Both the introductory study and individual play annotations provide readers with valuable information that enriches an understanding of Monti's theater without detracting from each play's stageworthiness.
This book presents the results of the most complete and updated assessment of cognitive resources of students in Latin America: the Study of Latin American Intelligence (SLATINT). During four years, top researchers of the region used a standardized set of cognitive measures to assess 4,000 students aged between 14 and 15 years from six countries: Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Peru. The data collected and now analyzed in this volume is a first step to understand the human cognitive capital of the region, a crucial resource for any country today. Intelligence research has shown that the cognitive skills of a population are strongly associated with the school performance of its students and the development of a nation. This makes Intelligence Measurement and School Performance in Latin America a valuable tool both for Latin American researchers and authorities engaged in the improvement of each country’s human resources and for psychologists, educators and other social scientists dedicated to the study of the impact of intelligence in the development of nations.
Dreams, hopes, and struggles flower in the barrio and el Corazon de Aztlan to create moments of hope, love, and joy, as well as times of sacrifice, disappointment and pain. Hear their voices. See their images of tenderness, which reveal love, power, light, mystery, and sorrow. A new generation emerges among us, seeking the sun and sky in search of oneness. With great pride we will listen and observe the voices and images. We will honor the artists and writers who find a way to create and communicate their souls through their art. Youthful, energetic, and vibrant, they sing the song of the lives we live. Provocative, sensitive, soulful, lively, humorous, these works are our internal survival kits that sustain us in a world where we were once ashamed to proclaim our Mexicanness, in a dominant American culture where those on the outside were invisible. These works proclaim a positive link to our cultural heritage, positively and lovingly. The writers wrote to express their voices-living in a world that is both American and Mexican. These creative expressions are part of their social and cultural fabric, unique to their time and cultural place in Southern California. We desire that you enjoy our first publication of En Aztlan and that you will support our efforts to do more to empower our inspired artists, writers, and student leaders in MEChA, who are dedicated to community service. With great enthusiasm we introduce to you the very talented artists, writers, and leaders-En Aztlan.
2021 Illumination Book Awards, Bronze Medal: Education What do I want to do? Who do I want to be? In other words, how do I discover God’s dream for me? Realizing the answers to these questions begins by opening our hearts and listening to the voice deep inside us—God’s voice. Once we learn to do that, we can discern our gifts, purpose, and path in life. We can respond to God’s call to action. Based on his experience of making the Spiritual Exercises under the direction of Father Jorge Bergoglio, SJ, now Pope Francis, Brother Ricardo Grzona, FRP, offers twenty-one lectio divina encounters with God’s Word. Through the prayerful reading of the Scriptures, followed by reflection, prayer, and contemplation guided by Grzona’s prompts, we can begin to discern our path to God’s call. Lord, You Called Me: Discerning Your Path in Life can be used as a daily reader for a self-led, 21-day retreat or as guide for meditative prayer whenever time allows. This book will also be useful for fruitful discussion in a prayer group or as a text for youth retreats with a spiritual director.
A key challenge in science and engineering is to provide a quantitative description of the systems under investigation, leveraging the noisy data collected. Such a description may be a complete mathematical model or a mechanism to return controllers corresponding to new, unseen inputs. Recent advances in the theories are described in detail, along with their applications in engineering. The book aims to develop model-free system analysis and control strategies, i.e., data-driven control from theoretical analysis and engineering applications based only on measured data. The study aims to develop system identification, and combination in advanced control theory, i.e., data-driven control strategy as system and controller are generated from measured data directly. The book reviews the development of system identification and its combination in advanced control theory, i.e., data-driven control strategy, as they all depend on measured data. Firstly, data-driven identification is developed for the closed-loop, nonlinear system and model validation, i.e., obtaining model descriptions from measured data. Secondly, the data-driven idea is combined with some control strategies to be considered data-driven control strategies, such as data-driven model predictive control, data-driven iterative tuning control, and data-driven subspace predictive control. Thirdly data-driven identification and data-driven control strategies are applied to interested engineering. In this context, the book provides algorithms to perform state estimation of dynamical systems from noisy data and some convex optimization algorithms through identification and control problems.
Padrón reveals the evolution of Spain’s imagining of the New World as a space in continuity with Asia. Narratives of Europe’s westward expansion often tell of how the Americas came to be known as a distinct landmass, separate from Asia and uniquely positioned as new ground ripe for transatlantic colonialism. But this geographic vision of the Americas was not shared by all Europeans. While some imperialists imagined North and Central America as undiscovered land, the Spanish pushed to define the New World as part of a larger and eminently flexible geography that they called las Indias, and that by right, belonged to the Crown of Castile and León. Las Indias included all of the New World as well as East and Southeast Asia, although Spain’s understanding of the relationship between the two areas changed as the realities of the Pacific Rim came into sharper focus. At first, the Spanish insisted that North and Central America were an extension of the continent of Asia. Eventually, they came to understand East and Southeast Asia as a transpacific extension of their empire in America called las Indias del poniente, or the Indies of the Setting Sun. The Indies of the Setting Sun charts the Spanish vision of a transpacific imperial expanse, beginning with Balboa’s discovery of the South Sea and ending almost a hundred years later with Spain’s final push for control of the Pacific. Padrón traces a series of attempts—both cartographic and discursive—to map the space from Mexico to Malacca, revealing the geopolitical imaginations at play in the quest for control of the New World and Asia.
Metaheuristic optimization has become a prime alternative for solving complex optimization problems in several areas. Hence, practitioners and researchers have been paying extensive attention to those metaheuristic algorithms that are mainly based on natural phenomena. However, when those algorithms are implemented, there are not enough books that deal with theoretical and experimental problems in a friendly manner so this book presents a novel structure that includes a complete description of the most important metaheuristic optimization algorithms as well as a new proposal of a new metaheuristic optimization named earthquake optimization. This book also has several practical exercises and a toolbox for MATLAB® and a toolkit for LabVIEW are integrated as complementary material for this book. These toolkits allow readers to move from a simulation environment to an experimentation one very fast. This book is suitable for researchers, students, and professionals in several areas, such as economics, architecture, computer science, electrical engineering, and control systems. The unique features of this book are as follows: Developed for researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, and practitioners A friendly description of the main metaheuristic optimization algorithms Theoretical and practical optimization examples A new earthquake optimization algorithm Updated state-of-the-art and research optimization projects The authors are multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary lecturers and researchers who have written a structure-friendly learning methodology to understand each metaheuristic optimization algorithm presented in this book.
Introducción a los últimos avances en los principales modelos lingüísticos actuales, es decir, la Gramática Generativa, la Gramática del Papel y la Referencia, la Lingüística Sistémico-Funcional y la Gramática Cognitiva. Libro especialmente diseñado para los alumnos de la asignatura Modelos Teóricos Descriptivos de la Lengua Inglesa de la Licenciatura de Filología Inglesa de la UNED.
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