11 research outputs found
Fuentes de financiamiento y sostenibilidad del Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social (IESS), Quito. 2021
No full textEl objetivo general de la investigación fue demostrar que las fuentes de
financiamiento tienen relación significativa sobre la sostenibilidad en el Instituto
Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social (IESS), durante el período 2021. De tipo de
investigación aplicada, con el enfoque cuantitativo, diseño no experimental con corte
transversal y alcance correlacional. La muestra poblacional estuvo conformada por
192 afiliados-empleados, y 6 servidores públicos, para la realización del estudio,
administradores financieros que laboran en el IESS, la técnica empleada fue la
encuesta, y el instrumento fue el cuestionario bajo la escala de Likert de cinco
niveles, cuyas preguntas fueron categorizadas según las dimensiones por cada
variable. Para confiabilidad se calculó el Alfa de Cronbach para la variable fuentes de
financiamiento, cuyo resultado fue 0.94 y para la variable sostenibilidad sostenibilidad
el 1.04. Concluyo que si existe relación significativa entre las fuentes de
financiamiento y la sostenibilidad, con un coeficiente de correlación de Spearman de
1, y valores de significación de 0.000 menor al nivel estadístico α =0.01 bilateral,
según el informe del SPSS
Detective fiction in Cuban society and culture.
No full textPhDThe object of this thesis is to reach towards an understanding of Cuban society through a
study of its detective fiction and more particularly contemporary Cuban society through
the novels of the author and critic, Leonardo Padura Fuentes.
The method has been to trace the development of Cuban detective writing and to
read Padura Fuentes in the light of the work of twentieth century Western European
literary critics and philosophers including Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci, Terry
Eagleton, Roland Barthes, Jean Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Jean François Lyotard and
Jean Baudrillard in order to gain a better understanding of the social and historical
context from which this genre emerged.
By concentrating on the literary texts, I have explored readings which lead out into
an analysis of the broader philosophical, political and historical issues raised by the
Cuban revolution. Since it deals primarily with modes of deviance and notions of legality
and justice within the context of the modern state, detective fiction is particularly well
suited to this type of investigation. The intention is to show how this is as valid in the
Cuban context as it is in advanced capitalist societies where such research has already
been carried out with some success.
The thesis comprises an introduction, ten chapters and a conclusion. The chapters
are divided into three sections. Chapters 1 to 3 attempt a broad theoretical, historical and
socio-political analysis of the cultural reality within which the Cuban revolutionary
detective genre emerged. Chapters 4 to 6 analyse the Cuban detective narrative from its
inception in the early part of the twentieth century until the emergence of Leonardo
Padura Fuentes as the foremost exponent of the genre in Cuba after 1991. Chapters 7-
10 concentrate upon the work of Leonardo Padura Fuentes, offering a reading of his
detective tetralogy informed by the preceding discussion.
The contribution made by the thesis to knowledge of the subject is to build upon the
work of Seymour Menton and Amelia S. Simpson on the development of the Cuban
detective novel and to provide analyses of the pre-Revolutionary Cuban detective
narrative and the work of Leonardo Padura Fuentes for the first time in the English
language. The thesis concludes that the study of this popular genre in Cuba is of crucial
importance to the scholar who wishes to reach as full an understanding of the social
dynamics within that society as possible. In particular, it proves that Cuban detective
fiction provides a useful barometer of social change which records the shifts in the Cuban
Zeitgeist that have taken place over the past century
Political Discourse and Neoliberal Reform in Mexico 1988-1994.
No full textPhDThis thesis examines the impact of economic liberalism on the dominant source of
legitimation in Mexico - nationalism - during the presidency of Carlos Salinas de
Gortari (1988-94). It asks whether national ideology remained of value as a
legitimising force given the ways in which neoliberalism challenged its social rationale
and looks at the search for a new basis of consensus. The thesis argues that salinismo
continued to find nationalism valuable to maintaining consensus by providing a
formula which could mediate rival individual and social claims. It analyses
nationalism through the content attributed to the individual and the social in political
discourse of the period.
