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Nanometer CMOS Sigma-Delta Modulators for Software Defined Radio
by Rocío Del Río José M. Rosa Alonso MorgadoThis book presents innovative solutions for the implementation of Sigma-Delta Modulation (SDM) based Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC), required for the next generation of wireless hand-held terminals. These devices will be based on the so-called multi-standard transceiver chipsets, integrated in nanometer CMOS technologies. One of the most challenging and critical parts in such transceivers is the analog-digital interface, because of the assorted signal bandwidths and dynamic ranges that can be required to handle the A/D conversion for several operation modes. This book describes new adaptive and reconfigurable SDM ADC topologies, circuit strategies and synthesis methods, specially suited for multi-standard wireless telecom systems and future Software-defined-radios (SDRs) integrated in nanoscale CMOS. It is a practical book, going from basic concepts to the frontiers of SDM architectures and circuit implementations, which are explained in a didactical and systematic way. It gives a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art performance, challenges and practical solutions, providing the necessary insight to implement successful design, through an efficient design and synthesis methodology. Readers will learn a number of practical skills - from system-level design to experimental measurements and testing.
NanoMind: Exploring Synergies in Nanotechnology and Machine Learning (Information Systems Engineering and Management #27)
by Alvaro Rocha Shubham Mahajan Paras Chawla Susanta Das Debanjali Barman RoyNanoMind" serves as a captivating exploration at the crossroads of nanotechnology and machine learning, revealing the profound synergies between these two groundbreaking fields. At its core, the book is a guided tour through the intricate realms of nanoscale materials and artificial intelligence, illuminating their combined potential to reshape the landscape of innovation. The journey begins with an introductory chapter, setting the stage for the convergence of nanotechnology and machine learning. Readers are introduced to the fundamental principles and applications of nanoscale materials, laying the groundwork for a deeper understanding of the nano-world. Simultaneously, the basics of machine learning are demystified, providing a comprehensive overview of the methodologies and concepts that underpin AI. "Nanoscale Sensing and Imaging" takes readers into the realm of advanced technologies, showcasing how machine learning enhances our ability to sense and image materials at the nanoscale. The narrative then seamlessly transitions to the creation and optimization of materials with nano-enhancements in "Nano-Enabled Materials." This section demonstrates how the marriage of nanotechnology and machine learning can lead to the development of materials with unprecedented properties, fostering innovation in diverse industries. The exploration extends into the field of healthcare with "Machine Learning in Nanomedicine," unveiling how AI at the nanoscale is transforming diagnostics, drug delivery, and personalized medicine. "Quantum Computing and Nanotechnology" delves into the cutting-edge intersection of quantum computing, nanotech, and machine learning, showcasing the potential for revolutionary advancements in computation and problem-solving. However, the journey isn't without its challenges. The book devotes a section to "Challenges and Ethical Considerations," addressing the complexities and ethical dimensions associated with the convergence of nanotechnology and machine learning. This discussion ensures that readers are equipped to navigate the ethical landscape responsibly.
Nanopharmaceutical Advanced Delivery Systems
by Vivek Dave Nikita Gupta Srija SurThe book provides a single volume covering detailed descriptions about various delivery systems, their principles and how these are put in use for the treatment of multiple diseases. It is divided into four sections where the first section deals with the introduction and importance of novel drug delivery system. The second section deals with the most advanced drug delivery systems like microbubbles, dendrimers, lipid-based nanoparticles, nanofibers, microemulsions etc., describing the major principles and techniques of the preparations of the drug delivery systems. The third section elaborates on the treatments of diverse diseases like cancer, topical diseases, tuberculosis etc. The fourth and final section provides a brief informative description about the regulatory aspects of novel drug delivery system that is followed in various countries.
