STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING SPEED IN NEW TECHNOLOGY BASED FIRMS

New Technology Based Firms (NTBF) operate in high-velocity environments that make considerable demands about the speed of strategic choices. This study draws upon strategic decision-making and organization theories to propose that strategic decision making speed mediates the relation between personal, organizational and environmental factors and performance. Hypotheses were theoretically developed and tested with data from an empirical investigation of Mexican NTBF. Measures of personal characteristics, organization structure, business environment, strategic decision speed and performance were collected from 103 Technology Founder Managers at the end of 2012. The results confirmed that strategic decision making speed influences the performance of NTBF and mediates the relation of uncertainty, CEO model, dynamism and hostility with firm performance.New Technology Based Firms (NTBF) operate in high-velocity environments that make considerable demands about the speed of strategic choices. This study draws upon strategic decision-making and organization theories to propose that strategic decision making speed mediates the relation between personal, organizational and environmental factors and performance. Hypotheses were theoretically developed and tested with data from an empirical investigation of Mexican NTBF. Measures of personal characteristics, organization structure, business environment, strategic decision speed and performance were collected from 103 Technology Founder Managers at the end of 2012. The results confirmed that strategic decision making speed influences the performance of NTBF and mediates the relation of uncertainty, CEO model, dynamism and hostility with firm performance

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourteenth from SDSS overall (making this, Data Release Fourteen or DR14). This release makes public data taken by SDSS-IV in its first two years of operation (July 2014-2016). Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulative, including the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since the first phase began operations in 2000. New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS); the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data driven machine learning algorithm known as "The Cannon"; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total). This paper describes the location and format of the publicly available data from SDSS-IV surveys. We provide references to the important technical papers describing how these data have been taken (both targeting and observation details) and processed for scientific use. The SDSS website (www.sdss.org) has been updated for this release, and provides links to data downloads, as well as tutorials and examples of data use. SDSS-IV is planning to continue to collect astronomical data until 2020, and will be followed by SDSS-V.Comment: SDSS-IV collaboration alphabetical author data release paper. DR14 happened on 31st July 2017. 19 pages, 5 figures. Accepted by ApJS on 28th Nov 2017 (this is the "post-print" and "post-proofs" version; minor corrections only from v1, and most of errors found in proofs corrected

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the Second Phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since 2014 July. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the 14th from SDSS overall (making this Data Release Fourteen or DR14). This release makes the data taken by SDSS-IV in its first two years of operation (2014–2016 July) public. Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulative, including the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since the first phase began operations in 2000. New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey; the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data-driven machine-learning algorithm known as "The Cannon"; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total). This paper describes the location and format of the publicly available data from the SDSS-IV surveys. We provide references to the important technical papers describing how these data have been taken (both targeting and observation details) and processed for scientific use. The SDSS web site (www.sdss.org) has been updated for this release and provides links to data downloads, as well as tutorials and examples of data use. SDSS-IV is planning to continue to collect astronomical data until 2020 and will be followed by SDSS-V

La videoconferencia de escritorio como una herramienta para el desarrollo y colaboración / A distancia desktop videoconferencing as a development and remote collaboration tool

