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Feeds for the Aquaculture Sector

Current Situation and Alternative Sources

By: Laura Gasco,Francesco Gai,Giulia Maricchiolo,Lucrezia Genovese,Sergio Ragonese,Teresa Bottari,Gabriella Caruso

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Feeds for the Aquaculture Sector

Current Situation and Alternative Sources

By: Laura Gasco,Francesco Gai,Giulia Maricchiolo,Lucrezia Genovese,Sergio Ragonese,Teresa Bottari,Gabriella Caruso

This Brief discusses potential alternative sources for feeds in aquaculture fish diet, and explains that the future of aquaculture’s development is dependent on the costs of fishmeal and fish oil. Considering that the increasing costs of traditional feeds constrain this development, research is looking into alternatives, which can ensure adequate nutrition for animals’ growth. This work reviews the use of alternative plant, microbial and insect protein sources, evaluating in particular their impact on growth, nutrient digestibility, fillet quality traits and sensorial perception in the most important farmed marine and freshwater fish species. The Brief specifically summarizes the pros and cons of plant oils from oilseeds, which can on the one hand be a sustainable substitute for fish oil, but which are on the other hand less rich in omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. The feeding might therefore result in an undesired reduced nutritional value of the flesh of farmed fish. The authors also explore the possible use of fishery discards as potential aquaculture feed source. Since the landing of by-catch will with the new Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) become obligatory (instead of simply returning it to the sea, often dead), suitable uses of what must not be used for human consumption can be investigated. The authors give an outlook whether this might become a sensible alternative to improve the management of discards and create more sustainable fisheries. The Brief also addresses the issues of additives to aquafeeds, such as vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, but also immunostimulants and enzymes. The authors discuss which effects these additives may have on fish growth, welfare, reproduction and health status in aquacultures.

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3319779419

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The Right Privatization

By: Sergio G. Lazzarini

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The Right Privatization

By: Sergio G. Lazzarini

Privatization requires the presence of capable governments setting clear goals, addressing potential hazards of private engagement, and exploring multiple paths of improvement.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316519716

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El Partido Democrático de Chile

Auge y ocaso de una organización política popular (1887-1927)

By: Sergio Grez Toso

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El Partido Democrático de Chile

Auge y ocaso de una organización política popular (1887-1927)

By: Sergio Grez Toso

Este libro reconstruye minuciosamente la trayectoria de la primera organización política popular chilena, el Partido Democrático, desde su nacimiento en 1887 hasta la instauración de la dictadura de Ibáñez en 1927, período durante el cual alcanzó su máxima influencia antes de iniciar su largo y definitivo ocaso. Presenta una visión de conjunto, a la vez que detallada, de la época más importante de la vida de este partido, ofreciendo explicaciones tanto sobre su desarrollo y auge como sobre su integración al sistema parlamentarista, su creciente corrupción, distanciamiento con los movimientos sociales emergentes en la segunda y tercera década del siglo XX e inevitable decadencia.

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LOM Ediciones

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9560009133

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Cultures in Human-Computer Interaction

By: Sergio Sayago

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Cultures in Human-Computer Interaction

By: Sergio Sayago

This book provides an interdisciplinary synthesis of the topic of culture in the context of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and a structured overview of a large body of HCI research on (and with) culture. The book presents a short and guided overview of the concept of culture. It offers some background on the origin and development of the term culture. It also outlines some of its key traits and ingredients and summarizes three main perspectives of culture across disciplines. The book argues that culture matters considerably in HCI and discusses a number of reasons for and against its relevance. Arguments against include a lack of a universal or common definition of the term culture and globalization. Arguments in favor touch upon important aspects of HCI, including a diversely growing user base, the need to provide designers with enough support to design across cultures, and the inseparable relationship between culture and technology. The issues explored in this book can be classified into three, non-mutually exclusive, categories: theoretical, practical, and controversial. The book outlines the main conceptual perspectives of culture within HCI, including Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory, Edward T. Hall’s cross-cultural theory of communication, and Richard Nisbett’s cultural cognitive systems of thought as well as examining the ways in which culture has been operationalized in HCI research and the main functions of culture in this area. It closes with a discussion of some open issues intended to spark debate and future research. The literature this book draws upon covers a wide range of research disciplines, including Anthropology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Robotics, Disability Studies, Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology, Usability, and Design. This book aspires to provide a useful overview of culture for HCI scholars at all levels.