Nanophotonics and Machine Learning: Concepts, Fundamentals, and Applications (Springer Series in Optical Sciences #241)
by Kan Yao Yuebing ZhengThis book, the first of its kind, bridges the gap between the increasingly interlinked fields of nanophotonics and artificial intelligence (AI). While artificial intelligence techniques, machine learning in particular, have revolutionized many different areas of scientific research, nanophotonics holds a special position as it simultaneously benefits from AI-assisted device design whilst providing novel computing platforms for AI. This book is aimed at both researchers in nanophotonics who want to utilize AI techniques and researchers in the computing community in search of new photonics-based hardware. The book guides the reader through the general concepts and specific topics of relevance from both nanophotonics and AI, including optical antennas, metamaterials, metasurfaces, and other photonic devices on the one hand, and different machine learning paradigms and deep learning algorithms on the other. It goes on to comprehensively survey inverse techniques for device design, AI-enabled applications in nanophotonics, and nanophotonic platforms for AI. This book will be essential reading for graduate students, academic researchers, and industry professionals from either side of this fast-developing, interdisciplinary field.
Nanoscale Memory Repair
by Masashi Horiguchi Kiyoo ItohYield and reliability of memories have degraded with device and voltage scaling in the nano-scale era, due to ever-increasing hard/soft errors and device parameter variations. This book systematically describes these yield and reliability issues in terms of mathematics and engineering, as well as an array of repair techniques, based on the authors' long careers in developing memories and low-voltage CMOS circuits. Nanoscale Memory Repair gives a detailed explanation of the various yield models and calculations, as well as various, practical logic and circuits that are critical for higher yield and reliability.
Nanoscale Networking and Communications Handbook
by John VaccaThis comprehensive handbook serves as a professional reference as well as a practitioner's guide to today's most complete and concise view of nanoscale networking and communications. It offers in-depth coverage of theory, technology, and practice as they relate to established technologies and recent advancements. It explores practical solutions to a wide range of nanoscale networking and communications issues. Individual chapters, authored by leading experts in the field, address the immediate and long-term challenges in the authors' respective areas of expertise.
Nanoscale Photonic Imaging (Topics in Applied Physics #134)
by D. Russell Luke Tim Salditt Alexander EgnerThis open access book, edited and authored by a team of world-leading researchers, provides a broad overview of advanced photonic methods for nanoscale visualization, as well as describing a range of fascinating in-depth studies. Introductory chapters cover the most relevant physics and basic methods that young researchers need to master in order to work effectively in the field of nanoscale photonic imaging, from physical first principles, to instrumentation, to mathematical foundations of imaging and data analysis. Subsequent chapters demonstrate how these cutting edge methods are applied to a variety of systems, including complex fluids and biomolecular systems, for visualizing their structure and dynamics, in space and on timescales extending over many orders of magnitude down to the femtosecond range. Progress in nanoscale photonic imaging in Göttingen has been the sum total of more than a decade of work by a wide range of scientists and mathematicians across disciplines, working together in a vibrant collaboration of a kind rarely matched. This volume presents the highlights of their research achievements and serves as a record of the unique and remarkable constellation of contributors, as well as looking ahead at the future prospects in this field. It will serve not only as a useful reference for experienced researchers but also as a valuable point of entry for newcomers.
Nanosystems Design and Technology
by Martin Gijs Giovanni Demicheli Yusuf Leblebici Janos VörösNanosystems use new, nanoscopic electrical and/or mechanical devices which, as constituents of electronic and electromechanical systems, find application primarily in computing, embedded control and biomedical data acquisition. In particular, this book will deal with the characterization and patterning of these materials from an engineering perspective, with the objective of creating operational prototypes and products. The book will integrate various nano technologies on materials, devices and systems and identify key areas and results. The book will describe different design aspects for integrated systems on silicon, as well as on heterogeneous platforms including, but not limited to, electrical, optical, micromechanical and biological components in various forms and mixtures. By associating research topics from differing horizons, the book will provide a unique opportunity to bridge the gap between electronics/electrical engineering and materials science. The book will include topics at the intersection of these disciplines, and will interface with computer science, biology and medicine.
