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Emergence from Illusion

By: Ricardo Johansson

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Ricardo Johansson's Travels of a lifetime that led to the final discovery: the definition of what "Republican in Form" really means in the American framework instruments of government. This most obvious term has been hidden in plain sight for generations - never to be taught in any schools, colleges or universities. This revelation has proven that the American people have been living under an illusion of freedom and liberty since at least 1847. This book has the potential to change the world as we currently know it - allowing Americans, and everyone else in the world, to finally recognize the gift the early American Founders presented to the world as the Great American Republican Experiment. It's time for freedom and liberty to fill the entire surface of the globe once and for all - with the help of the most up-to-date technology on the internet.

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1445234505

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Neuropsychiatry of Traumatic Brain Injury, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America

By: Ricardo Jorge

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Neuropsychiatry of Traumatic Brain Injury, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America

By: Ricardo Jorge

It is widely recognized that neuropsychiatric disturbances contribute substantially to disability among persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI). This issue of Psychiatric Clinics addresses the most common and the most clinically challenging neuropsychiatric sequelae of TBI. The overarching aim of this publication is to provide clinicians with information about the clinical characteristics, diagnostic assessment, neurobiology and treatment of these conditions that will be useful in their work with individuals and families affected by TBI. Topics include: Posttraumatic Encephalopathy; Cognitive Disorders after TBI; Emotional and Behavioral Dyscontrol after TBI; Mood Disorders following TBI; Apathy following TBI; Psychotic Disorders following TBI; Sleep and Fatigue following TBI; TBI and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Neuropsychiatry of Persistent Post-concussive Symptoms; Psychiatric Disorders following Pediatric TBI.

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0323287190

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9780323287197

The Defocusing Nonlinear Schr?dinger Equation

From Dark Solitons to Vortices and Vortex Rings

By: Panayotis G. Kevrekidis,Dimitri J. Frantzeskakis,Ricardo Carretero-Gonz?lez

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The Defocusing Nonlinear Schr?dinger Equation

From Dark Solitons to Vortices and Vortex Rings

By: Panayotis G. Kevrekidis,Dimitri J. Frantzeskakis,Ricardo Carretero-Gonz?lez

Bose?Einstein condensation is a phase transition in which a fraction of particles of a boson gas condenses into the same quantum state known as the Bose?Einstein condensate (BEC). The aim of this book is to present a wide array of findings in the realm of BECs and on the nonlinear Schr?dinger-type models that arise therein. The Defocusing Nonlinear Schr?dinger Equation is a broad study of nonlinear excitations in self-defocusing nonlinear media. It summarizes state-of-the-art knowledge on the defocusing nonlinear Schr?dinger-type models in a single volume and contains a wealth of resources, including over 800 references to relevant articles and monographs and a meticulous index for ease of navigation.

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SIAM

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1611973937

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9781611973938

Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering

Fundamental Concepts for First-Year Students

By: Ricardo Simpson,Sudhir K. Sastry

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Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering

Fundamental Concepts for First-Year Students

By: Ricardo Simpson,Sudhir K. Sastry

The goal of this textbook is to provide first-year engineering students with a firm grounding in the fundamentals of chemical and bioprocess engineering. However, instead of being a general overview of the two topics, Fundamentals of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering will identify and focus on specific areas in which attaining a solid competency is desired. This strategy is the direct result of studies showing that broad-based courses at the freshman level often leave students grappling with a lot of material, which results in a low rate of retention. Specifically, strong emphasis will be placed on the topic of material balances, with the intent that students exiting a course based upon this textbook will be significantly higher on Bloom’s Taxonomy (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis and synthesis, evaluation, creation) relating to material balances. In addition, this book also provides students with a highly developed ability to analyze problems from the material balances perspective, which leaves them with important skills for the future. The textbook consists of numerous exercises and their solutions. Problems are classified by their level of difficulty. Each chapter has references and selected web pages to vividly illustrate each example. In addition, to engage students and increase their comprehension and rate of retention, many examples involve real-world situations.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461491266

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9781461491262

Endocrine Pathology

By: Ricardo V. Lloyd

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Endocrine Pathology

By: Ricardo V. Lloyd

Endocrine Pathology integrates classical diagnostic anatomic pathology with recent developments in immunochemistry and molecular biology in its approach to endocrine disorders. The book discusses not only a wide range of diseases commonly encountered in everyday clinical practice but also those uncommon conditions elucidated by such innovative techniques as ultrastructural immunochemistry and in situ hybridization.