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3031302435

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Power in Practice

The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira

By: Sergio González Varela

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Power in Practice

The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira

By: Sergio González Varela

Considering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual art form, Varela describes ethnographically the importance that capoeira leaders (mestres) have in the social configuration of a style called Angola in Bahia, Brazil. He analyzes how individual power is essential for an understanding of the modern history of capoeira, and for the themes of embodiment, play, cosmology, and ritual action. The book also emphasizes the great significance that creativity and aesthetic expression have for capoeira’s practice and performance.

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1785336363

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Culture and Policy-Making

Pluralism, Performativity, and Semiotic Capital

By: Marco Cremaschi,Carlotta Fioretti,Terri Mannarini,Sergio Salvatore

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Culture and Policy-Making

Pluralism, Performativity, and Semiotic Capital

By: Marco Cremaschi,Carlotta Fioretti,Terri Mannarini,Sergio Salvatore

This book advances the understanding and modelling of sensemaking and cultural processes as being crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies. It outlines a dynamic, processual conception of culture and a general view of the role of cultural dynamics in policy-making, drawing three significant methodological implications: pluralism, performativity, and semiotic capital. It focuses on the theoretical and methodological aspects of the analysis of culture and its dynamics that could be applied to the developing of policymaking and, in general, to the understanding of social phenomena. It draws from the experience and data of a large-scale project, RECRIRE, funded by the H2020 program that mapped the symbolic universes across Europe after the economic crisis. It further develops the relationship between culture and policy-making discussed in two previous volumes in this series, and constitutes the ideal third and final element of this trilogy. The book is a useful tool for academics involved in studying cultural dynamics and for policy-oriented researchers and decision-makers attentive to the cultural dimensions of the design, implementation and reception of public policies.

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3030719677

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Grammatical Features and the Acquisition of Reference

A Comparative Study of Dutch and Spanish

By: Sergio Baauw

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Grammatical Features and the Acquisition of Reference

A Comparative Study of Dutch and Spanish

By: Sergio Baauw

This book discusses to what extent errors young children make with their interpretation of definite articles and pronouns are due to their immature pragmatic skills, and to what extent incomplete syntactic development plays a role.

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1136711333

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Central Pain Syndrome

Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management

By: Sergio Canavero,Vincenzo Bonicalzi

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Central Pain Syndrome

Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management

By: Sergio Canavero,Vincenzo Bonicalzi

A fully updated new edition of this definitive, unrivalled, no-nonsense textbook, Central Pain Syndrome: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management provides new treatment guidelines that aid the reader in effective management. • Encyclopedic coverage of all drug and surgical therapies, including the hot field of non-invasive and invasive cortical stimulation • 26 totally rewritten chapters include expanded sections on deep brain, spinal and other forms of stimulation, and a chapter on the efficacy of alternative and complementary medicine • Critical analysis of all current competing theories, including an expanded account of the leading dynamic reverberation theory which now incorporates a cortical attractor-based model • Clear-cut indications on drug usage, with black boxes for ineffective or dangerous drugs A classic textbook widely hailed on patients' websites, this is key reading for medical specialists and trainees in pain management, neurology, neurosurgery and anesthesiology, as well as for patients

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1107010217

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XX ANOS DO PPG EM MÚSICA DO IA-UNESP

