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Stephen Cohen updates his critically acclaimed book with a
discerning view of significant recent events in the region,
particularly the devastating earthquake in Kashmir and its after
affects. The quake killed over 70,000 people and left another 3
million homeless in one of the most remote, inhospitable parts of
the world. Cohen observes how the catastrophic event has affected
Pakistans political, military, and economic structures, as well as
its relationships with other countries. Praise for the previous
edition: " A lucid, penetrating and brilliantly constructed book on
the state and nation of Pakistan. Cohen, an old South Asia hand,
brings to the fore all his knowledge and expertise of one of
America's most important allies in the war against terror." Choice
" Cohens facts are indisputable, his logic cold and clear, and his
omissions deliberate and meaningful." Foreign Affairs " A
singularly successful effort to explain Pakistan. . . . The
intellectual power and rare insight with which the book breaks
through the complexity of the subject rivals that of classics that
have explained other societies posing a comparable challenge to
understanding." Middle East Journal " Cohen knows Pakistan well and
his analysis is very perceptive." Newsline (Karachi, Pakistan) " A
personal, perceptive, and policy-oriented study of Pakistan. This
is an important work, by a leading expert of South Asia." Economic
and Political Weekly (India) Book Review " �Cohens� survey of how
the country has developed and why it is at the crossroads it is now
is most insightful and useful. A first class primer and more as I
commence my work." David B. Collins, highcommissioner of Canada,
Islamabad
The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of
urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom. This book
provides a comprehensive overview and critique of the Thames
Gateway plan, but at the same time it uses the plan as a lens
through which to look at a series of important questions of social
theory, urban policy and governmental practice. It examines the
impact of urban planning and demographic change on East London's
material and social environment, including new forms of ethnic
gentrification, the development of the eastern hinterlands,
shifting patterns of migration between city and country, the role
of new policies in regulating housing provision and the attempt to
create new cultural hubs downriver. It also looks at issues of
governance and accountability, the tension between public and
private interests, and the immediate and longer term prospects for
the Thames Gateway project both in relation to the 'Olympics
effect' and the growth of new forms of regionalism.
These essays deal with the scholarly study of the genesis,
transmission, and editorial reconstitution of texts by exploring
the connections between textual instability and textual theory,
interpretation, and pedagogy. What makes this collection unique is
that each essay brings a different theoretical orientation-New
Historicism, Poststructuralism, or Feminism-to bear upon a
different text, such as Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Faulkner's
TheSound and the Fury, or hypertext fiction, to explore the
dialectical relationship between texts and textuality. The essays
bring some of the textual theories that compete with each other
today into contact with a broad range of primarily literary textual
histories. That texts are intrinsically unstable, frequently
consisting of a series of determinate historical versions, has
consequences for all students of literature, because different
versions of a literary work frequently help shape different
readings independently of the interpretations brought to bear upon
them. Textual instability of the works is relevant to our
understanding of how the meanings of texts are generated. The
contributors build on the numerous challenges to the Anglo-American
editorial tradition mounted during the past decade by scholars as
diverse as Jerome McGann, D.F. McKenzie, Peter Shillingsburg, D.C.
Greetham, Hershel Parker, and Hans Walter Gabler. The volume
contributes to the paradigm shift in textual scholarship
inaugurated by these scholars. Index.
Information services are economic and organizational activities for
informing people. Because informing is changing rapidly under the
influence of internet-technologies, this book presents in Chapter 1
fundamental notions of information and knowledge, based on
philosopher C.W. Churchman's inquiring systems. This results in the
identification of three product-oriented design theory aspects:
content, use value and revenue. Chapter 2 describes how one can
cope with these aspects by presenting process-oriented design
theory. Both design theory insights are applied in chapters on
information services challenges, their business concepts and
processes, their architectures and exploitation. The final chapter
discusses three case studies that integrate the insights from
previous chapters, and it discusses some ideas for future research.
This book gives students a coherent start to the topic of
information services from a design science perspective, with a
balance between technical and managerial aspects. Therefore, this
book is useful for modern curricula of management, communication
science and information systems. Because of its design science
approach, it also explains design science principles. The book also
serves professionals and academics in search of a foundational
understanding of informing as a science and management practice.
