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Identity Games
Authors: Imre Anikó 
Published: October 2013

An examination of the unique, hybrid media practices generated by Eastern Europe's accelerated transition from late communism to late capitalism.
Eastern Europe's historically unprecedented and accelerated transition from late communism to late capitalism, coupled with media globalization, set in motion a scramble for cultural identity and a struggle over access to and control over media technologies. In Identity Games, Anikó Imre examines the corporate transformation of the postcommunist media landscape in Eastern Europe. Avoiding both uncritical techno-euphoria and nostalgic projections of a simpler, better media world under communism, Imre argues that the demise of Soviet-style regimes and the transition of postcommunist nation-states to transnational capitalism has crucial implications for understanding the relationships among nationalism, media globalization, and identity. Imre analyzes situations in which anxieties arise about the encroachment of global entertainment media and its new technologies on national culture, examining the rich aesthetic hybrids that have grown from the transitional postcommunist terrain. She investigates the gaps and continuities between the last communist and first post-communist generations in education, tourism, and children's media culture, the racial and class politics of music entertainment (including Roma Rap and Idol television talent shows), and mediated reconfigurations of gender and sexuality (including playful lesbian media activism and masculinity in “carnivalistic” post-Yugoslav film). Throughout, Imre uses the concepts of play and games as metaphorical and theoretical tools to explain the process of cultural change—inspired in part by the increasing “ludification” of the global media environment and the emerging engagement with play across scholarly disciplines. In the vision that Imre offers, political and cultural participation are seen as games whose rules are permanently open to negotiation.
Natural Experiments
Authors: Layzer Judith A. 
Published: October 2013

This systematic assessment of seven prominent initiatives is the first to evaluate the effectiveness of ecosystem-based management at protecting the environment.
Scholars, scientists, and policymakers have hailed ecosystem-based management (EBM) as a remedy for the perceived shortcomings of the centralized, top-down, expert-driven environmental regulatory framework established in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. EBM entails collaborative, landscape-scale planning and flexible, adaptive implementation. But although scholars have analyzed aspects of EBM for more than a decade, until now there has been no systematic empirical study of the overall approach. In Natural Experiments, Judith Layzer provides a detailed assessment of whether EBM delivers in practice the environmental benefits it promises in theory. She does this by examining four nationally known EBM initiatives (the Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Program in Austin, Texas, the San Diego Multiple Species Program, the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, and the California Bay-Delta Program) and three comparison cases that used more conventional regulatory approaches (Arizona's Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan and efforts to restore Florida's Kissimmee River and California's Mono Basin). Layzer concludes that projects that set goals based on stakeholder collaboration, rather than through conventional politics, are less likely to result in environmental improvement, largely because the pursuit of consensus drives planners to avoid controversy and minimize short-term costs. Layzer's resolutely practical focus cuts through the ideological and theoretical arguments for and against EBM to identify strategies that hold genuine promise for restoring the ecological resilience of our landscapes.
Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care
Authors: Lynch Holly Fernandez 
Published: October 2013

A balanced proposal that protects both a patient's access to care and a physician's ability to refuse to provide certain services for reasons of conscience.
Physicians in the United States who refuse to perform a variety of legally permissible medical services because of their own moral objections are often protected by “conscience clauses.” These laws, on the books in nearly every state since the legalization of abortion by Roe v. Wade, shield physicians and other health professionals from such potential consequences of refusal as liability and dismissal. While some praise conscience clauses as protecting important freedoms, opponents, concerned with patient access to care, argue that professional refusals should be tolerated only when they are based on valid medical grounds. In Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care, Holly Fernandez Lynch finds a way around the polarizing rhetoric associated with this issue by proposing a compromise that protects both a patient's access to care and a physician's ability to refuse. This focus on compromise is crucial, as new uses of medical technology expand the controversy beyond abortion and contraception to reach an increasing number of doctors and patients. Lynch argues that doctor-patient matching on the basis of personal moral values would eliminate, or at least minimize, many conflicts of conscience, and suggests that state licensing boards facilitate this goal. Licensing boards would be responsible for balancing the interests of doctors and patients by ensuring a sufficient number of willing physicians such that no physician's refusal leaves a patient entirely without access to desired medical services. This proposed solution, Lynch argues, accommodates patients' freedoms while leaving important room in the profession for individuals who find some of the capabilities of medical technology to be ethically objectionable.
The Anatomy of Bias
Authors: Lauwereyns Jan 
Published: October 2013