I VOLUME

By: Sergio Leal,Nayana Di Giuseppe Germano,Rafael Y Castro,Samuel Pompeo,Flávio H. Monteiro Gomes,Leonardo K. de Oliveira,Eduardo Flores Gianesella,José Rodrigo Santos Velho,Carlos C. Iafelice

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XX ANOS DO PPG EM MÚSICA DO IA-UNESP

I VOLUME

By: Sergio Leal,Nayana Di Giuseppe Germano,Rafael Y Castro,Samuel Pompeo,Flávio H. Monteiro Gomes,Leonardo K. de Oliveira,Eduardo Flores Gianesella,José Rodrigo Santos Velho,Carlos C. Iafelice

Esta coletânea contempla os textos de egressos e discentes do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Música do IA-UNESP indicados pelos docentes, em comemoração aos XX anos de implantação do Programa. Os artigos selecionados de 2018 a 2023 não resumem as teses e dissertações dos discentes e egressos, são uma extensão de suas pesquisas. Constam da publicação, além dos textos inéditos, o resumo curricular dos autores, a atividade profissional que desempenham, o impacto de suas pesquisas para a área, além do nome dos docentes que orientaram as teses e dissertações, todas elas alinhadas às linhas de pesquisa que norteiam o PPG. No intuito de contemplar todos os textos indicados pelos orientadores, foi necessário dividir a produção intelectual dos discentes e egressos em três volumes.

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Tesseractum Editorial

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6589867704

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Stochastic Processes, Physics and Geometry: New Interplays. II

New Interplays : a Volume in Honor of Sergio Albeverio : Proceedings of the Conference on Infinite Dimensional (Stochastic) Analysis and Quantum Physics, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, January 18-22, 1999

By: Sergio Albeverio,Fritz Gesztesy

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Stochastic Processes, Physics and Geometry: New Interplays. II

By: Sergio Albeverio,Fritz Gesztesy

This volume and Stochastic Processes, Physics and Geometry: New Interplays I present state-of-the-art research currently unfolding at the interface between mathematics and physics. Included are select articles from the international conference held in Leipzig (Germany) in honor of Sergio Albeverio's sixtieth birthday. The theme of the conference, "Infinite Dimensional (Stochastic) Analysis and Quantum Physics", was chosen to reflect Albeverio's wide-ranging scientific interests. The articles in these books reflect that broad range of interests and provide a detailed overview highlighting the deep interplay among stochastic processes, mathematical physics, and geometry. The contributions are written by internationally recognized experts in the fields of stochastic analysis, linear and nonlinear (deterministic and stochastic) PDEs, infinite dimensional analysis, functional analysis, commutative and noncommutative probability theory, integrable systems, quantum and statistical mechanics, geometric quantization, and neural networks. Also included are applications in biology and other areas. Most of the contributions are high-level research papers. However, there are also some overviews on topics of general interest. The articles selected for publication in these volumes were specifically chosen to introduce readers to advanced topics, to emphasize interdisciplinary connections, and to stress future research directions. Volume I contains contributions from invited speakers; Volume II contains additional contributed papers. Members of the Canadian Mathematical Society may order at the AMS member price.

