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Beyond Edge Computing

Swarm Computing and Ad-Hoc Edge Clouds

By: Ana Juan Ferrer

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Beyond Edge Computing

Swarm Computing and Ad-Hoc Edge Clouds

By: Ana Juan Ferrer

This book explores the most recent Edge and Distributed Cloud computing research and industrial advances, settling the basis for Advanced Swarm Computing developments. It features the Swarm computing concepts and realizes it as an Ad-hoc Edge Cloud architecture. Unlike current techniques in Edge and Cloud computing that solely view IoT connected devices as sources of data, Swarm computing aims at using the compute capabilities of IoT connected devices in coordination with current Edge and Cloud computing innovations. In addition to being more widely available, IoT-connected devices are also quickly becoming more sophisticated in terms of their ability to carry considerable compute and storage resources. Swarm computing and Ad-hoc Edge Cloud take full advantage of this trend to create on-demand, autonomic and decentralized self-managed computing infrastructures. Focusing on cognitive resource and service management, the book examines the specific research challenges of the Swarm computing approach, related to the characteristics of IoT connected devices that form the infrastructure. It also offers academics and practitioners insights for future research in the fields of Edge and Swarm computing.

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Springer Nature

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3031233441

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Riot and Rebellion in Mexico

The Making of a Race War Paradigm

By: Ana Sabau

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Riot and Rebellion in Mexico

The Making of a Race War Paradigm

By: Ana Sabau

2023 Best Book in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Challenging conventional narratives of Mexican history, this book establishes race-making as a central instrument for the repression of social upheaval in nineteenth-century Mexico rather than a relic of the colonial-era caste system. Many scholars assert that Mexico’s complex racial hierarchy, inherited from Spanish colonialism, became obsolete by the turn of the nineteenth century as class-based distinctions became more prominent and a largely mestizo population emerged. But the residues of the colonial caste system did not simply dissolve after Mexico gained independence. Rather, Ana Sabau argues, ever-present fears of racial uprising among elites and authorities led to persistent governmental techniques and ideologies designed to separate and control people based on their perceived racial status, as well as to the implementation of projects for development in fringe areas of the country. Riot and Rebellion in Mexico traces this race-based narrative through three historical flashpoints: the Bajío riots, the Haitian Revolution, and the Yucatan’s caste war. Sabau shows how rebellions were treated as racially motivated events rather than political acts and how the racialization of popular and indigenous sectors coincided with the construction of “whiteness” in Mexico. Drawing on diverse primary sources, Sabau demonstrates how the race war paradigm was mobilized in foreign and domestic affairs and reveals the foundations of a racial state and racially stratified society that persist today.

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332

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University of Texas Press

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1477324240

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Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain

By: Ana P Sánchez-Rojo

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Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain

By: Ana P Sánchez-Rojo

By showing how music intersected with wider cultural affairs, such as philosophy and criticism, this book connects music and the modern in eighteenth-century Spain within the context of Enlightenment thought. Histories of modern Europe often present late eighteenth-century Spain as a backward place, haunted by the Inquisition and struggling to keep pace with modernity. While Spain under Charles III (1759-1788) pushed for economic and cultural modernization, many elites and the public at large resisted Enlightenment ideas. For conservatives, the modern would in time show its fragility, and Spain would withstand the collapse thanks to its firm grounding in the pillars of monarchy, religion, and traditional forms of knowledge. One source of this solid foundation was long-established musical knowledge based on the rules of counterpoint. In contrast, modernizers argued that Spain could be true to its essence, yet modern and cosmopolitan at the same time: they favoured cosmopolitan genres, such as Italian opera and artistic expression rather than counterpoint rules. At other times, ambivalence toward modernity produced creative uses of music, such as reinterpretations of pastoral and sentimental topics to accommodate reformist political trends. To both sides, music was crucial to the integrity of the Spanish nation. Whether and how Spain became modern would in many ways be defined and reinforced by the kinds of music that Spaniards composed and witnessed on stage. Through the study of press debates, opera and musical theatre productions, this book shows how music intersected with wider cultural affairs, such as philosophy and criticism, medicine and the human body, civilization, Bourbon policy and sentimentality. Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain for the first time connects music and the modern in eighteenth-century Spain within the context of Enlightenment thought.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1837651159

