After abandoning his traditional life in a deteriorating Porto Alegre, the narrator of*Hugs and Cuddles*zealously recommits himself to a man he calls “the engineer”, a childhood friend with whom he shared a pivotal sexual encounter. Many years have passed since their prepubescent wrestling; everywhere around them is a nation in decline. Representatives of the Brazilian state—everyone from government officials to the impoverished—endlessly harass passers-by...

Healthy Living Made Simple" is more than just a book title—it's a promise. In the following pages, we'll embark on a journey that demystifies the often confusing world of health and wellness, breaking it down into manageable, easy-to-implement strategies that fit seamlessly into your daily life. This book is designed to be your compass in navigating the vast sea of health information, guiding you towards a balanced, fulfilling lifestyle that nourishes both body and mind.

The 12-Week Reset After 30Lose Fat, Regain Energy, and Take Control of Your Life Without Extreme Diets or WorkoutsBy Gilberto GamaAre you over 30 and feeling more tired, heavier, or unfocused than you should?You're not broken — your old strategies stopped working.The 12-Week Reset After 30 is a simple, realistic system designed for real life. No extreme diets. No brutal workouts. No guilt. Just a clear plan to rebuild your body, rest...

Games. Friendship. Feelings… and an important lesson!Lucy has received a beautiful gift, a shy and nice flower that she has named Flowy. But her arrival brings an important responsibility: Lucy will have to look after Flowy! Will she be able to do it? Find out in this new story from the children´s book series Lucy´s World!Flowy aims to show the values of friendship and responsibility through a story that seeks to encourage the creativity and imagin...

This book constitutes the proceedings of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the MICAI 2025 International Workshops on Advances in Computational Intelligence, MICAI 2025, held in Guanajuato, Mexico, during November 3–7, 2025.The 59 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The first part contains 33 papers from the 18th workshop of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2025) andthe first workshop on Evolu...

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the MICAI 2024 International Workshops on Advances in Computational Intelligence, MICAI 2024, held in Tonantzintla, Mexico, during October 21–25, 2024.The 38 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions.The papers presented in this volume stem from the following workshops:– 17th Workshop of Hybrid Intellige...

This book lays out a foundation and taxonomy for Behavioral Decision Analysis, featuring representative work across various domains. Traditional research in the domain of Decision Analysis has focused on the design and application of logically consistent tools to support decision makers during the process of structuring problem complexity, modeling uncertainty, generating predictions, eliciting preferences, and, ultimately, making better decisions. Two commonly held assumptions ar...

The PRIME50 Workout Templates are designed specifically for men over 50 who want structure, clarity, and motivation in every training session.This collection includes professionally formatted workout pages, featuring:Pre-built exercise templatesNumbered set columnsDedicated notes lines for tracking progressFill-in pages for custom routinesStrength, mobility, and conditioning layoutsWhether you're rebuilding your s...

Reliability Analysis and Asset Management of Engineering Systems explains methods that can be used to evaluate reliability and availability of complex systems, including simulation-based methods. The increasing digitization of mechanical processes driven by Industry 4.0 increases the interaction between machines and monitoring and control systems, leading to increases in system complexity. For those systems the reliability and availability analyses are increasingly challenging, as the inte...

A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film’s unique ability to move usCinema is commonly hailed as “the universal language,” but how does it communicate so effortlessly across cultural and linguistic borders? In The Eloquent Screen, influential film critic Gilberto Perez makes a capstone statement on the powerful ways in which film acts on our minds and senses.Drawing on a lifetime’s worth of viewing and re-vi...

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the MICAI 2024 International Workshops on Advances in Computational Intelligence, MICAI 2024, held in Tonantzintla, Mexico, during October 21–25, 2024.The 38 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions.The papers presented in this volume stem from the following workshops:– 17th Workshop of Hybrid Intellige...

The two-volume set, LNAI 16221 and 16222, constitutes the proceedings of the 4th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2025, held in Guanajuato, Mexico, November 3, 2025The 65 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 119 submissions. The papers presented in these two volumes are organized in the following topical sections:Part I - Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing and Neural Networks.