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High speed rail (HSR) is being touted as a strategic investment for
connecting people across regions, while also fostering prosperity
and smart urban growth. However, as its popularity increases, its
implementation has become contentious with various parties
contesting the validity of socioeconomic and environmental
objectives put forward as justification for investment. High Speed
Rail and Sustainability explores the environmental, economic and
social effects of developing a HSR system, presenting new
evaluations of the proposed system in California in the US as well
as lessons from international experience. Drawing upon the
accumulated experience from past HSR system development around the
world, leading experts present a diverse set of perspectives as
well as diverse contexts of implementation. Assessments of the
California case as well as cases from Japan, France, Germany,
Italy, Spain, Taiwan, China, and the UK show how governments and
stakeholders have bridged the gap between the vision and the
realities of connecting metropolitan regions through HSR. This is a
valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers in
the areas of urban planning, civil engineering, transportation and
environmental design.
Audiovisual translation is the fastest growing strand within
translation studies. This book addresses the need for more robust
theoretical frameworks to investigate emerging text- types, address
new methodological challenges (including the compilation, analysis
and reproduction of audiovisual data), and understand new discourse
communities bound together by the production and consumption of
audiovisual texts. In this clear, user- friendly book, Luis
Perez-Gonzalez introduces and explores the field, presenting and
critiquing key concepts, research models and methodological
approaches. Features include: * introductory overviews at the
beginning of each chapter, outlining aims and relevant connections
with other chapters * breakout boxes showcasing key concepts,
research case studies or other relevant links to the wider field of
translation studies * examples of audiovisual texts in a range of
languages with back translation support when required * summaries
reinforcing key issues dealt with in each chapter * follow- up
questions for further study * core references and suggestions for
further reading. * additional online resources on an extensive
companion website This will be an essential text for all students
studying audiovisual or screen translation at postgraduate or
advanced undergraduate level and key reading for all researchers
working in the area.
This special issue of The Translator explores the field with a view
to learning from the individuals and networks who take on such
'non-professional' translation and interpreting activities. It
showcases the work of researchers who look into the phenomenon
within a wide variety of settings: from museums to churches,
crowdsourcing and media sites to Wikipedia, and scientific journals
to the Social Forum. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines and
models, the contributions to this volume enhance the visibility of
non-professionals engaged in translating and interpreting and
challenge a range of widely-held assumptions within the discipline
and the profession.
Market-based solutions to environmental problems offer great
promise, but require complex public policies that take into account
the many institutional factors necessary for the market to work and
that guard against the social forces that can derail good public
policies. Using insights about markets from the new institutional
economics, this book sheds light on the institutional history of
the emissions trading concept as it has evolved across different
contexts. It makes accessible the policy design and practical
implementation aspects of a key tool for fighting climate change:
emissions trading systems (ETS) for environmental control. Blas
Luis Perez Henriquez analyzes past market-based environmental
programs to extract lessons for the future of ETS. He follows the
development of the emissions trading concept as it evolved in the
United States and was later applied in the multinational European
Emissions Trading System and in sub-national programs in the United
States such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and
California's ETS. This ex-post evaluation of an ETS as it evolves
in real time in the real world provides a valuable supplement to
what is already known from theoretical arguments and simulation
studies about the advantages and disadvantages of the market
strategy. Political cycles and political debate over the use of
markets for environmental control make any form of climate policy
extremely contentious. Perez Henriquez argues that, despite
ideological disagreements, the ETS approach, or, more popularly,
'cap-and-trade' policy design, remains the best hope for a
cost-effective policy to reduce GHG emissions around the world.
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Boulton Moderno: 1928 - 1944 (Hardcover)
Alfredo Boulton; Text written by Juan Bonet, Luis Perez Oramas, Sofia Maduro
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Alfredo Boulton (1908-95), art critic, historian and photographer,
was one of 20th-century Venezuela's most prominent intellectuals.