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1461233461

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9781461233466

Practical Urologic Cytopathology

By: Ricardo H. Bardales

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Practical Urologic Cytopathology

By: Ricardo H. Bardales

Practical Urologic Cytopathology provides the essentials for the cytologic diagnosis of disorders of the urinary tract illustrated with approximately 300 color photomicrographs. The text combines the recent with the classic and standard concepts, particularly in the classification of urothelial tumors. Urothelial tumors are covered contrasting the 1973 and 1999 WHO classification and the 1998 WHO/ISUP (World Health Organization/International Society of Urological Pathologists). The author provides a summary of "key concepts" of each described entity that enhances the practical nature of this book. The book also summarizes the recent developments in the molecular biology and markers for the diagnosis of urothelial tumors and includes chapters on the fine needle aspiration cytopathology of urinary tract masses and on the diagnostic value of urine cytology interpretation. This book is intended for practicing pathologists, pathologists in training, and cytotechnology students as well as researchers and those with special interest in the cytopathology of the urinary tract.

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Oxford University Press

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0199771650

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9780199771653

The Physiologic Nature of Sleep

By: Pier Luigi Parmeggiani,Ricardo A. Velluti

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The Physiologic Nature of Sleep

By: Pier Luigi Parmeggiani,Ricardo A. Velluti

Provides a broad introduction to the subject of sleep. An overview of some of the classic and fundamental achievements in sleep research.

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World Scientific

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1860945570

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9781860945571

Tumors of the Jugular Foramen

By: Ricardo Ramina, MD, PhD,Marcos Soares Tatagiba, MD, PhD

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Tumors of the Jugular Foramen

By: Ricardo Ramina, MD, PhD,Marcos Soares Tatagiba, MD, PhD

This book covers all aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of tumors of the jugular foramen – cranial base lesions that present particular diagnostic and management difficulties and remain challenging to remove despite advances in surgery and interventional neuroradiology. The authors have developed novel concepts and surgical techniques relating to management of the facial nerve, reconstruction of the cranial base, and resection of large tumors with intra- and extracranial extension. These techniques, as well as anatomic studies in cadavers, are presented by means of surgical photographs, illustrations, and videos. Tumors of the Jugular Foramen will be of interest to all specialists involved in the management of these challenging tumors, including neurosurgeons, ENT surgeons, neuroradiologists, neurologists, neurointensivists, radiotherapists, oncologists, and physiotherapists.

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3319433687

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9783319433684

Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity

Sade Reloaded

By: Ricardo Espinoza Lolas

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Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity

Sade Reloaded

By: Ricardo Espinoza Lolas

Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity considers both the vast realm of sexual diversities emerging under capitalism and outlines what a psychoanalytic clinic that considers these diversities should be like. Ricardo Espinoza Lolas explores these themes hand in hand with the Marquis de Sade, exploring the monstrous side of our existence – not as a negative aspect of humanity, but as a part of us that strives for a freer and more inclusive life. Espinoza Lolas explores aspects of psychoanalysis, feminism, critical theory, philosophy, history, politics and the arts in considering how human determination can be torn from ego and neurosis. The book concludes with a disarticulation of the categories of neurosis, psychosis and perversion of psychoanalysis and the suggestion of a new clinic and a new politics. Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, Lacanian clinicians and scholars of psychoanalytic studies, philosophy and critical theory.

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100095305X

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9781000953053

Supercritical Antisolvent Precipitation Process

Fundamentals, Applications and Perspectives

By: Diego T. Santos,Ádina L. Santana,M. Angela A. Meireles,Ademir José Petenate,Eric Keven Silva,Juliana Q. Albarelli,Júlio C. F. Johner,M.Thereza M. S. Gomes,Ricardo Abel Del Castillo Torres,Tahmasb Hatami

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Supercritical Antisolvent Precipitation Process

