Nothing Personal

Written by experts in the field, this book describes the Personal Network architecture and its various components This book focuses on networking and security aspects of Personal Networks (PNs). Given a single user, the authors propose an architecture for PNs in which devices are divided into one of two types of nodes: personal nodes and foreign nodes. Furthermore, the authors demonstrate the ways in which PNs can be formed in a self-organized and secure way, how they can be interconnected using infrastructure networks, how multiple PNs can be connected, and how their services and resources can be shared. In addition, the book shows how security and ease-of-use can be achieved through automatic configuration and how mobility can be supported through adaptability and self-organization. The motivations for the PN concept, the PN architecture, its functionalities and features, as well as future challenges are covered in depth. Finally, the authors consider the potential applications for PNs and briefly discuss additional support systems for PN applications. The latter includes service discovery and context information management among others. Key Features: Describes the PN network architecture and its various components in-depth Written by experts who developed this concept Discusses the newer topic of federations of PNs Considers potential PN applications, and demonstrates how applications support systems, such as service discovery and context management, can assist the applications Provides an insight into the challenges of future personal networking, architectures for PNs, potential and important solutions, and their implications This book will serve as an invaluable reference for researchers, developers, and standardization experts in mobile and wireless communication systems and services. It will also be of interest to postgraduate students in the field of telecommunications.

In Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management, Chuck Widger and Dr. Daniel Crosby outline the ways in which a program of embedded behavioral finance, fueled by what matters most to you, can be your protection against irrational financial behavior. Along the way, you'll learn how to improve your investment experience, increase returns formerly sacrificed to misbehavior, and worry less about «The Economy» as you become increasingly focused on «My Economy.» Welcome to a new way of investing, a new paradigm for conceptualizing wealth, and a system of turning emotion from your portfolio's worst enemy into its best friend! In this new model, risk is simply the likelihood that we will underperform our dreams. Irrationality is acting in ways that thwart our ability to reach those dreams. And the optimal portfolio is not the one that generates the highest return in abstraction, it is the one that helps us meet our goals without killing our nerves before we get there. This book gives advisors the tools needed to effectively communicate the design and execution of the Personal Benchmark solution.

For more than a decade, Carol Smart has been at the forefront of debates about the sociology of the family. Yet she has become frustrated by the fixation of many commentators with the supposed decline of commitment, and even the decline of the possibility of family life. In this exciting new book, she puts forward a new way of understanding families and relationships. Breaking with conventional wisdom, her book offers a fresh conceptual approach to understanding personal life, which realigns empirical research with theoretical analysis. She gives emphasis to ideas of connectedness, relationality and embeddedness, rejecting many of the assumptions found in theories of individualisation and de-traditionalisation by authors such as Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, Bauman and Giddens. Instead, her approach prioritises the bonds between people, the importance of memory and cultural heritage, the significance of emotions (both positive and negative), how family secrets work and change over time, and the underestimated importance of things such as shared possessions or homes in the maintenance and memory of relationships. This ground-breaking text will be essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of families and personal relationships, and who wants to understand this most intimate area of social life.

The new era of powerful, mobile computing and sensing devices having ever larger memories and personal databases brings to light a number of difficult problems in software, interface design, search, organization of information, and methods for inferring context and for sharing personal content… The authors have done an admirable job at describing the problems and opportunities and, as such, this book should be on the shelves of researchers struggling to make these mobile devices truly valuable to the ever expanding number of their users. —David G. Stork, Chief Scientist, Ricoh Innovations Personal Content Experience is a comprehensive introduction to mobile personal content. The book introduces and explores issues such as context capture, user interfaces for continuous mobile use, UI design for mobile media applications, metadata magic, virtual communities, and ontologies. User interactions and behavioural patterns with personal content are also covered, resulting in a ‘GEMS’ lifecycle model for analysing media devices, services, applications, and user interfaces. In addition, the book describes an extensible software architecture targeted at content management in mobile devices, pointing out the essential topics that will benefit anyone developing mobile content-intensive applications and services. Personal Content Experience: Establishes a foundation for analyzing applications, services and user interfaces targeted at personal content. Provides a strong industrial insight, combining hands-on examples, application concepts and software architecture descriptions with theoretical frameworks and models. Offers a multi-disciplinary approach, considering both user perspective and technology aspects. This book is a clear and practical guide to the field of personal content and will be invaluable to practitioners in mobile industry and digital content management, media-intensive application developers, content creators and distributors, academic researchers, and lecturers in computer science and multimedia.

