1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784632903321

Autore

Kolesnikov Alexander

Titolo

Java drawing with Apache Batik : a tutorial / / Alexander Kolesnikov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Montreal, CAN] : , : Brainy Software Corp., , 2007

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Soggetti

Java (Computer program language)

SVG (Document markup language)

XML (Document markup language)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797292603321

Autore

Richards Whitman

Titolo

Anigrafs : experiments in cooperative cognitive architecture / / Whitman Richards

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-262-32911-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

153

Soggetti

Cognition

Group decision making

Artificial intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Preliminaries : from babble to barter -- From vehicles to anigrafs -- Intrinsic knowledge -- Social connections: bartering -- Anigraf abstraction -- Animacy [action-agents] -- Anigraf1 -- Anigraf2 : swimmers : beginning to move -- Anigraf3: walkers : syncopated limbs -- Anigraf4: tally machines -- Cognition : agents with beliefs -- Anigraf5: dancers : mating games -- Anigraf6: planners : event sequencing -- Anigraf7: explorers : new worlds -- Anigraf8: alliances : coordinating diversity -- Metagrafs -- Representational forms -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Phase plots -- Glossary -- Commentaries -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"In this book, Whitman Richards offers a novel and provocative proposal for understanding decision making and human behavior. Building on Valentino Braitenberg's famous 'vehicles, ' Richards describes a collection of mental organisms that he calls 'daemons'--virtual correlates of neural modules. Daemons have favored choices and make decisions that control behaviors of the group to which they belong, with each daemon preferring a different outcome. Richards arranges these preferences in graphs, linking similar choices, which thus reinforce each other. 'Anigrafs' refers to these two components--animals, or the mental organisms (agents or daemons), and the graphs that show similarity relations. Together these two components are the basis of a new cognitive architecture. In Richards's account, a collection of daemons compete for control of the cognitive system in which they reside; the challenge is to get the daemons to agree on one of many choices. Richards explores the results of group decisions, emphasizing the Condorcet voting procedure for aggregating preferences. A neural mechanism is proposed. Anigrafs presents a series of group decisions that incorporate simple and complex movements, as well as aspects of cognition and belief. Anigrafs concludes with a section on 'metagrafs, ' which chart relationships between different anigraf models"--MIT CogNet.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910253909703321

Titolo

The Role of Pendrin in Health and Disease : Molecular and Functional Aspects of the SLC26A4 Anion Exchanger / / edited by Silvia Dossena, Markus Paulmichl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 226 p. 36 illus., 26 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

611.01816

Soggetti

Molecular biology

Otolaryngology

Endocrinology

Human genetics

Molecular Medicine

Otorhinolaryngology

Human Genetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pendrin and the Pendrin Consortium -- Pendrin role in the inner ear -- Pendrin role in the thyroid and Pendred syndrome -- Pendrin role in the kidney and hypertension -- Interplay between Pendrin and other renal transport molecules -- Pendrin role in the airways: links with asthma and COPD -- Pendrin expression and function in non-conventional sites -- Transcriptional regulation and epigenetics of Pendrin -- Models for Pendrin structure -- Genetic diagnosis of deafness -- Functional and molecular properties of Pendrin allelic variants -- Potential pharmacological interventions for Pendrin dysfunction.

Sommario/riassunto

This book reviews the current state of knowledge on the genetics, molecular biology and physiology of pendrin, with a particular focus on pendrin dysfunction and the consequences for human health.  Pendrin is a membrane transport protein expressed in the thyroid, inner ear, kidney and airways, and was recently found in a variety of other tissues



and organs. Pendrin malfunction may cause a genetic disease called Pendred syndrome or non-syndromic deafness. The book provides a thorough description of the multifaceted role of pendrin in human health and disease. As such, it offers an invaluable tool for physiology and pathology researchers, while also providing essential guidance for otorhinolaryngologists and endocrinologists in the diagnosis of Pendred syndrome and pendrin-related deafness.