This book provides systematic comparative research of antifraud laws and context at EU countries using a Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model to predict illegal activities in ERDF and CF. It also details a map of corruption risk with the goal of reducing corruption and fraud in the management of European Regional Development Funds and Cohesion Funds through the incorporation of adequate measures and strategies derived from the resulting of EUMODFRAUD EU Project. The authors analyse the specific situations, observe the risks and finally, propose an innovative method that allows predicting fraudulent acts, which will be of interest to both academics, researchers, and policy makers in financial services, public finance, and financial crime.

Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles addresses issues related to the analysis of human factors in the design and evaluation of intelligent vehicles for a wide spectrum of applications and over different dimensions. To commemorate the 8th anniversary of the IEEE ITS Workshop on Human Factors (http://hfiv.net) some recent works of authors active in the automotive human factors community have been collected in this book. Enclosed here are extended versions of papers and tutorials that were presented at the IEEE ITSS Workshop on "Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles" and also included is additional deeper analysis along with detailed experimental and simulation results. The contributors cover autonomous vehicles as well as the frameworks for analyzing automation, modelling and methods for road users' interaction such as intelligent user interfaces, including brain-computer interfaces and simulation and analysis tools related to human factors.

Advances in molecular biology have enabled leaps forward in the determination of virus phylogenetic history. This detailed 1995 book results from the invitation to foremost experts to give essays on aspects of virus biology. Initial chapters cover impacts of viruses and their control. Further chapters detail genetic variation of viruses and the molecular basis of interrelations with hosts. This leads to discussions of interactions with the host at the population level, and their molecular basis and evolution. Seventeen chapters follow, by specialists on particular groups of viruses describing their impact, genetic origins, sources of variation, population genetics and interactions with hosts. Practical virologists will find the chapters on phylogenetic analysis techniques very useful. The adaptive nature of viruses makes this work highly relevant to evolutionists.

Increases in computer power and technology have rapidly advanced the applications of numerical modeling in environmental and earth sciences. The progress of numerical modeling in atmospheric, oceanic, and geophysical sciences was the topic of an international conference held by the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The review articles and research papers in this volume constitute a wide-ranging and up-to-date account of modeling environmental and earth processes through a variety of numerical simulations. Sections are devoted to such topics as General Circulation Models and global change, methods of geophysical data assimilation, and mathematical and computational methods with geophysical applications. This book forms an excellent introduction and overview for graduate students as well as a critical update for researchers.

This book presents abundant emergent research works of American, European and Latin American countries, and examine the results of the research, which include serious questioning of the most popular ideas about the theory of parenting styles proposed by Diana Baumrind. Following traditional parenting research approaches that examine how parents treat their children and how these children fit into society, the fourteen chapters of this book explore the various countries of North and South America (United States, Brazil and Peru) and Europe (Sweden, United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic), and sampled people from various backgrounds (for example, adolescents at psychosocial risks, and elderly people), for determining who has the best parenting style. The authors' consider different measures of parental behaviour for different parenting styles (authoritative, indulgent, authoritarian, or neglectful) and a varied set of criteria to determine how their children adjust. Childhood health and well-being outcomes were as varied as academic achievement, self-esteem, drug use, internalisation of values, forgiveness, adolescents' scholar adjustment, child-to-parent violence and teen dating violence. The contributors of this book conclude that indulgent parenting styles are equal or even better than authoritative parenting styles, and highlight the importance of considering cultural influences when the relationships between parenting and its impact on the well-being of children are analysed.

Increases in computer power and technology have rapidly advanced the applications of numerical modeling in environmental and earth sciences. The progress of numerical modeling in atmospheric, oceanic, and geophysical sciences was the topic of an international conference held by the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The review articles and research papers in this volume constitute a wide-ranging and up-to-date account of modeling environmental and earth processes through a variety of numerical simulations. Sections are devoted to such topics as General Circulation Models and global change, methods of geophysical data assimilation, and mathematical and computational methods with geophysical applications. This book forms an excellent introduction and overview for graduate students as well as a critical update for researchers.

