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Image Processing

Dealing with Texture

By: Maria M. P. Petrou,Sei-ichiro Kamata

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Image Processing

Dealing with Texture

By: Maria M. P. Petrou,Sei-ichiro Kamata

The classic text that covers practical image processing methods and theory for image texture analysis, updated second edition The revised second edition of Image Processing: Dealing with Textures updates the classic work on texture analysis theory and methods without abandoning the foundational essentials of this landmark work. Like the first, the new edition offers an analysis of texture in digital images that are essential to a diverse range of applications such as: robotics, defense, medicine and the geo-sciences. Designed to easily locate information on specific problems, the text is structured around a series of helpful questions and answers. Updated to include the most recent developments in the field, many chapters have been completely revised including: Fractals and Multifractals, Image Statistics, Texture Repair, Local Phase Features, Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform, Ridgelets and Curvelets and Deep Texture Features. The book takes a two-level mathematical approach: light math is covered in the main level of the book, with harder math identified in separate boxes. This important text: Contains an update of the classic advanced text that reviews practical image processing methods and theory for image texture analysis Puts the focus exclusively on an in-depth exploration of texture Contains a companion website with exercises and algorithms Includes examples that are fully worked to enhance the learning experience Written for students and researchers of image processing, the second edition of Image Processing has been revised and updated to incorporate the foundational information on the topic and information on the latest advances.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111961855X

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9781119618553

Next Generation Artificial Vision Systems

Reverse Engineering the Human Visual System

By: Anil Anthony Bharath,Maria Petrou

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Next Generation Artificial Vision Systems

Reverse Engineering the Human Visual System

By: Anil Anthony Bharath,Maria Petrou

This interdisciplinary work brings you to the cutting edge of emerging technologies inspired by human sight, ranging from semiconductor photoreceptors based on novel organic polymers and retinomorphic processing circuitry to low-powered devices that replicate spatial and temporal processing in the brain. Moreover, it is the first work of its kind that integrates the full range of physiological, engineering, and mathematical issues and advances together in a single source.

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Artech House

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1596932252

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9781596932258

The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)

By: Maria Adamopoulou

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The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)

By: Maria Adamopoulou

Was migration to Germany a blessing or a curse? The main argument of this book is that the Greek state conceived labor migration as a traineeship into Europeanization with its shiny varnish of progress. Jumping on a fully packed train to West Germany meant leaving the past behind. However, the tensed Cold War realities left no space for illusions; specters of the Nazi past and the Greek Civil War still haunted them all. Adopting a transnational approach, this monograph retargets attention to the sending state by exploring how the Greek Gastarbeiter’s welfare was intrinsically connected with their homeland through its exercise of long-distance nationalism. Apart from its fresh take in postwar migration, the book also addresses methodological challenges in creative ways. The narrative alternates between the macro- and the micro-level, including subnational and transnational actors and integrating a diverse set of primary sources and voices. Avoiding the trap of exceptionalism, it contextualizes the Greek case in the Mediterranean and Southeast European experience.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111203069

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9783111203065

Syncretism in Religion

A Reader

By: Anita Maria Leopold,Jeppe Sinding Jensen

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Syncretism in Religion

A Reader

By: Anita Maria Leopold,Jeppe Sinding Jensen

Syncretism - the fusion of different beliefs into one religious system - has long been controversial in scholarship. It is widely held that religion, culture and ethnicity are pure entities that may become mixed in encounter and lead to impure, hybrid forms. 'Syncretism in Religion' presents a selection of essays committed to solving the problems of syncretism. The essays reflect the full breadth of religious traditions that could be called syncretistic. An overview of the historical background of syncretism is given, alongside classical readings from the history of religion, definitions of syncretism in relation to theories of power, and an assessment of the future of the subject. This volume brings together the work of authors who have made significant contributions in the field, some appearing for the first time in English. It will be of interest to any student or scholar of religion, philosophy or anthropology concerned with the dynamics of cultural contact and change.

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Routledge

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1134967144

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Specters of Cavafy

By: Maria Boletsi

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Specters of Cavafy

By: Maria Boletsi

The Greek Alexandrian poet C. P. Cavafy (1863–1933) has been recognized as a central figure in European modernism and world literature. His poetry explored the conditions for animating the past and making lost worlds or people haunt the present. Yet he also described himself as “a poet of the future generations.” Indeed, his writings address concerns and desires that permeate the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. How does poetry concerned with the past, memory, loss, and death, carry futurity? How does it haunt, and how is it haunted by, future presents? Specters of Cavafy broaches these questions by proposing spectral poetics as a novel approach to Cavafy’s work. Drawing from theorizations of specters and haunting, it develops spectrality as a lens for revisiting Cavafy’s poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction, as well as his poetry’s bearing on our present. By examining Cavafy’s spectral poetics, the book’s first part shows how conjurations work in his writings, and how the spectral permeates the entanglement of modernity and haunting, and of irony and affect. The second part traces the afterlives of specific poems in the Western imagination since the 1990s, in Egypt’s history of debt and colonization, and in Greece during the country’s recent debt crisis. Beyond its original contribution to Cavafy studies, the book proposes tools and modes of reading that are broadly applicable in literary and cultural studies.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472904493

