MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion, and art, and a magnet for thrill-seeking expats from around the world.In 2002, Daniel Hernandez traveled to Mexico City, searching for his cultural roots. He encountere...

This book is the clearest, most inviting, and readable guide to help you read and understand the Bible. It helps to encourage you to read your Bible regularly with excitement and expectations because now you will learn the basic tools to truly understand what you are reading. This simple-to-use, straightforward "how-to-book" has been recommended by Bible teachers and pastors from all over the world. • Easy to read • Inviting step-by-step process • A book that every believer needs to have •...

April-May 2023. The following is my text chat dialogue with an important artificial intelligence (xxx) that is in fashion. It should be clarified that it has certain and obvious preferences, conditions, limitations and restrictions at the time of reporting or answering some questions, which was previously programmed by its creators, But nevertheless some of their answers are very interesting and instructive in certain aspects or issues depending on how the questions or requests for informa...

Advanced Optical Instruments and Techniques includes twenty-three chapters providing processes, methods, and procedures of cutting-edge optics engineering design and instrumentation. Topics include biomedical instrumentation and basic and advanced interferometry. Optical metrology is discussed, including point and full-field methods. Active and adaptive optics, holography, radiometry, the human eye, and visible light are covered as well as materials, including photonics, nanophoto...

This book comprises a compilation of papers authored by researchers who took part in the 5th International Conference on Economic, Business, Financial, and Institutional Translation held at the University of Alicante in 2023. We hope that this collection of papers will prove to be of interest and provide a more comprehensive perspective on the pedagogical aspects of economic translation in the context of machine translation.

Ahine is a Being of Light, who decides to incarnate on our planet to experience the emotions and sensations that will make her evolve more quickly. Once here, he forgets who he is and finds himself trapped in the "Game of Duality." This challenge that began for fun becomes a concatenation of lives from which it is very difficult to escape. Finally, the circumstances are being met to exit the game, the solution is called Iris, the current incarnation of it. Ahine installs memories of his pa...

Featuring contributions from industry and academia, this volume includes chapters covering a diverse range of theoretical and empirical aspects of actuarial science and quantitative finance, including portfolio management, derivative valuation, risk theory and the economics of insurance. Developed from the First International Congress on Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance, held at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá in June 2014, this volume highlights different approach...

Simpatía is set in the Venezuela of Nicolas Maduro amid a mass exodus of the intellectual class who have been leaving their pets behind. Ulises Kan, the protagonist and a movie buff, receives a text message from his wife, Paulina, saying she is leaving the country (and him). Two other events end up disrupting his life even further: the return of Nadine, an unrequited love from the past, and the death of his father-in-law, General Martín Ayala. Thanks to Ayala's will, Ulises discov...

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...

While working as a juvenile corrections officer in Orange County’s most difficult facility, Daniel Hernandez had to quickly learn how to recognize behaviors, body language, and other social cues of its often defiant and violent teens to ensure the safety of the staff and minors.In a guide directed toward helping teens navigate through this unique and challenging situation, Hernandez shares his professional experiences accompanied by simple tools and time-tested wisdom to lead minor...

Finding Strength and Hope in Tough TimesIn A Teen's Guide to Surviving Juvenile Hall, Daniel Hernandez draws on his years of experience as a juvenile corrections officer to provide a clear, compassionate guide for teens navigating the challenges of juvenile hall. Through practical advice and personal stories, Daniel helps teens build resilience, patience, and self-control in an environment that can feel overwhelming. Covering everything from handling difficult situ...

My eyes had rested on the wizard since the commotion began, the wizard had been gazing into mine for a long while now. Our stares were locked."What I would like to know... What I need to know is... Can an elder god be killed?" I whispered into the growing silence.The wizard did not flinch, nor did he break away from my eyes. His gnarled, wrinkled face tightened even further as if the question demanded too much of him. When he finally spoke, it was in a stillness which was p...