Nanotechnology and Scientific Communication: Ways of Talking about Emerging Technologies and Their Impact on Society (2004-2008)
by Deborah R. BassettThis study examines findings from a 4-year-long ethnography of communication among a research university’s community of scientists and engineers working in nanoscience and nanotechnology. It includes analysis of 20 in-depth interviews with scientists and engineers from 18 different disciplines self-identified as working in nanoscale science and engineering. Using multiple methods of inquiry, including fieldwork, interviews, and textual analysis, elements of a shared speech code are presented, each of which indicate culturally distinctive understandings of psychology, sociology and rhetoric. In particular, the interview data addresses questions such as “What kind of person is a scientist?” “What is the role of science in society?” and “What is the role of communication in science?” This book will appeal to readers interested in science and society, scientific communication, and ethnography of communication.
Nanotechnology in Construction for Circular Economy: Proceedings of NICOM7, 31 October–02 November, 2022, Melbourne, Australia (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #356)
by Wenhui Duan Lihai Zhang Surendra P. ShahThis open access book covers emerging opportunities and future use of nanotechnology in construction, including deep advances in cement chemistry, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, robotics, concrete technology, and extreme engineering (blast, impact and fire). The proceedings also presents sectorial interactions within the traditional construction industry supply chain, enabled by the dynamic partnership between international industry, government agencies, and universities. Nanotechnology has transformed the construction materials industry into an advanced manufacturing sector to address climate change and carbon neutrality challenges by delivering sustainable and resilient infrastructure assets. Hence, this book reports specific advances in nanoscience and nano-engineering, and their impacts on numerous novel construction materials including binders, additives, high-performance concrete materials, concrete structural systems, polymer composites, and pavement materials.
Narrating Complexity
by Richard Walsh Susan StepneyThis book stages a dialogue between international researchers from the broad fields of complexity science and narrative studies. It presents an edited collection of chapters on aspects of how narrative theory from the humanities may be exploited to understand, explain, describe, and communicate aspects of complex systems, such as their emergent properties, feedbacks, and downwards causation; and how ideas from complexity science can inform narrative theory, and help explain, understand, and construct new, more complex models of narrative as a cognitive faculty and as a pervasive cultural form in new and old media. The book is suitable for academics, practitioners, and professionals, and postgraduates in complex systems, narrative theory, literary and film studies, new media and game studies, and science communication.
Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media
by Marie-Laure RyanRethinking textuality, mimesis, and the cognitive processing of texts in light of new modes of artistic world construction.Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association of AmericaIs there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or novel? Can interactivity contribute to immersion, or is there a trade-off between the immersive "world" aspect of texts and their interactive "game" dimension? As Marie-Laure Ryan demonstrates in Narrative as Virtual Reality 2, the questions raised by the new interactive technologies have their precursors and echoes in pre-electronic literary and artistic traditions. Approaching the idea of virtual reality as a metaphor for total art, Ryan applies the concepts of immersion and interactivity to develop a phenomenology of narrative experience that encompasses reading, watching, and playing. The book weighs traditional literary narratives against the new textual genres made possible by the electronic revolution of the past thirty years, including hypertext, electronic poetry, interactive drama, digital installation art, computer games, and multi-user online worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft.In this completely revised edition, Ryan reflects on the developments that have taken place over the past fifteen years in terms of both theory and practice and focuses on the increase of narrativity in video games and its corresponding loss in experimental digital literature. Following the cognitive approaches that have rehabilitated immersion as the product of fundamental processes of world-construction and mental simulation, she details the many forms that interactivity has taken—or hopes to take—in digital texts, from determining the presentation of signs to affecting the level of story.
Narrative Design: The Craft of Writing for Games
by Michael BreaultNarrative designers and game designers are critical to the development of digital and analog games. This book provides a detailed look at the work writers and designers perform every day on game development projects. It includes practical advice on how to break into the game industry as a writer or game designer. Readers can use the templates and detailed instructions provided here to create lively portfolios that will help open the door to jobs in the game industry. Key features of this book: • An intimate look at the workings of AAA game development from someone who has spent decades embedded on teams at well-known companies. • An insider’s look at the game industry, including advice on breaking into the industry. • Detailed instructions for creating a portfolio to demonstrate narrative design and game design skills to prospective employers. • Lessons and exercises to help students develop narrative design and game design skills. • A how-to guide for college instructors teaching classes in narrative design and game design. Detailed assignments and syllabi are included. Author Bio: Michael Breault is a 35-year industry veteran who has contributed his writing and game design skills to over 130 published games. He currently teaches narrative design and game design courses at Webster University in St. Louis. The courses he creates and teaches are based on the tasks narrative designers and game designers undertake every day while developing games. These classes provide his students with a real-world view of the work they will be doing as writers and designers in the game industry.
