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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
In Wilderness Cathedral: The Story of Idaho's Oldest Building,
historian and Coeur d'Alene resident Jake Eberlein writes about the
story of the Old Sacred Heart Mission and its significance to
Cataldo and the larger Pacific Northwest region. Eberlein correctly
points out that although this is a history of a single building,
the story he tells is really the history of the region. -From the
Foreword While much is written about religious buildings such as
the California Missions or St. Patrick's Cathedral, until this book
precious little has been written about Sacred Heart Mission in
Cataldo, ID. Historian Jake Eberlein traces the founding of the
mission in the 19th century, the struggles and conflicts in
building the mission, the changes it survived and the faith of the
Native Americans and the Jesuits who served them which stood the
passage of time. Wilderness Cathedral is a pioneering historical
effort that sheds light on one of America's great monuments.
Guest edited by Drs. Kyle Eberlin and Neal Chen, this issue of Hand
Clinics will cover several key areas of interest related to
Revascularization and Replantation in the Hand. This issue is one
of four selected each year by our series Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Kevin
Chung of the University of Michigan. Articles in this issue
include, but are not limited to: Health Policy and Regionalization
of Microvascular Hand Surgery and Replantation; Indications for
Replantation/Revascularization; Efficiency in
Replantation/Revascularization Surgery; Hand, Wrist, Forearm, and
Arm replantation; Pediatric Replantation; Distal digital
replantation and artery only protocols for replantation; Flap
Coverage of dysvascular digits including venous flow-through flaps;
Outcomes following replantation/revascularization surgery;
Post-Operative Management of the Replanted/Revascularized Digit,
including Rehabilitation; and Secondary Surgery following
Replantation and Revascularization.
This book presents a state-of-the art collection of original
contributions on democracy, addressing three related themes: the
complexity of modern democracies and their structural diversity;
coping strategies of democracies in times of crises; and current
and potential trajectories and transformations of democracy. The
first part of the book maps the democratic landscape by revealing
the diversity of democratic political systems, through either
comparative analysis or case studies on the specific nature of
political and administrative systems in interest intermediation and
identity construction. The second part presents articles that
investigate the response of democracies to times of crisis, with an
emphasis on political economies and policy processes within the
European Union. The third part offers studies on democracies that
explore their adaptive potential in the context of globalization
and in that of broader technical, institutional or cultural
changes.
What is high dimensional probability? Under this broad name we
collect topics with a common philosophy, where the idea of high
dimension plays a key role, either in the problem or in the methods
by which it is approached. Let us give a specific example that can
be immediately understood, that of Gaussian processes. Roughly
speaking, before 1970, the Gaussian processes that were studied
were indexed by a subset of Euclidean space, mostly with dimension
at most three. Assuming some regularity on the covariance, one
tried to take advantage of the structure of the index set. Around
1970 it was understood, in particular by Dudley, Feldman, Gross,
and Segal that a more abstract and intrinsic point of view was much
more fruitful. The index set was no longer considered as a subset
of Euclidean space, but simply as a metric space with the metric
canonically induced by the process. This shift in perspective
subsequently lead to a considerable clarification of many aspects
of Gaussian process theory, and also to its applications in other
settings.
From agriculture to sport and from climate change to indigenous
rights, transnational regulatory regimes and actors are multiplying
and interacting with poorly understood results. This
interdisciplinary book investigates whether, how and by whom
transnational business governance interactions (TBGIs) can be
harnessed to improve the quality of transnational regulation and
advance the interests of marginalized actors. Exploring multiple
sectors and issue areas, Transnational Business Governance
Interactions presents new empirical and theoretical research from
leading and emerging scholars and identifies obstacles to, and
opportunities for, mobilizing TBGIs to enhance regulatory
capacities, outputs and outcomes and to advance marginalized actors
in transnational business governance. The prime readership for this
work is an interdisciplinary audience of academics including
scholars of law, business, environmental studies, international
relations, political science, political economy and sociology.
Because of its attention to practical strategies to harness
governance interactions to enhance regulatory quality and advance
marginalized groups, the book will also be of interest to
high-level participants in global business governance, including
standards-setting bodies, certification bodies, auditors, trade
associations, civil society organizations, social movement
organizers, national regulators, overseas development agencies and
international organizations. Contributors include: K.W. Abbott, G.
Auld, M. Bach, S. Carodenuto, B. Cashore, D. Casey, C.C.-H. Chen,
B. Eberlein, P. Foley, S. Gao, T. Havinga, L.F. Henriksen, E.
Meidinger, N. Oman, P. Paiement, S. Renckens, R. Schmidt, L.
