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Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights
violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the
fight against impunity? Archives and Human Rights shows the close
relationship between archives and human rights and discusses the
emergence, at the international level, of the principles of the
right to truth, justice and reparation. Through a historical
overview and topical case studies from different regions of the
world the book discusses how records can concretely support these
principles. The current examples also demonstrate how the
perception of the role of the archivist has undergone a
metamorphosis in recent decades, towards the idea that archivists
can and must play an active role in defending basic human rights,
first and foremost by enabling access to documentation on human
rights violations. Confronting painful memories of the past is a
way to make the ghosts disappear and begin building a brighter,
more serene future. The establishment of international justice
mechanisms and the creation of truth commissions are important
elements of this process. The healing begins with the
acknowledgment that painful chapters are essential parts of
history; archives then play a crucial role by providing evidence.
This book is both a tool and an inspiration to use archives in
defence of human rights. The Open Access version of this book,
available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/ISBN, has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights
violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the
fight against impunity? Archives and Human Rights shows the close
relationship between archives and human rights and discusses the
emergence, at the international level, of the principles of the
right to truth, justice and reparation. Through a historical
overview and topical case studies from different regions of the
world the book discusses how records can concretely support these
principles. The current examples also demonstrate how the
perception of the role of the archivist has undergone a
metamorphosis in recent decades, towards the idea that archivists
can and must play an active role in defending basic human rights,
first and foremost by enabling access to documentation on human
rights violations. Confronting painful memories of the past is a
way to make the ghosts disappear and begin building a brighter,
more serene future. The establishment of international justice
mechanisms and the creation of truth commissions are important
elements of this process. The healing begins with the
acknowledgment that painful chapters are essential parts of
history; archives then play a crucial role by providing evidence.
This book is both a tool and an inspiration to use archives in
defence of human rights. The Open Access version of this book,
available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/ISBN, has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 18th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2018, Granada, Spain, October 23-26, 2018, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Francisco Herrera, Sergio Damas, Rosana Montes, Sergio Alonso, Oscar Cordon, …
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th
Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence,
CAEPIA 2018, held in Granada, Spain, in October 2018. The 36 full
papers presented were carefully selected from 240 submissions. The
Conference of the Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence
(CAEPIA) is a biennial forum open to researchers from all over the
world to present and discuss their latest scientific and
technological advances in Antificial Intelligence (AI). Authors are
kindly requested to submit unpublished original papers describing
relevant research on AI issues from all points of view: formal,
methodological, technical or applied.
The book presents some of the most relevant results from academia
in the area of Artificial Intelligence for games. It emphasizes
well theoretically supported work supported by developed
prototypes, which should lead into integration of academic AI
techniques into current electronic entertainment games. The book
elaborates on the main results produced in Academia within the last
10 years regarding all aspects of Artificial Intelligence for
games, including pathfinding, decision making, and learning. A
general theme of the book is the coverage of techniques for
facilitating the construction of flexible not prescripted AI for
agents in games. Regarding pathfinding, the book includes new
techniques for implementing real-time search methods that improve
the results obtained through AI, as well as techniques for learning
pathfinding behavior by observing actual players. Regarding
decision making, the book describes new techniques for authoring
tools that facilitate the construction by game designers (typically
nonprogrammers) of behavior controlling software, by reusing
patterns or actual cases of past behavior. Additionally, the book
will cover a number of approaches proposed for extending the
essentially pre-scripted nature of current commercial videogames AI
into a more interactive form of narrative, where the story emerges
from the interaction with the player. Some of those approaches rely
on a layered architecture for the character AI, including beliefs,
intentions and emotions, taking ideas from research on agent
systems. The book also includes chapters on techniques for
automatically or semiautomatically learning complex behavior from
recorded traces of human or automatic players using different
combinations of reinforcement learning, case-based reasoning,
neural networks and genetic algorithms.
