{"title":"Skulls, Scalps, and Seminoles","authors":"Cameron B. Strang","doi":"10.5149/NORTHCAROLINA/9781469640471.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/NORTHCAROLINA/9781469640471.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the Second Seminole War (1835–1842) and how whites and natives both developed new knowledge about the Seminoles as a unique ethnic group through violence against each other’s dead. On the one hand, Euro-Americans looked to native skulls to add scientific legitimacy to assertions that the Seminoles were a clearly defined ethnicity whose supposed predisposition for violence and lack of ancestral bonds to Florida justified their removal. On the other hand, the collection and circulation of white scalps strengthened the Seminoles’ understanding of themselves as a distinct people and allowed them to rebuild complete communities—ones that integrated the living, the multiethnic dead, and Floridian land—despite the trauma of the war.","PeriodicalId":12640,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Computer Science","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2018-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83991295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethnography and Intelligence in the Time of Conquest","authors":"Cameron B. Strang","doi":"10.5149/NORTHCAROLINA/9781469640471.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/NORTHCAROLINA/9781469640471.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyzes ethnographic writings about and by the diverse peoples of the Gulf South in the early 1800s. It argues that ethnography in the United States developed amid the encounters brought about by U.S. imperialism and defined contested hierarchies of mental ability that Anglo-Americans used to legitimate their supremacy. Many Anglo-Americans performed ethnographic observations during and after the United States’ conquest of the Gulf South that seemed to reinforce the hypothesis that nonwhites had inherently inferior brains and could never achieve equality in the nation’s political and intellectual communities. However, blacks, natives, creoles, and even a few Anglo-Americans used ethnography to challenge the new order that U.S. rule was making, and they tended to favor the increasingly old-fashioned perspective that all men were created equal.","PeriodicalId":12640,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Computer Science","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2018-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74367777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tran Minh Quan, David Grant Colburn Hildebrand, W. Jeong
{"title":"FusionNet: A Deep Fully Residual Convolutional Neural Network for Image Segmentation in Connectomics","authors":"Tran Minh Quan, David Grant Colburn Hildebrand, W. Jeong","doi":"10.3389/fcomp.2021.613981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2021.613981","url":null,"abstract":"Cellular-resolution connectomics is an ambitious research direction with the goal of generating comprehensive brain connectivity maps using high-throughput, nano-scale electron microscopy. One of the main challenges in connectomics research is developing scalable image analysis algorithms that require minimal user intervention. Deep learning has provided exceptional performance in image classification tasks in computer vision, leading to a recent explosion in popularity. Similarly, its application to connectomic analyses holds great promise. Here, we introduce a deep neural network architecture, FusionNet, with a focus on its application to accomplish automatic segmentation of neuronal structures in connectomics data. FusionNet combines recent advances in machine learning, such as semantic segmentation and residual neural networks, with summation-based skip connections. This results in a much deeper network architecture and improves segmentation accuracy. We demonstrate the performance of the proposed method by comparing it with several other popular electron microscopy segmentation methods. We further illustrate its flexibility through segmentation results for two different tasks: cell membrane segmentation and cell nucleus segmentation.","PeriodicalId":12640,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Computer Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2016-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73452014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaolong Zheng, Yongguang Zhong, Daniel Zeng, Fei-Yue Wang
{"title":"Social influence and spread dynamics in social networks.","authors":"Xiaolong Zheng, Yongguang Zhong, Daniel Zeng, Fei-Yue Wang","doi":"10.1007/s11704-012-1176-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-012-1176-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social networks often serve as a critical medium for information dissemination, diffusion of epidemics, and spread of behavior, by shared activities or similarities between individuals. Recently, we have witnessed an explosion of interest in studying social influence and spread dynamics in social networks. To date, relatively little material has been provided on a comprehensive review in this field. This brief survey addresses this issue. We present the current significant empirical studies on real social systems, including network construction methods, measures of network, and newly empirical results. We then provide a concise description of some related social models from both macro- and micro-level perspectives. Due to the difficulties in combining real data and simulation data for verifying and validating real social systems, we further emphasize the current research results of computational experiments. We hope this paper can provide researchers significant insights into better understanding the characteristics of personal influence and spread patterns in large-scale social systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":12640,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Computer Science","volume":"6 5","pages":"611-620"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11704-012-1176-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37832850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Graph Separators, with Applications","authors":"A. Rosenberg, Lenwood S. Heath","doi":"10.1007/b115747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/b115747","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12640,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Computer Science","volume":"13 1","pages":"I-XII, 1-257"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2001-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89935930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parallel evolution of parallel processors","authors":"G. Lerman, L. Rudolph","doi":"10.1007/978-1-4615-2856-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2856-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12640,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Computer Science","volume":"13 1","pages":"I-XI, 1-270"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"1994-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86010176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}