A gynandromorph of Xylocopa augusti and an unusual record of X. iris from Brazil (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopini)

We describe and illustrate for the first time a mixed gynandromorph of Xylocopa(Neoxylocopa) augusti Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Also, we document and discuss a historical specimen of the Old World carpenter bee X. (Copoxyla) iris (Christ) possibly collected in Brazil.Fil: Lucia, Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Entomología; ArgentinaFil: Villamil, Soledad Camila. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Agronomía. Laboratorio de Estudios Apícolas; ArgentinaFil: Gonzalez, Victor H.. University of Kansas; Estados Unido

Assembling the Plebeian Republic. Popular Institutions against Systemic Corruption and Oligarchic Domination

Democracy seems to be in crisis and scholars have started to consider the possibility that “the only game in town” might be rigged. This book theorizes the crisis of democracy from a structural point of view, arguing that liberal representative governments suffer from systemic corruption, a form of political decay that should be understood as the oligarchization of society, and proposes an anti-oligarchic institutional solution based on a radical interpretation of republican constitutional thought. If one agrees that the minimal normative expectation of liberal democracies is that governments should advance the welfare of the majority within constitutional safeguards, increasing income inequality and the relative immiseration of the majority of citizens would be in itself a deviation from good rule, a sign of corruption. As a way to understand how we could revert the current patterns of political corruption, the book provides an in-depth analysis of the institutional, procedural, and normative innovations to protect political liberty proposed by Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolas de Condorcet, Rosa Luxemburg, and Hannah Arendt. Because their ideas to institutionalize popular power have consistently been misunderstood, instrumentalized, demonized, or neglected, part of what this project wants to accomplish is to offer a serious engagement with their proposals through a plebeian interpretative lens that renders them as part of the same intellectual tradition. In this way, the book assembles a “B side” of constitutional thought composed of the apparent misfits in a tradition that has been dominated by the impulse to suppress conflict instead of harnessing its liberty-producing properties. As a way to effectively deal with systemic corruption and oligarchic domination, the book proposes to follow this plebeian constitutionalism and instituionalize popular collective power. A proposed plebeian branch would be autonomous and aimed not at achieving self-government or direct democracy, but rather at an effort to both judge and censor elites who rule. The plebeian branch would consist of two institutions: a decentralized network of radically inclusive local assemblies, empowered to initiate and veto legislation as well as to exercise periodic constituent power, and a delegate, surveillance office able to enforce decisions and impeach public officials. The establishment of primary assemblies at the local level would not only allow ordinary people to push back against oligarchic domination through the political system but also inaugurate an institutional conception of the people as the many assembled locally: a political collective agent operating as a network of political judgment in permanent flow. The people as network would be a political subject with as many brains as assemblies, in which collective learning, reaction against domination, and social change would occur organically and independently from representative government and political parties

Implementação do planejamento estratégico em uma empresa de culinária japonesa

TCC(graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro Tecnológico. Engenharia de ProduçãoAs micro e pequenas empresas correspondem à grande maioria dos empreendimentos, sendo responsáveis por gerar a maior parte dos empregos com carteira assinada no Brasil. Entretanto, quase metade dessas empresas fecham antes de completarem 2 anos de vida, e um dos principais motivos está relacionado à falta de planejamento estratégico nesses negócios. Dentro desse contexto, este trabalho tem como finalidade elaborar o planejamento estratégico de uma micro empresa de culinária japonesa, por meio do uso de técnicas e ferramentas desenvolvidas por autores renomados da área. Este estudo visa auxiliar a empresa a aumentar sua competitividade, direcionando seus recursos e esforços através de princípios estratégicos. A metodologia de implementação do planejamento estratégico usada neste trabalho propõe 4 etapas: diagnóstico estratégico, missão da empresa, instrumentos prescritivos e quantitativos e controle e avaliação. Os resultados ao final do trabalho destacam a receptividade da empresa quanto à aplicação da metodologia proposta.According to SEBRAE, micro and small companies correspond to the vast majority of enterprises, being responsible for generating majority of jobs with a formal contract in Brazil. However, about almost half of these enterprises go out of business before the first 2 years of operation, and one of the main reasons is the lack of strategic planning in these businesses. Within this context, this paper aims to elaborate the strategic planning of a Japanese cooking company, with techniques and tools developed by renowned authors of the area. This study aims to help the company increase its competitiveness by directing its resources and efforts through strategic principles. The strategic planning implementation methodology used in this work proposes four steps: strategic diagnosis, company mission, prescriptive and quantitative instruments and control and evaluation. The results of the work highlight the receptivity of the company regarding the application of the proposed methodology

