Authors:Steffen Mau and Benjamin Veghte, Steffen Mau, Benjam
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: state, welfare, legitimacy, justice, social
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 2007-10-17
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754649393
ISBN-13: 9780754649397

This volume addresses issues of justice and legitimacy in the context of welfare state transformation.Leading international experts including Knut Halvorsen, Robert Y. Shapiro, Stefan Svallfors and Wim van Oorschot, demonstrate that the Western welfare state is not at risk of losing support or encountering fundamental opposition, yet does face serious challenges such as growing social and ethnic diversity, new social risks, fiscal constraints and contested notions of justice. The book is focused on four main aspects: attitude formation in cross-national perspective; the just distribution of bu

Author: Steffen L. Lauritzen
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: statistics, lecture, notes, sufficient, families, systems, extremal
Number of Pages: 303
Published: 1988-11-28
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0387968725
ISBN-13: 9780387968728

This book surveys results in the area sometimes denoted as "partial exchangeability" of "de Finetti type theorems". It is to be seen as an attempt to give sense to the general idea that there is a strong coupling between a statistical model and the statistical analysis. So strong that there is a canonical mathematical construction leading from the analysis to the model. Special sections are devoted to the study of sufficiency, of triviality of tails of Markov chains, studied e.g. by coupling methods, Martin boundaries and projective limits of Markov kernels and Polish spaces. In addition, many

Author: Steffen L. Lauritzen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: science, series, statistical, oxford, models, graphical
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1996-07-25
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0198522193
ISBN-13: 9780198522195

The application of graph theory to modelling systems began in several scientific areas, among them statistical physics (the study of large particle systems), genetics (studying inheritable properties of natural species), and interactions in contingency tables. The use of graphical models in statistics has increased considerably in these and other areas such as artificial intelligence, and the theory has been greatly developed and extended. This is the first comprehensive and authoritative account of the theory of graphical models. Written by a leading expert in the field, it contains the funda

Author: Alex Steffen
Publisher: Abrams
Keywords: century, guide, user, worldchanging
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0810970856
ISBN-13: 9780810970854

Worldchanging is packed with information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers access to the tools they need to build a better future. Written by a diverse collaborative of innovators, Worldchanging demonstrates that the means for making a difference lie all around us. This team of top-notch writers, brought together by Worldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen, includes Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity, Geekcore founder Ethan Zuckerman, and sustainable food expert Anne Lappé, among many others. Each chapter offers practical answers to important questions, such a

Author: Kathy Steffen
Publisher: Medallion Press
Keywords: mountain, jasper
Number of Pages: 425
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 193383658X
ISBN-13: 9781933836584

Jack Buchanan, a worker at the Jasper Mining Company, is sure of his place in the outside world, but has lost his faith in the tragedy of a fire. Foreign-born and raised, Milena Shabanov flees from a home she loves to the strange and barbaric America. A Romani blessed with “the sight,” she is content in the company of visions and spirit oracles, but finds herself isolated in a brutal mining town that has little use for women. Surrounded by inhumane working conditions at the mine, senseless death, and overwhelming greed, miners begin disappearing. Tempers flare and Jack must decide where he

Author: Thomas Steffen
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: control, lecture, notes, information, sciences, tests, approaches, reconfiguration, dynamical, systems, linear, structural
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-10-06
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 3540257306
ISBN-13: 9783540257301

Reconfiguration, an approach for fault-tolerant control, involves changing the control structure in response to the fault. This monograph extends this idea to actuator faults and studies in detail the so-called virtual actuator approach. "Control Reconfiguration of Dynamical Systems" also introduces structural analysis as a tool for reconfiguration. Because a fault changes the structure of the system, the reconfiguration solution is sought on a structural level. Novel algorithms are presented to test for reconfigurability and to find a reconfiguration solution. A MATLAB toolbox is supplied, wh

Author: Steffen Hantke
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: marketing, creating, film, horror
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2009-09-09
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1604733764
ISBN-13: 9781604733761

In large part due to its emphasis on gore, screaming teenage girls, and otherworldly elements, horror films have received little critical attention from mainstream movie magazines and film-studies journals. In Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear, essayists focus primarily on how film technology, marketing, and distribution effectively create the aesthetics and reception of horror films. Previously unpublished, these essays cover several styles of horror film-including the silent German Expressionist masterpiece Nosferatu, the jittery mock-documentary The Blair Witch Project, and the gra