This is a practical introduction to bilingualism answering the questions most frequently asked by parents and teachers on raising and educating bilingual children. Both authors draw on their academic expertise and ample field experience to provide straightforward answers, which contemplate multiple types of bilingual families and diverse societal conditions.

In North America and Europe, cross-border governance arrangements have provided formal and informal frameworks to support cross-border cooperation. Analysing how these frameworks have emerged, the ways in which they have become institutionalized, and the processes by which they change is fundamental. Moreover, these frameworks are increasingly challenged by border securitization, thus limiting or jeopardizing decades of cross-border cooperative governance and coordinated public policies. Agents and Structures in Cross-Border Governance offers a series of case studies that explore these complex dynamics. To understand a range of cross-border governance frameworks, this collection addresses such topics as infrastructure development and management, resource sharing, regional politics, economics, security, human rights, the environment, culture, and community. The book explains how cross-border governance schemes have sought to mitigate some of the negative consequences of border security policies, allowing readers to discern how concrete national power struggles between federal/national and subnational governments unfold in border areas. In a world increasingly impacted by climate change and more recently the COVID-19 pandemic, Agents and Structures in Cross-Border Governance sheds light on the ongoing complexity of cross-border governance and offers lessons to help mitigate these challenges.

This book addresses and explores recent trends in the field of local and urban governance. It focuses on three domains: institutional reforms in local government; inter-municipal cooperation; and citizen participation in local governance. In the last decades, in different regions of the world, there is ample evidence that sub-national government, in particular the field of local governance, is in a permanent state of change and reflux, although with differences that reflect national particularities. Since these institutional changes have an impact in the local policy process, in the delivery of public services, in the local democracy, and in the quality of life, it is mandatory to monitor these continued institutional changes, to learn and develop with these changes, if possible before these experiences are transferred and replicated in other countries. The editor and contributors address issues of interest for a wide audience, comprising of students and researchers in various disciplines, and policy makers at both national and sub-national tiers of government.

Have the countries’ internal boundaries played a role in the response to the Covid-19 epidemic? What does the coronavirus crisis tell us about the sometimes strained relationship between national and regional/federal governments? This collective loock at the short- and medium term impact of the COVID-19 crisis on relations between central and regional governments.

Muchas cosas pueden ir mal en un entorno de trabajo. Cada dia hay oportunidades para cometer errores que resultaran en defectos. Los defectos son despilfarro y, si no se descubren, frustran las espectativas del cliente sobre la calidad. Detras del poka-yoke esta la conviccion de que no es aceptable producir incluso un pequeno numero de articulos defectuosos. Durante mas de 200 visitas a fbricas Japonesas, Productivity ha presenciado el impacto de simples mecanismos poka-yoke instalados por los propios trabajadores para evitar la ocurrencia de defectos. En este libro, 240 ejemplos poka-yoke despertaran su imaginacion para planificar e implantar sistemas de prevencion de errores.Contenido:Errores de proceso Errores de montaje Errores de ensamble Inclusion de items erroneos Errores de insercion Omisiones en montaje Omisiones en proceso Errores de medicion Errores dimensionales Omision de operaciones Errores de operacion Errores de pegado Errores de inspeccion Errores de cableado Errores de pintura Errores de impresion Desalineamientos Errores en preparacion de mquinas Errores de embalaje Desajuste de plantillas y utiles Errores de lavado Problemas miscelaneos