His large body of photographic work--focusing mostly on the people,
landscapes, art and history of Venezuela--is little known, and yet
no intellectual before Boulton had ever expressed Venezuela
visually. This hardcover volume focuses specifically on Boulton the
modernist artist through his photographic work from 1928 to 1944,
which he collected in albums that he designed as tools for
selecting and presenting images. With 50 full pages of albums and a
selection of individual reproductions, Boulton Moderno offers a
modern photographic vision of Venezuela. Texts by art critic Juan
Manuel Bonet, curator Luis Perez-Oramas and curator Sofia Vollmer
Maduro illuminate the context of Boulton's life and his prolific
output.
Despite four decades of development planning, at least one third of
the urban population of Africa, Asia and Latin America remains
poor. Over 600 million live in 'life and health threatening' homes
and neighbourhoods because of poor housing and inadequate or no
piped water, sanitation and health care. But even as the
shortcomings of government and development programmes become more
apparent, so do the untapped abilities of low-income groups and
their community organizations to develop their own solutions. This
book analyses the conditions necessary for successful community
initiatives and includes case studies of 18 intermediary
institutions (most of them Third World NGOs) who provide technical,
legal and financial services to low-income households for
constructing or improving housing. Many also work with community
organizations in improving water, sanitation, drainage, health care
and other community services. Through the analysis of innovative
financial systems for income generation, house construction and
service provision, Funding Community Initiatives considers the
feasibility of loans for addressing current urban housing problems.
It also considers how to increase greatly the scale and
effectiveness of support going to low-income households and
community organizations. This book will be of interest to students
and professionals concerned with urban development in Africa, Asia
and Latin America, especially those concerned with low income
shelter and community finance.
This special issue of The Translator explores the field with a view
to learning from the individuals and networks who take on such
'non-professional' translation and interpreting activities. It
showcases the work of researchers who look into the phenomenon
within a wide variety of settings: from museums to churches,
crowdsourcing and media sites to Wikipedia, and scientific journals
to the Social Forum. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines and
models, the contributions to this volume enhance the visibility of
non-professionals engaged in translating and interpreting and
challenge a range of widely-held assumptions within the discipline
and the profession.
Despite four decades of development planning, at least one third of
the urban population of Africa, Asia and Latin America remains
poor. Over 600 million live in 'life and health threatening' homes
and neighbourhoods because of poor housing and inadequate or no
piped water, sanitation and health care. But even as the
shortcomings of government and development programmes become more
apparent, so do the untapped abilities of low-income groups and
their community organizations to develop their own solutions. This
book analyses the conditions necessary for successful community
initiatives and includes case studies of 18 intermediary
institutions (most of them Third World NGOs) who provide technical,
legal and financial services to low-income households for
constructing or improving housing. Many also work with community
organizations in improving water, sanitation, drainage, health care
and other community services. Through the analysis of innovative
financial systems for income generation, house construction and
service provision, Funding Community Initiatives considers the
feasibility of loans for addressing current urban housing problems.
It also considers how to increase greatly the scale and
effectiveness of support going to low-income households and
community organizations. This book will be of interest to students
and professionals concerned with urban development in Africa, Asia
and Latin America, especially those concerned with low income
shelter and community finance.
Transformation to a low carbon economy is a central tenet to any
discussion on the solutions to the complex challenges of climate
change and energy security. Despite advances in policy, carbon
management and continuing development of clean technology,
fundamental business transformation has not occurred because of
multiple political, economic, social and organisational issues.
Carbon Governance, Climate Change and Business Transformation is
based on leading academic and industry input, and three
international workshops focused on low carbon transformation in
leading climate policy jurisdictions (Canada, USA and the UK) under
the international Carbon Governance Project (CGP) banner. The book
pulls insights from this innovative collaborative network to
identify the policy combinations needed to create transformative
change. It explores fundamental questions about how governments and
the private sector conceptualize the problem of climate change, the
conditions under which business transformation can genuinely take
place and key policy and business innovations needed. Broadly, the
book is based on emerging theories of multi-levelled, multi-actor
carbon governance, and applies these ideas to the real world
implications for tackling climate change through business
transformation. Conceptually and empirically, this book stimulates
both academic discussion and practical business models for low
carbon transformation.
