. This book gives easy access to the complex terminologies revolving around the technology. Since this is a new course assigned in the curriculum, therefore special care is taken in drafting the units. The chapters have been written with reference to the past understanding of the students of cryptography and merging those concepts with the Blockchain technology. The emphasis is laid on fundamental ideas and ease of understanding with suitable diagrammatic representation and real world examples. This book is self-contained and requires no comparison and analysis with other conceptual data. It can also be used by scholars who are beginners in the Blockchain technology and wish to dive deeper in its technological aspects. Numerous multiple choice questions at the back of each chapter are given to test the objective understanding of the concepts.