"Outcast!" The sentence is handed down as the iron brand burns Kolhen's arm. Now, instead of his warrior tattoo, the young man wears the mark of the rejected, the "outcasts" as they are known on the planet Orion-XB12557. Determined to prove his innocence and to get revenge on those who framed him, Kolhen escapes captivity with the help of the fiery Tryana, another of society's pariahs. On his quest, Kolhen meets a mysterious woman with golden hair, who's armed with strange and powerful weaponry, and who claims to be an envoy from another planet: Earth.

Imprisoned by the thousands in the bowels of an uninhabited moon, they have been erased from official history. Xinthia has sworn that, one day, she will lead her people to the sun. After losing the imperial throne to the Kerkans, all members of the Khelek Dynasty and their allies were banished to the barren caves of Tazma. Sixty-five standard years later, their descendants are still held captive there. Xinthia has had enough. "In 1972, the Moroccan king Hassan II escaped an attack organized by General Oufkir, a close relative. Oufkir was executed, but his wife and six children, the youngest of whom was only three, were thrown into a dungeon from which they would not emerge for nineteen years. it is from this event of unspeakable cruelty that I imagined the fate of the 'damned of Tazma.' " —Sam Timel

This original, fast-paced tale catapults us into the seedy underworld of a country whose violent past still echoes into a fractured present. "Prisoners" meets "The Deer Hunter." Ex-soldier, and widower, Frank Sokol must face the ghosts of the past when he returns to his native Croatia with his Canadian-born 11-year-old son, Ben. But when Ben is kidnapped, Frank will be forced to mend deep-seated familial wounds, and resort to his military training to get him back. Nothing will prepare him for what his search for his boy will uncover.

A young German Jewish filmmaker escapes the Nazi threat in Shanghai, where he is forced to adapt to a new land and cope with loss through the magic of filmmaking. Berlin, 1930. Aspiring filmmakers Bernhard and Illo are madly in love, united by their passion for cinema...and now, on the eve of the Second World War, it could be the only thing they have left. As the streets heat up with the flames of violent antisemitism, the couple has no choice but to abandon their home and go into exile. With nothing but a screenplay and each other, they manage to board a ship headed for Shanghai-a bubbling and enigmatic city that holds the promise of freedom...but at what cost? A powerful humanistic take on World War II from the largely undocumented perspective of the forced Jewish immigration to China.

Intelligent Data Analysis for e-Learning: Enhancing Security and Trustworthiness in Online Learning Systems addresses information security within e-Learning based on trustworthiness assessment and prediction. Over the past decade, many learning management systems have appeared in the education market. Security in these systems is essential for protecting against unfair and dishonest conduct-most notably cheating-however, e-Learning services are often designed and implemented without considering security requirements. This book provides functional approaches of trustworthiness analysis, modeling, assessment, and prediction for stronger security and support in online learning, highlighting the security deficiencies found in most online collaborative learning systems. The book explores trustworthiness methodologies based on collective intelligence than can overcome these deficiencies. It examines trustworthiness analysis that utilizes the large amounts of data-learning activities generate. In addition, as processing this data is costly, the book offers a parallel processing paradigm that can support learning activities in real-time. The book discusses data visualization methods for managing e-Learning, providing the tools needed to analyze the data collected. Using a case-based approach, the book concludes with models and methodologies for evaluating and validating security in e-Learning systems. Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to EI-Compendex and SCOPUS

Una de las responsabilidades fundamentales del anestesiologo es establecer y mantener la via aerea (VA) permeable en cualquier situacion clinica que conlleve un compromiso de la misma. El fundamento basico para esto, es la valoracion sistematica de la VA y el reconocimiento de las posibles dificultades, para conseguir desplazar al paciente desde una situacion de riesgo a una segura. En manos expertas, la intubacion orotraqueal se realiza de forma rapida y sin dificultad. Sin embargo, derivada de factores anatomicos de los pacientes, puede ocurrir la intubacion dificil. Desde el ano 2006, se esta estudiando el beneficio del Airtraq en la comunidad de anestesiologos y emergencistas a nivel mundial y se ha demostrado su beneficio en cuanto a rapidez y exito de la intubacion y una incidencia menor de complicaciones en pacientes con signos predictivos de via aerea dificil cuando se compara con el laringoscopio Macintosh. Con la presente investigacion se pretende evaluar y validar el exito del Airtraq como alternativa a la intubacion orotraqueal en la via aerea dificil en nuestro medio."