New Releases by David Lopez

Why do politicians redistribute resources through in-kind rather than cash transfers? This paper examines political incentives for in-kind government redistribution. By analyzing the political game between office-motivated politicians and self-interested citizens, I first show that in economies with competitive markets in-kind transfers are not required. Politicians can win elections targeting groups of voters with differential cash transfers. However, in-kind transfers arise in the presence of externalities in consumption. In that case, targeting groups of voters with in-kind rather than cash transfers allows politicians to attract simultaneously voters in additional groups with the same amount of resources. Politicians undertake political redistribution depending on the expected electoral returns obtained from targeting both cash and in-kind transfers into different groups. Furthermore, electoral competition leads the economy to achieve Pareto efficient allocations that markets cannot reach. Politicians internalize the presence of external effects when competing for marginal voters who could swing their vote.

This paper presents a theoretical model to investigate the effect of heterogeneous ideological preferences over the public provision of goods on both the scope of government spending and the electoral competition among political parties. The proposed model points out that the presence of both ideological politicians who compete for office and electoral uncertainty generate a partisanship effect on economic policy. In particular, pro-market (right-wing) politicians commit to lower public provision of goods and income taxation schedules that implement larger income inequality than pro-government (left-wing) politicians. The model also predicts that the public funding of goods through income taxation confers an electoral advantage to pro-market ideological positions. In fact, pro-market politicians can court moderate pro-leftist voters by promises of higher net income that pro-government politicians are not willing to fund. As a result, a right-wing party exhibits larger chances of winning elections, and its policy proposal determines lower ideological sacrifice than for the left-wing party.

Brian Wood's X-Men continues! When Storm's field agents are kidnapped and a weapon of the X-Men's making goes missing, the X-Men must make a choice...the destruction of a life, or the survival of a weapon. Then, Storm's leadership is called into question in the aftermath of the "Mutant Scare." Will there be a new team member? And what side are they really on? the Storm-Cyclops divide widens as the team starts to unravel, and Collossus has his own agenda. Will he leave the team to pursue it? Plus: Domino has always been lucky...or maybe the people around her are just unlucky. It's Domino vs. the X-Men!

We are at that moment of network evolution when we have realised that our telecommunication systems should mimic features of human kind, e.g., the ability to understand the medium and take advantage of its changes. Looking towards the future, the mobile industry envisions the use of fully automatised cells able to self-organise all their parameters and procedures. A fully self-organised network is the one that is able to avoid human involvement and react to the fluctuations of network, traffic and channel through the automatic/autonomous nature of its functioning. Nowadays, the mobile community is far from this fully self-organised kind of network, but they are taken the first steps to achieve this target in the near future. This thesis hopes to contribute to the automatisation of cellular networks, providing models and tools to understand the behaviour of these networks, and algorithms and optimisation approaches to enhance their performance. This work focuses on the next generation of cellular networks, in more detail, in the DownLink (DL) of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) based networks. Within this type of cellular system, attention is paid to interference mitigation in self-organising macrocell scenarios and femtocell deployments. Moreover, this thesis investigates the interference issues that arise when these two cell types are jointly deployed, complementing each other in what is currently known as a two-tier network. This thesis also provides new practical approaches to the inter-cell interference problem in both macro cell and femtocell OFDMA systems as well as in two-tier networks by means of the design of a novel framework and the use of mathematical optimisation. Special attention is paid to the formulation of optimisation problems and the development of well-performing solving methods (accurate and fast).

La presente obra, es la Ley 30/2007 de 30 de octubre, de Contratos del Sector Público, explica de una forma lógica, coherente y ordenada e incluyendo un sinfín de cuadros sinópticos, para facilitar el estudio y aprendizaje de los opositores, dada su amplia experiencia como docente a la hora de preparar a centenares de opositores.

Manual, donde se expone una visión esquematizada de los Derechos Humanos.

Manual, idóneo para estudiantes de Derecho, como para opositores.

Obra recomendada para estudiantes de Derecho y opositores.

Los autores de este libro y sus colaboradores, han estudiado en forma sistematica los tratamientos del trastorno limite de la personalidad y de sus comorbilidades (depresion mayor, trastorno bipolar, trastornos de ansiedad, abuso y dependencia de alcohol, anorexia y bulimia) desde 1993. Estos esfuerzos han sido auspiciados y financiados por la Asociacion Psicoanalitica Mexicana, la Asociacion Psicoanalitica Internacional y el CONACYT. El tipo de tratamiento que mas han investigado los autores es la Psicoterapia Focalizada en la Transferencia (PFT) de Kernberg y colaboradores. Los productos de esas investigaciones se reportaron en dos articulos aparecidos en la revista Salud Mental (Cuevas y cols., 2000; Lopez y cols., 2004) y en un libro "Psicoterapia Focalizada en la Transferencia para Pacientes Limitrofes" (Lopez D, Edamex, 2004). En este libro los autores presentan una revision, basada en evidencias, no solo de los resultados de la aplicacion de la Psicoterapia Focalizada en la Transferencia (PFT), sino tambien de otras formas de tratamiento, como la Terapia Dialectico Conductual (TDC) de Linehan (1991), la Terapia Basada en la Mentalizacion (TBM), de Bateman y Fonagy (2004), los psicofarmacos, la meditacion, el adiestramiento en habilidades sociales y el uso de complementos alimenticios, como el acido graso Omega 3. Una de las conclusiones de la revision de los tratamientos para el trastorno limite de la personalidad es que existen suficientes recursos terapeuticos para tratar este dificil trastorno y que estos recursos pueden utilizarse en forma complementaria e integrada en beneficio de la paciente y de los equipos de tratamiento. Los resumenes que se presentan en el libro acerca de las psicoterapias efectivas para el trastorno limite de la personalidad (PFT, TDC y TBM), asi como de los medicamentos y terapias auxiliares pueden ser una guia para iniciar la capacitacion de los equipos de tratamiento encargados de atender a estas pacientes.

When Catwoman finds herself banished to a prison world by the Suicide Squad she faces the company of ruthless villains and a mysterious alien technology that makes her situation even worse.

Revamped into a crime noir icon, the new-look Catwoman is once more slinking through the shadows of Gotham City in this tantalising continuing series! A year after the events of Infinite Crisis, Selina Kyle is about to embark on her most dangerous adventure yet - motherhood! But while she''s minding the baby, who''s wearing the cat-suit and patrolling Gotham''s East End? And how will this new Catwoman deal with the combined threats of an all-new Film Freak and a vicious, vengeful Angle Man?

Volume 2: "Peter David's creator-owned series gets a second collection with DOWN TO EARTH, reprinting issues #7-12. The mysterious Fallen Angel continues to protect the city of Béte Noire, but her nemesis Black Mariah is back in town, and she's hunting for the Angel!"--Publisher's website

Selina Kyle has taken on a different identity and given up her life as a constumed adventurer in preparation for the birth of her baby, but now someone else is out there dressed as Catwoman and making mistakes. Is it too late for Selina to change her mind about giving up crimefighting?