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Sea Fishing (Paperback)
John Bickerdyke, W. Senior, A. C. Harmsworth; Illustrated by C. Napier Hemy, R. T. Pritchett, …
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Discovery Miles 5 020
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This fascinating book is one in a series of books for professional
and amateur fishermen. Sold as a series or as individuals these
books cover every spectrum of specialist fishing. The information
in this book of Sea Fishing covers every aspect o0f the sport. The
bait you should use, the way you should use them and most
importantly it describes the history of the fish included in the
book. Over 400 species of fish are described, the way they have
been caught and how to catch them. Truly insightful and suitable
for all fishermen either a serious sportsman or someone who wants
to get started n this sport, what more could you want!. Originally
published in 1895 this is a faithfully reproduced book and will
inform you on how to fish from land, small boats and large yachts'.
There is much interest in the use of biometrics for verification, identification, and "screening" applications, collectively called biometric authentication. This interest has been heightened because of the threat of terrorism. Biometric authentication systems offer advantages over systems based on knowledge or possession such as unsupervised (legacy) authentication systems based on password/PIN and supervised (legacy) authentication systems based on driver's licences and passports. The most important advantage is increased security: when a person is authenticated based on a biometric, the probability that this person is the originally enrolled person can be statistically estimated or computed in some other way. When a person is authenticated based on a password or even based on human observation, no such probabilities can be determined. Of course, the mere capability to compute this probability is not sufficient, what is needed is that the probability of correct authentication is high and the error probabilities are low. Achieving this probabilistic linking by introducing biometrics in authentication systems brings along many design choices and may introduce additional security loopholes. "Biometrics" examines the many aspects of biometric applications that are an issue even before a particular biometrics has been selected. In addition, the book further studies many issues that are associated with the currently popular biometric identifiers, namely, finger, face, voice, iris, hand (geometry) and signature.
Starting with fingerprints more than a hundred years ago, there has
been ongoing research in biometrics. Within the last forty years
face and speaker recognition have emerged as research topics.
However, as recently as a decade ago, biometrics itself did not
exist as an independent field. Each of the biometric-related topics
grew out of different disciplines. For example, the study of
fingerprints came from forensics and pattern recognition, speaker
recognition evolved from signal processing, the beginnings of face
recognition were in computer vision, and privacy concerns arose
from the public policy arena. One of the challenges of any new
field is to state what the core ideas are that define the field in
order to provide a research agenda for the field and identify key
research problems. Biometrics has been grappling with this
challenge since the late 1990s. With the matu ration of biometrics,
the separate biometrics areas are coalescing into the new
discipline of biometrics. The establishment of biometrics as a
recognized field of inquiry allows the research community to
identify problems that are common to biometrics in general. It is
this identification of common problems that will define biometrics
as a field and allow for broad advancement."
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
Nassau William Senior (1790-1864) - economist, critical essayist
and government adviser - was a highly original classical economist
in the era between Ricardo's Principles of 1817 and Mill's
Principles of 1848. He was the first Professor of Political Economy
at Oxford, and in his published works he made original
contributions to the theory of value, rent, population, money, and
international trade. Senior was an active proponent of
laissez-faire. Although Senior did not achieve the originality and
influence of the leading economists of the classical school -
Smith, Ricardo, and Malthus - he did make an enduring contribution
on the development of economics. John Stuart Mill took much effort
to respond to Senior. "The question to be answered today is exactly
the same as is expounded in Senior's lectures on the Transmission
of the Precious Metals from Country to Country." - Ludwig von Mises
in the Economic Journal, September, 1933
Senior's Political Economy, published in 1836, has hitherto been
regarded as the quintessence of his literary productions.
Economists have generally mistakenly taken it for granted that with
the publication of that work the author's economic contributions
prematurely came to an end. These original documents, constituting
the author's matured views on the general principles of economics,
have been carefully arranged in logical sequence and embodied in
the present comprehensive work. The scope of this treatise is
confined to Senior's matured, or latest, views on the general
principles of economics. Nassau William Senior (1790-1864) -
economist, critical essayist and government adviser - was a highly
original classical economist in the era between Ricardo's
Principles of 1817 and Mill's Principles of 1848. He was the first
Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, and in his published
works he made original contributions to the theory of value, rent,
population, money, and international trade. Senior was an active
proponent of laissez-faire. Although Senior did not achieve the
originality and influence of the leading economists of the
classical school - Smith, Ricardo, and Malthus - he did make an
enduring contribution on the development of economics. John Stuart
Mill took much effort to respond to Senior.
An Introductory Lecture on Political Economy [1827] Three Lectures
on the Transmission of the Precious Metals [1828] Two Lectures on
Population with a Correspondence Between the Author and T.R.
Malthus [1829] Three Lectures on the Cost of Obtaining Money [1830]
Two Letters on the Factory Acts [1837] Three Lectures on the Value
of Money [1840] Four Introductory Lectures on Political Economy
[1852]
Nassau William Senior (1790-1864) - economist, critical essayist
and government adviser - was a highly original classical economist
in the era between Ricardo's Principles of 1817 and Mill's
Principles of 1848. He was the first Professor of Political Economy
at Oxford, and in his published works he made original
contributions to the theory of value, rent, population, money, and
international trade. Senior was an active proponent of
laissez-faire. Although Senior did not achieve the originality and
influence of the leading economists of the classical school -
Smith, Ricardo, and Malthus - he did make an enduring contribution
on the development of economics. John Stuart Mill took much effort
to respond to Senior.
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