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Throughout comparative administrative law there is a concept that is not unequivocally labelled: public power, administrative power or public function. Nor is its semantic load the same in each legal system. This is why ...

Previous research suggests that the inclusion of motivational strategies in interventions for intimate partner violence (IPV) offenders could increase their effectiveness. This review evaluated the effectiveness of inter...

The detention of migrants who have not committed a crime is one of the most disturbing contemporary practices from the point of view of human rights (Costello 2015). Administrative detention of asylum-seekers poses an ad...

Edited by Gualberto Buela-Casal, this book features a series of interviews with leading psychologists, mostly clinicians, about the major current challenges and perspectives of Clinical Psychology worldwide.Among the int...

Water availability is one of the main limiting factors that control ecosystem functions and productivity in semiarid regions. Vegetation of these regions usually presents a patchy distribution where sparse plant cover is...

This Handbook of Spanish Employment Law covers all the important areas of employment and labour law. It is a useful resource for students (law students and also those ion business and labour relations courses), practitio...

An end-to-end methodology based on deep learning for the detection and localization of microcalcifications in digital mammograms introduces a novel methodology designed for the preprocessing and localization of clusters ...

This work is based on research and advocacy with the people of two multiethnic indigenous resguardos located at the outskirts of the Colombian towns of Leticia and Puerto Nariño. Through an analysis of the relationship ...

In arid and semiarid areas, the interplant spaces are usually covered by physical and biological soil crusts. These crusts, though representing an almost negligible portion of the soil profile, have a number of crucial r...

En el presente trabajo se aborda con carácter general la protección al inversor en el mercado de capitales desde el prisma de la regulación comunitaria y estadounidense y, de manera especial en el programa de notas a ...

In this book, we address landscape architecture, from composition and construction, from the visual and the tectonic, from form and matter. With this, it is intended to configure a basic manual for the student who delves...

This book shows the matter and energy balance application in biological and biotechnological systems, including multimedia tools to improve the understanding. The content is structured in three chapters: First chapter pr...

The aim of this work is twofold. On the one hand, it aims to pay tribute to the work of the General Drafting Commission that was able to outline a valuable and avant-garde proposal for modernising the Spanish Civil Code....

Current knowledge of the nervous system, particularly the brain, is the result of technological advances and the collective effort of many scientists. However, it was Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) who played a cr...

Bioenergy has emerged as a potentially sustainable alternative to the use of fossil fuels for transport and industrial uses. Developing nations, such as Colombia, can seize the advantages of modernizing rural areas by us...

The Global Security Strategy launched in June 2016 by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security, Federica Mogherini, is key to addressing global pressures in a world undergoing continuous tran...

The Educational Revolution: New Perspectives and Innovative Practices offers a comprehensive and multidimensional exploration of the innovations that are reshaping the current educational landscape. Coordinated and direc...

This book is a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of laws and institutions in Spain from the reign of the Catholic Monarchs to the dawn of the twentieth century, delving into the rich history of a country that ha...

This book is intended as a major support for the DC Electric Circuits course from the Electrical Engineering program and the Automation Engineering program at Universidad de La Salle. Its main contribution is to provide ...

What is the predictive accuracy and effectiveness of algorithms designed for crime prevention purposes? Are they sufficiently transparent? Are there any inherent biases? This report presents an analysis of three algorith...

Este libro es el recuento de una nueva experiencia en la Maestría en Diseño de la Universidad de los Andes, en la que estudiantes y profesores visitaron San Andrés para conectar el análisis sistémico con la realidad...

Given the effectiveness shown for the creation of collaborative environments of social network sites and the scarcity of work on their use by researchers, the purpose of this article is the analysis of the use of communi...

This paper aims to provide a practical, summarized, and clear guide of steps to carry out a systematic review and is aimed at researchers in the field of Health Sciences. The review process runs from the initial question...

The evolution of the use of electronic scientific journals in the 2007-2018 period by the academic communities of the public universities of Castilla and Leon, members of the Bucle consortium, is studied. Downloads of ar...