1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466803803321

Autore

Schubert Jon <1982->

Titolo

Working the system : a political ethnography of the new Angola / / Jon Schubert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2017

ISBN

1-5017-1370-1

1-5017-0969-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

967.304/2

Soggetti

Ethnology - Angola

Politics and culture - Angola

Power (Social sciences) - Angola

Postwar reconstruction - Social aspects - Angola

Electronic books.

Angola History 2002-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : working the system in boomtown Africa -- 2002, year zero : the foundations of the new Angola -- Sambizanga : the affects of place and memory -- Angolanidade : mediating urbanity through race and class -- Cunhas : situational kinship and everyday authority -- A culture of immediatism : co-optation and complicity -- Against the system, within the system : the parameters of the political.

Sommario/riassunto

Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the system-an emic notion of their current political and socioeconomic environment-Jon Schubert explores what it means and how it feels to be part of the contemporary Angolan polity. Schubert finds that for many ordinary Angolans, the benefits of the post-conflict "New Angola," flush with oil wealth and in the midst of a construction boom, are few. The majority of the inhabitants of the capital, Luanda, struggle to make ends meet and live on under $2 .00 per day. The "New Angola" as promoted by the ruling MPLA, Schubert



contends, is an essentially urban, upwardly mobile, and aspirational project, premised on the acceptance of the regime's political and economic dominance by its citizens. In the first ethnography of Angola to be published since the end of that country's twenty-seven years of intermittent violent internal conflict in 2002, Schubert traces how Angolans may question and resist the system within an atmosphere of apparent compliance. Working the System will appeal to anthropologists and political scientists, urban sociologists, and scholars of African studies.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001898309707536

Autore

Mottura, Giovanni

Titolo

Agricoltura, Mezzogiorno e mercato del lavoro / Giovanni Mottura, Enrico Pugliese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bologna : il Mulino, 1975

Descrizione fisica

327 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Studi e ricerche ; 46

Altri autori (Persone)

Pugliese, Enricoauthor

Disciplina

338.10

Soggetti

Agricoltura - Italia Meridionale

Lavoro - Italia meridionale

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781666803321

Titolo

Markov random fields for vision and image processing / / edited by Andrew Blake, Pushmeet Kohli, and Carsten Rother

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011

ISBN

1-283-25865-X

9786613258656

0-262-29835-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (472 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BlakeAndrew <1956->

KohliPushmeet

RotherCarsten

Disciplina

006.3/70151

Soggetti

Image processing - Mathematics

Computer graphics - Mathematics

Computer vision - Mathematics

Markov random fields

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

Cover ; Contents; 1 Introduction to Markov Random Fields; I Algorithms for Inference of MAP Estimates for MRFs; 2 Basic Graph Cut Algorithms; 3 Optimizing Multilabel MRFs Using Move-Making Algorithms; 4 Optimizing Multilabel MRFs with Convex and Truncated Convex Priors; 5 Loopy Belief Propagation, Mean Field Theory, and Bethe Approximations; 6 Linear Programming and Variants of Belief Propagation; II Applications of MRFs, including Segmentation; 7 Interactive Foreground Extraction; 8 Continuous-Valued MRF for Image Segmentation; 9 Bilayer Segmentation of Video

10 MRFs for Superresolution and Texture Synthesis11 A Comparative Study of Energy Minimization Methods for MRFs; III Further Topics: Inference, Parameter Learning, and Continuous Models; 12 Convex Relaxation Techniques for Segmentation, Stereo, and Multiview Reconstruction; 13 Learning Parameters in Continuous-Valued Markov Random Fields; 14 Message Passing with Continuous Latent Variables; 15 Learning Large-Margin Random Fields Using Graph Cuts; 16



Analyzing Convex Relaxations for MAP Estimation; 17 MAP Inference by Fast Primal-Dual Linear Programming

18 Fusion-Move Optimization for MRFs with an Extensive Label SpaceIV Higher-Order MRFs and Global Constraints; 19 Field of Experts; 20 Enforcing Label Consistency Using Higher-Order Potentials; 21 Exact Optimization for Markov Random Fields with Nonlocal Parameters; 22 Graph Cut-Based Image Segmentation with Connectivity Priors; V Advanced Applications of MRFs; 23 Symmetric Stereo Matching for Occlusion Handling; 24 Steerable Random Fields for Image Restoration; 25 Markov Random Fields for Object Detection; 26 SIFT Flow; 27 Unwrap Mosaics; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

State-of-the-art research on MRFs, successful MRF applications, and advanced topics for future study.