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• Support Vector Machines for Classification Kernel-based Models Learning with Kernels.
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Support Vectors Machines have become a well established tool within machine learning. They work well in practice and have now been used across a wide range of applications from recognizing hand-written digits, to face identification, text categorisation, bioinformatics, and database marketing. In this book we give an introductory overview of this subject. We start with a simple Support Vector Machine for performing binary classification before considering multi-class classification and learning in the presence of noise. We show that this framework can be extended to many other scenarios such as prediction with real-valued outputs, novelty detection and the handling of complex output structures such as parse trees. Finally, we give an overview of the main types of kernels which are used in practice and how to learn and make predictions from multiple types of input data.
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• Support Vector Machines for Classification Kernel-based Models Learning with Kernels.
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Support Vectors Machines have become a well established tool within machine learning. They work well in practice and have now been used across a wide range of applications from recognizing hand-written digits, to face identification, text categorisation, bioinformatics, and database marketing. In this book we give an introductory overview of this subject. We start with a simple Support Vector Machine for performing binary classification before considering multi-class classification and learning in the presence of noise. We show that this framework can be extended to many other scenarios such as prediction with real-valued outputs, novelty detection and the handling of complex output structures such as parse trees. Finally, we give an overview of the main types of kernels which are used in practice and how to learn and make predictions from multiple types of input data.
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This second volume of the two-volume book contains selected papers from the international conference 'Groups St Andrews 2001 in Oxford' which was held at the University of Oxford in August 2001. Five main lecture courses were given at the conference, and articles based on their lectures form a substantial part of the Proceedings. This volume contains the contributions from Peter Palfy (Eotvos Lorand, Budapest) and Michael Vaughan-Lee (Oxford). The series of Proceedings of Groups St Andrews conferences have provided snapshots of the state of research in Group Theory throughout the past twenty years. As with earlier volumes, these refereed volumes also contain accessible surveys of contemporary research fronts, as well as a diverse collection of short research articles. They form a valuable reference for researchers, especially graduate students, working in group theory.

This first volume of the two-volume book contains selected papers from the international conference 'Groups St Andrews 2001 in Oxford' which was held at the University of Oxford in August 2001. Five main lecture courses were given at the conference, and articles based on their lectures form a substantial part of the Proceedings. This volume contains the contributions from Marston Conder (Auckland), Persi Diaconis (Stanford) and Marcus Du Sautoy (Cambridge). The series of Proceedings of Groups St Andrews conferences have provided snapshots of the state of research in group theory throughout the past twenty years. As with earlier volumes, these refereed volumes also contain accessible surveys of contemporary research fronts, as well as a diverse collection of short research articles. They form a valuable reference for researchers, especially graduate students, working in group theory.

So great was the reputation of Scottish combat troops in the trench warfare of World War I that an unnamed commentator told Haldane, author of theHistory of the 4th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders that 'the two most terrible engines of destruction ever made by man were the 51st and 15th Divisions, both Scottish. . .' In this new evaluation timed to mark the centenary of the Great War (1914-18), Colin Campbell allows the experience of the elite 51st Division to speak for itself. He has researched battalion and brigade official war diaries and regimental and battalion histories and blends them with first-hand accounts and letters, many of which have never been published before. It is said that German soldiers feared the 51st (Highland) Division more that any other British or Empire division. Both detailed and touching, **The 51st (Highland) Division in the Great War** is an amazing book in tribute to the Scottish soldier.
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Saving a senator's daughter from LA's porn industry is one gig that needs serious discretion . . . but discretion is not Jim Grant's specialty. Before long, Grant finds himself busting a robbery on live television, spreading his arms wide to show he's unarmed--the same pose that earned him the nickname Resurrection Man in Boston. The spotlight may be good for Grant's ego, but it's bad for his health. The Dominguez drug cartel is looking for him, and his work for the senator has uncovered a ring of dirty cops who want him out of the way. Helped by an ex-cop working on CSI: NY and hindered by a film crew that wants to make him a reality television star, Grant must tread carefully. In the city of angels, corruption runs deep, loyalty is fragile, and justice is hard to find.

So great was the reputation of Scottish combat troops in the trench warfare of World War I that an unnamed commentator told Haldane that 'the two most terrible engines of destruction ever made by man with the 51st and 15th Divisions, both Scottish'. Here, Colin Campbell assesses the reputation of the elite 51st Division, which alleged that German soldiers feared it more than any other British or Empire division.

