Author: Yannick Deville Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319937642 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 583
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation, LVA/ICA 2018, held in Guildford, UK, in July 2018.The 52 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 initial submissions. As research topics the papers encompass a wide range of general mixtures of latent variables models but also theories and tools drawn from a great variety of disciplines such as structured tensor decompositions and applications; matrix and tensor factorizations; ICA methods; nonlinear mixtures; audio data and methods; signal separation evaluation campaign; deep learning and data-driven methods; advances in phase retrieval and applications; sparsity-related methods; and biomedical data and methods.
Author: Michael D. Breidenbach Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 067424723X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 369
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How early American Catholics justified secularism and overcame suspicions of disloyalty, transforming ideas of religious liberty in the process. In colonial America, Catholics were presumed dangerous until proven loyal. Yet Catholics went on to sign the Declaration of Independence and helped to finalize the First Amendment to the Constitution. What explains this remarkable transformation? Michael Breidenbach shows how Catholic leaders emphasized their churchÕs own traditionsÑrather than Enlightenment liberalismÑto secure the religious liberty that enabled their incorporation in American life. Catholics responded to charges of disloyalty by denying papal infallibility and the popeÕs authority to intervene in civil affairs. Rome staunchly rejected such dissent, but reform-minded Catholics justified their stance by looking to conciliarism, an intellectual tradition rooted in medieval Catholic thought yet compatible with a republican view of temporal independence and church-state separation. Drawing on new archival material, Breidenbach finds that early American Catholic leaders, including Maryland founder Cecil Calvert and members of the prominent Carroll family, relied on the conciliarist tradition to help institute religious toleration, including the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649. The critical role of Catholics in establishing American churchÐstate separation enjoins us to revise not only our sense of who the American founders were, but also our understanding of the sources of secularism. ChurchÐstate separation in America, generally understood as the product of a Protestant-driven Enlightenment, was in key respects derived from Catholic thinking. Our Dear-Bought Liberty therefore offers a dramatic departure from received wisdom, suggesting that religious liberty in America was not bestowed by liberal consensus but partly defined through the ingenuity of a persecuted minority.
Author: Andrés Hatum Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1788110153 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 179
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This book identifies best practices, leadership styles, and organizational structures for the stimulation of organizational creativity, with an aim to help any company – not just companies in creative fields or industries – become an organization in which new ideas flow, new processes are developed, and new products are brought to market. Managers will find case studies describing exceptional organizational creativity and practical takeaways that can be applied in their own firms. Students will find concrete analytical frameworks for thinking about creativity in organizations, and academics will find a different approach to the study of creativity, one that is grounded in practice.
Author: Philippe Rouger Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 774
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This book contains 2,520 grams of advertising and something more. It depicts more than nine years in the life of the Spanish advertising agency, *S, C, P, F... The book contains hundreds of print campaigns and two DVDs with 356 ads from the agency?'s daily work, and more than 90 contributions by notable professionals in the world of communication and other fields from Spain and abroad. *S, C, P, F... was born in Barcelona in 1996, and opened offices in Madrid two years later. After joining the WPP group, the agency started its international expansion: in 2005 *S, C, P, F... America opened in Miami, followed by new offices in Lisbon in 2006. Some of *S, C, P, Fs best known campaigns are Love to drive for BMW; Redecorate your life for IKEA; You feel clean, you feel good for EVAX; Who are you for? for KAS (PEPSICO); Your other bank for ING DIRECT; Life is mobile, mobile is Vodafone for VODAFONE; Nightologyfor J&B (DIAGEO), etc. As a result, the agency has received numerous awards, including four Grand Prix and more than 50 Soles awards in San Sebastian Festival (Spanish creativity), 10 Lions at Cannes and various EFI awards from the Spanish AdvertisersAssociation, including the Grand Prix for Advertising Efficiency for BMW in 2002. In addition, in 1999, the agency launched a creative experimental platform called milmilks*. Based on the concept of mixing, its aim is to look for references outside what is strictly advertising, positive contamination of the agencys human team, seeking something different. milmilks* chooses innovative proposals in the broad world of communication, inviting their authors to develop them physically at the agency, offering in return the necessary technological, economic or infrastructure resources.
