The Kennedy Endeavor: A thriller steeped in fact and historyBob Mayer
JFK saw the world come to the brink of nuclear disaster. He, and Khrushchev decide that something must be done. But before it can be implemented, Kennedy is killed. The day after Kennedy's mistress is assassinated Khrushchev is removed from power. What is this Endeavor? Does it still exist? A thriller steeped in history.
Historical (and Literary) Influences on Star Wars, by Todd ProaTodd Proa
The lasting influence that Star Wars has had on modern film, media and popular culture is undeniable. Yet Star Wars itself was influenced by plenty of factors, historical and literary. Listed here, Todd Proa discusses where some of these come from.
The Kennedy Endeavor: A thriller steeped in fact and historyBob Mayer
JFK saw the world come to the brink of nuclear disaster. He, and Khrushchev decide that something must be done. But before it can be implemented, Kennedy is killed. The day after Kennedy's mistress is assassinated Khrushchev is removed from power. What is this Endeavor? Does it still exist? A thriller steeped in history.
Historical (and Literary) Influences on Star Wars, by Todd ProaTodd Proa
The lasting influence that Star Wars has had on modern film, media and popular culture is undeniable. Yet Star Wars itself was influenced by plenty of factors, historical and literary. Listed here, Todd Proa discusses where some of these come from.
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I was asked recently to name my five favourite books, and the task proved harder than .... was hard to narrow it down.
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Questions from the finals of Overbooked, a literature quiz held at IIT Madras on April 3, 2016 as part of inaugural edition of Saahitya, IITM's litfest.
Questions were set by Vishal Katariya, Shubhajit Das and Gerleo Nimalan.
How much science fiction and fantasy had Victorians read? What should you include in your Steampunk? It turns out...lots! A fun guide for writers, readers, fans, and those who'd like to learn more.
Do you believe that if you are fasting during the holy month of Ramadan you can increase your social and spiritual belief?
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Deep Behavioral Phenotyping in Systems Neuroscience for Functional Atlasing a...Ana Luísa Pinho
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides means to characterize brain activations in response to behavior. However, cognitive neuroscience has been limited to group-level effects referring to the performance of specific tasks. To obtain the functional profile of elementary cognitive mechanisms, the combination of brain responses to many tasks is required. Yet, to date, both structural atlases and parcellation-based activations do not fully account for cognitive function and still present several limitations. Further, they do not adapt overall to individual characteristics. In this talk, I will give an account of deep-behavioral phenotyping strategies, namely data-driven methods in large task-fMRI datasets, to optimize functional brain-data collection and improve inference of effects-of-interest related to mental processes. Key to this approach is the employment of fast multi-functional paradigms rich on features that can be well parametrized and, consequently, facilitate the creation of psycho-physiological constructs to be modelled with imaging data. Particular emphasis will be given to music stimuli when studying high-order cognitive mechanisms, due to their ecological nature and quality to enable complex behavior compounded by discrete entities. I will also discuss how deep-behavioral phenotyping and individualized models applied to neuroimaging data can better account for the subject-specific organization of domain-general cognitive systems in the human brain. Finally, the accumulation of functional brain signatures brings the possibility to clarify relationships among tasks and create a univocal link between brain systems and mental functions through: (1) the development of ontologies proposing an organization of cognitive processes; and (2) brain-network taxonomies describing functional specialization. To this end, tools to improve commensurability in cognitive science are necessary, such as public repositories, ontology-based platforms and automated meta-analysis tools. I will thus discuss some brain-atlasing resources currently under development, and their applicability in cognitive as well as clinical neuroscience.
Nutraceutical market, scope and growth: Herbal drug technologyLokesh Patil
As consumer awareness of health and wellness rises, the nutraceutical market—which includes goods like functional meals, drinks, and dietary supplements that provide health advantages beyond basic nutrition—is growing significantly. As healthcare expenses rise, the population ages, and people want natural and preventative health solutions more and more, this industry is increasing quickly. Further driving market expansion are product formulation innovations and the use of cutting-edge technology for customized nutrition. With its worldwide reach, the nutraceutical industry is expected to keep growing and provide significant chances for research and investment in a number of categories, including vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and herbal supplements.
DERIVATION OF MODIFIED BERNOULLI EQUATION WITH VISCOUS EFFECTS AND TERMINAL V...Wasswaderrick3
In this book, we use conservation of energy techniques on a fluid element to derive the Modified Bernoulli equation of flow with viscous or friction effects. We derive the general equation of flow/ velocity and then from this we derive the Pouiselle flow equation, the transition flow equation and the turbulent flow equation. In the situations where there are no viscous effects , the equation reduces to the Bernoulli equation. From experimental results, we are able to include other terms in the Bernoulli equation. We also look at cases where pressure gradients exist. We use the Modified Bernoulli equation to derive equations of flow rate for pipes of different cross sectional areas connected together. We also extend our techniques of energy conservation to a sphere falling in a viscous medium under the effect of gravity. We demonstrate Stokes equation of terminal velocity and turbulent flow equation. We look at a way of calculating the time taken for a body to fall in a viscous medium. We also look at the general equation of terminal velocity.