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0821819607

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Corruption in Cuba

Castro and Beyond

By: Sergio Díaz-Briquets,Jorge F. Pérez-López

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Corruption in Cuba

Castro and Beyond

By: Sergio Díaz-Briquets,Jorge F. Pérez-López

While Fidel Castro maintained his longtime grip on Cuba, revolutionary scholars and policy analysts turned their attention from how Castro succeeded (and failed), to how Castro himself would be succeeded—by a new government. Among the many questions to be answered was how the new government would deal with the corruption that has become endemic in Cuba. Even though combating corruption cannot be the central aim of post-Castro policy, Sergio Díaz-Briquets and Jorge Pérez-López suggest that, without a strong plan to thwart it, corruption will undermine the new economy, erode support for the new government, and encourage organized crime. In short, unless measures are taken to stem corruption, the new Cuba could be as messy as the old Cuba. Fidel Castro did not bring corruption to Cuba; he merely institutionalized it. Official corruption has crippled Cuba since the colonial period, but Castro's state-run monopolies, cronyism, and lack of accountability have made Cuba one of the world's most corrupt states. The former communist countries in Eastern Europe were also extremely corrupt, and analyses of their transitional periods suggest that those who have taken measures to control corruption have had more successful transitions, regardless of whether the leadership tilted toward socialism or democracy. To that end, Díaz-Briquets and Pérez-López, both Cuban Americans, do not advocate any particular system for Cuba's next government, but instead prescribe uniquely Cuban policies to minimize corruption whatever direction the country takes after Castro. As their work makes clear, averting corruption may be the most critical obstacle in creating a healthy new Cuba.

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University of Texas Press

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0292789424

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Mathematical Theory of Feynman Path Integrals

An Introduction

By: Sergio Albeverio,Rafael Høegh-Krohn,Sonia Mazzucchi

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Mathematical Theory of Feynman Path Integrals

An Introduction

By: Sergio Albeverio,Rafael Høegh-Krohn,Sonia Mazzucchi

The 2nd edition of LNM 523 is based on the two first authors' mathematical approach of this theory presented in its 1st edition in 1976. An entire new chapter on the current forefront of research has been added. Except for this new chapter and the correction of a few misprints, the basic material and presentation of the first edition has been maintained. At the end of each chapter the reader will also find notes with further bibliographical information.

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3540769560

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An English Suggestopedic Textbook

By: Paulo Sergio Santos Negrete | Teacher John Chapman

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An English Suggestopedic Textbook

By: Paulo Sergio Santos Negrete | Teacher John Chapman

The present English textbook is in accordance with the theoretical development of Suggestopedia teaching and its newest development, Desuggestopedia The book reflects the theory of Suggestopedia in its integrity: The global and artistic approaches. Suggestopedia is the only method approved and recommended by UNESCO as being a superior method to any other. It accelerates the learning process several times without stress or fatigue. The Suggestopedic teaching through this book can also produce a variety of positive by-products, such as psychoprophylactic and psychotherapeutic effects. During the Suggestopedic teaching, there is simultaneous activation of the left and right hemispheres of the brain, although in different degrees. Students fell and report pleasant learning while they develop creative memory through logical-emotional and conscious-paraconscious activities in class The author of the textbook, Prof. Paulo Negrete, aka "Teacher John Chapman", has been trained and certified by Dr. Lozanov, the creator of Suggestopedia and the science of Suggestology, and has worked in the field of English teaching through Suggestopedia for many years. He was the pioneer to introduce Suggestopedia in Brazil, in 2000, is the author of books to train teachers in TEFL/TESOL in Suggestopedia, and is the Academic Director of Idiomos Aprendizagem Acelerada in Brazil.

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8591184602

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A Concise History of Brazil

By: Boris Fausto,Sergio Fausto

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A Concise History of Brazil

By: Boris Fausto,Sergio Fausto

The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil features a new chapter that covers the critical time period from 1990 to the present, focusing on Brazil's increasing global economic importance as well as its continued democratic development.

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1107036208

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The Science of Climbing Training

An evidence-based guide to improving your climbing performance

By: Sergio Consuegra

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The Science of Climbing Training

An evidence-based guide to improving your climbing performance

By: Sergio Consuegra

When it comes to training for climbing, there is an overwhelming amount of information out there. In The Science of Climbing Training, top Spanish climbing coach Sergio Consuegra has analysed our sporting needs from the perspective of exercise and sports science to provide an evidence-based approach to training for climbing. It is designed to help us improve climbing performance, whether we're taking the next step in our training as we work towards a project, or if we're a coach looking to optimise our athletes' training. It doesn't contain any 'magic' training methods, because there are none – although you might be shocked by the science behind some popular methods. The first part explains what training is and how different training methods are governed by the physiological and biomechanical processes that occur in the body. The second part looks at how to improve specific needs (such as finger strength and forearm muscle endurance) and general needs (such as basic physical conditioning, pulling strength, pushing strength, strength training for injury prevention) for the different demands and types of climbing and bouldering. The third and final part suggests the best ways to fit it all together. It looks at adjusting training volume and intensity, and tapering to encourage supercompensation, all to help us achieve improved performance, whether it's a breaking into a higher grade, ticking that long-standing project or climbing a dream route.

