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This compendium discusses the adaptive enterprise architecture (AEA) as information to support decisions and actions for desired efficiency and innovation (outcomes and impacts). This comprehensive information-driven approach uses data, analytics, and intelligence (AI/ML) for architecting intelligent enterprises.The unique reference text includes practical artefacts and vivid examples based on both practice and research. It benefits chief information officers, chief data officers, chief enterprise architects, enterprise architects, business architects, information architects, data architects, and anyone who has an interest in adaptive and digital enterprise architecture.
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• Intro
• Contents
• Preface
• About the Author
• Acknowledgments
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 Defining Bioengineering: The New Eugenics?
• 1.1. Genetic Engineering: Treating Illnesses versus Personal Enhancement
• 1.2. Emergence of the New Eugenics
• Notes
• Chapter 2 Genetic Engineering in the Twenty-First Century: Genetically Modified Organisms
• 2.1. Genetically Modified Or Genetically Edited: Are the Resultant Products of these Technologies Dangerous?
• 2.2. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: The Complexities of Reprogramming Human Adult Cells
• Notes

• Chapter 3 Cloning and In Vitro Fertilization
• 3.1. From Frogs to Dolly the Sheep and Other Animals: A Short History of Cloning Research
• 1952 to the Present
• Notes
• Chapter 4 Designer or Selected Babies: Self-Controlled Reproduction
• 4.1. Preimplantation Diagnosis (PGD), In vitro Fertilization (IVF), and Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART): Frontline Soldiers in the New Eugenics
• Notes
• Chapter 5 The "New World": Discovering the CRISPR System
• 5.1. Serendipity: CRISPR in Bacteria
• 5.2. Explaining CRISPR
• 5.3. The Biological Function of CRISPR
• 5.4. CRISPR Cascade Complex

• Notes
• Chapter 6 Genome Editing: Rewriting the Fundamental Code of Life
• 6.1. Events Enabling the Launch of the Research Leading to the CRISPR/Cas9 Technology
• 6.2. The Research Producing CRISPR/Cas9
• 6.3. Type I CRISPR-Cas Immune System
• 6.4. Type II CRISPR-Cas Immune System
• 6.5. The CRISPR/Cas9 Technology
• Notes
• Chapter 7 Crossing the Rubicon: Therapy versus Elective Enhancement
• 7.1. Creating Human-Animal Hybrids in the Name of Health: Violating Species Boundaries and/or Proliferation of Zoonoses (Animal Diseases)?

• 7.2. Benefits and Risks of Elective Biological Enhancement
• Notes
• Chapter 8 Playing God: Synthetic Biology and the Attempt to Control the Machinery of Life
• Notes
• Chapter 9 Bioengineering and the Emergence of Dual Use
• 9.1. Questionable Viral Studies in the Early 2000s
• 9.2. Dangerous Experiments On Avian H5N1 Influenza Virus Leading to Temporary Halt in Publication of Results in 2012
• Notes
• Chapter 10 The Murky Waters of Regulation in the Age of Genetic Engineering

• 10.1. A Survey of Different Countries and their Laws On the Creation of Human-Animal Hybrid for Research Purposes
• 10.2. Regulation: Putting the Brakes On Runaway Science
• 10.3. Jennifer Doudna's Fear Realized
• Notes
• Chapter 11 Benefits and Risks: The Eternal Struggle
• 11.1. Therapeutic Cloning and Genetic Editing via CRISPR: Benefits and Risks?
• 11.2. Resurrecting Extinct Animal Species Using Cloning: A Good Idea?
• 11.3. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Promise and Their Propensity to Form Tumors
• 11.4. Assisted Reproductive Technology and the Long-term Dangers of Sex Selection
• Notes

In this book, Dr Quintyn considers whether genetic engineering will exacerbate social injustices and/or lead to public safety issues. As designer babies mature, will they feel a sense of superiority or pass on mutations that negatively affect future generations? Should we ignore the risk of zoonotic (animal) diseases because they offer potential benefits for reducing organ shortages? Scientific advancement, if not guided responsibly and with public input, can be detrimental to public safety.This book is unique as it encompasses many biotechnologies within the definition of biotechnology. It gives a balanced view of biotechnology: its promise as evidenced in repairing mutations (i.e., genetic editing) and its dangers evidenced in creating (unintentionally) dangerous microbes or unregulated germline editing and cloning. Additionally, this book includes animals in biotechnological research because the success, advances, techniques, and science of genetic engineering could not have occurred without using animals (and microorganisms, insects, plants) as model organisms. A comprehensive description of the CRISPR system in bacteria and the exploitation of this knowledge in creating the CRISPR/Cas9 technology is also incorporated in this read.The author's overall goal is to discuss other biotechnology that is being used to improve and put at risk the health, environment, and safety of humans, giving the book a competitive edge. Furthermore, the book provides a provocative side in challenging scientists to consider the current belief governing research and development, which is that scientific advancement and public safety create a false dichotomy.
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• Volume 1: Electronics from telegraph to computer
• Volume 2: Electronic technologies, devices and their evolution