Fundamentals, Applications and Perspectives

This book provides deep insights on the fundamentals, applications and perspectives of the Supercritical AntiSolvent (SAS) Precipitation Process. Chapter 1 provides recent (2013-2018) reports on the use of supercritical CO2 (SC-CO2) antisolvent for micronization, coprecipitation and fractionation of high-value products for the food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. Chapter 2 discusses another variant of the SAS precipitation process called Supercritical fluid extraction of emulsions (SFEE). This chapter provides recent data from 2016-2018 reports investigation of supercritical extraction of emulsions (SFEE) to encapsulate compounds of great interest to the food and non-food industry. Chapter 3 details the design and construction of a SAS Precipitation equipment. Chapter 4 presents experimental results regarding the validation of the supercritical particle formation equipment. Chapter 5 shows the effects of process parameters during particle precipitation using Combined High Turbulence Extraction Assisted by Ultrasound and Supercritical Antisolvent Fractionation (SAF) processes applied to semi-defatted annatto seeds, as a model raw material plant, were investigated. Chapter 6 shows experimental results regarding the process Ultrasound Emulsification Assisted by Nitrogen Hydrostatic Pressure (UEANHP), during the emulsification preparation step of the Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Emulsions (SFEE) process, one of the options of the SAS Precipitation-based process. Finally, Chaptesr 7 and 8 present some perspectives about the economics and process integration with other processes aiming the development of novel conceptual biorefinering approaches for plant materials valorization.

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3030269981

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Selected Topics in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation (CPCR)

By: José Ricardo Navarro Vargas

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Selected Topics in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation (CPCR)

By: José Ricardo Navarro Vargas

This book received support from the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Colombia and the scientific Subdirectorate and the Department of Education of the Colombian Society of Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation (Sociedad Colombiana de Anestesiología y Reanimación S.C.A.R.E.). It is lucky to be blessed with the participation of young and enthusiastic academics from two public universities, the National University and the University of Caldas. We hope it will contribute to the study and practice of resuscitation in a country like Colombia, where health policies are underdeveloped and where, due to a lack of prevention, treatment is much more difficult. This is all the more the case in the worst of situations —cardiorespiratory arrest.

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9588873134

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Low-Carbon Energy in Africa and Latin America

Renewable Technologies, Natural Gas and Nuclear Energy

By: Ricardo Guerrero-Lemus,Les E. Shephard

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Low-Carbon Energy in Africa and Latin America

Renewable Technologies, Natural Gas and Nuclear Energy

By: Ricardo Guerrero-Lemus,Les E. Shephard

This book offers a comprehensive overview of energy sectors in emerging African and Latin American nations, providing a one-stop source of information and analysis of energy sectors that differ radically from those of developed countries. It focuses on how indigenous energy sources can be used within a systems framework to enhance each nation’s economic prosperity, secure their energy future and reduce global carbon emissions. It begins by examining the current energy trends in Africa and Latin America, and the constraints that current practices place on meeting future energy needs. Further chapters present a deeper analyses of each technology adapted to these regions and a description of 94 selected case examples recently published in the scientific literature (2014-2016) and covering almost all countries to highlight energy experiences that could serve as engines for developing low-carbon energy technologies across the two regions. These issues are elucidated by a large number of illustrations and tables to offer valuable insights into the topics and technologies discussed. The book enables students, researchers and professionals in energy to better understand the energy context in Africa and Latin America, and helps define strategies for supporting these regions in introducing low-carbon energy technologies that supplement indigenous sources in a manner that enhances long-term economic prosperity. It is also intended for consulting companies and government agencies involved in the energy sector, as well as environmental science and energy management students.

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3319523112

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The Nuclear Cooper Pair

Structure and Reactions

By: Grégory Potel Aguilar,Ricardo A. Broglia

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The Nuclear Cooper Pair

Structure and Reactions

By: Grégory Potel Aguilar,Ricardo A. Broglia

This monograph presents a unified theory of nuclear structure and nuclear reactions in the language of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman diagrams. It describes how two-nucleon transfer reaction processes can be used as a quantitative tool to interpret experimental findings with the help of computer codes and nuclear field theory. Making use of Cooper pair transfer processes, the theory is applied to the study of pair correlations in both stable and unstable exotic nuclei. Special attention is given to unstable, exotic halo systems, which lie at the forefront of the nuclear physics research being carried out at major laboratories around the world. This volume is distinctive in dealing in both nuclear structure and reactions and benefits from comparing the nuclear field theory with experimental observables, making it a valuable resource for incoming and experienced researchers who are working in nuclear pairing and using transfer reactions to probe them.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108911919

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9781108911917

Indians, Markets, and Rainforests

Theory, Methods, Analysis

By: Ricardo A. Godoy

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Indians, Markets, and Rainforests

Theory, Methods, Analysis

By: Ricardo A. Godoy

Godoy investigates five lowland Amerindian societies of tropical Latin America--all of which are experiencing deep changes as they modernize--to discover the results of a market economy on both indigenous peoples and the conservation of tropical rainforest flora and fauna.