Narrative Design for Mobile and Live Games
by Valentina TamerThis is a comprehensive guidebook for long-term storytelling in mobile games and games-as-a-service (also known as live games). This book formalizes creative techniques of game writing and narrative design for a platform (and revenue model) that has shown drastic growth and changes over the past few years. The unique challenges of mobile games and live games are also increasingly relevant across the whole games industry. With hybrid consoles such as the Nintendo Switch, cloud gaming, and cross-platform titles, the lines between mobile and console have begun to blur. Additionally, many games now offer live support to extend player engagement. This book starts with an introduction to narrative design and the world of mobile games, followed by a deep dive into open-ended and seasonal storytelling. Besides the creative aspect of development, it covers areas of production such as documentation, collaboration, and monetization. To illustrate its solutions, it uses examples from video games and other media, specifically screenwriting for TV shows. This book will be of great interest to all game narrative and writing professionals working on mobile and live games.
Narrative Ecologies: Teachers As Pedagogical Toolmakers
by Keith TurveyIn recent years there has been significant investment by policy makers in the potential of technological tools to transform learning and teaching across a range of professional practitioner groups; education, nursing and social care. There remain, however, outstanding issues concerning the ways educators and professional practitioners harness the p
Narrative Form: Revised and Expanded Second Edition
by Suzanne KeenThis revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions.
A Narrative History of Artificial Intelligence: The Perpetual Frontier of Information Technology
by Masayuki IdaThis book addresses the history of artificial intelligence through the author’s experiences from the 1960s, when AI was a dream to give computers far more power than the progress for industrial technological advancement. The book starts from the AI pioneering days including what the author witnessed and impressed, then the episodes during AI boom of the 80s and 90s when the author was involved in ANSI X3J13 committee work as a principal member, translating Common Lisp books into Japanese, leading committee works in Japan for global standardization, and visiting MIT AI Lab for totally three years. The book points out that neural network research started in the 1980s, highlighting the DARPA report dated in 1988. The last episodes and thoughts include the experiences with business school students after the author moved from engineering school. The former half is from a view of an engineering mind and then the latter is based on how the author struggled with business-minded people to explain the core of AI. This book is suitable for anyone interested in the history of Artificial Intelligence. The content is easy to follow, even for readers without prior knowledge of AI. Experts will also find something new and thought-provoking.
Narrative Tactics for Mobile and Social Games: Pocket-Sized Storytelling
by Toiya Kristen FinleyDespite its significant growth over the past five years, the mobile and social videogame industry is still maturing at a rapid rate. Due to various storage and visual and sound asset restrictions, mobile and social gaming must have innovative storytelling techniques. Narrative Tactics grants readers practical advice for improving narrative design and game writing for mobile and social games, and helps them rise to the challenge of mobile game storytelling. The first half of the book covers general storytelling techniques, including worldbuilding, character design, dialogue, and quests. In the second half, leading experts in the field explore various genres and types of mobile and social games, including educational games, licensed IP, games for specific demographics, branding games, and free to play (F2P). <P><P>Key Features <li>The only book dedicated to narrative design and game writing in social and mobile games, an explosive market overtaking the console gaming market. <li>Provides tips for narrative design and writing tailored specifically for mobile and social game markets. <li>Guides readers along with conclusions that include questions to help the reader in narrative design and/or writing. <li>Explores real games to illustrate theory and best practices with analyses of game case studies per chapter, covering indie, social/mobile, and AAA games. <li>Includes checklists to help readers critique their own narrative design/writing.