• Volume 1: Electronics from Telegraph to Computer
• Contents
• Volume 1. Electronics from Telegraph to Computer
• Acknowledgements
• About this book
• Chapter 1. What is Electronics?
• Electronics today
• Electronics is not like other technologies
• The origins of the word 'electronics' and a bit of physics
• Defining electronics
• Parallels with biology
• Chapter 2. The Birth of Electronics: Electric Telegraph
• Optical telegraph
• Electrostatic telegraph
• Electricity in the 17th and 18th centuries
• The first telegraph proposal

• Electrostatic telegraph at the end of 18th century
• Don Francisco Salva and his many projects
• Sir Francis Ronalds' electrostatic telegraph
• Dyar telegraph
• Farewell to electrostatic telegraphy
• The current-based telegraph
• The battery and its first applications
• Electromagnetism
• Discovery
• Ampere's electromagnetic telegraph proposal
• Galvanometer as a telegraph detector
• Electromagnet and relay
• Ohm's law and currents in long telegraph wires
• Sources of current in electromagnetic telegraph
• Russian Telegraph
• British Telegraph
• German Telegraph

• American Telegraph
• Printing telegraph
• Transatlantic cable
• How was the telegraph used?
• Chapter 3. Hearing Far-Away Voices: The Telephone
• The romance of the telephone
• Telephone pre-history
• Innocenzo Manzetti
• Johann Reis
• Antonio Meucci
• Alexander Bell's telephone and Bell-Gray controversy
• Young Alexander G. Bell
• Telegraph multiplexing
• Gardiner Hubbard
• Harmonic telegraph leads to telephone
• The Bell-Gray controversy
• Elisha Gray
• Carbon microphone
• Telephone exchanges
• Chapter 4. Wireless Telegraph, Radio, Television, and Radar

• Electromagnetic waves
• Heinrich Hertz
• Wireless telegraph
• Thomas Edison
• David Hughes
• Edouard Branly
• Oliver Lodge
• Alexander Popov
• Jagadish Chandra Bose
• Greenleaf Pickard
• Guglielmo Marconi
• Karl Ferdinand Braun
• Nicola Tesla
• Wireless transmission of speech and music
• Seeing far-away moving pictures: television
• Groping far-away objects with EM waves: radar
• Christian Hulsmeyer
• British radar
• Radar today
• Chapter 5. Vacuum Tubes, Amplification, and Feedback
• Vacuum diode
• Edison Effect
• Discovery of the electron
• Fleming valve

• Triode and amplification
• Edwin Armstrong
• Half a century of vacuum tubes
• Negative feedback and Operational Amplifiers
• Harold Black
• Chapter 6. Computers and Artificial Intelligence
• Mechanical calculators
• Mathematical logic and its application in computers
• Claude Shannon
• Bits and bytes
• Digital machines and binary number system
• Logic gates
• Computer pre-history: Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace
• Alan Turing
• Turing and Hilbert's challenge
• Enigma and the Bombe
• Turing after the war
• Turing and AI
• What has happened in AI since the 1950s?
• Analog and digital dinosaurs