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023111785X

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9780231117852

Hidden Challenges

Human Dynamics in Organizational Change and Recovery

By: Elizabeth Florent Treacy,Theo van Iperen,James Hennessy,Fernanda Pomin,Ross Emerson,Ricardo Senerman

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Hidden Challenges

Human Dynamics in Organizational Change and Recovery

By: Elizabeth Florent Treacy,Theo van Iperen,James Hennessy,Fernanda Pomin,Ross Emerson,Ricardo Senerman

Going far beyond a purely rational-structural way of looking at change in organizations, this book contributes well researched insights into often-overlooked organizational blind spots. The authors share their own experiences in clear and accessible language, exploring recovery from cumulative crises; nostalgia and postalgia; victimization of leaders; dealing with narcissistic leaders; and a writing process for reducing anxiety through self-reflection. Anyone who works in an organization—large or small—will gain new perspectives on the most difficult challenge of all: understanding human behavior in times of change.

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Business Expert Press

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163742308X

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9781637423080

Innovations in Public Leadership Development

By: Ricardo S. Morse,Terry F. Buss

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Innovations in Public Leadership Development

By: Ricardo S. Morse,Terry F. Buss

This is the best single-source guide to leadership development in the public sector. It offers a wealth of advice for teachers, students, trainers, human resource officers, and established leaders. The all-original chapters include discussions of leadership frameworks, competencies for public leaders for the "new governance," and strategies for senior leaders in government.The book's wide-ranging coverage includes in-depth discussions of specific approaches to learning methods such as action learning and social artistry, as well as presentations of leader development models such as transformational stewardship and global leadership. The contributors present experiences from real-world leadership development programs, and the book situates leader development within the current trends of networks, collaboration, and boundary-crossing work in the public sector.

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Routledge

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1317467841

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9781317467847

Te Linde's Atlas of Gynecologic Surgery

By: Geoffrey Cundiff,Ricardo Azziz,Robert E. Bristow

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Te Linde's Atlas of Gynecologic Surgery

By: Geoffrey Cundiff,Ricardo Azziz,Robert E. Bristow

Gynecology has always been a surgical specialty, yet the breadth and complexity of gynecologic surgery continues to expand. Telinde's Atlas of Gynecologic Surgery helps both the gynecologist in training and those already in practice to master this field. The text provides clear and detailed, step-by-step descriptions involved in performing techniques. Each prose is accompanied by meticulous, colorized drawings to maximize the surgeons' understanding of the technique. Included with the text, is access to an online site. The online site provides fully searchable text and narrated videos from most chapters to demonstrate the techniques anytime, anywhere. While specialists perform many of the procedures included in this text each year, in general practices these procedures are done relatively infrequently and consequently, these surgeons look for means to refresh their memories prior to performing them. This text will also serve as a treasured resource for new surgeons and residents who are just incorporating these procedures into their surgical repertoire.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469831600

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9781469831602

Phosphates in Food

By: RicardoA. Molins

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Phosphates in Food

By: RicardoA. Molins

Phosphates in Food provides the first comprehensive analysis of phosphates used in food processing in almost 20 years. The book describes the nomenclature, structure, chemistry, and analytical procedures for phosphates in foods. Interactions between added and some natural phosphates and food components (particularly proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and metal ions) are examined in relation to using phosphates in food processing for such purposes as increasing the water-holding capacity of proteins, improving emulsification, preventing gelation, and delaying lipid oxidation. The book also discusses the use of phosphates in specific food groups, such as milk and dairy products; meats, poultry, and fish; fruits and vegetables; bakery products and cereals; and miscellaneous food products including beverages, fats and oils, sugar and confectionery products, eggs and derivatives, and specialty products. An extensive section discussing the importance of phosphates as microbial agents is presented and is followed by a final section that examines the nutritional and health implications of elevated phosphate intake. The book contains 1,135 references, 43 tables, and 34 figures, making it an ideal reference resource for researchers in food sciences, microbiology, and nutrition; food and chemical industries; and regulatory agencies within local, state, and federal governments.

