1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453148303321

Autore

Olson Mancur

Titolo

The rise and decline of nations [[electronic resource] ] : economic growth, stagflation, and social rigidities / / Mancur Olson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c1982

ISBN

0-300-15767-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Disciplina

338.9/001

Soggetti

Economic development

Unemployment - Effect of inflation on

Caste - India

Economics

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Questions, and the Standards a Satisfactory Answer Must Meet -- 2. The Logic -- 3. The Implications -- 4. The Developed Democracies Since World War II -- 5. Jurisdictional Integration and Foreign Trade -- 6. Inequality, Discrimination, and Development -- 7. Stagflation, Unemployment, and Business Cycles: An Evolutionary Approach to Macroeconomics -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many periods of history and many parts of the world."[T]his elegant, readable book. . . sets out to explain why economies succumb to the 'British disease,' the kind of stagnation and demoralization that is now sweeping Europe and North America. . . . A convincing book that could make a big difference in the way we think about modern economic problems."-Peter Passell, The New York Times Book Review"Schumpeter and Keynes would have hailed the insights Olson gives into the sicknesses of the modern mixed economy."-Paul A. Samuelson,



Massachusetts Institute of Technology"One of the really important books in social science of the past half-century."-Scott Gordon, The Canadian Journal of Economics"The thesis of this brilliant book is that the longer a society enjoys political stability, the more likely it is to develop powerful special-interest lobbies that in turn make it less efficient economically."-Charles Peters, The Washington Monthly"Remarkable. The fundamental ideas are simple, yet they provide insight into a wide array of social and historical issues. . . . The Rise and Decline of Nations promises to be a subject of productive interdisciplinary argument for years to come."-Robert O. Keohane, Journal of Economic Literature"I urgently recommend it to all economists and to a great many non-economists."-Gordon Tullock, Public Choice"Olson's theory is illuminating and there is no doubt that The Rise and Decline of Nations will exert much influence on ideas and politics for many decades to come."-Pierre Lemieux, ReasonCo-winner of the 1983 American Political Science Association's Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book on U.S. national policy

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466011003316

Titolo

Image Analysis and Recognition [[electronic resource] ] : 13th International Conference, ICIAR 2016, in Memory of Mohamed Kamel, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, July 13-15, 2016, Proceedings / / edited by Aurélio Campilho, Fakhri Karray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-41501-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXI, 820 p. 337 illus.)

Collana

Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics ; ; 9730

Disciplina

006.6

006.37

Soggetti

Optical data processing

Biometrics (Biology)

Artificial intelligence

Pattern recognition

Computer security

Data structures (Computer science)

Image Processing and Computer Vision

Biometrics

Artificial Intelligence

Pattern Recognition



Systems and Data Security

Data Structures and Information Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Adaptation Approaches in Unsupervised Learning: A Survey of the State-of-the-art and Future Directions -- Semi-supervised Dictionary Learning Based on Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion -- Transferring and Compressing Convolutional Neural Networks for Face Representations -- High-Frequency Spectral Energy Map Estimation Based Gait Analysis System Using a Depth Camera for Pathology Detection -- Combining low-level features of o_ine questionnaires for handwriting identification -- Person Profiling Using Image and Facial Attributes Analyses on Unconstrained Images Retrieved from Online Sources -- Palm Print Identification and Verification using a Genetic-based Feature Extraction Technique -- PCA-based Face recognition: Similarity Measures and Number of Eigenvectors -- Image Enhancement and Restoration Sinogram Restoration Using Confidence Maps to Reduce Metal Artifact in Computed Tomography -- Enhancement of a Turbulent Degraded Frame using 2D-DTW Averaging -- Denoising Multi-view Images Using Non-local Means with Different Similarity Measures -- Image Denoising Using Euler-Lagrange Equations for Function-Valued Mappings -- Run Time Performance Enhancement of a Superpixel Based Saliency Detection Model -- Total Variation Minimization for Measure-Valued Images with Diffusion Spectrum Imaging as Motivation -- Quality Assessment of Spectral Reproductions: the Camera's Perspective -- An Image Database for Design and Evaluation of Visual Quality Metrics in Synthetic Scenarios -- Perceptual Comparison of Multi-Exposure High Dynamic Range and Single-Shot Camera RAW Photographs -- Objective image quality measures of degradation in compressed natural images and their comparison with subjective assessments -- Cell Segmentation Using Level Set Methods with a New Variance Term -- Video Object Segmentation based on Superpixel Trajectories -- Automatic Nonlinear Filtering and Segmentation for Breast Ultrasound Images -- Phenotypic Integrated Framework for Classi_cation of ADHD using fMRI 197 -- Counting People in Crowded Scenes via Detection and Regression Fusion -- Multi-graph Based Salient Object Detection -- Analysis of temporal coherence in videos for action recognition -- Effectiveness of Camouage Make-up Patterns Against Face Detection Algorithms -- A Comparative Study of Vision-based Tra_c Signs Recognition -- A copy-move detection algorithm using binary gradient contours -- Object Detection and Localization using Deep Convolutional Networks with Softmax Activation and Multi-class Log Loss -- Clustering-Based Abnormal Event Detection: Experimental Comparison for Similarity Measures' Efficiency -- Improved DSP Matching with RPCA for Dense Correspondences -- Bio-Inspired Boosting for Moving Objects Segmentation -- A Lightweight Face Tracking System for Video Surveillance -- Single Droplet Tracking in Jet Flow -- Video Based Group Tracking and Management -- Calibration of Shared Flat Refractive Stereo Systems -- 3D Structured Light Scanner on the



Smartphone -- Stereo and active-sensor data fusion for improved stereo Block Matching -- Dense Light Disparity Estimation using Total Variation Regularization -- Target Position and Speed Estimation using LiDAR -- Combining Shape And Color for 3D Object Recognition -- Privacy-Preserving Fall Detection in Healthcare using Shape and Motion Features from Low-Resolution RGB-D Videos -- Proprioceptive Visual Tracking of a Humanoid Robot Head Motion -- A Hybrid Top-down Bottom-up Approach for the Detection of Cuboid Shaped Objects -- The Impact of Convergence Cameras in a Stereoscopic System for AUVs -- Gender recognition from face images using a fusion of SVM classifiers -- Kinship Verification from Faces via Similarity Metric Based Combination of topological and local shape features for writer's gender, handedness and age classification -- Selection of User-Dependent Cohorts using Bezier Curves for Person Bag of Visual Words Approach for Bleeding Detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images -- A self-learning tumor segmentation method on DCE-MRI images.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2016, held in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, in July 2016. The 79 revised full papers and 10 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Advances in Data Analytics and Pattern Recognition with Applications, Image Enhancement and Restoration, Image Quality Assessment, Image Segmentation, Pattern Analysis and Recognition, Feature Extraction, Detection and Recognition, Matching, Motion and Tracking, 3D Computer Vision, RGB-D Camera Applications, Visual Perception in Robotics, Biometrics, Biomedical Imaging, Brain Imaging, Cardiovascular Image Analysis, Image Analysis in Ophthalmology, Document Analysis, Applications, and Obituaries. The chapter 'Morphological Separation of Clustered Nuclei in Histological Images' is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com. .



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00521278

Autore

Mills, Charles Wright

Titolo

La élite del potere / C. Wright Mills

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Feltrinelli, 1966

Titolo uniforme

The power elite

Descrizione fisica

412 p. ; 19 cm

Disciplina

304

Soggetti

CLASSE DIRIGENTE - Stati Uniti d'America

CLASSE DOMINANTE - Stati Uniti d'America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia