New Releases by Cristina Garcia

A Fidel Castro-like octogenarian Cuban exile obsessively seeks revenge against the dictator.

In the 1970s, a teenaged Iranian princess, a German-Canadian girl, and a Cuban-Jewish girl from New York City become friends when they spend three summers at a Swiss boarding school.

Este livro tem como objetivo apresentar os riscos à biodiversidade decorrentes da E&P offshore de petróleo no Brasil. Mostra-se ainda que a incorporação, no planejamento ambiental da E&P, da avaliação não apenas dos impactos decorrentes da operação normal, mas também do risco à biodiversidade decorrente de eventos acidentais, pode fornecer subsídios ao processo de tomada de decisão de escolha de alternativas locacionais e tecnológicas que compõem os planos e programas do setor, reduzindo o risco de danos à biodiversidade.

The purpose of the current study was to examine factors that discriminated between high school students who graduated from those who did not. High school graduation was chosen as a discriminating outcome for the comparisons groups due to the positive implications graduation has on students'' future professional and emotional development. Data were collected from students enrolled in their fourth year of high school. Specifically, the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC-2) and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) were used to assess students'' internalizing and externalizing behaviors as they related to academic achievement. Seventy-eight fourth year high school students agreed to participate in the study. The current study failed to identify predictor variables due to the large discrepancy in the sizes of the two outcome groups. No significant differences were found between the groups with respect to the independent variables. Significant differences were found between gender and graduation outcome. Additionally, differences in grade point average and school attendance were significant between groups. In addition to these statistically significant findings, moderate and large effect sizes were identified among the independent variables and high school graduation.

NOVEDAD MAYO

A novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a hotel in an unnamed Latin American country in the midst of political turmoil.

Timely pathogen detection is an important issue for the efficient prevention of outbreaks in the population. This book reviews the biosensor technology with a focus on its potential application to pathogen detection in the human food chain.

A presente obra nasceu do interesse em se estudar a resiliência com foco na família ao longo do ciclo vital, a partir de uma perspectiva sistêmica e da psicologia da saúde. As características, advindas das diferentes etiologias que compõem a condição de portador de paraplegia dos membros de cada família estudada, quais sejam, a paraplegia em decorrência de lesão medular e de uma paralisia cerebral, buscaram ampliar o trabalho em sua complexidade. A obra busca afirmar que, conhecendo casos como esses é que teremos condições de nos depararmos e nos encantarmos, cada vez mais, com o ser humano que não se deixa reduzir a uma situação adversa e faz do pensamento e sua vontade instrumentos de superação.

Clarinet-playing surfer Yumi Ruiz-Hirsch comes from a complex family, and when her grandfather is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she asks him to tell her his life story, which helps her to understand her own history and identity.

Hydrothermal vents (HV) are deep-sea ecosystems where hypoxia/anoxia is one of the major constraints. Respiratory pigments play a key function in the adaptation to hypoxia. HV polynoids are abundant, diverse and widely distributed and are the only ones to possess hemoglobins (Hb), and these are unique among annelids. The goal of this work was to know their evolutionary history. There are 2 types of Hb in HV polynoids: 1- and 4-domains. While they are extracellular, they are more related to intracellular globins that to annelid extracellular ones, indicating a distinct origin. We studied the evolutionary history of the 4-domain gene Hb and found that originated from the tandem duplication of a myoglobin-like ancestral. Both globin types possess residues in the heme pocket that are responsible for the high oxygen affinity in other organisms'' Hb. But the adaptive value of these Hb probably resides in their expression at high levels. Plus, some amino acid sites were shown to be under positive selection (PS). Some are located in the heme pocket where they might affect functional properties. Others are in areas where they can affect interactions between subunits and domains.

Multi-class classification is the core issue of many pattern recognition tasks. Several applications require high-end machine learning solutions to provide satisfying results in operational contexts. However, most efficient ones, like SVM or Boosting, are generally mono-class, which introduces the problem of translating a global multi-class problem is several binary problems, while still being able to provide at the end an answer to the original multi-class issue. Present work aims at providing a solution to this multi-class problematic, by introducing a complete framework with a strong probabilistic and structured basis. It includes the study of error correcting output codes correlated with the definition of an optimal subdivision of the multi-class issue in several binary problems, in a complete automatic way. Machine learning algorithms are studied and benchmarked to facilitate and justify the final selection. Coupling of automatically calibrated classifiers output is obtained by applying iterative constrained regularisations, and a logical temporal fusion is applied on temporal-redundant data (like tracked vehicles) to enhance performances. Finally, ranking scores are computed to optimize precision and recall is ranking-based systems. Each step of the previously described system has been analysed from a theoretical an empirical point of view and new contributions are introduced, so as to obtain a complete mathematically coherent framework which is both generic and easy-to-use, as the learning procedure is almost completely automatic. On top of that, quantitative evaluations on two completely different datasets have assessed both the exactitude of previous assertions and the improvements that were achieved compared to previous methods.

(Continuação) As hipóteses foram testadas com base em regressões lineares simples e análises de dados em painel (utilizando as técnicas de efeitos fixos e de efeitos aleatórios). Os resultados encontrados sugerem que a existência de conselho fiscal está relacionada a menores níveis de gerenciamento de resultados e, quanto mais estruturada a governança corporativa da empresa, a qualificação do conselho fiscal também influencia na melhoria da informação contábil divulgada ao público externo.

Who''s ever heard of a dog who would not dance? Unless of course el perrito is lovesick for the moon. Then all you need is a little magic a lot of music and a very special wish And the moon just might surprise you.

The political upheaval in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala had a devastating human toll at the end of the twentieth century. A quarter of a million people died during the period 1974-1996. Many of those who survived the wars chose temporary refuge in neighboring countries such as Honduras and Costa Rica. Others traveled far north, to Mexico, the United States, and Canada in search of safety. Over two million of those who fled Central America during this period settled in these three countries. In this incisive book, Maria Cristina Garcia tells the story of that migration and how domestic and foreign policy interests shaped the asylum policies of Mexico, the United States, and Canada. She describes the experiences of the individuals and non-governmental organizations primarily church groups and human rights organizations that responded to the refugee crisis, and worked within and across borders to shape refugee policy. These transnational advocacy networks collected testimonies, documented the abuses of states, re-framed national debates about immigration, pressed for changes in policy, and ultimately provided a voice for the displaced. Garcia concludes by addressing the legacies of the Central American refugee crisis, especially recent attempts to coordinate a regional response to the unique problems presented by immigrants and refugees and the challenges of coordinating such a regional response in the post-9/11 era."

A presente dissertação tem como finalidade resgatar o diálogo entre a arquitetura e o design no desenvolvimento das vertentes modernistas, identificando os aspectos históricos, sociais e culturais desta expressão do pensamento moderno. Nesta pesquisa, foram investigados as origens, a evolução e o amadurecimento desta linguagem. O recorte temporal foi estabelecido desde suas raízes, consideradas nos anos 1850, sublinhadas a partir da última década do século XIX, alcançando os anos 1920, no processo de instituição de uma unidade formal e conceitual entre a arquitetura e o móvel modernos. A questão foi aprofundada com o estudo de duas concepções de Gerrit Rietveld, designer e arquiteto que defendeu os conceitos do Neoplasticismo holandês, no desenvolvimento de uma estreita relação entre os projetos de uma habitação e um móvel no contexto do Movimento Moderno. Especificamente, a análise da cadeira Vermelha Azul (1918) e da casa Rietveld Schröder (Utrecht - Holanda, 1924) é essencial para a compreensão do diálogo arquitetura/design promovidos pelos arquitetos entre o final do século XIX e o início do século XX, e permite identificar a expressão da unidade de linguagem existente entre ambos.