Interculturally effetive people within organizational wide agility anda science fition as testing ground. Star Trek Voyager as case study

Versão Final (Esta versão contém as críticas e sugestões dos elementos do jurí)O trabalho que se apresenta procura estabelecer relação entre o que é preconizado como uma Pessoa interculturalmente eficaz e como isso pode ser potenciado no âmbito dos negócios. Para esse fim, o Capítulo I introduz termos relacionados com eficácia intercultural e expressa as razões por que há uma necessidade crescente de pessoas cientes da eficácia intercultural. Em seguida, no Capítulo II, algumas ferramentas relacionadas com agilidade e seus respetivos valores utilizados nos negócios são apresentados, e que são Agile, Sociocracy, Beyond Budgeting e Open Space, bem como uma teoria sincrética - BOSSA - que juntos podem apoiar a prestação de Pessoas interculturalmente eficazes num ambiente de negócios. Para terminar, no Capítulo III a Ficção Científica é trazida à colação como possível campo de teste para a eficácia da agilidade em potenciar a interculturalidade nos negócios. Aqui a Star Trek Voyager é apresentada como um possível ambiente movido pela agilidade.The work presented tries to establish a connection between what is professed as an Interculturally Effective Person and how it can be strengthened within business. To that end, Chapter I introduces terms related to intercultural effectiveness and expresses the reasons why there is a growing need for people to be aware of intercultural effectiveness. Then, in Chapter II, a few agility related frameworks and their respective values used in business are presented, which are Agile, Sociocracy, Beyond Budgeting and Open Space, as well as a syncretic theory - BOSSA - that together may support the provision for Interculturally Effective People in a business environment. To end, in Chapter III Science Fiction is brought to the fore as possible testing ground for the effectiveness of agility in potentiating interculturality in business. Here Star Trek Voyager is presented as a possible agility driven environment

Citizens Apart? Representing post-Brexit youth politics in the UK media

In 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union (EU). This outcome was not only unexpected but also had clear geographical and age-bound divisions. While people over the age of 65 tended to vote to leave, younger voters were more likely to vote to remain a part of the EU. Reflecting on 7 years of journalism, this paper explores the ways in which young people have been represented by the news media with regards to the issue of Brexit. It analyses a database of 700 news media articles published from 2016 to 2022 across the UK, equating to 100 articles per calendar year and ranging from regional sources to those with an international reach. The paper showcases how young people occupy liminal spaces within the news media through an analysis of the language used to describe their political participation, and a focus on their role within political activism. As it is this media that dominates hegemonic narratives within traditional political spheres, the retelling and representation of young people's engagement serves, we argue, to reinforce their liminality as citizens apart.</p

Masa del bosón de Higgs ligero en torno a 125 GeV en el MSSM: predicciones para la masa del bosón W

ABSTRACT: In the present work, we shall expose a general overview of the Standard Model (SM) and a brief introduction of Supersymmetry (SUSY). With these ideas, we shall set the bases on which the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is developed. The MSSM parameter space has more than 100 free parameters but it can be constrained according to experimental evidences. In order to do so, we shall a numerical analysis of the dependence of the mass of the Higgs boson and W boson in that supersymmetric model. First, we find ranges of free MSSM parameters that provide the mass of the light Higgs boson in the MSSM h0 about 125 GeV i.e. that are in agreement with the mass of the Higgs boson discovered by CMS and ATLAS in 2012. Afterwards, we study the effect of these free MSSM parameters in the prediction of the W boson mass mW. In particular, large dfferences between the MSSM and the SM prediction of the mass of W boson are sought in these ranges of free parameters. Finally, in agreement with these differences, we discuss how the MSSM parameter space could be constrained by (future) precision measurements of mW.RESUMEN: En este trabajo, se expone una visión general del Modelo Estándar (SM) y una breve introducción de Supersimetría (SUSY). Con estas ideas, se darán las bases en las cuales se desarrolla el Modelo Estándar Mínimo Supersimétrico (MSSM). El espacio de parámetros del MSSM lo componen más de 100 parámetros libres los cuales pueden ser acotados de acuerdo a evidencias experimentales. Para ello, se realiza un análisis numérico de la dependencia de la masa del bosón de Higgs y del bosón W en este modelo supersimétrico. Primero, se hallan los rangos de los parámetros libres del MSSM que proporcionan una masa del bosón de Higgs ligero del MSSM h0 alrededor de 125 GeV, es decir, que esté de acuerdo con la masa del bosón de Higgs descubierto por CMS y ATLAS en 2012. Después, se estudia el efecto de estos parámetros libres del MSSM en la predicción de la masa del bosón W mW. En particular, se buscan grandes diferencias entre las predicciones del MSSM y del SM para la masa del bosón W. Finalmente, de acuerdo con estas diferencias, se discute cómo acotar el espacio de parámetros del MSSM en base a (futuras) medidas precisas para mW.Máster en Física, Instrumentación y Medio Ambient

