This book constitutes the First UPADI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, UPADI-AI 2026, held in Lima, Peru, during August 25–28, 2026.The 14 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions.They organized in the following topical sections as follows Application of Artificial Intelligence in Energy, Application of Artificial Intelligence in Health, Application of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education, Application of Artificial Inte...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography, ICQE 2025, held in Mexico City, Mexico, during October 11–16, 2025.The 44 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections:Theory, Methods, Coding, and Fairness; Gaming and Augmented Reality; Education and Self Learning and Global Collaborations, Politics, and Social Conscio...

The Liberating Philosophy of Ignacio Ellacuría: Historical Reality, Humanism, and Praxis is the first systematic work on the philosophy of Ignacio Ellacuría to be published in English so far. The Spaniard-Salvadorian philosopher—murdered in Salvador in 1989 by the military—maintains that philosophy is a permanent task grounded in metaphysics as first philosophy, as developed within a historical reality and a preferential option for the poor. As explored by this collection edited b...