The Routledge Handbook of Audiovisual Translation provides an
accessible, authoritative and comprehensive overview of the key
modalities of audiovisual translation and the main theoretical
frameworks, research methods and themes that are driving research
in this rapidly developing field. Divided in four parts, this
reference work consists of 32 state-of-the-art chapters from
leading international scholars. The first part focuses on
established and emerging audiovisual translation modalities,
explores the changing contexts in which they have been and continue
to be used, and examines how cultural and technological changes are
directing their future trajectories. The second part delves into
the interface between audiovisual translation and a range of
theoretical models that have proved particularly productive in
steering research in audiovisual translation studies. The third
part surveys a selection of methodological approaches supporting
traditional and innovative ways of interrogating audiovisual
translation data. The final part addresses an array of themes
pertaining to the place of audiovisual translation in society. This
Handbook gives audiovisual translation studies the platform it
needs to raise its profile within the Humanities research landscape
and is key reading for all those engaged in the study and research
of Audiovisual Translation within Translation studies.
Increasing interest in the study of coordinated activity of brain
cell ensembles reflects the current conceptualization of brain
information processing and cognition. It is thought that cognitive
processes involve not only serial stages of sensory signal
processing, but also massive parallel information processing
circuitries, and therefore it is the coordinated activity of
neuronal networks of brains that give rise to cognition and
consciousness in general. While the concepts and techniques to
measure synchronization are relatively well characterized and
developed in the mathematics and physics community, the measurement
of coordinated activity derived from brain signals is not a trivial
task, and is currently a subject of debate. Coordinated Activity in
the Brain: Measurements and Relevance to Brain Function and
Behavior addresses conceptual and methodological limitations, as
well as advantages, in the assessment of cellular coordinated
activity from neurophysiological recordings. The book offers a
broad overview of the field for investigators working in a variety
of disciplines (neuroscience, biophysics, mathematics, physics,
neurology, neurosurgery, psychology, biomedical engineering,
computer science/computational biology), and introduces future
trends for understanding brain activity and its relation to
cognition and pathologies. This work will be valuable to
professional investigators and clinicians, graduate and
post-graduate students in related fields of neuroscience and
biophysics, and to anyone interested in signal analysis techniques
for studying brain function.
Audiovisual translation is the fastest growing strand within
translation studies. This book addresses the need for more robust
theoretical frameworks to investigate emerging text- types, address
new methodological challenges (including the compilation, analysis
and reproduction of audiovisual data), and understand new discourse
communities bound together by the production and consumption of
audiovisual texts. In this clear, user- friendly book, Luis
Perez-Gonzalez introduces and explores the field, presenting and
critiquing key concepts, research models and methodological
approaches. Features include: * introductory overviews at the
beginning of each chapter, outlining aims and relevant connections
with other chapters * breakout boxes showcasing key concepts,
research case studies or other relevant links to the wider field of
translation studies * examples of audiovisual texts in a range of
languages with back translation support when required * summaries
reinforcing key issues dealt with in each chapter * follow- up
questions for further study * core references and suggestions for
further reading. * additional online resources on an extensive
companion website This will be an essential text for all students
studying audiovisual or screen translation at postgraduate or
advanced undergraduate level and key reading for all researchers
working in the area.
Transformation to a low carbon economy is a central tenet to any
discussion on the solutions to the complex challenges of climate
change and energy security. Despite advances in policy, carbon
management and continuing development of clean technology,
fundamental business transformation has not occurred because of
multiple political, economic, social and organisational issues.
