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El propósito de este libro es presentar, en una sola fuente, los resultados electorales más importantes de los eventos electorales generales celebrados en Puerto Rico desde 1899 hasta el plebiscito de 2017. En las contiendas más importantes incluimos los resultados por municipios. Incluimos los resultados a nivel de distrito para la Cámara de Delegados en las elecciones de 1900, Representantes y Senadores de Distrito desde 1917. Resultados por municipio para los siguientes eventos: -1917 -1961 -1967 -1970 -1991 -1993 -1994 -1998 -2012 -2017

El año 1962: entre la represión política y la violencia institucional. El caso Grimau. El crimen de Estado en la gestación del TOP. Un pacto sobre la represión política: de lo militar a lo civil. Ruiz Jiménez, la voz que clama en el desierto. La supresión de la Jurisdicción de Orden Público en España.

Over the past decades, chromatin remodelling has emerged as an important regulator of gene expression and plant defense. This book provides a detailed understanding of the epigenetic mechanisms involved in plants of agronomic importance. The information presented here is significant because it is expected to provide the knowledge needed to develop in the future treatments to manipulate and selectively activate/inhibit proteins and metabolic pathways to counter pathogens, to treat important diseases and to increase crop productivity. New approaches of this kind and the development of new technologies will certainly increase our knowledge of currently known post-translational modifications and facilitate the understanding of their roles in, for example, host-pathogen interactions and crop productivity. Furthermore, we provide important insight on how the plant epigenome changes in response to developmental or environmental stimuli, how chromatin modifications are established and maintained, to which degree they are used throughout the genome, and how chromatin modifications influence each another.

This book presents a narrative review of current models of recovery and empowerment on people with severe mental disorders, and the impact of these models and approaches on assistance policies. The authors review conceptual frameworks, research findings, key predictors of recovery and empowerment, evaluation instruments and criteria, and user and families' perspectives on recovery and empowerment. Contemporary ideas of recovery, often referred to as personal recovery, emerged in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s through first person accounts of the lived experience of mental health problems and through accompanying consumer and human rights movements. However, the origins of the recovery movement in mental health can be traced back over several hundred years. The books describes many of these historical influences and the roots of today's approaches to recovery. It also provides a detailed discussion of the concept of, and approach to, empowerment. Whilst acknowledging the diverse definitions of recovery and the associated challenges of its meaningful measurement, the authors also aim to engage with the concept of recovery. Many studies of recovery are helpfully brought together here for the reader, but personal recovery, as a process and outcome, should be much more central to mental health research. A diverse audience of mental health professionals, teachers, students, and researchers, will find this a valuable reference source.

This book offers a systematic study of control algorithms applied in the operation of solar membrane distillation (SMD) facilities. After a short introduction to membrane distillation systems powered by solar energy, it reports on the various stages of the development of a comprehensive operating strategy, based on modelling, control, and optimization techniques, which enables an improved operation of SMD plants helping the commercialization of the SMD technology. A special focus of the research was to maximize the distillate production of the MD modules while reducing their thermal energy consumption, being those two important weaknesses of the current technology, as well as their minimizing operating costs. The optimised operating strategies were tested in a real pilot plant located at Plataforma Solar de Almería (a dependency of the Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, CIEMAT, of Spain). All in all, this thesis offers extensive information on control and modeling algorithms, and on their practical applications in solar membrane distillation plants.

When the Liberal Party reached power in Panama in 1912 it started a period that lasted until 1941. A period in which Panamanians, due to the special circumstances under which the country became independent, the presence of the United States, and of thousands of foreign workers in its territory, began to doubt and asked themselves if they were truly independent. The American presence impacted politics and a sense of inferiority developed because people believed that nothing could be accomplished without the blessings of the United States. In the middle of chaotic political scene and self-doubt, the country retreated to its Hispanic past and began an effort to Hispanize in the face of so much foreign presence and influence, and tried to show the world that Panama was an independent country with history and traditions, and not an appendage of the United States. Belisario Porras, who became president in 1912, emphasized the Hispanic past and built statues to Balboa and Cervantes. Acción Comunal, founded in 1923, promoted nationalism and criticized the corrupt nature of politics. It led a successful campaign against the 1926 Treaty and a coup in 1931. This new generation repudiated the generation that made the 1903 Treaty. “Panama for Panamanians” became one of the catch phrases for the Panamanian youth of the 1920’s and 1930’s, which found in the brothers Harmodio and Arnulfo Arias the leading exponents.

