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This book examines major conceptual challenges confronting freedom
of religion or belief in contemporary settings. The volume brings
together chapters by leading experts from law, religious studies,
and international relations, who provide perspectives from both
sides of the Atlantic. At a time when the polarization of 'culture
wars' is aggravating tensions between secular and religious views
about accommodating the conscientious claims of individuals and
groups, and when the right to freedom of religion itself is facing
misunderstanding and erosion, the work provides welcome clarity and
depth. Some chapters adopt a primarily conceptual and historical
approach; others analyze particular difficulties or conflicts that
have emerged in European and American jurisdictions, along with
concrete applications and recommendations for the future. The book
will be a valuable resource for students, academics, and
policy-makers with an interest in law, religion, and human rights.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.1201/9781315146638, has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. GIS is used today to better
understand and solve urban problems. GIS in Sustainable Urban
Planning and Management: A Global Perspective, explores and
illustrates the capacity that geo-information and GIS have to
inform practitioners and other participants in the processes of the
planning and management of urban regions. The first part of the
book addresses the concept of sustainable urban development, its
different frameworks, the many ways of measuring sustainability,
and its value in the urban policy arena. The second part discusses
how urban planning can shape our cities, examines various spatial
configurations of cities, the spread of activities, and the demands
placed on different functions to achieve strategic objective. It
further focuses on the recognition that urban dwellers are
increasingly under threat from natural hazards and climate change.
Written by authors with expertise on the applications of
geo-information in urban management, this book showcases the
importance of GIS in better understanding current urban challenges
and provides new insights on how to apply GIS in urban planning. It
illustrates through real world cases the use of GIS in analyzing
and evaluating the position of disadvantaged groups and areas in
cities and provides clear examples of applied GIS in urban
sustainability and urban resilience. The idea of sustainable
development is still very much central in the new development
agenda of the United Nations, and in that sense, it is of
particular importance for students from both the Global South and
Global North. Professionals, researchers, and students alike will
find this book to be an invaluable resource for understanding and
solving problems relating to sustainable urban planning and
management.
Introduces historical background of SPL, including evolution of the
technique and tools Explains the mechanism of sample
modification/manipulation, types of AFM tips, technical parts of
the experimental setup, and materials on which the technique can be
applied Shows the different types of devices and structures
fabricated by SPL, together with the processing steps Contains a
complete and state-of-the art package of examples and different
approaches, performed by different international research groups
Summarizes strengths, limitations, and potential of SPL
The Great Christian Jurists series comprises a library of national
volumes of detailed biographies of leading jurists, judges and
practitioners, assessing the impact of their Christian faith on the
professional output of the individuals studied. Spanish legal
culture, developed during the Spanish Golden Age, has had a
significant influence on the legal norms and institutions that
emerged in Europe and in Latin America. This volume examines the
lives of twenty key personalities in Spanish legal history, in
particular how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the
evolution of law. Each chapter discusses a jurist within his or her
intellectual and political context. All chapters have been written
by distinguished legal scholars from Spain and around the world.
This diversity of international and methodological perspectives
gives the volume its unique character; it will appeal to scholars,
lawyers, and students interested in the interplay between religion
and law.
"On Making Sense" juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and
Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is
acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression.
From James Baldwin's 1960s novel "Another Country" to Margaret
Cho's turn-of-the-century stand-up comedy, these works all exhibit
a preoccupation with intelligibility, or the labor of making sense
of oneself and of making sense to others. In their efforts to "make
sense," these writers and artists argue against merely being
accepted by society on society's terms, but articulate a desire to
confront epistemic injustice--an injustice that affects people in
their capacity as knowers and as communities worthy of being known.
The book speaks directly to critical developments in feminist and
queer studies, including the growing ambivalence to antirealist
theories of identity and knowledge. In so doing, it draws on
decolonial and realist theory to offer a new framework to
understand queer writers and artists of color as dynamic social
theorists.
