New Releases by David Lopez

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Environmental Sciences, Fiji National University (College of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Fiji National University), language: English, abstract: Fiji Islands are among the most dynamic economies in the South Pacific, with rapid changes on infrastructure and industrial developments, tourism and commercial agriculture; even though they often come alongside environmental impacts on endemic biota and ecosystems that are not well understood, not much is invested on research to plan a sustainable use of land. Parallel unsolved concerns are land tenure issues in which ancestral community ownership coexists with modern markets; tensions over land leases between ethnical groups and high population growth trigger land use intensification, and rise of emigrations, of landlessness, of unemployment and finally of poverty. Therefore, it is of a national interest to asses these trends for long term sustainable land use planning; even nearly 3500 years ago a record of regulations aimed to achieve sustainability and equality: “3 ...for six years you may plant crops inyour fields, prune your vineyards, and gather what they produce. 4 But during the seventh year, you must let the land rest. 8 Count seven of these years seven times for a total of 49 years... during that time there will be seven ·years of rest 9 and proclaim liberty to everyone living in the land... everyone is to return to their own property” (Leviticus 25). In this document, the first chapter is a synopsis of land use in the rural areas of Fiji islands, its evolution, types, problems and alternatives, the second chapter is a review of some common free gis packages available in the internet useful for forestry and land use evaluations, their number and degrees of sophistication are ever growing; the last two chapters are applications, first on detecting the severity of land use intensity in relation to other socioeconomic parameters, and second on the planning of the best places for planting trees of economic or ecological importance. The articles were presented at international conferences, they are in no way a comprehensive treatise on the subject; my main purpose is to ignite the interest of students and staff working in the forestry field to try on and propose projects of various types, scales and complexity, with just a standard PC and access to internet and library resources.

In recent years, the Federal Reserve has made substantial changes to its framework for monetary policymaking by providing greater clarity regarding its objectives, its intentions regarding the use of monetary policy--including nontraditional policy tools such as forward guidance and asset purchases--in the pursuit of those objectives, and its broader policy strategy. These changes reflected both a response to changes in economists'' understanding of the most effective way to implement monetary policy and a response to specific challenges posed by the financial crisis and its aftermath, particularly the effective lower bound on nominal interest rates. We trace the recent evolution of the Federal Reserve''s framework, and use a small-scale macro model and a simple static model to help illuminate the approaches taken with nontraditional monetary policy tools. A number of foreign central banks have made similar innovations in response to similar developments. On balance, the Federal Reserve has moved closer to "flexible inflation targeting," but the Federal Reserve''s approach includes a balanced focus on two objectives and the use of a flexible horizon over which policy aims to foster those objectives. Going forward, further changes in central banks'' frameworks may be needed to address issues raised by the financial crisis. For example, some have suggested that the sustained period at the effective lower bound points to the need for central banks to establish a different policy objective, such as a higher inflation target or a nominal income target. We use our small-scale model of the U.S. economy to examine the potential benefits and costs of such changes. We also discuss the broad issue of how central banks should integrate financial stability policy and monetary policy.

L''arrivée des premiers X-Men dans le présent représente un danger pour l''ensemble du continuum espace-temps ! Des X-Men venus du futur vont alors les forcer à repartir à leur époque. Les jeunes Cyclope et Marvel Girl prennent la fuite tandis qu''un mystérieux ennemi décide dattaquer l''École dEnseignement Supérieur Jean Grey.

David Lopez Escobales is a single father of one, Lea Lopez. He has been writing poetry for a hobby since his teenage years. In 2015, he was inspired to write a variety of concept poetry based upon some of his life''s experiences. As a United States Navy veteran, David has traveled to many countries around the world. The cultures and the diversity of people he met on his travels, gave him a different outlook on life. One in which he tries to incorporate into his writing. With the support of family and friends, David''s dream is to leave a legacy that would inspire others, just as he was inspired. His hope is that his readers will be touched by his words. He further hopes to bring encouragement and understanding to some of his life''s deepest topics.

The purpose of this critical multi-case qualitative study was to explore reciprocal connections between participants and other stakeholders established through the community-school partnerships (CSPs) at three Latina/o majority secondary schools in an economically disadvantaged region of Southwest Texas. To achieve its purpose the study examined the ways in which various campus and district level leaders demonstrated ownership of the CSPs, especially focusing on how the connections with parents and the community were established and maintained. Additionally, the study investigated the connection between the program perceptions of participating parents and other community members in relation to the school and district based perceptions of the programs’ outcomes. This type of research could lend key insights to educational leaders and practitioners working with large Latina/o student populations at the secondary school level. Additionally, this research is occurring at a crucial time in our nation’s history, when the number of Latina/o students underperforming on college readiness measures portends impactful and lasting consequences to the future of the nation.

Continuous flow non-thermal plasma reactors are being investigated for their ability to efficiently produce high quality nanoparticles. While many nanomaterials can be produced via continuous flow non-thermal plasma reactors, silicon is of particular interest, due to its abundance and relevance in many energy related fields. Significant gaps still exist in the understanding of the kinetics responsible for particle growth, structural evolution, and surface termination of continuous flow non-thermal plasma reactor produced particles. Particle interaction with plasma radicals results in the heating of the particles, which in turn affects the kinetics of particle growth, structural evolution, and surface termination during synthesis and processing. We have investigated the details of plasma-nanoparticle interaction by using in-flight and in-situ characterization techniques. For the first time, we have measured the temperature of a free-standing particle immersed in a non-equilibrium processing plasma.

Are you ready to journey around the planet to find Dad, a journalist who has been kidnapped? Help Zak and Leah solve the puzzles and save him Battle your way through ten scenes and solve the puzzles, from brain-busting maths conundrums to spot-the-difference. Prepare to take a tour through a Machu Picchu maze, go hunting with the Inuits, discover the tallest skyscrapers in the world, dig into a gold mine and explore the Great Wall of China. You''ll discover lots about the way people live, work, and play around the world. There are search and find challenges on every page.

These evolution models are critical because a planet''s composition can change substantially over its lifetime. Close-in planets, like most of those found so far, are bombarded by large amounts of ionizing radiation, which over time can completely strip away a planet''s atmosphere; even turning a gas-rich Neptune sized planet into a barren rocky super-Earth.

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.

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?

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?