Miguel Gonzalez – författare

La armona, la paz y la felicidad, solo se logran por una gracia especial que resulta de buenos propsitos, de los buenos proyectos, del trabajo; y de acciones honestas, y humildes que tengan un toque de misericordia, de razn y de justicia.

Words of Fire is a sophisticated and unique rendition of society and the human experience through rhythmic poetry. Some poems are short, though most are long. Some content is light, though most is heavy. It touches on the subjects of politics, culture, gangs, history, identity, the prison industry, God, racial dynamics in America, the economy, family, and much more. Although much of the content describes the problems of American society, Words of Fire also offers possible solutions and lessons we can learn from mistakes that have been made.

Across the Americas, Indigenous and Afro-descendent peoples have demanded autonomy, self-determination, and self-governance. By exerting their collective rights, they have engaged with domestic and international standards on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, implemented full-fledged mechanisms for autonomous governance, and promoted political and constitutional reform aimed at expanding understandings of multicultural citizenship and the plurinational state. Yet these achievements come in conflict with national governments’ adoption of neoliberal economic and neo-extractive policies which advance their interests over those of Indigenous communities.Available for the first time in English, Indigenous Territorial Autonomy and Self-Government in the Diverse Americas explores current and historical struggles for autonomy within ancestral territories, experiences of self-governance in operation, and presents an overview of achievements, challenges, and threats across three decades. Case studies across Bolivia, Chile, Nicaragua, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, and Canada provide a detailed discussion of autonomy and self-governance in development and in practice.Paying special attention to the role of Indigenous peoples’ organizations and activism in pursuing sociopolitical transformation, securing rights, and confronting multiple dynamics of dispossession, this book engages with current debates on Indigenous politics, relationships with national governments and economies, and the multicultural and plurinational state. This book will spark critical reflection on political experience and further exploration of the possibilities of the self-determination of peoples through territorial autonomies.

Across the Americas, Indigenous and Afro-descendent peoples have demanded autonomy, self-determination, and self-governance. By exerting their collective rights, they have engaged with domestic and international standards on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, implemented full-fledged mechanisms for autonomous governance, and promoted political and constitutional reform aimed at expanding understandings of multicultural citizenship and the plurinational state. Yet these achievements come in conflict with national governments' adoption of neoliberal economic and neo-extractive policies which advance their interests over those of Indigenous communities.Available for the first time in English, Indigenous Territorial Autonomy and Self-Government in the Diverse Americas explores current and historical struggles for autonomy within ancestral territories, experiences of self-governance in operation, and presents an overview of achievements, challenges, and threats across three decades. Case studies across Bolivia, Chile, Nicaragua, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, and Canada provide a detailed discussion of autonomy and self-governance in development and in practice.Paying special attention to the role of Indigenous peoples' organizations and activism in pursuing sociopolitical transformation, securing rights, and confronting multiple dynamics of dispossession, this book engages with current debates on Indigenous politics, relationships with national governments and economies, and the multicultural and plurinational state. This book will spark critical reflection on political experience and further exploration of the possibilities of the self-determination of peoples through territorial autonomies.

This volume comprises a selection of papers originally presented at the 6th International Workshop on Branching Processes and Their Applications (IWBPA24), held from April 8 to 12, 2024, in Badajoz, Spain. The contributions cover a broad spectrum of both theoretical and applied topics within the field of branching process theory. Together, they highlight the ongoing vitality and significance of this research area—not only in advancing core mathematical theory but also in tackling emerging challenges across diverse applied fields such as Epidemiology, Biology, Genetics, and Population Dynamics.The topics explored in this volume can be broadly categorized into the following areas:1.      Markovian and non-Markovian branching trees2.      Branching processes in Biology, Genetics, and Epidemiology3.      Multitype and infinite-type branching processes4.      Branching random walks5.      Special branching models6.      Statistical inference in branching processesServing as a valuable resource for current research, this volume also identifies numerous open problems, paving the way for future developments in both theoretical and applied contexts.

This volume gathers papers originally presented at the 3rd Workshop on Branching Processes and their Applications (WBPA15), which was held from 7 to 10 April 2015 in Badajoz, Spain (http://branching.unex.es/wbpa15/index.htm). The papers address a broad range of theoretical and practical aspects of branching process theory. Further, they amply demonstrate that the theoretical research in this area remains vital and topical, as well as the relevance of branching concepts in the development of theoretical approaches to solving new problems in applied fields such as Epidemiology, Biology, Genetics, and, of course, Population Dynamics.The topics covered can broadly be classified into the following areas:1. Coalescent Branching Processes2. Branching Random Walks3. Population Growth Models in Varying and Random Environments4. Size/Density/Resource-Dependent Branching Models5. Age-Dependent Branching Models6. Special Branching Models7. Applications in Epidemiology8. Applications in Biology and GeneticsOffering a valuable reference guide to contemporary branching process theory, the book also explores many open problems, paving the way for future research.

One of the charms of mathematics is the contrast between its generality and its applicability to concrete, even everyday, problems. Branching processes are typical in this. Their niche of mathematics is the abstract pattern of reproduction, sets of individuals changing size and composition through their members reproducing; in other words, what Plato might have called the pure idea behind demography, population biology, cell kinetics, molecular replication, or nuclear ?ssion, had he known these scienti?c ?elds. Even in the performance of algorithms for sorting and classi?cation there is an inkling of the same pattern. In special cases, general properties of the abstract ideal then interact with the physical or biological or whatever properties at hand. But the population, or bran- ing, pattern is strong; it tends to dominate, and here lies the reason for the extreme usefulness of branching processes in diverse applications. Branching is a clean and beautiful mathematical pattern, with an intellectually challenging intrinsic structure, and it pervades the phenomena it underlies.

