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The exhaustion of neoliberal globalization is marked by three great tendencies or inflections: the first is the scornful failure of the South-American attempt to construct a neo-developmentalist exit; the second is the increasingly unavoidable Chinese-effect macro and micro dynamics within globalization; the third is the combination of austerity policies and monetary emissions (Quantitative Easing) that characterize, for instance, the financial conduct of the Central European Bank. The dramatic failure to renew traditional state interventionism in the sphere of Pink Tide in Latin American politics—in particular with the violent recession of the biggest economy on the Latin American continent, Brazil—shows and confirms that the escape from neoliberal regulation does not pass through the return of the traditional role of the state. At the same time, the Chinese economy came to play a double role. On one hand, it appears to represent the great and irreversible novelty of neoliberal globalization, particularly when our point of perspective is South America. While almost nothing remains of the legacy of the center-left-leaning regimes, the last South American decade appears to have genuinely been a Chinese decade. The Chinese advance is seen, especially by voices of the critical globalization studies, as a new “outside” of Empire, as something that stands for an alternative path, even if it is nothing more than an “old new” outside. Meanwhile, the role played by the financial sector continues to be regarded per se as the fundamental problem of contemporary capitalism. For some, this is a case of a deviation from an otherwise “good capitalism, the misleading result of a fictitious and unreal sphere (as opposed to the sphere of material economy, of good old bosses and hard workers), while for others, it is a case of one of the moral characteristics of Western civilization: infinite debt, and capitalism happens to be its modern drift.

This Carnet de Voyage, is part of the itinerary along the path of the ancient Roman road Amerina in the upper Viterbo area.Vasanello is a village built around the Orsini Castle; of Etruscan origin, it was probably the Castrum Amerinum, station of the Roman via Amerina.There are interesting churches and a Museum of Ceramics, containing ancient artifacts and works of modern artistic pottery of which Vasanello is famousThe Travel Artist's Notebooks in Italy, narrate with words and images - photographs, watercolors, drawings in colored pencil -, the lesser Italy with a capital M, a large diffused emotional garden.They are visual testimonial stories accompanied by words that bring to life emotions, notes, reflections, thoughts, considerations. Finally, a space is dedicated to useful information to the traveler who wants to retrace the itinerary and reach the treated places.

This Carnet de Voyage, is part of the itinerary along the path of the ancient Roman road Amerina in the upper Viterbo area.Fabrica di Roma, m 296 (ab 7.005), is an agricultural center with industrial activities (ceramics), located on the extreme eastern slopes of Cimini.It is believed to have been built by the refugees of Falerii Novii.Remembered in 1093, it became a castle in the thirteenth century; in 1539 it passed to Pier Luigi Farnese.The Travel Artist's Notebooks in Italy, narrate with words and images - photographs, watercolors, drawings in colored pencil -, the lesser Italy with a capital M, a large diffused emotional garden.They are visual testimonial stories accompanied by words that bring to life emotions, notes, reflections, thoughts, considerations. Finally, a space is dedicated to useful information to the traveler who wants to retrace the itinerary and reach the treated places.

The idea behind this Carnet de Voyage is the itinerary along the route of the ancient Roman road Amerina in the Etruscan upper part of Lazio.Gallese is a village built on a tufa cliff with picturesque houses supported by walls.Etruscan Center, as evidenced by the findings of tombs and drainage works, is not mentioned in Roman times.There is the interesting church dedicated to San Famiano, the protector of Gallese, which fills the story of Gallese with his prodigies.The Travel Artist's notebooks in Italy, are Carnet de Voyage that narrate with words and images - photographs, watercolors, drawings in colored pencil -, the lesser Italy with the capital M, large diffused emotional garden.They are not illustrated books, but visual testimonies accompanied by stories that bring to life emotions, notes, reflections,thoughts, considerations. Finally, a space is dedicated to useful information for the traveler who wantsretrace the itinerary and reach the treated places.