We present here the lectures and a selection of the seminars given
at the Ninth International Workshop on Instabilities and
Nonequilibrium Structures which took place in Vifiadel Mar, Chile,
in December 2001. The Workshop was organized by Facultad de
Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas, Universidad de Chile, Instituto de
Fisica of Universidad Cat6lica de Valparaiso, Centro de Fisica No
Lineal y Sistemas Complejos de Santiago and Facultad de Ingenieria,
Universidad de los Andes, which starting from this year joins the
other institutions in the coorganization ofthe Workshop. The
organizers would like to express their gratitude to the following
sponsors: Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas de la
Universidad de Chile, Instituto de Fisica de la Universidad
Cat6lica de Valparaiso, Facultad de Ingenieria de la Universidad de
los Andes, Centro de Fisica No Lineal y Sistemas Complejos de
Santiago, Academia Chilena de Ciencias, Ministere Francais des
Affaires Etrangeres, CONICYT (Comisi6n Nacional de Investigaci6n
Cientifica y Tecno16gicade Chile) and Departamento Tecnico de
Investigaci6n y de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de
Chile. Enrique Tirapegui PREFACE This book consists of two parts,
the first one has three lectures written by Professors H. R. Brand,
M. Moreau and L. S. Tuckerman. H. R. Brand gives an overview about
reorientation and undulation instabilities in liquid crystals, M.
Moreau presents recent results on biased tracer diffusion in
lattice gases, finally, L. S. Tuckerman summarizes some numerical
methods used in bifurcation problems.
This sixth Volume of the International Workshop on Instabilities
and Nonequilibrium Structures is dedicated to the memory of my
friend Walter Zeller, Professor of the Universidad C'at6lica df'
Valparaiso and Vice-Director of the Workshop. Walter Zeller was
much more than an organizer of this meeting: his enthusiasm,
dedication and critical views were many times the essential
ingredients to continue with a task which in occasions faced
difficulties and incomprehensiolls. It is in great part due to him
that the workshop has adquired to-day tradition. maturity and
international recognition. This Volume should have been coedited by
Walter and it is with df'ep emotion that I learned that his
disciples Javier Martinez and Rolando Tiemann wanted as a last
hommage to their Professor and friend to coedit tfus book. No me
seria posible terminal' estas lineas sin pensar en la senora
Adriana Gamonal de Zelln. qUf' ella encuentre en este libro la
admiraci6n y reconocimiento hacia su marido de quiPIlf's [l\Prall
sus discipulos, colegas y amigos.
The contents of this book correspond to Sessions VII and VIII of
the International Workshop on Instabilities and Nonequilibrium
Structures which took place in Vifia del Mar, Chile, in December
1997 and December 1999, respectively. We were not able to publish
this book before and we apologize for this fact to the authors and
participants of the meeting. We have made an effort to actualize
the courses and articles which have been reviewed by the authors.
Both Workshops were organized by Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y
Matematicas, Universidad de Chile, Instituto de Fisica of
Universidad Cat61ica de Valparaiso and Centro de Fisica No Lineal y
Sistemas Complejos de Santiago. We are glad to acknowledge here the
support of the Facultad de Ingenieria of Universidad de los Andes
of Santiago which also be from now on one of the organizing
Institutions of future Workshops. Enrique Tirapegui PREFACE This
book is divided in two parts. In Part I we have collected the
courses given in Sessions VII and VIII of the Workshop and in Part
II we include a selection of the invited Conferences and Seminars
presented at both meetings.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.1201/9781315146638, has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. GIS is used today to better
understand and solve urban problems. GIS in Sustainable Urban
Planning and Management: A Global Perspective, explores and
illustrates the capacity that geo-information and GIS have to
inform practitioners and other participants in the processes of the
planning and management of urban regions. The first part of the
book addresses the concept of sustainable urban development, its
different frameworks, the many ways of measuring sustainability,
and its value in the urban policy arena. The second part discusses
how urban planning can shape our cities, examines various spatial
configurations of cities, the spread of activities, and the demands
placed on different functions to achieve strategic objective. It
further focuses on the recognition that urban dwellers are
increasingly under threat from natural hazards and climate change.
