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Image to Interpretation

An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts

By: Melissa Terras,Paul Robertson

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Image to Interpretation

An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts

By: Melissa Terras,Paul Robertson

The ink and stylus tablets discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda are a unique historical resource but are extremely difficult to read. This book details the development of what appears to be the first system constructed to aid experts in the process of reading an ancient document, exploring the use of techniques from Artificial Intelligence.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199204551

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9780199204557

Digital Images for the Information Professional

By: Melissa Terras

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Digital Images for the Information Professional

By: Melissa Terras

In the past decade, the way image based media is created, disseminated, and shared has changed exponentially, as digital imaging technology has replaced traditional film based media. Digital images have become the pervasive photographic medium of choice for the general public. Most libraries, archives, museums, and galleries have undertaken some type of digitisation program: converting their holdings into two dimensional digital images which are available for the general user via the Internet. This raises issues for those aiming to facilitate the creation and preservation of digital images whilst supplying and improving user access to image based material. Digital Images for the Information Professional provides an overview of the place of images in the changing information environment, and the use, function, and appropriation of digital images in both institutional and personal settings. Covering the history, technical underpinnings, sustainability, application, and management of digital images, the text is an accessible guide to both established and developing imaging technologies, providing those within the information sector with essential background knowledge of this increasingly ubiquitous medium.

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378

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Routledge

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1351944088

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9781351944083

Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature

By: James Fairhead,Melissa Leach,Ian Scoones

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Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature

By: James Fairhead,Melissa Leach,Ian Scoones

Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to justify appropriations of land for food or fuel. Yet in other cases, environmental green agendas are the core drivers and goals of grabs. Green grabs may be drivn by biodiversity conservation, biocarbon sequestration, biofuels, ecosystem services or ecotourism, for example. In some cases theyse agendas involve the wholesale alienation of land, and in others the restructuring of rules and authority in the access, use and management of resources that may have profoundly alienating effects. Green grabbing builds on well-known histories of colonial and neo-colonial resource alienation in the name of the environment. Yet it involves novel forms of valuation, commodification and markets for pieces and aspects of nature, and an extraordinary new range of actors and alliances. This book draws together seventeen original cases from African, Asian and Latin American settings to ask: To what extent and in what ways do ‘green grabs’ constitute new forms of appropriation of nature? What political and discursive dynamics underpin ‘green grabs’? How and when do appropriations on the ground emerge out of circulations of green capital? What are the implications for ecologies, landscapes and livelihoods? Who is gaining and who is losing? How are agrarian social relations, rights and authority being restructured, and in whose interests? This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

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Routledge

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1317850521

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9781317850526

Maestro

By: Melissa Rea

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Maestro

By: Melissa Rea

Gabriella stands on a gallows one day before her 19th birthday in 1718. She tells her story to a young blacksmith, a surly milkmaid, and a mute dwarf who is much more than the muckraker he seems. The pampered daughter of a count, Gabriella’s entire existence has been her music, until one afternoon’s sensual exploration leads to the shame of two noble families and her exile to a convent school for orphan girls, the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice, Italy. Antonio Vivaldi, the school’s Maestro of the Concerto, teaches the students and composes. She tells of her friend, Veronica, a sublimely talented violinist whose cold eyes hide tragic secrets and of whose murder she now stands convicted. With tears in her eyes, she speaks of her love, Raphael, the handsome overseer whom she had planned to marry. The story of her desperate attempt to learn the truth of a terrible curse that took her own child’s life, and save Veronica from a dark affair, holds the crowd’s rapt attention. Now she must escape with the help of her friends, from the Ospedale, and perhaps those in the crowd assembled to watch her hang.

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217

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Satin Romance

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1955784345

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Illustrated Obstetrics and Gynecology Problems

By: Sireesha Y Reddy,Melissa D Mendez,Sanja Kupesic Plavsic

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Illustrated Obstetrics and Gynecology Problems

By: Sireesha Y Reddy,Melissa D Mendez,Sanja Kupesic Plavsic

This book is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of obstetrics and gynaecologic disorders. Divided into two sections, the first half of the book covers numerous gynaecologic problems and the second half, obstetrics conditions. Each topic is presented in a step by step format, from patient presentation, signs and symptoms, history and investigation, to differential diagnosis and treatment. Case studies with references are included, helping students prepare for examinations. Authored by recognised experts from Paul L Foster School of Medicine, Texas, the text is further enhanced by clinical photographs, diagrams, tables, and a DVD ROM. Key points Comprehensive guide to diagnosis and management of obstetrics and gynaecologic disorders Presented in a step by step format with case studies to assist exam preparation Authored by recognised, Texas-based experts Includes DVD ROM

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341

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Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers

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9352704959

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9789352704958

A Third Path

Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal

By: Melissa Teixeira

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A Third Path

Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal

By: Melissa Teixeira

A transnational history of corporatism-a "third path" between capitalism and communism-centered on mid-twentieth century Brazil. Following the First World War, there was a widespread feeling that the unchecked free-market competition had given rise to financial crisis, social unrest, and chronic underdevelopment. With people and governments across the world looking for an alternative to laissez-faire capitalism, Brazil took a central role in experimenting with a "third path" between capitalism and communism: corporatism. Remaking Capitalism: A Global History of Corporatism in Brazil, 1920s-1960s argues that corporatism transformed the Brazilian state into an agent of economic development, and it explains why it matters that this transformation was engineered under an authoritarian regime. Melissa Teixeira incorporates wide-ranging legal, economic, and cultural sources to document the process of state-building from the perspective of government ministries and grocery markets alike from 1917 to the 1950s. During the Getulio Vargas regime (1930-45), especially, the state took an unprecedented role in controlling social pressures and economic growth via wage and price agencies, labor tribunals and technical councils. Teixeira looks beyond categorical authoritarianism to explain how corporatism constituted an early experiment with the mixed economy as a path to development, combining state planning with a market economy. Corporatism, she shows, generated a model of development dependent on uneven and unequal citizenship, in which economic interests-and not individuals-organized and petitioned through the state. With Brazil at the center of this story of economic experimentation, Remaking Capitalism centers the Global South in the longer history of the production of economic thought. Drawing comparisons with the United States, Italy, and Portugal, Teixeira offers a transnational history of this important interwar attempt to create a third way between capitalism and communism"--

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Princeton University Press

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0691191026

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9780691191027

Image to Interpretation

An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts

By: Melissa Terras,Paul Robertson

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An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts

By: Melissa Terras,Paul Robertson

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Oxford University Press, USA

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Image to Interpretation

Image to Interpretation

Digital Images for the Information Professional

Digital Images for the Information Professional

Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature

Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature

Maestro

Maestro

Illustrated Obstetrics and Gynecology Problems

Illustrated Obstetrics and Gynecology Problems

A Third Path

A Third Path

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