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The problems which the individual has to deal with in adolescence
are qualitatively different from those of childhood; they are
related in particular to the adolescent's reaction/responses to the
physical development of his/her sexual body and the changing
relationship to the parents and to the world in which he/she lives.
We have to take into account the revival of infantile conflicts and
the newly emerging sexual and aggressive urges and experiences,
both of which have to be integrated by the adolescent so that a new
equilibrium can be created. The adolescent finds himself in the
very difficult position of having to make all these readjustments
while he has to deal with the subsequent conflicts and anxieties.
The earlier passionate mixture of love and hatred that
characterizes the attachment and dependency on the parents must now
be renounced until the adolescent reaches a point at which it is
possible for him to confirm his own identity and find new love
relationships. These must neither be based too much on repetition
of previous early attachments, nor be entirely and exaggeratedly
opposed to them. It goes without saying that none of this can be
achieved without much upheaval and experimenting. The step from
adolescence to adulthood is complex and involves not only the
individual s emotional experience, but also the continuous input,
reactions from the world in which he/she lives. It is these
interactions that are described and discussed in this book."
From the award-winning author of Always Running comes a brilliant collection of short stories about life in East Los Angeles. Whether hilariously capturing the voice of a philosophizing limo driver whose dream is to make the most of his rap-metal garage band in "My Ride, My Revolution," or the monologue-styled rant of a tes-ti-fy-ing! tent revivalist named Ysela in "Oiga," Rodriguez squeezes humor from the lives of people who are not ready to sacrifice their dreams due to circumstance. In these stories, Luis J. Rodriguez gives eloquent voice to the neighborhood where he spent many years as a resident, a father, an organizer, and, finally, a writer: a neighborhood that offers more to the world than its appearance allows.
Although there have been many other important contributions to the
field of child and adolescent analysis, the major differences in
theory and approach still bear the hallmarks of three of the most
significant figures in the field: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and
Donald Winnicott. As well as providing an insight into these
differences, this volume
The adolescent finds himself in the very difficult position of
having to make all these readjustments whilst he has to deal with
the subsequent conflicts and anxieties. The earlier passionate
mixture of love and hatred that characterizes the attachment and
dependency on the parents must now be renounced until the
adolescent reaches a point at which it is possible for him to
confirm his own identity and find new love relationships. These
must neither be based too much on repetition of previous early
attachments, nor be entirely and exaggeratedly opposed to them. It
goes without saying that none of this can be achieved without much
upheaval and experimenting. The step from adolescence to adulthood
is complex and involves not only the individual's emotional
experience, but also the continuous input, reactions from the world
in which he/she lives. It is these interactions that are described
and discussed in this book.
Although there have been many other important contributions to the
field of child and adolescent analysis, the major differences in
theory and approach still bear the hallmarks of three of the most
significant figures in the field: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and
Donald Winnicott. As well as providing an insight into these
differences, this volume also portrays the state of child analysis
today, whereby we need to reconcile and combine these differences
to reveal a common ground from where we can move forward. This is
represented by the sheer diversity of the perspectives in this
volume, as they in turn show how they can influence the field of
child analysis today."This book represents an attempt to portray
the state of child psychoanalysis in the British Psychoanalytical
Society today. It offers a variety of clinical and theoretical
perspectives, and attempts to demonstrate how they influence the
world of child analysis in this country. This divergence continues
to divide analysts who think of early development and children's
mental life differently and therefore approach their small patients
in, at times, an entirely different technical way." -- From the
IntroductionContributors: Robin Anderson, A.H. Brafman, Luis
Rodriguez de la Sierra, Rose Edgecumbe, Edna O'Shaughnessy and
Anne-Marie Sandler
The primary audience for this book are advanced undergraduate
students and graduate students. Computer architecture, as it
happened in other fields such as electronics, evolved from the
small to the large, that is, it left the realm of low-level
hardware constructs, and gained new dimensions, as distributed
systems became the keyword for system implementation. As such, the
system architect, today, assembles pieces of hardware that are at
least as large as a computer or a network router or a LAN hub, and
assigns pieces of software that are self-contained, such as client
or server programs, Java applets or pro tocol modules, to those
hardware components. The freedom she/he now has, is tremendously
challenging. The problems alas, have increased too. What was before
mastered and tested carefully before a fully-fledged mainframe or a
closely-coupled computer cluster came out on the market, is today
left to the responsibility of computer engineers and scientists
invested in the role of system architects, who fulfil this role on
behalf of software vendors and in tegrators, add-value system
developers, R&D institutes, and final users. As system
complexity, size and diversity grow, so increases the probability
of in consistency, unreliability, non responsiveness and
insecurity, not to mention the management overhead. What System
Architects Need to Know The insight such an architect must have
includes but goes well beyond, the functional properties of
distributed systems.
