Contours of Descent

Contours of Descent
Title Contours of Descent PDF eBook
Author Robert Pollin
Publisher Verso
Pages 292
Release 2005-10-17
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9781844675340

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The concepts of modernity and modernism are among the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this new, muscular intervention, Pollin explores these notions in a fresh and illuminating manner.

Contours

Contours
Title Contours PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages
Release 2020-02-15
Genre
ISBN 9780578595955

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An anthology of new work rooted in the Driftless Region of the upper Midwest. The collection includes poetry, fiction, essays, flash, and artwork created by writers with a connection to this scenic and unusual area of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa.

Christian Contours

Christian Contours
Title Christian Contours PDF eBook
Author Douglas S. Huffman
Publisher Kregel Academic
Pages 242
Release 2012-01-12
Genre Religion
ISBN 0825436737

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What does it mean to think and live Christianly in a world of competing worldviews? Christian Contours answers this question by inviting readers to consider the understanding of reality proposed by the Bible. Though it is easy to divide life into separate compartments (religious and secular, theological and practical), faith invites us to view all of life in the light of that Biblical understanding. Presenting a clear, compelling case for unity in essential Christian tenets, the authors of Christian Contours guide the reader through developing, internalizing, and articulating a biblical worldview. This robust worldview enables the Christian to be a critically-thinking participant in culture and to be a faithful disciple of Christ with both heart and mind.

Shape Reconstruction from Apparent Contours

Shape Reconstruction from Apparent Contours
Title Shape Reconstruction from Apparent Contours PDF eBook
Author Giovanni Bellettini
Publisher Springer
Pages 385
Release 2015-02-25
Genre Mathematics
ISBN 3662451913

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Motivated by a variational model concerning the depth of the objects in a picture and the problem of hidden and illusory contours, this book investigates one of the central problems of computer vision: the topological and algorithmic reconstruction of a smooth three dimensional scene starting from the visible part of an apparent contour. The authors focus their attention on the manipulation of apparent contours using a finite set of elementary moves, which correspond to diffeomorphic deformations of three dimensional scenes. A large part of the book is devoted to the algorithmic part, with implementations, experiments, and computed examples. The book is intended also as a user's guide to the software code appcontour, written for the manipulation of apparent contours and their invariants. This book is addressed to theoretical and applied scientists working in the field of mathematical models of image segmentation.

Nonlinear Waves and Solitons on Contours and Closed Surfaces

Nonlinear Waves and Solitons on Contours and Closed Surfaces
Title Nonlinear Waves and Solitons on Contours and Closed Surfaces PDF eBook
Author Andrei Ludu
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 583
Release 2022-11-04
Genre Science
ISBN 3031146417

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This new edition has been thoroughly revised, expanded and contain some updates function of the novel results and shift of scientific interest in the topics. The book has a Foreword by Jerry L. Bona and Hongqiu Chen. The book is an introduction to nonlinear waves and soliton theory in the special environment of compact spaces such a closed curves and surfaces and other domain contours. It assumes familiarity with basic soliton theory and nonlinear dynamical systems. The first part of the book introduces the mathematical concept required for treating the manifolds considered, providing relevant notions from topology and differential geometry. An introduction to the theory of motion of curves and surfaces - as part of the emerging field of contour dynamics - is given. The second and third parts discuss the modeling of various physical solitons on compact systems, such as filaments, loops and drops made of almost incompressible materials thereby intersecting with a large number of physical disciplines from hydrodynamics to compact object astrophysics. This book is intended for graduate students and researchers in mathematics, physics and engineering.

Atlantic History

Atlantic History
Title Atlantic History PDF eBook
Author Bernard Bailyn
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 160
Release 2009-06-30
Genre History
ISBN 0674020405

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Atlantic history is a newly and rapidly developing field of historical study. Bringing together elements of early modern European, African, and American history--their common, comparative, and interactive aspects--Atlantic history embraces essentials of Western civilization, from the first contacts of Europe with the Western Hemisphere to the independence movements and the globalizing industrial revolution. In these probing essays, Bernard Bailyn explores the origins of the subject, its rapid development, and its impact on historical study. He first considers Atlantic history as a subject of historical inquiry--how it evolved as a product of both the pressures of post-World War II politics and the internal forces of scholarship itself. He then outlines major themes in the subject over the three centuries following the European discoveries. The vast contribution of the African people to all regions of the West, the westward migration of Europeans, pan-Atlantic commerce and its role in developing economies, racial and ethnic relations, the spread of Enlightenment ideas--all are Atlantic phenomena. In examining both the historiographical and historical dimensions of this developing subject, Bailyn illuminates the dynamics of history as a discipline.

Active Contours

Active Contours
Title Active Contours PDF eBook
Author Andrew Blake
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 356
Release 2012-12-06
Genre Computers
ISBN 1447115554

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Active Contours deals with the analysis of moving images - a topic of growing importance within the computer graphics industry. In particular it is concerned with understanding, specifying and learning prior models of varying strength and applying them to dynamic contours. Its aim is to develop and analyse these modelling tools in depth and within a consistent framework.