Spotlight on Neurotechnology: Interacting with Networks

A Spotlight on Spotlight

In this paper, we have made an attempt to take a look under the hood of Spotlight and understand some of the following questions amongst others: • How well-integrated is Spotlight with the file system? • How reliable is the interface between Spotlight and the file system? • Is live update a myth or a reality under heavy file system activity? Based on our experiments, it seems that Spotlight is ...

Percolation on interacting, antagonistic networks

Recently, new results on percolation of interdependent networks have shown that the percolation transition can be first order. In this paper we show that, when considering antagonistic interactions between interacting networks, the percolation process might present a bistability of the equilibrium solution. To this end, we introduce antagonistic interactions for which the functionality, or acti...

Neurotechnology and Psychiatric Biomarkers

Neuroscience as a scientific discipline has enjoyed enormous growth and success in the past decade. Some have called the early 20th century the golden age of physics, the latter half of the 20th century a period when the genomic revolution blossomed and predict that the early 21st century will be a period when brain sciences achieve remarkable success. While understanding the basic mechanisms o...

Neurotechnology for Biomimetic Robots

Spotlight on Knowledge SPOTLIGHT ON KNOWLEDGE: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

In this paper, Adomako Ampofo discusses the activism and struggles that gave birth to the domestic violence law in Ghana. A professor in African Studies and a women’s rights activist herself, Adomako Ampofo traces the trajectory of Ghanaian women organizing for change from the pre-colonial period, through the independent struggles to the passage of the domestic violence bill into law. She parti...