Seabrooke, P. Verbruggen, O. Westerwinter, J.K. Winn, S. Wood
In its first six chapters this 2006 text seeks to present the basic
ideas and properties of the Jacobi elliptic functions as an
historical essay, an attempt to answer the fascinating question:
'what would the treatment of elliptic functions have been like if
Abel had developed the ideas, rather than Jacobi?' Accordingly, it
is based on the idea of inverting integrals which arise in the
theory of differential equations and, in particular, the
differential equation that describes the motion of a simple
pendulum. The later chapters present a more conventional approach
to the Weierstrass functions and to elliptic integrals, and then
the reader is introduced to the richly varied applications of the
elliptic and related functions. Applications spanning arithmetic
(solution of the general quintic, the functional equation of the
Riemann zeta function), dynamics (orbits, Euler's equations,
Green's functions), and also probability and statistics, are
discussed.
'The Fifteen Confederates' was published anonymously in the fall of
1521, shortly after Martin Luther's hearing at the Diet of Worms
and subsequent disappearance. The fifteen pamphlets that make up
the book address religious, social, economic, and political
challenges facing the German people. Their author, Johann Eberlin
von Gunzburg, subsequently became one of the most prolific and
popular pamphleteers of the German Reformation. As an important
contribution to the pamphlet war that accompanied the beginnings of
the Reformation in Germany, 'The Fifteen Confederates' provides us
a valuable window on the aspirations and dreams that accompanied
Luther's initial calls for reform of the church and society.
Taking continuous-time stochastic processes allowing for jumps as
its starting and focal point, this book provides an accessible
introduction to the stochastic calculus and control of
semimartingales and explains the basic concepts of Mathematical
Finance such as arbitrage theory, hedging, valuation principles,
portfolio choice, and term structure modelling. It bridges thegap
between introductory texts and the advanced literature in the
field. Most textbooks on the subject are limited to diffusion-type
models which cannot easily account for sudden price movements. Such
abrupt changes, however, can often be observed in real markets. At
the same time, purely discontinuous processes lead to a much wider
variety of flexible and tractable models. This explains why
processes with jumps have become an established tool in the
statistics and mathematics of finance. Graduate students,
researchers as well as practitioners will benefit from this
monograph.
This book presents a state-of-the art collection of original
contributions on democracy, addressing three related themes: the
complexity of modern democracies and their structural diversity;
coping strategies of democracies in times of crises; and current
and potential trajectories and transformations of democracy. The
first part of the book maps the democratic landscape by revealing
the diversity of democratic political systems, through either
comparative analysis or case studies on the specific nature of
political and administrative systems in interest intermediation and
identity construction. The second part presents articles that
investigate the response of democracies to times of crisis, with an
emphasis on political economies and policy processes within the
European Union. The third part offers studies on democracies that
explore their adaptive potential in the context of globalization
and in that of broader technical, institutional or cultural
changes.
Winner of the third annual Tartt Fiction Award. It was some decade.
The universities were closed. Students were at war. Poetry was
banned. And the word "love", unless applied to Mao, was expressly
forbidden. Artists were denounced, and many opted for suicide. This
is the time -- its madness, its passion, its complexity -- that
Xujun Eberlein brings vividly to life in Apologies Forthcoming, her
moving collection of short stories about the millions who lived
during China's Cultural Revolution. An award-winning writer who now
lives in Massachusetts, Eberlein has nothing to apologise for. Her
stories are electrifying. About half of the stories take place
during the years of the Cultural Revolution; the other half in its
aftermath. How many come from personal experience is hard to say.
Eberlein, who lived through the Cultural Revolution's decade as a
child and teenager, had a sister who died as a Red Guard, and that
event seems fictionalised in one of the stories. Apologies
Forthcoming shines a revealing light on some of the people whose
lives were changed forever by the ten years that turned China
upside down. Eberlein does the great service of illuminating the
interior lives of a peculiar generation, many of whom are now
leading China's phenomenal awakening.
What is high dimensional probability? Under this broad name we
collect topics with a common philosophy, where the idea of high
dimension plays a key role, either in the problem or in the methods
by which it is approached. Let us give a specific example that can
be immediately understood, that of Gaussian processes. Roughly
speaking, before 1970, the Gaussian processes that were studied
were indexed by a subset of Euclidean space, mostly with dimension
at most three. Assuming some regularity on the covariance, one
tried to take advantage of the structure of the index set. Around
1970 it was understood, in particular by Dudley, Feldman, Gross,
and Segal that a more abstract and intrinsic point of view was much
more fruitful. The index set was no longer considered as a subset
of Euclidean space, but simply as a metric space with the metric
canonically induced by the process. This shift in perspective
subsequently lead to a considerable clarification of many aspects
of Gaussian process theory, and also to its applications in other
settings.
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