In the half century that has passed since George Kelly put forward his psychology of personal constructs, there have been major advances in the form of psychotherapy derived from his theory. This book presents developments in the personal construct theory perspective on psychological disorders and their treatment in the context of contemporary issues in psychotherapy; illustrates the diverse range of personal construct psychotherapy approaches that have been devised for a wide range of clinical problems; and indicates the growing evidence base for these approaches. It contains contributions from most of the leading international practitioners in the field. It will not only be of interest to psychotherapists, other clinicians, academics, and students who are already familiar with personal construct theory or constructivism, but also to those who are seeking a therapeutic approach which is integrative but has a clear theoretical rationale, and which is able to combine humanism with rigour.

This book presents the latest thinking and research in Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) covering a broad range of areas of interest to both researcher and practitioner. It provides reports of empirical research, reflections by practicing personal construct psychologists and conceptual analyses of issues pertaining to current and emerging theoretical issues in PCP. The book consists of five sections covering: Theory and History Assessment and Understanding Problems of Living Evidence-Based Interventions Other Interventions, Clinical and Educational Contributors are international scholars and practitioners based in a variety of clinical settings. In addition, the contributions reflect the internationalisation of PCP, with contributors coming from the USA, the UK, Europe and Australasia. Personal Construct Psychology is a valuable resource for a wide range of health professionals, educationalists and practitioners in counselling and clinical psychology.

Written by an international team of experts, this collection provides a comprehensive account of established and emerging methods of collecting and analysing data within the framework of personal construct theory. Covers methods such as content analysis scales, repertory grid methodology, narrative assessments and drawings, the laddering and ABC techniques, and discusses how and why they are used Explores both qualitative and quantitative methods, as well as methods used in clinical and counselling settings Includes 13 contributions from leading international scholars

Беспроводные наушники Nothing Ear (a) имеют узнаваемый фирменный дизайн с прозрачными элементами и динамиками диаметром 11 мм. Кодек высокого разрешения LDAC, активное шумоподавление мощностью 45 дБ и алгоритм усиления низких частот обеспечивают новый уровень звука. При этом время работы может достигать 42 часов. Внешний вид Прозрачный кейс у Nothing Ear (a) получил новый рельефный дизайн. Вкладыши весят по 4.8 г каждый, а с зарядным устройством — 49.2 г. Легкий и изящный прямоугольный кейс с наушниками удобно держать, он легко помещается в кармане. Звук Гаджет позволяет наслаждаться великолепным звучанием вне зависимости от обстановки. Мощное активное шумоподавление в 45 дБ оснащено интеллектуальным алгоритмами, обнаруживает и снижает помехи. Вручную можно переключаться между тремя режимами шумоподавления в зависимости от окружающей обстановки. При выборе в приложении Nothing X четвертого, адаптивного режима наушники автоматически будут переключаться, ориентируясь по ситуации вокруг. В улучшенном динамике больше пространства для вибрации звуковых волн, поэтому высокие ноты получаются насыщенней, а низкие — детальней. Этому способствует и алгоритм усиления низких частот. Nothing Ear (a) имеют сертификат воспроизведения звука со скоростью до 990 Кбит/с и с частотой до 24 бит/96 кГц. При поддержке кодека LDAC передача звука по Bluetooth происходит в высоком разрешении. Автономность Наушники способны проигрывать музыку до 9.5 часа. При подзарядке в кейсе время прослушивания увеличивается до 42.5 часа без включенного шумоподавления. Благодаря быстрой зарядке 10 минут подключения к сети достаточно для прослушивания музыки в течение 10 часов.  Другие особенности В Nothing Ear (a) есть режим уменьшенной задержки звука для комфортного игрового процесса и функция двойного подключения для одновременного соединения наушников с планшетом и телефоном или другой парой устройств. Голос собеседника в наушниках звучит четко благодаря технологии, снижающей помехи при разговоре. С помощью голоса можно получить доступ с подключенного аудиоустройства к нейросети ChatGPT. Управление Функции гаджета легко настраиваются в приложении Nothing X. Там доступно управление эквалайзером, алгоритмом усиления низких частот, активным шумоподавлением и двойным подключением.