The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of
urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom. Not since
the Great Fire of London will the capital city have been subject to
such an enormous and concentrated process of change as what is
currently being proposed: the building of affordable homes for half
a million people on a flood plain, the construction of a new
transport network to attract investment from across Europe and
around the world, the creation of a whole new apparatus of
governance to regulate London's historic Eastwards expansion, and
the attempt to create a sustainable green environment out of some
of the most polluted brownfield sites in the country. And, over and
above all this, the location of London's 2012 Olympics.All this is
being proposed against the background of widespread public sceptism
about master plans and grand projects, coupled with concerns about
the impact of global warming on London's flood protection systems
and the fear that market led construction of mass housing will lead
to Los Angeles style urban sprawl.This book provides a
comprehensive overview and critique of the Thames Gateway plan, but
at the same time, it uses the plan as a lens through which to look
at a series of important questions of social theory, urban policy
and governmental practice. It examines the impact of urban planning
and demographic change on East London's material and social
environment, including new forms of ethnic gentrification, the
development of the eastern hinterlands, shifting patterns of
migration between city and country, the role of new policies in
regulating housing provision and the attempt to create new cultural
hubs downriver. It also looks at issues of governance and
accountability, the tension between public and private interests,
and the immediate and longer term prospects for the Thames Gateway
project both in relation to the 'Olympics effect' and the growth of
new forms of regionalism.
These essays deal with the scholarly study of the genesis,
transmission, and editorial reconstitution of texts by exploring
the connections between textual instability and textual theory,
interpretation, and pedagogy.
What makes this collection unique is that each essay brings a
different theoretical orientation-New Historicism,
Poststructuralism, or Feminism-to bear upon a different text, such
as Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury,
" or hypertext fiction, to explore the dialectical relationship
between texts and textuality.
The essays bring some of the textual theories that compete with
each other today into contact with a broad range of primarily
literary textual histories. That texts are intrinsically unstable,
frequently consisting of a series of determinate historical
versions, has consequences for all students of literature, because
different versions of a literary work frequently help shape
different readings independently of the interpretations brought to
bear upon them. Textual instability of the works is relevant to our
understanding of how the meanings of texts are generated. The
contributors build on the numerous challenges to the Anglo-American
editorial tradition mounted during the past decade by scholars as
diverse as Jerome McGann, D.F. McKenzie, Peter Shillingsburg, D.C.
Greetham, Hershel Parker, and Hans Walter Gabler. The volume
contributes to the paradigm shift in textual scholarship
inaugurated by these scholars. Index.
This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary
sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi
Jews-descendants of Jews who fled medieval Spain and Portugal
settling in the western portions of the Ottoman Empire, including
the Balkans, Anatolia, and Palestine. Reflecting Sephardi history
in all its diversity, from the courtyard to the courthouse, spheres
intimate, political, commercial, familial, and religious, these
documents show life within these distinctive Jewish communities as
well as between Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Sephardi Lives offer
readers an intimate view of how Sephardim experienced the major
regional and world events of the modern era-natural disasters,
violence and wars, the transition from empire to nation-states, and
the Holocaust. This collection also provides a vivid exploration of
the day-to-day lives of Sephardi women, men, boys, and girls in the
Judeo-Spanish heartland of the Ottoman Balkans and Middle East, as
well as the emigre centers Sephardim settled throughout the
twentieth century, including North and South America, Africa, Asia,
and Europe. The selections are of a vast range, including private
letters from family collections, rabbinical writings, documents of
state, memoirs and diaries, court records, selections from the
popular press, and scholarship. In a single volume, Sephardi Lives
preserves the cultural richness and historical complexity of a
Sephardi world that is no more.