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9780472904495

II-VI Semiconductor Materials and their Applications

By: Maria C. Tamargo

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II-VI Semiconductor Materials and their Applications

By: Maria C. Tamargo

II-VI Semiconductor Materials and Their Applications deals with II-VI compound semiconductors and the status of the two areas of current optoelectronics applications: blue-green emitters and IR detectors. Specifically, the growth, charactrtization, materials and device issues for these two applications are described. Emphasis is placed on the wide bandgap emitters where much progress has occurred recently. The book also presents new directions that have potential, future applications in optoelectronics for II-VI materials. In particular, it discusses the status of dilute magnetic semiconductors for mango-optical and electromagnetic devices, nonlinear optical properties, photorefractive effects and new materials and physics phenomena, such as self-organized, low-dimensional structures. II_VI Semiconductor Materials and Their Applications is a valuable reference book for researchers in the field as well as a textbook for materials science and applied physics courses.

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CRC Press

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1560329149

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9781560329145

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

A Bibliographic Guide to the Canon of Greek Authors and Works

By: Maria C. Pantelia

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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

A Bibliographic Guide to the Canon of Greek Authors and Works

By: Maria C. Pantelia

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A Bibliographic Guide to the Canon of Greek Authors and Works (TLG®) is a comprehensive catalog of the authors and works that have survived in Greek from antiquity (eighth century BCE) to the present era and have been collected and digitized by the TLG® in its fifty-year history. It provides biographical information about each author, such as dates, place of birth, and literary activity, as well as a list of their extant works and print publications. This volume encompasses more than 4,400 authors and 17,000 individual works. It offers a concise and authoritative literary history of Greek literature and is an indispensable reference source for its study.

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Univ of California Press

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0520388208

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9780520388208

The Didache

Its Jewish Sources and Its Place in Early Judaism and Christianity

By: Hubertus Waltherus Maria van de Sandt,Huub Van de Sandt,David Flusser

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The Didache

Its Jewish Sources and Its Place in Early Judaism and Christianity

By: Hubertus Waltherus Maria van de Sandt,Huub Van de Sandt,David Flusser

The early Christian manual for baptismal catechesis focuses on the nascent Christian community and early Judaism.

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Fortress Press

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1451409834

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Digital Signal Processing with Matlab Examples, Volume 1

Signals and Data, Filtering, Non-stationary Signals, Modulation

By: Jose Maria Giron-Sierra

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Digital Signal Processing with Matlab Examples, Volume 1

Signals and Data, Filtering, Non-stationary Signals, Modulation

By: Jose Maria Giron-Sierra

This is the first volume in a trilogy on modern Signal Processing. The three books provide a concise exposition of signal processing topics, and a guide to support individual practical exploration based on MATLAB programs. This book includes MATLAB codes to illustrate each of the main steps of the theory, offering a self-contained guide suitable for independent study. The code is embedded in the text, helping readers to put into practice the ideas and methods discussed. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which introduces readers to periodic and non-periodic signals. The second part is devoted to filtering, which is an important and commonly used application. The third part addresses more advanced topics, including the analysis of real-world non-stationary signals and data, e.g. structural fatigue, earthquakes, electro-encephalograms, birdsong, etc. The book’s last chapter focuses on modulation, an example of the intentional use of non-stationary signals.

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653

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Springer

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9811025347

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9789811025341

Darwin's Footprint

Cultural Perspectives on Evolution in Greece (1880–1930s)

By: Maria Zarimis

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Darwin's Footprint

Cultural Perspectives on Evolution in Greece (1880–1930s)

By: Maria Zarimis

Darwin’s Footprint' examines the impact of Darwinism in Greece, investigating how it has shaped Greece in terms of its cultural and intellectual history, and in particular its literature. The book demonstrates that in the late 19th to early 20th centuries Darwinism and associated science strongly influenced celebrated Greek literary writers and other influential intellectuals, which fueled debate in various areas such as ‘man’s place in nature’, eugenics, the nature-nurture controversy, religion, as well as class, race and gender. In addition, the study reveals that many of these individuals were also considering alternative approaches to these issues based on Darwinian and associated biological post-Darwinian ideas. Their concerns included the Greek “race” or nation, its culture, language and identity; also politics and gender equality. Zarimis’s monograph devotes considerable space to Xenopoulos (1867-1951), notable novelist, journalist and playwright.

