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Contemporary Problems in Mathematical Physics

By: Jan Govaerts,M. Norbert Hounkonnou,Alfred Z. Msezane

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By: Jan Govaerts,M. Norbert Hounkonnou,Alfred Z. Msezane

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9812568530

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Computer Vision - ECCV '94

Third European Conference on Computer Vision, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2 - 6, 1994. Proceedings

By: Jan-Olof Eklundh

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Computer Vision - ECCV '94

Third European Conference on Computer Vision, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2 - 6, 1994. Proceedings

By: Jan-Olof Eklundh

Computer vision - ECCV'94. -- v. 1

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540579575

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Industrial Relations in the New Europe

Enlargement, Integration and Reform

By: Abraham Jan Steijn

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Industrial Relations in the New Europe

Enlargement, Integration and Reform

By: Abraham Jan Steijn

The collection deserves to be made accessible to readers, and the publisher should be congratulated on maintaining a steady stream of high-quality publications on the European subject.' - Steve Jefferys, Industrial Relations Journal

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1781007608

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The Spirit of Father Damien

The Leper Priest-A Saint for Our Times

By: Jan De Volder

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The Spirit of Father Damien

The Leper Priest-A Saint for Our Times

By: Jan De Volder

Foreword by John Allen Father Damien, famous for his missionary work with exiled lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, is finally Saint Damien. His sanctity took 120 years to become officially recognized, but between his death in 1889 and his canonization in 2009 amid creeping secularization and suspicion of the missionary spirit he so much embodied Fr. Damien De Veuster never faded from the world's memory. What kept him there? What keeps him there now? To find an answer, Belgian historian and journalist Jan De Volder sifted through Father Damien's personal correspondence as well as the Vatican archives. With careful and even-handed expertise, De Volder follows Father Damien's transformation from the stout, somewhat haughty missionary of his youth, bounding from Europe to Hawaii and straight into seemingly tireless priestly work, to the humble and loving shepherd of souls who eventually succumbed to the same disease that ravaged his flock. De Volder finds that-as spiritual father, caretaker, teacher, and advocate-Father Damien accomplished many heroic feats for these poor outcasts. Yet the greatest gift he gave them was their transformation from a disordered, lawless throng exiled in desperate anarchy into a living community built on Jesus Christ, a community in which they learned to care for one another. Every generation seems to have its own image of this world-famous priest. Already during his life on Molokai and at his death in 1889, many considered him a holy man. Even today, in the highly secularized Western world, he is widely admired. In 2005 his native Belgium honored him with the title "the greatest Belgian" in polling conducted by their public broadcasting service. Statues honor his memory in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and at the entrance to the Hawaiian State Capitol in Honolulu. In 1995, in the presence of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Pope John Paul II beatified him in Brussels, Belgium; and in 2009 Pope Benedict XVI canonized him in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Today Father Damien is the unofficial patron of outcasts and those afflicted with HIV/AIDS. De Volder contends that the common thread running through the saint's life, the spirit of Father Damien that so speaks to the world, is at once uniquely Christian, fully human, and as important today as ever before.

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Ignatius Press

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1681495570

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Understanding Cryptography

A Textbook for Students and Practitioners

By: Christof Paar,Jan Pelzl

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Understanding Cryptography

A Textbook for Students and Practitioners

By: Christof Paar,Jan Pelzl

Cryptography is now ubiquitous – moving beyond the traditional environments, such as government communications and banking systems, we see cryptographic techniques realized in Web browsers, e-mail programs, cell phones, manufacturing systems, embedded software, smart buildings, cars, and even medical implants. Today's designers need a comprehensive understanding of applied cryptography. After an introduction to cryptography and data security, the authors explain the main techniques in modern cryptography, with chapters addressing stream ciphers, the Data Encryption Standard (DES) and 3DES, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), block ciphers, the RSA cryptosystem, public-key cryptosystems based on the discrete logarithm problem, elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC), digital signatures, hash functions, Message Authentication Codes (MACs), and methods for key establishment, including certificates and public-key infrastructure (PKI). Throughout the book, the authors focus on communicating the essentials and keeping the mathematics to a minimum, and they move quickly from explaining the foundations to describing practical implementations, including recent topics such as lightweight ciphers for RFIDs and mobile devices, and current key-length recommendations. The authors have considerable experience teaching applied cryptography to engineering and computer science students and to professionals, and they make extensive use of examples, problems, and chapter reviews, while the book’s website offers slides, projects and links to further resources. This is a suitable textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses and also for self-study by engineers.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642041019

