Daniel Campos

This book is a manual for self-application of the Attachment-Based Compassion Therapy (ABCT) protocol, that can be either self-applied by any individual in a psychoeducational context or as a support for a therapeutic process guided by a professional. Compassion therapy is a third-generation psychotherapy that has been used in association with mindfulness in recent years. In particular, attachment-based compassion therapy (ABCT) is a protocol that can be used in both the general and psychiatric population with the aim of promoting compassion and self-compassion. ABCT is based on attachment theory and, therefore, includes practices to raise awareness and/or address maladaptive aspects, where appropriate, of the attachment styles developed with parents. This process is taught as a form of both compassion and self-compassion in order to improve present-day interpersonal relationships and well-being in general. In the face-to-face group format, ABCT has been demonstrating efficacy and applicability for healthy people and for the treatment of fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety and adjustment disorders. This book presents a self-applied version of ABCT that operates along the lines of the original model and has been adapted and developed to be fully self-applied via the Internet in 8 sequential modules:Introduction to attachment-based compassion therapyPreparing ourselves for compassion: kind attentionDiscovering our compassionate worldDeveloping our compassionate worldUnderstanding our relationship with compassionWorking on ourselvesUnderstanding the importance of forgivenessConsolidating the practice of compassion The content is presented through texts, pictures, tables and figures, including links to downloadable audio files for formal meditation practices with specific guides and instruction for each meditation. The transcripts to each guided meditation are also included as appendices.

This book is a manual for self-application of the Attachment-Based Compassion Therapy (ABCT) protocol, that can be either self-applied by any individual in a psychoeducational context or as a support for a therapeutic process guided by a professional. Compassion therapy is a third-generation psychotherapy that has been used in association with mindfulness in recent years. In particular, attachment-based compassion therapy (ABCT) is a protocol that can be used in both the general and psychiatric population with the aim of promoting compassion and self-compassion. ABCT is based on attachment theory and, therefore, includes practices to raise awareness and/or address maladaptive aspects, where appropriate, of the attachment styles developed with parents. This process is taught as a form of both compassion and self-compassion in order to improve present-day interpersonal relationships and well-being in general. In the face-to-face group format, ABCT has been demonstrating efficacy and applicability for healthy people and for the treatment of fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety and adjustment disorders. This book presents a self-applied version of ABCT that operates along the lines of the original model and has been adapted and developed to be fully self-applied via the Internet in 8 sequential modules:Introduction to attachment-based compassion therapyPreparing ourselves for compassion: kind attentionDiscovering our compassionate worldDeveloping our compassionate worldUnderstanding our relationship with compassionWorking on ourselvesUnderstanding the importance of forgivenessConsolidating the practice of compassion The content is presented through texts, pictures, tables and figures, including links to downloadable audio files for formal meditation practices with specific guides and instruction for each meditation. The transcripts to each guided meditation are also included as appendices.

A infec o reemergente pelo Zika v rus (ZIKV) se tornou uma amea a sa de global devido associa o com anormalidades neurol gicas graves, sendo elas a s ndrome de Guillain-Barr (SGB) em adultos e a s ndrome cong nita do Zika v rus (SCZ) em neonatos. Muitas pesquisas de desenvolvimento e inova o objetivam um composto antiviral eficaz contra o ZIKV, mas at o momento, n o h nenhum composto comercialmente dispon vel. Com o objetivo de elucidar os avan os sobre a infec o pelo ZIKV, esta revis o enfatiza os estudos realizados ap s o surto ocorrido no Brasil entre 2015 e 2016, descrevendo o que h de mais novo sobre a epidemiologia, transmiss o, replica o viral, sintomatologia cl nica, diagn stico laboratorial e radiol gico, tratamento, preven o e alvos de medicamento antiviral para o desenvolvimento de f rmacos anti-Zika.

At once narrative and reflective, Loving Immigrants in America: An Experiential Philosophy of Personal Interaction is a philosophical account of Daniel Campos's experience as a Latin American immigrant to the United States of America. A series of interrelated personal essays together convey this experience of walking or sauntering, going on road trips, reading American literature in the southern United States, playing association football (soccer or fútbol), churchgoing, and Latin dancing in the U.S. This book’s central motif is the caring saunterer, who is understood to be a person who makes him or herself at home anywhere, even as a Latino immigrant in the U.S. The narrative essays convey one immigrant’s experience seeking an affective, social, and intellectual home in a new land. The intertwined philosophical reflections lead to the recommendation of an ethic of love—resilient love—for the day-to-day interactions and long-term relations between immigrants and hosts in this country. The author’s aim is to establish an open and earnest philosophical dialogue with critical readers interested in the problems surrounding immigration in the U.S. today. He writes as an American philosopher—in the continental sense of North, Central, and South America—whose reflections provide an accessible and provocative angle for the development of insight into the experiences of immigrants in the United States. Thus he brings philosophical reflection drawn from experience, in the broad American tradition, to bear on current issues—on the problems of people and not of philosophers, as John Dewey might put it.