• 1. Introduction
• life histories of the major groups of fungi and their spore types 2. Identification of moulds
• laboratory aspects of growing and examining moulds 3. Moulds with aleuriospores I. The dermatophytes - Microsporum canis - Microsporum equinum - Microsporum gypseum - Microsporum fulvum - Epidermophyton floccosum - Trichophyston terrestre - Microsporum persicolor - Trichophyton equinum - Trichophyton erinacei - Trichophyton mentagrophytes - Trichophyton interdigitale - Trichophyton rubrum - Trichophyton rubrum (granular form) - Trichophyton tonsurans - Trichophyton soudanense - Microsporum audouinnii - Trichophyton schoenleinii - Trichophyton verrucosum - Trichophyton violaceum - Trichophyton concentricum - Other Microsporum and Trichophyton species 4. Moulds with aleuriospores II. Others - Geomyces pannorm - Chrysosporium keratinophilum - Myceliophthora thermophia - Histoplasma capsulatum - Blastomyces dermatitidis - Paracoccidioides brasiliensis 5. Moulds with holoblastic conidia - Aureobasidium pullulans - Sporothrix schenckii - Cladophialophora carrionii - Cladophialophora bantiana - Cladosporium sphaerospermum - Cladosporium herbarum - Cladosporium cladosporioides - Fonsecaea pedrosoi - Rhinocladiella atrovirens - Ramichloridium mackenziei - Ochroconis gallopava - Alternaria alternata - Ulocladium chartarum - Curvularia lunata - Bipolaris hawaiiensis - Bipolaris australiensis - Exserohilum rostratum - Exserohilum longirostratum - Exserohilum mcginnisii 6. Moulds with enteroblastic conidia adhering in chains - Asergillus flavus - Aspergillus fumigatus - Aspergillus glaucus - Aspergillus nidulans - Aspergillus versicolour - Aspergillus ustus - Aspergillus niger - Aspergillus terreus - Aspergillus cadidus - Penicillium marneffei - Scopulariopsis brevicaulis - Paecilomyces lilacinus - Paecilomyces variotii 7. Moulds with enteroblastic conidia adhering in wet masses - Cylindrocarpon lichenicola - Fusarium dimerum - Fusarium semitectum - Fusarium moniliforme - Fusarium oxysporum - Fusarium solani - Acremonium strictum - Acremonium kiliense - Lecythophora mutabilis - Lecythophora hoffmannii - Phialemonium spp. - Scedosporium prolificans - Scedosporium apiospermum - Phialophora parasitica - Phialophora richardsiae - Phialophora verrucosa - Phaeoannellomyces werneckii - Exophiala spinifera - Exophiala dermatitidis - Exophiala jeanselmei 8. Mucoraceous moulds and their relatives - Cunninghamella bertholletiae - Absidia corymbifera - Rhizomucor pusillus - Mucor circinelloides - Rhizopus microsporus - Rhizopus arrhizus - Rhizopus stolonifer - Mucor hiemalis - Mucor racemosus - Basidiobolus ranarum - Conidiobolus coronatus - Pythium insidiosum - Apophysomyces elegans - Saksenaea vasiformis - Morierella wolfii 9. Miscellaneous moulds - Aphanoascus fulvescens - Monascus ruber - Chaetomium globosum - Phoma herbarum - Myxotrichum deflexum - Schizophyllum commune - Leptosphaeria senegalensis - Neotstudina rosatii - Piedraia hortae - Lasiodiplodia theobromae - Pyrenochaeta romeroi - Pyrenochaeta unguis-hominis - Madurella mycetomatis - Madurella grisea 11. Identification of yeasts - Candida albicans - Candida tropicalis - Candida krusei - Candida lipolytica - Candida kefyr - Candida lusitaniae - Candida parapsilosis - Candida pelliculosa - Candida glabrata - Candida guilliermondii - Cryptococcus neoformans - Rhodotorula glutinis - Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Geotrichum candidum - Blastoschizomyces capitatus - Trichosporon beigelii - Malassezia furfur - Malassezia pachydermatis- Appendices.