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Vertebrate Publishing

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1839811838

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Brazil and the Americas

Convergences and Perspectives

By: Peter Birle,Sergio Costa

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Brazil and the Americas

Convergences and Perspectives

By: Peter Birle,Sergio Costa

A view from outside Brazil that seeks to understand how Brazilian society is responding to the processes of global integration. Also documents the plurality of ways that social actors and analysts interpret the transformations.

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8484893758

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Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota and its Intercontinental Affinities

By: Marcelo Reguero,Francisco Goin,Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche,Tania Dutra,Sergio Marenssi

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Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota and its Intercontinental Affinities

By: Marcelo Reguero,Francisco Goin,Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche,Tania Dutra,Sergio Marenssi

One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals, etc., recovered from uppermost Cretaceous/ Paleogene deposits of West Antarctica, South America, and NewZealand/Australia. For some twenty five extensive and productive investigations in the field of vertebrate paleontology has been carried out in latest Cretaceous and Paleogene deposits in the James Ross Basin, northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP), West Antarctica, on the exposed sequences on James Ross, Vega, Seymour (=Marambio) and Snow Hill islands respectively. The available geological, geophysical and marine faunistic evidence indicates that the peninsular (AP) part of West Antarctica and the western part of the tip of South America (Magallanic Region, southern Chile) were positioned very close in the latest Cretaceous and early Paleogene favoring the “Overlapping” model of South America-Antarctic Peninsula paleogeographic reconstruction. Late Cretaceous deposits from Vega, James Ross, Seymour and Snow Hill islands have produced a discrete number of dinosaur taxa and a number of advanced birds together with four mosasaur and three plesiosaur taxa, and a few shark and teleostean taxa.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400754914

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Sustainable procurement

The power of public and private consumption for an inclusive green economy

By: Luciana Stocco Betiol,Thiago Hector Kanashiro Uehara,Florence Karine Laloe,Gabriela Alem Appugliese,Sergio Adeodato,Ligia Ramos,Mario Prestes Monzoni Neto

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Sustainable procurement

The power of public and private consumption for an inclusive green economy

By: Luciana Stocco Betiol,Thiago Hector Kanashiro Uehara,Florence Karine Laloe,Gabriela Alem Appugliese,Sergio Adeodato,Ligia Ramos,Mario Prestes Monzoni Neto

“It's a fight against time." That is how the book begins, presenting a historical background of how the topic of sustainable production and consumption was included in the global agenda and reached Brazil. It is clear in the work who and what the potential actors and instruments that interact for that purpose are. In a fun way, thematic infographics show the impact from consumption and production, inspired by Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). In Chapters 2 and 3, readers will find inspiring examples of institutional procurement collected through exclusive interviews, news articles, corporate reports and scientific articles describing successful experiences in the public and private sectors, highlighting which institutions broke the resistance and became protagonists in the use of transformation potential through sustainable consumption and production. In Chapter 4, under a guidance perspective, two tools are recommended for continuously improving management of public and business procurement - the former was developed by ICLEI, for the Procura+ campaign, and the latter by the UN Global Compact. Also, propositions are presented in order to incorporate sustainability attributes in the procurement and supply management systems. Based on our experiences with consultancies and projects in partnership with governments, business platforms and academic researches, a survey was conducted with about 50 institutions, among public bodies and businesses, organizing lessons learnt and calling attention for facilitators and barriers of institutional consumption aimed at sustainability. Among the institutions we surveyed, we picked up the examples described in this work. Finally, in Chapter 5, under an integrated perspective of sectors and actors, including individual consumers, we made a critical analysis of the advancements and challenges faced in the past years, and point to guidelines for the future of the so-wanted 'inclusive green economy', considering institutional procurement as an essential tool to (re)build a global scenario that is more favorable to sustainable development.