Chapter 1 argues that a relationship has existed between political economy and
national ideology since Mexico's independence. This has been determined by elites
seeking to establish a state sufficiently stable to enable economic development. In the
20th century, conceptions of nationality provided criteria for "nation-building", the
creation of an integrated citizenry free of divisions which threatened stability. Chapter
2 argues that Salinas continued to find nationalism of legitimising value to his own
state reforms, but adapted it to neoliberal priorities.
Chapters 3 and 4 focus on how Salinas dealt in two instances - landholding and
free trade - with conflicts generated by rival conceptions within nationalism and
neoliberalism of the individual and sovereignty. Chapter 5 examines how intellectuals
reassessed nationalist ideology, and how the new models of community they imagined
reflected the search for a legitimising formula functional to the new political economy.
Chapters 6 and 7 argue that opposition parties on Left and Right also sought such a
formula and assessedth e need to mediate individual and social claims.
The thesis contributes to an understanding of the role nationalism has played in
Mexico's capitalist development, shedding light upon its fate within accelerated
modernisation
Plan de manejo ambiental para mitigar los impactos generados por explotacion minera en el municipio de Nechí en el Bajo Cauca - Región de La Mojana
No full textTrabajo de InvestigaciónEsta investigación propone un Plan de Manejo Ambiental enfocado a la explotación minera, especialmente dirigido al municipio de Nechí – Antioquia (Colombia), lo anterior debido a los problemas y fuertes impactos ambientales y sociales, que se han visto con el pasar del tiempo debido al mal manejo de los procesos necesarios para tal fin.PregradoIngeniero CivilINTRODUCCIÓN
1. ANTECEDENTES
2. PLANTEAMIENTO Y FORMULACION DEL PROBLEMA
3. OBJETIVOS
4. MARCO DE REFERECIA TEORICO
5. MARCO DE REFERECIA CONCEPTUAL
6. CARACTERIZACION DEL TERRITORIO
7. ESTUDIO DE IMPACTO AMBIENTAL E IDENTIFICACION DE PROBLEMAS GENERADOS POR LA EXPLOTACION MINERA
8. DISEÑO PLAN DE MANEJO AMBIENTAL 9. CONCLUSIONES Y RECOMENDACIONES
10. BIBLIOGRAFI
Childhood in the works of Silvina Ocampo and Alejandra Pizarnik
No full textThis thesis
explores childhood as
theme
and perspective
in
the Argentine
cuentista and
poet
Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993)
and traces this thematic
and vital
link to the
Argentine
poet
Alejandra Pizamik (1936-1972). The
study
looks
at childhood not only
in
relation to their literary texts but
also
in the
writers' construction of self-identity
within
their
socio-literary context, and at
the
role played
by
visual art
in their
aesthetic.
Chapter 1
contrasts Silvina
with
her
elder sister
Victoria Ocampo through their
differing literary
appropriation of a shared childhood. It distinguishes Ocampo from
Adolfo Bioy Casares and
Jorge Luis Borges in terms of
her fictional logic
and
her
treatment of games, drawing comparisons instead with Julio Cortdzar.
Chapter 2
undertakes close reading of various Ocampo texts, including
some
for
children,
in
order to explore
her
vision of childhood through nostalgia, adult-child
power relationships, aging and rejuvenation, and moments of
initiation or
imitation.
Chapter 3
turns to Pizarnik
and the myth of the child-poet.
It
analyses
her
child
personae through Andre Breton's Surrealism, Jean Cocteau
and
Octavio Paz, through
her borrowings from Alice in Wonderland
and
Nadja,
and
through
her
obsession with
madness, death,
orphanhood, violation and transgression.
Chapter 4 is
comparative.
It
outlines the context
in
which
Ocampo
and
Pizamik's
passionate friendship developed,
and considers
Pizamik's
essay on
Elpecado
mortal.
It
then explores their broad
mutual
literary
and
thematic
affinities.