This lecture presents a study of the microarchitecture of
contemporary microprocessors. The focus is on implementation
aspects, with discussions on their implications in terms of
performance, power, and cost of state-of-the-art designs. The
lecture starts with an overview of the different types of
microprocessors and a review of the microarchitecture of cache
memories. Then, it describes the implementation of the fetch unit,
where special emphasis is made on the required support for branch
prediction. The next section is devoted to instruction decode with
special focus on the particular support to decoding x86
instructions. The next chapter presents the allocation stage and
pays special attention to the implementation of register renaming.
Afterward, the issue stage is studied. Here, the logic to implement
out-of-order issue for both memory and non-memory instructions is
thoroughly described. The following chapter focuses on the
instruction execution and describes the different functional units
that can be found in contemporary microprocessors, as well as the
implementation of the bypass network, which has an important impact
on the performance. Finally, the lecture concludes with the commit
stage, where it describes how the architectural state is updated
and recovered in case of exceptions or misspeculations. This
lecture is intended for an advanced course on computer
architecture, suitable for graduate students or senior undergrads
who want to specialize in the area of computer architecture. It is
also intended for practitioners in the industry in the area of
microprocessor design. The book assumes that the reader is familiar
with the main concepts regarding pipelining, out-of-order
execution, cache memories, and virtual memory. Table of Contents:
Introduction / Caches / The Instruction Fetch Unit / Decode /
Allocation / The Issue Stage / Execute / The Commit Stage /
References / Author Biographies
A fascinating case study of the archaeological site at Murujuga,
Australia Located in the Dampier Archipelago of Western Australia,
Murujuga is the single largest archaeological site in the world. It
contains an estimated one million petroglyphs, or rock art motifs,
produced by the Indigenous Australians who have historically
inhabited the archipelago. To date, there has been no comprehensive
survey of the site's petroglyphs or those who created them. Since
the 1960s, regional mining interests have caused significant damage
to this site, destroying an estimated 5 to 25 percent of the
petroglyphs in Murujuga. Today, Murujuga holds the unenviable
status of being one of the most endangered archaeological sites in
the world. Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona provides a full
postcolonial analysis of Murujuga as well as a geographic and
archaeological overview of the site, its ethnohistory, and its
considerable significance to Indigenous groups, before examining
the colonial mistreatment of Murujuga from the seventeenth century
to the present. Drawing on a range of postcolonial perspectives,
Zarandona reads the assaults on the rock art of Murujuga as
instances of what he terms "landscape iconoclasm": the destruction
of art and landscapes central to group identity in pursuit of
ideological, political, and economic dominance. Viewed through the
lens of landscape iconoclasm, the destruction of Murujuga can be
understood as not only the result of economic pressures but also as
a means of reinforcing-through neglect, abandonment, fragmentation,
and even certain practices of heritage preservation-the colonial
legacy in Western Australia. Murujuga provides a case study through
which to examine, and begin to reject, archaeology's global
entanglement with colonial intervention and the politics of
heritage preservation.
The book presents some of the most relevant results from
academia in the area of Artificial Intelligence for games. It
emphasizes well theoretically supported work supported by developed
prototypes, which should lead into integration of
academic AI techniques into current electronic entertainment
games.
The book elaborates on the main results produced in Academia
within the last 10 years regarding all aspects of Artificial
Intelligence for games, including pathfinding, decision making, and
learning. A general theme of the book is the
coverage of techniques for facilitating the construction of
flexible not prescripted AI for agents in games.
Regarding pathfinding, the book includes new techniques for
implementing real-time search methods that improve the results
obtained through AI, as well as techniques for learning pathfinding
behavior by observing actual players.
Regarding decision making, the book describes new techniques for
authoring tools that facilitate the construction by game designers
(typically nonprogrammers) of behavior controlling software, by
reusing patterns or actual
cases of past behavior. Additionally, the book will cover a
number of approaches proposed for extending the essentially
pre-scripted nature of current commercial videogames AI into a more
interactive form of narrative, where the story emerges from the
interaction with the player. Some of those approaches
rely on a layered architecture for the character AI, including
beliefs, intentions and emotions, taking ideas from research on
agent systems.
The book also includes chapters on techniques for automatically
or semiautomatically learning complex behavior from recorded traces
of human or automatic players using different combinations of
reinforcement learning, case-based reasoning, neural networks and
genetic algorithms.