An integrative account of the neural underpinnings of decision making, emphasizing the ways in which some information sources are given more weight than others.
I will recklessly endeavor to scavenge materials from these various fields with the single aim of producing a coherent, but open-minded account of attention, or bias versus sensitivity, or how the activities of neurons allow us to decide one way or another that, with a faint echo of Hamlet in the background, something appears to be or not to be.—from The Anatomy of Bias.
In this engaging, even lyrical, book, Jan Lauwereyns examines the neural underpinnings of decision-making, using "bias" as his core concept rather than the more common but noncommittal terms "selection" and "attention." Lauwereyns offers an integrative, interdisciplinary account of the structure and function of bias, which he defines as a basic brain mechanism that attaches different weights to different information sources, prioritizing some cognitive representations at the expense of others. Lauwereyns introduces the concepts of bias and sensitivity based on notions from Bayesian probability, which he translates into easily recognizable neural signatures, introduced by concrete examples from the experimental literature. He examines, among other topics, positive and negative motivations for giving priority to different sensory inputs, and looks for the neural underpinnings of racism, sexism, and other forms of "familiarity bias." Lauwereyns—a poet and essayist as well as a scientist—connects findings and ideas in neuroscience to analogous concepts in such diverse fields as post-Lacanian psychoanalysis, literary theory, philosophy of mind, evolutionary psychology, and experimental economics. With The Anatomy of Bias, he gives readers that rarity in today's world of proliferating and ever more narrowly focused technical research papers: a work of sustained, rational thinking, elegantly expressed.
Video Game Spaces
Authors: Nitsche Michael 
Published: October 2013

An exploration of how we see, use, and make sense of modern video game worlds.
The move to 3D graphics represents a dramatic artistic and technical development in the history of video games that suggests an overall transformation of games as media. The experience of space has become a key element of how we understand games and how we play them. In Video Game Spaces, Michael Nitsche investigates what this shift means for video game design and analysis. Navigable 3D spaces allow us to crawl, jump, fly, or even teleport through fictional worlds that come to life in our imagination. We encounter these spaces through a combination of perception and interaction. Drawing on concepts from literary studies, architecture, and cinema, Nitsche argues that game spaces can evoke narratives because the player is interpreting them in order to engage with them. Consequently, Nitsche approaches game spaces not as pure visual spectacles but as meaningful virtual locations. His argument investigates what structures are at work in these locations, proceeds to an in-depth analysis of the audiovisual presentation of gameworlds, and ultimately explores how we use and comprehend their functionality.
Nitsche introduces five analytical layers—rule-based space, mediated space, fictional space, play space, and social space—and uses them in the analyses of games that range from early classics to recent titles. He revisits current topics in game research, including narrative, rules, and play, from this new perspective. Video Game Spaces provides a range of necessary arguments and tools for media scholars, designers, and game researchers with an interest in 3D game worlds and the new challenges they pose.
Ingenious Genes
Authors: Sansom Roger 
Published: October 2013

A proposal for a new model of the evolution of gene regulation networks and development that draws on work from artificial intelligence and philosophy of mind.
Each of us is a collection of more than ten trillion cells, busy performing tasks crucial to our continued existence. Gene regulation networks, consisting of a subset of genes called transcription factors, control cellular activity, producing the right gene activities for the many situations that the multiplicity of cells in our bodies face. Genes working together make up a truly ingenious system. In this book, Roger Sansom investigates how gene regulation works and how such a refined but simple system evolved.
Sansom describes in detail two frameworks for understanding gene regulation. The first, developed by the theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman, holds that gene regulation networks are fundamentally systems that repeat patterns of gene expression. Sansom finds Kauffman's framework an inadequate explanation for how cells overcome the difficulty of development. Sansom proposes an alternative: the connectionist framework. Drawing on work from artificial intelligence and philosophy of mind, he argues that the key lies in how multiple transcription factors combine to regulate a single gene, acting in a way that is qualitatively consistent. This allows the expression of genes to be finely tuned to the variable microenvironments of cells. Because of the nature of both development and its evolution, we can gain insight into the developmental process when we identify gene regulation networks as the controllers of development. The ingenuity of genes is explained by how gene regulation networks evolve to control development.
Bradford Books imprint
Entangled
Authors: Salter Chris 
Published: October 2013

