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“…The result of this research allows us to relocate the authorship of the conciliar decrees to the Mexican episcopate as well as establish the degree of their originality. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Abbreviations, Figures and Tables Appearing in the Text xix -- List of Abbreviations xix -- List of Figures xx -- List of Tables xx -- Notes on Contributors xxi -- Foreword xxxi -- Chapter 1: The future is upon us: Discipline in early 21st-century schools, with special reference to South Africa 1 Johannes (Hannes) L. van der Walt & Charl C. …”

“…Screen Space Reconfigured is the first edited volume that critically and theoretically examines the many novel renderings of space brought to us by 21st century screens. Exploring key cases such as post-perspectival space, 3D, vertical framing, haptics, and layering, this volume takes stock of emerging forms of screen space and spatialities as they move from the margins to the centre of contemporary media practice. …”

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“…Called "classical problems", it was concerned with the following: (1) Problems on integrability of planar polynomial vector fields. (2) The problem of the center stated by Poincaré for real polynomial differential systems, which asks us to recognize when a planar vector field defined by polynomials of degree at most n possesses a singularity which is a center. (3) Global geometry of specific classes of planar polynomial vector fields. (4) Hilbert's 16th problem. …”

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“…As U.S. military forces appear overcommitted and some ponder a possible return to the draft, the timing is ideal for a review of how the American military transformed itself over the past five decades, from a poorly disciplined force of conscripts and draft-motivated ""volunteers"" to a force of professionals revered throughout the world. …”

“…Nonetheless, it is with the rise of cybernetics, with its digital and virtual modalities of systems, networks, and knowledge, that our human environment emerges as a source of knowledge in itself -- Hephaestus Reloaded / Efesto Reloaded, presented in a bilingual (English/Italian) publication, and whose five authors are from Greece, Italy, and the US, invokes as its first inspiration the myth of Hephaestus who embodied a twofold entity: both disabled and technically capacious. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Edelmann and Pete Clarke CHAPTER 4 Cash Bonds and Futures 64 Amir Sadr CHAPTER 5 Risk in Capital Markets 89 Peter Reynolds and Mike Hepinstall CHAPTER 6 Enablers for Robust Risk Management in Capital Markets 110 Swati Sawjiany CHAPTER 7 Making Markets Work 120 Eric Czervionke PART TWO Capital Markets Products CHAPTER 8 Money Markets 157 Randy Harrison and Paul Mandel CHAPTER 9 Repurchase Agreements 184 Karl Schultz and Jeffrey Bockian CHAPTER 10 U.S. Treasury and Government Agency Securities 205 Lee Griffin and David Isaac CHAPTER 11 Government-Sponsored Enterprises and Federal Agencies 210 David Isaac and Francis C. …”

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