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Public Administration and Citizenship Program

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8587426311

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Las Crónicas de Metrópolis / En Resumen

By: Sergio Torres

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Las Crónicas de Metrópolis / En Resumen

By: Sergio Torres

Un resumen de las historia sucedidas en Metrópolis en los últimos años.

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1291222081

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Muerte en una estrella / Shooting Star

By: Sergio D. Elizondo

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Muerte en una estrella / Shooting Star

By: Sergio D. Elizondo

In this haunting novel about two young vatos, author Sergio Elizondo eulogizes scar Balboa and ValentÕn RodrÕguez, who are sixteen and nineteen respectively when they are shot and killed by the police in Austin, Texas. On leave from Camp Gary, a youth training facility in nearby San Marcos, the two ñstrutting icons of Raza manhood worthy of a guitar balladî are the novelÍs principal voices as they lie dying. In other chapters, Oscar remembers traveling north with his parents as a young boy to pick crops and joining farm workersÍ protest marches. Songs of all typessymphonic, orchestral and protestinfuse the narrative: ñWeÍll summon the spirit of a poet so that he can adapt our peopleÍs story through time and set it to music.î ElizondoÍs short and tragic novel bears witness to la razaÍs struggles for rights, whether in the fields, the work place or on college campuses. Originally published in Spanish and now available for the first time in English, this classic of Mexican-American literature provides insight into the Chicano civil rights movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Muerte en una estrella / Shooting Star is a profoundly disturbing and moving denunciation of bigotry and discrimination.

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1558857869

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Biological Invasions in the South American Anthropocene

Global Causes and Local Impacts

By: Fabián M. Jaksic,Sergio A. Castro

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Biological Invasions in the South American Anthropocene

Global Causes and Local Impacts

By: Fabián M. Jaksic,Sergio A. Castro

This book provides a conceptually organized framework to understand the phenomenon of biological invasions at the Anthropocene global scale. Most advances toward that aim have been provided from North American and European researchers, with fewer contributions from Australia and South Africa. Here we fill the void from the Neotropics, focusing on the research experience in South American countries, with a strong emphasis on Argentina and Chile. The text is divided into two parts: The first half comprises self-contained chapters, providing a conceptual, bibliographic and empirical foundation in the field of invasion biology, from an Anthropocene perspective. The second half reviews the ecology, biogeography, and local impacts in South America of exotic species groups (European rabbit, Eurasian wild boar, Canadian beaver, North American mink, and Holarctic freshwater fishes), which are shown to be useful models for case studies of global relevance.

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3030563790

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Variational Methods in Image Segmentation

with seven image processing experiments

By: Jean-Michel Morel,Sergio Solimini

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Variational Methods in Image Segmentation

with seven image processing experiments

By: Jean-Michel Morel,Sergio Solimini

This book contains both a synthesis and mathematical analysis of a wide set of algorithms and theories whose aim is the automatic segmen tation of digital images as well as the understanding of visual perception. A common formalism for these theories and algorithms is obtained in a variational form. Thank to this formalization, mathematical questions about the soundness of algorithms can be raised and answered. Perception theory has to deal with the complex interaction between regions and "edges" (or boundaries) in an image: in the variational seg mentation energies, "edge" terms compete with "region" terms in a way which is supposed to impose regularity on both regions and boundaries. This fact was an experimental guess in perception phenomenology and computer vision until it was proposed as a mathematical conjecture by Mumford and Shah. The third part of the book presents a unified presentation of the evi dences in favour of the conjecture. It is proved that the competition of one-dimensional and two-dimensional energy terms in a variational for mulation cannot create fractal-like behaviour for the edges. The proof of regularity for the edges of a segmentation constantly involves con cepts from geometric measure theory, which proves to be central in im age processing theory. The second part of the book provides a fast and self-contained presentation of the classical theory of rectifiable sets (the "edges") and unrectifiable sets ("fractals").