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1351425005

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Indians, Markets, and Rainforests

Theoretical, Comparative, and Quantitative Explorations in the Neotropics

By: Ricardo Godoy

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Indians, Markets, and Rainforests

Theoretical, Comparative, and Quantitative Explorations in the Neotropics

By: Ricardo Godoy

This book addresses two important and related questions: does participation in a market economy help or hurt indigenous peoples and how does it affect the conservation of tropical rainforest flora and fauna? Oddly, there have been few quantitative studies that have addressed these issues. Ricardo Godoy's research takes an important step toward rectifying this oversight by investigating five different lowland Amerindian societies of tropical Latin America—all of which are experiencing deep changes as they modernize. Godoy examines the effect of markets on a broad range of areas including health, conservation of flora and fauna, leisure, folk knowledge, reciprocity, and private time preference. He concludes that, contrary to considerable anthropological theory, the effect of markets on the quality of life and the rainforest are often unclear or benign. Godoy uses multivariate techniques to examine the changes modernization has had on many indicators of the quality of life and the environment and concludes that the seeds of socioeconomic differentiation may already lie dormant in simple economies. The impact of modernization on lowland Amerindians is a topic of great concern to anthropologists, researchers, and policymakers in developing nations, and this book is a significant contribution to the debate about the likely future of indigenous people.

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Columbia University Press

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0231505035

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Encouraging Formal Invoicing and Reducing the VAT Impact on Low-Income individuals

By: Mr.Ricardo Fenochietto,Juan Carlos Benitez

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Encouraging Formal Invoicing and Reducing the VAT Impact on Low-Income individuals

By: Mr.Ricardo Fenochietto,Juan Carlos Benitez

This paper analyses and compares two different groups of tools, the first to encourage the use of invoices (or payment systems) and the second to refund the VAT to low-income individuals. The analysis contributes to the existing literature by providing a clear characterization between these two groups of tools that are too often misunderstood and offers clear guidance to policymakers on the benefits and pitfalls of them based on available empirical studies and novel data analysis. Briefly, the first group includes a set of regressive and distortive tools (such as, allowing deducting the VAT paid on personal consumption from the PIT and reducing the VAT rate for using electronic means of payments or registration), while the second group includes tools that are less distortionary and improve income distribution (tax credits and VAT rate reduction targeted only at low-income individuals). This paper also finds that allowing the deduction of personal consumption against the PIT’s taxable base (i) did not impact positively the VAT revenue in Guatemala and (ii) worsens the income distribution in Ecuador.

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International Monetary Fund

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151356997X

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9781513569970

Energy Investments

An Adaptive Approach to Profiting from Uncertainties

By: Ricardo G. Barcelona

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Energy Investments

An Adaptive Approach to Profiting from Uncertainties

By: Ricardo G. Barcelona

This book examines what lies behind the uncertainties surrounding the fuel and power markets. Exploring the role of renewables and how they potentially disrupt or create opportunities, it challenges widely accepted wisdoms in investment. The author asks questions such as: Are “business as usual” strategies that favour fossil fuels the best route to future prosperity? What prospects do firms face when their competitors diversify into renewables? Why do generous subsidies to renewables often fail to achieve wide-scale deployment? Illustrating how real options and option games reasoning yield vastly different insights from those gained from NPVs, Energy Investments offers case studies and simulations to demonstrate how firms can benefit from the methods it showcases.

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Springer

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1137591390

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Hybrid Feedback Control

By: Ricardo G. Sanfelice

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Hybrid Feedback Control

By: Ricardo G. Sanfelice

A comprehensive introduction to hybrid control systems and design Hybrid control systems exhibit both discrete changes, or jumps, and continuous changes, or flow. An example of a hybrid control system is the automatic control of the temperature in a room: the temperature changes continuously, but the control algorithm toggles the heater on or off intermittently, triggering a discrete jump within the algorithm. Hybrid control systems feature widely across disciplines, including biology, computer science, and engineering, and examples range from the control of cellular responses to self-driving cars. Although classical control theory provides powerful tools for analyzing systems that exhibit either flow or jumps, it is ill-equipped to handle hybrid control systems. In Hybrid Feedback Control, Ricardo Sanfelice presents a self-contained introduction to hybrid control systems and develops new tools for their analysis and design. Hybrid behavior can occur in one or more subsystems of a feedback system, and Sanfelice offers a unified control theory framework, filling an important gap in the control theory literature. In addition to the theoretical framework, he includes a plethora of examples and exercises, a Matlab toolbox (as well as two open-source versions), and an insightful overview at the beginning of each chapter. Relevant to dynamical systems theory, applied mathematics, and computer science, Hybrid Feedback Control will be useful to students and researchers working on hybrid systems, cyber-physical systems, control, and automation.