"Los dueños de Chile somos nosotros": retrato de la élite en Los Millonarios, de Teatro La María

This article develops an analysis of the play Los Millonarios 2015 by Chilean company La María. Written by Alexis Moreno and premiered in 2015 in Santiago, the play tells the story of a group of lawyers, wealthy, racists and partners of a very important and powerful law firm, who decided to defend a Mapuche citizen accused of killing a couple of agricultural entrepreneurs in the Wallmapu zone. The analysis focuses mainly on the dramatic material, with particular interest in exploring the dramaturgical operations used by Alexis Moreno to endow the oligarch characters of an abject nature and the use of archive material as a mechanism to historicize the fiction. Throughout the citizenry’s demands for deep reforms to the neoliberal model and the current constituent process derived from them, Chilean elite (understood as a minority group with a high economic, political and cultural capital) has been targeted and questioned regarding its role as author and gatekeeper of this model. Within this context, this article places Los millonarios as a case study of the last decade’s theatre repertoire which, aligned with the social mobilization processes, aims to shed a light and disarticulate the different dimensions in which these elites operate, with the ultimate goal of provoking in the audience a discussion about the elitist nature of the foundations on which national identity is built on. Keywords: Chilean theatre, nation-estates, oligarchy, Mapuche. Este artí­culo desarrolla un análisis del montaje Los millonarios, de la compañí­a chilena La Marí­a. Escrita por Alexis Moreno y estrenada en Santiago en 2015, la obra trata sobre unos abogados millonarios, racistas y socios de una importante y poderosa firma, quienes deciden tomar la defensa de un ciudadano mapuche, acusado del asesinato de una pareja de empresarios agricultores en la zona del Wallmapu (territorio mapuche). El análisis se enfoca principalmente en las operaciones y el material dramatúrgicos utilizados por Alexis Moreno para dotar a los personajes oligarcas de una naturaleza abyecta y la utilización en escena de material de archivo como mecanismo de historización de la ficción. En medio de las demandas de la ciudadaní­a por una reforma al modelo neoliberal y el actual proceso constituyente derivado de estas, la elite chilena (entendida como un grupo minoritario con un alto capital económico, polí­tico y cultural) ha sido identificada y cuestionada en su rol de autora y protectora de este modelo. Este artí­culo sitúa a Los millonarios como caso estudio del repertorio teatral nacional que, en sintoní­a con los procesos de movilización social del Chile contemporáneo, busca visibilizar y desarticular las distintas dimensiones en que las elites operan en el paí­s y, en último término, provocar en el espectador una discusión acerca del carácter elitario y supresor de los fundamentos en los que se basa la identidad nacional

Jointly Exploring Client Drift and Catastrophic Forgetting in Dynamic Learning

Federated and Continual Learning have emerged as potential paradigms for the robust and privacy-aware use of Deep Learning in dynamic environments. However, Client Drift and Catastrophic Forgetting are fundamental obstacles to guaranteeing consistent performance. Existing work only addresses these problems separately, which neglects the fact that the root cause behind both forms of performance deterioration is connected. We propose a unified analysis framework for building a controlled test environment for Client Drift -- by perturbing a defined ratio of clients -- and Catastrophic Forgetting -- by shifting all clients with a particular strength. Our framework further leverages this new combined analysis by generating a 3D landscape of the combined performance impact from both. We demonstrate that the performance drop through Client Drift, caused by a certain share of shifted clients, is correlated to the drop from Catastrophic Forgetting resulting from a corresponding shift strength. Correlation tests between both problems for Computer Vision (CelebA) and Medical Imaging (PESO) support this new perspective, with an average Pearson rank correlation coefficient of over 0.94. Our framework's novel ability of combined spatio-temporal shift analysis allows us to investigate how both forms of distribution shift behave in mixed scenarios, opening a new pathway for better generalization. We show that a combination of moderate Client Drift and Catastrophic Forgetting can even improve the performance of the resulting model (causing a "Generalization Bump") compared to when only one of the shifts occurs individually. We apply a simple and commonly used method from Continual Learning in the federated setting and observe this phenomenon to be reoccurring, leveraging the ability of our framework to analyze existing and novel methods for Federated and Continual Learning