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1468405675

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Mycotoxins: Biochemical Approach

By: SEVERO DE SOUZA DINIZ,SERGIO PAULO

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Mycotoxins: Biochemical Approach

By: SEVERO DE SOUZA DINIZ,SERGIO PAULO

This book presents a number of mycotoxins of great importance for animal and human health. Also, emphasizing mycotoxins with pharmaceutical relevance.

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8568878636

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9788568878637

Tort Law in Spain

By: Sergio Nasarre-Aznar

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Tort Law in Spain

By: Sergio Nasarre-Aznar

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides ready access to how the legal dimension of prevention against harm and loss allocation is treated in the Spain. This traditional branch of law not only tackles questions which concern every lawyer, whatever his legal expertise, but also concerns each person’s most fundamental rights on a worldwide scale. Following a general introduction that probes the distinction between tort and crime and the relationship between tort and contract, the monograph describes how the concepts of fault and unlawfulness, and of duty of care and negligence, are dealt with in both the legislature and the courts. The book then proceeds to cover specific cases of liability, such as professional liability, liability of public bodies, abuse of rights, injury to reputation and privacy, vicarious liability, liability of parents and teachers, liability for handicapped persons, product liability, environmental liability, and liability connected with road and traffic accidents. Principles of causation, grounds of justification, limitations on recovery, assessment of damages and compensation, and the role of private insurance and social security are all closely considered. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable resource for lawyers in Spain. Academics and researchers will also welcome this very useful guide, and will appreciate its value not only as a contribution to comparative law but also as a stimulus to harmonization of the rules on tort.

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356

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9403546948

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9789403546940

State Tax Competition ("Guerra Fiscal")

comparative study of the Brazilian and Swiss tax collection power and revenue sharing systems

By: Sergio Mitsuo Vilela

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State Tax Competition ("Guerra Fiscal")

comparative study of the Brazilian and Swiss tax collection power and revenue sharing systems

By: Sergio Mitsuo Vilela

Brazil has a very peculiar tax collection power distribution and revenue sharing system, that splits three way the consumption tax, giving taxation powers over goods circulation to the States, over services to the Municipalities and over production to the Union. The Brazilian State circulation of goods tax, whose regulations require unanimity to incentives and benefits concessions, even though the 27 Brazilian States development state are disparate, generates a "fiscal war" / State competition that costs 30 billion Brazilian Reais (6 billion Swiss Francs) yearly and the attempts at settling State Competition are clearly failing, while Switzerland, which has a similar political organization, seems to have a reasonable and functional system. This dissertation, requirement for the obtaining the title of Doctor in International Tax law, takes a case study approach to compare these two systems, specifically taxable events, financial transfer mechanisms and their rules to avoid State / Canton tax competition to assess if the Swiss system for tax collection power distribution and revenue sharing is a feasible solution to reduce the adverse effects of State tax competition in Brazil.

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Editora Dialética

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6525294584

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Capoeira, Mobility, and Tourism

Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World

By: Sergio González Varela

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Capoeira, Mobility, and Tourism

Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World

By: Sergio González Varela

In Capoeira, Mobility, and Tourism: Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World, Sergio González Varela examines the mobility of capoeira leaders and practitioners. He analyzes their motivations and spirituality as well as their ability to reconfigure social practices. Varela draws on tourism mobilities, multisited ethnography, global networks, heritage, and the anthropology of ritual and religion in order to stress the commitment, dedication, and value that international practitioners bring to capoeira. For more information, check out A Conversation with Sergio González Varela.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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149857033X

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9781498570336

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