This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary
sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi
Jews-descendants of Jews who fled medieval Spain and Portugal
settling in the western portions of the Ottoman Empire, including
the Balkans, Anatolia, and Palestine. Reflecting Sephardi history
in all its diversity, from the courtyard to the courthouse, spheres
intimate, political, commercial, familial, and religious, these
documents show life within these distinctive Jewish communities as
well as between Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Sephardi Lives offer
readers an intimate view of how Sephardim experienced the major
regional and world events of the modern era-natural disasters,
violence and wars, the transition from empire to nation-states, and
the Holocaust. This collection also provides a vivid exploration of
the day-to-day lives of Sephardi women, men, boys, and girls in the
Judeo-Spanish heartland of the Ottoman Balkans and Middle East, as
well as the emigre centers Sephardim settled throughout the
twentieth century, including North and South America, Africa, Asia,
and Europe. The selections are of a vast range, including private
letters from family collections, rabbinical writings, documents of
state, memoirs and diaries, court records, selections from the
popular press, and scholarship. In a single volume, Sephardi Lives
preserves the cultural richness and historical complexity of a
Sephardi world that is no more.
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The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces, Volume 3 - Language Processing, Software, Commercialization, and Emerging Directions (Paperback)
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The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces provides the
first authoritative resource on what has become the dominant
paradigm for new computer interfaces-user input involving new media
(speech, multi-touch, hand and body gestures, facial expressions,
writing) embedded in multimodal-multisensor interfaces.This
three-volume handbook is written by international experts and
pioneers in the field. It provides a textbook, reference, and
technology roadmap for professionals working in this and related
areas. This third volume focuses on state-of-the-art multimodal
language and dialogue processing, including semantic integration of
modalities. The development of increasingly expressive embodied
agents and robots has become an active test bed for coordinating
multimodal dialogue input and output, including processing of
language and nonverbal communication. In addition, major
application areas are featured for commercializing
multimodal-multisensor systems, including automotive, robotic,
manufacturing, machine translation, banking, communications, and
others. These systems rely heavily on software tools, data
resources, and international standards to facilitate their
development. For insights into the future, emerging
multimodal-multisensor technology trends are highlighted in
medicine, robotics, interaction with smart spaces, and similar
areas. Finally, this volume discusses the societal impact of more
widespread adoption of these systems, such as privacy risks and how
to mitigate them. The handbook chapters provide a number of
walk-through examples of system design and processing, information
on practical resources for developing and evaluating new systems,
and terminology and tutorial support for mastering this emerging
field. In the final section of this volume, experts exchange views
on a timely and controversial challenge topic, and how they believe
multimodal-multisensor interfaces need to be equipped to most
effectively advance human performance during the next decade.
The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces provides the
first authoritative resource on what has become the dominant
paradigm for new computer interfaces: user input involving new
media (speech, multi-touch, hand and body gestures, facial
expressions, writing) embedded in multimodal-multisensor interfaces
that often include biosignals. This edited collection is written by
international experts and pioneers in the field. It provides a
textbook, reference, and technology roadmap for professionals
working in this and related areas. This second volume of the
handbook begins with multimodal signal processing, architectures,
and machine learning. It includes recent deep learning approaches
for processing multisensorial and multimodal user data and
interaction, as well as context-sensitivity. A further highlight is
processing of information about users' states and traits, an
exciting emerging capability in next-generation user interfaces.
These chapters discuss real-time multimodal analysis of emotion and
social signals from various modalities, and perception of affective
expression by users. Further chapters discuss multimodal processing
of cognitive state using behavioral and physiological signals to
detect cognitive load, domain expertise, deception, and depression.
This collection of chapters provides walk-through examples of
system design and processing, information on tools and practical
resources for developing and evaluating new systems, and
terminology and tutorial support for mastering this rapidly
expanding field. In the final section of this volume, experts
exchange views on the timely and controversial challenge topic of
multimodal deep learning. The discussion focuses on how
multimodal-multisensor interfaces are most likely to advance human
performance during the next decade.
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The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces, Volume 2 - Signal Processing, Architectures, and Detection of Emotion and Cognition (Paperback)
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The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces provides the
first authoritative resource on what has become the dominant
paradigm for new computer interfaces: user input involving new
media (speech, multi-touch, hand and body gestures, facial
expressions, writing) embedded in multimodal-multisensor interfaces
that often include biosignals. This edited collection is written by
international experts and pioneers in the field. It provides a
textbook, reference, and technology roadmap for professionals
working in this and related areas. This second volume of the
handbook begins with multimodal signal processing, architectures,
and machine learning. It includes recent deep learning approaches
for processing multisensorial and multimodal user data and
interaction, as well as context-sensitivity. A further highlight is
processing of information about users' states and traits, an
exciting emerging capability in next-generation user interfaces.
