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Visions of Humanity

Author : Sönke Kunkel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805390856
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Humanity written by Sönke Kunkel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical reflection of the historical genesis, transformation, and problématique of “humanity” in the transatlantic world, with a particular eye on cultural representations. “Humanity,” the essays show, was consistently embedded in networks of actors and cultural practices, and its meanings have evolved in step with historical processes such as globalization, cultural imperialism, the transnationalization of activism, and the spread of racism and nationalism. Visions of Humanity applies a historical lens on objects, sounds, and actors to provide a more nuanced understanding of the historical tensions and struggles involved in constructing, invoking, and instrumentalizing the “we” of humanity.

The Christian Vision of Humanity

Author : John Randall Sachs
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814657560
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book The Christian Vision of Humanity written by John Randall Sachs and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible technical achievements of recent history may make us feel little less than gods," but we also find much that cuts us down. When we face our own limits and failures, upon what or whom can we rely? The biblical "answer" to questions about the ultimate nature and meaning of human life begins with the experience of Semitic slaves led out of Egyptian slavery beautifully recounted in Deuteronomy 26:5-11. The New Testament presents Jesus as the culmination of God's Old Testament promise. Christian faith has a particular Vision of the world and of humanity founded upon the relationship between God and creation. Its key elements are found in the inviolable dignity of every person, the essential centrality of community, and the significance of human action. These are the main themes of a Christian anthropology developed in this book.

Strategic Visions for Human Rights

Author : Geoff Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136919325
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Visions for Human Rights written by Geoff Gilbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Visions for Human Rights takes a multi-disciplinary approach to future directions for human rights. It looks beyond what international human rights treaties have so far established and considers the context in which rights in the twenty-first century might develop to meet needs. The book examines how international law might be utilized to protect groups rather than just individual members of the group and it also calls into question the liberal positivist approach to international law that provides the framework for human rights norms. The book is written and published in honour of Professor Kevin Boyle. It celebrates his long career in human rights law both as an academic and a practising barrister. Professor Boyle has taken numerous cases on human rights issues to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and has long been involved in human rights aspects of the peace process in Northern Ireland. He has published widely on human rights issues, focusing on freedom of expression and religion and non-discrimination. The contributors to this volume are well-known academics in the field of human rights and include Francesca Klug, Conor Gearty, David Beetham and Asbjorn Eide. Amongst some of the issues addressed in the book are the future of the European Court of Human Rights, the role of academics play in engendering transition to post-conflict democratic states, and human rights and religious pluralism.

Shift (a Poetic Vision of Humanity's Impending Birth Into Higher Awareness).

Author : Leon Griffith
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1445796864
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book Shift (a Poetic Vision of Humanity's Impending Birth Into Higher Awareness). written by Leon Griffith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Visions of the Human

Author : Tom Slevin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857738917
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Visions of the Human written by Tom Slevin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what ways do the artistic avant-garde's representations of the human body reflect the catastrophe of World War I? The European modernists were inspired by developments in the nineteenth-century, yielding new forms of knowledge about the nature of reality and repositioning the human body as the new 'object' of knowledge. New 'visions' of the human subject were created within this transformation. However, modernity's reactionary political climate - for which World War I provided a catalyst - transformed a once liberal ideal between humanity, environment, and technology, into a tool of disciplinary rationalisation. Visions of the Human considers the consequences of this historical moment for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It explores the ways in which the 'technologies of the self' that inspired the avant-garde were increasingly instrumentalised by conservative politics, urbanism, consumer capitalism and the society of 'the spectacle'. This is an engaging and powerful study which challenges prior ideas and explores new ways of thinking about modern visual culture.

On Vision and Being Human: Exploring the Menstrual, Neurological and Symbolic Origins of Religious Experience

Author : Bruce Rimell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326337580
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book On Vision and Being Human: Exploring the Menstrual, Neurological and Symbolic Origins of Religious Experience written by Bruce Rimell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visionary and religious experiences are ubiquitous among human beings, but why do we experience them as coming from a hidden reality beyond the senses? Why should we believe in the existence of deities despite the mundane evidence of our own eyes? Why do we as intelligent primates ascribe any importance to these 'imaginary' realities at all? This creative and speculative thesis seeks to answer these questions in a new way, gazing into the content of visions themselves and exploring the various inner realities that gave rise to these transformative and meaningful aspects of our humanity. Focusing upon symbolic cognition as a fundamental organising principle of human experience, a diverse series of musings upon the nature of reality, consciousness, and our evolutionary origins seeks to transcend our modern artificial boundaries to arrive at a holistic, and delightfully playful, human image for the twenty-first century. An original visionary thesis illustrated with 30 beautiful drawings.