Narrowband Single Photons for Light-Matter Interfaces (Springer Theses)
by Markus RambachThis book provides a step-by-step guide on how to construct a narrowband single photon source for the integration with atom-based memory systems. It combines the necessary theoretical background with crucial experimental methods and characterisations to form a complete handbook for readers at all academic levels. The future implementation of large quantum networks will require the hybridisation of photonic qubits for communication with quantum memories in the context of information storage. Such an interface requires carefully tailored single photons to ensure compatibility with the chosen memory. The source itself is remarkable for a number of reasons, including being the spectrally narrowest and brightest source of its kind; in addition, it offers a novel technique for frequency stabilisation in an optical cavity, together with exceptional portability. Starting with a thorough analysis of the current literature, this book derives the essential parameters needed to design the source, describes its individual components in detail, and closes with the characterisation of a single photon source.
NASA Formal Methods: 11th International Symposium, NFM 2019, Houston, TX, USA, May 7–9, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11460)
by Julia M. Badger Kristin Yvonne RozierThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on NASA Formal Methods, NFM 2019, held in Houston, TX, USA, in May 2019. The 20 full and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. The papers focus on formal verification, including theorem proving, model checking, and static analysis; advances in automated theorem proving including SAT and SMT solving; use of formal methods in software and system testing; run-time verification; techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods, such as abstraction and symbolic methods, compositional techniques, as well as parallel and/or distributed techniques; code generation from formally verified models; safety cases and system safety; formal approaches to fault tolerance; theoretical advances and empirical evaluations of formal methods techniques for safety-critical systems, including hybrid and embedded systems; formal methods in systems engineering and model-based development; correct-by-design controller synthesis; formal assurance methods to handle adaptive systems.
NASA Formal Methods: 16th International Symposium, NFM 2024, Moffett Field, CA, USA, June 4–6, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14627)
by Nathaniel Benz Divya Gopinath Nija ShiThis LNCS 14627 conference volume constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on NASA Formal Methods, NFM 2024, held in Moffett Field, CA, USA in June 2024. The 20 full papers together with 6 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The conference focuses on the on formal techniques for software and system assurance for applications in space, aviation, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems.
NASA Formal Methods: 13th International Symposium, NFM 2021, Virtual Event, May 24–28, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12673)
by Aaron Dutle Mariano M. Moscato Laura Titolo César A. Muñoz Ivan PerezThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on NASA Formal Methods, NFM 2021, held virtually in May 2021.The 21 full and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The papers aim to identify challenges and provide solutions to achieve assurance in mission-critical and safety-critical systems. Examples of such systems include advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, next-generation air transportation, autonomous rendezvous and docking of spacecraft, on-board software for unmanned aerial systems (UAS), UAS traffic management, autonomous robots, and systems for fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics.
NASA Formal Methods: 10th International Symposium, Nfm 2018, Newport News, Va, Usa, April 17-19, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10811)
by Aaron Dutle César Muñoz Anthony NarkawiczThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on NASA Formal Methods, NFM 2018, held in Newport News, VA, USA, in April 2018.The 24 full and 7 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The papers focus on formal techniques and other approaches for software assurance, their theory, current capabilities and limitations, as well as their potential application to aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems during all stages of the software life-cycle.
NASA Formal Methods: 14th International Symposium, NFM 2022, Pasadena, CA, USA, May 24–27, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13260)
by Klaus Havelund Ivan Perez Jyotirmoy V. DeshmukhThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on NASA Formal Methods, NFM 2022, held in Pasadena, USA, during May 24-27, 2022. The 33 full and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 118submissions. The volume also contains 6 invited papers. The papers deal with advances in formal methods, formal methods techniques, and formal methods in practice. The focus on topics such as interactive and automated theorem proving; SMT and SAT solving; model checking; use of machine learning and probabilistic reasoning in formal methods; formal methods and graphical modeling languages such as SysML or UML; usability of formal method tools and application in industry, etc.
NASA Formal Methods: 12th International Symposium, NFM 2020, Moffett Field, CA, USA, May 11–15, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12229)
by Ritchie Lee Susmit Jha Anastasia MavridouThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on NASA Formal Methods, NFM 2020, held in Moffett Field, CA, USA, in May 2020.*The 20 full and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: learning and formal synthesis; formal methods for DNNs; high assurance systems; requirement specification and testing; validation and solvers; solvers and program analysis; verification and times systems; autonomy and other applications; and hybrid and cyber-physical systems. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.