This chapter introduces the Random Modulation Pre-Integrator (RMPI) and details the status of an integrated circuit implementing the architecture. To our knowledge, this is the first full-speed hardware RMPI in existence. The goal of this chapter is to describe some key parameters of the RMPI that are essential to its performance. This is not a hardware chapter and does not go into detail of th...

This article examines contrasting strategies that the practitioners of Acehnese dance in two Indonesian cities, Yogyakarta and Banda Aceh, sagely create to legitimize their participation arts today's increasingly conservative religious climate Indonesia. Islam has drifted away from a historically syncretic, localized form toward more form. shift impacted Yogyakarta's Muslim dancers’ views on wh...

Understanding how the brain manages billions of processing units connected via kilometers of fibers and trillions of synapses, while consuming a few tens of Watts could provide the key to a completely new category of hardware (neuromorphic computing systems). In order to achieve this, a paradigm shift for computing as a whole is needed, which will see it moving away from current "bit precise" c...

The causes of interannual nitrate variability in rivers remain uncertain, but extreme climatic events have been suggested as drivers of large nitrate inputs to rivers. Based on a 24-year data set (1983-2006), we suggest that El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) can affect nitrate behavior in a seasonal extra-tropical stream, the Llobregat (NE Iberian Peninsula), located thousands of kilometers a...

Historical and future trends in sustainability performance show that the world’s countries have substantially overshot their fair share of most planetary boundaries, without proportional social achievements.