In this two-volume work, writing for a general audience, Dr Michael Gurvitch proposes a unifying concept of electronics which combines the history of electronics with the science of evolution. Drawing on his long experience in scientific development, Gurvitch illuminates electronics from the inside using the point of view of a practicing scientist. What is elusive and often overlooked becomes palpable, engaging and even humorous with the author's tireless and methodical exposition of fundamental scientific roots from which electronics grew and continues to grow.This set contains both volumes of Brave New e-World, presenting the historical review of electronics from the middle of the 18th century to the present day. From the telegraph to the quantum computer and superconductors, Gurvitch combines personal recollections with scientific knowledge to advance the final thesis: the representation of a new non-biological evolution in electronics. This is all done in an intellectually engaging way: spiced by historical anecdotes, warmed by Gurvitch's enthusiastic love for science, and completed with the full participation of the reader. The concluding argument on electronic evolution is alarming, but it might prove to be a necessary concern in the continual development of electronic technologies.
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This monograph offers a fundamentally new approach to facilitate the study of metabolic networks in cells. It aims to overcome the limitations of either just a single FBA solution, or an overwhelming number of extreme pathways in a realistic network. Instead it focusses on the FBA solution space and describes it in a simplified way by extracting just a bounded subspace: the Solution Space Kernel or SSK. This reduces the relevant number of flux space dimensions by orders of magnitude, and allows its location, size and shape to be characterised. It is a multi-stage process, requiring many new concepts and algorithms for manipulating polytopes in high dimensional spaces.The book introduces and develops these concepts in a pragmatic way that takes into account the difficulties of performing analyses in a flux space with dimensions counting in the hundreds or thousands. It emphasizes the details of implementation in computational code and applications to realistic models are demonstrated. For many cases, the number of constraints and flux variables that fully specify the SSK polytope is only a single or double-digit number. This allows the range of metabolic states accessible to a cell to be further interpreted geometrically in terms of a manageable set of orthogonal diameters and aspect ratios. In addition, explicit representative fluxes, giving the centre and periphery of the solution space kernel, become available for further exploration.
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Cosmic Roots traces the five-thousand-year conflict between science and religion - and how it has shaped our modern secular worldview.Told with rare clarity and striking insight, this fascinating and thought-provoking book focuses on the history of cosmology and its sister science astronomy. For it was discoveries within these great disciplines which first led to the conflict between science and religion. The story begins with the cosmological beliefs of the ancients - from the flat Earth models of the Sumerians and Hebrews to the Greek notion of the orbits of planets as divine circles. Topics progress from Aristotle and Ptolemy's integrated planetary models to the Sun-centered cosmologies of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and the great Isaac Newton. Their combined scientific achievements stand as testimony to the power and imagination of the human mind.This meticulously researched narrative also traces the roots of Western religion, based on historical events and archeological evidence. It takes us on a captivating journey through Western religious history - from ancient paganism to the ethical monotheism of the Hebrews, Christians, and Moslems. Along the way, we follow the rise and fall of civilizations, of empires, cycles of war and peace, unification and division.The book concludes with how Darwin came up with his theory of evolution and the impact of modern physics on religious beliefs. The cumulative effect of the scientific discoveries presented in Cosmic Roots has, for better or for worse, led to the separation of science and religion we see in Western culture today.
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• Intro
• Contents
• Preface
• Part I: Fundamental Building Block and Symmetry
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Maximum Coherence Motion Principle and Emergence of Spinor Field, Space-Time and Symmetry
• 2.1. Simplest motion postulate and appearance of spinor field
• 2.2. Quadratic free motion postulate and emergence of temporal and spatial dimensions
• 2.3. Maximum coherence motion principle and the presence of real column vector field as spinor field
• 2.4. Minkowski space-time with single temporal dimension and the action of spinor field with scalars

• 2.5. Canonical anticommutation relation and Pauli exclusion principle via maximum coherence motion principle
• 2.6. Emergence of Mc-spin and Qc-spin symmetries with Poincaré-type and scaling symmetries
• 3. Spinor Field as Local Coherent State of Qubit
• 3.1. Spinor field as local coherent state of qubit
• 3.2. Uniqubit-spinor field as a Taijion with appearance of 3D Minkowski space-time
• 3.3. Spatial dimensions via rotational Mc-spin symmetry
• 3.4. Temporal dimension via non-homogeneous scaling symmetry

• 3.5. Maximal associated symmetry of uniqubit-spinor field with dynamic scalar field
• 4. Local Coherent-qubits Motion Postulate and Qubit-spinor Fields as Majorana and Dirac Fermions
• 4.1. Local coherent state of qubits as spinor field and local coherent-qubits motion postulate
• 4.2. Biqubit- and triqubit-spinor fields and appearance of 4D and 6D Minkowski space-times
• 4.3. Dynamics of Qc-spin scalar field and discrete symmetries of qubit-spinor fields
• 4.4. Maximal associated symmetries of biqubit- and triqubit-spinor fields

