04928nam 2200649Ia 450 991045901860332120200520144314.01-282-47980-697866124798090-7618-4622-0(CKB)2670000000009270(EBL)483840(OCoLC)609856025(SSID)ssj0000358752(PQKBManifestationID)11278142(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358752(PQKBWorkID)10382244(PQKB)10301422(MiAaPQ)EBC483840(Au-PeEL)EBL483840(CaPaEBR)ebr10361476(CaONFJC)MIL247980(EXLCZ)99267000000000927020100113d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe democracy perspective in the Americas[electronic resource] /Odeen IshmaelLanham, Md. University Press of Americac20091 online resource (299 p.)Includes index.0-7618-4621-2 Contents; Introduction; Chapter 01. Democracy and Poverty; Chapter 02. The Situation in Haiti; Chapter 03. Poverty: A Destabilizing Factor to Democracy; Chapter 04. A Time for Healing in Haiti; Chapter 05. Colonialism Left a Legacy of Underdevelopment; Chapter 06. The Return of President Aristide to Haiti; Chapter 07. The OAS Must Identify Proactive Methods to Build Democracy; Chapter 08. Women's Participation in Governance Is Indispensable; Chapter 09. Caribbean Countries Must Pool Ideas to Develop Their Resources; Chapter 10. The OAS Must Champion Debt ReliefChapter 11. Violence against Women Violates Human Rights and Fundamental FreedomsChapter 12. Economic Insecurity Can Lead to Socio-Economic and Political Instability; Chapter 13. White Helmets Vital in New Global Human Order; Chapter 14. Haiti Facing Economic Challenges; Chapter 15. The Developmental Role of the OAS; Chapter 16. Eliminate Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities; Chapter 17. The Need for a New Global Human Order; Chapter 18. Sustainable Development Imperative for Small Countries; Chapter 19. Crime Undermines DemocracyChapter 20. Economic Challenges to Smaller EconomiesChapter 21. OAS Should Set Up a Permanent Disaster Assistance Unit; Chapter 22. Effects of Global Economic Crisis on Smaller Economies; Chapter 23. All Nations Must Adhere to Democratic Principles; Chapter 24. Security Concerns of Small Developing States; Chapter 25. Democracy Must Be Consultative and Participatory; Chapter 26. Hemispheric Unity Comes About with Expanding Democracy; Chapter 27. There is No Perfect Democracy; Chapter 28. Terrorism-A Threat to International Peace and Security; Chapter 29. The Situation in VenezuelaChapter 30. Influencing the Democratic Process in the Americas-A Tribute to Simon BolivarChapter 31. The Importance of Political Dialogue; Chapter 32. Political Dialogue Imperative for a Democratic Haiti; Chapter 33. The Inter-American Democratic Charter-Its Significance, Applicability and Potential; Chapter 34. Approaches on Security in the Caribbean; Chapter 35. All Political Forces Must Maintain Dialogue; Chapter 36. Caricom's Support for the Democratically Elected President of Venezuela; Chaper 37. Refusing to Have Political Dialogue Breeds Conflict SituationsChapter 38. Appeal to the Multilateral Financial Institutions to Assist HaitiChapter 39. Economic and Security Pressures on the Caribbean; Chaper 40. Opposition to Terrorism Is Absolute; Chapter 41. Working Together to Deepen Democracy; Chapter 42. Working Together to Solve Hemispheric Problems; Chapter 43. Developing a Culture of Democracy; Chapter 44. Political Democracy Must Ensure Economic and Social Democracy; Chapter 45. The Right to Govern Must Be Won through Democratic Elections; Chapter 46. Place Emphasis on the Social Agenda; Chapter 47. Alleviating Poverty Is Promoting DemocracyChapter 48. Re-Assessing Democracy in the AmericasThis book presents the author's views on the evolution of democracy in the American hemisphere and the challenges confronting this form of governance. It comprises a collection of his statements and published commentaries made while serving as an ambassador from Guyana.DemocracyCaribbean AreaDemocracyCentral AmericaDemocracyLatin AmericaElectronic books.DemocracyDemocracyDemocracy321.8098Ishmael M. A. Odeen(Mohammed Ali Odeen)915615MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459018603321The democracy perspective in the Americas2052571UNINA09540nam 22008535 450 991034939420332120251113190431.09783030038014303003801710.1007/978-3-030-03801-4(CKB)4100000007127473(DE-He213)978-3-030-03801-4(MiAaPQ)EBC6307326(PPN)232470855(EXLCZ)99410000000712747320181109d2018 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAdvances in Visual Computing 13th International Symposium, ISVC 2018, Las Vegas, NV, USA, November 19 – 21, 2018, Proceedings /edited by George Bebis, Richard Boyle, Bahram Parvin, Darko Koracin, Matt Turek, Srikumar Ramalingam, Kai Xu, Stephen Lin, Bilal Alsallakh, Jing Yang, Eduardo Cuervo, Jonathan Ventura1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2018.1 online resource (XXI, 771 p. 535 illus., 322 illus. in color.) Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics,3004-9954 ;112419783030038007 3030038009 ST: Computational Bioimaging -- Automatic Registration of Serial Cerebral Angiography: A Comparative Review -- Skull Stripping using Confidence Segmentation Convolution Neural Network -- Skin Cancer Segmentation Using a Unified Markov Random Field -- Heart Modeling by Convexity Preserving Segmentation and Convex Shape Decomposition -- Computer Graphics I -- PSO-based Newton-like Method and Iteration Processes in the Generation of Artistic Patterns -- An Evaluation of Smoothing and Remeshing Techniques to Represent the Evolution of Real-World Phenomena -- Biomimetic Perception Learning for Human Sensorimotor Control -- Porous Structure Design in Tissue Engineering Using Anisotropic Radial Basis Functions -- Visual Surveillance -- Accurate and Efficient Non-Parametric Background Detection for Video Surveillance -- A Low-Power Neuromorphic System for Real-Time Visual Activity Recognition -- Video-based human action recognition using kernel relevance analysis -- Robust Incremental Hidden Conditional Random Fields for Human Action Recognition -- Pattern Recognition -- Rotation Symmetry Object Classification using Structure Constrained Convolutional Neural Network -- A Hough Space Feature for Vehicle Detection -- Gender Classification Based on Facial Shape and