Partial Visions

Author : Richard M. Merelman
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 029912990X

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A pathbreaking study of political culture in the United States, Britain, and Canada, Partial Visions demonstrates how popular culture--expressed through television soap operas and comedies, civics and history textbooks, magazine advertisements, and corporate publications and recruitment leaflets--subtly deflects and suppresses democratic political action. Richard Merelman argues that political messages embedded in popular culture weaken the division between public and private and between society and the individual. These "partial visions" of democracy are idealized yet inequitable, revelatory yet distorted. As a result, issues that might galvanize useful group conflict do not emerge, and the full potential for public participation in a liberal democracy remains unrealized. Britain, Canada, and the United States share a liberal political culture but differ in their historical evolution and in the structure of their institutions. Each country, Merelman suggests, has developed a distinctive popular culture that shapes public opinion and stifles political debate in nationally specific ways. Different rhetorical devices and metaphors operate in each nation, he points out; in Britain, for example, the monarchy and party system serve as symbols of political reconciliation between the individual and the collectivity. Characterizing the United States as a culture of "institutionalized individualism" and Canada as a culture of emotionally tepid group conflict, Merelman finds Britain's culture of group-based political debate the most successful in encouraging democratic participation. Drawing on symbolic anthropology, poststructuralist literary theory, and positivistic analyses of attitudes and media influence, Merelman conducts a controlled comparison of media representations, political discourse, and public opinion, using rich, complex sets of quantitative and qualitative data . He concludes that culture is not reducible to institutional interests but is intelligible as a whole structure; furthermore, culture can and sometimes does change the contours of political conflict.

Author : Angelika Bammer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134980109

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Partial Visions by Angelika Bammer Pdf

Positing that a radical utopianism is one of the most vital impulses of feminist politics, Partial Visions traces the articulation of this impulse in the work of Euro-American, French and German women writers of the 1970s. It argues that this feminist utopianism both continued and reconceptualized a critical dimension of Left politics, yet concludes that feminist utopianism is not just visionary, but myopic - time and culture bound - as well.

Author : Marilyn Strathern
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759114937

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Partial Connections by Marilyn Strathern Pdf

Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details of social life, attempting to establish proportionality between them. Strathern gives equal weight to two areas of contemporary debate: The difficulties inherent in anthropologically representing complex societies, and the future of cross-cultural comparison in a field where 'too much' seems known. The ethnographic focus of this book emphasizes the context through which Melanesianists have managed the complexity of their own accounts, while at the same time unfolding a commentary on perception and the mixing of indigenous forms. Revealing unexpected replications in modes of thought and in the presentation of ambiguous images, Strathern has fashioned a unique contribution to the anthropological corpus. This book was originally published under the sponsorship of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.

Author : Tobias Preusser,Robert M. Kirby,Torben Pätz
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781681731445

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Stochastic Partial Differential Equations for Computer Vision with Uncertain Data by Tobias Preusser,Robert M. Kirby,Torben Pätz Pdf

In image processing and computer vision applications such as medical or scientific image data analysis, as well as in industrial scenarios, images are used as input measurement data. It is good scientific practice that proper measurements must be equipped with error and uncertainty estimates. For many applications, not only the measured values but also their errors and uncertainties, should be—and more and more frequently are—taken into account for further processing. This error and uncertainty propagation must be done for every processing step such that the final result comes with a reliable precision estimate. The goal of this book is to introduce the reader to the recent advances from the field of uncertainty quantification and error propagation for computer vision, image processing, and image analysis that are based on partial differential equations (PDEs). It presents a concept with which error propagation and sensitivity analysis can be formulated with a set of basic operations. The approach discussed in this book has the potential for application in all areas of quantitative computer vision, image processing, and image analysis. In particular, it might help medical imaging finally become a scientific discipline that is characterized by the classical paradigms of observation, measurement, and error awareness. This book is comprised of eight chapters. After an introduction to the goals of the book (Chapter 1), we present a brief review of PDEs and their numerical treatment (Chapter 2), PDE-based image processing (Chapter 3), and the numerics of stochastic PDEs (Chapter 4). We then proceed to define the concept of stochastic images (Chapter 5), describe how to accomplish image processing and computer vision with stochastic images (Chapter 6), and demonstrate the use of these principles for accomplishing sensitivity analysis (Chapter 7). Chapter 8 concludes the book and highlights new research topics for the future.

Author : Kyo Maclear
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0791440052

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Beclouded Visions by Kyo Maclear Pdf

The trauma of Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrates the limits of dominant visual models, such as photography, for providing adequate historical memory. The author argues that collective traumas suggest the need for a prolonged gaze, such as can be provided by expressive art.

