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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 665.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
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Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:30:38 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new books
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Seeing, Thinking and Knowing
Meaning and Self-Organisation in Visual Cognition and Thought
edited by
Arturo Carsetti
University of Rome `Tor Vergata', Italy
THEORY AND DECISION LIBRARY A: -- 38
The world perceived at the visual level is constituted not by objects or
static forms, but by processes appearing imbued with meaning. As G. Kanizsa
stated, at the visual level the line per se does not exist: only the line
which enters, goes behind, divides, etc., a line evolving according to a
precise holistic context, in comparison with which function and meaning are
indissolubly interlinked. Just as the meaning of words is connected with a
universe of highly-dynamic functions and functional processes which operate
syntheses, cancellations, integrations, etc. (a universe which can only be
described in terms of symbolic dynamics), in the same way, at the level of
vision, we must continuously unravel and construct schemata; we must
assimilate and make ourselves available for selection by the co-ordinated
information penetrating from external Reality. Lastly, we must interrelate
all this with the internal selection mechanisms through a precise "jouney"
into the regions of intensionality.
obIn accordance with these intuitions, we may directly consider, from the
more general point of view of contemporary Self-organisation theory, the
network of meaningful programs living at the level of neural systems as a
complex one which articulates and develops, functionally, within a "coupled
universe" characterised by the existence of a double selection: external
and internal, the latter regarding the universe of meaning. This network
gradually posits itself as the basis for the emergence of natural and
meaningful forms and the simultaneous, if indirect, surfacing of an
"I-subject-": as the basic instrument, in other words, for the perception
of real and meaningful processes, of "objects" possessing meaning, aims,
intentions, etc.: above all, of biological objects possessing an inner plan
and linked to the progressive expression of a specific cognitive action.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-2080-5 Date: March 2004 Pages: 360 pp.
EURO 140.00 / USD 154.00 / GBP 97.00
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Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis
edited by
William W. Cooper
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Lawrence M. Seiford
Dept. of Industrial & Operations Engineering, The University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, USA
Joe Zhu
Dept. of Management, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA
INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE -- 71
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has grown into a powerful quantitative,
analytical tool for measuring and evaluating performance. It has been
successfully applied to a host of different entities engaged in a wide
variety of activities in many contexts worldwide. DEA's "data-oriented"
approach has been widely used in evaluating the efficiency and productivity
of many different kinds of entities engaged in many different kinds of
activities in many different contexts. DEA opens up possibilities for use
in cases which have been resistant to other approaches because of the
complex and often unknown nature of the relationships between their many
activities. In addition, DEA is used to provide new insights into
activities and entities that have previously been evaluated by other methods.
This Handbook has been developed as a comprehensive reference for
reseachers, students and practitioners. It reflects the state-of-the-art in
Data Envelopment Analysis. It also represents a milestone in the
progression of a continuously advancing methodology. which has extensive
utility. Written by experts - who are the major research contributors to
the topics covered - the Handbook is organized in three sections. The first
section is a comprehensive examination of the basic DEA models and DEA
extensions. The second section consists of a collection of coverages by
persons experienced in applications to the areas of banking, education,
sports, retailing, health care, etc. The final section is a review of
current DEA software technology.
Special Offer
Pre-publication offer valid until 30 June 2004: EUR 110.00/USD 120.00/GBP 76.00
(Please refer to promotional code 738020 when ordering.)
CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
* Preface; W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford, J. Zhu.
* 1. Data Envelopment Analysis: History, Models and Interpretations;
W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford, J. Zhu.
* 2. Returns to Scale in DEA: R.D. Banker, W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford,
J. Zhu.
* 3. Sensitivity Analysis in DEA: W.W. Cooper, Shanling Li, L.M.
Seiford, J. Zhu.
* 4. Incorporating Value Judgments in DEA: E. Thanassoulis, M.C.
Portela, R. Allen.
* 5. Distance Functions with Applications to DEA; R. F=C3=A4re, S.
Grosskopf, G. Whittaker.
* 6. Qualitative Data in DEA; W.D. Cook.
* 7. Congestion: Its Identification and Management with DEA; W.W.
Cooper, Honghui Deng, L.M. Seiford, J. Zhu.
* 8. Malmquist Productivity Index: Efficiency Change Over Time; K. Tone.
* 9. Chance Constrained DEA: W.W. Cooper, Zhimin Huang, S.X. Li.
* 10. Performance of the Bootstrap for DEA Estimators and Iterating the
Principle: L. Simar, P.W.Wilson.
* 11. Statistical Tests Based on DEA Efficiency Scores; R.D. Banker, R.
Natarajan.
* 12. Performance Evaluation in Education: Modeling Educational
Production; J. Ruggiero.
* 13. Assessing Bank and Bank Branch Performance: Modeling
Considerations and Approaches; J.C. Paradi, S. Vela, Zijiang Yang.
* 14. Engineering Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis: Issues and
Opportunities: K.P. Triantis.
* 15. Benchmarking in Sports: Bonds or Ruth: Determining the Most
Dominant Baseball Batter Using DEA; T.R. Anderson.