The Future of Toxic Torts: Of Chemophobia, Risk as a Compensable Injury and Hybrid Compensation Systems

In America, lawsuits are morality plays. We are a secular society of many cultures that holds its most important public rituals in the courtroom. As we separate the guilty from the innocent, the good guys from the bad guys, we symbolically reexamine, and sometimes redefine, our official morality-the values that establish us as a community. This is the key point that has generally been overlooked by the critics, including the present author, of courts in toxic tort cases and other technical controversies. Far more than fair and efficiently delivered compensation for bodily injury is at issue in these cases. Neither are these cases solely about issues of epidemiology, toxicology, and oncology, though these sciences have an important role to play

What can be expected?

Over the past sixty years, Europe has been driven by a dream, now seriously under threat, of an economic, political and cultural community. With the outbreak of the financial and economic crisis, which mainly affects the Southern countries, the idea of a “European venture” is seriously facing the risk of collapse. The categories which made the West what it is (and have, thus, fuelled the European dream) were founded on one’s word- a realm of promise. It was promise which discerned the future, providing reassurances about it. But now it is the present that engages us, not the future. We find ourselves plunged into the present without any assurance of a solid foundation, of a familiar territory and of a stable identity, devoured by the insatiable sphinx of the global market, towards which we are mobilised by information technology. The idea of Europe should combine with a multiculturalist idea of globalisation, which encompasses peoples from extensive geo-cultural areas, promotes and respects differences and dignifies the national languages. A prevalent underlying principle should be that progress and culture stem from the intermingling of ethnicities, as well as from the intermingling of memories, traditions and landscapes. Furthermore, what should also prevail is the principle that it is possible to flourish within a transnational or supranational entity, a federation that has room for many States. Reinventing this horizon, one of a shared community, is the promise that Europe should seize from all the ideas for the future

A Monte Carlo simulation for the improvement of drinking water and sewerage services in a northern settlement in Peru

Clean water and sewerage systems are essential for global and local development. In Perú, even though most of its urban population has access to these services, it does not mean that those services are enough for the population's necessities. Moreover, they usually do not have acceptable quality. Consequently, it is necessary to invest public funds to provide clean water and sewerage systems to the possible people. However, it does not mean spending money carelessly on projects that might not fulfill people's demands. Then, the current research applied a Monte Carlo-based risk analysis for a public investment project seeking to improve those services in a poor human settlement on the northern coast of Peru. Hence, the Monte Carlo simulation was employed along with its sensitivity analysis. The research found that the project had an excellent chance of being sustainable. Still, it was necessary to make real improvements in the service to meet the population's needs, for instance, by improving the water quality or expanding the hours of clean water supply. Also, due to the investment's quantity, the project's sustainability depends on population growth and public expense efficiency. Finally, the importance of correctly maintaining the works to keep and improve those services was highlighted

Facing the Fourth Industrial Revolution: empowering (human) design agency and capabilities through experimental learning

This article identifies and describes the transformation of designer skills within the Great Transformation (Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2014) as defined by many economists and sociologists. The so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution (Schwab, 2014) is a paradigm shift enabled by the convergence of technological changes - biotech, nanotech, 3D printing, robotics, big data and AI - that significantly influence the nature of work, the design and materialization of products and services, as well as their market, their structure, and their relations with human agents. This systemic process also changes the design field, its cultural and socio-economic structures, its traditional domains, and its consolidated practices. We witness both new opportunities for, but threats to, the conventional system of human imaginative and operational capacities that are changing how they can be learned. The re-discussion of the design(er) role affects the structure and meaning of the discipline, as well as the processes, places, and capacities that can generate learning. Design education is a core component of this change. It is so for those who will be shortly become designers and for retrofitting the knowledge and skills of practitioners and educators. This article reviews the principal studies and theories on the transformation of the production system and the market. Its focus is on the structural factors which enable identification of the leading transformational drivers of the experimental-experiential learning which will become the basis upon which changes in design education and design/designer skills will be defined considering the growth of open and distributed socio-technical systems in our contemporary society