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Jacobs, Desmond King 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cOxford University Press,$d2016. 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-19-938896-2 327 $aCover; FED POWER: How Finance Wins; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1: Why Fed Power Matters; DON'T BUY THE FED HYPE; The Catechism of the Fed; Reality Test; Fed Inaction; Generating Inequality; Expert Rule and the Anti-Democrats; FINANCIAL PATHOLOGY: FINDING THE FED'S BIAS; Favoritism 1, 2, and 3; Operational Favoritism; Selecting Winners; Missing in Action: Middle-Class Rescue; Motivated Favoritism; Revolving Doors; Capture; Fed Interests; What We Are Not Claiming; FINDING THE FED STATE; Fed Exceptionalism; The Takeoff; Concealed Advantage; Did You Know?; Strategies of Concealment 327 $aThe Fed's Game PlanREFORMING THE FED; The Fed's Legitimacy Deficit; Why America Needs a Properly Designed Central Bank; Yes, We Need a Central Bank; Congress Ch annels the Distrust of the Fed; America's Path to Effective Financial Management; Concentrating Fed on Monetary Policy; Building Consolidated Financial Management; BREAKING THE SILENCE ON THE FED; How the Fed Tames Debate; Three Types of Evidence; Researching Favoritism; FROM FIERY POPULISM TO ACQUIESCENCE AND DOUBT; 2: The Rise of the Fed State; THE RAUCOUS POLITICS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY MONETARY POLICY; Economic Calamity 327 $aFiery Debates over Monetary PolicyThe Muting of Populist Opposition to Banks and Monetary Policy; REMOVING MONETARY POLICY FROM DEMOCRATIC POLITICS: THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT OF 1913; The Ruling Banks Did Not Rule; The Compromise of 1913; Agreeing on the Big Plan; Tactical Disputes on Details; THE MAKING OF THE FED STATE; The Takeoff: Fed State-Building, 1913-1952; First Comes Centralization; Building National Administrative Capacity; Going Independent; The Trojan Horse of Emergency Powers; Organizing Finance, 1952-1979; Seizing the Opportunity of Crisis; Acting Independent 327 $aNew Policy Frameworks for Fed ActivismInstitutional Independence and Advancing Finance; THE ERA OF FINANCE AND THE FED'S MONOPOLY OF MONETARY POLICY; The New World of Global Finance; Domesticating Modern Finance; PAST AND FUTURE; 3: Concealed Advantage; THE BREAKDOWN IN MODERN FINANCE; The New Brave World of Debt; The Problem with the Fed; Mistakes Instead of Mastery; The Fed Stands Up for Itself; Favoring Finance; DESIGNING BIAS; Engineering Dependence and Loyalty; The Fed Activates Finance; The Lehman Boomerang; Behind the Cover of TARP; Hiding America's Most Powerful Domestic Policymaker 327 $aBetting the Country's Nest EggShort-Circuiting Democracy; The Fed Helps Itself; FOLLOW THE MONEY; Finding Favoritism; Program-Building; Read the Fine Print; An Invitation to Being Taken Advantage Of; Four Features of the Fed's Facilities; A Pattern of Favoritism; Public Good or Favoritism?; THE FED'S ALTERNATIVES; Cram-Downs; Learning from the Bank of England; THE ERA OF BIG GOVERNMENT-FOR FINANCE AND THE CHOSEN; 4: The 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Objects -- Maximin Initialization for Cluster Analysis -- Case-Based Object Recognition with Application to Biological Images -- A New Method of Illumination Normalization for Robust Face Recognition -- A Fast Method for Localization of Local Illumination Variations and Photometric Normalization in Face Images -- Gender Classification Using Principal Geodesic Analysis and Gaussian Mixture Models -- Gender Classification of Faces Using Adaboost -- General Pose Face Recognition Using Frontal Face Model -- Approximating 3D Facial Shape from Photographs Using Coupled Statistical Models -- A Comparative Study of Face Representations in the Frequency Domain -- Face Recognition with Region Division and Spin Images -- Extraction of Blood Vessels in Ophthalmic Color Images of Human Retinas -- A Fast Adaboosting Based Method for Iris and Pupil Contour Detection -- In-Vivo IVUS Tissue Classification: A Comparison Between RF Signal Analysis and Reconstructed Images -- Smoothing Segmented Lung Boundary in Chest CT Images Using Scan Line Search -- Automated Ultrasonic Measurement of Fetal Nuchal Translucency Using Dynamic Programming -- A Method for Detection and Modeling of the Human Spine Based on Principal Curvatures -- Linear Radial Patterns Characterization for Automatic Detection of Tonic Intestinal Contractions -- A Machine Learning Framework Using SOMs: Applications in the Intestinal Motility Assessment -- From Lossy to Lossless Wavelet Image Coding in a Tree-Based Encoder with Resolution Scalability -- 3D Mumford-Shah Based Active Mesh -- Fast 2D-3D Point-Based Registration Using GPU-Based Preprocessing for Image-Guided Surgery -- GA?SSD?ARC?NLM for Parametric Image Registration -- Eigenconjugation: An Approach for Computing Image Similarity -- Image Contrast Enhancement Based on Block-Wise Intensity-Pair Distribution with Two Expansion Forces -- Guiding a Bottom-Up Visual Attention Mechanism to Locate Specific Image Regions Using a Distributed Genetic Optimization -- ORIENT-CAM, A Camera That Knows Its Orientation and Some Applications -- Irregular Pyramid Segmentations with Stochastic Graph Decimation Strategies -- Color Texture Segmentation by Decomposition of Gaussian Mixture Model -- Texture Features and Segmentation Based on Multifractal Approach -- Object Segmentation Using Growing Neural Gas and Generalized Gradient Vector Flow in the Geometric