Texture Features -- Authentication-based on Biomechanics of Finger Movements captured using Optical Motion-Capture -- Specific Document Sign Location Detection Based on Point Matching and Clustering -- Virtual Reality I -- Training in Virtual Environments for Hybrid Power Plants -- Visualizing Viewpoint Movement on Driving by Space Information Rendering -- Virtual Reality System for Children Lower Limb Strengthening with the use of Electromyographic Sensors -- A Comparative Study of Virtual UI for Risk Assessment and Evaluation -- Sensory Fusion and Intent Recognition for Accurate Gesture Recognition in Virtual Environments -- Deep Learning I -- Accuracy of a Driver-Assistance System in a Collision Scenario -- Classify broilerviscera using an iterative approach on noisy labeled training data -- Instance-level Object Recognition using Deep Temporal Coherence -- DUPL-VR: Deep Unsupervised Progressive Learning for Vehicle Re-Identification -- Motion and Tracking -- Particle Filter Based Tracking and Mapping -- Multi-Branch Siamese Networks with Online Selection for Object Tracking -- Deep Convolutional Correlation Filters for Visual Tracking by Detection -- The bird gets caught by the WORM: tracking multiple deformable objects in noisy environments using Weight ORdered Logic Maps -- A Mumford Shah Style Unified Framework for Layering: Pitfalls and Solutions -- Visualization -- Visualization of Parameter Sensitivity of 2D Time-Dependent Flow -- Non-stationary generalized Wishart process for enhancing resolution over diffusion tensor fields -- Reduced-reference image quality assessment based on improved local binary pattern -- Web system for visualization of weather data of the hydrometeorological network ofTungurahua, Ecuador -- Analysis and Visualization of Sports Performance Anxiety in Tennis Matches -- Object Detection and Recognition -- Detailed sentence generation architecture for image semantics description -- Pupil Localization Using Geodesic Distance -- Parallel Curves Detection Using Multi-Agent System -- Can Deep Learning Learn the Principle of Closed Contour Detection -- Deep Learning II -- DensSiam: End-to-End Densely-Siamese Network with Self-Attention Model for Object Tracking -- Convolutional Adaptive Particle Filter with Multiple Models for Visual Tracking -- Scale-aware RPN for Vehicle Detection -- Object Detection to Assist Visually Impaired People: A Deep Neural Network Adventure -- Large Scale Application Response Time Measurement using Image Recognition and Deep Learning -- Applications I -- Vision-Depth Landmarks and Inertial Fusion for Navigation in Degraded Visual Environments -- Efficient Nearest Neighbors Search for Large-Scale Landmark Recognition -- Patient's Body Motion Study using Multimodal RGBDT Videos -- Marker based Thermal-Inertial Localization for Aerial Robots in Obscurant Filled Environments -- Shape-based Smoothing of Binary Digital Objects Using Signed Distance Transform -- Segmentation -- Patch-based potentials for interactive contour extraction -- A New Algorithm for Local Blur-Scale Computation and Edge Detection -- Semantic Segmentation by Integrating Classifiers for Different Difficulty Levels -- Applications II -- Fast Image Dehazing Methods for Real-Time Video Processing -- GPU Accelerated Non-Parametric Background Subtraction -- Budget-constrained Online Video Summarisation of Egocentric Video Using Control Charts -- p-Laplacian regularization of signals on directed graphs -- A Dense-Depth Representation for VLAD descriptors in Content-Based Image Retrieval -- Virtual Reality II -- Augmented Reality System for Training and Assistance in the Management of Equipment and Industrial Instruments -- Alternative Treatment for Spider Phobia through Virtual Reality Environments -- The skyline as a marker for augmented reality in urban context -- Oil Processes VR Training -- ST: Intelligent Transportation Systems -- Multiple Object Tracking in Urban Traffic Scenes with a Multiclass Object Detector -- Autonomous Bus Boarding Robotic Wheelchair using Bidirectional Sensing Systems -- Road User Abnormal Trajectory Detection using a Deep Autoencoder -- Traffic Flow Classiffication Using Traffic Cameras.This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2018, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in November 2018. The total of 66 papers presented in this volume was carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: ST: computational bioimaging; computer graphics; visual surveillance; pattern recognition; vitrual reality; deep learning; motion and tracking; visualization; object detection and recognition; applications; segmentation; and ST: intelligent transportation systems. .Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics,3004-9954 ;11241Pattern recognition systemsComputer visionArtificial intelligenceComputer engineeringComputer networksData protectionAutomated Pattern RecognitionComputer VisionArtificial IntelligenceComputer Engineering and NetworksData and Information SecurityPattern recognition systems.Computer vision.Artificial intelligence.Computer engineering.Computer networks.Data protection.Automated Pattern Recognition.Computer Vision.Artificial Intelligence.Computer Engineering and Networks.Data and Information Security.006.6006.4Bebis Georgeedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBoyle Richardedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtParvin Bahramedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtKoracin Darkoedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtTurek Mattedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtRamalingam Srikumaredthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtXu Kaiedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtLin Stephenedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtAlsallakh Bilaledthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtYang Jingedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtCuervo Eduardoedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtVentura Jonathanedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910349394203321Advances in Visual Computing772261UNINA