About the BookBranches: An Epic Biography of a Central American Family began as Flor's exploration into her family's past its origins, its challenges, and the remarkable journeys that shaped its identity. The story traces her family's roots through discovery, conquest, political upheaval in Central America, tragedy, migration, and renewal. Through this narrative, Flor illustrates the universal threads of family experiences that connect us all.In this second...

El material que se presenta abarca siete capítulos, tomando como punto de partida la base conceptual necesaria para tratar el importante y complejo tema de la Gestión de la Tecnología y la Innovación pasando por la evolución y las tendencias empresariales que hoy exigen esfuerzos de I+D+i como parte de su actividad, el tema de la transferencia tecnológica, la programación de nuevos productos o servicios, o el rediseño para estos, es un elemento tratado con énfasis innovador y con la actual...

Sleep is a necessary, active, diverse and periodic condition, homeostatically regulated and precisely meshed with waking time into the sleep-wakefulness cycle. The authors present a detailed and updated review of the structures involved in the phase of wakefulness, including their morphological, functional and chemical characteristics, as well as their anatomical connections

Asahi Kagami is a curt sort of guy, yet never hesitates to lend a hand. Slowly, but surely, he’s finally getting through to the frigid Fuyuka Himuro—a girl aptly nicknamed “The Ice Queen” for her standoffish attitude—and melting her icy exterior.In the midst of it all, two hearts inch closer, inciting a tangible change—not only in Fuyuka’s personal life, but even at school.This is the second volume of a slow-paced love story where characters experience the double-edged natu...

What are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the physical? What is it the relation between ascribing mental states to an organism and understanding its behavior? Are animals and complex systems vehicles of inner evolutionary environments? Is there a difference between personal and sub-personal level processes in the brain? Answers to these and other questions were developed in Daniel Dennett’s first book, Content and Consciousness (1969), where he sketched a uni...

The Cuban Revolution succeeded in 1959 in the face of official U.S. opposition, an abortive Bay of Pigs invasion, and an economic embargo. Cuban dependence on the United States dated to the U.S. occupation of the island from 1898 to 1901 and subsequent interventions in 1906-1909, 1912, and 1917. Historically, the Cuban economy has depended on the export of sugar. Before the revolution the United States imported the largest share of Cuban sugar; after 1960 the Soviet Union assumed this role...

The volume set LNCS 15621-15622 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2025, which took place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, during September 22-25, 2025.The 65 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. The proceedings focus on Facial and Video Recognition, Image Segmentation, Object Detection and Applications, 3D Vision and Reconstruction, Biomedical Imaging and...

The volume set LNCS 15621-15622 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2025, which took place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, during September 22-25, 2025.The 65 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. The proceedings focus on Facial and Video Recognition, Image Segmentation, Object Detection and Applications, 3D Vision and Reconstruction, Biomedical Imaging and...

In this thoroughly revised fourth edition, with ten new chapters, the editors provide thought-provoking discussions on the importance of ethnicity in different cultural and social contexts. The authors focus especially on changing ethnic and national identities, on migration and ethnic minorities, on ethnic ascription versus self-definitions, and on shifting ethnic identities and political control. The international group of scholars examines ethnic identities, conflicts and accommodations...

Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary? Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio present essays that address these essential questions. Ranging from Canada and the United States to Chile and Argentina, the authors search for common factors in the appearance of labor courts while recognizing the specific character of the...

The collection of essays outlines how feminists employ a variety of online platforms, practices, and tools to create spaces of solidarity and to articulate a critical politics that refuses popular forms of individual, consumerist, white feminist empowerment in favor of collective, tangible action. Including scholars and activists from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, these essays help to catalog the ways in which feminists are organizing online to mobilize different feminist, que...

This edited volume is a collection of empirical scholarship that focuses on curriculum as knowledge connected to the Latinx diaspora from three perspectives: content/subject matter; goals, objectives, and purposes; and experiences. In an effort to fill a void in scholarship in curriculum studies/theory for/from Latinx perspectives, this book is a beginning toward answering two important questions: first, what is the significance of the presence and absence of Latinx curriculum theorizing? ...