My
conclusion is that Ocampo's works achieve equilibrium between childhood and age,
whereas Pizarnik's
much-discussed poetic crisis of exile
from language itself
parallels
her deep sense of anxiety at being
exiled from the world of childhood.
This thesis
contributes to the
study of
Argentine literature by drawing
revealing
comparisons
between
two key
writers
through their shared obsession with childhood,
arguing that
an understanding of their attitudes
to childhood
is fundamental
to
appreciating
fully their
work.
I
refer to unpublished
letters
of
Ocampo,
material
from
private
interviews,
photographs and relevant paintings
by Leonor Fini, Alicia Carletti
and others
Análisis del comportamiento al desgaste abrasivo en el recubrimiento 140MXC-560AS producido mediante termo aspersión por arco eléctrico
No full textEn Colombia, la entidad encargada de velar por la reparación y mantenimiento
de las unidades de combate oceánicas y fluviales pertenecientes a la Armada
Nacional es la Corporación de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo de la
Industria Naval, Marítima Fluvial de Colombia “COTECMAR” la cual por medio
de diversos convenios con instituciones educativas busca maneras de hacer
que sus procesos de reparación y mantenimiento sean cada vez más efectivos
debido a los fuertes ambientes de desgaste y corrosión a los cuales se ven
sometidas las unidades en el ejercicio de su función.
Es por esta razón que se está buscando con la utilización de técnicas no
convencionales, como la aspersión térmica, y principalmente con la técnica por
arco eléctrico, optimizar el proceso y hacerlo eficiente en miras de obtener la
mejor relación costo/beneficio para COTECMAR, la Armada Nacional y la
industria en que se apliquen estos procesos.
En el presente trabajo se produjeron recubrimientos a base de hierro con el fin
de mejorar la respuesta de materiales estructurales como el acero ASTM A36
como sustrato de aplicación de los recubrimientos, los cuales están
compuestos por capas simultáneas de alambre nanocompuesto (140MXC) y
acero inoxidable (560AS) mediante un equipo de aspersión térmica por arco,
con variables eléctricas de voltaje y amperaje y parámetros de proyección (
presión de aire primario y presión de aire secundario), definidos previamente y
relacionados mediante un diseño experimental factorial 3k , para encontrar la
relación entre estas variables y el comportamiento de los recubrimientos ante
condiciones fuertes de desgaste.
Se realizó el análisis de pérdida volumétrica de material mediante el ensayo de
desgaste ASTM G-65 y posterior a esto un estudio estructural del recubrimiento
para determinar espesores y conformación de capas, así como ensayo de
microdureza Vickers y microscopía óptica metalográfica con el objetivo de
determinar las propiedades de los recubrimientos y realizar un análisis del
comportamiento morfológico del desgaste.Universidad Libre – Facultad de Ingeniería -- Ingeniería MecánicaIn Colombia, the entity in charge of ensuring the repair and maintenance of the ocean and river combat units belonging to the National Navy is the Science and Technology Corporation for the Development of the Naval, Maritime and River Industry of Colombia "COTECMAR" which Through various agreements with educational institutions, it seeks ways to make its repair and maintenance processes more and more effective.
due to the strong environments of wear and corrosion to which the units are subjected in the exercise of their function.
It is for this reason that the use of unconventional techniques, such as thermal spraying, and mainly the electric arc technique, is being sought to optimize the process and make it efficient in order to obtain the best cost/benefit ratio for COTECMAR, the National Navy and the industry in which these processes are applied.
In the present work, iron-based coatings were produced in order to improve the response of structural materials such as ASTM A36 steel as a substrate for applying the coatings, which are composed of simultaneous layers of nanocomposite wire (140MXC) and stainless steel. (560AS) by means of an arc thermal spray equipment, with electrical variables of voltage and amperage and projection parameters (primary air pressure and secondary air pressure), previously defined and
related through a 3k factorial experimental design, to find the relationship between these variables and the behavior of the coatings under strong wear conditions.