How technologies, from the mechanical to the computational, have transformed artistic performance practices.
This ambitious and comprehensive book explores technology's influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Entangled, Chris Salter shows that technologies, from the mechanical to the computational—from a “ballet of objects and lights” staged by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1917 to contemporary technologically-enabled “responsive environments”—have been entangled with performance across a wide range of disciplines. Salter examines the rich and extensive history of performance experimentation in theater, music, dance, the visual and media arts, architecture, and other fields; explores the political, social, and economic context for the adoption of technological practices in art; and shows that these practices have a set of common histories despite their disciplinary borders.
Each chapter in Entangled focuses on a different form: theater scenography, architecture, video and image making, music and sound composition, body-based arts, mechanical and robotic art, and interactive environments constructed for research, festivals, and participatory urban spaces. Salter's exhaustive survey and analysis shows that performance traditions have much to teach other emerging practices—in particular in the burgeoning fields of new media. Students of digital art need to master not only electronics and code but also dramaturgy, lighting, sound, and scenography. Entangled will serve as an invaluable reference for students, researchers, and artists as well as a handbook for future praxis.
Strategic Bargaining and Cooperation in Greenhouse Gas Mitigations
Authors: Yang Zili 
Published: October 2013

A fresh approach to the economics of climate change that bridges integrated assessment modeling and game theoretic modeling.Strategic Bargaining and Cooperation in Greenhouse Gas Mitigations: An Integrated Assessment Modeling Approach
The impact of climate change is widespread, affecting rich and poor countries and economies both large and small. Similarly, the study of climate change spans many disciplines, in both natural and social sciences. In environmental economics, leading methodologies include integrated assessment (IA) and game theoretic modeling, which, despite their common premises, seldom intersect. In Strategic Bargaining and Cooperation in Greenhouse Gas Mitigations, Zili Yang connects these two important approaches by incorporating various game theoretic solution concepts into a well-known integrated assessment model of climate change. This framework allows a more comprehensive analysis of cooperation and strategic interaction that can inform policy choices in greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation. Yang draws on a wide range of findings from IA and game theory to offer an analysis that is accessible to scholars in both fields. Yang constructs a cooperative game of stock externality provision—the economic abstraction of climate change—within the IA framework of the influential RICE model (developed by William D. Nordhaus and Zili Yang in 1996). The game connects the solution of an optimal control problem of stock externality provision with the bargaining of GHG mitigation quotas among the regions in the RICE model. Yang then compares the results of both game theoretic and conventional solutions of the RICE model from incentive and strategic perspectives and, through numerical analysis of the simulation results, demonstrates the superiority of game theoretic solutions. Yang also applies the game theoretic solutions of RICE to such policy-related concerns as unexpected shocks in economic/climate systems and redistribution and transfer issues in GHG mitigation policies. Yang's innovative approach sheds new light on the behavioral aspects of IA modeling and provides game theoretic modeling of climate change with a richer economic substance.
Mental Reality
Authors: Strawson Galen 
Published: October 2013

An argument against neobehaviorism and for "naturalized Cartesianism," which couples a wholly materialist approach to the mind with a fully realist attitude to the phenomena of conscious experience.
In Mental Reality, Galen Strawson argues that much contemporary philosophy of mind gives undue primacy of place to publicly observable phenomena, nonmental phenomena, and behavioral phenomena (understood as publicly observable phenomena) in its account of the nature of mind. It does so at the expense of the phenomena of conscious experience. Strawson describes an alternative position, "naturalized Cartesianism," which couples the materialist view that mind is entirely natural and wholly physical with a fully realist account of the nature of conscious experience. Naturalized Cartesianism is an adductive (as opposed to reductive) form of materialism. Adductive materialists don't claim that conscious experience is anything less than we ordinarily conceive it to be, in being wholly physical. They claim instead that the physical is something more than we ordinarily conceive it to be, given that many of the wholly physical goings on in the brain constitute—literally are—conscious experiences as we ordinarily conceive them.
Since naturalized Cartesianism downgrades the place of reference to nonmental and publicly observable phenomena in an adequate account of mental phenomena, Strawson considers in detail the question of what part such reference still has to play. He argues that it is a mistake to think that all behavioral phenomena are publicly observable phenomena.This revised and expanded edition of Mental Reality includes a new appendix, which thoroughly revises the account of intentionality given in chapter 7.
Bradford Books imprint
Pulp and Paper Bioprocessing
Authors: Bajpai Pratima 
Published: October 2013

