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Purpose Trends Report (March 2024)
No full textIn this report, we want to synthesize the most relevant about corporate purpose published in March 2024. For this aim, we did a content search (using selected keywords) in Scopus and Google Scholar for academic publications; and diffusion magazines and other trusted sites for articles and reports. We selected relevant publications about organizational purpose, purpose alignment, and personal purpose. Also, we include successful cases that show how corporate purpose has been implemented. Bellow, we present statistics about the selected literature
Effect of carbon content and cooling rate on the microstructure and hardness of TiC-Fe-Cr-Mo cermets
No full textTiC-FeCrMo cermets have been obtained in fully dense form by Sinter HIP at 1400 degrees C. Significant microstructural changes have been observed in these materials for relatively small variations in their carbon content after sintering. In the cermets with higher carbon content Cr-rich likely M7C3 carbides are observed to precipitate at the (Ti1-x,Mo-x)(y)C-z - metal interface. In addition, these cermets present a significant amount of retained austenite as part of the metal matrix. No retained austenite and many fewer M7C3 carbides are found in alloys with a reduction of 0.2 wt% in the total C content. Continuous cooling diagrams have been obtained from an austenitizing temperature of 950 degrees C. Hardness increases by 30% with respect to that of as sintered specimens after cooling at 1 degrees C/s confirming that these TiC-FeCrMo cermets are suitable for hardening by air-quenching. At this cooling rate, it is observed that the relatively small carbon changes mentioned before have a significant effect on the bainitic transformation, displacing its onset to higher temperatures as the C content is reduced. Slower cooling rates result in complex microstructures, in which, in addition to martensite, ferritic bainite, M7C3 and M23C6 carbides are also found. Microstructure and hardness of TiC-FeCrMo materials can be modified by the use of standard heat treatments to obtain a wide variety of mechanical properties suitable for certain hot rolling applications
Química Farmacéutica I. Tema 3. Principios de farmacocinética aplicables al diseño de fármacos
No full textTemas de la Asignatura Química Farmacéutica I de 3º de Farmacia
Université de Strasbourg: ajustar cuentas con el pasado. Caso de gestión de crisis en una universidad francesa
No full textEn 2015, el historiador Michel Cymes publicó una investigación sobre las atrocidades de los médicos nazis en los campos de concentración alemanes.
El libro acusaba a la Universidad de Estrasburgo de poseer todavía restos mortales de las víctimas judías del nazismo, procedentes de los experimentos anatómicos del médico nazi August Hirt.
El escándalo que siguió fue mayúsculo. La Universidad se defendió explicando que aquellos restos habían sido enterrados en el cementerio judío de Cronenbourg, donde unos años atrás se
había colocado la estela con los nombres de las 86 víctimas.
Todo lo demás, dijo la universidad, no eran más que “rumores”.
“La posición de la facultad de
medicina era: 'Esa no es nuestra historia'”, afirmó el historiador de la facultad de medicina de la
universidad, Christian Bonah.
La versión oficial decía que, a la llegada de las tropas alemanas,
profesores y estudiantes habían sido evacuados. Nadie había colaborado con ellos. Lo que hicieron, lo hicieron por su cuenta.
Unos meses más tarde, se descubrieron en el Instituto Forense de Estrasburgo muestras hasta
entonces desconocidas del cuerpo de uno de los 86 deportados judíos gaseados en Struthof,
con los que el profesor Hirt, médico de las SS y director del Instituto de Anatomía de la Reichsuniversität, había creado su “colección de esqueletos”
Can digitally transformed work be virtuous?
