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The children of undocumented migrants in the U.S. are trapped at
the intersection of two systems in crisis: the public education
system and the immigration law system. Based on a long tradition of
scholarship in Latino education and on newer critical race theory
ideas, Persistent Inequality answers burning questions about how
educational policy has to rise to meet the unique challenges of
undocumented students' lives as well as those which face nearly all
Latinos in the U.S. educational system. How solid is the Supreme
Court precedent, Plyler v. Doe, that allows undocumented children
the opportunity to attend public school K-12 free of charge? What
would happen if the Supreme Court overruled it? What is the DREAM
Act and how would this proposed federal law affect the lives of
undocumented students? How have immigration raids affected public
school children and school administrators? To shed some light on
these vital questions, the authors provide a critical analysis of
the various legal and policy aspects of the U.S. educational
system, asserting that both the legal and educational systems in
this country need to address the living and working conditions of
undocumented Latino students and remove the obstacles to
educational achievement which these students struggle with daily.
The children of undocumented migrants in the U.S. are trapped at
the intersection of two systems in crisis: the public education
system and the immigration law system. Based on a long tradition of
scholarship in Latino education and on newer critical race theory
ideas, Persistent Inequality answers burning questions about how
educational policy has to rise to meet the unique challenges of
undocumented students' lives as well as those which face nearly all
Latinos in the U.S. educational system. How solid is the Supreme
Court precedent, Plyler v. Doe, that allows undocumented children
the opportunity to attend public school K-12 free of charge? What
would happen if the Supreme Court overruled it? What is the DREAM
Act and how would this proposed federal law affect the lives of
undocumented students? How have immigration raids affected public
school children and school administrators? To shed some light on
these vital questions, the authors provide a critical analysis of
the various legal and policy aspects of the U.S. educational
system, asserting that both the legal and educational systems in
this country need to address the living and working conditions of
undocumented Latino students and remove the obstacles to
educational achievement which these students struggle with daily.
West Germany and the Portuguese Dictatorship 1968-1974 examines
West Germany's ambiguous policy towards the Portuguese dictatorship
of Marcelo Caetano. Lopes sheds new light on the social, economic,
military, and diplomatic dimensions of the awkward relationship
between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Caetano regime.
West Germany and the Portuguese Dictatorship 1968-1974 examines
West Germany's ambiguous policy towards the Portuguese dictatorship
of Marcelo Caetano. Lopes sheds new light on the social, economic,
military, and diplomatic dimensions of the awkward relationship
between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Caetano regime.
This historical study looks at how reformers have used urban
planning and architecture to improve the health of urban residents
of the United States. It begins in the nineteenth century, when
problems in rapidly urbanizing cities threatened to overwhelm
cities, and then traces the development and impact of reform
movements up through the First World War, including discussions of
model tenements, the 'city beautiful' movement, tenement laws, and
zoning and building codes. Midcentury design movements, such as new
efforts to plan suburbs and Modernism, along with outlines of the
impacts of public housing, highway building, and urban renewal, are
the focus of the middle chapters of the book. The final third
examines the revival of cities and the reconnection of public
health with urban planning that occurred as the twentieth century
ended.
As other complex systems in social and natural sciences as well
as in engineering, the Internet is hard to understand from a
technical point of view. Packet switched networks defy analytical
modeling. The Internet is an outstanding and challenging case
because of its fast development, unparalleled heterogeneity and the
inherent lack of measurement and monitoring mechanisms in its core
conception.
This monograph deals with applications of computational
intelligence methods, with an emphasis on fuzzy techniques, to a
number of current issues in measurement, analysis and control of
traffic in the Internet. First, the core building blocks of
Internet Science and other related networking aspects are
introduced. Then, data mining and control problems are addressed.
In the first class two issues are considered: predictive modeling
of traffic load as well as summarization of traffic flow
measurements. The second class, control, includes active queue
management schemes for Internet routers as well as window based
end-to-end rate and congestion control. The practical hardware
implementation of some of the fuzzy inference systems proposed here
is also addressed. While some theoretical developments are
described, we favor extensive evaluation of models using real-world
data by simulation and experiments.
This book provides insight into rural poverty in Latin America. It draws on six case studies of recent rural household surveys for Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, and Peru and several thematic studies examining land, labor, rural financial markets, the environments, and disadvantaged groups. Recognizing the heterogeneity within the rural economy, the studies characterize three important groups--small farmers, landless farm workers, and rural non-farm workers--and provide quantitative and qualitative analyses of the determinants of household income.
This book provides fresh insight into rural poverty in Latin
America. It draws on six case studies of recent rural household
surveys - for Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, and
Peru - and several thematic studies examining land, labour, rural
financial markets, the environments, and disadvantaged groups.