Written by authors with expertise on the applications of
geo-information in urban management, this book showcases the
importance of GIS in better understanding current urban challenges
and provides new insights on how to apply GIS in urban planning. It
illustrates through real world cases the use of GIS in analyzing
and evaluating the position of disadvantaged groups and areas in
cities and provides clear examples of applied GIS in urban
sustainability and urban resilience. The idea of sustainable
development is still very much central in the new development
agenda of the United Nations, and in that sense, it is of
particular importance for students from both the Global South and
Global North. Professionals, researchers, and students alike will
find this book to be an invaluable resource for understanding and
solving problems relating to sustainable urban planning and
management.
The contents of this book correspond to Sessions VII and VIII of
the International Workshop on Instabilities and Nonequilibrium
Structures which took place in Vifia del Mar, Chile, in December
1997 and December 1999, respectively. We were not able to publish
this book before and we apologize for this fact to the authors and
participants of the meeting. We have made an effort to actualize
the courses and articles which have been reviewed by the authors.
Both Workshops were organized by Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y
Matematicas, Universidad de Chile, Instituto de Fisica of
Universidad Cat61ica de Valparaiso and Centro de Fisica No Lineal y
Sistemas Complejos de Santiago. We are glad to acknowledge here the
support of the Facultad de Ingenieria of Universidad de los Andes
of Santiago which also be from now on one of the organizing
Institutions of future Workshops. Enrique Tirapegui PREFACE This
book is divided in two parts. In Part I we have collected the
courses given in Sessions VII and VIII of the Workshop and in Part
II we include a selection of the invited Conferences and Seminars
presented at both meetings.
We present here the lectures and a selection of the seminars given
at the Ninth International Workshop on Instabilities and
Nonequilibrium Structures which took place in Vifiadel Mar, Chile,
in December 2001. The Workshop was organized by Facultad de
Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas, Universidad de Chile, Instituto de
Fisica of Universidad Cat6lica de Valparaiso, Centro de Fisica No
Lineal y Sistemas Complejos de Santiago and Facultad de Ingenieria,
Universidad de los Andes, which starting from this year joins the
other institutions in the coorganization ofthe Workshop. The
organizers would like to express their gratitude to the following
sponsors: Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas de la
Universidad de Chile, Instituto de Fisica de la Universidad
Cat6lica de Valparaiso, Facultad de Ingenieria de la Universidad de
los Andes, Centro de Fisica No Lineal y Sistemas Complejos de
Santiago, Academia Chilena de Ciencias, Ministere Francais des
Affaires Etrangeres, CONICYT (Comisi6n Nacional de Investigaci6n
Cientifica y Tecno16gicade Chile) and Departamento Tecnico de
Investigaci6n y de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de
Chile. Enrique Tirapegui PREFACE This book consists of two parts,
the first one has three lectures written by Professors H. R. Brand,
M. Moreau and L. S. Tuckerman. H. R. Brand gives an overview about
reorientation and undulation instabilities in liquid crystals, M.
Moreau presents recent results on biased tracer diffusion in
lattice gases, finally, L. S. Tuckerman summarizes some numerical
methods used in bifurcation problems.
This sixth Volume of the International Workshop on Instabilities
and Nonequilibrium Structures is dedicated to the memory of my
friend Walter Zeller, Professor of the Universidad C'at6lica df'
Valparaiso and Vice-Director of the Workshop. Walter Zeller was
much more than an organizer of this meeting: his enthusiasm,
dedication and critical views were many times the essential
ingredients to continue with a task which in occasions faced
difficulties and incomprehensiolls. It is in great part due to him
that the workshop has adquired to-day tradition. maturity and
international recognition. This Volume should have been coedited by
Walter and it is with df'ep emotion that I learned that his
disciples Javier Martinez and Rolando Tiemann wanted as a last
hommage to their Professor and friend to coedit tfus book. No me
seria posible terminal' estas lineas sin pensar en la senora
Adriana Gamonal de Zelln. qUf' ella encuentre en este libro la
admiraci6n y reconocimiento hacia su marido de quiPIlf's [l\Prall
sus discipulos, colegas y amigos.