The Whispering Seeds is a heartfelt work, and it is the outcome of innumerable lessons conducted and learned over time and practicum in English language classrooms in Ecuador, Brooklyn, NYC, Costa Rica, and Indonesia. However, The Whispering Seeds was created in stunningly beautiful Ecuador! What Ecuadorian educators achieved is a classroom practice that represents the sincere work of many Ecuadorian students who were of different levels in their ability to communicate in English, as well as an assortment of insight-gains, understandings, meaningful communication, joy, enthusiasm and cooperation. The Whispering Seeds is primarily the result of the wisdom and insight of two Ecuadorian teachers: Eugenia Proaño and Ernesto Muñoz. Eugenia Proaño and Ernesto Muñoz had attended and dedicated so much of their time to many different English classes and training sessions, as well as other encounters that helped to prepare them for eventually accomplishing this educational project. Eugenia Proaño and Ernesto Muñoz traveled and worked at Centro Espiral Mana - now also known as the Institute for Collaborative Learning - in Costa Rica. The learning experiences they had occurred in 2005 and 2012 for Ernesto and in 2007 for Eugenia were integral to developing their skills as educators of the English language in Ecuador. Eugenia Proaño and Ernesto Muñoz had the privilege to undergo _intensive training_ on how to improve their performance as teachers with Ms. Mary Scholl. Ms. Mary Scholl is the director and founder of Centro Espiral Mana and the Institute for Collaborative Learning which gives aspiring educators the opportunity to hone their pedagogical skills by working with real students who genuinely come to learn and further improve themselves in the English language. Being in Costa Rica and working with Ms. Mary Scholl is an experience that demonstrates the values and benefits of working in a student-centered class. At the Institute for Collaborative Learning, multi-sensory activities including manipulatives, collaboration, and heartfelt discussion nurture an environment of creativity and self-exploration! Doesn't this encompass all forms of learning? Ernesto Munoz, Eugenia Proano and Peter Lindo think so, and allow this to be a major element in their classes These activities all support student acquisition and use of the target language in whatever language a student may be learning and for whichever language a teacher may be teaching. What was achieved in Ecuador as a means to learn English can be applied to learning any language in so many areas of the world. After returning to Ecuador, Eugenia Proaño and Ernesto Muñoz were ready to 'step outside' the “comfort zone” of traditional language teaching. They decided to apply what they had learned at the Institute for Collaborative Learning (in Costa Rica) in their classrooms at Universidad Técnica del Norte in Ibarra, Ecuador. They used the procedures they were introduced to with Ms. Scholl, including visual, auditory, verbal, kinesthetic, and tactile, among other strategies and techniques. Eugenia Proaño and Ernesto Muñoz worked to apply these methodologies in a student-centered, collaborative environment that promoted mutual support and respect. The Whispering Seeds manifested in time between stellar Ecuadorian educators, enthusiastic Ecuadorian students and a Bermudian educator who was working at a language school in Brooklyn, New York City. The practices, work and guidance of Eugenia Proaño and Ernesto Muñoz in the classroom were driven by “theories” and “their beliefs” about what would work best for university students to be engaged and motivated in learning a foreign language. It was a time to explore and experiment with more innovative techniques! There was just so much potential! This time of experimentation and exploration that Eugenia Proaño and Ernesto Muñoz did show great potential for the students and teachers. We reflected on our daily teaching practices and re-formed the practice to be more conducive to language. I, Peter Lindo, was learning what was happening in Ecuador and could see the potential that this had for the world. To help bring healing, unity, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and love.

This book provides an up-to-date account of research in Approximation Theory and Complex Analysis, areas which are the subject of recent exciting developments.The level of presentation should be suitable for anyone with a good knowledge of analysis, including scientists with a mathematical background. The volume contains both research papers and surveys, presented by specialists in the field. The areas discussed are: Orthogonal Polynomials (with respect to classical and Sobolev inner products), Approximation in Several Complex Variables, Korovkin-type Theorems, Potential Theory, Ratinal Approximation and Linear Ordinary Differential Equations.