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This book explores the ways in which the broad range of technologies that make up the smart city infrastructure can be harnessed to incorporate more playfulness into the day-to-day activities that take place within smart cities, making them not only more efficient but also more enjoyable for the people who live and work within their confines. The book addresses various topics that will be of interest to playable cities stakeholders, including the human–computer interaction and game designer communities, computer scientists researching sensor and actuator technology in public spaces, urban designers, and (hopefully) urban policymakers. This is a follow-up to another book on Playable Cities edited by Anton Nijholt and published in 2017 in the same book series, Gaming Media and Social Effects.
Arterial chemoreceptors are unique structures which continuously monitor changes in arterial blood oxygen, carbon dioxide, glucose, and acid. Alterations in these gases are almost instantaneously sensed by arterial chemoreceptors and relayed into a physiological response which restores blood homeostasis. Arterial Chemoreception contains updated material regarding the physiology of the primary arterial chemoreceptor; the carotid body. Moreover, this book also explores tantalizing evidence regarding the contribution of the aortic bodies, chromaffin cells, lung neuroepithelial bodies, and brainstem areas involved in monitoring changes in blood gases. Furthermore this collection includes data showing the critical importance of these chemoreceptors in the pathophysiology of human disease and possible therapeutic treatments. This book is a required text for any researcher in the field of arterial chemoreception for years to come. It is also a critical text for physicians searching for bench-to-bedside treatments for heart failure, sleep apnea, and pulmonary hypertension.
This volume contains reviews and brief research articles from participants attending the International Society for Arterial Chemoreception meeting, to be held in the USA (July 2017). Each article contains original data and represents up-to-date information concerning the carotid body and oxygen sensing in health and disease. This volume is a required text for all researchers in the field of arterial chemoreception and will provide a valuable reference source for years to come.
Paroxysmal explosive activity is one of the most spectacular natural phenomena, which is recognized as having strong impact not only at a local scale but whose effects can also reach far areas and, indeed, can significantly affect the atmosphere, and the environment in the overall. The most devastating and recent example occurred in 2010, when the Icelandic Eyiafjallajökull volcano erupted disrupting air traffic all over Europe and the North Atlantic for weeks. Between 2008 and 2013, the long-lasting eruption of Chaitén volcano in Chile produced plumes 14-20 km high reaching the coast of Argentina and causing ash fallout as far as 800 km from the vent, and the continuously erupting volcano...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applied Informatics, ICAI 2023, which took place in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in October 2023. The 30 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 132 submissions. The contributions are divided into the following thematic blocks: Artificial Intelligence; Data Analysis; Decision Systems; Enterprise Information Systems Applications; Geoinformatics; Health Care Information Systems; Interdisciplinary Information Studies; Learning Management Systems; Virtual and Augmented Reality.
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La plaza de toros "La Petatera" de Villa de Álvarez forma parte del folclore popular y de las tradiciones charro-taurinas del Estado de Colima. Se considera un ejemplo de arquitectura monumental de fuerte importancia religiosa, política y económica y su característica principal es que se puede construir y deshacer una y otra vez. Está hecha de al menos 10 tipos diferentes de madera y está cubierta de "petates", de ahí la razón por la que se le llama "Petatera". El fotógrafo Desiderio Calvario, documentó durante 10 años el esfuerzo colectivo de quienes construyeron La Petatera para las fiestas, que se remontan a 1857, en honor a San Felipe de Jesús durante el mes de febrero de cada año. Incluye textos del poeta Juan Carlos Recinos, del teórico y crítico de arte Alberto Hijar Serrano, del artista e historiador Juan Carlos Reyes Garza, así como del autor.
Honorable Mention, Bandelier/Lavrin Book Award in Colonial Latin America, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), 2019 Honorable Mention, The Alfred B. Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), 2019 Scholars have written reams on the conquest of Mexico, from the grand designs of kings, viceroys, conquistadors, and inquisitors to the myriad ways that indigenous peoples contested imperial authority. But the actual work of establishing the Spanish empire in Mexico fell to a host of local agents—magistrates, bureaucrats, parish priests, ranchers, miners, sugar producers, and many others—who knew little and cared less about the goals of th...