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Princeton University Press

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0691189536

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9780691189536

Early Soft Error Reliability Assessment of Convolutional Neural Networks Executing on Resource-Constrained IoT Edge Devices

By: Geancarlo Abich,Luciano Ost,Ricardo Reis

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Early Soft Error Reliability Assessment of Convolutional Neural Networks Executing on Resource-Constrained IoT Edge Devices

By: Geancarlo Abich,Luciano Ost,Ricardo Reis

This book describes an extensive and consistent soft error assessment of convolutional neural network (CNN) models from different domains through more than 14.8 million fault injections, considering different precision bit-width configurations, optimization parameters, and processor models. The authors also evaluate the relative performance, memory utilization, and soft error reliability trade-offs analysis of different CNN models considering a compiler-based technique w.r.t. traditional redundancy approaches.

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Springer Nature

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3031185994

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9783031185991

Design of Control Laws and State Observers for Fixed-Wing UAVs

Simulation and Experimental Approaches

By: Arturo Tadeo Espinoza-Fraire,Alejandro Enrique Dzul López,Ricardo Pavel Parada Morado,José Armando Sáenz Esqueda

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Design of Control Laws and State Observers for Fixed-Wing UAVs

Simulation and Experimental Approaches

By: Arturo Tadeo Espinoza-Fraire,Alejandro Enrique Dzul López,Ricardo Pavel Parada Morado,José Armando Sáenz Esqueda

Design of Control Laws and State Observers for Fixed-Wing UAVs: Simulation and Experimental Approaches provides readers with modeling techniques, simulations, and results from real-time experiments using linear and nonlinear controllers and state observers. The book starts with an overview of the history of UAVs and the equations of motion applied to them. Following chapters analyze linear and nonlinear controllers, state observers, and the book concludes with a chapter discussing testbed development and experimental results, equipping readers with the knowledge they need to conduct their own stable UAV flights whether in simulation or real-time. - Presents aerodynamic models for fixed-wing UAVs that can be used to design control laws and state observers - Applies linear and nonlinear control theories and state observers to fixed-wing UAVs - Provides real-time flight and simulation test results of fixed-wing UAVs with linear and nonlinear controllers

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0323954049

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Sharing Power

A Global Guide to Collaborative Management of Natural Resources

By: Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend,M. Taghi Farvar,Yves Renard,Michel P Pimbert,Ashish Kothari

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Sharing Power

A Global Guide to Collaborative Management of Natural Resources

By: Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend,M. Taghi Farvar,Yves Renard,Michel P Pimbert,Ashish Kothari

The collaborative orco-management of natural resources - whether between states and local communities or amongst and within communities themselves - is a process of collective understanding and actions to bring about negotiated agreements on roles, rights and responsibilities for decentralized governance of natural resources. At heart, co-management is about sharing power, one of the most difficult but rewarding experiences in personal and social life. The book is designed for professionals and people involved in practical co-management processes, and distils a wealth of experience and innovative approacheslearned by doing. It begins by offering a variety of vistas, from historical analyses to a clear grasp of key concepts. Illustrated in detail is the understanding accumulated in recent decades on starting points for co-management, conditions and methods for successful negotiations, ideas to manage conflicts and types of agreements and co-management institutions emerging from the negotiation tables. Simple tools, such as checklists distilled from different situations and contexts, are offered throughout. Examples and insights from experience highlight the importance of participatory democracy - the enabling contexts where ‘sharing power is ultimately possible and successful. Published with IIED and IUCN.

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Marine Pollution

Sources, Fate and Effects of Pollutants in Coastal Ecosystems

By: Ricardo Beiras

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Marine Pollution

Sources, Fate and Effects of Pollutants in Coastal Ecosystems

By: Ricardo Beiras

Marine Pollution: Sources, Fate and Effects of Pollutants in Coastal Ecosystems bring together the theoretical background on common and emerging marine pollutants and their effects on organisms (ecotoxicology). Written by a renowned expert in the field who is a researcher, teacher and advisor of national and international institutions on issues such as oil spills, water quality assessment and plastic pollution, this book offers a thorough account of the effects of pollutants on marine organisms, the relevant environmental regulations, and the public health implications, along with the biological tools advocated by the international institutions for marine pollution monitoring.Marine Pollution: Sources, Fate and Effects of Pollutants in Coastal Ecosystems presents information in a detailed and didactic manner, reviewing the latest scientific knowledge alongside examples of practical applications. - Provides an in-depth analysis of the uptake, accumulation and fate of pollutants in the marine compartments - Delivers a critical appraisal on biological tools for the practical monitoring of marine pollution - Presents key concepts and case studies to provide a comprehensive study of the different categories of marine pollution and its effects

