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Al poco tiempo de haberse declarado la pandemia que vino a trastocar la vida de todos a nivel mundial, el Concurso de Cuento Decamerón 2020 surgió del interés por abrir horizontes de creación en cada una de las niñas, niños y jóvenes de México que comenzaban a vivir la experiencia de verse obligados a permanecer confinados. Después de un arduo proceso de selección, el jurado eligió cien cuentos ganadores de los más de 600 que fueron enviados de 24 estados de la República e incluso del extranjero.Entre las obras recogidas hay cuentos de hadas y de ciencia ficción; mitos, leyendas y fabulas; crónicas, memorias y diarios; bestiarios, cómics, microrelatos y una que otra poesía, ...
A co-publication of the World Bank, International Finance Corporation and Oxford University Press
This book gathers the proceedings of the Multidisciplinary International Conference of Research Applied to Defense and Security (MICRADS), held at the Military Engineering Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 8 to 10th May 2019. It covers a variety of topics in systems, communication and defense; strategy and political-administrative vision in defense; and engineering and technologies applied to defense. Given its scope, it offers a valuable resource for practitioners, researchers, and students alike.
This book explores the degree to which landscapes have been enriched with palms by human activities and the importance of palms for the lives of people in the region today and historically. Palms are a prominent feature of many landscapes in Amazonia, and they are important culturally, economically, and for a variety of ecological roles they play. Humans have been reorganizing the biological furniture in the region since the first hunters and gatherers arrived over 20,000 years ago.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop of Computational Neuroscience, held in Porto Allegre, Brazil, in November 2017.The 12 full papers and 3 short papers presented have been thoroughly reviewed andselected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: neural networks; artificial intelligence; computer vision; machine learning; graphic systems and interfaces; decision trees; nonlinear equations; nano-electromechanical systems.
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Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 195 countries and fourteen territories are used by policymakers, the media, international corporations, civic activists, and human rights defenders to monitor trends in democracy and track improvements and setbacks in freedom worldwide. The Freedom in the World political rights and civil liberties ratings are determined through a multi-layered process of research and evaluation by a team of regional analysts and eminent scholars. The analysts us...
Vol. for 1958 includes also the Minutes of the final General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America and the minutes of the final General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Centering Animals in Latin American History writes animals back into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America. This collection reveals how interactions between humans and other animals have significantly shaped narratives of Latin American histories and cultures. The contributors work through the methodological implications of centering animals within historical narratives, seeking to include nonhuman animals as social actors in the histories of Mexico, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Peru, and Argentina. The essays discuss topics ranging from canine baptisms, weddings, and funerals in Bourbon Mexico to imported monkeys used in medical exper...