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First published in 1970, this volume from Mrs Harriet E. Bishop
McConkey, a pioneer schoolteacher of St. Paul, Minnesota, was part
of the first wave of contemporaneous accounts from Americans in
1863 documenting their perspective of the Sioux Uprising between
the 17th of August and the 26th of September 1862. At least 450
settlers and soldiers were killed, depopulating large areas.
Although not a direct eyewitness to events, Harriet McConkey was on
the fringes of the action in St. Paul and gathered material
firsthand from the participants themselves, enabling her to convey
the settlers' story with profound emotional involvement and
intimacy, though with equally profound bitterness for the Native
Americans. McConkey made little attempt to explore their
motivations in the form of famine, late payment and poor treatment.
Though imperfect, hers remains an important account documenting the
settlers' experience of the event which began a succession of wars
over thirty years, ending at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1890.
The steady expansion of the European Union's involvement in health
over the past 20 years has been accelerated by recent events. This
Handbook offers an up-to-date analytical overview of the most
important topics in EU health law and policy. It outlines, as far
as possible, the direction of travel for each topic and suggests
research agendas for the future. Split into five parts, this book
brings together international, interdisciplinary contributions to
consider the past, present and future of EU health law and policy.
The changing membership of the EU could see dramatic changes for EU
health law and policy: the contributors consider current
developments in the light of past trajectories. The book covers key
institutions; policies on people and products; health systems;
public health; and the health implications of the EU's external
trade policies and laws. Wide-ranging and accessible, this Handbook
will appeal to academics and students focussing on EU health law or
policy. It will also be of interest to lawyers and policy makers
working in or with the EU as well as health managers and NGOs.
Contributors include: A. Alemanno, O. Bartlett, L.E. Bishop, E.
Brosset, A. de Ruijter, A. den Exter, G. Dussault, M.L. Flear, M.
Frischhut, A. Garde, I. Goldner Lang, S.L Greer, M. Guy, T.K.
Hervey, H. Jarman, M. Koivusalo, E. Kuhlmann, C. Larsen, A.
Mahalatchimy, C.B. Maier, D.S Martinsen, J.V. McHale, N. Mijatovic,
E. Pavolini, M. Pilgerstorfer, C. Rieder, C.S. Rusu, W. Sauter, T.
Sokol, M.-I. Ungureanu, J.W. van de Gronden, C.A. Young
Blind image deconvolution is constantly receiving increasing
attention from the academic as well the industrial world due to
both its theoretical and practical implications. The field of blind
image deconvolution has several applications in different areas
such as image restoration, microscopy, medical imaging, biological
imaging, remote sensing, astronomy, nondestructive testing,
geophysical prospecting, and many others. Blind Image
Deconvolution: Theory and Applications surveys the current state of
research and practice as presented by the most recognized experts
in the field, thus filling a gap in the available literature on
blind image deconvolution. Explore the gamut of blind image
deconvolution approaches and algorithms that currently exist and
follow the current research trends into the future. This
comprehensive treatise discusses Bayesian techniques, single- and
multi-channel methods, adaptive and multi-frame techniques, and a
host of applications to multimedia processing, astronomy, remote
sensing imagery, and medical and biological imaging at the
whole-body, small-part, and cellular levels. Everything you need to
step into this dynamic field is at your fingertips in this unique,
self-contained masterwork. For image enhancement and restoration
without a priori information, turn to Blind Image Deconvolution:
Theory and Applications for the knowledge and techniques you need
to tackle real-world problems.
First published in 1970, this volume from Mrs Harriet E. Bishop
McConkey, a pioneer schoolteacher of St. Paul, Minnesota, was part
of the first wave of contemporaneous accounts from Americans in
1863 documenting their perspective of the Sioux Uprising between
the 17th of August and the 26th of September 1862. At least 450
settlers and soldiers were killed, depopulating large areas.
Although not a direct eyewitness to events, Harriet McConkey was on
the fringes of the action in St. Paul and gathered material
firsthand from the participants themselves, enabling her to convey
the settlers' story with profound emotional involvement and
intimacy, though with equally profound bitterness for the Native
Americans. McConkey made little attempt to explore their
motivations in the form of famine, late payment and poor treatment.
Though imperfect, hers remains an important account documenting the
settlers' experience of the event which began a succession of wars
over thirty years, ending at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1890.