What is greenhouse gasses and how many gasses are there to affect the Earth.moosaasad1975
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Comparing Evolved Extractive Text Summary Scores of Bidirectional Encoder Rep...University of Maribor
Slides from:
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Track: Artificial Intelligence
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
THE IMPORTANCE OF MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE SAMPLE RETURN.Sérgio Sacani
The return of a sample of near-surface atmosphere from Mars would facilitate answers to several first-order science questions surrounding the formation and evolution of the planet. One of the important aspects of terrestrial planet formation in general is the role that primary atmospheres played in influencing the chemistry and structure of the planets and their antecedents. Studies of the martian atmosphere can be used to investigate the role of a primary atmosphere in its history. Atmosphere samples would also inform our understanding of the near-surface chemistry of the planet, and ultimately the prospects for life. High-precision isotopic analyses of constituent gases are needed to address these questions, requiring that the analyses are made on returned samples rather than in situ.
The ability to recreate computational results with minimal effort and actionable metrics provides a solid foundation for scientific research and software development. When people can replicate an analysis at the touch of a button using open-source software, open data, and methods to assess and compare proposals, it significantly eases verification of results, engagement with a diverse range of contributors, and progress. However, we have yet to fully achieve this; there are still many sociotechnical frictions.
Inspired by David Donoho's vision, this talk aims to revisit the three crucial pillars of frictionless reproducibility (data sharing, code sharing, and competitive challenges) with the perspective of deep software variability.
Our observation is that multiple layers — hardware, operating systems, third-party libraries, software versions, input data, compile-time options, and parameters — are subject to variability that exacerbates frictions but is also essential for achieving robust, generalizable results and fostering innovation. I will first review the literature, providing evidence of how the complex variability interactions across these layers affect qualitative and quantitative software properties, thereby complicating the reproduction and replication of scientific studies in various fields.
I will then present some software engineering and AI techniques that can support the strategic exploration of variability spaces. These include the use of abstractions and models (e.g., feature models), sampling strategies (e.g., uniform, random), cost-effective measurements (e.g., incremental build of software configurations), and dimensionality reduction methods (e.g., transfer learning, feature selection, software debloating).
I will finally argue that deep variability is both the problem and solution of frictionless reproducibility, calling the software science community to develop new methods and tools to manage variability and foster reproducibility in software systems.
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2. • Arthur Clarke is famous
for being a co-writer of the
screen play for the 1968
films. His famous books
are:
• Childhoods End
• A Space Odyssey
• Rendezvous with Rama
• The Fountains of
Paradise.
• He was born on 16
December 1967 in
England.
• He died in 2008, In
3. • Childhood's End is a
1953 science
fiction novel by the
British author Arthur C.
Clarke. The story
follows the
peaceful alien
invasion[1]of Earth by
the mysterious
Overlords, whose arrival
begins decades of
apparent utopia under i
ndirect alien rule, at the
cost of human identity
and culture.
4. • Isaac Asimov was born on
January 2 1990. was
an Russian-
American writer and
professor
of biochemistry at Boston
University. He was known
for his works of science
fiction and popular
science. Asimov was
a prolific writer, and wrote
or edited more than 500
books and an estimated
90,000 letters
and postcards.He died in
April 6th 1992.
5. • FOUNDATION begins a
new chapter in the story
of man's future. As the
Old Empire crumbles
into barbarism
throughout the million
worlds of the galaxy,
Hari Seldon and his
band of psychologists
must create a new
entity, the Foundation-
dedicated to art,
science, and technology
6. • Philip Kindred Dick was
born in Chicago in
December 1928. Dick
became a published
author in 1952. His first
sale was the short story
"Roog." His first novel,
"Solar Lottery," appeared
in 1955. Dick produced an
astonishing amount of
material during the 1950s
and 1960s.He died on
March 2, 1982 in Santa
Ana, California, USA
because of a heart failure.
7. • o Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep? in
some later printings) is
a science fiction novel
by American writer
Philip K. Dick, first
published in 1968. The
novel is set in a post-
apocalyptic San
Francisco, where
Earth's life has been
greatly damaged by
nuclear global war.
8. • William Gibson described
November 9th, the day after
the 2016 presidential
election, as a “really weird
and powerful sensation.”
Like many in the science
fiction community, he had
anticipated that Democratic
candidate Hillary Clinton
would beat her opponent
Donald Trump. In the
months after Trump was
elected, he began to explore
his feelings as he wrote his
next
novel, Agency, according
to The New York Times.
9. • Neuromancer is a 1984
science fiction novel by
American-Canadian
writer William Gibson. It is
one of the best-known works
in the cyberpunk genre and
the first novel to win
the Nebula Award, the Philip
K. Dick Award, and the Hugo
Award.[1] It was
Gibson's debut novel and
the beginning of the Sprawl
trilogy. The novel tells the
story of a washed-
up computer hacker hired by
a mysterious employer to
pull off the ultimate hack.
10. • Jules Gabriel Verne was
a French author who
pioneered the genre of
science-fiction. He is
best known for his
novels Journey to the
Center of the
Earth (1864), Twenty
Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea (1870),
and Around the World in
Eighty Days (1873).
11. • round the World in Eighty
Days (French: Le tour du
monde en quatre-vingts jours)
is a classic adventure novel by
the French writerJules Verne,
published in 1873. In the
story, Phileas
Fogg of London and his newly
employed French valet Passep
artout attempt
to circumnavigate the world in
80 days on a £20,000 wager
(the approximate equivalent of
£2 million in 2016) set by his
friends at the Reform Club. It is
one of Verne's most acclaimed
works.