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This book presents an unusual view on one of the most influential
periods in world economic history: the Early Globalization. By this
term, the notion that a process of genuine globalization took place
in the Early Modern Era is defended. The authors propose that the
canonical globalization-that of the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries-was preceded by a century-long increasing economic
integration between continents that were non-existent before 1492.
The economic aspects of the Early Globalization, like market
integration, price co-movements and international silver
circulation, were very important. Notwithstanding, other dimensions
of human life, which were affected by unprecedented
intercontinental contacts, including free and forced migrations,
changes in tastes and consumption, etc. The Fruits of Globalisation
deals with some of the most important issues among the former and
the latter. The book combines approaches from different
disciplines, including quantitative and non-quantitative economic
history, econometrics, international trade and demography. Overall,
the vision of the Early Globalisation offered in this book is less
pessimistic than in mainstream literature on the period.
The Fifth Amendment is typically equated in both popular and
legal discourse with the privilege against self-incrimination. This
concept, Garcia reminds us, represents an incomplete view of the
amendment. Often forgotten are the other two criminal clauses
embodied in the text of the amendment: the right to a grand jury
indictment for a serious crime and the freedom from double jeopardy
for the same offense.
Garcia emphasizes the relationship among these criminal
protections. Historical developments suggest that these seemingly
disparate provisions have common threads: to provide constitutional
protection for all trial-related rights. Underlying these
constitutional provisions is the need to check the potential abuse
of governmental power over the individual. Indeed, this theme
permeated the historical backdrop to the Fifth Amendment. Finally,
Garcia examples the practical ties of these clauses. The right to a
grand jury indictment, the privilege against self-incrimination and
the protection against double-jeopardy represent points in the
continuum of the criminal justice process. An important resource
for scholars and students involved with Amerian constitutional law,
criminal justice, and criminology.
The state-space approach provides a formal framework where any
result or procedure developed for a basic model can be seamlessly
applied to a standard formulation written in state-space form.
Moreover, it can accommodate with a reasonable effort nonstandard
situations, such as observation errors, aggregation constraints, or
missing in-sample values. Exploring the advantages of this
approach, State-Space Methods for Time Series Analysis: Theory,
Applications and Software presents many computational procedures
that can be applied to a previously specified linear model in
state-space form. After discussing the formulation of the
state-space model, the book illustrates the flexibility of the
state-space representation and covers the main state estimation
algorithms: filtering and smoothing. It then shows how to compute
the Gaussian likelihood for unknown coefficients in the state-space
matrices of a given model before introducing subspace methods and
their application. It also discusses signal extraction, describes
two algorithms to obtain the VARMAX matrices corresponding to any
linear state-space model, and addresses several issues relating to
the aggregation and disaggregation of time series. The book
concludes with a cross-sectional extension to the classical
state-space formulation in order to accommodate longitudinal or
panel data. Missing data is a common occurrence here, and the book
explains imputation procedures necessary to treat missingness in
both exogenous and endogenous variables. Web Resource The authors'
E4 MATLAB (R) toolbox offers all the computational procedures,
administrative and analytical functions, and related materials for
time series analysis. This flexible, powerful, and free software
tool enables readers to replicate the practical examples in the
text and apply the procedures to their own work.
Alfredo Garcia, who has been both a prosecuting and a defense
attorney in criminal processes, reviews the United States Supreme
Court's interpretations of the Sixth Amendment--the right to a fair
trial--as they have evolved since the 1960s. He determines that the
Court, with a few notable exceptions, has demonstrated doctrinal
inconsistency and has failed to adhere to the core values embedded
in the amendment. Garcia argues that the functional and symbolic
roles of the Sixth Amendment have been eroded, and that this is
particularly evident in the three clauses that provide defendants
the means to respond to charges and to be assured of fair process.
The clauses considered specifically involve the right to counsel,
the right to confrontation, and the right to compulsory process.
The Supreme Court's emphasis in more recent years is perceived to
be on efficiency rather than on protecting the ideal of a "fair
trial." The six chapters cover the rights to counsel, to
confrontation, to compulsory process, to a speedy trial, and to a
jury trial, and the sometime conflict between a free press (First
Amendment) and the Sixth Amendment assurance of a fair trial free
of antecedent prejudicial publicity. This is a timely, much-needed,
and substantive examination of the highest court's interpretations
of a defendant's constitutional right to a fair, speedy trial.
The state-space approach provides a formal framework where any
result or procedure developed for a basic model can be seamlessly
applied to a standard formulation written in state-space form.