• 4.5. Biqubit- and triqubit-spinor fields as Majorana and Dirac fermions
• 4.6. Complex uniqubit- and biqubit-spinor fields with SL(2, C) and SL(2, Q) symmetries
• 4.7. Self-conjugated triqubit-spinor field as Dirac fermion with SU(2) Qc-spin symmetry
• 4.8. Equivalence of Dirac- & Majorana- & Weyl-type spinors as a qubit-spinor field
• 5. Hyperqubit-spinor Field and Hyperspin Symmetry in Hyper-space-time with Periodic Qc-spin Charge
• 5.1. Local coherent state of 4-qubit as tetraqubit-spinor field in 10D Minkowski hyper-space-time

• 5.2. Hyperspin symmetry SP(1, 9) E SL(2, O) and discrete symmetries for hyperqubit-spinor field
• 5.3. Self-conjugated chiral uniqubit-spinor field as zeroqubit-spinor field in 2D space-time
• 5.4. Periodic behavior of Qc-spin charge for qubit-spinor fields
• 6. Categorization of Hyperqubit-spinor Field and Hyper-space-time
• 6.1. Local coherent state of five qubits as pentaqubit-spinor field with the action in 11D hyper-space-time
• 6.2. Local coherent state of six qubits as hexaqubit-spinor field with the action in 12D hyper-space-time

The quest for the unification of fundamental interactions has become the most challenging frontier of sciences in the 21st century. This book presents a detailed analysis and systematic investigation of the foundations of the hyperunified field theory (HUFT) in light of the path integral formulation with the least action principle. Alternative to other unification theories, the starting point of HUFT is initiated from a simple notion that the universe is made of the fundamental building block which is always moving and obeys the basic rule. Such a rule is delved into in this book by proposing the maximum locally entangled-qubits motion principle together with the scaling and gauge invariance principle. These two basic guiding principles are demonstrated to lay the foundations of HUFT, which enable enables us to discuss a series of long-standing fundamental questions, such as: why does the fundamental building block of nature appear as an entangled qubit-spinor field? what brings about the fundamental symmetry of nature? how does the inhomogeneous hyperspin gauge symmetry govern all basic forces? what is the nature of gravity and space-time? how can the space-time dimension and qubit-spinor field be categorized? why do we live in a universe with only four-dimensional space-time? why are there more than one family of leptons and quarks? how does the early universe evolve to be inflationary? what is the nature of dark matter and dark energy?Foundations of the Hyperunified Field Theory will be of great interest to graduate and senior undergraduate students, junior and senior researchers in theoretical physics, quantum field theory, particle physics, gravitational theory, cosmology, as well as mathematical physics and general physics.
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• Introduction to analysis of fractals
• Basic tools
• Fractal cantor like sets
• Fractal calculus
• Local fractal differential equations
• Stability of fractal differential equations
• Generalization of fractal calculus
• Application of fractal calculus

Fractal calculus is the simple, constructive, and algorithmic approach to natural processes modeling, which is impossible using smooth differentiable structures and the usual modeling tools such as differential equations. It is the calculus of the future and will have many applications.This book is the first to introduce fractal calculus and provides a basis for the research and development of this framework. It is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics and physics who have mastered general mathematics, quantum physics, and statistical mechanics, as well as researchers dealing with fractal structures in various disciplines.
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• Intro
• Contents
• Preface
• About the Author
• Acknowledgments
• Part I Introduction to thermodynamics and theory of Gibbs measures
• 1. Introduction
• 1.1 What is a thermodynamic system
• 1.2 What we do for biology
• 1.3 What we do for physics
• 2. Gibbs measures and Potts model
• 2.1 Definitions
• 2.1.1 Lattice graphs
• 2.1.2 Configuration space
• 2.1.3 Hamiltonian
• 2.1.4 The q-state Potts model
• 2.1.5 Gibbs measure
• 2.2 A review of the Potts model on Zd
• 2.3 Gibbs measures on trees
• 2.3.1 Splitting Gibbs measure
• 2.3.2 Boundary laws

• 2.3.3 Translation-invariant measures
• 2.3.4 Extreme Gibbs measures
• 2.4 Applications of the Potts model
• 2.4.1 Alloy behavior
• 2.4.2 Anomalies
• 2.4.3 Cell sorting
• 2.4.4 Financial markets
• 2.4.5 Flocking birds
• 2.4.6 Flowing foams
• 2.4.7 Image segmentation
• 2.4.8 Medicine
• 2.4.9 Neural network
• 2.4.10 Phase transitions
• 2.4.11 Political trends
• 2.4.12 Protein family
• 2.4.13 Protein folding
• 2.4.14 Signal reconstruction
• 2.4.15 Smectic phase
• 2.4.16 Sociology
• 2.4.17 Spin glasses
• 2.4.18 Storage capacity
• 2.4.19 Symmetric channels

