In Makers of Democracy A. Ricardo López-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle class was understood to be a foundational marker of democracy in Colombia during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide array of sources ranging from training manuals and oral histories to school and business archives, López-Pedreros shows how the Colombian middle class created a model of democracy based on free-market ideologies, private property rights, material inequality, and an emphasis on a masculine work culture. This model, which naturalized class and gender hierarchies, provided the groundwork for Colombia's later adoption of neoliberalism and inspired the emergence of alternate models of democracy and social hierarchies in the 1960s and 1970s that helped foment political radicalization. By highlighting the contested relationships between class, gender, economics, and politics, López-Pedreros theorizes democracy as a historically unstable practice that exacerbated multiple forms of domination, thereby prompting a rethinking of the formation of democracies throughout the Americas.
Edward Zero quit being a spy thug, left the Agency, found a better life in Iceland. But when a volcano erupts and the past comes back in a myriad of ways, what does the path ask of him? Palestine, Belfast, the laboratory in the woodsthey all come back into play now. Collects ZERO #11-14.
The content of 3-alkyl-2-methoxypyrazines was analyzed in a representative set of Spanish red wines in order to ascertain the importance of these compounds in such wines. Furthermore, the aromatic relevance of these compounds and its relationship with concentration values have been studied. Very low levels of the analytes were found in the whole set of wines: none of them had concentrations higher than 10ng/L, with Rioja wines having the lower concentrations. Significant correlation with vegetable aromas and anticorrelation with fruity aromas was found for 3-isobutyl-2-methoxypyrazine.
Emilia Lopez is my mother. She was born In Oaxaca, Mexico. My mom moved to California because she wanted to find a job and spend her life there having a husband and some children. She also wanted to have money for her family and rent a house to live in. My mom wanted to move to California because she wanted to know the city and attend adult school. Finally, she moved to California because she didn't want to ruin her life with no money so she decided to live in L.A and have a family and live Happily Ever After.
The ability of Gas Chromatography with Olfactometric detection (GC-O) to provide a screening method to detect the presence of some wine off-flavors has been evaluated. A panel of 12 trained sniffers assessed the presence of 3-isobutyl-2-methoxypyrazine (IBMP), 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA), 4-ethylphenol (4EF), and 4-ethylguaiacol (4EG) in wine spiked at six levels of concentration. The screening method proposed allowed us to obtain a reliable positive response when the concentration was above 4ng/L for IBMP, 0.25ng/L for TCA, and 10μg/L for 4EG, all of them below their odor threshold in wine.
Cosa avrà mai fatto Deadpool per aizzarsi contro Pantera Nera? Sì, l'avete capito: c'entra il vibranio... ma Wade giura che è tutto un malinteso! [Contiene: Black Panther vs. Deadpool (2018) (2019) 1-5]
In this work, an automatic headspace in-tube extraction (ITEX) method for the accurate determination of highly polar volatile compounds from wine has been developed and validated. Only 20 microliters of wine diluted 1:20 and containing three internal standards are put in a 2mL vial, heated at 60°C and extracted with 100 0.5mL pumping strokes. The validation of the method showed satisfactory figures of merit. The extraction efficiency calculated by multiple extractions from the same sample ranged from 85–99%. The method can constitute a reliable alternative for the analysis of these compounds in many other matrices.
This paper studies the main determinants of the sharp decline in Colombia’s private saving rate which accompanied the steep deterioration of the country’s external current account deficit in the 1990s. The paper rejects current arguments pointing to a consumption boom and corporate behavior as the main causes of the decline. It concludes that: private consumption, explained mainly by permanent income, has only increased moderately in the 1990s; household behavior—not corporate behavior—determines private saving; and tax increases do not entirely explain the fall of private saving. Thus, reliance on external saving could be reduced by increasing public saving.