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Ernest Mandel

A Rebel’s Dream Deferred

By: Jan Willem Stutje

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Ernest Mandel

A Rebel’s Dream Deferred

By: Jan Willem Stutje

Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), was one of the most prominent anti-Stalinist Marxist intellectuals of his time. A political theorist and economist, his worldview was shaped by experiences in the Second World War as an underground political activist in Occupied Belgium and during his subsequent internment in a Nazi prison camp. Mandel's faith in human nature and in the working classes survived Nazi oppression and the murder of much of his family in the concentration camps. He retained his connection to his Jewish roots throughout his life, but believed that security and liberation for the Jewish people was best achieved through world revolution and universal emancipation rather than nationalism. A brilliant orator in several languages, Mandel was an indefatigable revolutionary militant and a key leader in the Fourth International, and he had an enormous impact on the thought and practice of the 1968 generation. His writings range from innovative economic and political theory to a study of the Second World War and have been published in over forty languages. His last major work, Late Capitalism, had an influence that reached from the social sciences into the humanities. Biographer Jan Willem Stutje, the first writer with access to Mandel's archives, has interviewed many of the leading figures in the story and unearthed a wealth of new material, detailing Mandel's arrest by the Nazis and his role in Latin American guerrilla warfare. He recounts Mandel's interactions with both scholars-Sartre, Ernst Bloch, Perry Anderson-and comrades-in-arms such as Che Guevara, Rudi Dutschke and Tariq Ali. The book also yields fascinating details of the man's sometimes tragic private life.

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Verso Books

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1789604532

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Rembrandt and the Female Nude

By: Eric Jan Sluijter,Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

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Rembrandt and the Female Nude

By: Eric Jan Sluijter,Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Rembrandt’s extraordinary paintings of female nudes—Andromeda, Susanna, Diana and her Nymphs, Danaë, Bathsheba—as well as his etchings of nude women, have fascinated many generations of art lovers and art historians. But they also elicited vehement criticism when first shown, described as against-the-grain, anticlassical—even ugly and unpleasant. However, Rembrandt chose conventional subjects, kept close to time-honored pictorial schemes, and was well aware of the high prestige accorded to the depiction of the naked female body. Why, then, do these works deviate so radically from the depictions of nude women by other artists? To answer this question Eric Jan Sluijter, in Rembrandt and the Female Nude, examines Rembrandt’s paintings and etchings against the background of established pictorial traditions in the Netherlands and Italy. Exploring Rembrandt’s intense dialogue with the works of predecessors and peers, Sluijter demonstrates that, more than any other artist, Rembrandt set out to incite the greatest possible empathy in the viewer, an approach that had far-reaching consequences for the moral and erotic implications of the subjects Rembrandt chose to depict. In this richly illustrated study, Sluijter presents an innovative approach to Rembrandt’s views on the art of painting, his attitude towards antiquity and Italian art of the Renaissance, his sustained rivalry with the works of other artists, his handling of the moral and erotic issues inherent in subjects with female nudes, and the nature of his artistic choices.