Nowadays, society is constantly changing, and new ways of life are
being developed by due to nonstop technological advancements. This
generates changes in family, schools, the media, etc. New
technologies are creating virtual environments to manage learning
and academic achievement, and this is a new challenge to approach
formal and informal education. In the last few decades, teachers,
families, and educational administrators had very well-defined
fields of action and roles to play. Now, these roles are
disfigured, and influences from all agents are arguable and more
difficult to face. At this current stage, problems sometimes appear
that require different forms of intervention. Some of the problems
are violence towards people; child abuse; drug abuse at
increasingly early ages; integration problems due to immigration;
dropping out of school; and typical problems related to student
development, personality, disabilities, social and psychical
maladjustment, teenagers socioaffective relationships, etc.
Research on school success and failure has a long history, but
there is still no agreement concerning the prevalence of these
variables to explain academic achievement, the relationship between
those variables, and which other variables modulate their level of
impact. For many years, cognitive psychology has emphasized
cognitive function as the most relevant for learning in school.
However, recent studies highlight the importance of motivational
and affective functions in building consistent models to explain
learning and academic achievement. This change of perspective, from
the classical cognitive model to a self-regulated learning model,
has implied a new orientation in the research of the factors
involved in school success and failure. Self-regulated learning
models try to integrate students cognitive, socioaffective, and
behavioral aspects. These models describe the different components
involved in successful learning at all school stages, explaining
reciprocal relationships between those components and directly
relating learning to personal achievement, motivation, volition,
and emotions. With this new paradigm, students not only contribute
to strengthening their intelligence, but also their motivational
and emotional qualities, all related to achieving personal balance.
This book presents studies, ideas, and recommendations to shed
light on the complex educational world. Education has limits and
difficulties, but it is also the only instrument that can develop
students potential into personal success.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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++++ Collectio Canonum Ecclesiae Hispanae Ex Probatissimis Ac
Pervetustis Codicibus Francisco Antonio Gonzalez Typogr. Regia,
1808 Religion; Christian Church; Canon & Ecclesiastical Law;
Religion / Christian Church / Canon & Ecclesiastical Law
Vi el caos y supe que hac a da o. Qu me lleva al caos? Puedo
escoger el orden? Guerras, drogas, armas, violencia: caos. Puedo
escoger entre el caos y el orden? Puedo escoger entre la guerra y
la paz? Puedo escoger entre la violencia y la no violencia? Puedo
escoger entre el bien y el mal? Puedo escoger entre el miedo y el
amor? De quien depende esto? Qui n me dio este poder? Por qu no lo
uso? Que tanto sufrimiento causa permanecer en el caos? Porque no
abandono definitivamente el caos y me voy al orden? Qu costo tiene
abandonar el caos? Qu tanto paga el orden? Me conviene abandonar el
caos? Que gano si lo abandono?
This paper studies labor market flexibility in 13 Latin American
countries--Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and
Venezuela--since the 1960s and 1970s by looking at the sensitivity
of employment and unemployment, and real wages with respect to
output. It finds that price stabilization has brought real-wage
stability, but that it has tended to increase uncertainty of job
security. It argues that declining inflation makes labor market
rigidities binding because labor markets cannot absorb output
shocks through prices. Cyclical relationships are studies by
constructing Okun coefficients for unemployment, employment, and
wages using first differences and the cyclical component of a
Hodrick-Prescott (HP) decomposition of the series. This paper finds
that compared with the United States, output fluctuations in Latin
America have a small effect on employment and unemployment, but a
large effect on real wages. The most important determinants of the
flexibility indicators are labor market reforms. Long-term
relationships are studies using a standard production function and
the permanent component of the HP decomposition of the series. In
all seven countries that implemented a price stabilization program,
the output elasticity of employment increased, implying higher
productivity and lower employment generation.
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Corrimiento al rojo (Spanish, Paperback)
Eduardo Rene Casanova Ealo; Illustrated by Hugo Antonio Gonzalez Fernandez; Foreword by Maria Dulce Kugler
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