1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458461203321

Autore

Williamson Thad

Titolo

Making a place for community : local democracy in a global era / / by Thad Williamson, David Imbroscio, and Gar Alperovitz ; with a foreword by Benjamin R. Barber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

0-415-94741-3

1-315-81118-9

1-317-79478-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (431 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ImbroscioDavid

AlperovitzGar

Disciplina

307.14160973

Soggetti

Community development, Urban - United States

Community life - United States

Urban economics

Globalization

Electronic books.

United States Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-399) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface Toward the Reconstruction of American Community and Democracy; Introduction The Case for Community Economic Stability: Economics and Political Economics; Part I The Triple Threat to Community and Democracy; Introduction; Chapter 1 Globalization and Free Trade; Chapter 2 The Chase for Jobs; Chapter 3 The Challenge of Urban Sprawl; Part II Place-Based Policy Alternatives; Introduction; Chapter 4 Federal Job-Stabilizing Policies; Chapter 5 Conventional Policy Measures to Help Communities

Chapter 6 State and Municipal EnterpriseChapter 7 Strengthening Local Multipliers; Part III Place-Based Economic Structures; Introduction; Chapter 8 Supporting Employee Ownership in America; Chapter 9 Community Development Corporations and Community Development Financial Institutions; Chapter 10 Other Place-Based Ownership Models;



Chapter 11 Community Land Trusts and Community Agriculture; Part IV The Global Context; Introduction; Chapter 12 Restructuring Global Economic Institutions; Chapter 13 Alternative Approaches to Trade

Conclusion Political-Economic Policies for the Next Stage of Democratic DevelopmentAppendix Resources for Rebuilding; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

When pundits refer to the death of community, they are speaking of a number of social ills, which include, but are not limited to, the general increase in isolation and cynicism of our citizens, widespread concerns about declining political participation and membership in civic organizations, and periodic outbursts of small town violence. Making a Place for Community argues that this death of community is being caused by contemporary policies that, if not changed, will continue to foster the decline of community. Increased capital flow between nations is not at the root of the problem

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557582803321

Autore

Geiger Bernhard

Titolo

Information Bottleneck : Theory and Applications in Deep Learning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Soggetti

Information technology industries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The celebrated information bottleneck (IB) principle of Tishby et al. has recently enjoyed renewed attention due to its application in the area of deep learning. This collection investigates the IB principle in this new context. The individual chapters in this collection: • provide novel insights into the functional properties of the IB; • discuss the IB principle (and its derivates) as an objective for training multi-layer machine learning structures such as neural networks and decision



trees; and • offer a new perspective on neural network learning via the lens of the IB framework. Our collection thus contributes to a better understanding of the IB principle specifically for deep learning and, more generally, of information-theoretic cost functions in machine learning. This paves the way toward explainable artificial intelligence.