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Non-invasive Monitoring of Elderly Persons

Systems Based on Impulse-Radar Sensors and Depth Sensors

By: Jakub Wagner,Paweł Mazurek,Roman Z. Morawski

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Non-invasive Monitoring of Elderly Persons

Systems Based on Impulse-Radar Sensors and Depth Sensors

By: Jakub Wagner,Paweł Mazurek,Roman Z. Morawski

This book covers the results of a study concerning systems for healthcare-oriented monitoring of elderly persons. It is focused on the methods for processing data from impulse-radar sensors and depth sensors, aimed at localisation of monitored persons and estimation of selected quantities informative from the healthcare point of view. It includes mathematical descriptions of the considered methods, as well as the corresponding algorithms and the results of their testing in a real-world context. Moreover, it explains the motivations for developing healthcare-oriented monitoring systems and specifies the real-world needs which may be addressed by such systems. The healthcare systems, all over the world, are confronted with challenges implied by the ageing of population and the lack of adequate recruitment of healthcare professionals. Those challenges can be met by developing new technologies aimed at improving the quality of life of elderly people and at increasing the efficiency of public health management. Monitoring systems may contribute to this strategy by providing information on the evolving health status of independently-living elderly persons, enabling healthcare personnel to quickly react to dangerous events. Although these facts are generally acknowledged, such systems are not yet being commonly used in healthcare facilities and households. This may be explained by the difficulties related to the development of technological solutions which can be both acceptable for monitored persons and capable of providing healthcare personnel with useful information. The impulse-radar sensors and depth sensors, considered in this book, have a potential for overcoming those difficulties since they are not cumbersome for the monitored persons – if compared to wearable sensors – and do not violate the monitored person's privacy – if compared to video cameras. Since for safety reasons the level of power, emitted by the radar sensors, must be ultra-low, the task of detection and processing of signals is a research challenge which requires more sophisticated methods than those developed for other radar applications. This book contains descriptions of new Bayesian methods, applicable for the localisation of persons by means of impulse-radar sensors, and an exhaustive review of previously published ones. Furthermore, the methods for denoising, regularised numerical differentiation and fusion of data from impulse-radar sensors and depth sensors are systematically reviewed in this book. On top of that, the results of experiments aimed at comparing the performance of various data-processing methods, which may serve as guidelines for related future projects, are presented.

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Springer Nature

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3030960099

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Workers and Nationalism

Czech and German Social Democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890-1918

By: Jakub S. Beneš

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Workers and Nationalism

Czech and German Social Democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890-1918

By: Jakub S. Beneš

This book tells the story of how nationalism spread among industrial workers in central Europe in the twentieth century, addressing the far-reaching effects, including the democratization of Austrian politics, the collapse of internationalist socialist solidarity before World War I, and the twentieth-century triumph of Social Democracy in much of Europe.

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Oxford University Press

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0198789297

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Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy

Germany and the Iraq War

By: Jakub Eberle

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Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy

Germany and the Iraq War

By: Jakub Eberle

Foreign and security policy have long been removed from the political pressures that influence other areas of policymaking. This has led to a tendency to separate the analytical levels of the individual and the collective. Using Lacanian theory, which views the subject as ontologically incomplete and desiring a perfect identity which is realised in fantasies, or narrative scenarios, this book shows that the making of foreign policy is a much more complex process. Emotions and affect play an important role, even where ‘hard’ security issues, such as the use of military force, are concerned. Eberle constructs a new theoretical framework for analysing foreign policy by capturing the interweaving of both discursive and affective aspects in policymaking. He uses this framework to explain Germany’s often contradictory foreign policy towards the Iraq crisis of 2002/2003, and the emotional, even existential, public debate that accompanied it. This book adds to ongoing theoretical debates in International Political Sociology and Critical Security Studies and will be required reading for all scholars working in these areas.

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237

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Routledge

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0429945795

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9780429945793

The Unquiet Frontier

Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power

By: Jakub J. Grygiel,A. Wess Mitchell

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The Unquiet Frontier

Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power

By: Jakub J. Grygiel,A. Wess Mitchell

How America's vulnerable frontier allies—and American power—are being targeted by rival nations From the Baltic to the South China Sea, newly assertive authoritarian states sense an opportunity to resurrect old empires or build new ones at America's expense. Hoping that U.S. decline is real, nations such as Russia, Iran, and China are testing Washington's resolve by targeting vulnerable allies at the frontiers of American power. The Unquiet Frontier explains why the United States needs a new grand strategy that uses strong frontier alliance networks to raise the costs of military aggression in the new century. Jakub Grygiel and Wess Mitchell describe the aggressive methods rival nations are using to test U.S. power in strategically critical regions throughout the world. They show how rising and revisionist powers are putting pressure on our frontier allies—countries like Poland, Israel, and Taiwan—to gauge our leaders' commitment to upholding the U.S.-led global order. To cope with these dangerous dynamics, nervous U.S. allies are diversifying their national-security "menu cards" by beefing up their militaries or even aligning with their aggressors. Grygiel and Mitchell reveal how numerous would-be great powers use an arsenal of asymmetric techniques to probe and sift American strength across several regions simultaneously, and how rivals and allies alike are learning from America's management of increasingly interlinked global crises to hone effective strategies of their own. The Unquiet Frontier demonstrates why the United States must strengthen the international order that has provided greater benefits to the world than any in history.