Middleware is a critical foundation needed to leverage the
development of a wide range of mobile and ubiquitous applications.
Intrinsic challenges when building such middleware require the
combination of expertise from areas like distributed systems,
networking, software engineering, and application development. This
textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the main
fundamental problems, technologies, paradigms, and solutions of
concern to developers of middleware for mobile environments. The
contributions are grouped into four parts, on networking and
programming issues, communication models, middleware issues, and
application issues. Each chapter is structured as a self-contained
tutorial, presenting an overview of a specific topic and the
state-of-the-art solutions for the related problems. In addition,
the book also includes an authoritative reference list. The
material has been successfully used in several thematic training
schools organized by the ESF MiNEMA (Middleware for Network
Eccentric and Mobile Applications) program, and the book's
organization and presentation is ideal for an advanced course on
middleware.
Engineering systems operate through actuators, most of which will
exhibit phenomena such as saturation or zones of no operation,
commonly known as dead zones. These are examples of
piecewise-affine characteristics, and they can have a considerable
impact on the stability and performance of engineering systems.
This book targets controller design for piecewise affine systems,
fulfilling both stability and performance requirements. The authors
present a unified computational methodology for the analysis and
synthesis of piecewise affine controllers, taking an approach that
is capable of handling sliding modes, sampled-data, and networked
systems. They introduce algorithms that will be applicable to
nonlinear systems approximated by piecewise affine systems, and
they feature several examples from areas such as switching
electronic circuits, autonomous vehicles, neural networks, and
aerospace applications. Piecewise Affine Control: Continuous-Time,
Sampled-Data, and Networked Systems is intended for graduate
students, advanced senior undergraduate students, and researchers
in academia and industry. It is also appropriate for engineers
working on applications where switched linear and affine models are
important.
The primary audience for this book are advanced undergraduate
students and graduate students. Computer architecture, as it
happened in other fields such as electronics, evolved from the
small to the large, that is, it left the realm of low-level
hardware constructs, and gained new dimensions, as distributed
systems became the keyword for system implementation. As such, the
system architect, today, assembles pieces of hardware that are at
least as large as a computer or a network router or a LAN hub, and
assigns pieces of software that are self-contained, such as client
or server programs, Java applets or pro tocol modules, to those
hardware components. The freedom she/he now has, is tremendously
challenging. The problems alas, have increased too. What was before
mastered and tested carefully before a fully-fledged mainframe or a
closely-coupled computer cluster came out on the market, is today
left to the responsibility of computer engineers and scientists
invested in the role of system architects, who fulfil this role on
behalf of software vendors and in tegrators, add-value system
developers, R&D institutes, and final users. As system
complexity, size and diversity grow, so increases the probability
of in consistency, unreliability, non responsiveness and
insecurity, not to mention the management overhead. What System
Architects Need to Know The insight such an architect must have
includes but goes well beyond, the functional properties of
distributed systems."
Wear is one of the main reasons mechanical components and materials
become inoperable, rendering enormous costs to society over time.
Estimating wear allows engineers to predict the useful life of
modern mechanical elements, reduce the costs of inoperability, or
obtain optimal designs (i.e. selecting proper materials, shapes,
and surface finishing according to mechanical conditions and
durability) to reduce the impact of wear.Wear in Advanced
Engineering Applications and Materials presents recent
computational and practical research studying damage and wear in
advanced engineering applications and materials. As such, this book
covers numerical formulations based on the finite element method
(FEM) - and the boundary element method (BEM) - as well as
theoretical and experimental research to predict the wear response
or life-limiting failure of engineering applications.
Luis Rodriguez's life was once in the grip of gang brotherhood and
rivalries, but unlike many who enter that world, he was able to
turn himself around. This text suggests concrete approaches to the
violence facing youth today.
This book focuses on the fields of nature-inspired algorithms,
optimization problems and fuzzy logic. In this book, a new
metaheuristic based on String Theory from Physics is proposed. It
is important to mention that we have proposed the new algorithm to
generate new potential solutions in optimization problems in order
to find new ways that could improve the results in solving these
problems. We are presenting the results for the proposed method in
different cases of study. The first case, is optimization of
traditional benchmark mathematical functions. The second case, is
the optimization of benchmark functions of the CEC 2015 Competition
and we are also presenting results of the CEC 2017 Competition on
Constrained Real-Parameter Optimization that are problems that
contain the presence of constraints that alter the shape of the
search space making them more difficult to solve. Finally, in the
third case, we are presenting the optimization of a fuzzy inference
system, specifically for finding the optimal design of a fuzzy
controller for an autonomous mobile robot. It is important to
mention that in all study cases we are presenting statistical tests
in or-der to validate the performance of proposed method. In
summary, we believe that this book will be of great interest to a
wide audience, ranging from engineering and science graduate
students, to researchers and professors in computational
intelligence, metaheuristics, optimization, robotics and control.