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Mitigating Process Variability and Soft Errors at Circuit-Level for FinFETs

By: Alexandra Zimpeck,Cristina Meinhardt,Laurent Artola,Ricardo Reis

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Mitigating Process Variability and Soft Errors at Circuit-Level for FinFETs

By: Alexandra Zimpeck,Cristina Meinhardt,Laurent Artola,Ricardo Reis

This book evaluates the influence of process variations (e.g. work-function fluctuations) and radiation-induced soft errors in a set of logic cells using FinFET technology, considering the 7nm technological node as a case study. Moreover, for accurate soft error estimation, the authors adopt a radiation event generator tool (MUSCA SEP3), which deals both with layout features and electrical properties of devices. The authors also explore four circuit-level techniques (e.g. transistor reordering, decoupling cells, Schmitt Trigger, and sleep transistor) as alternatives to attenuate the unwanted effects on FinFET logic cells. This book also evaluates the mitigation tendency when different levels of process variation, transistor sizing, and radiation particle characteristics are applied in the design. An overall comparison of all methods addressed by this work is provided allowing to trace a trade-off between the reliability gains and the design penalties of each approach regarding the area, performance, power consumption, single event transient (SET) pulse width, and SET cross-section.

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Hybrid Dynamical Systems

Modeling, Stability, and Robustness

By: Rafal Goebel,Ricardo G. Sanfelice,Andrew R. Teel

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Hybrid Dynamical Systems

Modeling, Stability, and Robustness

By: Rafal Goebel,Ricardo G. Sanfelice,Andrew R. Teel

Hybrid dynamical systems exhibit continuous and instantaneous changes, having features of continuous-time and discrete-time dynamical systems. Filled with a wealth of examples to illustrate concepts, this book presents a complete theory of robust asymptotic stability for hybrid dynamical systems that is applicable to the design of hybrid control algorithms--algorithms that feature logic, timers, or combinations of digital and analog components. With the tools of modern mathematical analysis, Hybrid Dynamical Systems unifies and generalizes earlier developments in continuous-time and discrete-time nonlinear systems. It presents hybrid system versions of the necessary and sufficient Lyapunov conditions for asymptotic stability, invariance principles, and approximation techniques, and examines the robustness of asymptotic stability, motivated by the goal of designing robust hybrid control algorithms. This self-contained and classroom-tested book requires standard background in mathematical analysis and differential equations or nonlinear systems. It will interest graduate students in engineering as well as students and researchers in control, computer science, and mathematics.

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Frontiers of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

Single Nanoparticles and Single Cells

By: Yukihiro Ozaki,Katrin Kneipp,Ricardo Aroca

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Frontiers of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

Single Nanoparticles and Single Cells

By: Yukihiro Ozaki,Katrin Kneipp,Ricardo Aroca

A comprehensive presentation of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) theory, substrate fabrication, applications of SERS to biosystems, chemical analysis, sensing and fundamental innovation through experimentation. Written by internationally recognized editors and contributors. Relevant to all those within the scientific community dealing with Raman Spectroscopy, i.e. physicists, chemists, biologists, material scientists, physicians and biomedical scientists. SERS applications are widely expanding and the technology is now used in the field of nanotechnologies, applications to biosystems, nonosensors, nanoimaging and nanoscience.

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111870357X

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Polysaccharide Based Hybrid Materials

Metals and Metal Oxides, Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes

By: Carla Vilela,Ricardo João Borges Pinto,Susana Pinto,Paula Marques,Armando Silvestre,Carmen Sofia da Rocha Freire Barros

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Polysaccharide Based Hybrid Materials

Metals and Metal Oxides, Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes

By: Carla Vilela,Ricardo João Borges Pinto,Susana Pinto,Paula Marques,Armando Silvestre,Carmen Sofia da Rocha Freire Barros

This brief explores polysaccharides, the most abundant family of naturally occurring polymers, and explains how they have gained considerable attention in recent decades as a source of innovative bio-based materials. The authors present a range of material including an extensive array of polysaccharide hybrid nanomaterials with distinct applications. The most recent knowledge regarding polysaccharide-based hybrid nanomaterials with metal and metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs), carbon nanotubes and graphene is presented as well as the main polysaccharides, namely cellulose, chitin and chitosan, starch and their most relevant derivatives. The book features a description of important production methodologies, properties, and applications of these types of hybrids.