• 2.4.20 Technological processes
• 2.4.21 Wetting transition
• 2.5 Comments and references for Part I
• Part II Thermodynamics in biology: The Potts model
• 3. Hierarchy of DNAs and Holliday junctions
• 3.1 Models and Markov process of DNA sequence evolution
• 3.1.1 Definitions
• 3.1.2 A codon-based model
• 3.1.3 A 3-state model of the interacting DNAs
• 3.2 Finite dimensional distributions and equations
• 3.3 Translation-invariant Gibbs measures of the set of DNAs
• 3.4 Biological interpretations: Holliday junction and branches of DNA
• 4. Thermodynamics in a system of interacting DNAs

• 4.1 The model and finite dimensional distributions
• 4.2 TIGMs of the set of DNAs
• 4.3 Markov chains of TIGM
• 5. Holliday junctions for the Potts model of DNA
• 5.1 Definitions and system of functional equations
• 5.2 TIGMs of the set of DNAs
• 5.3 Markov chains of TIGMs and Holliday junction of DNA
• 6. Thermodynamics of DNA-RNA renaturation
• 6.1 Introduction and definitions
• 6.2 Equations describing DNA-RNA renaturation
• 6.3 Translation-invariant solutions
• 6.3.1 Solutions in the set M
• 6.3.2 Solutions in the set R2+\M
• 6.4 Gibbs measures: Conditions of DNA-RNA renaturation

• 7. On quadratic stochastic operators of Gibbs measures
• 7.1 Definitions
• 7.2 Construction of QSO for finite E
• 7.3 Construction of QSO for continual case
• 7.4 Measure of the Potts model
• 7.5 Comments and references for Part II
• Part III Thermodynamics in physics: The Potts model
• 8. Full description of translation-invariant Gibbs measures for the Potts model on trees
• 8.1 Translation-invariant SGMs
• 8.2 Non-uniqueness of extreme Gibbs measure
• 8.3 Boundary conditions for TISGMs
• 8.3.1 Setup
• 8.3.2 Boundary conditions for TISGMs
• 8.3.3 Construction of boundary conditions

This book presents recently obtained mathematical results on Gibbs measures of the q-state Potts model on the integer lattice and on Cayley trees. It also illustrates many applications of the Potts model to real-world situations in biology, physics, financial engineering, medicine, and sociology, as well as in some examples of alloy behavior, cell sorting, flocking birds, flowing foams, and image segmentation.Gibbs measure is one of the important measures in various problems of probability theory and statistical mechanics. It is a measure associated with the Hamiltonian of a biological or physical system. Each Gibbs measure gives a state of the system.The main problem for a given Hamiltonian on a countable lattice is to describe all of its possible Gibbs measures. The existence of some values of parameters at which the uniqueness of Gibbs measure switches to non-uniqueness is interpreted as a phase transition.This book informs the reader about what has been (mathematically) done in the theory of Gibbs measures of the Potts model and the numerous applications of the Potts model. The main aim is to facilitate the readers (in mathematical biology, statistical physics, applied mathematics, probability and measure theory) to progress into an in-depth understanding by giving a systematic review of the theory of Gibbs measures of the Potts model and its applications.
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• Intro
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Between Cosmogonies and Science
• 1.1 Cosmogonies
• 1.2 A Brief History of the Big Bang Theory
• Summary: Key points
• Chapter 2 The Genesis According to Science
• 2.1 The Early Universe
• 2.2 The Cosmic Background Radiation
• 2.3 The Dark Ages of the Universe
• 2.4 The First Stars Appear
• 2.5 The First Structures
• 2.6 Planets are Formed
• 2.7 Brief History of the Earth and Life
• Summary: Key Points
• Chapter 3 Why is there Something Out of Nothing? Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry
• 3.1 Fields and Interactions
• 3.2 Particles