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Central European University Press

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9633860784

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Rise of Digital Money

Implications for Pacific Island Countries

By: Yong Sarah Zhou,Tao Sun,Anca Paduraru,Arvinder Bharath,Stephanie Forte,Kathleen Kao,Miss Yinqiu Lu,Maria Fernanda Chacon Rey,Piyaporn Sodsriwiboon,Chia Yi Tan,Bo Zhao

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Rise of Digital Money

Implications for Pacific Island Countries

By: Yong Sarah Zhou,Tao Sun,Anca Paduraru,Arvinder Bharath,Stephanie Forte,Kathleen Kao,Miss Yinqiu Lu,Maria Fernanda Chacon Rey,Piyaporn Sodsriwiboon,Chia Yi Tan,Bo Zhao

The departmental paper, "Rise of Digital Money: Implications for Pacific Island Countries," delves into the fast-evolving landscape of digital money in a diverse region of extremes in size, remoteness and dispersion, highlighting its significant macroeconomic and financial consequences. It provides an overview of the development of digital money and payment systems in Pacific Island Countries (PICs), assessing potential benefits and risks, with a focus on how they can harness digital technology to enhance financial inclusion and payment efficiency while minimizing risks. To this end, the paper also examines the prerequisites for successfully adopting various forms of digital money and proposes a strategic framework for policy decisions. The paper underscores the potential of digital money in advancing public policy goals, like financial inclusion and improved cross-border connectivity – given the specific characteristics of the region – while cautioning against the risks of rapid and inadequately regulated adoption. Accordingly, it advocates a gradual, well-informed approach, tailored to PICs' unique monetary and financial circumstances, including the presence of national currencies and the maturity of payment systems. Moreover, the paper suggests that a regional approach could help address capacity and scalability challenges in introducing new digital money forms and payment methods in PICs.

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International Monetary Fund

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9798400263071

Image Processing

Dealing with Texture

By: Maria M. P. Petrou,Sei-ichiro Kamata

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Dealing with Texture

By: Maria M. P. Petrou,Sei-ichiro Kamata

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119618592

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9781119618591

I'm Going to Have a Little House

The Second Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

By: Carolina Maria de Jesus

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I'm Going to Have a Little House

The Second Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

By: Carolina Maria de Jesus

Never before published in English, Carolina's second diary, written in 1960-61, describes her life in the first year after the sudden (and, as it turned out, temporary) fame of Quarto de despejo (see HLAS 25:4741). Translated faithfully into English, evo

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803275994

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9780803275997

New Portuguese Letters

By: Maria Isabel Barreno,Maria Teresa Horta,Maria Velho da Costa,Helen R. Lane,Faith Gillespie,Suzette Macedo

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New Portuguese Letters

By: Maria Isabel Barreno,Maria Teresa Horta,Maria Velho da Costa,Helen R. Lane,Faith Gillespie,Suzette Macedo

Three modern Maria's weave tales, poems and meditations about modern women's lives.

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0930523989

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9780930523985

Maria Maddalena De' Pazzi

Selected Revelations

By: Saint Maria Maddalena De' Pazzi

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Maria Maddalena De' Pazzi

Selected Revelations

By: Saint Maria Maddalena De' Pazzi

In one of the only English translations available, here are the mystical visions of this 16th century Italian saint

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Paulist Press

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0809105098

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9780809105090

The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

By: Carolina Maria de Jesus,Robert M. Levine,José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy

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The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

By: Carolina Maria de Jesus,Robert M. Levine,José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy

Carolina Maria de Jesus' book, Quarto de Despejo (The Trash Room), depicted the harsh life of the slums, but it also spoke of the author's pride in her blackness, her high moral standards, and her patriotism. More than a million copies of her diary are believed to have been sold worldwide. Yet many Brazilians refused to believe that someone like de Jesus could have written such a diary, with its complicated words (some of them misused) and often lyrical phrasing as she discussed world events. Doubters prefer to believe the book was either written by Audáulio Dantas, the enterprising newspaper reporter who discovered her, or that Dantas rewrote it so substantially that her book is a fraud. With the cooperation of de Jesus' daughter, recent research shows that although Dantas deleted considerable portions of the diary (as well as a second one), every word was de Jesus'. But Dantas did "create" a different Carolina from the woman who coped with her harsh life by putting things down on paper. This book sets the record straight by providing detailed translations of de Jesus' unedited diaries and explains why Brazilian elites were motivated to obscure her true personality and present her as something she was not. It is not only about the writer but about Brazil as recorded by her sarcastic pen. The diary entries in this book span from 1958 to 1966, five years beyond text previously known to exist. They show de Jesus as she was, preserving her Joycean stream-of-consciousness language and her pithy characterizations.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813525705

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9780813525709

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Image Processing

Image Processing

Next Generation Artificial Vision Systems

Next Generation Artificial Vision Systems

The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)

The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)

Syncretism in Religion

Syncretism in Religion

Specters of Cavafy

Specters of Cavafy

II-VI Semiconductor Materials and their Applications

II-VI Semiconductor Materials and their Applications

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

The Didache

The Didache

Digital Signal Processing with Matlab Examples, Volume 1

Digital Signal Processing with Matlab Examples, Volume 1

Darwin's Footprint

Darwin's Footprint

Rise of Digital Money

Rise of Digital Money

Image Processing

Image Processing

I'm Going to Have a Little House

I'm Going to Have a Little House

New Portuguese Letters

New Portuguese Letters

Maria Maddalena De' Pazzi

Maria Maddalena De' Pazzi

The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

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