Cybernetics 2.0 : a general theory of adaptivity and homeostasis in the brain and in the body / / Bernard Widrow

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910627266003321
• Autore: Widrow Bernard <1929->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2023]; ©2023
• ISBN: 9783030981402; 9783030981396
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 pages)
• Collana: Springer series on bio- and neurosystems ; ; Volume 14
• Disciplina: 001.53
• Soggetti: Cybernetics; Cybernetics - Mathematical models; Neurotechnology (Bioengineering) - Moral and ethical aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword by Nikola Kasabov -- Foreword by Henry Yin -- Foreword by Fredric B. Kraemer -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Part I Synaptic Learning, Homeostasis, Synaptic Plasticity -- Introduction to Part I -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Beginning -- 1.2 The Neuron -- 1.3 The Synapse -- 1.4 Summary -- 1.5 Questions and Experiments -- References -- 2 Hebbian Learning -- 2.1 Extended Hebbian Rules -- 2.2 Synaptic Signal Transmission -- 2.3 Synaptic Weight Change-Hebbian Rules -- 2.4 Bi and Poo -- 2.5 Results of Bi and Poo Can Be Anticipated -- 2.6 The Spike Timing Hypothesis -- 2.7 Addendum -- 2.8 Summary -- 2.9 Questions and Experiments -- References -- 3 The LMS Algorithm -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Contribution of Norbert Wiener -- 3.3 The Linear Combiner and the LMS Algorithm -- 3.4 Steepest Descent, A Feedback Algorithm -- 3.5 Summary -- 3.6 Questions and Experiments -- References -- 4 The Hebbian-LMS Algorithm -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The LMS Algorithm -- 4.3 ADALINE -- 4.4 Bootstrap Learning -- 4.5 Bootstrap Learning with a Sigmoidal Neuron, the Hebbian-LMS Algorithm -- 4.6 Bootstrap Learning with a More ``Biologically Correct'' Sigmoidal Neuron -- 4.7 Hebbian Learning and the Hebbian-LMS Algorithm -- ; 4.8 A More General Learning Algorithm -- 4.9 An Algebraic Description of the Neuron of Fig.4.8 Including the Biases -- 4.10 Nature's Learning Algorithm -- 4.11 Summary -- 4.12 Questions and Experiments -- References -- 5 Inside the Membrane -- The Percent Hebbian-LMS Algorithm -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Membrane and the Neuroreceptors -- 5.3 A New Learning Algorithm -- 5.4 Simulation of a Hebbian-LMS Neuron Trained with the % Hebbian-LMS Algorithm -- 5.5 Receptor Traffic -- 5.6 Summary -- 5.7 Questions and Experiments -- Reference -- 6 Synaptic Scaling and Homeostasis -- 6.1 Introduction.; 6.2 Synaptic Scaling -- 6.3 Comparison of Synaptic Scaling with % Hebbian-LMS -- 6.4 Papers of Turrigiano and Stellwagen and Malenka on Synaptic Scaling -- 6.5 Selected Quotes From The Turrigiano Paper -- 6.6 Advantages of the % Hebbian-LMS Hypothesis over the Synaptic … -- 6.7 Memory Traces -- 6.8 Summary -- 6.9 Questions and Experiments -- References -- 7 Synaptic Plasticity -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Hebbian Learning, Synaptic Plasticity, Homeostasis -- 7.3 Hebbian Learning Rules -- 7.4 Summary -- 7.5 Questions and Experiments -- References -- Part II Addiction and Mood Disorders -- Introduction to Part II -- 8 Addiction -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Neurotransmitters -- 8.3 Drugs -- 8.4 % Hebbian-LMS and Addiction -- 8.5 Overshoot and Addiction -- 8.6 Habituation -- 8.7 Graphical Interpretations -- 8.8 Opioid Detox -- 8.9 Summary -- 8.10 Questions and Experiments -- References -- 9 Pain and Pleasure -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Transient Pain and Euphoria -- 9.3 Conclusion: Addiction and Pain-Pleasure/Pleasure-Pain -- 9.4 Summary -- 9.5 Questions and Experiments -- Reference -- 10 Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia and Parkinson's Disease -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Anxiety -- 10.3 Depression -- 10.4 Bipolar Disorder -- 10.5 Schizophrenia -- 10.6 Parkinson's Disease -- 10.7 Summary -- 10.8 Questions and Experiments -- Reference -- Part III Regulation and Control of Physiological Variables and Body Organs -- Introduction to Part III -- 11 Blood Salinity Regulation, the ADH System -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Parts of the Blood Salinity Regulation System -- 11.3 Hypothalamus, Posterior Pituitary, and ADH -- 11.4 The Feedback Loop -- 11.5 A Brief Discussion of Classic Feedback Control Theory -- 11.6 Blood Salinity Control: Homeostasis and Negative Feedback -- 11.7 Abnormal Function: Diabetes Insipidus -- 11.8 Summary.; 11.9 Questions and Experiments -- 12 The Aldosterone System, Blood Volume Regulation, and Homeostasis -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Aldosterone System -- 12.3 System Components -- 12.4 Homeostasis Everywhere -- 12.5 