Advances in molecular biology have enabled leaps forward in the determination of virus phylogenetic history. This detailed 1995 book results from the invitation to foremost experts to give essays on aspects of virus biology. Initial chapters cover impacts of viruses and their control. Further chapters detail genetic variation of viruses and the molecular basis of interrelations with hosts. This leads to discussions of interactions with the host at the population level, and their molecular basis and evolution. Seventeen chapters follow, by specialists on particular groups of viruses describing their impact, genetic origins, sources of variation, population genetics and interactions with hosts. Practical virologists will find the chapters on phylogenetic analysis techniques very useful. The adaptive nature of viruses makes this work highly relevant to evolutionists.

"Es este un fantastico relato en el que los pensamientos; las acciones; las metas obtenidas por los amigos del personaje principal asi como lo alcanzado por el (vencer la muerte cuatro veces - la primera a los tres meses de nacido-) indican que si podemos, si realmente lo deseamos, obtener el triunfo personal y colectivo.
El conjunto de tristezas, de sufrimientos, de exitos y de alegrias descrito con gran realismo, nos deja una suave sensacion de tranquilidad y, asimismo, un fuerte deseo de seguir luchando."

Marcos, un italicense que llega a Roma, se ve envuelto en la maquinacion de una mujer vengativa y en las redes de un cristiano sediento de poder y de un senador corrupto y criminal. Acompanado por su amigo Fulvio, ha de averiguar la razon de la muerte de personas inocentes, descubrir a los responsables y hacer justicia. Mientras esto ocurre, unos cristianos se proponen redactar un libro que muestre que Jesus fue inocente del cargo de sedicion contra Roma. Fue Jesus un dios que andaba de incognito por la tierra o un judio que lucho por su pueblo? Marcos y Fulvio tienen que solucionar este enigma, pero lo que encuentran perjudica los intereses de gente poderosa y pone en peligro sus vidas. El Reino imposible novela las circunstancias que rodearon la redaccion del primer evangelio, en el que se pretendio juntar la figura de un hombre (Jesus) y la imagen de un dios (Cristo), con el resultado de que se mezclo la historia con el mito y la leyenda. Asi se elaboro el mayor fraude cometido en la historia, por primera vez expuesto y novelado en esta obra.

Estas historias han sido escritas para que el lector disfrute y se sienta participe de ellas. Desde el comienzo, el lector buscara el o los personajes; la razon de su comportamiento y su final. Combinacion de lugares y hechos reales con la imaginacion del autor, daran, sin duda, gran satisfaccion por leerlas y, tambien, por haber adquirido el libro.

El libro explica en terminos no tecnicos que es el TDAH, desde sus raices neurologicas hasta la conducta del nino hiperactivo. Se expone el procedimiento diagnostico, el tratamiento farmacologico y conductual y se orienta sobre la seleccion de medicos y psicologos. Se orienta sobre problemas concretos que suelen darse, como la oposicion de uno de los padres, de la familia o del colegio al tratamiento, se presentan las comorbilidades (trastornos del aprendizaje, problemas de conducta y depresion) y se discuten los riesgos del TDAH a lo largo de la vida. EL TDAH. -Que hacer cuando hay un diagnostico. -Lo que no es. -Las anomalias cerebrales que lo causan. -Como afectan el comportamiento las anomalias cerebrales. -Problemas directos e indirectos que ocasiona. -Errores y mitos mas comunes. -Como saber si el diagnostico es confiable. -Como buscar una segunda opinion. -Preguntas frecuentes sobre el diagnostico. -En que consiste el tratamiento psicologico. -El tratamiento medico: mitos y realidades. -La verdad sobre los efectos secundarios. -Tratamientos falsos. -Preguntas frecuentes sobre el tratamiento. -Como informar a la familia y al colegio. -Cuando se opone uno de los padres. -Cuando se opone la familia o el colegio. -Cuando hay problemas de aprendizaje o de conducta. -Riesgos en la adultez. -Que esperar de la terapia. -Padres con TDAH.