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• Preface, ix Acknowledgements, xi 1 Introduction, 1 2 Identification of Moulds, 11 Media for Mould Identification, 14 Mounting Fluids, 16 3 Moulds with Arthrospores, 18 Neoscytalidium dimidiatum, 20 Coccidioides species, 24 Onychocola canadensis, 28 4 Moulds with Aleuriospores: I. The Dermatophytes, 31 Microsporum gypseum, 38 Microsporum canis, 40 Microsporum equinum, 42 Epidermophyton floccosum, 44 Trichophyton terrestre, 46 Trichophyton rubrum, 48 Trichophyton interdigitale, 52 Trichophyton mentagrophytes, 54 Trichophyton erinacei, 56 Trichophyton equinum, 58 Trichophyton soudanense, 60 Microsporum persicolor, 62 Trichophyton tonsurans, 64 Microsporum audouinii, 66 Trichophyton violaceum, 68 Trichophyton verrucosum, 70 Trichophyton schoenleinii, 72 Trichophyton concentricum, 74 Other Microsporum and Trichophyton species, 76 5 Moulds with Aleuriospores: II. Others, 80 Geomyces pannorum, 82 Chrysosporium keratinophilum, 84 Myceliophthora thermophila, 86 Histoplasma capsulatum, 88 Blastomyces dermatitidis, 92 Paracoccidiodes brasiliensis, 96 6 Moulds with Holoblastic Conidia, 99 Aureobasidium pullulans, 102 Sporothrix schenckii, 104 Cladophialophora bantiana, 106 Cladosporium sphaerospermum, 108 Fonsecaea pedrosoi, 110 Rhinocladiella atrovirens, 112 Rhinocladiella mackenziei, 114 Ochroconis gallopava, 116 Alternaria alternata, 118 Ulocladium chartarum, 120 Curvularia lunata, 122 Bipolaris hawaiiensis, 124 Exserohilum rostratum, 126 7 Moulds with Enteroblastic Conidia Adhering in Chains, 129 Aspergillus flavus species complex, 134 Aspergillus fumigatus species complex, 136 Aspergillus glaucus, 138 Aspergillus nidulans species complex, 140 Aspergillus versicolor species complex, 142 Aspergillus ustus species complex, 144 Aspergillus niger species complex, 146 Aspergillus terreus species complex, 148 Aspergillus candidus species complex, 150 Penicillium marneffei, 152 Scopulariopsis brevicaulis, 154 Purpureocillium lilacinum, 156 Paecilomyces variotii, 158 8 Moulds with Enteroblastic Conidia Adhering in Wet Masses, 161 Fusarium lichenicola, 166 Fusarium dimerum species complex, 168 Fusarium semitectum, 170 Fusarium proliferatum, 172 Fusarium oxysporum species complex, 174 Fusarium solani species complex, 176 Acremonium strictum, 178 Acremonium kiliense, 180 Lecythophora mutabilis, 182 Scedosporium prolificans, 184 Scedosporium apiospermum, 186 Phaeoacremonium parasiticum, 188 Pleurostomophora richardsiae, 190 Phialophora verrucosa, 192 Hortaea werneckii, 194 Exophiala spinifera, 196 Exophiala dermatitidis, 198 Exophiala jeanselmei, 200 9 Mucoraceous Moulds and Their Relatives, 203 Cunninghamella bertholletiae, 208 Lichtheimia corymbifera, 210 Rhizomucor pusillus, 212 Mucor circinelloides, 214 Rhizopus microsporus, 216 Rhizopus arrhizus, 218 Mucor hiemalis, 220 Basidiobolus ranarum, 222 Conidiobolus coronatus, 224 Pythium insidiosum, 226 Apophysomyces elegans, 228 Saksenaea vasiformis, 230 Mortierella wolfii, 232 10 Miscellaneous Moulds, 235 Aphanoascus fulvescens, 238 Monascus ruber, 240 Chaetomium species, 242 Phoma herbarum, 244 Myxotrichum deflexum, 246 Schizophyllum commune, 248 Leptosphaeria senegalensis, 250 Neotestudina rosatii, 252 Piedraia hortae, 254 Lasiodiplodia theobromae, 256 Pyrenochaeta romeroi, 258 Madurella mycetomatis, 260 11 Identification of Yeasts, 263 Media for Yeast Identification, 272 Candida albicans, 274 Candida tropicalis, 276 Candida krusei, 278 Candida lipolytica, 280 Candida kefyr, 281 Candida lusitaniae, 282 Candida parapsilosis, 284 Candida pelliculosa, 286 Candida guilliermondii, 287 Candida glabrata, 288 Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii, 290 Rhodotorula glutinis, 292 Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 294 Geotrichum candidum, 296 Saprochaete capitata, 298 Trichosporon species, 300 Malassezia furfur species complex, 302 Malassezia pachydermatis, 304 12 Identification of Fungi in Sections, Smears and Body Fluids, 305
• Appendix 1: Common Mycological Terms, 321
• Appendix 2: Further Reading, 325 Species Index, 327 Subject Index, 333.
