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Sugar and Modernity in Latin America

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited by Vinicius De Carvalho, Per Bendix Jeppesen, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Susanne Højlund ...

Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other diseases related to modern lifestyles have spread with frightening speed all over the globe, a development that is often correlated with an increase in the consumption of sugar. Latin America - the cradle of the world's sugar production - is no exception; it has witnessed an explosion of cases of diabetes, especially in Brazil and Mexico. Taking an ... Read more

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Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other diseases related to modern lifestyles have spread with frightening speed all over the globe, a development that is often correlated with an increase in the consumption of sugar. Latin America - the cradle of the world's sugar production - is no exception; it has witnessed an explosion of cases of diabetes, especially in Brazil and Mexico. Taking an
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The Many Faces of Corruption

Tracking Vulnerabilities at the Sector Level

Edited by J. Edgardo Campos, Sanjay Pradhan ...

Corruption... How can policymakers and practitioners better comprehend the many forms and shapes that this socialpandemic takes? From the delivery of essential drugs, the reduction in teacher absenteeism, the containment of illegal logging, the construction of roads, the provision of water andelectricity, the international trade in oil and gas, the conduct of public budgeting and procurement, and ... Read more

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Corruption... How can policymakers and practitioners better comprehend the many forms and shapes that this socialpandemic takes? From the delivery of essential drugs, the reduction in teacher absenteeism, the containment of illegal logging, the construction of roads, the provision of water andelectricity, the international trade in oil and gas, the conduct of public budgeting and procurement, and
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Seminal

On Sperm, Health, and Politics

Edited by Rene Almeling, Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Brian T. Nguyen ...

Series series Health, Society, and Inequality
The complexities and controversies at the nexus of sperm, health, and politicsIn Seminal, experts from across the social sciences, humanities, law, and medicine offer a kaleidoscopic view of the relationship between sperm, health, and the intersecting politics of gender, race, and reproduction. Always insightful and often provocative, the essays in this unprecedented collection cover a broad range ... Read more

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The complexities and controversies at the nexus of sperm, health, and politicsIn Seminal, experts from across the social sciences, humanities, law, and medicine offer a kaleidoscopic view of the relationship between sperm, health, and the intersecting politics of gender, race, and reproduction. Always insightful and often provocative, the essays in this unprecedented collection cover a broad range
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Learn OpenCV 4 by Building Projects

Build real-world computer vision and image processing applications with OpenCV and C++

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Explore OpenCV 4 to create visually appealing cross-platform computer vision applicationsKey FeaturesUnderstand basic OpenCV 4 concepts and algorithmsGrasp advanced OpenCV techniques such as 3D reconstruction, machine learning, and artificial neural networksWork with Tesseract OCR, an open-source library to recognize text in imagesBook DescriptionOpenCV is one of the best open source libraries ... Read more

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Explore OpenCV 4 to create visually appealing cross-platform computer vision applicationsKey FeaturesUnderstand basic OpenCV 4 concepts and algorithmsGrasp advanced OpenCV techniques such as 3D reconstruction, machine learning, and artificial neural networksWork with Tesseract OCR, an open-source library to recognize text in imagesBook DescriptionOpenCV is one of the best open source libraries
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Transhumantheism

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In "TRANSHUMANTHEISM," the author invites the reader on a journey through the depths of the modern human condition. The book is not just a philosophical essay based on metaphysical realities, but a blunt diagnosis of a humanity that, in trying to escape its fragility and the anguish of death, ends up imprisoning itself in an "artificial multiverse" of its own creation. Highlights of the work:The ... Read more

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In "TRANSHUMANTHEISM," the author invites the reader on a journey through the depths of the modern human condition. The book is not just a philosophical essay based on metaphysical realities, but a blunt diagnosis of a humanity that, in trying to escape its fragility and the anguish of death, ends up imprisoning itself in an "artificial multiverse" of its own creation. Highlights of the work:The
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Data Processing and Modeling with Hadoop

