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As policymakers and scholars evaluate possible ways forward in the
reform and renewal of public services by governments caught up in a
recessionary environment, this book aims to offer something
different - a comprehensive analysis of the development of the
'Scandinavian' way of modernizing public-sector management. No book
has yet provided an inside view of the development and character of
New Public Management (NPM) in Scandinavia. Although there is a
general perception that there is a clear-cut 'Scandinavian' model
of public policy and management, this book offers a more nuanced
interpretation, illuminating subtle distinctions in political,
social and economic context which are significant in identifying
receptive contexts for the adoption of modernization policies.
Organized into three main themes in the modernization of the
welfare state - management, governance and marketization - the
contents revolve around unique empirical accounts, revealing
distinctive Scandinavian characteristics of reform initiatives. The
received wisdom may be a hesitant follower of the UK and the USA.
But this book offers an alternative interpretation, revealing an
edginess in certain Scandinavian settings, particularly in Sweden,
which is a largely unrecognized. Without compromising the welfare
state, it may be a bold frontrunner in the development of New
Public Management.
As policymakers and scholars evaluate possible ways forward in the
reform and renewal of public services by governments caught up in a
recessionary environment, this book aims to offer something
different - a comprehensive analysis of the development of the
'Scandinavian' way of modernizing public-sector management. No book
has yet provided an inside view of the development and character of
New Public Management (NPM) in Scandinavia. Although there is a
general perception that there is a clear-cut 'Scandinavian' model
of public policy and management, this book offers a more nuanced
interpretation, illuminating subtle distinctions in political,
social and economic context which are significant in identifying
receptive contexts for the adoption of modernization policies.
Organized into three main themes in the modernization of the
welfare state - management, governance and marketization - the
contents revolve around unique empirical accounts, revealing
distinctive Scandinavian characteristics of reform initiatives. The
received wisdom may be a hesitant follower of the UK and the USA.
But this book offers an alternative interpretation, revealing an
edginess in certain Scandinavian settings, particularly in Sweden,
which is a largely unrecognized. Without compromising the welfare
state, it may be a bold frontrunner in the development of New
Public Management.
Signal Processing for Computer Vision is a unique and thorough
treatment of the signal processing aspects of filters and operators
for low-level computer vision. Computer vision has progressed
considerably over recent years. From methods only applicable to
simple images, it has developed to deal with increasingly complex
scenes, volumes and time sequences. A substantial part of this book
deals with the problem of designing models that can be used for
several purposes within computer vision. These partial models have
some general properties of invariance generation and generality in
model generation. Signal Processing for Computer Vision is the
first book to give a unified treatment of representation and
filtering of higher order data, such as vectors and tensors in
multidimensional space. Included is a systematic organisation for
the implementation of complex models in a hierarchical modular
structure and novel material on adaptive filtering using tensor
data representation. Signal Processing for Computer Vision is
intended for final year undergraduate and graduate students as well
as engineers and researchers in the field of computer vision and
image processing.
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