Moreover, it can accommodate with a reasonable effort nonstandard
situations, such as observation errors, aggregation constraints, or
missing in-sample values. Exploring the advantages of this
approach, State-Space Methods for Time Series Analysis: Theory,
Applications and Software presents many computational procedures
that can be applied to a previously specified linear model in
state-space form. After discussing the formulation of the
state-space model, the book illustrates the flexibility of the
state-space representation and covers the main state estimation
algorithms: filtering and smoothing. It then shows how to compute
the Gaussian likelihood for unknown coefficients in the state-space
matrices of a given model before introducing subspace methods and
their application. It also discusses signal extraction, describes
two algorithms to obtain the VARMAX matrices corresponding to any
linear state-space model, and addresses several issues relating to
the aggregation and disaggregation of time series. The book
concludes with a cross-sectional extension to the classical
state-space formulation in order to accommodate longitudinal or
panel data. Missing data is a common occurrence here, and the book
explains imputation procedures necessary to treat missingness in
both exogenous and endogenous variables. Web Resource The authors'
E4 MATLAB (R) toolbox offers all the computational procedures,
administrative and analytical functions, and related materials for
time series analysis. This flexible, powerful, and free software
tool enables readers to replicate the practical examples in the
text and apply the procedures to their own work.
This book presents an unusual view on one of the most influential
periods in world economic history: the Early Globalization. By this
term, the notion that a process of genuine globalization took place
in the Early Modern Era is defended. The authors propose that the
canonical globalization-that of the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries-was preceded by a century-long increasing economic
integration between continents that were non-existent before 1492.
The economic aspects of the Early Globalization, like market
integration, price co-movements and international silver
circulation, were very important. Notwithstanding, other dimensions
of human life, which were affected by unprecedented
intercontinental contacts, including free and forced migrations,
changes in tastes and consumption, etc. The Fruits of Globalisation
deals with some of the most important issues among the former and
the latter. The book combines approaches from different
disciplines, including quantitative and non-quantitative economic
history, econometrics, international trade and demography. Overall,
the vision of the Early Globalisation offered in this book is less
pessimistic than in mainstream literature on the period.
A "HOUSTON CHRONICLE" SUMMER READING PICK
A Rio de Janeiro Thriller
An elderly lady approaches the front desk at the Twelfth
Precinct in Copacabana and demands to speak with the chief. Tired
after a long day, she leaves without further explanation, promising
to return. Two hours later, Dona Laureta is dead, and witnesses'
accounts vary as to whether she was pushed or fell in front of the
bus that killed her on one of the busiest avenues in the city.
Veteran police chief inspector Espinosa quickly pinpoints a
suspect in Hugo Breno, an unassuming bank teller whose solitary
existence takes on a sinister cast as he shadows the inspector's
movements across the city. Meanwhile Espinosa discovers an
unsettling connection from the past between himself and Breno and
must turn his trademark psychological inquiry inward to determine
how murky memories of a murder from long ago might play into Dona
Laureta's untimely passing. Chilling and ultimately heart-stopping,
"Alone in the Crowd" presents Espinosa as we have never seen him
before, the man of detached expertise and calm self-assurance
entangled in a mystery where reason alone will not suffice.
Los cafetales de sombra son uno de los agroecosistemas que mas
semejan las condiciones de los bosques originales y en ellos logran
sobrevivir numerosas especies de orquideas. En estos tiempos de
cambio climatico y perdida de biodiversidad se reporta Oncidium
poikilostalix (Orchidaceae) como nueva especie para Mexico en 2008,
con dos poblaciones insipientes en plantaciones de cafe. Por esto
es de gran interes estudiar su estructura poblacional, sus
caracteristicas reproductivas y los hongos endofitos con los que se
asocia en la region. Este libro permite evaluar el estado actual de
conservacion de esta orquidea, su posible influencia sobre otras
orquideas epifitas con las que comparte el cafetal y determinar las
respuestas morfologicas y adaptativas que le han permitido
colonizar este paisaje antropico. Los resultados obtenidos deben
contribuir al manejo mas eficiente de esta y otras especies de
orquideas con caracteristicas similares y de los agroecosistemas
cafetaleros que ocupan. Resultara de gran utilidad para los
investigadores del campo de la ecologia y la conservacion o para
los manejadores de recursos naturales de un pais tan mega diverso
como Mexico y del resto del mundo."
El establecimiento de un nexo que relacione el lenguaje y las
expresiones de los entrenadores con la terminologia y los
principios biomecanicos es la clave para el aprovechamiento de la
informacion y de los resultados del trabajo realizado por
entrenadores y biomecanicos, encaminado al control del
entrenamiento, la mejora de la tecnica y del rendimiento deportivo.
El proposito de este estudio fue elaborar un cuadro de indicadores
de eficacia que clasifique, ordene la informacion y permita la
valoracion de la tecnica deportiva basandose en criterios
biomecanicos, tomando como objeto de estudio el lanzamiento del
tejo."
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