Una de les característiques mes importants de les plataformes de comunicacions per satèl.lit és la seva capacitat de retransmetre senyals rebuts a un gran número de terminals. Això es fonamental en contextes com la difusió a terminals mòbils o la comunicació entre màquines. Al mateix temps, la disponibilitat d'un canal de retorn permet la creació de sistemes de comunicacions per satèl.lit interactius que, en principi, poden arribar a qualsevol punt del planeta. Els satèl.lits Geoestacionaris son particularment adequats per a complir amb aquesta tasca. Aquest tipus de satèl.lits manté una posició fixa respecte a la Terra, estalviant als terminals terrestres la necessitat de seguir el seu moviment en el cel. Per altra banda, la gran distància que separa la Terra dels satèl.lits Geoestacionaris introdueix grans retrassos en les comunicacions que, afegit al gran número de terminals en servei, limita l'ús de tècniques de retransmissió basades en acknowledgments en cas de pèrdua de paquets. Per tal de sol.lucionar el problema de la pèrdua de paquets, les tècniques més utilitzades son el desplegament de repetidors terrestres, anomenats gap fillers, l'ús de codis de protecció a nivell de paquet i mecanismes proactius de resolució de col.lisions en el canal de retorn. En aquesta tesi s'analitzen i s'estudien sol.lucions a problemes en la comunicació per satèl.lit tant en el canal de baixada com el de pujada. En concret, es consideren tres escenaris diferents. El primer escenari es la transmissió a grans poblacions de terminals mòbils en enorns urbans, que es veuen particularment afectats per la pèrdua de paquets degut a l'obstrucció, per part dels edificis, de la línia de visió amb el satèl.lit. La sol.lució que considerem consisteix en la utilització de la cooperació entre terminals. Una vegada obtinguda una mesura del guany que es pot assolir mitjançant cooperació en un model bàsic de xarxa, a través del teorema Max-flow Min-cut, proposem un esquema de cooperació compatible amb estàndards de comunicació existents. El segon escenari que considerem es la transmissió de vídeo, un tipus de tràfic particularment sensible a la pèrdua de paquets i retards endògens als sistemes de comunicació per satèl.lit. Considerem els casos de transmissió en temps real i en diferit, des de la perspectiva de teoria de la informació, i estudiem diferents tècniques de codificació analítica i numèrica. Un dels resultats principals obtinguts es l'extensió del límit assolible de la capacitat ergòdica del canal en cas que el transmissor rebi les dades de manera gradual, enlloc de rebre-les totes a l'inici de la transmissió. El tercer escenari que considerem es l'accés aleatori al satèl.lit. Desenvolupem un esquema de recuperació dels paquets perduts basat en la codificació de xarxa a nivell físic i en extensions a camps de Galois, amb resultats molt prometedors en termes de rendiment. També estudiem aspectes relacionats amb la implementació pràctica d'aquest esquema.

Modern day wireless communication systems rely heavily on the random access schemes that were originally developed in the 1970s. The pioneering Aloha protocol has become a key component of many communications standards, ranging from satellite networks to ad hoc and cellular scenarios. Recent developments, however, have seen a fundamental leap forward based on using the principles of successive interference cancellation. The modern random access protocols using these new techniques have opened up a wealth of new applications. This tutorial style monograph explores the main ideas and design principles that are behind some of these novel schemes. It introduces the reader to the analytical tools used to model such performance. Focussing on slotted solutions it shows how Aloha can be combined with successive interference cancellation and optimized using the theory of codes on graphs. These techniques are illustrated in applications using physical layer network coding to resolve collisions among users and receiver diversity. It concludes by introducing the reader to the recently asynchronous (or unslotted) schemes. Modern Random Access Protocols is a comprehensive and erudite introduction to a set of techniques that will form part of many future modern communication or networked system.

"Em O Making da Metrópole, Barbara Szaniecki e Giuseppe Cocco nos conduzem num fluxo vertiginoso de informações, leituras, insights e desconstruções de grande relevância, urgência e atualidade. Revisitam literatura referencial para o campo de estudos urbanos contemporâneo, trazendo atualizações, confrontações e aberturas de terrenos de exploração promissores para todos os que se interessam pela perigosa e apaixonante aventura das grandes aglomerações urbanas. Nesta leitura, nos sentimos em um trem de alta velocidade, olhando através das janelas as paisagens do mundo urbano, como em flashes, sem nos permitir parar neste ou naquele ponto, mas nos forçando a ir mais adiante, mais além na reflexão, na articulação de ideias, na complexidade das questões ao reinscrever as dinâmicas urbanas brasileiras na vanguarda das transformações urbanas mundiais."

Este livro trata das novas dinâmicas e espaços constituintes que se potencializam nas redes digitais de informação e comunicação, em meio à crise do capitalismo cognitivo.Aborda os desafios à construção de uma democracia em rede no contexto de crise global os conflitos e novas dinâmicas metropolitanas nesse cenário as lutas pela afirmação de uma nova agenda de direitos e o papel da cultura viva e do trabalho vivo na inovação social e colaborativa versus os novos cercamentos e formas de apropriação do que é coletivamente produzido.

Existe uma estranha coincidência em muitas das críticas ao capitalismo, à esquerda e à direita. Com contornos antifinanceiros discretamente antissemíticos, neopopulistas de um lado e do outro se reúnem para denunciar os efeitos desumanizadores do dinheiro. O dinheiro seria o fruto de uma grande “separação” que neutraliza o que há de vital e criativo no humano, em prol dos aspectos quantificadores, abstratos e instrumentais do homem econômico. A teoria da alienação de Karl Marx está no cerne dessa crítica moral do dinheiro como "o proxeneta universal dos homens e dos povos". A sociedade capitalista não passaria de um enorme prostíbulo em que, através da relação monetária do salário, o corpo individual e coletivo dos trabalhadores é negociado e vendido. Pois bem. Bruno Cava e Giuseppe Cocco vão na contramão dessas abordagens do dinheiro. Com a virada afetiva, cognitiva, midiática do capitalismo, o dinheiro não é mais mediação alienadora das relações entre seres humanos. Os corpos – feixes de afetos, cuidado, cognição – é que se tornam imediatamente dinheiro, um dinheiro vivo, novo regime de funcionamento do fenômeno monetário. O valor, agora, é diretamente desejo e consumo, recriação.