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Knights on the Frontier

The Moorish Guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467)

By: Ana Echevarria

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Knights on the Frontier

The Moorish Guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467)

By: Ana Echevarria

The kings of Castile maintained a personal cavalry guard through much of the fifteenth century, consisting of practicing Muslims and converts to Christianity. This privileged Muslim elite provides an interesting case-study to propose new theories about voluntary conversion from Christianity to Islam in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as the ways of assimilation of such a group into the local and courtly environments where they lived thereafter. Other subjects involved are the transformation of royal armies from feudal companies to regimented, professional forces including a well-trained cavalry, which in Castile was formed partly by these knights. Their descendants had to endure the changing policies conveyed by Isabel and Fernando, which increased discriminatory habits towards converts in Castilian society.

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BRILL

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9047424417

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9789047424413

Parenting Empires

Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America

By: Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

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Parenting Empires

Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America

By: Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

In Parenting Empires, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites to analyze how everyday experiences of whiteness, privilege, and inequality reinforce national and hemispheric idioms of anti-corruption and austerity. Ramos-Zayas shows that for upper-class residents in the affluent neighborhoods of Ipanema (Rio de Janeiro) and El Condado (San Juan), parenting is particularly effective in providing moral grounding for neoliberal projects that disadvantage the overwhelmingly poor and racialized people who care for and teach their children. Wealthy parents in Ipanema and El Condado cultivate a liberal cosmopolitanism by living in multicultural city neighborhoods rather than gated suburban communities. Yet as Ramos-Zayas reveals, their parenting strategies, which stress spirituality, empathy, and equality, allow them to preserve and reproduce their white privilege. Defining this moral economy as “parenting empires,” she sheds light on how child-rearing practices permit urban elites in the Global South to sustain and profit from entrenched social and racial hierarchies.

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Duke University Press

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147800925X

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Textual Agency: Writing Culture and Social Networks in Fifteenth-Century Spain

Writing Culture and Social Networks in Fifteenth-Century Spain

By: Ana M. Gómez-Bravo

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Textual Agency: Writing Culture and Social Networks in Fifteenth-Century Spain

Writing Culture and Social Networks in Fifteenth-Century Spain

By: Ana M. Gómez-Bravo

Gómez-Bravo also explores how authorial and textual agency were competing forces in the midst of an era marked by the institution of the Inquisition, the advent of the absolutist state, the growth of cities, and the constitution of the Spanish nation.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442647205

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Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967)

By: Ana Fernandez-Cebrian

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Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967)

By: Ana Fernandez-Cebrian

Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967) focuses on a basic paradox: why is it that the so-called “Spanish economic miracle” —a purportedly secular, rational, and technocratic process— was fictionally portrayed through providential narratives in which supernatural and extraordinary elements were often involved? In order to answer this question, this book examines cultural fictions and social life at the time when Spain turned from autarchy to the project of industrial and tourist development. Beyond the narratives about progress, modernity, and consumer satisfaction on a global and national level, the cultural archives of the period offer intellectual findings about the expectations of a social majority who lived in the precariousness and who did not have sufficient income to acquire the consumer goods that were advertised. Through the scrutiny of interdisciplinary archives (literary texts, cinema, newsreels, comics, and journalistic sources, among other cultural artifacts), each chapter offers an analysis of the social imaginaries about the circulation and distribution of capital and resources in the period from 1950, when General Franco’s government began to integrate into international markets and institutions following its agreements with the United States, to 1967, when the implementation of the First Development Plan (1964-1967) was completed.

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224

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Liverpool University Press

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1802076417

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The Fortress of Faith

The Attitude Towards Muslims in Fifteenth Century Spain

By: Ana Echevarria

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The Fortress of Faith

The Attitude Towards Muslims in Fifteenth Century Spain

By: Ana Echevarria

This study provides new fascinating testimonies about the development of a new image of Islam in Southern Europe in the fifteenth century and an approach to ways of acculturation in a mixed society.