How did the breakdown of Roman rule in the Iberian Peninsula
eventually result in the formation of a Visigothic kingdom with
authority centralised in Toledo? This collection of essays
challenges the view that local powers were straightforwardly
subjugated to the expanding central power of the monarchy. Rather
than interpret countervailing events as mere 'delays' in this
inevitable process, the contributors to this book interrogate where
these events came from, which causes can be uncovered and how much
influence individual actors had in this process. What emerges is a
story of contested interests seeking cooperation through
institutions and social practices that were flexible enough to
stabilise a system that was hierarchical yet mutually beneficial
for multiple social groups. By examining the Visigothic settlement,
the interplay between central and local power, the use of ethnic
identity, projections of authority, and the role of the Church,
this book articulates a model for understanding the formation of a
large and important early medieval kingdom.
This book of Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems contains
accepted papers presented at the 15th International Conference on
Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems
(CISIS 2022) and the 13th International Conference on EUropean
Transnational Education (ICEUTE 2022). These conferences were held
in the beautiful city of Salamanca, Spain, in September 2022. The
aim of the CISIS 2022 conference is to offer a meeting opportunity
for academic and industry-related researchers belonging to the
various, vast communities of computational intelligence,
information security, and data mining. The need for intelligent,
flexible behaviour by large, complex systems, especially in
mission-critical domains, is intended to be the catalyst and the
aggregation stimulus for the overall event. After a thorough peer
review process, the CISIS 2022 International Program Committee
selected 20 papers, which are published in this conference
proceedings. In this edition, three special sessions were
organized: Cybersecurity in Future Connected Societies,
Cybersecurity and Trusted Supply Chains of ICT, and Intelligent
Solutions for Cybersecurity Systems. The aim of ICEUTE 2022 is to
offer a meeting point for people working on transnational education
within Europe. It provides a stimulating and fruitful forum for
presenting and discussing the latest works and advances on
transnational education within European countries. In the case of
ICEUTE 2022, the International Program Committee selected 5 papers,
which are also published in this conference proceedings. The
selection of papers was extremely rigorous to maintain the high
quality of the conferences. We want to thank the members of the
Program Committees for their hard work during the reviewing
process. This is a crucial process for creating a high-standard
conference; the CISIS and ICEUTE would not exist without their
help.
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17th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications (SOCO 2022) - Salamanca, Spain, September 5-7, 2022, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2023)
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This book contains accepted papers presented at SOCO 2022
conference held in the beautiful and historic city of Salamanca
(Spain), in September 2022. Soft computing represents a collection
or set of computational techniques in machine learning, computer
science, and some engineering disciplines, which investigate,
simulate, and analyze very complex issues and phenomena. After a
thorough peer-review process, the 17th SOCO 2022 International
Program Committee selected 64 papers which are published in these
conference proceedings and represent an acceptance rate of 60%. In
this relevant edition, a particular emphasis was put on the
organization of special sessions. Seven special sessions were
organized related to relevant topics such as machine learning and
computer vision in Industry 4.0; time series forecasting in
industrial and environmental applications; optimization, modeling,
and control by soft computing techniques; soft computing applied to
renewable energy systems; preprocessing big data in machine
learning; tackling real-world problems with artificial
intelligence. The selection of papers was extremely rigorous to
maintain the high quality of the conference. We want to thank the
members of the program committees for their hard work during the
reviewing process. This is a crucial process for creating a
high-standard conference; the SOCO conference would not exist
without their help.
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Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems - 17th International Conference, HAIS 2022, Salamanca, Spain, September 5-7, 2022, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th
International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems,
HAIS 2022, held in Salamanca, Spain, in September 2022. The 43 full
papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected
from 67 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as
follows: bioinformatics; data mining and decision support systems;
deep learning; evolutionary computation; HAIS applications; image
and speech signal processing; and optimization techniques.