Author : Ernest Renan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000661432

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The Apostles. Translated from the Original French by Ernest Renan Pdf

Author : Antonios Gasteratos,Markus Vincze,John K. Tsotsos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540795476

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Computer Vision Systems by Antonios Gasteratos,Markus Vincze,John K. Tsotsos Pdf

In the past few years, with the advances in microelectronics and digital te- nology, cameras became a widespread media. This, along with the enduring increase in computing power boosted the development of computer vision s- tems. The International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS) covers the advances in this area. This is to say that ICVS is not and should not be yet another computer vision conference. The ?eld of computer vision is fully covered by many well-established and famous conferences and ICVS di?ers from these by covering the systems point of view. ICVS 2008 was the 6th International Conference dedicated to advanced research on computer vision systems. The conference, continuing a series of successful events in Las Palmas, Vancouver, Graz, New York and Bielefeld, in 2008 was held on Santorini. In all, 128 papers entered the review process and each was reviewed by three independent reviewers using the double-blind review method. Of these, 53 - pers were accepted (23 as oral and 30 as poster presentation). There were also two invited talks by P. Anandan and by Heinrich H. Bultho ̈ ?. The presented papers cover all aspects of computer vision systems, namely: cognitive vision, monitor and surveillance, computer vision architectures, calibration and reg- tration, object recognition and tracking, learning, human—machine interaction and cross-modal systems.

Author : St John of the Cross
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781602064959

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Ascent of Mount Carmel by St John of the Cross Pdf

"St. John of the Cross lived a monastic and ascetic life, believing this was the best way to combat the evils of the world, the flesh, and the Devil, and to focus on God alone. The Ascent of Mount Carmel, which he began composing after his escape from prison, is the story of the loneliness and suffering of the soul before its reunion with God. Included in this volume is not only the relatively brief poem only eight stanzas long but the poet s own stanza-by-stanza, line-by-line, and verse-by-verse deconstruction as well. Divided into three books (and a grand total of 91 chapters), The Ascent of Mount Carmel also contains footnotes to verses of scripture referred to in the poem. Spanish mystic and poet ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS (1542 1591) played a major role in the Catholic Reformation of the 16th century, and produced several renowned writings, including his Spiritual Canticle, The Dark Night of the Soul, and Sayings of Love and Peace."

Author : Raimon Panikkar
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608337460

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Cultures and Religion in Dialogue by Raimon Panikkar Pdf

Author : Henry James Coleridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR00293679

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The Life and Letters of St. Teresa by Henry James Coleridge Pdf

Author : Henry Doty Maxson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Unitarianism
ISBN : HARVARD:32044077966919

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Sermons of Religion and Life by Henry Doty Maxson Pdf

Author : Drew A. Hyland
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253219770

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Plato and the Question of Beauty by Drew A. Hyland Pdf

Drew A. Hyland, one of Continental philosophy's keenest interpreters of Plato, takes up the question of beauty in three Platonic dialogues, the Hippias Major, Symposium, and Phaedrus. What Plato meant by beauty is not easily characterized, and Hyland's close readings show that Plato ultimately gives up on the possibility of a definition. Plato's failure, however, tells us something important about beauty—that it cannot be reduced to logos. Exploring questions surrounding love, memory, and ideal form, Hyland draws out the connections between beauty, the possibility of philosophy, and philosophical living. This new reading of Plato provides a serious investigation into the meaning of beauty and places it at the very heart of philosophy.

Author : Maja Kominko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781107020887

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The World of Kosmas by Maja Kominko Pdf

New study of the Christian Topography, a sixth-century illustrated treatise, and its intellectual milieu.

Author : Andrea Vedaldi,Horst Bischof,Thomas Brox,Jan-Michael Frahm
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030585488

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Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 by Andrea Vedaldi,Horst Bischof,Thomas Brox,Jan-Michael Frahm Pdf

The 30-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 12346 until 12375, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020, which was planned to be held in Glasgow, UK, during August 23-28, 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 1360 revised papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 5025 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image classification; image processing; object detection; semantic segmentation; human pose estimation; 3d reconstruction; stereo vision; computational photography; neural networks; image coding; image reconstruction; object recognition; motion estimation.

Author : Mayo Clinic
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780795340741

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Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Vision by Mayo Clinic Pdf

A handbook on eye health from“one of the most reliable, respected health resources that Americans have” (Publishers Weekly). The eye is as intricate as the latest computer and as precious as any jewel. While eye disease is rarely fatal, eye health is essential to enjoyment of your world as you know it. So it makes sense to give your eyes the attention and care they richly deserve. With more people living longer lives, age-related eye disease has become more common. Fortunately, state-of-the-art medical treatment has not only kept up but made great advances. So has our understanding of the nutritional and lifestyle decisions that impact vision and eye health. Mayo Clinic helps thousands of patients each year with vision and eye problems, and its medical staff includes some of the finest eye doctors in the world. Now you can take advantage of this wealth of knowledge. In Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Vision, you’ll learn: · 8 ways to prevent macular degeneration, the age-related eye disease that causes vision loss and blind spots · 5 ways to prevent glaucoma, the “silent thief of sight” that commonly develops with no warning signs · 8 self-care tips to help you or a loved one keep your diabetes under control and effectively slow the progression of diabetic retinopathy · 4 steps that may slow or prevent the development of a cataract Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Vision covers all the leading causes of vision loss, with practical information on prevention, detection, and treatment—all based on the same medical knowledge Mayo Clinic doctors share with their patients.