Introduction

Tap ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anindya Ghose
Keyword(s):  
Smart Phones ◽  
Human Intelligence ◽  
Mobile Data ◽  
Present Volume

This introductory chapter begins with an explanation of the motivation behind the present volume. The author goes back to sometime in late 2009 or early 2010, when he first heard the phrase “we live in an era of smart phones and stupid people.” He recalls being both very amused and intellectually intrigued by this statement, not so much about what smartphones would eventually do to human intelligence, but more by how it could become an exceptional source of intelligence for businesses. The chapter then sets out the book's purpose, which is to demystify the mobile economy and take the uncertainty out of the process of harnessing the power of mobile data and delivering value to consumers. It concludes with an overview of the three parts of the book.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Corsino
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Italian Population ◽  
World War ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
Personal Community ◽  
Group Characteristics

This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore the emergence of the Italian Mafia in one particular setting. It examines a long-standing organizational component of the Chicago Outfit—namely, the Chicago Heights boys. It looks at the Chicago Heights operation from its beginning in the early 1900s to the heyday of Outfit activities in the post-World War II era. Along the way, the book attempts to unravel the mix of social and cultural discriminations against Italians in the early part of the last century, the consequential group characteristics that emerged within the local Italian population, and the appropriation of these characteristics as social capital resources in the collective pursuit of social mobility. The remainder of the chapter discusses the personal, community, and public contexts of the present volume, followed by an overview of the subsequent chapters.

Introduction: Slavery, Social Revolutions and Enduring Memories

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Lane ◽  
Kevin C. Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Approach ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Slavery played an important role in the economies of most historically documented African states of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This introductory chapter considers the regionality and relative antiquity of various forms of enslavement on the African continent, as well as a range of emergent archaeological studies on the subject. Further, the lingering impacts of slave economies and the memories of enslavement are critically assessed, including consideration of recent efforts to document and ‘memorialise’ both the tangible and intangible heritage of slavery on the continent. The contributions to the present volume are situated within these issues with the aim of drawing out commonalities between chapters and emphasising the value of an inter-regional comparative approach.

scholarly journals Towards Activity Recognition through Multidimensional Mobile Data Fusion with a Smartphone and Deep Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Junkuo Cao ◽  
Mingcai Lin ◽  
Han Wang ◽  
Jiacheng Fang ◽  
Yueshen Xu
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Test Evaluation ◽  
Mobile Data ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Model Training ◽  
Medicine Education

The field of activity recognition has evolved relatively early and has attracted countless researchers. With the continuous development of science and technology, people’s research on human activity recognition is also deepening and becoming richer. Nowadays, whether it is medicine, education, sports, or smart home, various fields have developed a strong interest in activity recognition, and a series of research results have also been put into people’s real production and life. Nowadays, smart phones have become quite popular, and the technology is becoming more and more mature, and various sensors have emerged at the historic moment, so the related research on activity recognition based on mobile phone sensors has its necessity and possibility. This article will use an Android smartphone to collect the data of six basic behaviors of human, which are walking, running, standing, sitting, going upstairs, and going downstairs, through its acceleration sensor, and use the classic model of deep learning CNN (convolutional neural network) to fuse those multidimensional mobile data, using TensorFlow for model training and test evaluation. The generated model is finally transplanted to an Android phone to complete the mobile-end activity recognition system.

The Guardian of Difference

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Richard Langston
Keyword(s):  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
German City ◽  
Alexander Kluge ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
At Home

This introductory chapter provides a background of the essayist Alexander Kluge. Born in 1932 in the central German city of Halberstadt, the German polymath Alexander Kluge is certainly known both at home and abroad for wearing many hats. Above all, his career as one of New German Cinema's most cerebral filmmakers still commands international acclaim. First and foremost a writer of stories, Kluge returned to writing in earnest in 2000 and has generated since then an astonishing complex corpus of storybooks that has grown more than twice the size of what he published during his first robust literary phase. A filmmaker, author, and television producer, Kluge is, however, more than just the sum of this triumvirate. He is also recognized as a trained musician and lawyer, an accomplished theorist with roots in the Frankfurt School, a savvy media activist and entrepreneur, and a celebrated public intellectual of the highest stature. Kluge is also arguably one of Germany's great essayists of the late twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Collected in the present volume are twenty-eight examples of Kluge's essayistic thinking that attest to his long-standing commitment to “intellectual freedom.” The chapter then looks at the concepts of difference and orientation, which are recurrent themes throughout all of Kluge's thought.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Wade
Keyword(s):  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The Harlem Renaissance

This introductory chapter first describes the artists featured in this volume. These twelve musicians, singers, and groups recorded between 1934 and 1942—seven black and five white—provide a baker's dozen of folksongs and traditional tunes. Apart from their surpassing artistic gifts, these individuals illuminate an America rich with local creativity. They resided in such places as Salyersville, Kentucky; Byhalia, Mississippi; and Salem, Virginia. They also confined their music making largely to their own communities. Sometimes they sang on playgrounds, sometimes while chopping cotton, and sometimes from behind bars. The remainder of the chapter discusses sociologist and a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Charles S. Johnson; the origins of the present volume; and the author's recollections of the wonderful, frustrating, frightening, and transporting moments with the songs and singers that comprised the present volume.

scholarly journals No Mobile Phobia Phenomenon _ A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Suhad Behadili ◽  
Hadeel Jabar ◽  
Walaa Tahlok ◽  
Safa Abdulsahib
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Mobile Data ◽  
Data Mining Techniques ◽  
Statistical Studies ◽  
High Engagement

The No Mobile Phone Phobia or Nomophobia notion is referred to the psychological condition once humans have a fear of being disconnected from mobile phone connectivity. Hence, it is considered as a recent age phobia that emerged nowadays as a consequence of high engagement between people, mobile data, and communication inventions, especially the smart phones. This review is based on earlier observations and current debate such as commonly used techniques that modeling and analyzing this phenomenon like statistical studies. All that in order to possess preferable comprehension concerning human reactions to the speedy technological ubiquitous. Accordingly, humans ought to restrict their utilization of mobile phones instead of prohibiting it, due to the fact that they could not evade the power of technological progression. In that matter, future perspectives would be employing data mining techniques to explore deep knowledge, which represents correlated relationship between the human and the mobile phone.

1. Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Tom Clark ◽  
Liam Foster ◽  
Alan Bryman
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
Definition Of

This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the definition of a dissertation. It then sets out the ways in which the present volume can help students with their dissertation, i.e. how to move from a focus on the theory of research methods to the process of actually undertaking research. Throughout, the book provides a number of features that help students to deal with the challenges of writing a dissertation, and suggests how they might overcome them. These features draw directly on the experiences of students who have undertaken a dissertation, and the expertise of dissertation supervisors from different disciplines. The chapter then goes on to explain how this book is organized followed by an overview of the subsequent chapters.

Introduction: Defectiveness: Typology and Diachrony

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Baerman ◽  
Greville G. Corbett
Keyword(s):  
Present Volume ◽  
Major Class

A defective word is defined by paradigm as incomplete compared with the major class it belongs to. Defectiveness signifies the unwanted intrusion of morphological idiosyncrasy into syntax. Although this phenomenon has been a constant subject of studies, it has been ill incorporated into the theories of language. This present volume brings together scholars from various theoretical schools for an overdue typological view of defectiveness. It concentrates on some samples of idiosyncratic gaps which are assumed as indicative of the phenomenon of defectiveness. Before delving into the specified topics of each chapter, this introductory chapter presents a typology of defective paradigms. It discusses terms used to describe defectiveness in synchronotic terms, and the possible diachrony of defective paradigms.

Musical Algorithms as Tools, Languages, and Partners

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex McLean ◽  
Roger T. Dean
Keyword(s):  
Research And Practice ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
Algorithmic Music ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Modern Era

This is an introductory chapter to The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music, and the practical, historical, philosophical, and cultural perspectives that it covers. This chapter outlines the structure and scope of the book, provides some background and motivation for its focus, covers points of terminology, and summarizes the development of the field in the modern era. It then signposts the following chapters and relates them to one another in terms of some of the key issues that are covered. As algorithmic music is a fast-developing field, the chapter then outlines contemporary directions in order to look forward to the next steps in both research and practice. The chapter concludes with further signposting, this time to literature which may be read in partnership with the present volume.

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