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3030003477

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Lymph Node Cytopathology

By: Stefan E. Pambuccian,Ricardo H. Bardales

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Lymph Node Cytopathology

By: Stefan E. Pambuccian,Ricardo H. Bardales

This volume in the Essentials in Cytopathology book series will focus on the cytopathology of lymph nodes. It will address the topic of fine needle aspiration of lymph nodes and fulfill the need for an easy-to-use and authoritative synopsis of lymph node cytopathology. The book with adopt an algorithmic diagnostic approach, starting from the cytomorphologic pattern of the lymph node aspirate. The focus will be on the appropriate and effective use of ancillary studies (immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry, fluorescence in situ hybridization and molecular techniques) and integration of their results into the final diagnosis. The book will present the cytopathologic features and differential diagnoses for the major cytologic patterns in lymph node fine needle aspiration. The entities typically falling within each of these patterns will be discussed with illustration of the spectrum of cytologic features, differential diagnoses and pitfalls. The book will cover the full spectrum of benign and malignant primary conditions of the lymph nodes, with emphasis on common disorders. Discussion of metastatic conditions will be restricted to those that are relevant to the differential diagnosis of primary lymphoid disorders. This book is designed as an easy to use resource that fits into the lab coat pocket, ideal for portability and quick reference. It is heavily illustrated and contains useful algorithms that guide the reader through the differential diagnosis of common and uncommon entities encountered in lymph node aspirates. The accompanying text follows an easy to use pattern-based outline. A useful resource for every pathologist, cytopathologist, fellow and trainee.

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1441969640

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Judicial institutionalization of integration processes

Intergovernmentalism and politicization in MERCOSUR

By: Ricardo Caichiolo

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Judicial institutionalization of integration processes

Intergovernmentalism and politicization in MERCOSUR

By: Ricardo Caichiolo

The focus of this book is the judicial institutionalization of integration processes through the development of dispute settlement mechanisms, more especifically in the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR), to date, the most important regional bloc in Latin America. The bloc has been in existence since 1991 and has positioned itself as one of the potential regional blocs for trade and investment, while becoming one of the important actors in the international community. However, its achievements have been tainted by the gaps and problems attached to the core foundation of the regional bloc. MERCOSUR has been suffering or experiencing internal disputes and disunity due to its complex and low institutionalization, a situation which can be seen as being paradoxical. Its current Dispute Settlement Mechanism is subject to uncertainty and doubt, since its own framework is also under internal and external criticism. There has been a series of protocols made in order to tackle the problems of the DSM and to further fix the problems that hinder the cooperation as well as the productivity of MERCOSUR's intra-organisation, all guided by intergovernmental decision-making. As such, this book seeks to tackle the concept of regionalism and the possible models which have been used or have influenced the establishment of MERCOSUR, while discussing the different aspects and developments of each intra-organisation. This is done in order to evaluate the nature of the problem, and future developments that could take place. The book also focuses on the prevalence of politicization in MERCOSUR and the pre-eminence of Presidential Diplomacy over the path of regional integration, which influence the DSM of MERCOSUR and possible developments that might occur in the near future.

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8569333730

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Soft Error Reliability Using Virtual Platforms

Early Evaluation of Multicore Systems

By: Felipe Rocha da Rosa,Luciano Ost,Ricardo Reis

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Soft Error Reliability Using Virtual Platforms

Early Evaluation of Multicore Systems

By: Felipe Rocha da Rosa,Luciano Ost,Ricardo Reis

This book describes the benefits and drawbacks inherent in the use of virtual platforms (VPs) to perform fast and early soft error assessment of multicore systems. The authors show that VPs provide engineers with appropriate means to investigate new and more efficient fault injection and mitigation techniques. Coverage also includes the use of machine learning techniques (e.g., linear regression) to speed-up the soft error evaluation process by pinpointing parameters (e.g., architectural) with the most substantial impact on the software stack dependability. This book provides valuable information and insight through more than 3 million individual scenarios and 2 million simulation-hours. Further, this book explores machine learning techniques usage to navigate large fault injection datasets.

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3030557049

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Essential Reproductive Medicine

By: Bruce R. Carr,Richard E. Blackwell,Ricardo Azziz

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Essential Reproductive Medicine

By: Bruce R. Carr,Richard E. Blackwell,Ricardo Azziz

Addresses the full range of reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI) issues, from the fundamentals of reproductive medicine through disorders of the endocrine system, infertility, contraception, and menopause. Clinically focused and logically organized, the book is designed to reflect how the clinician should approach the REI patient.

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