Sri Aurobindo's Vision of Integral Human Development

Author : Monica Gupta
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 813221904X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Sri Aurobindo's Vision of Integral Human Development written by Monica Gupta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the integral vision of human development contained in the original works of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. It delves into multiple layers of the human personality as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother and explores a new developmental science of consciousness based on the practice of Integral Yoga. The book examines the major metatheoretical conceptions that shape the contemporary discipline of developmental psychology and discusses the ways in which Sri Aurobindo’s philosophical and psychological perspective can help break fresh ground for developmental theorisation and research by extending the current understanding of the human evolutionary potential. The author proposes a new agenda for human development which brings together the key ideas of integral individual and collective development and informs practices in the areas of counselling, education, parenting and self-development. This book will be of special interest for researchers of developmental psychology, human development, counselling psychology, philosophy, social work and education.

Human Color Vision

Author : Jan Kremers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319449788
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Human Color Vision written by Jan Kremers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding of human color vision has advanced tremendously in recent years, helped along by many new discoveries, ideas, and achievements. It is therefore timely that these new developments are brought together in a book, assembled specifically to include new research and insight from the leaders in the field. Although intentionally not exhaustive, many aspects of color vision are discussed in this Springer Series in Vision Research book including: the genetics of the photopigments; the anatomy and physiology of photoreceptors, retinal and cortical pathways; color perception; the effects of disorders; theories on neuronal processes and the evolution of human color vision. Several of the chapters describe new, state-of-the-art methods within genetics, morphology, imaging techniques, electrophysiology, psychophysics, and computational neuroscience. The book gives a comprehensive overview of the different disciplines in human color vision in a way that makes it accessible to specialists and non-specialist scientists alike. About the Series: The Springer Series in Vision Research is a comprehensive update and overview of cutting edge vision research, exploring, in depth, current breakthroughs at a conceptual level. It details the whole visual system, from molecular processes to anatomy, physiology and behavior and covers both invertebrate and vertebrate organisms from terrestrial and aquatic habitats. Each book in the Series is aimed at all individuals with interests in vision including advanced graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, established vision scientists and clinical investigators. The series editors are N. Justin Marshall, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia and Shaun P. Collin, Neuroecology Group within the School of Animal Biology and the Oceans Institute at the University of Western Australia.

Human and Machine Vision

Author : Jacob Beck
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483266966
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Human and Machine Vision written by Jacob Beck and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human and Machine Vision provides information pertinent to an interdisciplinary program of research in visual perception. This book presents a psychophysical study of the human visual system, which provides insights on how to model the flexibility required by a general-purpose visual system. Organized into 17 chapters, this book begins with an overview of how a visual display is segmented into components on the basis of textual differences. This text then proposes three criteria for judging representations of shape. Other chapters consider an increased use of machine vision programs as models of human vision and of data from human vision in developing programs for machine vision. This book discusses as well the diversity and flexibility of systems for representing visual information. The final chapter deals with dot patterns and discusses the process of interring orientation information from collections of them. This book is a valuable resource for psychologists, neurophysiologists, and computer scientists.

Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction

Author : Branislav Kisacanin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387276977
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (769 download)

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Book Synopsis Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction by : Branislav Kisacanin

Download or read book Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction written by Branislav Kisacanin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-08-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for natural and effective Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is increasingly important due to the prevalence of computers in human activities. Computer vision and pattern recognition continue to play a dominant role in the HCI realm. However, computer vision methods often fail to become pervasive in the field due to the lack of real-time, robust algorithms, and novel and convincing applications. This state-of-the-art contributed volume is comprised of articles by prominent experts in computer vision, pattern recognition and HCI. It is the first published text to capture the latest research in this rapidly advancing field with exclusive focus on real-time algorithms and practical applications in diverse and numerous industries, and it outlines further challenges in these areas. Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction is an invaluable reference for HCI researchers in both academia and industry, and a useful supplement for advanced-level courses in HCI and Computer Vision.