In modern computing a program is usually distributed among several
processes. The fundamental challenge when developing reliable and
secure distributed programs is to support the cooperation of
processes required to execute a common task, even when some of
these processes fail. Failures may range from crashes to
adversarial attacks by malicious processes. Cachin, Guerraoui, and
Rodrigues present an introductory description of fundamental
distributed programming abstractions together with algorithms to
implement them in distributed systems, where processes are subject
to crashes and malicious attacks. The authors follow an incremental
approach by first introducing basic abstractions in simple
distributed environments, before moving to more sophisticated
abstractions and more challenging environments. Each core chapter
is devoted to one topic, covering reliable broadcast, shared
memory, consensus, and extensions of consensus. For every topic,
many exercises and their solutions enhance the understanding This
book represents the second edition of "Introduction to Reliable
Distributed Programming". Its scope has been extended to include
security against malicious actions by non-cooperating processes.
This important domain has become widely known under the name
"Byzantine fault-tolerance".
Small hydro power installations have the potential to provide a
renewable supply of energy to people in remote, hilly communities,
far from the national gird. This book is based on the authors'
considerable experience of installing hydroelectric schemes that
produce up to 500kW for powering small communities. The book
describes not only the electro-mechanical equipment and how it is
installed, but also the correct setting of the installation and how
to design and build the channels leading up to the turbine so as to
optimize performance. These civil works can be carried out by local
manpower, using materials that are usually available locally.
Chapters cover the main components of small hydroelectric plants
from the intake and the headrace channel, via the conveyance
channel, to the forebay tank, penstock, turbine, and generator.
This practical manual is a major new addition to the resources
available for micro-hydro power project and programme managers
worldwide and represents excellent value for such a detailed
technical reference handbook.
Middleware is a critical foundation needed to leverage the
development of a wide range of mobile and ubiquitous applications.
Intrinsic challenges when building such middleware require the
combination of expertise from areas like distributed systems,
networking, software engineering, and application development.
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the main
fundamental problems, technologies, paradigms, and solutions of
concern to developers of middleware for mobile environments. The
contributions are grouped into four parts, on networking and
programming issues, communication models, middleware issues, and
application issues. Each chapter is structured as a self-contained
tutorial, presenting an overview of a specific topic and the
state-of-the-art solutions for the related problems. In addition,
the book also includes an authoritative reference list. The
material has been successfully used in several thematic training
schools organized by the ESF MiNEMA (Middleware for Network
Eccentric and Mobile Applications) program, and the book's
organization and presentation is ideal for an advanced course on
middleware.
In modern computing a program is usually distributed among several
processes. The fundamental challenge when developing reliable and
secure distributed programs is to support the cooperation of
processes required to execute a common task, even when some of
these processes fail. Failures may range from crashes to
adversarial attacks by malicious processes. Cachin, Guerraoui, and
Rodrigues present an introductory description of fundamental
distributed programming abstractions together with algorithms to
implement them in distributed systems, where processes are subject
to crashes and malicious attacks. The authors follow an incremental
approach by first introducing basic abstractions in simple
distributed environments, before moving to more sophisticated
abstractions and more challenging environments. Each core chapter
is devoted to one topic, covering reliable broadcast, shared
memory, consensus, and extensions of consensus. For every topic,
many exercises and their solutions enhance the understanding This
book represents the second edition of "Introduction to Reliable
Distributed Programming". Its scope has been extended to include
security against malicious actions by non-cooperating processes.
This important domain has become widely known under the name
"Byzantine fault-tolerance".
Winner of the 2021 New Voices Book Award by the Society for
Linguistic Anthropology Exploring the ways in which the development
of linguistic practices helped expand national politics in remote,
rural areas of Venezuela, Language and Revolutionary Magic in the
Orinoco Delta situates language as a mediating force in the
creation of the 'magical state'. Focusing on the Waraos speakers of
the Orinoco Delta, this book explores center-periphery dynamics in
Venezuela through an innovative linguistic anthropological lens.
Using a semiotic framework informed by concepts of 'transduction'
and 'translation', this book combines ethnographic and historical
evidence to analyze the ideological mediation and linguistic
practices involved in managing a multi-ethnic citizenry in
Venezuela. Juan Luis Rodriguez shows how indigenous populations
participate in the formation and contestation of state power
through daily practices and the use of different speech genres,
emphasising the performative and semiotic work required to produce
revolutionary subjects. Establishing the centrality of language and
semiosis in the constitution of authority and political power, this
book moves away from seeing revolution in solely economic or
ideological terms. Through the collision between Warao and Spanish,
it highlights how language ideologies can exclude or integrate
indigenous populations in the public sphere and how they were
transformed by Hugo Chavez' revolutionary government to promote
loyalty to the regime.
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