Summary -- 12.6 Questions and Experiments -- 13 The ADH System and the Aldosterone System Combined -- 13.1 The Aldosterone System -- 13.2 The ADH System -- 13.3 ADH and Aldosterone Systems Together -- 13.4 Homeostasis -- 13.5 Disturbance Mitigation -- 13.6 Overall Kidney Function -- 13.7 Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System (RAS System) -- 13.8 Summary -- 13.9 Questions and Experiments -- 14 Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Regulation -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Autonomic Nervous System -- 14.3 Autonomic Ganglia -- 14.4 The SA Node -- 14.5 Innervation of the SA Node by the Autonomic Nerves -- 14.6 % Hebbian-LMS Control -- 14.7 Vascular Resistance -- 14.8 Resting Conditions -- 14.9 Dynamic Conditions -- 14.10 The % Hebbian-LMS Algorithm Doing High-Pass Filtering? -- 14.11 Summary -- 14.12 Questions and Experiments -- 15 Regulation of Blood Glucose Level -- 15.1 Glucose -- 15.2 Insulin and Insulin Receptors -- 15.3 The Pancreas and the Liver -- 15.4 The Resting State -- 15.5 Mitigation of Transient Effects ; by Overall Negative Feedback -- 15.6 Summary -- 15.7 Postscript: Diabetes Mellitus -- 15.8 Research Questions -- 16 Thermoregulation-Control of Body Regulation/Bernie's Oscillation -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 The Cooling System -- 16.3 Autonomic System -- 16.4 Feedback in the Cooling System -- 16.5 The Heating System -- 16.6 Heating or Cooling -- 16.7 Nature's Thermostat/Bernie's Oscillation -- 16.8 The Heating System, On and Off -- 16.9 The Cooling System, On and Off -- 16.10 Control of the Thyroid and Capillaries -- 16.11 The Synaptic Weights Adapt -- 16.12 Temperature Extremes -- 16.13 Three Scenarios.; 16.13.1 Going from Indoors to Hot Outdoors -- 16.13.2 Going from Hot Outdoors to Indoors -- 16.13.3 Going from Warm Indoors to Cold Outdoors -- 16.14 Summary -- 16.15 Questions and Experiments -- Part III Reflections On -- Part IV Virus, Cancer, and Chronic Inflammation -- Introduction to Part IV -- 17 Viral Infection -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 Reduction in Number of ACE2 Receptors -- 17.3 Training the Epithelial Cells and Their Receptors -- 17.4 Receptor Blocking -- 17.5 Nasal and Oral ACE2 Inhalers -- 17.6 Other Viruses -- 17.7 Post Script -- 17.8 Summary -- 17.9 Questions and Research -- 18 Cancer -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Melanoma -- 18.3 Prostate Cancer -- 18.4 Breast Cancer -- 18.5 Lung Cancer -- 18.6 Summary -- 18.7 Questions and Experiments -- 19 Chronic Inflammation -- 19.1 Introduction -- 19.2 Inflammation in the Immune System -- 19.3 Aging Myeloid Cells -- 19.4 Glucose and Myeloid Cell Metabolism -- 19.5 Rejuvenation -- 19.6 Homeostasis and Aging of Myeloid Cells -- 19.7 Summary -- References -- Part V Computer Simulations -- 20 Hebbian-LMS Neural Networks, Clustering -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 Clustering -- 20.3 Input Data Synthesized -- 20.4 A Clustering Experiment -- 20.5 A Clustering Network -- 20.6 Experiments Done by Abhipray Sahoo -- 20.6.1 Version A: Random Cluster Centroids -- 20.6.2 Version B: English Letters -- 20.7 Deja Vu? -- 20.8 Summary -- Reference -- 21 Cognitive Memory -- 21.1 Introduction -- 21.2 The Design of a Cognitive Memory -- 21.3 Summary -- Reference -- Part VI Growth of Plants -- Introduction to Part VI -- 22 Trees -- 22.1 Introduction -- 22.2 Roots -- 22.3 Summary -- 22.4 Questions and Experiments -- Reference -- Part VII Norbert Wiener -- Introduction to Part VII -- 23 Wiener Filters and Adaptive Filters -- 23.1 Introduction -- 23.2 The Wiener Filter -- 23.3 Adaptive Filters -- 23.4 Summary.; 23.5 Questions and Experiments -- References -- 24 Norbert Wiener Stories -- 24.1 Introduction -- 24.2 Professor Wiener at MIT -- 24.3 The Absent-Minded Professor -- 24.4 The Quiz -- 24.5 The IBM Typewriter -- 24.6 Wiener at the Smith House -- 24.7 Norbert Wiener on Harry Truman -- 24.8 Wiener (and I) at the 1960 IFAC World Congress in Moscow -- 24.9 Summary -- Part VIII Conclusion -- 25 Famous People Stories -- 25.1 Introduction -- 25.2 Ken Olsen -- 25.3 Dudley Buck and the Cryotron -- 25.4 Marvin Minsky -- 25.5 Claude Shannon -- 25.6 Frank Rosenblatt and the Perceptron -- 25.7 Bill Shockley -- 25.8 Arthur Samuel -- 25.9 Sukhanova Conference, John McCarthy, Karl Steinbuch -- 25.10 First Snowbird Neural Network Workshop, John Hopfield, David Rumelhart -- 25.11 Lotfi Zadeh -- 25.12 Richard Feynman -- 25.13 Senator Henry Jackson, Admiral Hyman Rickover -- 25.14 Edward Teller -- 25.15 Women -- 25.16 Summary -- Reference -- 26 Ancient History -- 26.1 Introduction -- 26.2 Learning Experiments with ADALINE -- 26.3 The Memistor -- 26.4 MADALINE -- 26.5 Post Script -- 26.6 Personal Ancient History -- 26.7 Summary -- References.