These chapters discuss real-time multimodal analysis of emotion and
social signals from various modalities, and perception of affective
expression by users. Further chapters discuss multimodal processing
of cognitive state using behavioral and physiological signals to
detect cognitive load, domain expertise, deception, and depression.
This collection of chapters provides walk-through examples of
system design and processing, information on tools and practical
resources for developing and evaluating new systems, and
terminology and tutorial support for mastering this rapidly
expanding field. In the final section of this volume, experts
exchange views on the timely and controversial challenge topic of
multimodal deep learning. The discussion focuses on how
multimodal-multisensor interfaces are most likely to advance human
performance during the next decade.
The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces provides the
first authoritative resource on what has become the dominant
paradigm for new computer interfaces- user input involving new
media (speech, multi-touch, gestures, writing) embedded in
multimodal-multisensor interfaces. These interfaces support smart
phones, wearables, in-vehicle and robotic applications, and many
other areas that are now highly competitive commercially. This
edited collection is written by international experts and pioneers
in the field. It provides a textbook, reference, and technology
roadmap for professionals working in this and related areas. This
first volume of the handbook presents relevant theory and
neuroscience foundations for guiding the development of
high-performance systems. Additional chapters discuss approaches to
user modeling and interface designs that support user choice, that
synergistically combine modalities with sensors, and that blend
multimodal input and output. This volume also highlights an
in-depth look at the most common multimodal-multisensor
combinations-for example, touch and pen input, haptic and
non-speech audio output, and speech-centric systems that co-process
either gestures, pen input, gaze, or visible lip movements. A
common theme throughout these chapters is supporting mobility and
individual differences among users. These handbook chapters provide
walk-through examples of system design and processing, information
on tools and practical resources for developing and evaluating new
systems, and terminology and tutorial support for mastering this
emerging field. In the final section of this volume, experts
exchange views on a timely and controversial challenge topic, and
how they believe multimodal-multisensor interfaces should be
designed in the future to most effectively advance human
performance.
The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces provides the
first authoritative resource on what has become the dominant
paradigm for new computer interfaces- user input involving new
media (speech, multi-touch, gestures, writing) embedded in
multimodal-multisensor interfaces. These interfaces support smart
phones, wearables, in-vehicle and robotic applications, and many
other areas that are now highly competitive commercially. This
edited collection is written by international experts and pioneers
in the field. It provides a textbook, reference, and technology
roadmap for professionals working in this and related areas. This
first volume of the handbook presents relevant theory and
neuroscience foundations for guiding the development of
high-performance systems. Additional chapters discuss approaches to
user modeling and interface designs that support user choice, that
synergistically combine modalities with sensors, and that blend
multimodal input and output. This volume also highlights an
in-depth look at the most common multimodal-multisensor
combinations-for example, touch and pen input, haptic and
non-speech audio output, and speech-centric systems that co-process
either gestures, pen input, gaze, or visible lip movements. A
common theme throughout these chapters is supporting mobility and
individual differences among users. These handbook chapters provide
walk-through examples of system design and processing, information
on tools and practical resources for developing and evaluating new
systems, and terminology and tutorial support for mastering this
emerging field. In the final section of this volume, experts
exchange views on a timely and controversial challenge topic, and
how they believe multimodal-multisensor interfaces should be
designed in the future to most effectively advance human
performance.
Special Symposium Issue on Judaism and Science. Includes essays on
"Searching for the Quantum God: On Judaism and Modern Science,"
"Jewish Philosophy, Science, and the Humanities," "Revisiting
Creation, Natural Events and Their Emergent Patterns," "Science and
Judaism: Methodological Considerations A Jewish View of the
Evolution of Religion," "Neuro-Jewish Education: An Introduction,"
"Science and Judaism in Light of Today's Ecological Imperative,"
"The Science behind Yetzer Hara," and more. Also includes poetry,
book reviews, and responses to the Spring 2011 and Summer 2011
Issues.
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