Reluctant Donors? The Europeanization of International Development Policies in the New Members

The EU played an instrumental role re-starting the international development policies in Central and Eastern European member states, but questions remain about how far this policy area has been Europeanized since accession. Focusing on the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, the paper investigates why the new donors have been reluctant to adopt the EU’s development acquis more fully. The paper traces the process of the EU’s development policy rulemaking and subsequent national rule implementation to understand the socialization opportunities these processes offer. The conclusions reveal thrre reasons why socialization has been weak: (1) perceptions among the new member states on the development acquis’ procedural legitimacy; (2) low domestic resonance with the development acquis; and (3) inconsistencies in the activities of norm entrepreneurs. The paper contributes to our understanding of development policy in the EU, in particular how decision making takes place within the Council and its Working Groups post enlargement

Acceso a la agricultura digital y tecnologías de información y comunicación para mejorar la comercialización de pequeños productores hortícolas y de berries de la región del Maule

58 p.La presente investigación tiene como objetivo evaluar el efecto de la agricultura digital (TIC) en la comercialización de pequeños productores hortícolas y de berries de la región del Maule, comprender el nivel de acceso a TIC, conocer los canales de distribución y la posibilidad de acceder a nuevos mercados para mejorar la comercialización. La hipótesis propuesta busca analizar si las plataformas digitales son una herramienta útil para mejorar la comercialización de hortalizas y berries producidos por pequeños productores de la Región del Maule. Para este efecto se entrevistaron a 123 pequeños productores agrícolas con sistemas productivos de berries, hortalizas y mixto. Los agricultores entrevistados se ubican dentro de las cuatro provincias de la Región del Maule, caracterizándose en base a información sociodemográfica, de producción, uso de tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC) para uso en su negocio agrícola y de contingencia 2020 (Pandemia COVID-19). Para realizar el análisis estadístico, se utilizó el programa estadístico IBM SPSS versión 20, para realizar en primera instancia un análisis estadístico-descriptivo de la muestra, según las variables consideradas se pueden definir los grupos de estudio. Para estudiar la interacción entre niveles de acceso se realizó una comparación de medias, donde se determina que no hay diferencias significativas entre los niveles de acceso y los parámetros socioeconómicos-productivos. Concluyendo que los productores de berries y hortalizas en la Región del Maule no consideran que las plataformas digitales son una herramienta útil para mejorar la comercialización de sus productos, esto resultado de la falta de manejo de tecnologías que existe en la Región. // ABSTRACT: The objective of this investigation is to evaluate the effect of digital agriculture (ICT) on the commercialization of small horticultural and berry producers in the Maule region, to understand the level of access to ICT, to know the distribution channels and the possibility of accessing to new markets to improve marketing. The proposed hypothesis seeks to analyze whether digital platforms are a useful tool to improve the marketing of vegetables and berries produced by small producers in the Maule Region. For this purpose, 123 small agricultural producers with berry, vegetable and mixed production systems were interviewed. The interviewed farmers are located within the four provinces of the Maule Region, characterizing themselves based on sociodemographic information, production, use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for use in their agricultural business and contingency 2020 (COVID Pandemic -19). To carry out the statistical analysis, the statistical program IBM SPSS version 20 was used, to carry out in the first instance a statisticaldescriptive analysis of the sample, depending on the variables considered, the study groups can be defined. To study the interaction between access levels, a comparison of means was carried out, where it was determined that there are no significant differences between the access levels and the socioeconomicproductive parameters. Concluding that the producers of berries and vegetables in the Maule Region do not consider that digital platforms are a useful tool to improve the marketing of their products, this is the result of the lack of technology management that exists in the Region

Sistema de apoyo para la toma de decisiones en programación de oferta médica para listas de espera no GES y consultas médicas del hospital de Santa Cruz