No full textThis essay inquires whether digitally transformed work can be virtuous and under what conditions. It eschews technological determinism in both utopian and dystopian versions, opting for the premise of free human agency. This work is distinctive in adopting an actor-centric and explicitly ethical analysis based on neo-Aristotelian, Catholic social teaching (CST), and MacIntyrean teachings on the virtues. Beginning with an analysis of digital disruption, it identifies the most salient human advantages vis-à-vis technology in digitally transformed work and provides philosophical anthropological explanations for each. It also looks into external, organizational characteristics on both the macro and the micro levels of digitally transformed work, underscoring their ambivalence (efficiency and profits vs. exclusion and exploitation, flexibility and freedom vs. standardization and dependency) and the need to mitigate their polarizing effects for the sake of shared flourishing. The article presents standards for virtuous work according to neo-Aristotelian, CST, and MacIntyrean frames and applies them to digitally transformed work, giving rise to five fundamental principles. These basic guidelines indicate, on one hand, actions to be avoided and, on the other, actions to be pursued, together with their rationales
New strategies based on liquid phase sintering for manufacturing of diamond impregnated bits
No full textInfiltration is an extensively used technique in the production of Diamond Impregnated Bits (DIBs) commonly used for drilling in both mineral exploration and the Oil&Gas industry. This paper describes research into liquid phase sintering (LPS) as an alternative to commonly used infiltration processes. The great wear resistance and high cutting ability necessary for these tools in turn requires a high diamond concentration and a large volume fraction of wear-resistant components, such as tungsten carbide and/or eutectic tungsten carbide particles. With relatively large particles that do not contribute to densification, the LPS system researched was designed with a relatively large amount of permanent liquid phase sintering, with, rearrangement being selected as the primary densification mechanism owing to the stability of the hard phases. After testing various binder phases and evaluating the influence of the liquid phase volume fraction and presence of some sintering aids, results are promising. Bonds with better sintering behaviour were characterized, while hardness, microstructure, abrasive wear resistance, and interaction with diamonds were studied. The proposed 35NiP25Cu40WC bond processed by LPS attained hardness of 66 HRA and wear coefficient of 20 mm3/MPa, levels similar to those obtained by hot pressed components currently used in the diamond drilling tool industry (19 mm3/MPa)
The recovery of the natural desire for salvation: foundations for a narrative dynamic theodicy model based on the concept of bodily vulnerability
No full textDynamic Theodicy (DT) is a broad concept we bring up to designate some modern Philosophical Theology attempts to reconcile the necessary and perfect existence of God with the contingent characteristics of human life. In this paper we analyze such approaches and discuss how they have become incomprehensible because the metaphysical assumptions implicit in these explanations have lost their intrinsic relation to the natural human desire for salvation. In the first part we show Charles Hartshorne's DT-model, arising from the modal logic of perfection, and the modern rational problems of this position in making infinite-necessary Being (God) and finite-contingent being (human) compatible. We note that at the heart of the contradictions in this DT account is a dialectical mode of thinking that makes it difficult to find a correct solution to this dichotomy, and to assume a human desire that could be considered related to lifelong goals. In the second part, supported by the proposal of Hans Urs von Balthasar's DT, we develop the concepts of bodily vulnerability, corporeal intentionality, and natural desire for salvation, which come from an Aristotelian-Thomistic thought. This theory is established in order to build an argument, following Alasdair MacIntyre¿s ethical framework, on how to make possible the recovery of a metaphysical and anthropological desire that transcends natural aging and goes beyond death. We conclude that both human dependence and the virtues that arise naturally when human beings decide to seek the good of their transcendent condition, make it possible to recover the natural desire for salvation through divine and human love
The association between loneliness and technology-related addictions: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Introduction: Loneliness is defined as an unpleasant emotional response to perceived isolation and it greatly diminishes quality of life. Loneliness may lead individuals to spend more leisure time with technology and increase their risk of addiction. Similarly, when individuals have an addiction problem they may feel more isolated and lonely.
Methods: In the present systematic review and meta-analysis, which was pre-registered in PROSPERO (CRD42023390483), we quantify the degree of association between technology-related addictions and loneliness. We searched on three databases on March 2024 for references that compared the degree of loneliness in a group of individuals with addiction and without addiction. Means and standard deviations of loneliness, or, alternatively, odds ratios, were transformed into Cohen´s d for statistical pooling through a random effects model
Results: After screening 2369 reports, we extracted data from 25 studies. The total number of individuals across studies was 37261. Participants were between 13 and 30 years of age (median 20). Thirteen studies were centred in internet addiction, four research pieces studied gaming and three problematic smartphone use. Coherently, the most frequently used scale to identify addiction was the Internet addiction scale (IAS) (Young, 1998). Loneliness was typically quantified using a variant of the University of California Loneliness Scale (UCLA-LS) (Russell, 1996). The pooled difference between those with and without addiction yielded a standardized effect (Cohen´s d) of 0.52 (95% CI 0.35-0.69). While heterogeneity was high, there was no indication of publication bias/small sample bias. Similar differences were found when limiting to specific groups of addictions. Moreover, meta-regressions did not show an effect of age, sex or scale. Individuals with addiction obtained 48.62 (43.44-53.8) points in the UCLA-LS on average, compared to 42.68 (36.74-48.62) in individuals without addiction (SMD 5.63, 95% CI=2.94-8.31).
Conclusion: Our key analyses indicate that individuals with technology-related addictions had greater feelings of loneliness. The effect could be characterized as moderately sized.
Acknowledgements
Gonzalo Arrondo Arrondo is supported by the Ramón y Cajal grant RYC2020‐030744‐I funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by “ESF Investing in your future”; and the 2022-2023 Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) challenge on "Youth, relationships and psychological well-being" of the University of Navarra.
Ursula Paiva is supported by FUNCIVA, Proeduca and UNIR.
Gemma Mestre-Bach was supported by the 2022–2023 Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) challenge on “Youth, relationships and psychological well-being” of the University of Navarra