Die Bürger von Calais : Bühnenspiel in drei akten / Georg Kaiser ; einem Gegdenkwort von Artur Müller

• Record Nr.: UNISALENTO991002020379707536
• Autore: Kaiser, Georg
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Mannheim : Kassler, 1956
• Descrizione fisica: 111 p. ; 19 cm.
• Altri autori (Persone): Müller, Artur
• Disciplina: 832.912
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung

• Record Nr.: UNICASAQ10014512
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Reutlingen, : Gryphius, 1946-
• ISSN: 0044-3301
• Descrizione fisica: v. ; 24 cm
• Disciplina: 105
• Soggetti: Filosofia - Periodici
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico
• Note generali: Trimestrale; Luogo ed editore variano. Poi: Frankfurt am Main : Klostermann.

The academic writer's toolkit : a user's manual / / Arthur Asa Berger ; illustrated by the author

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910973468303321
• Autore: Berger Arthur Asa <1933->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Walnut Creek, Calif., : Left Coast Press, c2008
• ISBN: 1-315-41931-9; 1-59874-763-0; 1-315-41932-7; 1-315-41933-5
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 808/.042; 808.02
• Soggetti: English language - Rhetoric; Report writing; Academic writing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-160) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Mission Impossible?; PART I: THE WRITING PROCESS; CHAPTER 1: The Academic Writer's Toolkit; CHAPTER 2: The Writing Process: Ideas and Research; CHAPTER 3: The Writing Process: Outlining, Drafting, and Revising; CHAPTER 4: On Structure and Style; CHAPTER 5: Composing Strategies; PART II: GENRES OF ACADEMIC WRITING; CHAPTER 6: Writing Effective Memos; CHAPTER 7: The Art of the Academic Letter; CHAPTER 8: Readable Reports; CHAPTER 9: Proposals That Persuade; CHAPTER 10: Writing a Journal Article; CHAPTER 11: Writing an Academic Book; CHAPTER 12: Notes on Other Writing GenresCoda; Further Resources; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: Berger’s slim, user-friendly volume on academic writing is a gift to linguistically-stressed academics. Author of 60 published books, the author speaks to junior scholars and graduate students about the process and products of academic writing. He differentiates between business writing skills for memos, proposals, and reports, and the scholarly writing that occurs in journals and books. He has suggestions ; for getting the “turgid” out of turgid academic prose and offers suggestions on how to best structure various forms of documents for effective communication. Written in Berger’s friendly, personal style, he shows by example that academics can write good, readable prose in a variety of genres.