Time magazine named Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates their "Persons of the Year." The United Nations tapped Angelina Jolie as a goodwill ambassador. Bob Geldof organized the Live8 concert to push the G8 leaders' summit on AIDS and debt relief. What has come to be called "celebrity diplomacy" attracts wide media attention, significant money, and top official access around the world. But is this phenomenon just the latest fad? Are celebrities dabbling in an arena that is out of their depth, or are they bringing justified notice to important problems that might otherwise languish on the crowded international diplomatic scene? This book is the first to examine celebrity diplomacy as a serious global project with important implications, both positive and negative. Intended for readers who might not normally read about celebrities, it will also attract audiences often turned off by international affairs. Celebrities bring optimism and "buzz" to issues that seem deep and gloomy. Even if their lofty goals remain elusive, when celebrities speak, other actors in the global system listen.
Time magazine named Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates their "Persons of the Year." The United Nations tapped Angelina Jolie as a goodwill ambassador. Bob Geldof organized the Live8 concert to push the G8 leaders' summit on AIDS and debt relief. What has come to be called "celebrity diplomacy" attracts wide media attention, significant money, and top official access around the world. But is this phenomenon just the latest fad? Are celebrities dabbling in an arena that is out of their depth, or are they bringing justified notice to important problems that might otherwise languish on the crowded international diplomatic scene? This book is the first to examine celebrity diplomacy as a serious global project with important implications, both positive and negative. Intended for readers who might not normally read about celebrities, it will also attract audiences often turned off by international affairs. Celebrities bring optimism and "buzz" to issues that seem deep and gloomy. Even if their lofty goals remain elusive, when celebrities speak, other actors in the global system listen.
La localidad de Angangueo Michoc n, localizada en el centro de M xico ha sido escenario de eventos catastr ficos relacionados con deslizamientos de rocas y suelos que han motivado una serie de estudios de car cter t cnico y cient fico orientados al an lisis de los riesgos y la vulnerabilidad. El presente trabajo presenta un estudio de resiliencia comunitaria ante procesos de remoci n en masa para conocer el origen y din mica del peligro, as como las respuestas sociales en las fases de desarrollo de los desastres.
The present work proposes the usage of texture features computationally extracted from MRI as imaging biomarkers in the prediction of tumor recurrence in patients with non-functioning pituitary adenomas (NFPA). With this purpose, this study analyzed MR images from patients of NFPA retrospectively separated in groups: the recurrent patient group, formed by patients who exhibited tumor recurrence after the first surgical approach, and the stable patient group formed by patients with lesions considered stable. The preoperative MR images were used to extract numerical textural features. Clinical features were also considered in the study. The features were tested through conventional univariate statistical tests and were used to build machine learning prediction models. The findings of the study imply that textural features are useful in the prediction of tumor recurrence after first surgery in NFPA patients. And that the prediction power of those features can be observed with both conventional univariate statistical tests and multivariate analyses through machine learning algorithms.
Examines how state and local law enforcement agencies conducted and supported counterterrorism intelligence activities after 9/11. The report analyzes data from a 2002 survey of law enforcement preparedness in the context of intelligence, shows how eight local law enforcement agencies handle intelligence operations, and suggests ways that the job of gathering and analyzing intelligence might best be shared among federal, state, and local agencies.
Group cohomology has a rich history that goes back a century or more. Its origins are rooted in investigations of group theory and num ber theory, and it grew into an integral component of algebraic topology. In the last thirty years, group cohomology has developed a powerful con nection with finite group representations. Unlike the early applications which were primarily concerned with cohomology in low degrees, the in teractions with representation theory involve cohomology rings and the geometry of spectra over these rings. It is this connection to represen tation theory that we take as our primary motivation for this book. The book consists of two separate pieces. Chronologically, the first part was the computer calculations of the mod-2 cohomology rings of the groups whose orders divide 64. The ideas and the programs for the calculations were developed over the last 10 years. Several new features were added over the course of that time. We had originally planned to include only a brief introduction to the calculations. However, we were persuaded to produce a more substantial text that would include in greater detail the concepts that are the subject of the calculations and are the source of some of the motivating conjectures for the com putations. We have gathered together many of the results and ideas that are the focus of the calculations from throughout the mathematical literature.