Author: Roland Groz Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3540247041 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 235
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This volume contains the proceedings of the 16th IFIP TC6/WG6.1 Inter- tional Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems (TestCom 2004). This conference was held at St Anne's College, Oxford, UK, from March 17 to March 19, 2004. TestCom 2004 was the sixteenth in a series of IFIP-sponsored events that started in 1988. The previous events were held in Vancouver, Canada (1988); B- lin, Germany (1989); McLean, USA (1990); Leidschendam, Netherlands (1991); Montreal, Canada (1992); Pau, France (1993); Tokyo, Japan (1994); Evry, France (1995); Darmstadt, Germany (1996); Cheju Island, Korea (1997); Tomsk, R- sia (1998); Budapest, Hungary (1999); Ottawa, Canada (2000); Berlin, Germany (2002); and Sophia Antipolis, France (2003). TestCom was not held in 2001 since at this point the conference moved from autumn to spring. TestCom 2004 was organized by Brunel University, UK and LSR-IMAG, France and was sponsored by IFIP. Support was also provided by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). We are grateful to the keynote speaker, Prof. Sir Tony Hoare, FRS, and our invited speakers for agreeing to address TestCom 2004.
Author: W. Eric Wong Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1475759398 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 129
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Extensive research and development has produce mutation tools for languages such as Fortran, Ada, C, and IDL; empirical evaluations comparing mutation with other test adequacy criteria; empirical evidence and theoretical justification for the coupling effect; and techniques for speeding up mutation testing using various types of high performance architectures. Mutation has received the attention of software developers and testers in such diverse areas as network protocols and nuclear simulation. Mutation Testing for the New Century brings together cutting edge research results in mutation testing from a wide range of researchers. This book provides answers to key questions related to mutation and raises questions yet to be answered. It is an excellent resource for researchers, practitioners, and students of software engineering.
Author: Paul Lokuciejewski Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9048199298 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 268
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For real-time systems, the worst-case execution time (WCET) is the key objective to be considered. Traditionally, code for real-time systems is generated without taking this objective into account and the WCET is computed only after code generation. Worst-Case Execution Time Aware Compilation Techniques for Real-Time Systems presents the first comprehensive approach integrating WCET considerations into the code generation process. Based on the proposed reconciliation between a compiler and a timing analyzer, a wide range of novel optimization techniques is provided. Among others, the techniques cover source code and assembly level optimizations, exploit machine learning techniques and address the design of modern systems that have to meet multiple objectives. Using these optimizations, the WCET of real-time applications can be reduced by about 30% to 45% on the average. This opens opportunities for decreasing clock speeds, costs and energy consumption of embedded processors. The proposed techniques can be used for all types real-time systems, including automotive and avionics IT systems.
Author: Stephen B. Bevans Publisher: Orbis Books ISBN: 1608330281 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 513
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"Mission is handicapped without a sound biblical theology of mission and an understanding of the history of mission leading up to our current context. Constants in Context offers both of these elements. It is mission theology in historical perspective and/or a history of mission that is grounded theologically. The authors describe it as a systematic theology with mission at its core, and a church history shaped by the constant but always contextual Christian traditions. Furthermore it is a constructive contribution to how mission theology needs to be practical and lived out through today's church and in our world. Written collaboratively by Roman Catholic writers Stephen Bevans and Roger Schroeder, both Missionaries of the Divine Word (SVDs). It is a particularly insightful in regard to the history and the various streams of Catholic mission but it also addresses and learns from the other traditions of the church. In fact, one of the book's strengths is its attention to neglected aspects and hidden stories of church and mission history. As a result it is gratifying to be inspired by non-European mission, women in mission and various forgotten or often ignored branches of the church. The book is in three sections: first, there is a framework for cultural contexts and theological constants; second, an in-depth exploration of historical stages and different models for mission; and third, a presentation of theological frameworks for mission. The third section concludes with a case for 'mission as prophetic dialogue' being the most appropriate model for 21st century mission." -- Amazon.com.
Author: Yannick Deville
Author: Michael D. Breidenbach
Author: Andrés Hatum
Author: Catholic Educational Association
Author: Philippe Rouger
Author: Roland Groz
Author: W. Eric Wong
Author: Paul Lokuciejewski
Author: Francis Joseph Winslow
Author: Stephen B. Bevans