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9004624260

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International Forum for Comparative Psychology 2021 Abstract book

By: Rocío Rodríguez Herrera,José García Pinteño,Ana Sánchez Kuhn,Pilar Flores

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International Forum for Comparative Psychology 2021 Abstract book

By: Rocío Rodríguez Herrera,José García Pinteño,Ana Sánchez Kuhn,Pilar Flores

International Forum for Comparative Psychology has been organised by the Spanish Society of Comparative Psychology (SEPC), at the University of Almeria (online), on 23 and 24 September 2021. The attendance of the event was 148 participants: 87 attendees, 29 paper presenters, 29 poster presenters and 9 members of the organisational committee. The scientific works presented were 7 oral communication sessions (29 oral communications) and 2 poster sessions (29 posters). Funding: Department of Psychology of the University of Almeria and master’s degree in Nervous System Sciences from University of Almeria and the University of Rovira i Virgili.

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Universidad Almería

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8413511127

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The Climate and Development Challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean

Options for Climate-Resilient, Low-Carbon Development

By: Walter Vergara,Ana R. Rios,Luis Miguel Galindo Paliza,Pablo Gutman,Paul Isbell,Paul Hugo Suding,Joseluis Samaniego

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The Climate and Development Challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean

Options for Climate-Resilient, Low-Carbon Development

By: Walter Vergara,Ana R. Rios,Luis Miguel Galindo Paliza,Pablo Gutman,Paul Isbell,Paul Hugo Suding,Joseluis Samaniego

This book is a joint effort lead by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in collaboration with the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) focused on the climate and development challenge for LAC. It deals with a matter that is bound to affect the likelihood of achieving sustainable progress in Latin America and the Caribbean. Indeed, climate change is already affecting the foundations on which Latin American societies rely for sustenance and welfare.

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Inter-American Development Bank

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1597821659

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Beyond Edge Computing

Swarm Computing and Ad-Hoc Edge Clouds

By: Ana Juan Ferrer

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Beyond Edge Computing

Swarm Computing and Ad-Hoc Edge Clouds

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The Politics of Taste

Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics

By: Ana María Reyes

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The Politics of Taste

Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics

By: Ana María Reyes

In The Politics of Taste Ana María Reyes examines the works of Colombian artist Beatriz González and Argentine-born art critic, Marta Traba, who championed González's art during Colombia's National Front coalition government (1958–74). During this critical period in Latin American art, artistic practice, art criticism, and institutional objectives came into strenuous yet productive tension. While González’s triumphant debut excited critics who wanted to cast Colombian art as modern, sophisticated, and universal, her turn to urban lowbrow culture proved deeply unsettling. Traba praised González's cursi (tacky) recycling aesthetic as daringly subversive and her strategic localism as resistant to U.S. cultural imperialism. Reyes reads González's and Traba's complex visual and textual production and their intertwined careers against Cold War modernization programs that were deeply embedded in the elite's fear of the masses and designed to avert Cuban-inspired revolution. In so doing, Reyes provides fresh insights into Colombia's social anxieties and frustrations while highlighting how interrogations of taste became vital expressions of the growing discontent with the Colombian state.

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Book's by Ana Juan Ferrer

Beyond Edge Computing

Beyond Edge Computing

Riot and Rebellion in Mexico

Riot and Rebellion in Mexico

Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain

Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain

Knights on the Frontier

Knights on the Frontier

Parenting Empires

Parenting Empires

Textual Agency: Writing Culture and Social Networks in Fifteenth-Century Spain

Textual Agency: Writing Culture and Social Networks in Fifteenth-Century Spain

Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967)

Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967)

The Fortress of Faith

The Fortress of Faith

International Forum for Comparative Psychology 2021 Abstract book

International Forum for Comparative Psychology 2021 Abstract book

The Climate and Development Challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean

The Climate and Development Challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean

Beyond Edge Computing

Beyond Edge Computing

The Politics of Taste

The Politics of Taste

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