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There is widespread agreement that opportunistic fungal infections, such as aspergillosis and candidosis, are no longer uncommon disorders. These infections are occurring in ever-increasing numbers among neutropenic cancer patients, transplant recipients, and patients with AIDS. Endorsed by the Health Protection Agency, this fully updated new edition from world renowned experts in medical mycology features new color photographs of key species and their microscopic features and discusses the latest antifungal drugs, updated taxonomic information, new agents of infection, and new infection associations.
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• Fundamentals of Surface Acoustic Waves and Devices: Introduction. Basics of Piezoelectricity and Acoustic Waves. Principles of Linear Phase SAW Filter Design. Equivalent Circuit and Analytic Models for a SAW Filter. SomeMatching and Trade-Off Concepts for SAW Filter Design. Compensation for Second-Order Effects in SAW Filters. Designing SAW Filters for Arbitrary Amplitude/Phase Response. Interdigital Transducers with Chirped or Slanted Fingers. IDT Finger Reflections andRadiation Conductance. Techniques, Devices and Mobile/Wireless Applications: Overview of Systems and Devices. SAW Reflection Gratings and Resonators. Single-Phase Unidirectional Transducers for Low-Loss Filters. RF and Antenna-Duplexer Filters forMobile/Wireless Transceivers. Other RF Front-end and Inter-stage Filters for Mobile/Wireless Transceivers. SAW IF Filters for Mobile Phones and Pagers. Fixed-Code SAW IDTs for Spread-Spectrum Communications. Real-Time SAW Convolvers for Voice and Data Spread-Spectrum Communications. Surface Wave Oscillators and Frequency Synthesizers. SAW Filters for Digital Microwave Radio, Fiber Optic, and Satellite Systems. Postscript. Subject Index.
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Written for readers with or without surface acoustic wave (SAW) experience, this book covers a wide range of SAW filter - and device-design techniques as well as applications to mobile and wireless circuitry. It provides numerous references and worked examples on SAW devices to highlight various design aspects, and contains illustrations from many leading electronic companies around the world. The first half of the book covers the principles of SAW devices. The second half focuses on applications to the mobile/wireless field, including SAW devices for antenna duplexers, RF and IF filters for cellular cordless phones, front-end filters for wireless transceivers, fixed and tunable oscillators, filters for on-board satellite communications, as well as coding and convolvers for indoor/outdoor spread-spectrum communications. "Surface Acoustic Wave Devices for Mobile and Wireless Communications" serves as an excellent sourcebook for engineers and designers with some SAW background, or for technical staff with no prior knowledge of SAW devices who need to know how this technology can help their products. It can be used as a textbook for senior and graduate students engaged in the study of signal processing techniques and systems for mobile communications. This is the first SAW text applied to mobile and wireless communications. It is written by an award-winning researcher with over 20 years of SAW device experience. It presents the theory and design of major SAW devices for mobile/wireless communications as applied to some of the major telecommunication standards. It is accessible to both engineering and scientific readers with or without prior SAW device knowledge.
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The author of this study seeks to shed light on the US presidency through a comparison of executive leadership in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and Australia. The work reviews the common challenges faced by chief executives of other Anglo-American demoncracies, offering a context for examining the US presidency. It discusses the Clinton administration in detail and deals with the "governability gap" - the seeming incapacity of presidents and Congress to cope constructively with the core issues faced by the country.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Action reported missing in action theory
• 3. Action and social action
• 4. Action versus social action
• 5. The rise of social situationalism
• 6. The argument by denial
• 7. Accounts and actions
• 8. The argument by exclusion
• 9. The argument by incorporation
• 10. The 'learning everything from others' thesis
• 11. The communicative act paradigm
• 12. The linguistic turn for the worse
• 13. The myth of social action
• 14. The obstacle which is social situationalism
• 15. Bringing action back in.