As persons, we are importantly different from all other creatures in the universe. But in what, exactly, does this difference consist? What kinds of entities are we, and what makes each of us the same person today that we were yesterday? Could we survive having all of our memories erased and replaced with false ones? What about if our bodies were destroyed and our brains were transplanted into android bodies, or if instead our minds were simply uploaded to computers? In this engaging and accessible introduction to these important philosophical questions, Amy Kind brings together three different areas of research: the nature of personhood, theories of personal identity over time, and the constitution of self-identity. Surveying the key contemporary theories in the philosophical literature, Kind analyzes and assesses their strengths and weaknesses. As she shows, our intuitions on these issues often pull us in different directions, making it difficult to develop an adequate general theory. Throughout her discussion, Kind seamlessly interweaves a vast array of up-to-date examples drawn from both real life and popular fiction, all of which greatly help to elucidate this central topic in metaphysics. A perfect text for readers coming to these issues for the first time, Persons and Personal Identity engages with some of the deepest and most important questions about human nature and our place in the world, making it a vital resource for students and researchers alike.

NOTHING CMF Buds Pro 2 — стильные, компактные и современные вставные наушники с интеллектуальной системой активного шумоподавления. Гаджетам не страшны ни дождь, ни ветер — они отлично подходят тем, кто занимается спортом, ведет активный образ жизни и много времени проводит на свежем воздухе. Дизайн и эргономика Традиционный лаконичный дизайн наушников проверен временем. Они выполнены в виде бутонов с мягкими удобными амбушюрами из силикона и тонкой ножкой. Область сенсора расположена в верхней части ножки, в нижней предусмотрено два отверстия, которые снижают шум ветра, чтобы он не мешал во время телефонного разговора и прослушивания музыки. Наушники защищены от пыли и влаги по стандарту IP55 и не боятся ни брызг дождя, ни капель пота владельца во время активной тренировки. Умный кейс Чехол устройства предназначен не только для зарядки и хранения наушников, но и для управления некоторыми функциями. Так, с помощью поворотной кнопки на его корпусе можно активировать голосового помощника, отключить микрофон, регулировать громкость звука, управлять воспроизведением, переключить наушники в режим низкой задержки. Благодаря управляющему элементу на корпусе кейса владельцу не придется, например, каждый раз доставать смартфон, чтобы уменьшить громкость музыки. Гибридное активное шумоподавление Гаджеты поддерживают технологию активного адаптивного шумоподавления — они отслеживают внешний звуковой фон и эффективно отсекают его. Глубина шумоподавления модели — до 50 дБ, в частотном диапазоне — до 5000 Гц. Кристально чистый звук Благодаря настройкам Dirac Opteo и технологии Ultra Bass 2.0 владелец наушников слышит музыку такой, какой ее задумывал исполнитель. Драйвер 11 мм и твитер 6 мм воспроизводят кинематографический, пространственный звук без искажений, с насыщенными басами, хрустальными нижними и четкими средними частотами. Наушники поддерживают кодек LDAC и сертифицированы по стандарту HI-RES, что гарантирует высочайшее качество воспроизведения. Фирменное приложение Приложение Nothing X максимально задействует все возможности наушников. С его помощью можно регулировать параметры звука и сенсорного управления, правильно подобрать размер амбушюров. Для сопряжения со смартфоном наушники оснащены Bluetooth актуальной версии. Безупречное качество разговоров В каждом наушнике 3 встроенных микрофона высокой четкости с поддержкой технологии Clear Voice 2.0 и шумоподавлением. Любое общение по телефону или в голосовых чатах будет таким же качественным, как если бы собеседники находились рядом друг с другом. Долгое время работы Наушники оборудованы аккумулятором увеличенной емкости 60 мАч и проработают на одном заряде до 11 часов без ANS или до 6.5 часа с включенным шумоподавлением. Чехол обеспечит еще 3 полных заряда батареи.