1948 [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the first Arab-Israeli war / / Benny Morris

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778093503321
• Autore: Morris Benny <1948->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2008
• ISBN: 9786612352089; 0-300-14524-1; 1-282-35208-3; 1-282-08949-8; 9786612089497
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (556 p.)
• Disciplina: 956.04/2
• Soggetti: Arab-Israeli conflict - Refugees; Arab-Israeli conflict - Territorial questions; Arab countries Foreign relations Israel; Israel Foreign relations Arab countries; Eretz Israel History 1917-1948, British Mandate period; Israel History 1948-1967; Middle East History, Military 20th century; Eretz Israel Politics and government 1917-1948, British Mandate period; Israel Politics and government 1948-1967; Israel History War of Independence, 1948-1949
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-505) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- List of Maps -- 1. Staking Claims: The Historical Background -- 2. The United Nations Steps In: UNSCOP and the Partition Resolution -- 3. The First Stage of the Civil War, November 1947–March 1948 -- 4. The Second Stage of the Civil War, April–mid-May 1948 -- 5. The Pan-Arab Invasion, 15 May–11 June 1948 -- 6. The First Truce, 11 June–8 July 1948, the International Community, and the War -- 7. The “Ten Days” and After -- 8. Operations Yoav and Hiram -- 9. Operation Horev, December 1948–January 1949 -- 10. The Armistice Agreements, ; January–July 1949 -- 11. Some Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the military engagements, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western documentation. The Arab side—where the archives are still closed—is illuminated with the help of intelligence and diplomatic materials. Morris stresses the jihadi character of the two-stage Arab assault on the Jewish community in Palestine. Throughout, he examines the dialectic between the war's military and political developments and highlights the military impetus in the creation of the refugee problem, which was a by-product of the disintegration of Palestinian Arab society. The book thoroughly investigates the role of the Great Powers—Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union—in shaping the conflict and its tentative termination in 1949. Morris looks both at high politics and general staff decision-making processes and at the nitty-gritty of combat in the successive battles that resulted in the emergence of the State of Israel and the humiliation of the Arab world, a humiliation that underlies the continued Arab antagonism toward Israel.

Blind Image Deconvolution : Methods and Convergence / / by Subhasis Chaudhuri, Rajbabu Velmurugan, Renu Rameshan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910298975503321
• Autore: Chaudhuri Subhasis
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
• ISBN: 3-319-10485-3
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2014.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (162 p.)
• Disciplina: 004; 006.37; 006.6; 621.382
• Soggetti: Optical data processing; Signal processing; Image processing; Speech processing systems; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Signal, Image and Speech Processing
• 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 -- Mathematical Background -- Blind Deconvolution Methods: A Review -- MAP Estimation: When Does it Work? -- Convergence Analysis in Fourier Domain -- Spatial Domain Convergence Analysis -- Sparsity-based Blind Deconvolution -- Conclusions and Future Research Directions.
• Sommario/riassunto: Blind deconvolution is a classical image processing problem which has been investigated by a large number of researchers over the last four decades. The purpose of this monograph is not to propose yet another method for blind image restoration. Rather the basic issue of deconvolvability has been explored from a theoretical view point. Some authors claim very good results while quite a few claim that blind restoration does not work. The authors clearly detail when such methods are expected to work and when they will not. In order to avoid the assumptions needed for convergence analysis in the Fourier ; domain, the authors use a general method of convergence analysis used for alternate minimization based on three point and four point properties of the points in the image space. The authors prove that all points in the image space satisfy the three point property and also derive the conditions under which four point property is satisfied. This provides the conditions under which alternate minimization for blind deconvolution converges with a quadratic prior. Since the convergence properties depend on the chosen priors, one should design priors that avoid trivial solutions. Hence, a sparsity based solution is also provided for blind deconvolution, by using image priors having a cost that increases with the amount of blur, which is another way to prevent trivial solutions in joint estimation. This book will be a highly useful resource to the researchers and academicians in the specific area of blind deconvolution.