AbstractThe global pulp and paper industry is in physical terms one of the largest industries in the world. It is traditionally known to be a large contributor to environmental pollution owing to its large consumptions of water, energy, and chemicals. Biotechnological methods offer potential opportunities for changing the industry toward more environmentally friendly and efficient operations compared to the traditional methods. Biotechnological processes are environmentally friendly, energy efficient, more specific, and can be used in place of nonbiological processes. The use of biotechnological processes in the pulp and paper industry results in increased pulp yield, improved fiber properties, enhanced paper recycling, reduced processing and environmental problems, and energy efficiency. Many applications of biotechnology in the pulp and paper industry have been commercialized and some are on the verge of commercialization. Applications that have been commercialized are the use of xylanases for bleaching, cellulase‐hemicellulase mixture for fiber modification and deinking, cellulases for improved drainage, lipases for pitch removal, esterases for stickies control, levan hydrolase, proteases, cellulases, and amylases, etc., for slime removal. Many new applications are being studied that include new enzymatic approaches to reduce mechanical pulping energy, new enzymes for kraft pulp bleaching, enzyme sensors for smart paper products, etc. Bio‐based unit operations are usually combined with conventional or new chemical and mechanical unit operations to fully benefit the performance of enzymes. This chapter provides general background on pulp and paper processing and describes the use of microbes/enzymes in each of the processing areas.
Static Mixing in Fermentation Processes
Authors: Gavrilescu Maria 
Published: October 2013

Abstract

In order to improve transfer processes in bioreactors in the absence of mechanical impellers, which consume energy and develop high shear stresses, considerable efforts have been made to study all the prerequisites of the major relationship among flow, mass, and heat transfer over motionless mixers such as plates, cylinders, baffles, and spheres, as well as through sieves and trays. In recent decades, new constructive types of internals known as
static mixers
have been developed, which offer spectacular increases in transfer rates. An overview of the published results on fluid flow through various static mixer structures, their mixing, residence time distribution, and transfer process (momentum, heat, and mass) performance, examined both in single and multiphase systems by considering conventional and new and modern methods of investigation is presented in the chapter. Depending on the specific design and application, static in‐line mixers are able to promote continuous radial mixing, together with an effective degree of plug flow, while ensuring uniform and short residence times. It has been found that static mixers are able to change the velocity fields inside a tube and their effects are the consequence of specially designed flow arrangements, displacement and distortion, cutting and twisting, or separation and expansion based on the energy extracted from the fluid flowing through the mixers.

The chapter emphasizes that static mixers can be applied regularly in multiphase turbulent flow and they can meet industrial requirements not only for biotechnological processes (fermentation, in particular), but also for absorption, reaction, extraction, and heat transfer/phase change.
Specific splice variants are associated with Parkinson's disease
Authors: Santiago Jose A. , Scherzer Clemens R. ,   Harvard Biomarker Study, Potashkin Judith A. 
Published: October 2013

ABSTRACTBackgroundDiagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) currently relies on assessment of motor symptoms. Recently, sensitive, specific, and readily available splice variant–specific biomarkers were identified in peripheral blood from participants in the Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers in Parkinson Disease study.MethodsHere we test for an association between candidate splice variant biomarkers and PD in blood of an independent population of cases and controls nested in the Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center Biomarker Study.ResultsExpression of 7 out of 13 candidate biomarkers was dysregulated in whole cellular blood of patients with PD.ConclusionsThese results support the view that differential expression of a subset of splice‐variant markers in blood is associated with PD. Further evaluation in untreated, de novo patients and at‐risk subjects is warranted. © 2013 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society
Performance evaluation of face recognition using feature feedback over a number of Fisherfaces
Authors: Jeong Gu‐Min , Choi Sang‐Il 
Published: October 2013

AbstractIn this paper, we present a performance evaluation of face recognition using feature feedback over the number of Fisherfaces and propose a guideline to determine an appropriate number of Fisherfaces. Feature‐feedback‐based pattern recognition has been proposed to distinguish the important part from the whole dataset. The selected data by feature feedback is applied to extract features for classification and consequently enhance the performance of the classification. However, some parameters should be adjusted when using the feature feedback for pattern recognition depending on the applications. The number of Fisherfaces is one of the most important parameters that affect the recognition rates. In this paper, we propose a method to determine the number of Fisherfaces when using feature feedback for face recognition. Experimental results show that the proposed method is useful in the effective application of feature feedback for the improvement of the recognition performance. © 2013 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.