- Table View
- List View
Bringing History to Life: Teaching Fact and Fiction (Education)
by Marc-André Éthier David LefrançoisHistory has never been as present in our daily lives as it is today. Through any number of media outlets, tens of millions of people are in daily contact with historical discourses and practices. Between games, informational articles, social media posts and other sources, history is everywhere—in Civilization VI, live-action role-playing games, The Berlin Trilogy, Game of Thrones, and the works of Tolkien or Satrapi. This rise in popularity of history, along with an unprecedented access to social platforms, provide opposing and irreconcilable views of what should be commemorated (or debunked), of decolonization and reconciliation, and of other historical and social justice questions such as the elimination of police brutality and racism. How can we help our youth develop the critical thinking they need to address these questions?Reflecting on the use of works of non-academic history in the classroom, the authors of this book explore the use of popular or public history to teach historical thinking that will enable students to become informed and engaged citizens.
Bringing Innovative Robotic Technologies from Research Labs to Industrial End-users: The Experience of the European Robotics Challenges (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics #136)
by Fabrizio Caccavale Zachary Taylor Christian Ott Bernd WinklerThis book presents the main achievements of the EuRoC (European Robotics Challenges) project, which ran from 1st January,2014 to 30th June 2018 and was funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme. It describes not only the scientific and technological achievements of the project, but also the potential of the comparative challenge approach in robotics for knowledge advancement and technology transfer.
Bringing Machine Learning to Software-Defined Networks (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
by Zehua GuoEmerging machine learning techniques bring new opportunities to flexible network control and management. This book focuses on using state-of-the-art machine learning-based approaches to improve the performance of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). It will apply several innovative machine learning methods (e.g., Deep Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, and Graph Neural Network) to traffic engineering and controller load balancing in software-defined wide area networks, as well as flow scheduling, coflow scheduling, and flow migration for network function virtualization in software-defined data center networks. It helps readers reflect on several practical problems of deploying SDN and learn how to solve the problems by taking advantage of existing machine learning techniques. The book elaborates on the formulation of each problem, explains design details for each scheme, and provides solutions by running mathematical optimization processes, conducting simulated experiments, and analyzing the experimental results.
Bringing Out the Algebraic Character of Arithmetic: From Children's Ideas To Classroom Practice (Studies In Mathematical Thinking And Learning Ser.)
by David W. Carraher Analúcia D. Schliemann Bárbara M. BrizuelaBringing Out the Algebraic Character of Arithmetic contributes to a growing body of research relevant to efforts to make algebra an integral part of early mathematics instruction, an area of studies that has come to be known as Early Algebra. It provides both a rationale for promoting algebraic reasoning in the elementary school curriculum and empirical data to support it.The authors regard Early Algebra not as accelerated instruction but as an approach to existing topics in the early mathematics curriculum that highlights their algebraic character. Each chapter shows young learners engaged in mathematics tasks where there has been a shift away from computations on specific amounts toward thinking about relations and functional dependencies. The authors show how young learners attempt to work with mathematical generalizations before they have learned formal algebraic notation.The book, suitable as a text in undergraduate or graduate mathematics education courses, includes downloadable resources with additional text and video footage on how students reason about addition and subtraction as functions; on how students understand multiplication when it is presented as a function; and on how children use notations in algebraic problems involving fractions. These three videopapers (written text with embedded video footage) present relevant discussions that help identify students' mathematical reasoning. The printed text in the book includes transcriptions of the video episodes in the CD-ROM.Bringing Out the Algebraic Character of Arithmetic is aimed at researchers, practitioners, curriculum developers, policy makers and graduate students across the mathematics education community who wish to understand how young learners deal with algebra before they have learned about algebraic notation.
Britain and Germany Imagining the Future of Europe
by Leonard NovyThrough analysis of newspaper coverage on the debate over the future of Europe in Great Britain and Germany between 2000 and 2005, this book explores the intricate ways in which national identities shape media discourses on European integration. In doing so, it provides some compelling insights into Europe's emerging communicative space(s).