Recognizing the heterogeneity within the rural economy, the studies
characterize three important groups - small farmers, landless farm
workers, and rural non-farm workers - and provide quantitative and
qualitative analyses of the determinants of household income.
The papers of this volume share as a common goal the structure and
classi- fication of noncommutative rings and their modules, and
deal with topics of current research including: localization,
serial rings, perfect endomorphism rings, quantum groups, Morita
contexts, generalizations of injectivitiy, and Cartan matrices.
This historical study looks at how reformers have used urban
planning and architecture to improve the health of urban residents
of the United States. It begins in the nineteenth century, when
problems in rapidly urbanizing cities threatened to overwhelm
cities, and then traces the development and impact of reform
movements up through the First World War, including discussions of
model tenements, the 'city beautiful' movement, tenement laws, and
zoning and building codes. Midcentury design movements, such as new
efforts to plan suburbs and Modernism, along with outlines of the
impacts of public housing, highway building, and urban renewal, are
the focus of the middle chapters of the book. The final third
examines the revival of cities and the reconnection of public
health with urban planning that occurred as the twentieth century
ended.
Design end-to-end AR solutions for domains such as marketing,
retail, manufacturing, tourism, automation, and training Key
Features Use leading AR development frameworks such as ARCore,
ARKit, and Vuforia across key industries Identify the market
potential of AR for designing visual solutions in different
business sectors Build multi-platform AR projects for various
platforms such as Unity, iOS, and Android Book DescriptionAugmented
reality (AR) is expanding its scope from just being used in mobile
and game applications to enterprise. Different industries are using
AR to enhance assembly line visualization, guide operators
performing difficult tasks, attract more customers, and even
improve training techniques. In this book, you'll gain
comprehensive insights into different aspects of developing
AR-based apps for six different enterprise sectors, focusing on
market needs and choosing the most suitable tool in each case.
You'll delve into the basics of Unity and get familiar with Unity
assets, materials, and resources, which will help you build a
strong foundation for working on the different AR projects covered
in the book. You'll build real-world projects for various
industries such as marketing, retail, and automation in a
step-by-step manner. This will give you hands-on experience in
developing your own industrial AR apps. While building the
projects, you'll explore various AR frameworks used in the
enterprise environment such as Vuforia, EasyAR, ARCore, and ARKit,
and understand how they can be used by themselves or integrated
into the Unity 3D engine to create AR markers, 3D models, and
components of an AR app. By the end of this book, you'll be well
versed in using different commercial AR frameworks as well as Unity
for building robust AR projects. What you will learn Understand the
basics of Unity application development and C# scripting Learn how
to use Android Studio along with ARCore and Sceneform to build AR
prototypes for Android devices Enable AR experiences on the web
with ARCore and WebAR Explore emerging AR authoring tools such as
Augmented Class! for education Understand the differences and
similarities between handheld and head-mounted display (HMD)
environments and how to build an app for each target Become well
versed in using Xcode with ARKit and SceneKit to develop AR portals
for iOS devices Who this book is forThis book is for anyone
interested in emerging and interactive technologies or looking to
build AR applications for any domain. Although, no prior augmented
reality experience is required, having some skills in
object-oriented programming (OOP) will be helpful.
Jerry W. McKinney's writing captures his readers' attention from
the initial sentence to the very last word. Nightsound, McKinney's
first full-length book of short stories, offers a terrifying
smorgasbord of horror, suspense, love, loss of innocence, and
eeriness. This haunting collection of dark tales elicits feelings
of dread, hatred, fear, loss, sadness, and sympathy that will
resonate with you long after you've finished reading it. So immerse
yourself in a terrifying coming-of-age, and thirst for a taste of
blood. Witness the rhythmic sways of a young girl to restrain a
curse, and an unholy mass held by the dead. Try to dodge a rain of
unspeakable horror, and then there is the madness of serial killers
to keep you tucked in tonight. So check under your bed. Yeah ...
twice would be better.
Looks at the meaning of war potential during the later stages of
the 18th century and its development during the French Revolution
and Napoleonic wars.
Among all areas of mathematics, algebra is one of the best suited
to find applications within the frame of our booming technological
society. The thirty-eight articles in this volume encompass the
proceedings of the International Conference on Algebra and Its
Applications (Athens, OH, 1999), which explored the applications
and interplay among the disciplines of ring theory, linear algebra,
and coding theory. The presentations collected here reflect the
dialogue between mathematicians involved in theoretical aspects of
algebra and mathematicians involved in solving problems where
state-of-the-art research tools may be used and applied. This
""Contemporary Mathematics"" series volume communicates the
potential for collaboration among those interested in exploring the
wealth of applications for abstract algebra in fields such as
information and coding. The expository papers would serve well as
supplemental reading in graduate seminars.
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