195 p.En la actualidad el sistema hospitalario se ve enfrentado a un auge a nivel nacional, con ello la necesidad de poseer sistemas de información que tengan la capacidad de adaptarse a una demanda y entorno que evoluciona día a día y que busca facilitar las labores esenciales dentro del área de salud, sin embargo, la implementación real de Sistemas de información hospitalarios es muy baja, ello queda evidenciado en el Hospital de Santa Cruz, demostrado el uso de sistema basados en Excel, que, si bien aportan en la recolección de datos de forma efectiva, solo pueden ser incrementados hasta cierto punto, con registros estáticos y una interfaz poco amigable, además de contar con un uso activo en muchas áreas, tiende a generar errores en el ingreso de datos, los cuales pueden generar duplicidad e inconsistencia para calcular los rendimientos finales, provocando la perdida de eficiencia a la hora de generar cálculos estadísticos y medición de las distintas variables de consultas médicas y listas de espera, áreas que son las más afectadas y que poseen una mayor demanda por la población chilena provocando un bottleneck en el sistema que gestiona las horas de los pacientes, además es necesario agilizar sus registros y estadísticas. La eficiencia es necesaria para poder llevar a cabo tareas tales como la programación médica, la cual involucra la capacidad resolutiva de equipo médico especialista hacia las prestaciones de consulta y Lista de espera no ges, la toma de decisiones por el equipo de Control y Gestión del Hospital de Santa Cruz, deben ser bajo criterios de rendimientos e indicadores fáciles de interpretar y entender, no contar con dicha información en el momento oportuno genera pérdida de tiempo y confusión al crear dicha agenda. Como resultado de este trabajo implementar un HIS en el área de Control y Gestión del Hospital de Santa Cruz ayudara a la toma de decisiones sobre consultas médicas y listas de espera, reduciendo de manera enorme el tiempo que lleva analizar los datos y generar sus cálculos específicos, Con ello permitir a los profesionales del área de Control y Gestión tomar decisiones basados en proyecciones e indicadores de rendimiento críticos de ambas áreas. Además, con la implementación de este sistema se busca poder enfrentar de mejor manera la evolución tecnológica del sistema hospitalario. // ABSTRACT: The demand of the hospital system and the improvement in its technologies, have a high demand, however, even this implementation process has not been completely generated, this is evidenced in the Hospital of Santa Cruz, demonstrating the use of an Excel-based system , which, although they contribute to the data collection in an effective way, can only be increased to a certain point, the registry system and the unfriendly interface, in addition to having an active use in many areas, it tends to generate errors in the data entry, which can generate duplication and inconsistency to calculate the final returns. Efficiency is necessary to be able to carry out tasks such as medical programming and decision-making by the Control and Management team of the Hospital of Santa Cruz, it must be under performance criteria and indicators that are easy to interpret and understand, and not having A HIS also generates losses in the analysis time, creating the medical programming of each specialist, according to the current demand both in the area of medical consultations and surgery programs, which are of great importance for the local population. As a result of the implementation of a hospital information system to help decision-making in medical consultations and waiting lists, at the Hospital of Santa Cruz, there was a reduction in time in generating the medical agenda of specialists, focused on the capture of information of medical consultations and scheduled surgeries, showing the performance and the necessary goals for; be able to schedule quickly and be able to achieve decisionmaking based on quick and intuitive indicators, in this way professionals can speed up the analysis necessary to solve a growing demand that accumulates month by month, evidenced in the results obtained with the HIS implemented. In addition, they would modularize it, allowing the system to fully cover the REM data capture system and its performance and indicators in the future, providing greater capacity for details and traceability. The result of the implementation seeks to point towards the modernization of current hospital systems, generating a single system that can standardize the collection of medical records, results and projections, can help in part to solve bottleneck problems established in the hospital system

Measurement of the inclusive and dijet cross-sections of b-jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The inclusive and dijet production cross-sections have been measured for jets containing b-hadrons (b-jets) in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, using the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The measurements use data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 34 pb^-1. The b-jets are identified using either a lifetime-based method, where secondary decay vertices of b-hadrons in jets are reconstructed using information from the tracking detectors, or a muon-based method where the presence of a muon is used to identify semileptonic decays of b-hadrons inside jets. The inclusive b-jet cross-section is measured as a function of transverse momentum in the range 20 < pT < 400 GeV and rapidity in the range |y| < 2.1. The bbbar-dijet cross-section is measured as a function of the dijet invariant mass in the range 110 < m_jj < 760 GeV, the azimuthal angle difference between the two jets and the angular variable chi in two dijet mass regions. The results are compared with next-to-leading-order QCD predictions. Good agreement is observed between the measured cross-sections and the predictions obtained using POWHEG + Pythia. MC@NLO + Herwig shows good agreement with the measured bbbar-dijet cross-section. However, it does not reproduce the measured inclusive cross-section well, particularly for central b-jets with large transverse momenta.Comment: 10 pages plus author list (21 pages total), 8 figures, 1 table, final version published in European Physical Journal

Measurement of the cross-section of high transverse momentum vector bosons reconstructed as single jets and studies of jet substructure in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

This paper presents a measurement of the cross-section for high transverse momentum W and Z bosons produced in pp collisions and decaying to all-hadronic final states. The data used in the analysis were recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV;{\rm Te}{\rm V}$and correspond to an integrated luminosity of$4.6\;{\rm f}{{{\rm b}}^{-1}}$. The measurement is performed by reconstructing the boosted W or Z bosons in single jets. The reconstructed jet mass is used to identify the W and Z bosons, and a jet substructure method based on energy cluster information in the jet centre-of-mass frame is used to suppress the large multi-jet background. The cross-section for events with a hadronically decaying W or Z boson, with transverse momentum${{p}_{{\rm T}}}\gt 320\;{\rm Ge}{\rm V}$and pseudorapidity$|\eta |\lt 1.9$, is measured to be${{\sigma }_{W+Z}}=8.5\pm 1.7$ pb and is compared to next-to-leading-order calculations. The selected events are further used to study jet grooming techniques

