This book is aimed at covering the bases on random variables, random vectors and stochastic processes, necessary to be able to address the study of stochastic models based mainly on random and stochastic differential equations. The approach of the text is fundamentally practical. The theoretical results, including demonstrations of a more constructive nature, are combined with numerous examples and exercises chosen with the aim of instructing in fundamental ideas and interpretations. At the end of each chapter two appendices have been included. The first appendix contains a collection of carefully chosen problems for the reader to work on the main …

En este GLOSARIO destacados juristas de las Universidades más antiguas de Europa –como Bolonia, Oxford, Salamanca, Padua, París, Pisa y Heidelberg– analizan la actualidad del Derecho privado europeo a partir de una cuidada selección de términos jurídicos y principios generales claves, expresados en latín y producidos por el Derecho romano. No se trata de resucitar sin más la vieja experiencia jurídica; se trata de explicar y dar a valer un vocabulario jurídico universalmente reconocido, además de precisar el significado de las palabras como instrumentos de trabajo del ars boni et aequi. Son palabras básicas, determinantes del lenguaje jurídico que hoy …

Esta tesis doctoral versa sobre el estudio de la construcción de la atribución del significado en la diseminación de la ciencia en la prensa británica a través del análisis de los recursos utilizados por el periodista para integrar en su narración de los hechos científicos lo que otras fuentes externas han dicho. El fenómeno de la atribución en el discurso académico, científico y de los medios de comunicación se ha descrito previamente desde una perspectiva interpersonal mediante el análisis de la evaluación y de la teoría de la valoración (‘appraisal’). Además, otras investigaciones previas se han centrado también en el …

Everyone is confused at the magnificence and madness of human behaviour, yet the mental profession fails to help us understand it. We know about body organs and limbs, but little about our minds, mental illness and human behaviour. The Origins of Human Behaviour is written in plain English to help us understand how we evolve into the person we become. It sets out to find and explain the major influences, and demonstrates that the origins of human behaviour contain some genuine surprises. Just what are the origins of our myriad personal qualities? Author Bernard Rourke never accepted that living in …

Luisa Aurora Viviana Rodal, after graduating in Letters and Philosophy (UBA), realized during ten years different academic labors at various universities. During the years 1982 and 1983 she pursued postgraduate studies and researches  at the Department of Religion, Syracuse University,  New York, USA. Independently, she continued her studies in the fields of Religion and Ethics. This essay, meditated during a long period of time, includes themes that concern her: iconoclasm as the limit of the image and symbol and  time as possibility of freedom and creation. She dedicates herself also to Art, especially to play violin.

This book treats many complex topics such as the relationship between brain and consciousness, the 'Chinese Room' argument, and Searle's aesthetic and political ideas.
This is NOT the typical interview book, filled with self-indulgence and old-time stories. Mr. Faigenbaum uses his deep knowledge of Searle's developments to discuss the central aspects of his work, shedding light on the key role Searle played in 20th century philosophy. Thorough but also entertaining, a book that should be read by anyone who wants to understand the underlying tension in current philosophical ideas. The book also includes many revealing stories and facts about Searle's years …

Esta tesis doctoral versa sobre los Derechos Humanos de Tercera Generación, en especial referencia al Derecho al Desarrollo. Tratase de un abordaje propositiva con respecto a la contribución del Poder Judicial para el desarrollo socio-económico, a partir de una perspectiva interdisciplinario entre el neoinstitucionalismo económico y algunas divisiones del Derecho, especialmente el Internacional Público, Constitucional y Procesal Civil, con algunas incursiones en la Filosofía del Derecho.

Algunas ideas claves son presentadas con resalto de la importancia y valorización de los Derechos Humanos, como la de considerar que la existencia digna del hombre en la faz de la tierra está inexorablemente condicionada …