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It has been the opinion of many that Wiener will be remembered for his Extrapolation long after Cybernetics is forgotten Indeed few computer-science students would know today what cybernetics is all about, while every communication student knows what Wiener's filter is. The work was circulated as a classified memorandum in 1942, as it was connected with sensitive war-time efforts to improve radar communication. This book became the basis for modern communication theory, by a scientist considered one of the founders of the field of artifical intelligence. Combining ideas from statistics and time-series analysis, Wiener used Gauss's method of shaping the characteristic of a detector to allow for the maximal recognition of signals in the presence of noise. This method came to be known as the "Wiener filter.".
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The biological and social sciences often generalize causal conclusions from one context or location to others that may differ in some relevant respects, as is illustrated by inferences from animal models to humans or from a pilot study to a broader population. Inferences like these are known as extrapolations. The question of how and when extrapolation can be legitimate is a fundamental issue for the biological and social sciences that has not received the attention it deserves. In Across the Boundaries, Steel argues that previous accounts of extrapolation are inadequate and proposes a better approach that is able to answer methodological critiques of extrapolation from animal models to humans.
Across the Boundaries develops the thought that knowledge of mechanisms linking cause to effect can serve as a basis for extrapolation. Despite its intuitive appeal, this idea faces several obstacles. Extrapolation is worthwhile only when there are stringent practical or ethical limitations on what can be learned about the target (say, human) population by studying it directly. Meanwhile, the mechanisms approach rests on the idea that extrapolation is justified when mechanisms are the same or similar enough. Yet since mechanisms may differ significantly between model and target, it needs to be explained how the suitability of the model could be established given only very limited information about the target. Moreover, since model and target are rarely alike in all relevant respects, an adequate account of extrapolation must also explain how extrapolation can be legitimate even when some causally relevant differences are present.
Steel explains how his proposal can answer these challenges, illustrates his account with a detailed biological case study, and explores its implications for such traditional philosophy of science topics ceteris paribus laws and reductionism. Finally, he considers whether mechanisms-based extrapolation can work in social science..
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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A379483. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This thesis develops an extended Kalman filter for real-time estimation of rigid body motion altitude. The filter represents rotations using quaternions rather than Euler angles, which eliminates the long-standing problem of singularities associated with those angles. A process model for rigid body angular motions and angular rate measurements is defined. The process model converts angular rates into quaternion rates, which are in turn integrated to obtain quaternions. The outputs of the model are values of three-dimensional angular rates, three-dimensional linear accelerations, and three-dimensional magnetic field vector. Gauss-Newton iteration is utilized to find the best quaternion that relates the measured linear accelerations and earth magnetic field in the body coordinate frame to calculated values in the earth coordinate frame. The quaternion obtained from the optimization algorithm is used as part of the observations for the Kalman filter. As a result, the measurement equations become linear. A new approach to attitude estimation is introduced in this thesis. The computational requirements related to the extended Kalman filter developed using this approach are significantly reduced, making it possible to estimate attitude in real-time. Extensive static and dynamic simulation of the filter using Matlab proved it to be robust. Test cases included the presence of large initial errors as well as high noise levels. In all cases the filter was able to converge and accurately track attitude..
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The latest tools for investigating stress response in organisms, genomic technologies provide great insight into how different organisms respond to environmental conditions. However, their usefulness needs to be tested, verified, and codified. Genomic Approaches for Cross-Species Extrapolation in Toxicology provides a balanced discussion drawn from the experience of thirty-five scientists and professionals from diverse fields including environmental toxicology and chemistry, biomedical toxicology, molecular biology, genetics, physiology, bioinformatics, computer science, and statistics. The book introduces genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic technologies. It describes the advantages and challenges associated with these approaches compared to traditional methodologies, particularly from the perspective of cross-species extrapolation within human and environmental toxicology, and explores solutions that will facilitate the incorporation of these technologies into predictive toxicology. The book goes on to identify and prioritize species of animals that can serve as surrogates for environmental and human health in comparative toxicogenomic studies. The chapter authors elucidate similarities and differences among species, relate stressor-mediated responses to adverse outcomes, and extend this science into innovative approaches to risk assessment and regulatory decision-making..
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Title: Revolutions from the waist downwards: desire as rebellion in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, George Orwell's 1984, and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.(Critical essay)
Author: Thomas Horan
Publication:Extrapolation (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 48 Issue: 2 Page: 314(26)

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This digital document is an article from Extrapolation, published by Extrapolation on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 7578 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Measure of a Man? Asimov's Bicentennial Man, Star Trek's Data, and being human.
Author: Sue Short
Publication:Extrapolation (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2003
Publisher: Extrapolation
Volume: 44 Issue: 2 Page: 209(16)

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Title: The relationship between community and subjectivity in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower.
Author: Clara Escoda Agusti
Publication:Extrapolation (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 46 Issue: 3 Page: 351(9)

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