This work grew out of Errett Bishop's fundamental treatise 'Founda
tions of Constructive Analysis' (FCA), which appeared in 1967 and
which contained the bountiful harvest of a remarkably short period
of research by its author. Truly, FCA was an exceptional book, not
only because of the quantity of original material it contained, but
also as a demonstration of the practicability of a program which
most ma thematicians believed impossible to carry out. Errett's
book went out of print shortly after its publication, and no second
edition was produced by its publishers. Some years later, 'by a set
of curious chances', it was agreed that a new edition of FCA would
be published by Springer Verlag, the revision being carried out by
me under Errett's supervision; at the same time, Errett gener ously
insisted that I become a joint author. The revision turned out to
be much more substantial than we had anticipated, and took longer
than we would have wished. Indeed, tragically, Errett died before
the work was completed. The present book is the result of our
efforts. Although substantially based on FCA, it contains so much
new material, and such full revision and expansion of the old, that
it is essentially a new book. For this reason, and also to preserve
the integrity of the original, I decided to give our joint work a
title of its own. Most of the new material outside Chapter 5
originated with Errett."
Plants have played key roles in science fiction novels, graphic
novels and film. John Wyndham's triffids, Algernon Blackwood's
willows and Han Kang's sprouting woman are just a few examples.
Plants surround us, sustain us, pique our imaginations and inhabit
our metaphors - but in many ways they remain opaque. The scope of
their alienation is as broad as their biodiversity. And yet,
literary reflections of plant-life are driven, as are many threads
of science fictional inquiry, by the concerns of today. Plants in
Science Fiction is the first-ever collected volume on plants in
science fiction, and its original essays argue that plant-life in
SF is transforming our attitudes toward morality, politics,
economics and cultural life at large - questioning and shifting our
understandings of institutions, nations, borders and boundaries;
erecting and dismantling new visions of utopian and dystopian
futures.
Energy scholar Vaclav Smil wrote in 2003, "Tug at any human use of
energy and you will find its effects cascading throughout society."
Too often public discussions of energy-related issues become
gridlocked in debates concerning cost, environmental degradation,
and the plausibility (or implausibility) of innovative
technologies. But the topic of energy is much broader and deeper
than these debates typically reveal. The literature of energy bears
this out-and takes the notion further, revealing in vivid stories
and images how energy permeates the fundamental nature of
existence. Readings in this collection encompass a wide array of
topics, from addiction to oil to life "off the grid," from the
power of the atom to the power of bicycle technology. Presenting a
wide array of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and interviews-ranging
from George Eliot's nineteenth-century novel Mill on the Floss to
Sandra Steingraber's recent writing on the subject of fracking-this
first-of-its-kind anthology aims to capture the interest of the
general reader as well as to serve as a potential textbook for
college-level writing classes or environmental studies classes that
aspire to place the technical subject of energy into a broader
cultural context.
Religion and Disability presents three keynote addresses from the
national symposium, "Ministry Perspectives on Disability." In the
opening essay, noted scripture scholar Donald Senior identifies
certain themes often associated with scripture-such as the
distinction between clean and unclean, and the notion that sin and
guilt somehow cause sickness and disability-that contribute to
non-welcoming attitudes to the disabled. In the second essay, John
Macquarrie draws upon both theological reasoning and personal
experience in reflecting upon the dignity of all persons and how
this principle applies especially to our dealings with the
disabled. Finally, Stanley Hauerwas invokes the ideals of the
Church in calling for a response of love toward persons with mental
handicaps. He helps us imagine a church community enriched by
members who are disabled.
schlampigen Denkens einerseits und andererseits einer gar zu kom
promi61osen Hingabe an wissenschaftliche Strenge, die der Darstel
lung jede Lebendigkeit nehmen konnte. Mit diesem Buchlein hoffe ich
am Beispiel des begrenzten, aber wichtigen Spezialgebiets der
Schwingungen zeigen zu konnen, welche Probleme hier auftreten und
gelost werden mussen. Bei der Vorbereitung sowohl des Buches wie
auch der Vortrage, die ihm zugrunde liegen, hatte ich viele Helfer.
Alle diese Freunde haben durch Schreiben, Herstellen von
Zeichnungen, Fotografieren, Her stellen und Vorfiihren von Geraten,
durch Leihen von Einrichtungen und Filmen oder auch sonst dazu
beigetragen, meine Arbeit zu er leichtern. Ihnen gilt mein Dank. R.
E. D. B. Vorwort zur zweiten Auflage Wt uns mal die Lage peilen:
Obschon sie schwierig und vertrackt, Mit Ruhe, ohne Ubereilen Wird
wohl auch diese NuB geknackt. Let us grasp the situation, Solve the
complicated plot Quiet calm deliberation Disentangles every knot.
Ein Buch uber Schwingungen, das keinerlei Mathematik enthiilt, das
vielmehr von einfachen Versuchen ausgeht, mag - verglichen mit dem
umfangreichen vorhandenen Fachschrifttum - kurios erschei nen.
Vielleicht ist es dies auch. Dennoch bin ich uberzeugt, daB es
nicht sinnvoll ware, die Darstellung zu verwissenschaftlichen. Des
halb wurde der beschreibende Charakter beibehalten. In der zweiten
Auflage sind einige Abschnitte hinzugefiigt worden."
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