The poetry of Jorge de Sena : a bilingual selection / edited with an introduction and notes by Frederick G. Williams ; and a foreword by Mécia de Sena ; with translations from the Portuguese by Helen Barreto... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNIORUON00409300
• Autore: SENA, Jorge : de
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Santa Barbara, : Mudborn press ; University of California, 1980
• ISBN: 09-300-1218-6
• Descrizione fisica: 315 p. ; 24 cm.
• Disciplina: 869.142
• Soggetti: POESIA PORTOGHESE - Sec. 20
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Portoghese; Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

College in prison : reading in an age of mass incarceration / / Daniel Karpowitz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826083103321
• Autore: Karpowitz Daniel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Brunswick, [New Jersey] ; ; London, [England] : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 0-8135-8414-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 365.66609747
• Soggetti: Prisoners - Education (Higher) - New York (State) - History; Education, Higher - Social aspects - New York (State) - History; Prison administration - New York (State) - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- 1. Getting In: Conflicting Voices and the Politics of College in Prison -- 2. Landscapes: BPI and Mass Incarceration -- 3. Going to Class: Reading Crime and Punishment -- 4. The First Graduation: Figures of Speech -- 5. Replication and Conclusions: College, Prison, and Inequality in America -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Readings -- Index -- About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: Over the years, American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these outreach programs presume that incarcerated men and women can rise to the challenge of a truly rigorous college curriculum. The Bard Prison Initiative is different. College in Prison chronicles how, since 2001, Bard College has provided hundreds of incarcerated men and women across the country access to a high-quality liberal arts education. Earning degrees in subjects ranging from Mandarin to advanced mathematics, graduates have, upon release, gone on to rewarding careers and elite graduate and professional programs. Yet this is more than just a story of exceptional individuals triumphing against the odds. It is a study in how the liberal arts can alter the landscape of some of our most important public institutions giving ; people from all walks of life a chance to enrich their minds and expand their opportunities. Drawing on fifteen years of experience as a director of and teacher within the Bard Prison Initiative, Daniel Karpowitz tells the story of BPI's development from a small pilot project to a nationwide network. At the same time, he recounts dramatic scenes from in and around college-in-prison classrooms pinpointing the contested meanings that emerge in moments of highly-charged reading, writing, and public speaking. Through examining the transformative encounter between two characteristically American institutions-the undergraduate college and the modern penitentiary-College in Prison makes a powerful case for why liberal arts education is still vital to the future of democracy in the United States.

Breath Analysis for Medical Applications / / by David Zhang, Dongmin Guo, Ke Yan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910254822503321
• Autore: Zhang David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017
• ISBN: 981-10-4322-1
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2017.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIII, 309 p. 99 illus., 88 illus. in color.)
• Disciplina: 502.85
• Soggetti: Medical informatics; Pattern perception; Signal processing; Image processing; Speech processing systems; Health Informatics; Pattern Recognition; Signal, Image and Speech Processing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature Review -- 3. A Novel Breath Acquisition System Design -- 4. An LDA Based Sensor Selection Approach -- 5. ; Sensor Evaluation in a Breath Acquisition System -- 6. Improving the Transfer Ability of Prediction Models -- 7. Learning Classification and Regression Models for Breath Data with Drift based on Transfer Samples -- 8. A Transfer Learning Approach with Autoencoder for Correcting Instrumental Variation and Time-Varying Drift -- 9. Drift Correction using Maximum Independence Domain Adaptation -- 10. Feature Selection and Analysis on Correlated Breath Data -- 11. Breath Sample Identification by Sparse Representation-based Classification -- 12. Monitor Blood Glucose Levels via Sparse Representation Approach -- 13. Diabetics by Means of Breath Signal Analysis -- 14. A Breath Analysis System for Diabetes Screening and Blood Glucose Level Prediction. 15. A Novel Medical E-Nose Signal Analysis System -- 16. Book Review and Future Work.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book describes breath signal processing technologies and their applications in medical sample classification and diagnosis. First, it provides a comprehensive introduction to breath signal acquisition methods, based on different kinds of chemical sensors, together with the optimized selection and fusion acquisition scheme. It then presents preprocessing techniques, such as drift removing and feature extraction methods, and uses case studies to explore the classification methods. Lastly it discusses promising research directions and potential medical applications of computerized breath diagnosis. It is a valuable interdisciplinary resource for researchers, professionals and postgraduate students working in various fields, including breath diagnosis, signal processing, pattern recognition, and biometrics.