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The goal of this book is to search for a balance between simple and analyzable models and unsolvable models which are capable of addressing important questions on population biology. Part I focusses on single species simple models including those which have been used to predict the growth of human and animal population in the past. Single population models are, in some sense, the building blocks of more realistic models -- the subject of Part II. Their role is fundamental to the study of ecological and demographic processes including the role of population structure and spatial heterogeneity -- the subject of Part III. This book, which will include both examples and exercises, is of use to practitioners, graduate students, and scientists working in the field. ... Read more

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This book is the first extensive guide to the life, music, and writings of Carlos Ch vez (1899-1978), Mexico's most influential musician of the 20th century.The chapter on biography also presents a characterization of his compositional styles.This work provides a comprehensive listing of Ch vez's compositions and arrangements by genre and performance medium, and reviews the composer's own abundant writings on a broad range of musical subjects.Subsequent chapters address other authors' writings about his multi-faceted career as composer, conductor, teacher, and arts administrator that contributed to his international reputation.A chapter on Research Aids includes annotations of pertinent general reference works, catalogs, and collections of letters that will assist both the general reader and the music specialist.
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Globalization and the possibility of bioterrorist acts have highlighted the pressing need for the development of theoretical and practical mathematical frameworks that may be useful in our systemic efforts to anticipate, prevent, and respond to acts of destabilization.

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This work illuminates the founding and brief existence of Colegio Cesar Chavez , founded in the Pacific Northwest in 1973.The work is set within a national and regional context.
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An interesting book about a short-lived college
COLEGIO CESAR CHAVEZ documents the founding and brief existence of the college that once existed in Mt. Angel, a town about 12 miles north of Oregon's capital city of Salem. "Colegio César Chávez" was, in its day, the only four-year Chicano college in the United States. Colegio César Chávez was years in the planning, but it stayed open only long enough to graduate about one class of students. Maldonado demonstrates how Colegio was destined for failure, and was even referred to by some as "the longest running death in history." He says that Colegio should be studied for its opportunity to provide future colleges with a guidebook of pitfalls and how to avoid them.

The obstacles Colegio faced were many. Colegio was a college-without-walls organization, which meant students met with teachers whenever they wanted and many students did not even attend classes on site but were correspondence students (some from as far away as New York and Canada) and therefore little sense of campus community was formed. Another problem was the apathy, and at times distain, of the local community - largely a farming community - for a college named after a man considered by many farmers to be a rabble-rouser; Maldonado argues that if Colegio had been founded in either California or a state in the South West - where the Mexican community is most vibrant - it may've succeeded. Yet another problem Colegio faced was the wave of political conservativism of the 1980s and what the author refers to as the collapse of the "Chicano" movement. And to top it off, the staff of Colegio was too small, too inexperienced, too over-worked, and eventually succumbed to infighting. After reading about the tortured history of this innovative idea, I was left thinking that longevity was perhaps not the true goal of Colegio's founders. I think the founders wanted simply to make a statement to the larger community in the Willamette Valley, and Oregon as a whole, the statement that they had a voice and mattered. Colegio may have closed its doors, but the statement was made.

On a personal note, I am thankful that Mr. Maldonado wrote this book about Colegio because it helped me understand an aspect of my life history: my family and I lived on the campus of Colegio -my father, Arthur Olivo, was the grounds keeper of the college and he tutored some of the students - for the last two years of the college's existence. Over the years I have thought a lot about Colegio and had many unanswered questions (and since my father's death in 2001, Colegio has come to be, in my mind at least, a symbol of my father). Mr. Maldonado answered many of the questions I had.

COLEGIO CESAR CHAVEZ will be of interest to those with a strong interest in all aspects of the "Chicano" movement, César Chávez, and Mexican American history in the Pacific Northwest and specifically in the state of Oregon. Such readers would most likely also be interested in the book NOSTOROS: THE HISPANIC PEOPLE OF OREGON which contains a subsection about Colegio César Chávez. I didn't know at the time (I was only six-years-old when my family and I moved from the campus) that I was living through a part of Chicano history, and I am honored to know that I did. I'm very happy to know that a book has been published about Colegio and that others will come to know about my former home. ... Read more

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The 18 research articles of this volume discuss the major themes that have emerged from mathematical and statistical research in the epidemiology of HIV. The opening paper reviews important recent contributions. Five sections follow: Statistical Methodology and Forecasting, Infectivity and the HIV, Heterogeneity and HIV Transmission Dynamics, Social Dynamics and AIDS, and The Immune System and The HIV. In each, leading experts in AIDS epidemiology present the recent results. Some address the role of variable infectivity, heterogeneous mixing, and long periods of infectiousness in the dynamics of HIV; others concentrate on parameter estimation and short-term forecasting. The last section looks at the interaction between the HIV and the immune system. ... Read more

