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Written by an expert team of scholars this first volume examines war and resistance, different engines of economic performance and social and geographical mobility in the Mediterranean, slavery and social control, lived experience and the imperial discourses of race and identity, and the geographical and ecological settings in which the cultural histories of the Roman world played out. Together these chapters offer a bold new account of the Roman Empire, juxtaposing key topics that are not always considered together under the rubric of "culture."A Cultural History of Western Empires in Antiquity examines the cultural history of ancient Mediterranean empires, and focuses on the Roman Empire; the prototypical empire in western history and imagination. A wide-ranging introduction examines the nexus of state-formation and culture in the ancient Mediterranean world, from the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia to the fall of the Roman Empire in late antiquity.Richly-illustrated with images of monuments, statues, sculptures, mosaics, paintings, coins, and other colorful artefacts of ancient material culture, this volume reveals how the deep structures of imperial power and authority shaped everything from the labour and movements of the Roman Empire's mostly anonymous subjects to their sexualities and consciousness

"This book examines the figure of the Roman emperor as a unifying symbol for the Western Empire. It documents an extensive correspondence between the ideals cited in honorific inscriptions for the emperor erected across the Western Empire and those advertised on imperial coins minted at Rome. This reveals that the dissemination of specific imperial ideals was more pervasive than previously thought, and indicates a high degree of ideological unification amongst the aristocracies of the Western provinces. The widespread circulation of a particular set of imperial ideals, and the particular form of ideological unification that this brought about, not only reinforced the power of the Roman imperial state, but also increased the authority of local aristocrats, thereby facilitating a general convergence of social power that defined the High Roman Empire"--

Beschleunigung bei gleichzeitig gesteigerter Diversifikation sind we­sent­liche Kennzeichen der Globalisierung. Unter deren Folgebedingungen müs­sen Akteure aus verschiedensten Kulturen und Ländern ihre beruflichen Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten einbringen. Die dabei aktualisierte kulturelle Diversität enthält einerseits das Potential zur Optimierung der Leistung in qualitativer und quantitativer Hinsicht. Sie ist andererseits mit Risiken verbunden, die bis hin zum möglichen Scheitern der Projekte reichen. Die interkulturellen Unterschiede zwischen Mitarbeitern mit verschiedenen nationalkulturellen Hintergründen in länderübergreifenden Unternehmen und zwischen Gruppen mit abweichenden Diversity-Merkmalen überhaupt führen nicht selten immer wieder zu Missverständnissen, Friktionen oder gar zu größeren Konflikten. Interkulturelles Vertrauen kann einen wichtigen Beitrag zur ökonomischen Produktivität der interkulturellen Unternehmung leisten, da es ein bes­se­res Management von kultureller Diversität erlaubt. Es eröffnet Hand­lungs­spielräume bei gleichzeitiger Minimierung von Transaktionskosten und wirkt sowohl nach innen – mit Mitarbeitern, Teammitgliedern – als auch nach außen – mit Kunden und Netzwerkpartnern. In diesem Buch wird ein Konzept des interkulturellen Vertrauens vor­ge­schla­gen, wodurch die Akteure, trotz mangelnder Vertrautheit mit­ein­an­der, den Weg zur notwendigen internen Garantien und zum Ver­trau­ens­vorschuss finden. Das hier präsentierte Erklärungsmodell bietet einen theoretischen Rahmen für die Forschung und ein Analyseinstrument für die Praxis des interkulturellen Vertrauens in und zwischen Unternehmen auf dem Weg zu einer höheren Wettbewerbsfähigkeit im Kontext der Globalisierung.

This book summarizes a set of lectures given at U.C. Berkeley in the Fall of 2001, highlighting the connection between traffic flow, queuing systems and supply chains. The book unveils the root causes of the "bullwhip" effect; i.e., where the production of raw materials in a supply chain is seen to be more volatile than that of intermediate goods, and even more so than the final customer demand. It also shows that this indesirable effect arises if suppliers act in a certain non-cooperative way, even if they have perfect information about the future. Their actions, just as importantly as what they know, determine the stability of a supply chain. The book then describes control methods for eliminating all instabilities without increasing supplier costs, and presents approximate cost formulas. It also shows that for every supply chain, there is a dual queuing system with identical behavior, and that queuing systems can be similary controled

En este artículo se muestra una panorámica actualizada de los avances, las posibilidades y el estado de la cuestión de la inteligencia artificial y algunas tecnologías relacionadas. El artículo tendrá la siguiente estructura:

Introducción y panorámica general de la Inteligencia Artificial
Ciencia de datos


Comprensión del lenguaje


Vehículos autónomos
Edge computing
Computación Cuántica


Desafíos en el horizonte


La Inteligencia Artificial se podría definir como un conjunto de algoritmos que establecen una serie de pasos a seguir por un agente artificial para realizar un amplísimo rango de tareas. Estas "series de pasos" no se siguen de forma lineal sino condicional. El aprendizaje profundo se define como la capacidad de un ente artificial de aprender autónomamente. Se definen redes neuronales que imitan la estructura de nuestro cerebro a fin de albergar un gran conjunto de algoritmos para la toma de decisiones complejas.

Under persecution by the dictatorship, the resistance of independent journalism keeps alive the flame of freedom of the press as a reserve of democracy. The purpose of these lines is to tell how journalism is done in Nicaragua under the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, and the challenges faced by journalists. A decade before the emergence of Donald Trump in the United States and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Daniel Ortega defined the independent press as "the enemy" that must be crushed, and long before the era of fake news, he labeled journalists as "children of Goebbels", unleashing virulent lynching campaigns in the official media in response to allegations of corruption and abuses of power by his government. His wife, the all-powerful Rosario Murillo, spokesperson of the regime, invented the concept of "uncontaminated information", to refer to the official information in "pure state" that would reach his supporters without passing through the filter of uncomfortable questions, the informative contrast, and the counter-power of the independent press. ; Bajo persecución de la dictadura, la resistencia del periodismo independiente mantiene viva la llama la libertad de prensa como reserva de la democracia. El propósito de estas líneas es relatar cómo se hace periodismo en Nicaragua bajo la dictadura de Daniel Ortega y cuáles son los retos que enfrentamos los periodistas. Una década antes de la aparición de Donald Trump en Estados Unidos y Jair Bolsonaro en Brasil, Daniel Ortega definió a la prensa independiente como "el enemigo" que debe ser aplastado, y mucho antes de la era de las fake news calificó a los periodistas como "hijos de Goebbels", desatando virulentas campañas de linchamiento en los medios oficiales como respuesta a las denuncias de corrupción y abusos de poder de su Gobierno. Su esposa, la todopoderosa Rosario Murillo, vocera del régimen, inventó el concepto de la "información incontaminada", para referirse a la información oficial en "estado puro" que llegaría hasta sus partidarios sin pasar por el filtro de las preguntas incómodas, el contraste informativo, y el contrapoder de la presa independiente.