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Author: Helmut Anheier Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135991081 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 366
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This book explores the roles and visions foundations have of, and for, themselves in the new Europe. The leading contributors go beyond a quantitative profile of foundations in Europe, and probe deeper into their role and contributions in meeting the economic, cultural, environmental and educational needs of European societies. Includes a mapping and appraisal of foundation visions, policies and strategies, and an overall assessment of the current and future policy environment in which they operate. The Politics of Foundations combines the detailed comparative analysis of current challenges facing foundations, with individual country studies on Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom and also includes a comparative view from the United States. This valuable reference will be of interest to researchers and students of foundations, policy-making, comparative politics and international business, as well as policy makers and professionals.
Author: Helmut Anheier Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135991081 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 366
Book Description
This book explores the roles and visions foundations have of, and for, themselves in the new Europe. The leading contributors go beyond a quantitative profile of foundations in Europe, and probe deeper into their role and contributions in meeting the economic, cultural, environmental and educational needs of European societies. Includes a mapping and appraisal of foundation visions, policies and strategies, and an overall assessment of the current and future policy environment in which they operate. The Politics of Foundations combines the detailed comparative analysis of current challenges facing foundations, with individual country studies on Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom and also includes a comparative view from the United States. This valuable reference will be of interest to researchers and students of foundations, policy-making, comparative politics and international business, as well as policy makers and professionals.
Author: Mag. Marion Kern Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3638699889 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 256
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Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 3 (C), Vienna University of Economics and Business (Sociology), language: English, abstract: Ausgehend von einem internationalen Forschungsprojekt beschäftigt sich die Dissertation mit der Frage nach Rollen und Visionen österreichischer Stiftungen sowie deren Zukunftsperspektiven. Es wurden Änderungen vorgenommen, die speziell für Österreich gültig sind. Die vorliegende Arbeit bietet Einblick in die geschichtliche Entwicklung des österreichischen Stiftungssektors, behandelt die zwei Gesetzesgrundlagen - BStFG und PSG, die die Stiftungslandschaft spalten - und beschreibt das Feld heimischer Stiftungen sowohl mittels Charakterisierung und Klassifikation von Stiftungen als auch anhand konkreter Zahlen. Eine empirische Untersuchung, bei der Experten und Stiftungsvertreter befragt sowie schriftliche Unterlagen ausgewertet wurden, führte zur Ausarbeitung von 6 Fallstudien, anhand derer die Forschungsfragen aufgerollt und beantwortet werden. Die Diskussion basiert einerseits auf theoretischen Grundlagen von Wohlfahrtsstaat und NPO-Sektor allgemein, andererseits auf den Resultaten der Studien. Die Zukunft betreffende Aspekte wie das sich ändernde soziale und politische Umfeld, EU-Erweiterung sowie organisationsspezifische Faktoren werden erörtert. Die Untersuchung hat zu einem neuen Rollenmodell österreichischer Stiftungen geführt. Am wichtigsten bei gemeinnützigen Institutionen sind Ergänzung der staatlichen Aktivitäten, Bewahrung künstlerischer oder kultureller Leistungen und die Förderung sowohl von Innovation als auch Pluralismus während Privatstiftungen mit rein eigennützigem Zweck vor allem ein Kapitalmarktinstrument darstellen. Betreffend die Zukunft sind keine grenzüberschreitenden Aktivitäten geplant, innerhalb Österreichs wird jedoch eine steigende Bedeutung von Stiftungen erwartet, da sich der Staat immer mehr aus seiner sozialen Verantwortung zurückzieht
Author: Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez Publisher: Frontiers Media SA ISBN: 2889197980 Category : Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry Languages : en Pages : 292
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Over the past 40 years, neurobiology and computational neuroscience has proved that deeper understanding of visual processes in humans and non-human primates can lead to important advancements in computational perception theories and systems. One of the main difficulties that arises when designing automatic vision systems is developing a mechanism that can recognize - or simply find - an object when faced with all the possible variations that may occur in a natural scene, with the ease of the primate visual system. The area of the brain in primates that is dedicated at analyzing visual information is the visual cortex. The visual cortex performs a wide variety of complex tasks by means of simple operations. These seemingly simple operations are applied to several layers of neurons organized into a hierarchy, the layers representing increasingly complex, abstract intermediate processing stages. In this Research Topic we propose to bring together current efforts in neurophysiology and computer vision in order 1) To understand how the visual cortex encodes an object from a starting point where neurons respond to lines, bars or edges to the representation of an object at the top of the hierarchy that is invariant to illumination, size, location, viewpoint, rotation and robust to occlusions and clutter; and 2) How the design of automatic vision systems benefit from that knowledge to get closer to human accuracy, efficiency and robustness to variations.