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Princeton University Press

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1400888131

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9781400888139

Compliance Cop to Culture Coach

Examining the Why, How, and What

By: William A. Sommers,Jakub Grzadzielski

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Examining the Why, How, and What

By: William A. Sommers,Jakub Grzadzielski

Leadership in organizations is going through unprecedented change. In the past compliance, conformity, and command and control were adequate for product-based world in education and business. As the world moves toward more knowledge work and a VUCA (volatile, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) society, building cultures of continual learning will be required. The WHY of the book is to create and sustain organization that will deal effectively with many changes. Our life is being driven by technology, unintended consequences, and the unknown. To deal with these changes and others, organizations will need cultures that promote learning. The HOW are the 7Cs: Communication, Collaboration, Coaching, Change, Conflict, Creativity, and Courage. Each of these are important elements of a more productive system. The WHAT include results that include Cultural Competence, Coaching Tools, and building a Commonwealth of practices to sustain growth and adaptability. If you want to save TIME, this book is for you. Enjoy the journey.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475868634

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9781475868630

Painting the Novel

Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

By: Jakub Lipski

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Painting the Novel

Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

By: Jakub Lipski

Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of painting – a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study. This volume argues that throughout the century novelists from Daniel Defoe to Ann Radcliffe referred to the visual arts, recalling specific names or artworks, but also artistic styles and conventions, in an attempt to define the generic constitution of their fictions. In this, the novelists took part in the discussion of the sister arts, not only by pointing to the affinities between them but also, more importantly, by recognising their potential to inform one another; in other words, they expressed a conviction that the theory of a new genre can be successfully rendered through meta-pictorial analogies. By tracing the uses of painting in eighteenth-century novelistic discourse, this book sheds new light on the history of the so-called "rise of the novel".

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Routledge

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1351137794

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9781351137799

Varieties of Capitalism and the Political Economy of Differentiated Integration in Europe

By: Rafał Riedel,Jakub Anusik

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Varieties of Capitalism and the Political Economy of Differentiated Integration in Europe

By: Rafał Riedel,Jakub Anusik

In this forward-thinking book, Rafał Riedel and Jakub Anusik explore the dynamics and determinants of one of the most salient issues facing contemporary Europe: differentiated integration. Going beyond static models of differentiated integration in Europe built on legal-institutional criteria, Riedel and Anusik capture the dynamism of the system by employing both a political economy perspective and the varieties of capitalism framework. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1035319314

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9781035319312

Governance of Social Tipping Points

Resilience of the European Union’s Periphery vis-à-vis Migration, Climate Change and War

By: Jakub Szabó,Paula Puškárová,Mikuláš Černota

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Governance of Social Tipping Points

Resilience of the European Union’s Periphery vis-à-vis Migration, Climate Change and War

By: Jakub Szabó,Paula Puškárová,Mikuláš Černota

This monograph assesses the intersections between social tipping points (STP), a relatively understudied social-ecological concept, and various public policy concepts, such as governance, state capacity and resilience of the state and non-state actors, all within the context of the EU Eastern and Southern periphery. This unique approach is subsequently embodied in the newly created conceptual framework of how the STPs are governed and analyzed using three case studies. The goal is to examine how various state and non-state actors (transnational, private, and local) have managed to navigate the STPs triggered by migration, climate change, and geopolitics. The multi-level governance of STPs is studied within the context of the EU periphery, thus spatial and geographical determinants of the resilience are analyzed as well.

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Springer Nature

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3031474139

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9783031474132

The Open Window into the Soviet Bloc

US Policy toward Poland, 1956–1968

By: Jakub Tyszkiewicz

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The Open Window into the Soviet Bloc

US Policy toward Poland, 1956–1968

By: Jakub Tyszkiewicz

This volume analyzes US policy toward communist-ruled Poland in the fields of diplomacy, economy, culture, and public diplomacy. It highlights the limitations in developing cooperation between democratic and nondemocratic countries resulting from the Cold War conflict. No comprehensive account of US policy toward Poland from 1956 to 1968 has emerged in historiography. This book aims to answer why, since the political changes of the Polish October 1956, Washington ceased to see Polish affairs as “Soviet-related matters.” Instead, it recognized communist-ruled Poland as a separate political entity among other Kremlin-dependent states in Eastern Europe. This policy, introduced by the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, was continued by his successors John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Recently declassified US and Polish archival sources allow the presentation of more considerations around the decision-making mechanisms by presidential administrations regarding communist Poland after 1956. They also reveal the dependence of the implementation of US actions on the climate of international relations. Moreover, they can now explain how Poland became an “open window” toward the Soviet bloc and a model example of the changes in the US policy of diversifying its approach to Eastern European countries under Soviet control in the next decades.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000963381

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Non-invasive Monitoring of Elderly Persons

Systems Based on Impulse-Radar Sensors and Depth Sensors

By: Jakub Wagner,Paweł Mazurek,Roman Z. Morawski

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Non-invasive Monitoring of Elderly Persons

Systems Based on Impulse-Radar Sensors and Depth Sensors

By: Jakub Wagner,Paweł Mazurek,Roman Z. Morawski

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Book's by Jakub Wagner

Non-invasive Monitoring of Elderly Persons

Non-invasive Monitoring of Elderly Persons

Workers and Nationalism

Workers and Nationalism

Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy

Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy

The Unquiet Frontier

The Unquiet Frontier

Compliance Cop to Culture Coach

Compliance Cop to Culture Coach

Painting the Novel

Painting the Novel

Varieties of Capitalism and the Political Economy of Differentiated Integration in Europe

Varieties of Capitalism and the Political Economy of Differentiated Integration in Europe

Governance of Social Tipping Points

Governance of Social Tipping Points

The Open Window into the Soviet Bloc

The Open Window into the Soviet Bloc

Non-invasive Monitoring of Elderly Persons

Non-invasive Monitoring of Elderly Persons

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