This is the first comprehensive introduction to SVMs, a new generation learning system based on recent advances in statistical learning theory; it will help readers understand the theory and its real-world applications.

Over 300 productivity-enhancing secrets you need to know about Illustrator CS. Fully illustrated, stand-alone tips reveal the hidden features and productivity-enhancing tricks that allow you to accomplish more in less time with Illustrator CS2. Easy-to-browse format lets you find and apply information instantly and includes many tips and techniques that focus on Illustrator CS2's new features: Converting bitmaps into vectors with Live Trace, Painting with the new Live Paint tool, creating Custom Workspaces, and more.

As a result of the reform of nursing care, nursing structures and processes will change. This comprehensive volume on nursing care insurance also deals with private nursing care insurance and its particular features in comparison to social nursing care insurance.

There is nothing new about homelessness. There have been homeless people for some 10,000 years—from the time when humans built their first permanent homes in the first towns of the Fertile Crescent. The historical record, novels and poems, and sacred texts tell us the stories of beggars, wandering ascetics, penniless friars, displaced peasants, lost soldiers, street youths, vagrants, new arrivals in the city, and displaced workers. Homelessness has changed over the years. In the United States, during the late nineteenth century, it was hoboes and tramps who drew the attention of the public, the police, and then the social reformers of the Progressive Era. From the 1920s through the Great Depression, attention shifted to the skid rows, home to transient workers and retired single men. The decline of skid rows in the 1970s was followed by a new era of homelessness with many formerly institutionalized people—who had untreated or poorly treated emotional disorders—winding up on the streets of America. In the 1980s, the nature of homelessness changed again. Growing economic inequality, racism, a permanent decrease in the number of well-paid unskilled jobs, and a lack of affordable housing combined to make several million people—many of them African-American women and their children—homeless on America’s streets, in shelters, in motels, and in substandard and temporary apartments. This pattern continues in 2004. Homelessness is not just a U.S. problem, although when viewed cross-culturally, it becomes a more complex issue. In many developed nations, homeless families, many of them immigrants, are the major issue. In the developing nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the homeless are often women and their children, youths, and migrants from rural areas who have come to cities looking for work and opportunity. The emergence of many cities in developing nations as major regional or global commercial centers has made the problem even worse, by increasing the appeal of cities as employment centers to the rural poor while at the same time providing less and less affordable housing and support services for immigrants. The goal of the Encyclopedia of Homelessness is to summarize our knowledge of homelessness. This includes describing the patterns of homelessness in the past, focusing on the recent and current situation in the United States, and sampling homelessness around the world. Entries cover causes; history; legal issues, advocacy, and policy; legislation and programs; lifestyle and health problems; organizations; research; services and service settings; size and perceptions; subpopulations and lifestyles; and world issues and perspectives. Descriptive articles cover homelessness today in eight major American cities and more than thirty cities and nations around the world. These entries allow for quick and easy comparisons.

Our narrower obligations often blind us to larger social responsibilities. The moral claims arising out of special relationships—family, friends, colleagues, and so on—always seem to take priority. Strangers ordinarily get, and ordinarily are thought to deserve, only what is left over. Robert E. Goodin argues that this is morally mistaken. In Protecting the Vulnerable, he presents a comprehensive theory of responsibility based on the concept of vulnerability. Since the range of people vulnerable to our actions or choices extends beyond those to whom we have made specific commitments (promises, vows, contracts), we must recognize a much more extensive network of obligations and moral claims. State welfare services, for example, are morally on a par with the services we render to family and friends. The same principle widens our international, intergenerational, and interpersonal responsibilities as well as our duties toward animals and natural environments. This book, written with keen intelligence and unfailing common sense, opens up new perspectives on issues central to public policy and of critical concern to philosophers and social scientists as well as to politicians, lawyers and social workers.

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In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbreaking numerical index of social development that compares societies in different times and places, award-winning author Ian Morris sets forth a sweeping examination of Eastern and Western development across 15,000 years since the end of the last ice age. He offers surprising conclusions about when and why the West came to dominate the world and fresh perspectives for thinking about the twenty-first century. Adapting the United Nations' approach for measuring human development, Morris's index breaks social development into four traits--energy capture per capita, organization, information technology, and war-making capacity--and he uses archaeological, historical, and current government data to quantify patterns. Morris reveals that for 90 percent of the time since the last ice age, the world's most advanced region has been at the western end of Eurasia, but contrary to what many historians once believed, there were roughly 1,200 years--from about 550 to 1750 CE--when an East Asian region was more advanced. Only in the late eighteenth century CE, when northwest Europeans tapped into the energy trapped in fossil fuels, did the West leap ahead. Resolving some of the biggest debates in global history, The Measure of Civilization puts forth innovative tools for determining past, present, and future economic and social trends.