The analysis of volumetric loss of material was carried out by means of the ASTM G-65 wear test and, after this, a structural study of the coating to determine thickness and conformation of layers, as well as Vickers microhardness test and metallographic optical microscopy with the objective of determining the properties of the coatings and carry out an analysis of the morphological behavior of wear
Measurement of cross-sections for production of a boson in association with a flavor-inclusive or doubly -tagged large-radius jet in proton-proton collisions at TeV with the ATLAS experiment
No full textWe present measurements of cross-sections for production of a leptonically
decaying boson in association with a large-radius jet in 13 TeV
proton-proton collisions at the LHC, using of data from
the ATLAS detector. Integrated and differential cross-sections are measured at
particle-level in both a flavor-inclusive and a doubly -tagged fiducial
phase-space. The large-radius jet mass and transverse momentum, its kinematic
relationship to the boson, and the angular separation of -tagged
small-radius track-jets within the large-radius jet are measured. This
measurement constitutes an important test of perturbative quantum
chromodynamics in kinematic and flavor configurations relevant to several Higgs
boson and beyond-Standard-Model physics analyses. The results highlight issues
with modeling of additional hadronic activity in the flavor-inclusive
selection, and a distinction between flavor-number schemes in the -tagged
phase-space.Comment: 44 pages in total, author list starting page 27, 5 figures, 2 tables,
published as Phys. Rev. D. 108 (2023) 1, 012022. All figures including
auxiliary figures are available at
https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2017-37
Eyewitness accounts of 'the Indies' in the Later Medieval West: reading, reception, and re-use (c. 1300-1500)
No full textDespite increased mercantile and missionary contact between the Latin West and India and China between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, scholars have often
noted that Western Europe's knowledge of India, as judged by geographical texts from the period, changed surprisingly little during this time. This thesis employs
some of the methodologies of reception studies in order to investigate the role played by first-hand travel accounts in the construction and change of concepts of the Indies
during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It investigates in particular the reception in Italy, France and England of the information about the area known as
India or the 'three Indies' presented in the texts produced by two Italian travellers to the East: the Divisament dou monde of the Venetian merchant Marco Polo (c. 1298),
and the Relatio of the Franciscan missionary Odorico da Pordenone (1330).
The thesis falls into three distinct parts. In the first section, I contextualise the project with a broad survey of the Latin European ideas of India in the late thirteenth
and early fourteenth centuries and with an outline of the travellers' journeys and their contexts. The second part of the thesis provides a broad overview of the
circumstances of diffusion of the two travel accounts in England, France and Italy over the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, before conducting a detailed, manuscriptbased
investigation of the ways in which the two accounts of India were approached by their early readers. This investigation focuses principally upon the presentation
and possible modes of reception of the texts' geographical and ethnographic details and relies heavily on the evidence of presentation, paratext and the traces of reading
present in the physical texts of the accounts.