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This book on Infectious Disease Informatics (IDI) and biosurveillance is intended to provide an integrated view of the current state of the art, identify technical and policy challenges and opportunities, and promote cross-disciplinary research that takes advantage of novel methodology and what we have learned from innovative applications. This book also fills a systemic gap in the literature by emphasizing informatics driven perspectives (e.g., information system design, data standards, computational aspects of biosurveillance algorithms, and system evaluation). Finally, this book attempts to reach policy makers and practitioners through the clear and effective communication of recent research findings in the context of case studies in IDI and biosurveillance, providing“hands-on” in-depth opportunities to practitioners to increase their understanding of value, applicability, and limitations of technical solutions. This book collects the state of the art research and modern perspectives of distinguished individuals and research groups on cutting-edge IDI technical and policy research and its application in biosurveillance. The contributed chapters are grouped into three units. Unit I provides an overview of recent biosurveillance research while highlighting the relevant legal and policy structures in the context of IDI and biosurveillance ongoing activities. It also identifies IDI data sources while addressing information collection, sharing, and dissemination issues as well as ethical considerations. Unit II contains survey chapters on the types of surveillance methods used to analyze IDI data in the context of public health and bioterrorism. Specific computational techniques covered include: text mining, time series analysis, multiple data streams methods, ensembles of surveillance methods, spatial analysis and visualization, social network analysis, and agent-based simulation. Unit III examines IT and decision support for public health event response and bio-defense. Practical lessons learned in developing public health and biosurveillance systems, technology adoption, and syndromic surveillance for large events are discussed. The goal of this book is to provide an understandable interdisciplinary IDI and biosurveillance reference either used as a standalone textbook or reference for students, researchers, and practitioners inpublic health, veterinary medicine, biostatistics, information systems, computer science, and public administration and policy. ... Read more

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Title: Música: Una vez más (II).(trabajo musical de Carlos Chávez será grabado)(TT: Music: once more (ll).)(TA: Carlos Chávez's works, will be recorded)(Artículo Breve)
Author: José Antonio Alcaraz
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 17, 2001
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: José Pablo Moncayo, Carlos Chávez, Silvestre Revueltas, Henryk Szeryng, Salvador Novo, Eduardo Hernández Moncada, Rodolfo Halffter, Carlos Pellicer, Julián Orbón, Luis Sandi, Vicente T. Mendoza, Daniel Castañeda Soriano. Excerpt:Portrait by Carl van Vechten (1937). Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (13 June 1899 2 August 1978) was a Mexican composer , conductor , music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra . He was influenced by native Mexican cultures. Of his six Symphonies, his Symphony No. 2 , which uses native Yaqui percussion instruments, is probably the most popular. Biography The seventh child of a creole family, Chávez was born on Tacuba avenue in Mexico City , near the suburb of Popotla (Garcia Morillo 1960, 11). His paternal grandfather, José María Chávez Alonzo, served as governor of the state of Aguascalientes and was ordered executed by Emperor Maximilian in 1864. His father, Augustín Chávez, invented a plough that was produced and used in the United States , and died when Carlos was barely three years old (Parker 1998, 3). Carlos had his first piano lessons from his brother Manuel, and later on he was taught by Asunción Parra, Manuel Ponce and Pedro Luis Ozagón, for piano, and later Juan Fuentes for harmony. His family often went on vacations to Tlaxcala , Michoacán , Guanajuato , Oaxaca and other places where the cultural influence of the Aztec and other indigenous peoples was still very strong (Parker 2001). In 1916, Chávez and friends started a cultural journal, Gladios , and this led to Chávez joining the staff of the Mexico City newspaper El Universal in 1924. In the succeeding 36 years he wrote over 500 items for this paper (Parker 2001; García Morillo 1960, 230 36). After the Mexican Revolution a... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on July 7, 1997. The length of the article is 735 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Nuevo fuego nuevo. (crítica de la obra del compositor mexicano Carlos Chávez)(TT: New fire new) (TA: critique of the work of Mexican composer Carlos Chávez)
Author: José Antonio Alcaraz
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 7, 1997
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
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Title: Torneo mundial de cínicos: Bush, Chávez, Menem. (A vuelamáquina).(Hugo Chávez, Carlos Saúl Menem y George W. Bush, presidentes)
Author: Alberto Domingo
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: February 5, 2003
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 49Issue: 2590Page: 41(1)

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Raúl Alcalá, Julio Alberto Pérez Cuapio, Moisés Aldape Chávez, Carlos López González, Antonio Aldape Chávez, Bernardo Colex Tepoz, Luis Macías, José Valdez Calva, Florencio Ramos, José Manuel García Ponce, José Gómez Maldonado, José Ramón Aguirre. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Raúl Alcalá Gallegos est un ancien coureur cycliste mexicain, né le 3 mars 1964 à Monterrey. Son surmon dans les pelotons était El Duende. Il deviendra professionnel en 1985 et le restera jusqu'en 1994. Il y remportera 36 victoires. Il fera un bref retour à la compétition en 2008, à 44 ans, sur le territoire sud-américain. Raúl Alcalá fut engagé par différentes équipes : ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on October 1, 2000. The length of the article is 898 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Música: Esto hizo, así escribió.(The Visitors, ópera del compositor Carlos Chávez)(TT: Music: this he did, thus he wrote.)(TA: The Visitors, opera by composer Carlos Chávez)(Artículo Breve)(Columna)
Author: José Antonio Alcaraz
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Date: October 1, 2000
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