Este ensayo propone una herramienta de interacción entre docentes y estudiantes de la Coordinación de Programas Académicos (CPA) del Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C. (CIAD, A.C.), situados en diferentes lugares geográficos de México, para compartir ideas, conocimiento, resolver problemas y planear estrategias de investigación. El proyecto se dividió en dos etapas. En la primera etapa se entrevistó a la coordinadora de la CPA, para conocer las necesidades específicas de interacción entre docentes y estudiantes, con el propósito de establecer las características mínimas que debería incluir la herramienta propuesta.  Para el análisis de las diferentes alternativas se consideraron varios aspectos: la experiencia de los autores en el uso de equipos de videoconferencia de salón, consultas a proveedores, opiniones de colegas expertos en el área de videoconferencia de otras instituciones educativas y en bibliografía relacionada con el tema. Los involucrados coincidieron que la videoconferencia de escritorio es la herramienta que más se ajusta a los requerimientos expuestos, por considerarla: económica, ubicua y de uso simplificado para la transmisión-recepción de video, voz y datos. En la segunda etapa, después de utilizar la herramienta por un semestre, se realizaron entrevistas y encuestas a los usuarios, con el fin de evaluar el grado de satisfacción, comportamiento de docentes y estudiantes y la calidad de los materiales utilizados durante las sesiones de videoconferencia de escritorio. Los resultados obtenidos en la evaluación permiten concluir que la videoconferencia de escritorio fue la herramienta con la cual se logró alcanzar el objetivo planteado. This essay proposes an interaction tool between teachers and students of the Coordination of Academic Programs (CPA) Center for Food Research and Development, AC (CIAD, AC), located in different geographical locations, to share ideas, knowledge, solve problems and plan research strategies. The project was divided into two stages. In the first stage the CPA coordinator was interviewed, for the purpose of knowing the specific needs of interaction between teachers and students, in order to establish the minimum requirements that the proposed tool should include. For the different alternatives analysis, several aspects were considered: the author’s experience in salon videoconferencing, supplier’s suggestions and proposals, the opinions of colleagues from other educational institutions expert in videoconferencing area and the specialized journals review. The stakeholders agreed that desktop videoconferencing is the tool that best fits the requirements exposed, considering it a budget, ubiquitous and simplified usage tool for the video, voice and data transmission and reception. In the second stage, after using the tool for a semester, interviews and user surveys were conducted in order to assess the satisfaction degree, teachers and student’s behavior and the material’s quality used during desktop videoconferencing sessions. The evaluation results support the conclusion that desktop videoconferencing is the right tool to achieve the stated objective

La videoconferencia de escritorio como apoyo para la educación de personas con diversidad funcional

En el presente ensayo se expone el contexto del desarrollo educativo de las personas con diversidad funcional para caminar en México y el apoyo que reciben de organismos internacionales y del Gobierno Mexicano ya que dicho desarrollo se ve truncado por diversas causas, siendo una de ellas, la dificultad para asistir a una institución educativa, principalmente por la deficiente infraestructura urbana y de transporte.  Este trabajo se fundamenta en investigaciones realizadas por varias instituciones como: INEGI, UNESCO, Observatorio Regional de la Sociedad de la Información, CONADIS, entre otras. Complementa este ensayo los resultados positivos de experiencias utilizando los desarrollos tecnológicos actuales, que hacen posible presentar una propuesta basada en videoconferencia de escritorio, la cual es económica, de fácil y rápida implementación y que puede utilizarse para atender la educación de las personas con diversidad funcional para caminar  en búsqueda de su integración educativa

La videoconferencia de escritorio como una herramienta para el desarrollo y colaboración / A distancia desktop videoconferencing as a development and remote collaboration tool