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The Myth of Social Action, first published in 1996, is a powerful critique of the sociology of the time and a call to reject the prevailing orthodoxy. Arguing that sociological theory had lost its way, Colin Campbell mounts a case for a new 'dynamic interpretivism' a perspective on human conduct which is more inkeeping with the spirit of traditional Weberian action theory. Discussing and dismissing one by one the main arguments of those who reject individualistic action theory, he demonstrates that this has been wrongly rejected in favour of the interactional, social situationalist approach now dominating sociological thought.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Action reported missing in action theory
• 3. Action and social action
• 4. Action versus social action
• 5. The rise of social situationalism
• 6. The argument by denial
• 7. Accounts and actions
• 8. The argument by exclusion
• 9. The argument by incorporation
• 10. The 'learning everything from others' thesis
• 11. The communicative act paradigm
• 12. The linguistic turn for the worse
• 13. The myth of social action
• 14. The obstacle which is social situationalism
• 15. Bringing action back in.
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The Myth of Social Action, first published in 1996, is a powerful critique of the sociology of the time and a call to reject the prevailing orthodoxy. Arguing that sociological theory had lost its way, Colin Campbell mounts a case for a new 'dynamic interpretivism' a perspective on human conduct which is more inkeeping with the spirit of traditional Weberian action theory. Discussing and dismissing one by one the main arguments of those who reject individualistic action theory, he demonstrates that this has been wrongly rejected in favour of the interactional, social situationalist approach now dominating sociological thought.
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• The force of the Whitehall model in the world of executive-bureaucratic politics
• bureaucrats and politicians in Britain - the model breaks
• executive leadership in the age of minimalism - a comparative perspective
• leadership under Thatcher and Major and the legacy of neo-liberalism
• the decline of coherence and consistency as political-administrative goals - a comparative perspective
• a paragon lost?
• whither accountability?
• the post-Whitehall era.
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This work reassesses the shifting fortunes of the Whitehall model of government, and finds it wanting. The United Kingdom's "Whitehall" model of governance, which in the postwar years was admired and respected by many other countries, especially the USA, has declined in influence over the last decade to the point where it is now looking increasingly outmoded. This model of apparently seamless relationships between ministers and civil servants (the so-called Central Executive Territory) which produced effective decisions, policies, and legislation has come under consistent attack by neo-liberal and neo-conservative critics alike. Its ability to generate effective decisions and policies has been repeatedly called into question. This book is a comparative analysis of the Whitehall model paradigm, and its successes and failures, in a range of Western democracies (including the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand). They also analyze its fortunes in its homeland, demonstrating that Whitehall's current problems are both a product of Thatcherism and a structural deficiency arising from governance in the modern polity itself. The book is based on over 150 interviews conducted with top officials and ministers.
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In this new work, two leading political scientists reassess the shifting fortunes of the Whitehall model of governance - and find it wanting. The United Kingdom's Whitehall model commanded great respect in the postwar years. The United States had regard for the Whitehall model due to its relative efficiency in introducing and implementing modern social and industrial policies. In the cases of advanced Commonwealth countries - Canada, Australia and New Zealand - the high regard for the Whitehall model derived from the view that bureaucratic development depended upon replicating how things were done in Britain. As we enter the twenty-first century, it has become clear that the model now has much less currency abroad as well as in the UK.The neo-liberal assaults of Thatcherism and the political drift of the Major years has meant that whereas, previously, 'Whitehall' symbolized a synergy between the political leadership and the permanent bureaucracy, it now evokes images of executive disarray and the subservience of career civil servants to the (often faddish) will of their political masters. This work bases its analysis of the decline of the Whitehall model since the mid-1970s on in-depth interviews with senior officials conducted over the past 17 years. This important book is essential reading for all politics students, scholars and observers of Whitehall.
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• The Spirit of Modern Consumerism
• Accounting for the Consumer Revolution in Eighteenth Century England
• The Puzzle of Modern Consumerism
• Traditional and Modern Hedonism
• Modern Autonomous Imaginative Hedonism
• The Romantic Ethic
• The Other Protestant Ethic
• The Ethic of Feeling
• The Aristocratic Ethic
• The Romantic Ethic
• Conclusions.
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Walter Mitty, Billy Liar, taste, fashion, bohemianism, dandyism, hedonism and advertising - this book casts its net wide to develop a new theory of consumerism and a new interpretation of the cultural history of modern society. Colin Campbell shows how fashion and the addiction to novelty, the crucial features of modern patterns of consumption, have their cultural origins in sentimentalism and the spirit of Romanticism, systems of belief which with their ethos of hedonism and pleasure-seeking reversed the Protestant ethic. Social theory, economic history, psychology, the history of religious thought and literary criticism are blended together in a work that offers a challenge to the conventional understanding of the origins of modernity and provides an account of the "flipside" of Weber's 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism'.
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