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Amsterdam University Press

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9053568379

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Formation of Adult Learning Systems in Central Europe

By: Jan Kalenda

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Formation of Adult Learning Systems in Central Europe

By: Jan Kalenda

This book explores the formation and development of the cross-national patterns of adult learning systems between 1989 and 2019 in four Central European countries: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. Drawing on the approach of the political economy of adult education and historical institutionalism, the book closely examines (1) how the institutional settings in these countries have formed, evolved and contributed to overall participation in adult education and training, (2) how they have shaped patterns of participation and unequal chances to be involved in this social activity, as well as (3) perceived barriers to access organized learning and related governmental policies. This book offers a contemporary overview of key findings regarding adult learning systems. It delves into the factors that influence participation in adult education and training. Through the utilization of the novel framework, GALS (Global Adult Learning Space), the book not only highlights a crucial distinction among adult learning systems within the region but also presents in-depth case studies of these systems in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia spanning a 30-year period. Despite these countries sharing similar institutional backgrounds and societal challenges, the book reveals that their adult learning systems have undergone divergent trajectories over the past three decades. This book will be useful to researchers and scholars in the fields of adult education, comparative education, welfare policy, sociology of education, and European studies.

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Springer Nature

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303159827X

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Contemporary Problems in Mathematical Physics

Proceedings of the Second International Workshop Cotonou, Benin 28 October - 2 November 2001

By: Jan Govaerts

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Contemporary Problems in Mathematical Physics

Proceedings of the Second International Workshop Cotonou, Benin 28 October - 2 November 2001

By: Jan Govaerts

The following topics are discussed in this volume: recent developments in operator theory, coherent states and wavelet analysis, geometric and topological methods in theoretical physics and quantum field theory, and applications of these methods of mathematical physics to problems in atomic and molecular physics as well as the world of the elementary particles and their fundamental interactions. Two extensive sets of lecture notes on quantization techniques in general, and quantum gauge theories and strings as an avenue towards quantum geometry, are also included. The volume should be of inter.

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9812777563

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Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Contemporary Problems in Mathematical Physics

Cotonou, Republic of Benin, 5-11 November 2005

By: Jan Govaerts,M. Norbert Hounkonnou,Alfred Z. Msezane

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Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Contemporary Problems in Mathematical Physics

Cotonou, Republic of Benin, 5-11 November 2005

By: Jan Govaerts,M. Norbert Hounkonnou,Alfred Z. Msezane

The COPROMAPH Conference series has now evolved into a significant international arena where fundamental concepts in mathematical and theoretical physics and their applications can be conceived, developed and disseminated. The contributions in this volume address a variety of contemporary problems in mathematical and theoretical physics. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Representation Theory in Classical and Quantum Physics (1,822 KB). Contents: Plenary Lectures: Representation Theory in Classical and Quantum Physics (J-P Antoine); Lectures on the Gauge Theory/Gravity Correspondence (R de Mello Koch); Introductory and Fundamental Mathematical Aspects of Supersymmetry (S J Gates, Jr); Theoretical Methods of Modern Classical and Quantum Physics: Bosonization of the Schwinger Model by Noncommutative Chiral Bosons (J Ben Geloun et al.); Bol Loops as a New Approach in Physics (Th B Bouetou); Random Phase Approximation with Exchange for the Inner-Shell Electron Photoionization (Z Chen & A Z Msezane); Coherent States, Wavelets, Functional Analysis and Orthogonal Polynomials: The Beta-Geometric Model Applied to Fecundability in a Sample of Married Women (D B Adekanmbi & T A Bamiduro); On the Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions to the Thermal Filtration Model (F B Agusto & O M Bamigbola); Application of the Adomian Decomposition Method to Solve the Duffing Equation and Comparison with the Perturbation Method (G Bissanga); and other papers. Readership: Researchers, academics and graduate students in mathematical physics, theoretical physics and materials science.

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Book's by Jan Govaerts

Contemporary Problems in Mathematical Physics

Contemporary Problems in Mathematical Physics

Computer Vision - ECCV '94

Computer Vision - ECCV '94

Industrial Relations in the New Europe

Industrial Relations in the New Europe

The Spirit of Father Damien

The Spirit of Father Damien

Understanding Cryptography

Understanding Cryptography

Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel

Rembrandt and the Female Nude

Rembrandt and the Female Nude

Formation of Adult Learning Systems in Central Europe

Formation of Adult Learning Systems in Central Europe

Contemporary Problems in Mathematical Physics

Contemporary Problems in Mathematical Physics

Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Contemporary Problems in Mathematical Physics

Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Contemporary Problems in Mathematical Physics

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