Carbon Governance, Climate Change and Business Transformation is
based on leading academic and industry input, and three
international workshops focused on low carbon transformation in
leading climate policy jurisdictions (Canada, USA and the UK) under
the international Carbon Governance Project (CGP) banner. The book
pulls insights from this innovative collaborative network to
identify the policy combinations needed to create transformative
change. It explores fundamental questions about how governments and
the private sector conceptualize the problem of climate change, the
conditions under which business transformation can genuinely take
place and key policy and business innovations needed. Broadly, the
book is based on emerging theories of multi-levelled, multi-actor
carbon governance, and applies these ideas to the real world
implications for tackling climate change through business
transformation. Conceptually and empirically, this book stimulates
both academic discussion and practical business models for low
carbon transformation.
Published in conjunction with a major retrospective of the work of
Brazilian painter, sculptor and performance artist Lygia Clark,
this publication presents a linear and progressive survey of the
artist's groundbreaking practice. Having trained with modern
masters from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, Clark was at the
forefront of Constructivist and Neo-Concretist movements in Brazil
and fostered the active participation of the spectator through her
works. Examining Clark's output from her early abstract
compositions to the "biological architectures" and "relational
objects" she created late in her career, this is the most
comprehensive volume on the artist available in English. Three
sections based on key phases throughout her career--Abstraction,
Neo-Concretism and The Abandonment of Art--examine these critical
moments in Clark's production, anchor significant concepts or
constellations of works that mark a definitive step in her work,
and shed light on circumstances in her life as an artist. Featuring
a significant selection of previously unpublished archival texts of
Clark's personal writings, it is a vital source of primary
documentation for twentieth-century art history scholarship.
Lygia Clark (1920-1988) trained in Rio de Janeiro and Paris from
the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. From the late 1960s through the
1970s she created a series of unconventional artworks in parallel
to a lengthy psychoanalytic therapy, leading her to develop a
series of therapeutic propositions grounded in art. Clark has
become a major reference for contemporary artists dealing with the
limits of conventional forms of art.
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Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence - 10th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2003, and 5th Conference on Technology Transfer, TTIA 2003, San Sebastian, Spain, November 12-14, 2003. Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
Ricardo Conejo, Maite Urretavizcaya, Jose-Luis Perez-De-La-Cruz
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TheSpanish Associationfor Arti?cialIntelligence(AEPIA) wasfounded
in1983 aiming to encourage the development of arti?cial
intelligence in Spain. AEPIA is a member of the ECCAI (European
Co-ordinating Committee for Arti?cial Intelligence) and a founder
member of IBERAMIA, the Iberoamerican Conf- ence on Arti?cial
Intelligence. Under the succesive presidencies of Jos e Cuena,
FranciscoGarijoandFedericoBarber,
theassociationgrewtoitspresenthealthy state. Since 1985, AEPIA has
held a conference (CAEPIA) every second year. Since 1995 a Workshop
on Technology Transfer of Arti?cial Intelligence (TTIA) has taken
place together with CAEPIA. The CAEPIA-TTIA conferences were
traditionally held mostly in Spanish and the proceedings were also
published in our language. However, in order to promote an even
more fruitful exchange of experiences with the international
scienti?ccommunity,
thedecisionwasmadetopublishapostproceedingsEnglish volume with the
best contributions to CAEPIA-TTIA 2003. In fact, 214 papers were
submitted from 19 countries and 137 were presented at the
conference. From these, 66 were selected and were published in this
book; that also includes an invited talk paper. We must express our
gratitude to all the authors who submitted their papers to our
conference. The paperswere reviewedby an internationalcommittee
formed by 80 m- bers from 13 countries. Each paper was reviewed by
two or three referees, with an average of 2.7 reviews per paper.
The papers included in this volume were submitted to a second
review process. We must also express our deepest gr- itude to all
the researchers whose invaluable contributions guaranteed a high
scienti?c level for the conference."
* Emerging area in which we have a number of strong publications. *
Edited by an authority in the field and a avid social media user -
the contributors also include a number of big names from the field.