Vision-Based Human Activity Recognition

Author : Zhongxu Hu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981192290X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Vision-Based Human Activity Recognition written by Zhongxu Hu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a systematic, comprehensive, and timely review on V-HAR, and it covers the related tasks, cutting-edge technologies, and applications of V-HAR, especially the deep learning-based approaches. The field of Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become one of the trendiest research topics due to the availability of various sensors, live streaming of data and the advancement in computer vision, machine learning, etc. HAR can be extensively used in many scenarios, for example, medical diagnosis, video surveillance, public governance, also in human–machine interaction applications. In HAR, various human activities such as walking, running, sitting, sleeping, standing, showering, cooking, driving, abnormal activities, etc., are recognized. The data can be collected from wearable sensors or accelerometer or through video frames or images; among all the sensors, vision-based sensors are now the most widely used sensors due to their low-cost, high-quality, and unintrusive characteristics. Therefore, vision-based human activity recognition (V-HAR) is the most important and commonly used category among all HAR technologies. The addressed topics include hand gestures, head pose, body activity, eye gaze, attention modeling, etc. The latest advancements and the commonly used benchmark are given. Furthermore, this book also discusses the future directions and recommendations for the new researchers.

Automotive Lighting and Human Vision

Author : Burkard Wördenweber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540366970
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Automotive Lighting and Human Vision written by Burkard Wördenweber and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The safety of vehicle traffic depends on how well automotive lighting supports the visual perception of the driver. This book explains the fundamentals of visual perception, like e.g. physiology of eye and brain, as well as those of automotive lighting technology, like e.g. design of headlamps and signal lights. It is an interdisciplinary approach to a rapidly evolving field of science and technology written by a team of authors who are experts in their fields.

Human and Machine Vision

Author : Virginio Cantoni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489910042
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Human and Machine Vision written by Virginio Cantoni and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following are the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Perception held in Pavia, Italy, on September 27-30, 1993, under the auspices of four institutions: the Group of Cybernetic and Biophysics (GNCB)s of the National Research Council (CNR), the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI * IA), the Italian Association of Psychology (AlP), and the Italian Chapter of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). The theme of this third workshop was: "Human and Machine Vision: Analogies and Divergencies." A wide spectrum of topics was covered, ranging from neurophysiology, to computer architecture, to psychology, to image understanding, etc. For this reason the structure of this workshop was quite different from those of the first two held in Parma (1991), and Trieste (1992). This time the workshop was composed of just eight modules, each one consisting of two invited lectures (dealing with vision in nature and machines, respectively) and a common panel discussion (including the two lecturers and three invited panellists).

Human Color Vision and Tetrachromacy

Author : Kimberly A. Jameson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108659926
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Human Color Vision and Tetrachromacy written by Kimberly A. Jameson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human color perception is widely understood to be based on a neural coding system involving signals from three distinct classes of retinal photoreceptors. This retina processing model has long served as the mainstream scientific template for human color vision research and has also proven to be useful for the practical design of display technologies, user interfaces, and medical diagnosis tools that enlist human color perception behaviors. Recent findings in the area of retinal photopigment gene sequencing have provided important updates to our understanding of the molecular basis and genetic inheritance of individual variations of human color vision. This Element focuses on new knowledge about the linkages between color vision genetics and color perception variation and the color perception consequences of inheriting alternative, nonnormative, forms of genetic sequence variation.

Human and Machine Vision II

Author : Azriel Rosenfeld
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483276287
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Human and Machine Vision II written by Azriel Rosenfeld and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives in Computing: Human and Machine Vision II compiles papers presented at the second Workshop on Human and Machine Vision held in Montreal, Canada on August 1-3, 1984. This book discusses the perception of transparency in man and machine, human image understanding, and connectionist models and parallelism in high level vision. The theory of the perceived spatial layout of scenes, generative systems of analyzers, and codon constraints on closed 2D shapes are also elaborated. This text likewise covers the environment- and viewer-centered perception of surface orientation, autonomous scene description with range imagery, and pre-attentive processing in vision. This publication is recommended for students and researchers interested in both fields of visual perception and computer vision.

Computer Vision in Human-Computer Interaction

Author : Nicu Sebe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540296204
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Computer Vision in Human-Computer Interaction written by Nicu Sebe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-10-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI/ICCV 2005, held in Beijing, China in October 2005 within the scope of ICCV 2005, the International Conference on Computer Vision. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers address a wide range of theoretical and application issues in human-computer interaction ranging from human-robot interaction, gesture recognition, and body tracking, to facial features analysis and human-computer interaction systems and are organized in topical sections on tracking, interfacing, event detection, augmented reality, hand and gesture, as well as applications.

The Harvard Monthly

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Harvard Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: