Böcker av Pedro Ponce

Uno de los primeros ejemplos de religiosos que buscaban subrayar el hecho en que los indios practicaban todavía la idolatría, en un momento en el que se consideraba que todos eran ya católicos fue Pedro Ponce con su obra Breve relación de los dioses y ritos de la gentilidad. En ella se advierte sobre aspectos cotidianos de la los indios de Zumpango en el arzobispado de México.La redacción de dicha obra pudo ser entre 1575 y 1626 que son los años en los que Ponce era clero secular de ese lugar. Es un texto breve que entre otras cosas habla de los médicos de los indios, de los cirujanos que curan y para hacerlo se valen de invocaciones, de los que ahuyentan el mal tiempo y algunos temas más.Esta Breve relación de los dioses y ritos de la gentilidad sorprende por su imparcialidad y precisión. A diferencia de otras crónicas, aquí las costumbres indias son descritas por Pedro Ponce en su contexto sin comparaciones despectivas, ni una perspectiva cristiana.

This book illustrates how the advanced technology developed for smart cities requires increasing interaction with citizens to motivate and incentive them. Megacities' needs have been encouraging for the creation of smart cities in which the needs of inhabitants are collected using virtualization and digitalization systems. On the other hand, machine learning algorithms have been implemented to provide better solutions for diverse areas in smart cities, such as transportation and health. Besides, conventional electric grids have transformed into smart grids, improving energy quality. Gamification, serious games, machine learning, dynamic interfaces, and social networks are some elements integrated holistically to provide novel solutions to design and develop smart cities. Also, this book presents in a friendly way the concept of social devices that are incorporated into smart homes and buildings. This book is used to understand and design smart cities where citizens are strongly interconnected so the demand response time can be reduced.

This book has a complete set of applications of artificial neural networks that allow the reader to gain experience about the new systems for implementing and developing artificial intelligence (AI) methods, which can run in several digital systems. On the other hand, the book shows the newest algorithms of artificial intelligence that provide a wide spectrum of research areas in which AI can be deployed.There are a lot of books that address AI applications. However, this book shows the newest applications reached according with the technological changes that are presented nowadays. Those changes drastically appear in digital systems or other parallel areas that allow to improve the performance of AI algorithms. Hence, sometimes, the AI algorithms have to be redesigned in order to run in microcontrollers or FPGAs. The topics covered generate a structured book, so it could be used as a textbook, but it is designed to be accessible to a wide audience interested in AI.

-Will be promoted by Indiana Review -Explores universal human need to create narrative out of disparate events -Perfect for readers who like literary realism or speculative fiction