At once narrative and reflective, Loving Immigrants in America: An Experiential Philosophy of Personal Interaction is a philosophical account of Daniel Campos's experience as a Latin American immigrant to the United States of America. A series of interrelated personal essays together convey this experience of walking or sauntering, going on road trips, reading American literature in the southern United States, playing association football (soccer or fútbol), churchgoing, and Latin dancing in the U.S. This book’s central motif is the caring saunterer, who is understood to be a person who makes him or herself at home anywhere, even as a Latino immigrant in the U.S. The narrative essays convey one immigrant’s experience seeking an affective, social, and intellectual home in a new land. The intertwined philosophical reflections lead to the recommendation of an ethic of love—resilient love—for the day-to-day interactions and long-term relations between immigrants and hosts in this country. The author’s aim is to establish an open and earnest philosophical dialogue with critical readers interested in the problems surrounding immigration in the U.S. today. He writes as an American philosopher—in the continental sense of North, Central, and South America—whose reflections provide an accessible and provocative angle for the development of insight into the experiences of immigrants in the United States. Thus he brings philosophical reflection drawn from experience, in the broad American tradition, to bear on current issues—on the problems of people and not of philosophers, as John Dewey might put it.

This book presents the fundamental theory for non-standard diffusion problems in movement ecology. Lévy processes and anomalous diffusion have shown to be both powerful and useful tools for qualitatively and quantitatively describing a wide variety of spatial population ecological phenomena and dynamics, such as invasion fronts and search strategies. Adopting a self-contained, textbook-style approach, the authors provide the elements of statistical physics and stochastic processes on which the modeling of movement ecology is based and systematically introduce the physical characterization of ecological processes at the microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic levels. The explicit definition of these levels and their interrelations is particularly suitable to coping with the broad spectrum of space and time scales involved in bio-ecological problems. Including numerous exercises (with solutions), this text is aimed at graduate students and newcomers in this field at the interface of theoretical ecology, mathematical biology and physics.

" The End of the Corporations" traces the crisis of capitalism since August 2007, first in the U.S. with the fall of Bear Sterns, AIG, Lehman Brothers, and then with the crisis spreading out to affect the whole world. This book examines the political changes brought to the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. It also draws a comparison between the current crisis and the one in 1929, analyzes the subsequent evolution of capitalism in the twentieth century, the post-war "boom", the rise of multinational corporations, and the crisis of the '70s. Globalization, the emergence of multinational corporations, the evolution of financial capital, and the Investment Banks are also evaluated. Finally, the book shows an analysis of capitalism throughout history, which suffered major crises and its link to the social and political phenomena. Following the guidelines of Marx, The End of the Corporations follows the history of capitalism, from its birth, in order to examine the facts and laws that explain how it came about and where the current crisis will go. "In the face of the magnitude of the historic character of capitalism's current crisis, it may be well worthwhile to stop and ask ourselves: Has capitalism ever been through crises of similar importance? In what way have these crises been overcome? What political and social phenomena spawned the crisis? And on the other hand: what political and social phenomena did the crises produce?" Highlights "Multinationals are a higher form of accumulation, containing and outperforming monopolies. With multinationals, capitalism went from a lower form of accumulation and concentration of capital to a higher one, but as we saw in Chapter I, this process was not peaceful. To move from one form of accumulation and concentration of capital to another, it took 30 years and 2 world wars, with the balance of millions dead, razed cities, and nations and infrastructure destroyed " "When "Keynesians", such as Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz and Nouriel Roubini, say that capitalism can recreate the "Keynesian regime" today, loudly claim economic stimulus, public works, and income taxes, and state that these measures may solve the grave crisis of 2007, they're just lying. They don't say that the scheme inspired by Lord Keynes was previously possible because cities, bridges, roads, counties, municipalities and factories were destroyed . " " The world's economic crisis that started in 2007 is the most important in the history of capitalism. His most spectacular expression are the "bailouts", a massive injection of funds that takes more than U$S 60 trillion ... these figures, the largest in history, could rebuild Haiti 40 times, banish world hunger, or stop the destruction of the environment " "The current crisis that started in 2007, shows the exhaustion of the regime of globalization... Multinationals, the highest expression of the appreciation of capital and private property, account for approximately 30% of global GDP and 25% of trade. Without the massive intervention of central banks and the support of the G7's nations, they would have disappeared. " "The crisis is installed in the center of the economy of the G7 countries. This occurs because of the attack to the heart of the world's capitalist system, multinationals, large companies and banks ... whose interests are becoming more deeply and intimately intertwined. The collapse of the current crisis was partially fixed thanks to the massive intervention of the G7's nations and the undeveloped countries."