Hа пiдставi бaгатьox дoкументiв i свiдчень автop встановлює, щo Голодомор 1932-1933 pp. в укpаїнськoмy селi являв сoбoю результат замaскoванoї пiд хлiбoзaгoтiвлi кapaльнoї aкцiї з вилyчення у селян всього нaявнoгo y них пpoдовольства. B книзi дoведенo, щo Стaлiн зaстосовував цю терористичну акцію в ситуації гострої кризи і голоду в багатьох регіонах СРСР, які були наслідком здійснюваної Кремлем прискореної "революції згори". Kнигa дoпoмагaє yсвiдoмити, щo терор голодом у поєднанні з репресіями проти безпартійної української інтелігенції та членів КП(б)У мали на меті попередити соціальний і політичний вибух в найбільшій національній республіці. Це дослідження призначене для української громадськості, яка зацікавлена у міжнародному визнанні Закону України "Про Голодомор 1932-1933 років в Україні", прийнято Верховною Радою 28 листопада 2006 р.

Joseph Raz presents a penetrating exploration of the interdependence of value, reason, and the will. The essays illuminate a wide range of questions concerning fundamental aspects of human thought and action. The book is a summation of many years of original, compelling, and influential work by a major contemporary philosopher.

Social Postmodernism offers a transformative political vision and addresses the live questions in identity politics. The postmodern focus on race, sexuality and gender is sharpened by integrating the micro-social concerns of the social movements associated with these issues and macro-institutional and cultural analysis. Social Postmodernism brings together leading theorists to explore further the implications for the discourses of feminism, post-Marxian cultural studies, African-American, Gay, Latino/a and postcolonial studies.

If we let the human realities that accompanied those older tools fall into oblivion, if the arrival and actual or potential disappearance of e-mail, laptops, and so on become just a set of distant facts, then we lose a part of our humanity, a historical sense of our recent selves. We have witnessed stunning transformations of society, politics, communication, and even selfhood. New identities have emerged or been fabulously empowered—the angry citizen with a video camera handy, the hyper–social networking teenager, the blog “troll,” avatars. To understand them, to judge them well, we need steady and penetrating reminders of the changes they have wrought. The writers included here provide just that.

В книзі аналізується розвиток взаємовідносин між УСРР і РСФРР та еволюція державного статусу радянської України у 1920 р. На основі документальних джерел автор робить висновок про сумнівність панівних в історіографії поглядів на процес утворення СРСР як поступального об’єднання незалежних радянських республік і відповідного місця 1920 року у цій схемі. Наголошується на тому, що розвиток радянської України протягом 1920 р. мав протилежні вектори — від повного підпорядкування України Кремлю включно з переходом її в автономний статус до набуття деяких ознак незалежності. Підсумком боротьби різних підходів став договір між УСРР та РСФРР від 28 грудня 1920 р., в якому вперше на офіційному рівні радянська Росія визнала незалежність УСРР.

В книзі аналізується розвиток взаємовідносин між УСРР і РСФРР та еволюція державного статусу радянської України у 1920 р. На основі документальних джерел автор робить висновок про сумнівність панівних в історіографії поглядів на процес утворення СРСР як поступального об’єднання незалежних радянських республік і відповідного місця 1920 року у цій схемі. Наголошується на тому, що розвиток радянської України протягом 1920 р. мав протилежні вектори — від повного підпорядкування України Кремлю включно з переходом її в автономний статус до набуття деяких ознак незалежності. Підсумком боротьби різних підходів став договір між УСРР та РСФРР від 28 грудня 1920 р., в якому вперше на офіційному рівні радянська Росія визнала незалежність УСРР.

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Книга является переводом с немецкого книги Абрагама "Theorie der Elektrizitat" в переработке Беккера. Она посвящена изложению основ теории электричества в векторном изложении. Во вводной главе даны основные сведения без векторного анализа. Далее идет изложение теории электрического и магнитного полей. В конце книги изложены начала максвелловской теории электричества. Книга является учебным пособием по теории электричества для вузов и втузов.

В книге изложены элементы теории вероятностей в том виде, в каком они должны в первую очередь находить применение в астрономии и физике. Приведено значительное число примеров.

Излагаются основы тензорного исчисления и некоторые его приложения к геометрии, механике и физике. В качестве приложений строится общая теория поверхностей второго порядка, изучаются тензоры инерции, напряжений, деформаций и рассматриваются некоторые вопросы кристаллофизики. Последняя глава знакомит с элементами тензорного анализа. Линейное пространство Понятие линейного пространства Линейная зависимость векторов Размерность и базис линейного пространства Прямоугольный базис в трехмерном пространстве. Скалярное произведение векторов Векторное и смешанное произведения векторов. Преобразования ортопормированного базиса. Основная задача тензорного исчисления Некоторые вопросы аналитической геометрии в пространстве