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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462457403321

Titolo

The Columbia history of Jews and Judaism in America / / edited by Marc Lee Raphael

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2008

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 490 pages)

Disciplina

973.04924

973/.04924

Soggetti

Jews - United States - History

Judaism - United States - History

Jews - Cultural assimilation - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

America's earliest Jewish settlers, 1654-1820 / Eli Faber -- Expanding Jewish life in America, 1826-1901 / Dianne Ashton -- The great wave : Eastern European Jewish immigration to the United States, 1880-1924 / Eric L. Goldstein -- American Judaism between the two world wars / Jeffrey S. Gurock -- Triumph, accommodation, and resistance : American Jewish life from the end of World War II to the Six-Day War / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Influence and affluence, 1967-2000 / Stephen J. Whitfield -- The ever dying denomination : American Jewish Orthodoxy, 1824-1965 / Kimmy Caplan -- The history of Jewish education in America, 1700-2000 / Melissa R. Klapper -- A regional context for Pacific Jewry, 1880-1930 / William Toll -- Fun and games : the American Jewish social club / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- A multithematic approach to Southern Jewish history / Mark K. Bauman -- American Jewish responses to Nazism and the Holocaust / Rafael Medoff -- Holocaust consciousness and American Jewish politics / Michael E. Staub -- What is American Jewish culture? / Jeffrey Shandler -- Rites of citizenship : Jewish celebrations of the nation / Beth S. Wenger -- A bright new constellation : feminism and American Judaism / Pamela S. Nadell -- Contemporary Jewish thought / Alan T. Levenson



-- There's no space like home : the representation of Jewish American life / Linda S. Raphael.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection focuses on a variety of important themes in the American Jewish and Judaic experience. It opens with essays on early Jewish settlers (1654-1820), the expansion of Jewish life in America (1820-1901), the great wave of eastern European Jewish immigrants (1880-1924), the character of American Judaism between the two world wars, American Jewish life from the end of World War II to the Six-Day War, and the growth of Jews' influence and affluence. The second half of the volume includes essays on Orthodox Jews, the history of Jewish education in America, the rise of Jewish soc

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557288403321

Autore

Moeslund Thomas

Titolo

Statistical Machine Learning for Human Behaviour Analysis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Soggetti

History of engineering and technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This Special Issue focused on novel vision-based approaches, mainly related to computer vision and machine learning, for the automatic analysis of human behaviour. We solicited submissions on the following topics: information theory-based pattern classification, biometric recognition, multimodal human analysis, low resolution human activity analysis, face analysis, abnormal behaviour analysis, unsupervised human analysis scenarios, 3D/4D human pose and shape estimation, human analysis in virtual/augmented reality, affective computing, social signal processing, personality computing, activity recognition, human tracking in the wild, and application of information-theoretic



concepts for human behaviour analysis. In the end, 15 papers were accepted for this special issue. These papers, that are reviewed in this editorial, analyse human behaviour from the aforementioned perspectives, defining in most of the cases the state of the art in their corresponding field.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557112403321

Autore

Scholle Markus

Titolo

Physical and Mathematical Fluid Mechanics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 p.)

Soggetti

History of engineering and technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Fluid mechanics has emerged as a basic concept for nearly every field of technology. Despite a well-developed mathematical theory and available commercial software codes, the computation of solutions of the governing equations of motion is still challenging, especially due to the nonlinearity involved, and there are still open questions regarding the underlying physics of fluid flow, especially with respect to the continuum hypothesis and thermodynamic local equilibrium. The aim of this book is to reference recent advances in the field of fluid mechanics, both in terms of developing sophisticated mathematical methods for finding solutions to the equations of motion, on the one hand, and presenting novel approaches to the physical modeling, on the other hand. A wide range of topics is addressed, including general topics like formulations of the equations of motion in terms of conventional and potential fields; variational formulations, both deterministic and statistic, and their application to channel flows; vortex dynamics; flows through porous media; and also acoustic waves



through porous media