This book presents the fundamental theory for non-standard diffusion problems in movement ecology. Lévy processes and anomalous diffusion have shown to be both powerful and useful tools for qualitatively and quantitatively describing a wide variety of spatial population ecological phenomena and dynamics, such as invasion fronts and search strategies. Adopting a self-contained, textbook-style approach, the authors provide the elements of statistical physics and stochastic processes on which the modeling of movement ecology is based and systematically introduce the physical characterization of ecological processes at the microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic levels. The explicit definition of these levels and their interrelations is particularly suitable to coping with the broad spectrum of space and time scales involved in bio-ecological problems. Including numerous exercises (with solutions), this text is aimed at graduate students and newcomers in this field at the interface of theoretical ecology, mathematical biology and physics.

El Fin de las Multinacionales repasa la crisis del capitalismo desde agosto del 2007, primero en EE.UU con las ca das de Bear Sterns, AIG, Lehman Brothers y luego como la crisis se fue extendiendo para afectar al mundo entero. Examina los cambios pol ticos que provoc en EE.UU, Europa y Medio Oriente. El libro traza una comparaci n entre la actual crisis y la de 1929, analiza la posterior evoluci n del capitalismo en el siglo XX, el "boom" de posguerra, el surgimiento de las multinacionales y la crisis de los '70. Eval a la globalizaci n, la aparici n de las Corporaciones multinacionales, la evoluci n del capital financiero y los Bancos de Inversi n. Finalmente hace un an lisis del capitalismo a lo largo de la historia, las grandes crisis que sufri y su v nculo con los fen menos sociales y pol ticos. Siguiendo los lineamientos de Marx, El Fin de las Multinacionales recorre el largo camino del capitalismo desde su nacimiento, para examinar los hechos y leyes que explican de c mo se produjo y hacia d nde va la crisis actual. HIGHLIGHTS "Las multinacionales son una forma superior de acumulaci n, que contienen y superan a los monopolios. Con las multinacionales, el capitalismo pas de una forma de acumulaci n y concentraci n de capitales inferior a otra superior, pero como vimos en el cap tulo I, ese proceso no fue pac fico. Para pasar de una forma de acumulaci n y concentraci n de capitales a otra, mediaron 30 a os y 2 guerras mundiales con el saldo de millones de muertos, ciudades arrasadas, naciones e infraestructura destru da" "Cuando los "keynesianos" como Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz y Nouriel Roubini afirman que el capitalismo puede recrear el "r gimen keynesiano" en la actualidad y reclaman a viva voz est mulos econ micos, obra p blica, impuestos a las ganancias, y afirman que con esas medidas se puede salir de la grave crisis abierta en el 2007, simplemente mienten. Ocultan que el r gimen inspirado por Lord Keynes fue posible porque previamente se destruyeron ciudades, puentes, v as, condados, municipios y f bricas". "La crisis econ mica que atraviesa la econom a mundial desde el a o 2007 es la m s importante de la historia del capitalismo. Su expresi n m s espectacular son los "salvatajes", una operaci n masiva de inyecci n de fondos que lleva ya mas de mas 60 billones U$S...estas cifras, las m s grandes de la historia, permitir an reconstruir 40 veces Hait , desterrar el hambre en el mundo o poner fin a la destrucci n del medio ambiente" "La ca da del Muro de Berl n y la crisis actual, en la que se produjo el infarto de miocardio en el coraz n del sistema capitalista mundial, son los acontecimientos m s importantes de esta nueva etapa mundial. Y preparatorios, del advenimiento de los acontecimientos pol ticos y sociales m s importantes de la historia". "La actual crisis, comenzada en el 2007, muestra el agotamiento del r gimen de la globalizaci n... Las transnacionales son la m s alta expresi n de la valorizaci n del capital y la propiedad privada, concentran aproximadamente el 30% del PBI mundial y 25% del comercio, pero de no haber sido por la intervenci n masiva de los bancos centrales y el respaldo de los estados del G7, habr an desaparecido". "La crisis est instalada en el centro, en la econom a de los pa ses del G7. Esto ocurre porque el infarto lo sufri el coraz n del sistema capitalista mundial, las multinacionales, las grandes empresas y bancos...cuyos intereses est n cada vez m s profunda e ntimamente entrelazados. Del colapso de la actual crisis s lo pudieron reanimarse con la intervenci n masiva de capitales de los estados del G7 y los pa ses atrasados.