In this important and timely collection of essays, historians reflect on the middle class: what it is, why its struggles figure so prominently in discussions of the current economic crisis, and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, modernity. The contributors focus on specific middle-class formations around the world—in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas—since the mid-nineteenth century. They scrutinize these formations in relation to the practices of modernity, to professionalization, to revolutionary politics, and to the making of a public sphere. Taken together, their essays demonstrate that the historical formation of the middle class has been constituted transnationally through changing, unequal relationships and shifting racial and gender hierarchies, colonial practices, and religious divisions. That history raises questions about taking the robustness of the middle class as the measure of a society's stability and democratic promise. Those questions are among the many stimulated by The Making of the Middle Class, which invites critical conversation about capitalism, imperialism, postcolonialism, modernity, and our neoliberal present. Contributors. Susanne Eineigel, Michael A.Ervin, Iñigo García-Bryce, Enrique Garguin, Simon Gunn, Carol E. Harrison, Franca Iacovetta, Sanjay Joshi, Prashant Kidambi, A. Ricardo López, Gisela Mettele, Marina Moskowitz, Robyn Muncy, Brian Owensby, David S. Parker, Mrinalini Sinha, Mary Kay Vaughan, Daniel J. Walkowitz, Keith David Watenpaugh, Barbara Weinstein, Michael O. West
This is the first comprehensive international atlas featuring all ecological services provided by Ramsar wetlands, with complete views of all Ramsar sites, through remote sensing and mapping. Written by an international expert on wetlands and remote sensing, this atlas is for a broad audience and compiles much-needed information on how the Ramsar wetlands are of significant value to the planet and society and can and should be managed in such a way that supports planetary sustainability. Focused on the 72 designated Ramsar sites along the western coasts of Alaska, Canada, California, Mexico, and the Central Pacific islands, each wetland is articulately documented with respect to its specific ecological functions and services. FEATURES Provides a comprehensive assessment of the key biophysical and societal elements of each Ramsar-designated wetland along the North American West Coast and Central Pacific Brings all designated Ramsar wetlands to the reader in one visually appealing compendium using geospatial technology Aids in highlighting the importance of and options for wetland conservation and restoration worldwide Explains the important role that wetlands play in environmental sustainability, directly supporting the global sustainable development goals of the United Nations Introduces the contributions of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands to global conservation and restoration This atlas is intended for wetland managers and policymakers involved in the Ramsar Convention activities and for wetland ecologists and other allied environmental scientists and practitioners, such as hydrologists, microbiologists, and botanists. It is also a valuable resource for researchers, faculty, and graduate students affiliated with programs such as wetland ecology, wetland management, environmental studies, environmental management, and survey of wetlands.
This book provides the practical basis for the use of remote sensing to accomplish landscape ecological projects, through the merging of theory and practice, with examples. This is a specialized application and both these topics have evolved rapidly in the past decade. This evolution is not in the previous edition, and indeed this update provides much new information and valuable ideas for the professional and assist in directing the training of new personnel. The new edition will feature a combination of landscape ecology metrics, quantitative field measurements, and geospatial analyses.
Filtered through the lens of the North American and European media, the Caribbean appears to be a series of idyllic landscapes-sanctuaries designed for sailing, diving, and basking in the sun on endless white sandy beaches. Conservation literature paints a similarly enticing portrait, describing the region as a habitat for endangered coral reefs and their denizens, parrots, butterflies, turtles, snails, and a myriad of plant species. In both versions, the image of the exotic landscape overshadows the rich island cultures that are both linguistically and politically diverse, but trapped in a global economy that offers few options for development. Popular depictions also overlook the reality that the region is fraught with environmental problems, including water and air pollution, solid waste mismanagement, destruction of ecosystems, deforestation, and the transition from agriculture to ranching. Bringing together ten essays by social scientists and activists, Beyond Sun and Sand provides the most comprehensive exploration to date of the range of environmental issues facing the region and the social movements that have developed to deal with them. The authors consider the role that global and regional political economies play in this process and provide valuable insight into Caribbean environmentalism. Many of the essays by prominent Caribbean analysts are made available for the first time in English.
The certification of the structural integrity of buildings, bridges, and mechanical components is one of the main goals of engineers. For civil engineers especially, understanding the tools available for infrastructure analysis is an essential part of designing, constructing, and maintaining safe and reliable structures. Fracture and Damage Mechanics for Structural Engineering of Frames: State-of-the-Art Industrial Applications outlines the latest computational tools, models, and methodologies surrounding the analysis of wall and frame load support and resilience. Emphasizing best practices in computational simulation for civil engineering applications, this reference work is invaluable to postgraduate students, academicians, and engineers in the field.
