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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Telematics and Computing, WITCOM 2019, held in Merida, Mexico, in November 2019. The 31 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: GIS & climate change; telematics & electronics; artificial intelligence & machine learning; software engineering & education; internet of things; and informatics security.
The Pre-Columbian Maya were organized into a series of independent kingdoms or polities rather than unified into a single state. The vast majority of studies of Maya states focus on the apogee of their development in the classic period, ca. 250-850 C.E. As a result, Maya states are defined according to the specific political structures that characterized classic period lowland Maya society. The Origins of Maya States is the first study in over 30 years to examine the origins and development of these states specifically during the preceding preclassic period, ca. 1000 B.C.E. to 250 C.E. Attempts to understand the origins of Maya states cannot escape the limitations of archaeological data, and...
Siguiendo la vida y la obra literaria de Manuel Mejía Vallejo se puede observar a un escritor que se busca a sí mismo a través de sus personajes e historias. En este viaje el lector descubre un autor que subyuga por su curiosidad intelectual, imaginación, afán de libertad y las muchas historias que va tejiendo, a medida que vive la vida como la mejor de las aventuras. Nada le fue ajeno desde que tuvo que abandonar el pequeño pueblo de su infancia para instalarse en la gran ciudad y, desde esta, imaginar el mundo con todas sus fisuras y contradicciones. Su vida y su obra, que se sigue paso a paso en esta primera parte de su biografía, nos revela a uno de los escritores más representativos y singulares de la literatura colombiana del siglo XX.