British Versions of Book II of Euclid’s Elements: Geometry, Arithmetic, Algebra (SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology)
by Leo CorryThis book discusses the changing conceptions about the relationship between geometry and arithmetic within the Euclidean tradition that developed in the British context of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Its focus is on Book II of the Elements and the ways in which algebraic symbolism and methods, especially as recently introduced by François Viète and his followers, took center stage as mediators between the two realms, and thus offered new avenues to work out that relationship in idiosyncratic ways not found in earlier editions of the Euclidean text. Texts examined include Robert Recorde's Pathway to Knowledge (1551), Henry Billingsley’s first English translation of the Elements (1570), Clavis Mathematicae by William Oughtred and Artis Analyticae Praxis by Thomas Harriot (both published in 1631), Isaac Barrow’s versions of the Elements (1660), and John Wallis Treatise of Algebra (1685), and the English translations of Claude Dechales’ French Euclidean Elements (1685). This book offers a completely new perspective of the topic and analyzes mostly unexplored material. It will be of interest to historians of mathematics, mathematicians with an interest in history and historians of renaissance science in general.
Broad Bandwidth and High Dimensional Quantum Memory Based on Atomic Ensembles (Springer Theses)
by Dong-Sheng DingThis thesis presents an experimental study of quantum memory based on cold atomic ensembles and discusses photonic entanglement. It mainly focuses on experimental research on storing orbital angular momentum, and introduces readers to methods for storing a single photon carried by an image or an entanglement of spatial modes. The thesis also discusses the storage of photonic entanglement using the Raman scheme as a step toward implementing high-bandwidth quantum memory. The storage of photonic entanglement is central to achieving long-distance quantum communication based on quantum repeaters and scalable linear optical quantum computation. Addressing this key issue, the findings presented in the thesis are very promising with regard to future high-speed and high-capacity quantum communications.
Broad Learning Through Fusions: An Application on Social Networks
by Philip S. Yu Jiawei ZhangThis book offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to broad learning, one of the novel learning problems studied in data mining and machine learning. Broad learning aims at fusing multiple large-scale information sources of diverse varieties together, and carrying out synergistic data mining tasks across these fused sources in one unified analytic. This book takes online social networks as an application example to introduce the latest alignment and knowledge discovery algorithms. Besides the overview of broad learning, machine learning and social network basics, specific topics covered in this book include network alignment, link prediction, community detection, information diffusion, viral marketing, and network embedding.
Broadband Bringing Home The Bits
by Committee on Broadband Last Mile TechnologyBroadband communication expands our opportunities for entertainment, e-commerce and work at home, health care, education, and even e-government. It can make the Internet more useful to more people. But it all hinges on higher capacity in the “first mile” or “last mile” that connects the user to the larger communications network. That connection is often adequate for large organizations such as universities or corporations, but enhanced connections to homes are needed to reap the full social and economic promise. Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits provides a contemporary snapshot of technologies, strategies, and policies for improving our communications and information infrastructure. It explores the potential benefits of broadband, existing and projected demand, progress and failures in deployment, competition in the broadband industry, and costs and who pays them. Explanations of broadband’s alphabet soup – HFC, DSL, FTTH, and all the rest – are included as well. The report’s finding and recommendations address regulation, the roles of communities, needed research, and other aspects, including implications for the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Broadband Communications, Computing, and Control for Ubiquitous Intelligence (Wireless Networks)
by Brian L. Mark Lin Cai Jianping PanThis book reports on the latest advances from both industry and academia on ubiquitous intelligence and how it is enabled by 5G/6G communication technologies. The authors cover network protocol and architecture design, machine learning and artificial intelligence, coordinated control and digital twins technologies, and security and privacy enhancement for ubiquitous intelligence. The authors include recent studies of performance analysis and enhancement of the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, edge computing, and cyber twins, all of which provide importance guidance and theoretical tools for developing future ubiquitous intelligence. The content of the book will be of interest to students, educators, and researchers in academia, industry, and research laboratories.Provides comprehensive coverage of enabling communications, computing, and control technologies for ubiquitous intelligence;Presents a novel paradigm of ubiquitous intelligence powered by broadband communications, computing, and control;Includes a review of 5G/6G communication technologies, network protocol and architecture design, and ubiquitous computing.
Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems: 10th EAI International Conference, Broadnets 2019, Xi’an, China, October 27-28, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #303)
by Rui Li Wei Xi Honghao Gao Qingshan Li Shengli Song Yueshen XuThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, Broadnets 2019, which took place in Xi’an, China, in October 2019. The 19 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are thematically grouped as follows: Wireless Networks and Applications, Communication and Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Pervasive Computing, Security and Privacy.
Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems: 11th EAI International Conference, BROADNETS 2020, Qingdao, China, December 11–12, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #355)
by Rui Li Honghao Gao Ramón J. Durán Barroso Pang ShanchenThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, Broadnets 2020, which took place in Qingdao, China, in December 2020. The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers are thematically grouped as a session on wireless network and security and a session on communication quality.
Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems: 12th EAI International Conference, BROADNETS 2021, Virtual Event, October 28–29, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #413)
by Wei Xiang Fengling Han Tran Khoa PhanThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, Broadnets 2021, which took place in October 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 24 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The papers are thematically grouped as a session on broadband communications, networks, and systems; 5G-enabled smart building: technology and challenge; and 5G: The advances in industry.
Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems: 13th EAI International Conference, BROADNETS 2022, Virtual Event, March 12-13, 2023 Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #511)
by Wei Wang Jun WuThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, Broadnets 2022, which took place in March 2023. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 9 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The papers are thematically grouped as follows: Mobile Communication Networks; Mobile Software Security; and Algorithm, Model and Application. The scope of this conference is the 5G-enabled digital society.
Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems: 14th EAI International Conference, BROADNETS 2024, Hyderabad, India, February 16–17, 2024, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #601)
by Xiaochun ChengThis two-volume set, LNICST 601 and LNICST 602, constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, BROADNETS 2024, held in Hyderabad, India, in February 16–17, 2024. The 49 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 submissions. These papers have been organized under the following topical sections in the two volumes: - Part I: Communications, Networks and Architectures; Smart City Smart Grid; Communication-inspired Machine Learning (ML) for 5G/6G. Part II: Wireless Network Security and Privacy; AI applications for 5G/6G.
Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems: 14th EAI International Conference, BROADNETS 2024, Hyderabad, India, February 16–17, 2024, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #602)
by Xiaochun ChengThis two-volume set, LNICST 601 and LNICST 602, constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, BROADNETS 2024, held in Hyderabad, India, in February 16–17, 2024. The 49 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 submissions. These papers have been organized under the following topical sections in the two volumes: - Part I: Communications, Networks and Architectures; Smart City Smart Grid; Communication-inspired Machine Learning (ML) for 5G/6G. Part II: Wireless Network Security and Privacy; AI applications for 5G/6G.
Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems: 9th International EAI Conference, Broadnets 2018, Faro, Portugal, September 19–20, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #263)
by Victor Sucasas Georgios Mantas Saud AlthunibatThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, Broadnets 2018, which took place in Faro, Portugal, in September 2018. The 30 revised full and 16 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The papers are thematically grouped as follows: Advanced Techniques for IoT and WSNs; SDN and Network Virtualization; eHealth and Telemedicine Mobile Applications; Security and Privacy Preservation; Communication Reliability and Protocols; Spatial Modulation Techniques; Hardware Implementation and Antenna Design.
Broadband Connectivity in 5G and Beyond: Next Generation Networks
by Gurpreet Kaur Simranjit Singh Mohammad Tariqul Islam R. S. KalerThis book discusses the role of optical networks in 3G, 4G, 5G and beyond. The authors discuss the evolution of the technologies, the research involved, and the applications with respect to optical communication systems. In addition, the book provides in-depth knowledge of broadband connectivity for future generation networks. More focus is given towards the front-, mid- and back- hauling of 5G and beyond. The authors present architecture for broadband connectivity and explain its potential in 5G and beyond applications. This book includes several architectures based on Hybrid Fiber-Wireless; Next Generation Passive Optical Networks Stage 1 and 2; millimeter wave over fiber; sub-THz wave over fiber; millimeter/sub-THz wave over multicore fiber; 6G fronthaul; 6G backhaul; GMPLS networks, and massive MIMO sub-Thz antenna. The contributors provide supplementary material such as simulations, analysis and experiments.
Broadband Direct RF Digitization Receivers (Analog Circuits and Signal Processing #121)
by Olivier JaminThis book discusses the trade-offs involved in designing direct RF digitization receivers for the radio frequency and digital signal processing domains. A system-level framework is developed, quantifying the relevant impairments of the signal processing chain, through a comprehensive system-level analysis. Special focus is given to noise analysis (thermal noise, quantization noise, saturation noise, signal-dependent noise), broadband non-linear distortion analysis, including the impact of the sampling strategy (low-pass, band-pass), analysis of time-interleaved ADC channel mismatches, sampling clock purity and digital channel selection. The system-level framework described is applied to the design of a cable multi-channel RF direct digitization receiver. An optimum RF signal conditioning, and some algorithms (automatic gain control loop, RF front-end amplitude equalization control loop) are used to relax the requirements of a 2.7GHz 11-bit ADC. A two-chip implementation is presented, using BiCMOS and 65nm CMOS processes, together with the block and system-level measurement results. Readers will benefit from the techniques presented, which are highly competitive, both in terms of cost and RF performance, while drastically reducing power consumption.