Search for direct pair production of the top squark in all-hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at s√=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The results of a search for direct pair production of the scalar partner to the top quark using an integrated luminosity of 20.1fb−1 of proton–proton collision data at √s = 8 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are reported. The top squark is assumed to decay via t˜→tχ˜01 or t˜→ bχ˜±1 →bW(∗)χ˜01 , where χ˜01 (χ˜±1 ) denotes the lightest neutralino (chargino) in supersymmetric models. The search targets a fully-hadronic final state in events with four or more jets and large missing transverse momentum. No significant excess over the Standard Model background prediction is observed, and exclusion limits are reported in terms of the top squark and neutralino masses and as a function of the branching fraction of t˜ → tχ˜01 . For a branching fraction of 100%, top squark masses in the range 270–645 GeV are excluded for χ˜01 masses below 30 GeV. For a branching fraction of 50% to either t˜ → tχ˜01 or t˜ → bχ˜±1 , and assuming the χ˜±1 mass to be twice the χ˜01 mass, top squark masses in the range 250–550 GeV are excluded for χ˜01 masses below 60 GeV

Search for pair-produced long-lived neutral particles decaying to jets in the ATLAS hadronic calorimeter in ppcollisions at √s=8TeV

The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is used to search for the decay of a scalar boson to a pair of long-lived particles, neutral under the Standard Model gauge group, in 20.3fb−1of data collected in proton–proton collisions at √s=8TeV. This search is sensitive to long-lived particles that decay to Standard Model particles producing jets at the outer edge of the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter or inside the hadronic calorimeter. No significant excess of events is observed. Limits are reported on the product of the scalar boson production cross section times branching ratio into long-lived neutral particles as a function of the proper lifetime of the particles. Limits are reported for boson masses from 100 GeVto 900 GeV, and a long-lived neutral particle mass from 10 GeVto 150 GeV

Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √ s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Results of a search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum are reported. The search uses 20.3 fb−1 of √ s = 8 TeV data collected in 2012 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are required to have at least one jet with pT > 120 GeV and no leptons. Nine signal regions are considered with increasing missing transverse momentum requirements between Emiss T > 150 GeV and Emiss T > 700 GeV. Good agreement is observed between the number of events in data and Standard Model expectations. The results are translated into exclusion limits on models with either large extra spatial dimensions, pair production of weakly interacting dark matter candidates, or production of very light gravitinos in a gauge-mediated supersymmetric model. In addition, limits on the production of an invisibly decaying Higgs-like boson leading to similar topologies in the final state are presente

Jet energy measurement with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV

The jet energy scale and its systematic uncertainty are determined for jets measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 38 pb-1. Jets are reconstructed with the anti-kt algorithm with distance parameters R=0. 4 or R=0. 6. Jet energy and angle corrections are determined from Monte Carlo simulations to calibrate jets with transverse momenta pT≥20 GeV and pseudorapidities {pipe}η{pipe}<4. 5. The jet energy systematic uncertainty is estimated using the single isolated hadron response measured in situ and in test-beams, exploiting the transverse momentum balance between central and forward jets in events with dijet topologies and studying systematic variations in Monte Carlo simulations. The jet energy uncertainty is less than 2. 5 % in the central calorimeter region ({pipe}η{pipe}<0. 8) for jets with 60≤pT<800 GeV, and is maximally 14 % for pT<30 GeV in the most forward region 3. 2≤{pipe}η{pipe}<4. 5. The jet energy is validated for jet transverse momenta up to 1 TeV to the level of a few percent using several in situ techniques by comparing a well-known reference such as the recoiling photon pT, the sum of the transverse momenta of tracks associated to the jet, or a system of low-pT jets recoiling against a high-pT jet. More sophisticated jet calibration schemes are presented based on calorimeter cell energy density weighting or hadronic properties of jets, aiming for an improved jet energy resolution and a reduced flavour dependence of the jet response. The systematic uncertainty of the jet energy determined from a combination of in situ techniques is consistent with the one derived from single hadron response measurements over a wide kinematic range. The nominal corrections and uncertainties are derived for isolated jets in an inclusive sample of high-pT jets. Special cases such as event topologies with close-by jets, or selections of samples with an enhanced content of jets originating from light quarks, heavy quarks or gluons are also discussed and the corresponding uncertainties are determined. © 2013 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration