Vigilance's Solution
Vigilance's Solution

Author: Jeremy Michelson

Publisher: Jeremy Michelson

Published:

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13:

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After fifty years, the original Vigilante’s secret is revealed. A mysterious manuscript arrives from Suni’s long dead father, Thomas. In those pages, he tells the tale of a secret episode from the original Vigilante, Blake Trumbull’s, colorful past. Blake and Thomas have been wrongly accused of the brutal murder of their colleague. Forcing Blake to reveal his secret identity to his friend. Together they must track down the true murderer. But the truth turns about to be even stranger than they could believe. A plot so twisted and depraved that it leaves them reeling. One man’s senseless death could trigger the deaths of thousands. The Vigilante has only one chance to save the city. But the villains behind the deadly plan have an advantage he didn’t count on. Can the Vigilante and his impromptu sidekick, Thomas, somehow prevail against diabolical, merciless forces? The exciting tale in the Bedlam’s Heroes series that couldn’t be told until now.

Cybersecurity Vigilance and Security Engineering of Internet of Everything
Cybersecurity Vigilance and Security Engineering of Internet of Everything

Author: Kashif Naseer Qureshi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-11-30

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 3031451627

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This book first discusses cyber security fundamentals then delves into security threats and vulnerabilities, security vigilance, and security engineering for Internet of Everything (IoE) networks. After an introduction, the first section covers the security threats and vulnerabilities or techniques to expose the networks to security attacks such as repudiation, tampering, spoofing, and elevation of privilege. The second section of the book covers vigilance or prevention techniques like intrusion detection systems, trust evaluation models, crypto, and hashing privacy solutions for IoE networks. This section also covers the security engineering for embedded and cyber-physical systems in IoE networks such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and machine learning-based solutions to secure the networks. This book provides a clear overview in all relevant areas so readers gain a better understanding of IoE networks in terms of security threats, prevention, and other security mechanisms.

The Sleep Solution
The Sleep Solution

Author: Manvir Bhatia

Publisher: Random House India

Published: 2016-11-17

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9385990446

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Why do we sleep? What causes insomnia? How many hours of sleep are adequate? Sleep is a complex phenomenon, and even though we spend one-third of our lives sleeping, there’s still very little that we know about it. In this path-breaking book on sleep, Dr Manvir Bhatia, one of the country’s top sleep specialists, sheds light on the fascinating connection between sleep and the brain, sleep and beauty, and sleep and weight, among other things. From delving into common sleep problems and weird phenomena observed in sleep like sexsomnia, narcolepsy (falling asleep at random times) and sleep apnea (pauses in breathing during sleep) to the specific tools needed to ensure good sleep, The Sleep Solution is the go-to book for all your sleep-related problems. ‘Don't go to bed without reading this’—Suhel Seth ‘Grab this book, absorb it and then sleep deep’—Dilip Cherian

Vigilance and the Plague
Vigilance and the Plague

Author: Sébastien Demichel

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-04

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 3111026167

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This book focuses on the connection between vigilance and the plague in France throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. For more than three centuries, between the middle of the 14th century up until circa 1670, the prevalence of the plague in France was said to be endemic, before it then vanished from French territory. The Great Plague of Marseille (1720-1722, which also impacted the rest of Provence, the County of Venaissin and Languedoc) proved to be an exception. During that period, the fight against the plague was deemed a top-priority along the French coast, and health institutions, called bureaux de la santé, were developed. Contributions to this book primarily focus on health vigilance from the standpoint of how to prevent an epidemic and how to respond to a declared epidemic. Among the salient themes addressed are: communications between health and different state actors, prevailing religious and political norms, and the popular participation in the fight against the plague. The use of the concept of vigilance enables the mobilisation of often rather distant branches of history, namely institutional. social, religious history, the history of communication and the history of public health.

Animal Vigilance
Animal Vigilance

Author: Guy Beauchamp

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2015-06-29

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0128019948

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Animal Vigilance builds on the author's previous publication with Academic Press (Social Predation: How Group Living Benefits Predators and Prey) by developing several other themes including the development and mechanisms underlying vigilance, as well as developing more fully the evolution and function of vigilance. Animal vigilance has been at the forefront of research on animal behavior for many years, but no comprehensive review of this topic has existed. Students of animal behavior have focused on many aspects of animal vigilance, from models of its adaptive value to empirical research in the laboratory and in the field. The vast literature on vigilance is widely dispersed with often little contact between models and empirical work and between researchers focusing on different taxa such as birds and mammals. Animal Vigilance fills this gap in the available material. - Tackles vigilance from all angles, theoretical and empirical, while including the broadest range of species to underscore unifying themes - Discusses several newer developments in the area, such as vigilance copying and effect of food density - Highlights recent challenges to assumptions of traditional models of vigilance, such as the assumption that vigilance is independent among group members, which is reviewed during discussion of synchronization and coordination of vigilance in a group - Written by a top expert in animal vigilance

Vigilance Returns
Vigilance Returns

Author: Jeremy Michelson

Publisher: Jeremy Michelson

Published:

Total Pages: 647

ISBN-13:

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Can a new hero rise from the ashes of a fallen hero? One day you’re a recluse living in quiet isolation in your mom and dad’s house. The next you’re homeless, living in a 1979 Ford Pinto Wagon you bought from your uncle for a hundred dollars. Oh, and the Pinto happens to be haunted by the ghost of a vigilante hero. But you haven’t figured that out yet. You’re too busy stressing about where your next meal is coming from, since you lost all the money that was in your pocket. Sucks to be you. But that’s not the worst. You’re far from home, in a city that’s threatening to come apart and eat itself alive. The city needs a hero. You need friends and a job and a place to live. You’re in no position to be anyone’s hero. Except there’s something about that Pinto you bought from your uncle. It never needs gas. It can’t be damaged. Sometimes things…happen around it. You’re slowly putting the pieces together. Can you figure it all out before the bad guys come for you again? Because next time…they’re going to do more than beat you up. They’re going to kill you. But before they kill you, they’re going to kill your new friends. Are you going to let that happen? Can that ghost living in your car help you? Can you both be the heroes your friends and your city needs in their darkest hour? Vigilance Returns, the first twisting adventure in the Bedlam’s Heroes series.

Artificial Intelligence in Design ’96
Artificial Intelligence in Design ’96

Author: John S. Gero

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 765

ISBN-13: 9400902794

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Change is one of the most significant parameters in our society. Designers are amongst the primary change agents for any society. As a consequence design is an important research topic in engineering and architecture and related disciplines, since design is not only a means of change but is also one of the keystones to economic competitiveness and the fundamental precursor to manufacturing. The development of computational models founded on the artificial intelligence paradigm has provided an impetus for much of current design research -both computational and cognitive. These forms of design research have only been carried out in the last decade or so and in the temporal sense they are still immature. Notwithstanding this immaturity, noticeable advances have been made both in extending our understanding of design and in developing tools based on that understanding. Whilst many researchers in the field of artificial intelligence in design utilise ideas about how humans design as one source of concepts there is normally no attempt to model human designers. Rather the results of the research presented in this volume demonstrate approaches to increasing our understanding of design as a process.