• 3.3 Interactions
• 3.4 Matter Antimatter Asymmetry
• Summary: Keynotes
• Chapter 4 The Bang of the Big Bang
• 4.1 Guth Inflation
• 4.2 Other Models for Inflation
• Summary: Keynotes
• Chapter 5 What Do We Really know about the Primordial Universe?
• 5.1 Pros and Cons of Inflation: Did Inflation Really Exist?
• 5.2 The Great Unification
• 5.3 Quantum Gravity
• 5.4 Loop Quantum Gravity
• 5.5 The Theory of Superstrings
• 5.6 Planck Era
• Summary: Key Points
• Chapter 6 The Miracles of Quantum Mechanics
• 6.1 Quantum Uncertainty
• 6.2 Creation of Particles and Universes

• 6.3 Wave or Particle?
• 6.4 Probability and Superposition of States
• 6.5 The Two Slits Experiment: Teleology, Causation and God
• 6.6 Feynman and the Sum Over All Paths
• 6.7 Entanglement and Non-locality: spooky Actions at a Distance
• Summary: Key Notes
• Chapter 7 The Anthropic Principle
• 7.1 The Control Panel of the Universe
• 7.2 The Cosmological Constant and Life in Our Universe
• 7.3 The Anthropic Principles
• 7.4 The Anthropic Principle does not Work if there is no Multiverse
• Summary: Keynotes
• Chapter 8 The Multiverse, the "Goldilock Enigma" and God

• 8.1 The "Multiverse" of the Many-worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
• 8.2 The Multiverse of Chaotic Inflation
• 8.3 Flat and Multiverse Universe
• 8.4 The Multiverse of String Theory
• 8.5 A Multitude of Multiverses
• 8.6 Is the Multiverse Scientific?
• 8.7 The Multiverse and God
• Summary: Keynotes
• Chapter 9 A Universe from Nothing?
• 9.1 Did the Universe have a Beginning?
• 9.2 The Geometry of our Universe
• 9.3 A Zero Energy Universe
• 9.4 The Universe: A Free Meal
• 9.5 Quantum Cosmology
• 9.6 A Universe from Nothing?
• Summary: Keynotes

• Chapter 10 What Do We know about the Origin of Life?
• 10.1 The Earth at the Time of the Appearance of Life
• 10.2 The Primordial Soup
• 10.3 From the Primordial Soup to LUCA
• 10.4 Starting from the Metabolism
• 10.5 Cells from the Start
• Summary: Keynotes
• Chapter 11 Origin and Evolution of Life: Case or Project?
• 11.1 Order and Life
• 11.2 Evolution and God
• 11.3 The Difficult Road to Life: Chance is not Enough
• Summary: Keynotes
• Chapter 12 Conclusions
• Index