Este ensayo propone una herramienta de interacción entre docentes y estudiantes de la Coordinación de Programas Académicos (CPA) del Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C. (CIAD, A.C.), situados en diferentes lugares geográficos de México, para compartir ideas, conocimiento, resolver problemas y planear estrategias de investigación. El proyecto se dividió en dos etapas. En la primera etapa se entrevistó a la coordinadora de la CPA, para conocer las necesidades específicas de interacción entre docentes y estudiantes, con el propósito de establecer las características mínimas que debería incluir la herramienta propuesta.  Para el análisis de las diferentes alternativas se consideraron varios aspectos: la experiencia de los autores en el uso de equipos de videoconferencia de salón, consultas a proveedores, opiniones de colegas expertos en el área de videoconferencia de otras instituciones educativas y en bibliografía relacionada con el tema. Los involucrados coincidieron que la videoconferencia de escritorio es la herramienta que más se ajusta a los requerimientos expuestos, por considerarla: económica, ubicua y de uso simplificado para la transmisión-recepción de video, voz y datos. En la segunda etapa, después de utilizar la herramienta por un semestre, se realizaron entrevistas y encuestas a los usuarios, con el fin de evaluar el grado de satisfacción, comportamiento de docentes y estudiantes y la calidad de los materiales utilizados durante las sesiones de videoconferencia de escritorio. Los resultados obtenidos en la evaluación permiten concluir que la videoconferencia de escritorio fue la herramienta con la cual se logró alcanzar el objetivo planteado.   This essay proposes an interaction tool between teachers and students of the Coordination of Academic Programs (CPA) Center for Food Research and Development, AC (CIAD, AC), located in different geographical locations, to share ideas, knowledge, solve problems and plan research strategies. The project was divided into two stages. In the first stage the CPA coordinator was interviewed, for the purpose of knowing the specific needs of interaction between teachers and students, in order to establish the minimum requirements that the proposed tool should include. For the different alternatives analysis, several aspects were considered: the author’s experience in salon videoconferencing, supplier’s suggestions and proposals, the opinions of colleagues from other educational institutions expert in videoconferencing area and the specialized journals review. The stakeholders agreed that desktop videoconferencing is the tool that best fits the requirements exposed, considering it a budget, ubiquitous and simplified usage tool for the video, voice and data transmission and reception. In the second stage, after using the tool for a semester, interviews and user surveys were conducted in order to assess the satisfaction degree, teachers and student’s behavior and the material’s quality used during desktop videoconferencing sessions. The evaluation results support the conclusion that desktop videoconferencing is the right tool to achieve the stated objective

La videoconferencia de escritorio como apoyo para la educación de personas con diversidad funcional

En el presente ensayo se expone el contexto del desarrollo educativo de las personas con diversidad funcional para caminar en México y el apoyo que reciben de organismos internacionales y del Gobierno Mexicano ya que dicho desarrollo se ve truncado por diversas causas, siendo una de ellas, la dificultad para asistir a una institución educativa, principalmente por la deficiente infraestructura urbana y de transporte.  Este trabajo se fundamenta en investigaciones realizadas por varias instituciones como: INEGI, UNESCO, Observatorio Regional de la Sociedad de la Información, CONADIS, entre otras. Complementa este ensayo los resultados positivos de experiencias utilizando los desarrollos tecnológicos actuales, que hacen posible presentar una propuesta basada en videoconferencia de escritorio, la cual es económica, de fácil y rápida implementación y que puede utilizarse para atender la educación de las personas con diversidad funcional para caminar  en búsqueda de su integración educativa

Efficiency of Schinus molle Essential Oil against Bactericera cockerelli (Hemiptera: Triozidae) and Sitophilus zeamais (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae)

The present study determines the chemical composition of Schinus molle essential oil and its mortality and repellent effect on Bactericera cockerelli immature stage and Sitophilus zeamais adults. Twenty-four compounds were identified and the most abundant were o-Cymene (29.04), 1R-α-Pinene (15.52), camphene (14.00), and β-myrcene (11.54). On the fifth-instar psyllid nymph, the LC50 and LC90 at 48 h were 442.67 and 864.29 ppm, and for the fourth-instar were 273.41 and 534.67 ppm. The maize-weevil registered an LC50 and LC90 of 343.25 and 986.96 ppm for the fifteenth day. A selection index (Si) of 0.37 with 800 ppm was registered, showing the highest repellent activity, while with the lowest concentration (50 ppm), non-repellent activity was recorded. However, all concentrations above 100 ppm showed repellency against the maize weevil. The study reveals, for the first time, the essential oil’s insecticidal effects on the fourth and fifth nymphal stage of the potato/tomato psyllid B. cockerelli and the usefulness of the essential oil as a repellent against adult of S. zeamais. The Si effect on maize weevil was grouped into categories