This volume describes the most common laboratory procedures for
isolation, identification and characterization of polioviruses used
in clinical and research laboratories. Written for the Methods in
Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their
respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents,
step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips
on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and
practical, Poliovirus: Methods and Protocols aims to ensure
successful results in the further study of this vital field.
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Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems - 12th International Conference, HAIS 2017, La Rioja, Spain, June 21-23, 2017, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Francisco Javier Martinez de Pison, Ruben Urraca, Hector Quintian, Emilio Corchado
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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th
International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems,
HAIS 2017, held in La Rioja, Spain, in June 2017. The 60 full
papers published in this volume were carefully reviewed and
selected from 130 submissions. They are organized in the following
topical sections: data mining, knowledge discovery and big data;
bioinspired models and evolutionary computing; learning algorithms;
visual analysis and advanced data processing techniques; data
mining applications; and hybrid intelligent applications.
The Great Christian Jurists series comprises a library of national
volumes of detailed biographies of leading jurists, judges and
practitioners, assessing the impact of their Christian faith on the
professional output of the individuals studied. Spanish legal
culture, developed during the Spanish Golden Age, has had a
significant influence on the legal norms and institutions that
emerged in Europe and in Latin America. This volume examines the
lives of twenty key personalities in Spanish legal history, in
particular how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the
evolution of law. Each chapter discusses a jurist within his or her
intellectual and political context. All chapters have been written
by distinguished legal scholars from Spain and around the world.
This diversity of international and methodological perspectives
gives the volume its unique character; it will appeal to scholars,
lawyers, and students interested in the interplay between religion
and law.
This volume describes the most common laboratory procedures for
isolation, identification and characterization of polioviruses used
in clinical and research laboratories. Written for the Methods in
Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their
respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents,
step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips
on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and
practical, Poliovirus: Methods and Protocols aims to ensure
successful results in the further study of this vital field.
Presenting a practitioner's guide to capabilities and best
practices of quality control systems using the R programming
language, this volume emphasizes accessibility and ease-of-use
through detailed explanations of R code as well as standard
statistical methodologies. In the interest of reaching the widest
possible audience of quality-control professionals and
statisticians, examples throughout are structured to simplify
complex equations and data structures, and to demonstrate their
applications to quality control processes, such as ISO standards.
The volume balances its treatment of key aspects of quality
control, statistics, and programming in R, making the text
accessible to beginners and expert quality control professionals
alike. Several appendices serve as useful references for ISO
standards and common tasks performed while applying quality control
with R.
"On Making Sense" juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and
Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is
acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression.
From James Baldwin's 1960s novel "Another Country" to Margaret
Cho's turn-of-the-century stand-up comedy, these works all exhibit
a preoccupation with intelligibility, or the labor of making sense
of oneself and of making sense to others. In their efforts to make
sense, these writers and artists argue against merely being
accepted by society on society's terms, but articulate a desire to
confront epistemic injusticeOCoan injustice that affects people in
their capacity as knowers and as communities worthy of being known.
The book speaks directly to critical developments in feminist and
queer studies, including the growing ambivalence to antirealist
theories of identity and knowledge. In so doing, it draws on
decolonial and realist theory to offer a new framework to
understand queer writers and artists of color as dynamic social
theorists.
Six Sigma has arisen in the last two decades as a breakthrough
Quality Management Methodology. With Six Sigma, we are solving
problems and improving processes using as a basis one of the most
powerful tools of human development: the scientific method. For the
analysis of data, Six Sigma requires the use of statistical
software, being R an Open Source option that fulfills this
requirement. R is a software system that includes a programming
language widely used in academic and research departments.
Nowadays, it is becoming a real alternative within corporate
environments. The aim of this book is to show how R can be used as
the software tool in the development of Six Sigma projects. The
book includes a gentle introduction to Six Sigma and a variety of
examples showing how to use R within real situations. It has been
conceived as a self contained piece. Therefore, it is addressed not
only to Six Sigma practitioners, but also to professionals trying
to initiate themselves in this management methodology. The book may
be used as a text book as well.
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