* Part of our growing series of handbooks on Translation and
Interpreting Studies, of which a handful are publishing this year
and many more are under contract.
High speed rail (HSR) is being touted as a strategic investment for
connecting people across regions, while also fostering prosperity
and smart urban growth. However, as its popularity increases, its
implementation has become contentious with various parties
contesting the validity of socioeconomic and environmental
objectives put forward as justification for investment. High Speed
Rail and Sustainability explores the environmental, economic and
social effects of developing a HSR system, presenting new
evaluations of the proposed system in California in the US as well
as lessons from international experience. Drawing upon the
accumulated experience from past HSR system development around the
world, leading experts present a diverse set of perspectives as
well as diverse contexts of implementation. Assessments of the
California case as well as cases from Japan, France, Germany,
Italy, Spain, Taiwan, China, and the UK show how governments and
stakeholders have bridged the gap between the vision and the
realities of connecting metropolitan regions through HSR. This is a
valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers in
the areas of urban planning, civil engineering, transportation and
environmental design.
Market-based solutions to environmental problems offer great
promise, but require complex public policies that take into account
the many institutional factors necessary for the market to work and
that guard against the social forces that can derail good public
policies. Using insights about markets from the new institutional
economics, this book sheds light on the institutional history of
the emissions trading concept as it has evolved across different
contexts. It makes accessible the policy design and practical
implementation aspects of a key tool for fighting climate change:
emissions trading systems (ETS) for environmental control. Blas
Luis Perez Henriquez analyzes past market-based environmental
programs to extract lessons for the future of ETS. He follows the
development of the emissions trading concept as it evolved in the
United States and was later applied in the multinational European
Emissions Trading System and in sub-national programs in the United
States such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and
California's ETS. This ex-post evaluation of an ETS as it evolves
in real time in the real world provides a valuable supplement to
what is already known from theoretical arguments and simulation
studies about the advantages and disadvantages of the market
strategy. Political cycles and political debate over the use of
markets for environmental control make any form of climate policy
extremely contentious. Perez Henriquez argues that, despite
ideological disagreements, the ETS approach, or, more popularly,
'cap-and-trade' policy design, remains the best hope for a
cost-effective policy to reduce GHG emissions around the world.
In this new edition of the popular book Dive Into UDL, learn how
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) supports the creation of
learning environments that ensure all learners feel valued,
respected and understood. UDL is a framework for designing
instruction that meets the needs of every learner. This book is
meant to support your professional learning, giving you options and
choice in how you build your knowledge. You can wade in, take a
shallow swim or dive into UDL as you develop your instructional
practice and create a more inclusive learning environment that
plans for variability, celebrates diversity and offers flexibility
in how students learn and grow. In the process, you'll learn how to
foster high achievement for all students, including those with
disabilities or limited English proficiency. In this updated
edition, readers will learn how to incorporate accessible learning
materials and technologies into their instructional design to
ensure choice for learners and help them develop into independent,
motivated expert learners. This edition:Explores how UDL is key to
creating an inclusive learning environment that is equitable,
culturally relevant, safe and welcoming. Expands the learning to
include virtual classrooms, and emphasizes how UDL is key to
ensuring rich, engaging and purposeful online learning. Examines
the application of UDL principles to multiple grade levels and
subject areas in both in-person and online environments. Dives
deeper into the authors' UDL Planning Guide guide at a variety of
UDL levels of understanding (Wade in, Shallow Swim, Deep Dive).
