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This work presents a new approach for estimating 3D human poses based on monocular camera information only. For this, the Implicit Shape Model is augmented by new voting strategies that allow to localize 2D anatomical landmarks in the image. The actual 3D pose estimation is then formulated as a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) where projected 3D pose hypotheses are compared with the generated landmark vote distributions.

Computer vision --- Bildverarbeitung --- Human pose estimation --- action recognition --- AktionserkennungScene understanding --- Szenenverstehen --- Menschliche Posenschätzung

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Countries that spend scarce resources to import arms from abroad often require arms sellers to 'reinvest' part or all of the proceeds back into the arms-importing country. These so-called 'arms trade offsets' are therefore thought to enhance domestic economic development. But does this process actually succeed?This book examines the theory and policy applications of arms trade offsets and looks at more than a dozen case studies drawn from across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The chapters, based on original research and published here for the first time, are all written by leading

Arms transfers. --- Defense industries. --- Economic development. --- Countertrade. --- 874 Wapenhandel --- 839 Technologie --- 831 Internationale politieke economie --- Compensation trade --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Armaments industries --- Arms sales --- Military sales --- Military supplies industry --- Munitions --- Sale of military equipment --- Arms traffic --- Foreign military sales --- Balance of payments --- Barter --- East-West trade --- International trade --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Industries --- Arms transfers --- Arms race --- Defense industries --- Military assistance --- Countertrade --- Economic development --- 839 Technologie en infrastructuur

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Alongside other types of mass atrocities, genocide has received extensive scholarly, policy, and practitioner attention. Missing, however, is the contribution of economists to better understand and prevent such crimes. This edited collection by 41 accomplished scholars examines economic aspects of genocides, other mass atrocities, and their prevention. Chapters include numerous case studies (e.g., California's Yana people, Australia's Aborigines peoples, Stalin's killing of Ukrainians, Belarus, the Holocaust, Rwanda, DR Congo, Indonesia, Pakistan, Colombia, Mexico's drug wars, and the targeting of suspects during the Vietnam war), probing literature reviews, and completely novel work based on extraordinary country-specific datasets. Also included are chapters on the demographic, gendered, and economic class nature of genocide.

Polemology --- Atrocities --- Genocide --- Prävention. --- Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit. --- Völkermord. --- Wirtschaft. --- Economic aspects. --- Prevention. --- Economic aspects --- Prevention --- Genocide - Economic aspects --- Genocide - Case studies --- Genocide - Prevention --- Atrocities - Economic aspects --- Atrocities - Prevention

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Economies of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives brings together recent, cutting-edge research on economic factors affecting peace and war. This important area of continuing research was the focus of an international conference held at the University of Sydney in June 2009 and these chapters are partly drawn from among the best contributions to that meeting. The book weaves together threads from a number of themes in current research including new theoretical perspectives on the economic foundations of peace, violence and war within countries, connections between international trade and inter-state conflict, and the role of legal/institutional factors in international and internal conflict. Through a focused exploration of these related topics emerge areas of scholarly consensus as well as areas of continued debate. International in scope, it is the only book to explicitly bring together economic, legal and political scholarship to focus on the problem of conflict. It employs a range of modern social science analytical methods, including qualitative cases, econometrics, and game-theoretic models, to rigorously advance understanding of conflict within and between countries.

War --- Peace --- Political violence --- War (International law) --- Politics and war. --- Economic aspects.

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DEFENSE ECONOMICS --- SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL--ECONOMIC ASPECTS --- EUROPE--NATIONAL SECURITY--ECONOMIC ASPECTS --- MEDITERRANEAN REGION--NATIONAL SECURITY--ECONOMIC ASPECTS --- AFRICA, SOUTHERN--NATIONAL SECURITY--ECONOMIC ASPECTS