This book is devoted to some recently developed techniques in quantum field theory (QFT), as well as to their main applications to different areas of parti cle physics. All together they are known as the effective or phenomenological Lagrangian formalism. Motivated by the enormous amount of work carried out in this field during the last years, our purpose when writing this book has been to give a modern and pedagogical exposition of the most relevant as pects of the topic. We hope that our efforts will be useful, both for graduated students in the search for a solid theoretical background in modern phe nomenology and for more experimented particle physicists willing to learn about this field or to start working on it. Even though we have tried to keep the book as self-contained as possible, it has been written assuming that the reader is familiar, at least, with the most basic concepts and techniques of QFT, gauge theories, the standard model (SM) and differential geometry, at the level of graduate studies. It is therefore possible that senior high-energy physicists may find the book too detailed and so they could probably omit several sections. The book is divided into two main parts and the appendices. In the first part we introduce the fundamentals of the effective Lagrangian formalism and other basic topics such as Ward identities, non-linear sigma models (NLSM), spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB), anomalies, the SM symmetries, etc."

English Pronunciation for Speakers of Spanish fills a gaping hole in the market for books on English phonetics and pronunciation because it not only combines theoretical issues and applications to practice, but it also adopts a contrastive English-Spanish approach to better suit the needs of Spanish-speaking learners of English (SSLE), enabling them to build gradually on the knowledge gained in each chapter. The book covers the key concepts of English phonetics and phonology in seven chapters written in an accessible and engaging style: 1. Phonetics and Phonology 2. The Production and Classification of Speech Sounds 3. Vowels and Glides 4. Consonants 5. Segment Dynamics: Aspects of Connected Speech 6. Beyond the Segment: Stress and Intonation 7. Predicting Pronunciation from Spelling (and vice versa) Features: in-text audio illustrations, as well as over a hundred written and audio exercises with corresponding keys and different kinds of artwork (Tables, Figures, illustrations, spectrograms, etc.) classic readings in the discipline in the Further Reading section of each chapter highlights the phonetic contrasts and specific cues that are more important to aid comprehension in English and offers guidelines on "correct" pronunciation habits to help SSLE sound as close as possible to native English The book's companion website, EPSS Multimedia Lab, can be used on computers, smartphones and tablets, and is useful for the self-taught student and the busy lecturer alike. Features of the website: a complete sound bank defining and illustrating the sounds of English RP as compared with those of Peninsular Spanish written definitions and animated diagrams, videos and original recordings (by native speakers of English and Spanish) showing the articulation of each sound, alongside its most common spellings, as well as pronunciation practice for individual words and whole sentences a comprehensive selection of over a hundred written and audio exercises (with their keys) for practice both at home or in the language lab audio files corresponding to the audio illustrations given in the written book a repository of useful resources by topics and a list of online glossaries and pronunciation dictionaries

To understand this book you have to go back to 1990.
I was 22 and the recession was on in Australia.
I lived alone in my one bedroom flat and got into the music and club scene.
Overnight I started to write poetry everyday and bought my first acoustic guitar.
The experience was profoundly spiritual and at times supernatural.
I knew then that I had a calling and that I would follow it my whole life.
I published my first book in 1997 (Dream Engineering) and will republish it next.
I will also publish another much larger collection that is Dream Engineering unedited.
These three books make up the entire story.
The book itself is best described as a spiritual, poetic, journey to find truth.
It was written in many different locations and over a period of ten years.
It is made up of many small, individual poems with a few long exceptions.
The work as whole had very little editing, unlike Dream Engineering which I heavily edited.
And now will present in it's true form. Avenue Dread is a story of darkness that finds the light.
There are many themes that run through the entire collection. Some of the things I try to say may be a little abstract. But overall I think the message is clear. It has the element of love, it also has darkness and light because these where all the things I experienced.
Of the seventeen years I have been writing poetry I have been a christian for the last two.
I found God and was able to finish my last book. It is my hope to inspire people to God.
The poetry also blossomed into music which I also hope to present.

El trabajo analiza un grupo de indicadores que incluye tanto los factores internos que reflejan la situacion actual de un restaurante, como aquellos del entorno, sobre la base de los cuales adecuar sus estrategias. El objetivo general que se persigue es determinar indicadores de competitividad a considerar para la mejora de la gestion de alimentos y bebidas. Este trabajo responde las siguientes preguntas cientificas: Como se manifiesta la relacion entre los conceptos competencia y competitividad en el caso de los servicios en la restauracion? Que indicadores de competitividad estan incidiendo en la gestion de alimentos y bebidas en el restaurante? Que orden de prioridad se le debe asignar a cada indicador determinado para la toma de decisiones? Que acciones acometer a partir de los parametros mas significativos que contribuyan a perfeccionar la gestion de alimentos y bebidas del restaurante?"

The overall goal of this book is focused on the analysis of the impact of online store design on consumer specifically, affective, cognitive and behavioural responses within a virtual environment. Based on these theoretical foundations, through the creation of a web tool as a methodological basis for the development of the empirical analysis of this research, an experimental study between subjects 2x2x2 was developed in order to discuss the impact of three web elements of online environment (navigational structure, music and animations of products) on consumer internal states (cognitive, affective and satisfaction) and behavioural responses (approach responses, web-duration visit, products and money-bought). In addition, we examined the mediator effect of three covariables (involvement, atmospheric responsiveness, and perceived risk) between analyzed webmospheric tools and consumer responses. As overall results, positive and significant differences between the groups object of experimentation were obtained with regard to the effects of independent variables mentioned on dependent variables of the model.