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Religion and Politics in a Global Society: Comparative Perspectives from the Portuguese-Speaking World, edited by Paul Christopher Manuel, Alynna Lyon, and Clyde Wilcox, explores the legacy of the Portuguese colonial experience, with careful consideration of the lasting impression that this experience has had on the cultural, religious, and political dynamics in the former colonies. Applying the insights derived from three theoretical schools (religious society, political institutions, and cultural toolkit), this volume brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines, offering in-depth case studies on Angola, Brazil, East Timor, Goa, Mozambique, and Portugal—societies connected by a shared colonial past and common cultural and sociolinguistic characteristics. Each chapter examines questions on how faith and culture interrelate, and how the various national experiences might resonate with one another. This volume provides a deeper understanding of the Lusophone global society, as well as the larger field of religion and politics.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2019, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in September 2019. The 119 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 252 submissions. The papers are organized in 18 tracks devoted to the following topics: AIEd - Artificial Intelligence in Education, AI4G - Artificial Intelligence for Games, AIoTA - Artificial Intelligence and IoT in Agriculture, AIL - Artificial Intelligence and Law, AIM - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AICPDES - Artificial Intelligence in Cyber-Physical and Distributed Embedded Systems, AIPES - Artificial Int...
Angelic love has never burned so sinfully bright Samuel I fell from Grace thousands of years ago, and I’ve been roaming the earth alone ever since. Losing my wings for the man I loved didn’t break me. His betrayal did, condemning me to a life in the shadows. Never to fly again, I live in servitude, forever atoning for my sins. Forever yearning for more. Until I meet someone as broken as me. Martina I’ll never fall in love again. Been there, done that. Not worth it. My wedding was the talk of the town. Tabloids paid us for the exclusive pictures of the ceremony. Envious friends couldn’t stop telling me how lucky I was. What good catch my husband was. The fairy tale became a nightmare on our first night. The next morning, I covered the bruises as I could, hoping it was a one-time thing. It wasn’t. I ended the marriage and barely escaped with my life. Now, I help other women like me. And men, too…
The three-volume set LNAI 14195, 14196, and 14197 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS 2023, which took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September 2023. The 90 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 242 submissions. They have been organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Best papers; resource allocation and planning; rules and feature extraction; AI and education; agent systems; explainability; AI models; Part II: Transformer applications; convolutional neural networks; deep learning applications; reinforcement learning and GAN; classification; machine learning analysis; Part III: Evolutionary algorithms; optimization strategies; computer vision; language and models; graph neural networks; pattern recognition; AI applications.
This book is composed by the papers written in English and accepted for presentation and discussion at The 2023 International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (ICITS'23), held at Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, in Cusco, Peru, between the 24th and the 26th of April 2023. ICIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent findings and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges of modern information technology and systems research, together with their technological development and applications. The main topics covered are: information and knowledge management; organizational models and information systems; software and systems modelling; software systems, architectures, applications and tools; multimedia systems and applications; computer networks, mobility and pervasive systems; intelligent and decision support systems; big data analytics and applications; human–computer interaction; ethics, computers & security; health informatics; information technologies in education, and Media, Applied Technology and Communication.
Billionaire Leandro Allegretti decides to finally act on his feelings for childhood friend Miranda Ravensdale while she is on the French Riviera cataloging his art collection.
His kiss releases me from my sad past. Miranda is tired of being pushed around by her family in the glamorous world of show business and being chased by the media at all hours of the day in London. Out of concern for her, Leandro, a close friend of her brothers's, asks her to help him organize the artworks in the mansion he left behind in the south of France. While thanking him for his invitation and spending an intimate time alone with him at the seaside mansion, she is upset to realize that she has developed passionate feelings for him, whom she had a crush for when she was a child. But because of a promise she made to her late boyfriend when she was sixteen, she can never fall in love again...!
By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas. The volumes bring together over 40 scholars based in Colombia, the United States, England, and Canada working in various disciplines to discuss how a country that has been consistently presented as a rarity in Latin America provides critical examples to re-examine major historical problems: republicanism and liberalism; export economies and agrarian modernization; populism and cultural politics of state fo...