* 16. Assessing the Selling Function in Retailing: Insights from
Banking, Sales forces, Restaurants & Betting shops; A.D. Athanassopoulos.
* 17. Health Care Applications: From Hospitals to Physicians, From
Productive Efficiency to Quality Frontiers: J.A. Chilingerian, H.D. Sherman.
* 18. DEA Software Tools and Technology: A State-of-the-Art Survey; R.
Barr.
* Notes about Authors. Author Index. Subject Index.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7797-1 Date: March 2004 Pages: 608 pp.
EURO 154.00 / USD 169.00 / GBP 107.00
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Professional Learning: Gaps and Transitions on the Way from Novice to Expert
edited by
Henny P.A. Boshuizen
Open Universiteit Nederland, Heerlen, The Netherlands
Rainer Bromme
Westf=C3=A4lische Weilhelms-Universit=C3=A4t, M=C3=BCnster, Germany
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AND CHANGE IN PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION -- 2
This book explores the teaching and training of, and learning by
professionals prior to and during their professional life. It covers the
development of expertise from novice status to high levels in a number of
different domains and stages. The main idea of the book is that the path
that leads through school and/or university to professional life comprises
a process of continually transforming the repertoire of knowledge and
skills that make up one's expertise. This point of view has brought
together researchers from fields that are usually regarded as separate:
psychology, sociology, management and organisation, and education. By
connecting the different perspectives and disciplines, the book lays the
foundation for an integrated view on professional learning and development,
covering both theoretical and practical implications.
Researchers and practitioners in the field of professional education as
well as graduate students will find in this book a wealth of new ideas that
are well grounded in theory and research.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-2065-1 Date: April 2004 Pages: 354 pp.
EURO 133.00 / USD 147.00 / GBP 92.00
Paperback ISBN: 1-4020-2066-X Date: April 2004 Pages: 354 pp.
EURO 42.00 / USD 47.00 / GBP 29.00
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Cross Cultural Anthropology: A Reference Collection
edited by
Carol R. Ember
Human Relations Area File Inc., New Haven, CT, USA
Melvin Ember
Human Relations Area Files/Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Cross Cultural Anthropology: A Reference Collection is a set of three
separate encyclopedias comprehensively covering some of the most important
and current research in anthropology today. Prepared under the auspices and
with the support of the Human Relations Area Files, with an internationally
distinguished advisory board for each encyclopedia, Cross Cultural
Anthropology: A Reference Collection is comprised of three independent
encyclopedias encompassing three of the fastest-growing areas in
anthropological research.
The contributors to each of the encyclopedias is a leader in their area
(geographically and topically) of research. With over 150 cultures
represented, Cross Cultural Anthropology: A ReferenceCollection is a
seminal reference collection for any and every academic library and social
scientist.
* Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the
World's Cultures focuses on the effect of culture on the health and illness
within a population and includes such subjects as health conditions and
diseases, political, economic and gender issues.
* Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures
discusses the differences in gender roles, sexuality, reproduction, male
and female interaction in the world's cultures and how each population
perceives "gender" and how it affects the men and women, of these populations.
* Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the
World expounds on the movement of populations from their traditional
geographic location to another for reasons such as persecution, political
situations, civil war, freedom, and a perceived "better life." The history
of this phenomena and its current waves and impact are presented within
this major reference work.
Special Offer
Pre-publication offer valid until 31 August 2004: EUR 899.00/USD 998.00/GBP
620.00
Cross Cultural Anthropology: A Reference Collection consists of:
Encyclopedia of Diasporas (ISBN 0-306-48321-1), Encyclopedia of Medical
Anthropology (ISBN 0-306-47754-8) and Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender (ISBN
0-306-47770-X)
(Please refer to promotional code 738020 when ordering.)
Hardbound Set ISBN: 0-306-48320-3 Date: November 2004
EURO 1045.00 / USD 1150.00 / GBP 725.00
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Stochastic Image Processing
by
Chee Sun Won
Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea
Robert M. Gray
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: TRANSMISSION, PROCESSING AND STORAGE --
Stochastic Image Processing provides the first thorough treatment of Markov
and hidden Markov random fields and their application to image processing.
Although promoted as a promising approach for over thirty years, it has
only been in the past few years that the theory and algorithms have
developed to the point of providing useful solutions to old and new
problems in image processing. Markov random fields are a multidimensional
extension of Markov chains, but the generalization is complicated by the
lack of a natural ordering of pixels in multidimensional spaces. Hidden
Markov fields are a natural generalization of the hidden Markov models that
have proved essential to the development of modern speech recognition, but
again the multidimensional nature of the signals makes them inherently more
complicated to handle. This added complexity contributed to the long time
required for the development of successful methods and applications. This
book collects together a variety of successful approaches to a complete and
useful characterization of multidimensional Markov and hidden Markov models
along with applications to image analysis. The book provides a survey and
comparative development of an exciting and rapidly evolving field of
multidimensional Markov and hidden Markov random fields with extensive
references to the literature.
Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-48192-8 Date: March 2004 Pages: 180 pp.
EURO 84.00 / USD 92.00 / GBP 58.00
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