One of the charms of mathematics is the contrast between its generality and its applicability to concrete, even everyday, problems. Branching processes are typical in this. Their niche of mathematics is the abstract pattern of reproduction, sets of individuals changing size and composition through their members reproducing; in other words, what Plato might have called the pure idea behind demography, population biology, cell kinetics, molecular replication, or nuclear ?ssion, had he known these scienti?c ?elds. Even in the performance of algorithms for sorting and classi?cation there is an inkling of the same pattern. In special cases, general properties of the abstract ideal then interact with the physical or biological or whatever properties at hand. But the population, or bran- ing, pattern is strong; it tends to dominate, and here lies the reason for the extreme usefulness of branching processes in diverse applications. Branching is a clean and beautiful mathematical pattern, with an intellectually challenging intrinsic structure, and it pervades the phenomena it underlies.

The two-volume set LNAI 8265 and LNAI 8266 constitutes the proceedings of the 12th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2013, held in Mexico City, Mexico, in November 2013. The total of 85 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 284 submissions. The first volume deals with advances in artificial intelligence and its applications and is structured in the following five sections: logic and reasoning; knowledge-based systems and multi-agent systems; natural language processing; machine translation and bioinformatics and medical applications. The second volume deals with advances in soft computing and its applications and is structured in the following eight sections: evolutionary and nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms; neural networks and hybrid intelligent systems; fuzzy systems; machine learning and pattern recognition; data mining; computer vision and image processing; robotics, planning and scheduling and emotion detection, sentiment analysis and opinion mining.

The two-volume set LNAI 8265 and LNAI 8266 constitutes the proceedings of the 12th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2013, held in Mexico City, Mexico, in November 2013. The total of 85 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 284 submissions. The first volume deals with advances in artificial intelligence and its applications and is structured in the following five sections: logic and reasoning; knowledge-based systems and multi-agent systems; natural language processing; machine translation and bioinformatics and medical applications. The second volume deals with advances in soft computing and its applications and is structured in the following eight sections: evolutionary and nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms; neural networks and hybrid intelligent systems; fuzzy systems; machine learning and pattern recognition; data mining; computer vision and image processing; robotics, planning and scheduling and emotion detection, sentiment analysis and opinion mining.

Desde el comienzo de su historia, la filosofía ha debido enfrentarse al problema del sufrimiento humano. El cristianismo, por su parte, plantea enormes desafíos al pensamiento, entre los que destaca precisamente el problema del sufrimiento del justo, manifestado de manera ejemplar en la muerte de Cristo en la cruz: ¿cómo entender la idea de que el Dios Todopoderoso se haga hombre y asuma la condición humana finita hasta el extremo de ser condenado a muerte como un delincuente? En el presente libro se trata el problema del sufrimiento desde una doble perspectiva. Por una parte, se aborda de manera amplia la pregunta por la condición humana en el pensamiento de Kant, quien, a su vez, entra en diálogo con la tradición cristiana, especialmente con Lutero; por otra, se lleva a cabo un análisis detallado de los textos acerca de la cruz de Cristo de tres grandes filósofos y de un escritor. A pesar de que se trata de líneas de pensamiento completamente diferentes entre sí, que van desde el racionalismo de Kant al pensamiento especulativo de Hegel, y del rechazo violento de Nietzsche a la fe de Dostoyevski, ellas confluyen, sin embargo, en el intento de comprender el misterio del Dios crucificado.

Esta publicacion reune textos ineditos de Jorge Eduardo Rivera, uno de los filosofos mas influyentes del pensamiento chileno contemporaneo. Profesor y academico de la Universidad Catolica durante mas de cuatro decadas, Rivera jugo un rol central en la formacion de generaciones de estudiantes y en el desarrollo del pensamiento filosofico en Chile. El libro se organiza en tres secciones: una primera con textos autobiograficos y reflexiones personales; una segunda con ensayos filosoficos sobre temas centrales de su trabajo; y una tercera dedicada al cruce entre filosofia y teologia, un interes clave en su trayectoria. La publicacion de estos escritos, al alero de la coleccion Alameda, invita a los lectores a acceder a nuevas perspectivas del pensamiento de Rivera y permite continuar el dialogo con una figura central en el ambito academico y cultural del pais. Es tambien un reconocimiento a su legado, que sigue siendo una referencia para quienes piensan, ensenan y escriben desde la filosofia.

Este libro se pregunta por qué no ha sido posible la justicia en los países latinoamericanos, que afrontan nuevas olas de amnesia, impunidad, represión y violencia sin que las heridas del pasado hayan sido reparadas aún. Los capítulos exploran cuales han sido las secuelas de las apuestas programáticas de justicia transicional, mas allá de los límites del derecho y la institucionalidad, para reconocer los cambios producidos en los lenguajes, las practicas, los sentidos, las estrategias, los repertorios políticos y la vida de la gente que, con gran capacidad creativa y de resistencia, anhela superar el pasado violento y conseguir paz en sus territorios.