Mastering Hadoop Ecosystem Including ETL, Data Vault, DMBok, GDPR, and Various Data-Centric Tools

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The book 'Data Processing and Modeling with Hadoop' explains how a distributed system works and its benefits in the big data era in a straightforward and clear manner. After reading the book, you will be able to plan and organize projects involving a massive amount of data.The book describes the standards and technologies that aid in data management and compares them to other technology business ... Read more

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The book 'Data Processing and Modeling with Hadoop' explains how a distributed system works and its benefits in the big data era in a straightforward and clear manner. After reading the book, you will be able to plan and organize projects involving a massive amount of data.The book describes the standards and technologies that aid in data management and compares them to other technology business
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Equal Rights, Equal Voices

The CRPD and the Pursuit of Legal Capacity for Persons with Intellectual and Psychosocial Disability

Edited by Paula Campos Pinto, Teresa Janela Pinto, Patrícia Neca, Fernando Fontes ...

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This open access book offers a critical sociolegal examination of the rights of people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities, with a focus on the determination of their legal capacity in court and the wider consequences for their self-determination. Drawing on a research project undertaken in Portugal, the book features six stories and court cases of disabled people, as well as ... Read more

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This open access book offers a critical sociolegal examination of the rights of people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities, with a focus on the determination of their legal capacity in court and the wider consequences for their self-determination. Drawing on a research project undertaken in Portugal, the book features six stories and court cases of disabled people, as well as
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Life, Re-Scaled

The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance

by Liliane Campos, Pierre-Louis Patoine ...

This edited volume explores new engagements with the life sciences in contemporary fiction, poetry, comics and performance. The gathered case studies investigate how recent creative work reframes the human within microscopic or macroscopic scales, from cellular biology to systems ecology, and engages with the ethical, philosophical, and political issues raised by the twenty-first century’s ... Read more

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This edited volume explores new engagements with the life sciences in contemporary fiction, poetry, comics and performance. The gathered case studies investigate how recent creative work reframes the human within microscopic or macroscopic scales, from cellular biology to systems ecology, and engages with the ethical, philosophical, and political issues raised by the twenty-first century’s
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Blender 3D Asset Creation for the Metaverse

Unlock endless possibilities with 3D object creation, including metaverse characters and avatar models

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Elevate your 3D modeling skills by mastering each part of the process in this part-color guide, creating professional assets and lifelike characters for your games and metaverse worlds Key FeaturesDiscover an optimized workflow for crafting game and the metaverse assetsLearn shortcuts to make the creation process smooth and quickGenerate a versatile 3D model suitable for various purposesPurchase ... Read more

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Hellboy: A Plague Of Wasps [Dramatized Adaptation]

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Narrated by Jasmine Hyde, Scott McCormick, Stewart Crank, Carolla Parmejano, Sebastian Zancanaro, Peter Holdway, Bia Borin, Vinicius Faria Zinn, Eric Messner, Stephanie Németh-Parker, Kay Elúvian ...

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"Hellboy has accompanied his girlfriend, Anastasia Bransfield, on a trip to Brazil to help colleagues who are conducting an archaeological dig in the jungle.While they’re having coffee, a colleague arrives...through a public square, sick and sluggish and in agony. He falls, and wasps begin to come out of his mouth. When he bursts open, more wasps emerge—his insides are full of a labyrinthine, gray ... Read more

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The Truth About De Campo

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Cuban Spanish Dialectology

Variation, Contact, and Change

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Series series Georgetown Studies in Spanish Linguistics series
Despite the significant presence of Cuban immigrants in the United States, current research on Cuban Spanish linguistics remains underexplored. This volume addresses this lacuna in Cuban Spanish research by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles from a range of theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas, including phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, ... Read more

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Despite the significant presence of Cuban immigrants in the United States, current research on Cuban Spanish linguistics remains underexplored. This volume addresses this lacuna in Cuban Spanish research by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles from a range of theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas, including phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches,
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