Does science deny God? Did the Universe and life appear by chance or is there evidence of a bigger scheme of thing behind them? In this context, I am concerned with answering these questions. This problem is addressed using knowledge in cosmology, physics and biology. The initial part describes the stages of the 'Genesis' according to physical cosmology from the Big Bang to the appearance of life on Earth. It will touch on problems of why the universe is dominated by matter, the theory of inflation, the limits of our knowledge on the early Universe, the lack of a theory that can allow us to study the phases immediately after the Big Bang, the relation between the concepts of quantum mechanics and the existence of God. It shows how the Universe is finely regulated, that is, the physical constants have been chosen so that life appears in the Universe. The regulation is so strong that we are forced to think the existence of a great designer who has created a particular Universe like the one we are observing. This conclusion can be avoided only if there is an infinity of universes, a multiverse. We ask ourselves if science can create the Universe from nothing and using the same arguments of cosmologists such as Krauss (author of The Universe from Nothing). It is now known that the current science does not allow the creation of a Universe from absolutely nothing. Physics and cosmology do not deny God. Indeed, the argument of the fine adjustment of constants is strongly indicative of the existence of a great designer. Other evidence confirming this comes from biology. Thousands of experiments in recent decades highlight the impossibility of generating life in the laboratory. There is an intrinsic order in life encoded in DNA that is not present in experiments. Simple calculations show that the 'blind and aimless' evolution described by neo-Darwinists such as Dawkins does not allow the generation of life.
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Hyperidentities are important formulae of second-order logic, and research in hyperidentities paves way for the study of second-order logic and second-order model theory.This book illustrates many important current trends and perspectives for the field of hyperidentities and their applications, of interest to researchers in modern algebra and discrete mathematics. It covers a number of directions, including the characterizations of the Boolean algebra of n-ary Boolean functions and the distributive lattice of n-ary monotone Boolean functions; the classification of hyperidentities of the variety of lattices, the variety of distributive (modular) lattices, the variety of Boolean algebras, and the variety of De Morgan algebras; the characterization of algebras with aforementioned hyperidentities; the functional representations of finitely-generated free algebras of various varieties of lattices and bilattices via generalized Boolean functions (De Morgan functions, quasi-De Morgan functions, super-Boolean functions, super-De Morgan functions, etc); the structural results for De Morgan algebras, Boole-De Morgan algebras, super-Boolean algebras, bilattices, among others.While problems of Boolean functions theory are well known, the present book offers alternative, more general problems, involving the concepts of De Morgan functions, quasi-De Morgan functions, super-Boolean functions, and super-De Morgan functions, etc. In contrast to other generalized Boolean functions discovered and investigated so far, these functions have clearly normal forms. This quality is of crucial importance for their applications in pure and applied mathematics, especially in discrete mathematics, quantum computation, quantum information theory, quantum logic, and the theory of quantum computers.
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This book provides comprehensive coverage on the concepts, frameworks, and underpinning technologies in most aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT), and presents them as the foundation on which more advanced topics, such as 5G and mMTC/M2M, Edge/cloud computing and the modalities of Tactile IoT, Industrial IoT (IIoT)/Industry 4.0, Satellite IoT, and Digital Twins (DT), could be built upon.A key feature of the book is the chapter that focuses on security and privacy for individuals and IoT/ Industry 4.0 are discussed.This book is a good reference guide for researchers, developers, integrators and stakeholders working on research in or development of IoT, particularly where open-source software are deployed.
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The role of a forensic science defence expert is often referred to by those working for the police/state/government forensic labs as being on the 'dark side.'In Joining the Dark Side, author David Schudel outlines the evolution of a fascinating career that starts out in the dark side and looks at what problems can appear in forensic cases. The book delves into the problems inherent to forensic science, in particular cognitive bias and scientific philosophy. It also looks at the emotional impact and specific challenges behind forensic science and provides the reader with some sage advice on giving evidence in Court.
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This book is a scientific basis for understanding the urgent need for a Great Transformation to a third step in social evolution. Already being a community of common destiny, humanity can form an actual unity through diversity to avoid extinction. Social actors can recognise informational imperatives for cognition, communication and co-operation to achieve such a unity. By doing so, they apply a logic that underlies the structuration of any agency, which is a real logic of self-organising systems from the physical to the social. This logic is the Logic of the Third - the Third is a meta-structure that emerges in a leap. The agents interact and when they co-act they are likely to form a real meta-structure of organisational relations. Informational agents anticipate this by generating requisite information in their attempt to cope with complex challenges. Such an information is a meta-structure too. The Third helps achieve synergy effects.This book discusses considerations from philosophy, systems theory, the study of information, social systems, social information, ecology and technology. It addresses ethical issues connected with the long-forgotten arms race in an atomic age, the global warming not yet under control, the pandemic misunderstood, the social question still unanswered.
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• An introduction to phase transitions and universality
• Universal critical behavior from theory and simulations
• Background on experimental techniques
• Critical behavior experiments on anisotropic and isotropic antiferomagnets
• Domains, excitations, and spin-glass-like behaviors
• Experiments on pure magnets with frustration
• The unusual magnetism of LaCoO3; a thermally excited exchange interaction and ordering at twin interfaces
• Conclusions and outstanding questions

Magnetic crystals are ideal systems to study the universal properties of phase transitions, particularly systems with quenched randomness and frustration. Pure systems with different symmetries provide the foundation for studies in corresponding systems with quenched randomness. Because phenomena near phase transitions have universal properties, results from bulk magnetic crystals provide a basis for understanding phase transitions in films and nanoparticles, as well as many non-magnetic materials.This motivates the subject of this book, which discusses phase transitions studies in magnetic crystals from the perspective of an experimentalist who has done extensive work in the field. The advantage is that many experimental techniques are described in sufficient detail for a good understanding of the results and their comparison to theory.
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The book focuses on the study of the temporal behavior of complex many-particle systems. The phenomenon of time and its role in the temporal evolution of complex systems is a remaining mystery. The book presents the necessity of the interdisciplinary point of view regarding on the phenomenon of time.The aim of the present study is to summarize and formulate in a concise but clear form the trends and approaches to the concept of time from a broad interdisciplinary perspective exposing tersely the complementary approaches and theories of time in the context of thermodynamics, statistical physics, cosmology, theory of information, biology and biophysics, including the problem of time and aging. Various approaches to the problem show that time is an extraordinarily interdisciplinary and multifaceted underlying notion which plays an extremely important role in various natural complex processes.
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Ocean Bound Women is an intriguing first-hand narrative of circumnavigating the globe in the 1880s. Based on family documents stored in a seaman's chest, this book provides a scholarly account of the history of the Swedish sailing-ship Atlantic (1876-1911) and her crew.Part of the book is based upon a diary written by a Scandinavian woman, which stands as the uniting text for the years 1885-1887, connecting the reader to all events in the chronicle. Other sources consist of manuscripts, documents and accounts collected from family descendants along with oral traditions and personal memories-all hitherto unpublished.This is a touching life story of two motherless sisters who took on a ship in their teens: a book about life on the oceans and meeting with people of many different nations.
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• Logical foundations
• Neuronal networks
• The logic of many networks
• Memory-like processes
• Tsien's theory of connectivity
• A general syntax of retrieval