Features ideas and examples (on the companion website) from
educators around the world to illustrate multiple means of
engagement, representation, and action and expression. Along the
way, the authors draw connections to the ISTE Standards (Educators
and Students sections), helping teachers strategically use
technology to not only support the three principles of UDL but
support the development of independent, self-regulatory empowered
learners. Audience: K-12 teachers, coaches and administrators;
professors in pre-service programs
"Perez Velazquez has written a little gem that I advise reading to
anyone persuing a scientific career, as well as for the general
public interested in the sociological aspects of science. It alerts
the reader about the rise of a new type of scientist, buried in
bureaucracy and financial issues. In contrast to past generations,
this "new scientist" is sadly left with minimal time to dedicate to
creative work. It studies the consequences of this state of
affairs, the problems associated with peer reviewing, the dilemma
of funding innovative research, the nature of corporate academic
culture and the trivialization of scientific achievement by grant
agencies and universities. It also provides possible solutions for
these problems. All this is magnificently exemplified and
documented, including personal experiences from the author and a
touch of humor illustrated in the accompanying cartoons. Despite
the humor, it is a serious piece of work that would also be useful
for the conscientious academic worried about the difficulties of
the current research scene." Marina Frantseva, MD, PhD Jose Luis
Perez Velazquez is a Spanish biochemist/biophysicist. He has a
degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Molecular Physiology &
Biophysics. His research activities are mainly in the fields of the
brain-behaviour relation at a high level of description, seeking
principles of biological organisation. He worked as a senior
scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and was
Professor at the University of Toronto, where he taught a graduate
course on consciousness and self-awareness, which derived in part
from his book The Brain-Behaviour Continuum (World Scientific). He
also edited the book Coordinated Activity in the Brain (Springer),
and edited special issues for The Journal of Biological Physics,
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience and Frontiers in
Computational Neuroscience. Currently he is a Research Scholar at
the Ronin Institute, where he continues to investigate a possible
global principle, a scheme that combines theoretical studies and
experimental observations, aimed at conceptualizing how
consciousness arises from the organization of matter.
Increasing interest in the study of coordinated activity of
brain cell ensembles reflects the current conceptualization of
brain information processing and cognition. It is thought that
cognitive processes involve not only serial stages of sensory
signal processing, but also massive parallel information processing
circuitries, and therefore it is the coordinated activity of
neuronal networks of brains that give rise to cognition and
consciousness in general. While the concepts and techniques to
measure synchronization are relatively well characterized and
developed in the mathematics and physics community, the measurement
of coordinated activity derived from brain signals is not a trivial
task, and is currently a subject of debate. Coordinated Activity in
the Brain: Measurements and Relevance to Brain Function and
Behavior addresses conceptual and methodological limitations, as
well as advantages, in the assessment of cellular coordinated
activity from neurophysiological recordings. The book offers a
broad overview of the field for investigators working in a variety
of disciplines (neuroscience, biophysics, mathematics, physics,
neurology, neurosurgery, psychology, biomedical engineering,
computer science/computational biology), and introduces future
trends for understanding brain activity and its relation to
cognition and pathologies. This work will be valuable to
professional investigators and clinicians, graduate and
post-graduate students in related fields of neuroscience and
biophysics, and to anyone interested in signal analysis techniques
for studying brain function.
About the Editors:
J. L. Perez Velazquez was born in Zaragoza, Spain, and received
the degree of 'Licenciado' in Chemistry (Biochemistry, universities
of Zaragoza and Complutense of Madrid), and a PhD degree in 1992
from the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at
Baylor College of Medicine (Houston), homologated to Doctorate in
Chemistry by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 1997. He is an
Associate Scientist in the Neuroscience and Mental Health Programme
and the Brain and Behaviour Centre at the Hospital For Sick
Children in Toronto, and an Associate Professor at the University
of Toronto.
Richard Wennberg was born in Vancouver, Canada. He obtained his
medical degree from the University of British Columbia in 1990 and
completed a neurology residency at McGill University in 1994,
followed by a fellowship in electroencephalography at the Montreal
Neurological Institute. He is Director of the clinical
neurophysiology laboratory at the University Health Network,
Toronto Western Hospital; Associate professor of Medicine at the
University of Toronto; Chair of the Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Canada examination board in neurology, and President of
the Canadian League Against Epilepsy.
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