Author: James Elder Publisher: Frontiers Media SA ISBN: 2832553451 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 220
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A principal challenge for both biological and machine vision systems is to integrate and organize the diversity of cues received from the environment into the coherent global representations we experience and require to make good decisions and take effective actions. Early psychological investigations date back more than 100 years to the seminal work of the Gestalt school. Yet in the last 50 years, neuroscientific and computational approaches to understanding perceptual organization have become equally important, and a full understanding requires integration of all three approaches. This highly interdisciplinary Research Topic welcomes contributions spanning Computer Science, Psychology, and Neuroscience, with the aim of presenting a single, unified collection that will encourage integration and cross-fertilization across disciplines.
Author: William R. Wiener Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind ISBN: 0891284486 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 722
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Foundations of Orientation and Mobility, the classic professional reference and textbook has been completely revised and expanded to two volumes by the most knowledgeable experts in the field. The new third edition includes both the latest research in O&M and expanded information on practice and teaching strategies. Volume 1, History and Theory, includes the bases of O&M knowledge, including perception, orientation, low vision, audition, kinesiology, psychosocial issues, and learning theories, as well as chapters on technology, dog guides, orientation aids, and environmental accessibility. A section on the profession of O&M includes its international history; administration, assessment and program planning; and a chapter on research in O&M. No O&M student or professional can afford to be without this essential resource.
Author: Publisher: I. K. International Pvt Ltd ISBN: 8189866745 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 1688
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The latest trends in information technology represent a new intellectual paradigm for scientific exploration and the visualization of scientific phenomena. This title covers the emerging technologies in the field. Academics, engineers, industrialists, scientists and researchers engaged in teaching, and research and development of computer science and information technology will find the book useful for their academic and research work.
Author: Reinhard R. Beichel Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3540462589 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 271
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post proceedings of the international workshop Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis, CVAMIA 2006, held in Graz, Austria in May 2006 as a satellite event of the 9th European Conference on Computer Vision, EECV 2006. The 10 revised full papers and 11 revised poster papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions.
Author: Nusche Deborah Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 9264256725 Category : Languages : en Pages : 201
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The effective use of school resources is a policy priority across OECD countries. The OECD Reviews of School Resources explore how resources can be governed, distributed, utilised and managed to improve the quality, equity and efficiency of school education.
Author: William Middleton Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0375415432 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 817
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**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST ART BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY ARTNEWS** The first and definitive biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil, who became one of the greatest cultural forces of the twentieth century through groundbreaking exhibits of art, artistic scholarship, the creation of innovative galleries and museums, and work with civil rights. Dominique and John de Menil created an oasis of culture in their Philip Johnson-designed house with everyone from Marlene Dietrich and René Magritte to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. In Houston, they built the Menil Collection, the Rothko Chapel, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, the Cy Twombly Gallery, and underwrote the Contemporary Arts Museum. Now, with unprecedented access to family archives, William Middleton has written a sweeping biography of this unique couple. From their ancestors in Normandy and Alsace, to their own early years in France, and their travels in South America before settling in Houston. We see them introduced to the artists in Europe and America whose works they would collect, and we see how, by the 1960s, their collection had grown to include 17,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, rare books, and decorative objects. And here is, as well, a vivid behind-the-scenes look at the art world of the twentieth century and the enormous influence the de Menils wielded through what they collected and built and through the causes they believed in.
Author: Pomplun, Marc Publisher: IGI Global ISBN: 1466625406 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 447
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"This book provides interdisciplinary research that evaluates the performance of machine visual models and systems in comparison to biological systems, blending the ideas of current scientific knowledge and biological vision"--
Author: Helmut Anheier
Author: Helmut Anheier
Author: Mag. Marion Kern
Author: Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez
Author: James Elder
Author: William R. Wiener
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Author: Reinhard R. Beichel
Author: Nusche Deborah
Author: William Middleton
Author: Pomplun, Marc