Closes the gap between bioscience and mathematics-based process engineering This book presents the most commonly employed approaches in the control of bioprocesses. It discusses the role that control theory plays in understanding the mechanisms of cellular and metabolic processes, and presents key results in various fields such as dynamic modeling, dynamic properties of bioprocess models, software sensors designed for the online estimation of parameters and state variables, and control and supervision of bioprocesses Control in Bioengineering and Bioprocessing: Modeling, Estimation and the Use of Sensors is divided into three sections. Part I, Mathematical preliminaries and overview of the control and monitoring of bioprocess, provides a general overview of the control and monitoring of bioprocesses, and introduces the mathematical framework necessary for the analysis and characterization of bioprocess dynamics. Part II, Observability and control concepts, presents the observability concepts which form the basis of design online estimation algorithms (software sensor) for bioprocesses, and reviews controllability of these concepts, including automatic feedback control systems. Part III, Software sensors and observer-based control schemes for bioprocesses, features six application cases including dynamic behavior of 3-dimensional continuous bioreactors; observability analysis applied to 2D and 3D bioreactors with inhibitory and non-inhibitory models; and regulation of a continuously stirred bioreactor via modeling error compensation. Applicable across all areas of bioprocess engineering, including food and beverages, biofuels and renewable energy, pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals, fermentation systems, product separation technologies, wastewater and solid-waste treatment technology, and bioremediation Provides a clear explanation of the mass-balance–based mathematical modelling of bioprocesses and the main tools for its dynamic analysis Offers industry-based applications on: myco-diesel for implementing "quality" of observability; developing a virtual sensor based on the Just-In-Time Model to monitor biological control systems; and virtual sensor design for state estimation in a photocatalytic bioreactor for hydrogen production Control in Bioengineering and Bioprocessing is intended as a foundational text for graduate level students in bioengineering, as well as a reference text for researchers, engineers, and other practitioners interested in the field of estimation and control of bioprocesses.
This volume brings together works on the development of scientific and technical knowledge in Europe between the 13th and 16th centuries, with a special focus on the Iberian Peninsula. These works, which rely heavily on the evidence provided by the written record, pay particular attention to the content of recipe books and technical treatises from the 15th and 16th centuries. The volume addresses issues such as manuscript and technical recipe book analysis, archaeological investigation of production areas and archaeometric analysis, presenting a holistic and comprehensive perspective of technical knowledge during the Middle Ages. It highlights different approaches and perspectives in the analysis of medieval technical and technological knowledge, in order to arrive at equally broad and complementary conclusions.
This book provides the practical basis for the use of remote sensing to accomplish landscape ecological projects, through the merging of theory and practice, with examples. This is a specialized application and both these topics have evolved rapidly in the past decade. This evolution is not in the previous edition, and indeed this update provides much new information and valuable ideas for the professional and assist in directing the training of new personnel. The new edition will feature a combination of landscape ecology metrics, quantitative field measurements, and geospatial analyses.
This book offers a comprehensive coverage of process simulation and flowsheeting, useful for undergraduate students of Chemical Engineering and Process Engineering as theoretical and practical support in Process Design, Process Simulation, Process Engineering, Plant Design, and Process Control courses. The main concepts related to process simulation and application tools are presented and discussed in the framework of typical problems found in engineering design. The topics presented in the chapters are organized in an inductive way, starting from the more simplistic simulations up to some complex problems.
This book has the power to be a transformative force in your life. Contained here are biblical teachings and wise counsel from men chosen by God to lead other men. Allow yourself the luxury of profiting what God has in store for you through this book. If you don't think you're reading this right now because God has a message for you, you have no idea how much He loves you. Read on and find out what The Brotherhood is all about, it just might change your life. Jacob Lopez Pastor Jacob is passionate about teaching God's Word. He loves to see people's lives transformed so they can fulfill their purpose, which is why he invests time in mentoring young adults and men through, "The Brotherhood" ministry. His advice is: "Put yourself aside and let God decide." He is married to Jamaira Lopez and has 2 children. Jonathan Soto Pastoring both a Spanish and English congregation, Principe de Paz and Urban Hope, respectively, is now his only passion. This vocation has now restored him in Passaic as a Community Leader, Public Servant and Creative Visionary. He is currently a candidate in the M.Div. Leadership program at Pillar College, in NJ and he is married to Carmen Soto and has 2 children. Ricardo Cortijo Pastor Rick Cortijo has more than 20 years of ministry. His ministerial career includes youth pastor, radio host and evangelist. He has pastored two congregations; travels Internationally giving campaigns, couples workshops, and leadership training. He has been married to Melanie Cortijo for 26 years and they have 3 children. Gabriel Castro Gabriel is a speaker, licensed minister from the Assemblies of God, and the President of Gabriel O. Castro Ministries, Inc. God has blessed him with a M.Div. from the Alliance Theological Seminary of Nyack College. He is married to Cynthia Marie Castro and they have 1 son, Micah Joel.
Que feriez-vous s'il ne vous restait plus que six jours à vivre ? C'est la question que se pose Brenton Demm, l'un des treize agents du groupe d'intervention Horizon, lorsque l'énergie dévastatrice du Broyeur menace d'atomiser la Terre. Le problème, c'est que depuis le jour où il a survécu à une catastrophe dont il était lui-même responsable, Demm se fiche pas mal du sort de la planète...
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