1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458358103321

Titolo

Health and welfare during industrialization [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Richard H. Steckel and Roderick Floud

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Ill., : University of Chicago Press, 1997

ISBN

1-281-43111-7

9786611431112

0-226-77159-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (478 p.)

Collana

National Bureau of Economic Research project report

Altri autori (Persone)

SteckelRichard H <1944-> (Richard Hall)

FloudRoderick

Disciplina

338.4/33621

Soggetti

Public health - Economic aspects

Industrialization - Health aspects

Quality of life

Stature - Economic aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Standard of Living Debate in International Perspective: Measures and Indicators -- 2. Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States -- 3. Health, Height, and Welfare: Britain, 1700-1980 -- 4. Was Industrialization Hazardous to Your Health? Not in Sweden! -- 5. Economic Welfare and Physical Well-Being in France, 1750-1990 -- 6. Health and Welfare of Women in the United Kingdom, 1785-1920 -- 7. Differential Structure, Differential Health: Industrialization in Japan, 1868-1940 -- 8. Heights and Living Standards in Germany, 1850-1939: The Case of Württemberg -- 9. Paradoxes of Modernization and Material Well-Being in the Netherlands during the Nineteenth Century -- 10. Height, Health, and Economic Growth in Australia, 1860-1940 -- 11. Conclusions -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this unique anthology, Steckel and Floud coordinate ten essays that bring a new perspective to inquiry about standard of living in modern



times. These papers are arranged for international comparison, and they individually examine evidence of health and welfare during and after industrialization in eight countries: the United States, Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Japan, and Australia. The essays incorporate several indicators of quality of life, especially real per capita income and health, but also real wages, education, and inequality. And while the authors use traditional measures of health such as life expectancy and mortality rates, this volume stands alone in its extensive use of new "anthropometric" data-information about height, weight and body mass index that indicates changes in nations' well-being. Consequently, Health and Welfare during Industrialization signals a new direction in economic history, a broader and more thorough understanding of what constitutes standard of living.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298993303321

Titolo

Computer Vision in Sports / / edited by Thomas B. Moeslund, Graham Thomas, Adrian Hilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

9783319093963

3319093967

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Collana

Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, , 2191-6586

Disciplina

004

006.3

006.37

006.6

Soggetti

Optical data processing

Artificial intelligence

Application software

Image Processing and Computer Vision

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to the Use of Computer Vision in Sports -- Part I: Where is the Ball? -- Ball Tracking for Tennis Video Annotation -- Plane Approximation-Based Approach for 3D Reconstruction of Ball Trajectory for Performance Analysis in Table Tennis -- On-Field Testing and Evaluation of a Goal-Line Technology System -- Part II: Where Are the Players? -- Occlusion Detection via Structured Sparse Learning for Robust Object Tracking -- Detecting and Tracking Sports Players with Random Forests and Context-Conditioned Motion Models -- Geometry Reconstruction of Players for Novel-View Synthesis of Sports Broadcasts -- Estimating Athlete Pose from Monocular TV Sports Footage -- Part III: What Are They Playing? -- Action Recognition in Realistic Sports Videos -- Classification of Sports Types Using Thermal Imagery -- Event-Based Sports Videos Classification Using HMM Framework -- Part IV: What's Going On? -- Representing Team Behaviours from Noisy Data Using Player Role -- Recognizing Team Formation in American Football -- Real-Time Event Detection in Field Sport Videos.

Sommario/riassunto

The first book of its kind devoted to this topic, this comprehensive text/reference presents state-of-the-art research and reviews current challenges in the application of computer vision to problems in sports. Opening with a detailed introduction to the use of computer vision across the entire life-cycle of a sports event, the text then progresses to examine cutting-edge techniques for tracking the ball, obtaining the whereabouts and pose of the players, and identifying the sport being played from video footage. The work concludes by investigating a selection of systems for the automatic analysis and classification of sports play. Topics and features: Describes the latest research into ball tracking, addressing the challenges posed by the presence of occlusions and the use of only a small number of cameras Reviews various systems for player tracking and pose estimation Presents approaches for the improved generation of statistics and synthesis of virtual views Explores the “higher level” analysis of sports, from identifying types of sports to recognizing particular team behaviors based on multiple event or motion detections Discusses the detection of specific kinds of events for automatic highlights generation or searching of video archives The insights provided by this pioneering collection will be of great interest to researchers and practitioners involved in computer vision, sports analysis and media production. Prof. Thomas B. Moeslund is Head of Media Technology, Aalborg, and Head of the Visual Analysis of People Lab at Aalborg University, Denmark. Dr. Graham Thomas leads the Immersive and Interactive Content team at BBC Research & Development, London, UK. Prof. Adrian Hilton is Director of the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.