Best Selling Books by David Lopez

The purpose of this book is twofold: providing an ethnographic description of the Hispanic hybrid (HH) identity found in Miami-Dade County and deriving missiological implications from the ethnographic data. Christian workers and students of ethnic study and ethnic identity will find this book informative and inspiring, due to the data collected by field-based research and the rich ethnographic description. Others will enjoy the discussion of ethnic identity and the description of Hispanic hybridity in this book.

Classic myths and legends from around the world brilliantly re-imagined in accessible form for early readers.

This paper reports the direct and spillover effects of a campaign with a normative based report on residential water use in Colombia. The experimental design introduces an exogenous variation in the percentage of households receiving reports within a water utility, leaving households without reports but affected by the diffusion of information. The randomization is at two levels. First, assigning saturation percentages across water utilities and second, the treatment status across households conditional to that saturation. Findings show that accounting for spillovers leads to a higher impact of social norm campaigns than previous interventions. In addition, shorter periods between reports remind households to act pro-environmentally. Households receiving feedback every 30 days show a significant impact than every 60 in both treatment units. This paper emphasizes using social norm-based as an effective tool in promoting socially desirable pro-environmental behaviors and addressing spillovers to diffuse behavioral changes. In particular, in small urban settings with high social capital levels or during weather shocks that could affect water supply.

This paper outlines opportunities that field experimentation can bring to accommodation managers. It also describes specific types of experiment designs that can help exploit those opportunities and increase the adoption of field experimentation. Field experimentation (often through randomized testing) has been widely adopted as an optimization technique in product design and marketing in several industries. It is also considered as the golden standard for causal inference and thus a critical tool for decision makers. As such, companies have successfully used field experimentation to reduce costs, increase revenues, and maintain an edge in their customer experience in highly competitive environments. However, a number of optimization problems with a rich academic and commercial history have resisted this push. In certain industries, such as hospitality, to the authors'' knowledge, there is little publicly documented work detailing results of field experiments applied to revenue management, and the use of such tools remains the privilege of big corporate brands with a small overall market share. This happens in a $500 billion industry in which vendors and academics alike claim that price optimization can yield uplifts of 10% in revenue. This paper discusses the likely causes of the sparse adoption of field experimentation for revenue management in hospitality. By explicitly addressing the complexities of revenue management, and outlining specific experimental designs aimed at handling those complexities, this paper aims to start a public conversation about experimentation in hospitality that should benefit the industry as a whole.

"The X-Men investigate the appearance of several monsters terrorizing civilians across the globe, and what they find calls into question everything they know about the origin of Homo superior."--P. [4] of cover.

This week marks the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina''s tragic landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, and the forced relocation of hundreds of thousands of families who lost their homes in the disaster. This mass population displacement boosted, for an extended period, population density and store frequentation in areas that were relatively spared by the storm. This note argues that supermarkets that weathered the hurricane raised prices little despite facing markedly higher store traffic and likely disruptions to their supply chains.

RESPIRATORY VIRUS DETECTIONS USING MULTIPLEX MOLECULAR TESTING IN A TERTIARY-CARE HOSPITAL IN SPAIN: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CLINICAL DATA IN A YEAR COHORTtBackgroundRespiratory infections are the main cause of hospitalisation in paediatric hospitals. Different viruses lead to similar clinical pictures. This study analyse the epidemiology and clinical data of respiratory infections in the molecular era, using multiplex real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).MethodsDescriptive retrospective cohort study of respiratory-related admissions in

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

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.

MERCOSUR, which includes the nations of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, is South America''s dominant trading bloc and the chief rival to NAFTA in the Western Hemisphere. This article opens by describing MERCOSUR''s dispute settlement processes and institutions and contrasting those structures to NAFTA''s dispute resolution systems. Professor Lopez then identifies and analyzes, for the first time, all trade-related disputes that arose between the MERCOSUR parties from 1991 to 1996. He draws from this experience several key distinctions between the way South Americans approach trade dispute resolution and the way North Americans have approached the resolution of such conflicts under NAFTA. Based on these findings, Professor Lopez concludes that the government officials negotiating a Free Trade Area of the Americas ought to construct a phased-in dispute resolution system that initially relies nearly exclusively on high-level consultations and then, after time, makes available the use of multinational institutions and formal adversarial proceedings for the resolution of trade disputes.

Do you believe that the energy and vitality in your body are being drained by modern medications? Do you believe that ordinary medications only have side effects? Continue reading if YES was your response. Nowadays, people become dependent on common pharmaceuticals for a variety of medical conditions, which results in reliance on those drugs and all of their negative side effects-side effects that are frequently worse than the underlying medical condition. Since society supports the use of pharmaceutical medications for nearly any health issue, even minor ones, it is a vicious cycle that is difficult to break. However, if you are here, it is because you want to improve this circumstance and are aware that there is a better, more natural solution. We may produce natural cures at home for any common health issue without the need of any equipment that is not found in everyone''s kitchens thanks to the Native Americans'' expertise. For this reason, devoted author Ashley Ahoka, a specialist in botanical medicine, gathered in this compilation all the knowledge passed down orally from her family, members of the Odawa Native American ethnic group from the Eastern Woodlands. You''ll discover: how to make herbal medications on your apothecary table, produce plants and herbs, and practise wildcrafting. The most significant plants and herbs used by Native Americans are those with medicinal characteristics. the most significant Native American cures for the most frequent ailments. the particular recommendations for your children''s health using traditional Native American recipes the greatest herbal and oil recipes without harmful side effects as alternatives to conventional medications. plus a lot more!