Do brains compute? If they do, what do they compute and how do they do it? The first part of the book introduces the development of a model that simulates actual biological neurons more closely than do current standard models of neural networks, as well as the deduction of its physics-like and computational properties from first principles. The second part presents a collection of applications of the model to memory formation and loss, a general syntax for memory retrieval, language itself, and certain forms of aphasia. A linear development of the discussion with proofs in situ is employed by the author, making the book essentially self-contained. A pair of helpful appendices are provided to acquaint the reader with necessary fundamentals of topics in logic and mathematics. Quantum-like Networks: An Approach to Neural Behavior through their Mathematics and Logic will show you an entirely new approach to an ancient subject.
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• Basic concepts of robotics
• Mathematical fundamentals of manipulator
• Kinematics of manipulator
• Dynamics of manipulator
• Manipulator control
• Manipulator planning
• Architecture and dynamics model of mobile robot
• Location and modeling of mobile robot
• Mobilebot navigation
• Intelligent control of mobile robots
• Application and market of robot technology
• Prospect of robotics

This book is a comprehensive collection and practical guide on robotics derived from the author's research in robotics since 1988. The Chinese edition of this book has sold over 300,000 copies, and is one of the best-selling books on robotics in China.The book covers the core technology of robotics, including the basic theories and techniques of robot manipulator, mobile robots to focus on location navigation, and intelligent control underpinned by artificial intelligence and deep learning. Several case studies from national research projects in China are also included to help readers understand the theoretical foundations of robotics and related application developments. This book is a valuable reference for undergraduate and graduate students of robotics courses.
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This book is a testimony to the amazing life of Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989) - the great scientist and great man, the creator of the most terrible weapon in the history of mankind and at the same time the Nobel Peace Prize Winner. Sakharov's life is, one might say, an exciting detective story, a chain of incredible events, not accidental however, but dictated by the genius and fortitude of the protagonist. The theme of this book acquired new striking meanings after the 'Sakharov documents' of the KGB of the USSR and of the Politburo of the Soviet ruling Communist Party were declassified. 'I'm not on the top floor. I'm next to the top floor - on the other side of the window', Sakharov once joked, referring to the top floor of political power. This joke accurately reflects the uniqueness of his status, which has become his destiny.Andrei Sakharov is a giant among thought leaders who have shaped the fate of mankind. This book is an important commemoration of his 100th birthday to summarize his creative experience of 'producing miracles', which will help to find constructive solutions to the challenges of the 21st century. The peculiarity of this book is that the main storyteller is Sakharov himself: it collects the most significant quotes from his memoirs, alternate with vivid memories of people who knew him, offering documentaries and explanations.
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• Basics of grating spectrometers
• Basics of Fourier-transform spectrometers
• High-resolution spectroscopy
• Imaging spectrometers
• Gated intensified spectrometers
• Modulation-sensitive and frequency-selective spectroscopy
• Optical diagnostics in plasma etching machines
• Spectral reflectometry
• Related non-spectroscopic techniques

The unique compendium presents special principles and techniques of spectroscopic measurements that are used in semiconductor manufacturing.Since industrial applications of spectroscopy are significantly different from those traditionally used in scientific laboratories, the design concepts and characteristics of industrial spectroscopic devices may vary significantly from conventional systems. These peculiarities are thus succinctly summarized in this volume for a wide audience of students, engineers, and scientific workers.Exceptionally well-illustrated with practical solutions in detail, this useful reference text will open new horizons in new research areas.
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