In this new short biography of Ulysses S. Grant, leading scholars provide an accessible introduction to Grant and his legacy. Grant led Federal forces to victory in the Civil War, was the first modern American president, and authored his memoirs, which would eventually become one of the greatest books of nonfiction by an American author. The authors present a thematic exploration of Grant, providing the necessary insight to appreciate Grant and correct the myths that for too long clouded his true importance. They highlight specific moments or relationships in Grant’s life—including his connection to such key figures as Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain—and elaborate on the more controversial elements of Grant’s legacy, such as accusations about his drinking and corruption during the Grant presidency. Not to overlook his military accomplishments, they devote time to the study of Grant’s war strategy and military career, beginning as early as his reluctant enrollment into West Point.From humble birth to tragic death, this new take on Ulysses S. Grant instills readers with a deeper understanding of the military legend’s nuanced personal history and an appreciation for the late president’s tragic and triumphant story.
Book One of The See and Say Series is a Picture Book, which, by means of its pictures and stories, presents and teaches the sounds of the letters of the alphabet, with simple lessons in word building. It will be used by children in the first months of their school life, after they have had a number of reading lessons from the blackboard and have begun to understand what reading means. Before coming to school they have played with picture books. They have had a common experience. The mother with the child on her knee, holding the open book, has shown the picture. The finger of the child has pointed to the picture, and he has named the objects attracting his attention. He has mooed when he saw the picture of the cow and barked "bowwow" when he saw the dog. He has perhaps found the names below the picture. He has played with blocks and has sometimes named the crooked s and the round o. It is an easy step, then, to the attractive pages of Book One. Here a picture is presented, to be accompanied by the story which the teacher tells. The child is interested in the picture and in the story. Every story with its picture suggests the sound of the letter which is being taught. The cow calling for her calf says m; the snake hissing says s; the baby asking to be taken up says u, etc. The child, eager and interested in the picture and the story, makes the sound over and over again, clearly and carefully, under the teacher's direction. Then he points to the letter and learns that it stands for the sound. Beneath the story picture is the type picture, representing a word beginning with the given sound. The children recite with the teacher, "The cow says m, and m is the first sound of moon." They find m in different places, making its sound whenever it is found and reciting again with the teacher the key sentence, "The cow says m, and m is the first sound of moon." This lesson accomplishes several results: 1. The child, interested in his lesson, becomes conscious of the new sound m. 2. He attends to the sound, listens to it, repeats it, until it becomes a real thing to him. 3. He associates the sound with the letter m. 4. He associates both the sound and the letter with the type word "moon," which has for its initial sound the sound which the cow makes. This is a clear, definite, and natural order of securing the attention of the child to the new idea, connecting the sound with the letter, and presenting the idea of an initial sound. Every new sound is taught in this order: the story, the story picture, the sound, the letter, the type word with its initial. All lessons which do not present a new sound provide drill upon the sounds already learned. The book presents all the letters of the alphabet, with ck, ch, sh, ow (ou), ng, ee, oo, oy (oi), th. Finally, the fact is impressed that every letter stands for a sound; that letters are combined to form the printed or written word; that sounds are combined to form a spoken word; and that a word may be separated into its sounds or built up from sounds.
Como padres de familia y educadores, buscamos mecanismos para ofrecer conocimientos y habilidades a nuestros hijos que les sean tiles para toda su vida.El presente libro es importante porque ayuda a ni os, ni as y j venes a desarrollar habilidades financieras importantes, les prepara para la vida adulta, fomenta la responsabilidad financiera y les ense a a valorar el dinero desde edades tempranas de la manera m s l dica posible.