Algebra Framework -- A Clustering Based Approach for Automatic Image Segmentation: An Application to Biplane Ventriculograms -- An Image Segmentation Algorithm Using Iteratively the Mean Shift -- A Robust Region Based Level Set Framework for Medical Image Segmentation -- Color Texture Segmentation Based on Quaternion-Gabor Features -- Corner Detection by Searching Two Class Pattern Substrings -- Model-Based Localization Method by Non-speech Sound Via Wavelet Transform and Dynamic Neural Network -- An Application of Neural Networks for Image Reconstruction in Electrical Capacitance Tomography Applied to Oil Industry -- Combining Neural Networks for Gait Classification -- Training of Multilayer Perceptron Neural Networks by Using Cellular Genetic Algorithms -- Combining Neural Networks and Clustering Techniques for Object Recognition in Indoor Video Sequences -- Evaluation of Time and Frequency Domain-Based Methods for the Estimation of Harmonics-to-Noise-Ratios in Voice Signals -- A Combined Classifier of Cry Units with New Acoustic Attributes -- Practical Considerations for Real-Time Implementation of Speech-Based Gender Detection -- On the Processing of Fuzzy Patterns for Text Independent Phonetic Speech Segmentation -- A RLS Filter for Nonuniformity and Ghosting Correction of Infrared Image Sequences -- Correlation Filters for Detection and Localization of Objects in Degraded Images -- Statistical Recursive Filtering Estimation of Detector Offset Nonuniformity in Infrared Imaging Systems -- 3D Vector Directional Filters to Process Video Sequences -- Object Recognition and Tracking in Video Sequences: ANew Integrated Methodology -- Conceptual K-Means Algorithm Based on Complex Features -- Spatial Data Description by Means of Knowledge-Based System -- Search Method of Time Sensitive Frequent Itemsets in Data Streams -- Image Compression Algorithm Based on Morphological Associative Memories -- A Novel Approach to Automatic Color Matching -- The Associative Recall of Spatial Correlated Patterns -- Associative Memories Applied to Image Categorization -- Robustness Analysis of the Neural Gas Learning Algorithm -- Feature Selection Based on Mutual Correlation -- Oscillating Feature Subset Search Algorithm for Text Categorization -- Two Step Ant Colony System to Solve the Feature Selection Problem -- Simultaneous Features and Objects Selection for Mixed and Incomplete Data -- Selecting Objects for ALVOT -- Feature Extraction Using Clustering of Protein -- A Theoretical Comparison of Two Linear Dimensionality Reduction Techniques -- A New Approach to Multi-class Linear Dimensionality Reduction -- Automatic Band Selection in Multispectral Images Using Mutual Information-Based Clustering -- Orientation Invariant Features for Multiclass Object Recognition -- On the Design and Implementation of a High Performance Configurable Architecture for Testor Identification -- Proposal for a Unified Methodology for Evaluating Supervised and Non-supervised Classification Algorithms -- Monte Carlo Evaluation of the Hausdorff Distance for Shape Matching -- A Fast Probabilistic Model for Hypothesis Rejection in SIFT-Based Object Recognition -- Diagnosis of Chronic Idiopathic Inflammatory Bowel Disease Using Bayesian Networks -- Learning Variability of Image Feature Appearance Using Statistical Methods -- Probabilistic Shot Boundary Detection Using Interframe Histogram Differences -- A Probabilistic Approach to Build 2D Line Based Maps from Laser Scans in Indoor Environments -- Egomotion Estimation as an Appearance-Based Classification Problem -- Decoding of Ternary Error Correcting Output Codes -- Context-Based Gesture Recognition -- Spectral Median Graphs Applied to Graphical Symbol Recognition -- Deterministic Tourist Walks as an Image Analysis Methodology Based -- Approaches to Classification of Multichannel Images -- Fast Fingerprint Matching Based on the Novel Structure Combining the Singular Point with Its Neighborhood Minutiae -- A New Nearest Neighbor Rule for Text Categorization -- Alignment of Paragraphs in Bilingual Texts Using Bilingual Dictionaries and Dynamic Programming -- Document Mining Based on Semantic Understanding of Text -- Authorship Attribution Using Word Sequences -- Document Representation Based on Maximal Frequent Sequence Sets -- Building an Optimal WSD Ensemble Using Per-Word Selection of Best System -- Pixel-Wise Histograms for Visual Segment Description and Applications -- eVLBI Development in TIGO -- Satellite Tracks Removal in Astronomical Images -- Detection of Coding Regions in Large DNA Sequences Using the Short Time Fourier Transform with Reduced Computational Load -- Time Series Pattern Recognition Based on MAP Transform and Local Trend Associations -- System Classification by Using Discriminant Functions of Time-Frequency Features -- Gabor Kernels for Textured Image Representation and Classification -- Local Linear Approximation for Kernel Methods: The Railway Kernel -- Fusion of Gaussian Kernels Within Support Vector Classification -- Support Vector Machine with External Recurrences for Modeling Dynamic Cerebral Autoregulation -- An Approach to Automatic Target Recognition in Radar Images Using SVM -- Analysis of Algebraic Expressions Derived from Genetic Multivariate Polynomials and Support Vector Machines: A Case Study -- Image Compression by a Time Enhanced Self Organizing Map. 330 $aThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2006, held in Cancun, Mexico in November 2006. 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