Broadband Mobile Multimedia: Techniques and Applications (Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications)
by Thomas M. Chen Shiwen Mao Laurence T. Yang Yan ZhangMultimedia service provisioning is believed to be one of the prerequisites to guarantee the success of next-generation wireless networks. Examining the role of multimedia in state-of-the-art wireless systems and networks, Broadband Mobile Multimedia: Techniques and Applications presents a collection of introductory concepts, fundamental tech
Broadband RF and Microwave Amplifiers
by Andrei Grebennikov Narendra Kumar Binboga YarmanBroadband RF and Microwave Amplifiers provides extensive coverage of broadband radio frequency (RF) and microwave power amplifier design, including well-known historical and recent novel schematic configurations, theoretical approaches, circuit simulation results, and practical implementation strategies. The text begins by introducing two-port networks to illustrate the behavior of linear and nonlinear circuits, explaining the basic principles of power amplifier design, and discussing impedance matching and broadband power amplifier design using lumped and distributed parameters. The book then: Shows how dissipative or lossy gain-compensation-matching circuits can offer an important trade-off between power gain, reflection coefficient, and operating frequency bandwidth Describes the design of broadband RF and microwave amplifiers using real frequency techniques (RFTs), supplying numerous examples based on the MATLAB® programming process Examines Class-E power amplifiers, Doherty amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, microwave gallium arsenide field-effect transistor (GaAs FET)-distributed amplifiers, and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) amplifiers for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications Broadband RF and Microwave Amplifiers combines theoretical analysis with practical design to create a solid foundation for innovative ideas and circuit design techniques.
Broadband as a Video Platform: Strategies for Africa (The Economics of Information, Communication, and Entertainment)
by Eli M. Noam Judith O'Neill Darcy GerbargThis volume features contributions from a conference held in Lusaka, Zambia, to explore the role and prospects of broadband in Africa as a video platform--with emphasis on the strategies and building blocks for deployment and advancement. While it may seem that such networks and their applications are not a realistic scenario for developing countries, it would be short-sighted and economically dangerous to ignore the emerging trends. The pace of introduction of next-generation networks in industrialized countries is rapid and the developing world will not be able to stand aside. The risks of falling behind are great and in any country there will be elements of business and society who wish to forge ahead. Policymakers and network architects need to be prepared. Media companies and broadcasters, in particular, must be alert to the new developments as should be medical and educational institutions. The availability of advanced high-speed business application tools in a country will affect its participation in international transactions and its economic growth. This volume features contributions from industry leaders, policymakers and scholars, representing a variety of perspectives, including technology and infrastructure management, economic development, marketing, education and health. The authors collectively discuss how broadband deployment as a platform with sufficient speed for video may be encouraged by public policy and regulation and how investment in broadband for this and related purposes can improve the quality of life and experience in Sub Saharan Africa in media and data, while being a financeable, commercially sound business.
Broadcast and Internet Indecency: Defining Free Speech
by Jeremy Harris LipschultzThis book explores broadcast and Internet indecency from social and legal perspectives, using current cases and examples. Case law is used as a starting point from which to explore the social and legal boundaries of speech.
Broadcasting, Cable, The Internet, And Beyond: An Introduction To Modern Electronic Media
by Joseph R. Dominick Barry L. Sherman Fritz J. MessereThis survey of the field of modern electronic media includes the new technologies, regulations, programming, and competition that affect our world and the broadcasting industry. The text conveys the excitement of the industry in a highly accessible style that makes even the most difficult information understandable.
Broadening Cultural Horizons in Social Marketing: Comparing Case Studies from Asia-Pacific
by Lynne Eagle Rachel Hay Abhishek BhatiThis book presents a series of empirically based case studies conducted by social change scholars from Asia-Pacific, showcasing the latest social marketing approaches geared at improving societal well-being in the region. Cutting across cultural perspectives, the contents gather ideas on social marketing campaigns and strategies from around the region and use these case studies as a platform to address concomitant challenges in employing marketing tools to positively change social behaviour. The selection of case studies covers and compares aspects of public health and well-being, and public environmental consciousness in terms of driving attitudes towards implementing improved sustainability in developing and developed countries. Drawing on related policies and legislation, and examining social behaviour at the individual, community, and organisational levels, the authors propose innovative new methods in social marketing and social change research. The book is of interest to researchers and practitioners in social marketing, business ethics, behavioural science, public health, and development studies.