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The availability of inexpensive powerful computing has sparked renewed interest in local regression techniques and its theoretical underpinnings have been extensively elucidated [ 9, 10, 11].
But Richard Alan Ryerson, in the New York Times Book Review , faults Maier for giving short shrift to the document's philosophical underpinnings.
Even the title of Cohen's book and its cover art--a brass-knuckled fist--are lifted directly from a book published eight years ago, Paul Breines' Tough Jews: Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry , which analyzes the psychological underpinnings of the cult of Jewish toughness born after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.
A committed relationship between twentysomethings would, of course, have different underpinnings than one between middle-aged people who have had, perhaps, a marriage or two under their belts.
Prudie feels slightly ambivalent about the cloak-and-dagger underpinnings involved.