The hau of the paper and dividual authors: reimagining authorship in anthropology

Despite repeated calls for change, social and cultural anthropology is still dominated by single authored works. I consider two thought experiments that might disturb the status quo in interesting ways. Anthropologists could publish anonymously, treating ourselves in the same way as we treat our anonymised informants, for example, using pseudonyms. Alternatively, we could treat our colleagues in the field not only as equals but also as co-authors. Both these options have implications concerning the ‘dividual’ author (perhaps now thought of as an ‘auth’), and involve rethinking the ‘hau’ of publication

El planeamiento estratégico para el crecimiento de las pequeñas empresas

Esta investigación se enfoca en el planeamiento estratégico basado en las pequeñas empresas para su crecimiento cuyo objetivo es tomar conocimiento de los avances a la fecha. Muchas de las empresas en Perú nacen a partir del emprendimiento y se basan en su experiencia, pero a medida que pasa el tiempo unas prosperan más que otras, por lo que deciden cambiar el rumbo estratégico de ellas y buscan asesoría profesional de un estratega para materializarla. Esto, implica que vean en esta herramienta un factor importante para el éxito. Los métodos recurridos han sido de observación, el analítico y el descriptivo en los cuales se recopiló, revisó, analizó y organizó la información referente al instrumento de gestión para utilizarlos como apoyo para fortalecer los conocimientos previos; para producir el actual trabajo se tomó como unidad de análisis 10 artículos científicos, relacionando esta herramienta con otros factores. Los resultados obtenidos muestran el esfuerzo constante por el perfeccionamiento de la herramienta para que los protagonistas del mercado se desarrollen adecuadamente teniendo en cuenta los enfoques y tendencias, así como la influencia de la información, el comportamiento humano, la competitividad, los conocimientos y los procesos dentro de la empresa al momento de aplicarla.This research work focuses on strategic planning based on small institutions for their growth whose objective is to become aware of the progress to date. Many of the companies in Peru are born from entrepreneurship and are based on their experience, but as time goes on some thrive more than others, so they decide to change the strategic direction of them and look for professional advice from a strategist to materialize it. This implies that they see it as the main factor for success. The methods used have been observational, analytical and descriptive in which information on the management tool was collected, reviewed, analyzed and organized for use as support to strengthen prior knowledge; to produce the current work, 10 scientific articles were taken as an analysis unit, linking this tool to other factors. The results obtained show the constant effort to improve the tool so that market players develop properly considering approaches and trends, also the influence of information, human behavior, competitiveness, knowledge and processes within the company when applying it

Self-Consistent Thermal Accretion Disk Corona Models for Compact Objects: II. Application to Cygnus X-1

We apply our self-consistent accretion disk corona (ADC) model, with two different geometries, to the broad-band X-ray spectrum of the black hole candidate Cygnus X-1. As shown in a companion paper (Dove, Wilms, and Begelman), models where the Comptonizing medium is a slab surrounding the cold accretion disk cannot have a temperature higher than about 120 keV for optical depths greater than 0.2, resulting in spectra that are much softer than the observed 10-30 keV spectrum of Cyg X-1. In addition, the slab geometry models predict a substantial ``soft excess'' at low energies, a feature not observed for Cyg X-1, and Fe K\alpha fluorescence lines that are stronger than observed. Previous Comptonization models in the literature invoke a slab geometry with the optical depth \tau_T \gta 0.3 and the coronal temperature T_c \sim 150 keV, but they are not self-consistent. Therefore, ADC models with a slab geometry are not appropriate for explaining the X-ray spectrum of Cyg X-1. Models with a spherical corona and an exterior disk, however, predict much higher self-consistent coronal temperatures than the slab geometry models. The higher coronal temperatures are due to the lower amount of reprocessing of coronal radiation in the accretion disk, giving rise to a lower Compton cooling rate. Therefore, for the sphere+disk geometry, the predicted spectrum can be hard enough to describe the observed X-ray continuum of Cyg X-1 while predicting Fe fluorescence lines having an equivalent width of \sim 40 eV. Our best-fit parameter values for the sphere+disk geometry are \tau_T \approx 1.5 and T_c \approx 90 keV.Comment: 13 pages, Latex, 10 .eps figures, uses emulateapj.sty. To be published in ApJ, October 1, 1997, Vol. 48

Actor-Singer-Musician: the New Triple Threat

A relatively new form of theatre has arisen and grown exponentially in the last half century. Theatrical musicals that require actors to play musical instruments have become common, bordering on pervasive. (Since the success of Pump Boys and Dinettes in the late 1970s scores of shows have followed suit, generating hundreds of new examples of this work.) Even so, they are the most difficult style of show to cast, due to a dearth of performers who are trained in the nature of these shows. The origin of this absentia of qualified performers is a lack of academic attempts to create the entertainers needed in this vital section of the industry. A person in possession of the following research could find themselves: 1) educated on how to find such work, 2) informed on the strongest methods involved in winning those jobs, 3) learned on the methods needed to practice this niche in a professional manner, and 4) aware of the esoteric challenges, flaws, and pitfalls of actor-musician-productions. Until books are published, classes are created, and educational expectations are demanded of actor-musicians in programs, actors will continue to dubiously drag their instruments to auditions for jobs they don’t know how to get or to do

Flavor Sensing in Utero and Emerging Discriminative Behaviours in the Human Fetus

The diet of pregnant women exposes fetuses to a variety of flavors consisting of compound sensations involving smell, taste, and chemesthesis. The effects of such prenatal flavor exposure on chemosensory development have so far been measured only postnatally in human infants. Here, we report the first direct evidence of human fetal responsiveness to flavors transferred via maternal consumption of a single-dose capsule by measuring frame-by-frame fetal facial movements. Pregnant women and their fetuses based in the northeast of England were involved in this study from 32 to 36 weeks’ gestation. Fetuses exposed to carrot flavor (n = 35) showed “lip-corner puller” and “laughter-face gestalt” more frequently, whereas fetuses exposed to kale flavor (n = 34) showed more “upper-lip raiser,” “lower-lip depressor,” “lip stretch,” “lip presser,” and “cry-face gestalt” in comparison with the carrot group and a control group not exposed to any flavors (n = 30). The complexity of facial gestalts increased from 32 to 36 weeks in the kale condition, but not in the carrot condition. Findings of this study have important implications for understanding the earliest evidence for fetal abilities to sense and discriminate different flavors

Texas Business Review, September 1977

Texas and OPEC: A Case of Economic Interdependence; Implementing the Energy Policy and Conservation Act in Texas; The Lower Rio Grande Valley: An Area of Rapid Growth; Texas ConstructionBureau of Business Researc