The third and final part of the thesis considers the evidence of the reception of elements from first-hand travel accounts in other textual and cartographic
productions. Proceeding on the basis of case studies, it demonstrates that first-hand accounts of 'the Indies' were used by the authors and compilers of cosmo graphical
texts in this period in a variety of ways. It suggests, however, that the manner and context of the deployment of elements from such accounts often tended to assimilate
these with, rather than distinguish them from, the writings of accepted authorities. This section also contrasts the way that details from travel accounts were re-used in
texts with the way the same information was handled in the composition of maps. Finally, by analysis of the ways eyewitness accounts of the Indies were re-used in
certain ambiguous and comic texts produced in this period, the thesis sheds light on an underexplored aspect of the reception both of eyewitness information and of the
genres in which it appeared. The appendices contain tables presenting information relative to the manuscripts discussed that support the arguments presented in section
two
Recovery of dialysis patients with COVID-19: health outcomes 3 months after diagnosis in ERACODA
No full text© The Author(s) 2022.Background. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related short-term mortality is high in dialysis patients, but longer-term outcomes are largely unknown. We therefore assessed patient recovery in a large cohort of dialysis patients 3 months after their COVID-19 diagnosis. Methods. We analyzed data on dialysis patients diagnosed with COVID-19 from 1 February 2020 to 31 March 2021 from the European Renal Association COVID-19 Database (ERACODA). The outcomes studied were patient survival, residence and functional and mental health status (estimated by their treating physician) 3 months after COVID-19 diagnosis. Complete follow-up data were available for 854 surviving patients. Patient characteristics associated with recovery were analyzed using logistic regression. Results. In 2449 hemodialysis patients (mean ± SD age 67.5 ± 14.4 years, 62% male), survival probabilities at 3 months after COVID-19 diagnosis were 90% for nonhospitalized patients (n = 1087), 73% for patients admitted to the hospital but not to an intensive care unit (ICU) (n = 1165) and 40% for those admitted to an ICU (n = 197). Patient survival hardly decreased between 28 days and 3 months after COVID-19 diagnosis. At 3 months, 87% functioned at their pre-existent functional and 94% at their pre-existent mental level. Only few of the surviving patients were still admitted to the hospital (0.8–6.3%) or a nursing home (∼5%). A higher age and frailty score at presentation and ICU admission were associated with worse functional outcome. Conclusions. Mortality between 28 days and 3 months after COVID-19 diagnosis was low and the majority of patients who survived COVID-19 recovered to their pre-existent functional and mental health level at 3 months after diagnosis
Beyond the Pedagogical Illusion? Historical-Comparative Reflections on the Impact History of Moral Education of Children and Adolescents
No full textThis article can be broken down into two parts, perhaps somewhat unequally as far as its orientation is concerned. In the first part, the author takes the reader on a kind of exploration of the history of moral education, a subject which, at first glance and from the perspective of the years he spent studying educational historiography, appears to be rather undeveloped terrain. Since the piece is related to the awarding of the Comenius Medal, Comenius himself already provides a good starting point for this round of studies. As in the case of Herbart, another classic within the canon of educational history, Comenius held the opinion that morality plays a key role in upbringing of young people, which became increasingly scintillating in appearance from the Enlightenment onwards. For in a well-regulated society, it was by means of upbringing and education that individual freedom could be created. However, in the course of the 20th century and to the shame of humanity, people were forced to witness how the idea that people and society could be shaped by social engineering could equally give rise to a lack of freedom, as the aberrations of Nazism, fascism and ultimately Marxism-Leninism unequivocally demonstrated. So can such “reversals” of modern-day thought ultimately teach us any overall lessons about the content, manner and results with which moral curricula are imposed? Or must we first set out to identify the “abnormal” cases that society first branded as such and only subsequently extract those lessons? In other words, can extraordinary situations and events teach us something about the everyday reality of moral education as manifested in the so-called “civilising offensive” that took place from the end of the 18th century onwards? As far as the Low Countries are concerned, the author is, for that matter, setting foot on familiar ground. By utilising previous research on Belgium, Flanders and the (Belgian) Congo, the second part of the article wastes no time in examining what moral education meant in more specific terms in the 20th century. In that regard, the focus not only lies on contextualising the insights and questions raised by the first part, as a “tour d’horizon”, but equally on analysing them in greater depth. After all, the author’s years of research already provide three interesting points of reference: 1) the strong continuity of the patronising perspective; 2) the problematic nature of thinking about educational innovations and didactic innovations in binary terms, such as “old” and “new”, and 3) the lack of a straightforward link between parenting and educational goals on the one hand and their results and effects (including and especially in the long term) on the other. Which leads inevitably to the conclusion that education, important as it is, must not be overestimated. Nor should history for that matter. Perhaps both are nothing more than an opportunity to partake of a meaningful encounter that may be effective, but whose outcome one can never be sure of. Which in turn does not take away from the fact that we must still place our hopes on it. For hope is probably the most positive thing that human beings carry within them, just as Comenius himself proved in his lifetime, by the way