Análise dinâmico mecânica de um elevador de canecas centrífugo

Este trabalho analisa um elevador de canecas, estruturando um método de cálculo para dimensionamento deste equipamento, a partir de metodologias atuais empregada na indústria, e então comparando seus resultados previstos. Os cálculos, escritos em código VBA, para possibilitar a geração de resultados instantâneos e seguros, dão a liberdade de modificar variáveis de entrada e avaliar os diferentes resultados obtidos, para então compará-los. Com a construção de um protótipo é avaliado o método de dimensionamento e validado sua eficácia para projetar um elevador funcional com descarga centrífuga. Com isto contribui-se para um refinamento dos cálculos de previsão teórica e analisa-se a prática construtiva e os efeitos sinergéticos das variáveis envolvidas na descarga do elevador. Assim, é possível averiguar a compatibilidade entre os resultados teóricos e experimentais para aproximar os resultados previstos pelo projeto com a realidade economizando-se na construção de equipamentos similares.This study analyzes a bucket elevator, setting the equations required to create a method of calculation to dimensioning of this equipment with current methodologies employed in the industry and compares the results. The calculations, written in VBA code, enable a generation of fast and safe results. With this procedure, there is independence to modify the input variables and evaluate the different results obtained, and then compare them. With the construction of a prototype the dimensioning method is evaluated, and its effectiveness validated for designing a functional centrifugal discharge elevator. This contributes to a refinement of the theoretical calculations, analyzes the constructive practice and allows seeing the synergistic effects of the variables involved in the lift discharge. Thus, it is possible to verify the compatibility between the theoretical and experimental results in order to bring the projected results closer to the reality as for improving the used methodology and lowering costs on the construction of similar equipment

Insatisfacción con la imagen corporal entre estudiantes mujeres de una universidad particular y estatal de Trujillo

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo establecer la diferencia en la Insatisfacción con la Imagen Corporal entre estudiantes mujeres de una Universidad Particular y una Universidad Estatal de la ciudad de Trujillo. El tipo de investigación, según su finalidad es de carácter práctico, debido a que hace uso de una teoría para solucionar un determinado problema; según su naturaleza es cuantitativa, dado que hace uso de procedimientos estadísticos; según su carácter es descriptiva comparativa, porque posee una variable y dos poblaciones de las cuales se intentan demostrar sus diferencias. Para la recolección de información durante el proceso de investigación se utilizó el Test de Imagen de Garcia (2013), el cual consta de tres dimensiones: cognitivo – emocional, perceptiva y comportamental, se aplicó en una muestra de 60 estudiantes universitarias. Finalmente, la investigación tuvo como resultado que no existe diferencia en la Insatisfacción con la Imagen Corporal entre estudiantes mujeres de una Universidad Particular y Estatal de la ciudad de Trujillo, debido a que la Insatisfacción con la Imagen Corporal se caracteriza principalmente por la presencia de juicios valorativos sobre el propio cuerpo que no coinciden con la realidad y características reales

Incidente de Impacto Fiscal en el Bloque de Constitucionalidad en Colombia

Mediante el presente artículo se analizarán los principios de tutela judicial efectiva y sostenibilidad fiscal existen en Colombia y se relacionan creando armonía en la producción de fallos de las altas cortes. Lo anterior, teniendo como referencia los diferentes procesos administrativos mediante los cuales los sujetos procesales actúan y se desenvuelven judicialmente para la protección de sus derechos. El legislador aclara que, en el momento de la expedición de sus fallos, se debe dar debida protección a los derechos de cada una de las partes procesales teniendo en cuenta que invocar el principio de sostenibilidad fiscal por parte de la administración seria ir en contra de dicha protección. En consecuencia, este trabajo de investigación busca responder a las preguntas: ¿Se genera alguna afectación a los derechos de los sujetos procesales invocar el principio de sostenibilidad fiscal a la hora de proferir fallos? Y ¿Cuál es el papel del bloque de constitucionalidad en dicho procedimiento administrativo? La Constitución Política de Colombia de 1991 (en su artículo 93), provee la cláusula de inclusión de normas de carácter internacional como lo son tratados suscritos y ratificados por la Nación para la protección de derechos humanos como en repetidas ocasiones se ha indicado que es la tutela judicial efectiva. Palabras claves: Sostenibilidad fiscal, Bloque de Constitucionalidad, incidente de Impacto Fiscal y Tutela Judicial Efectiva.Universidad Libre-- facultda de Derecho -- Especialización Derecho AdministrativoThrough this article, the principles of effective judicial protection and fiscal sustainability will be analyzed in Colombia and are related creating harmony in the production of rulings of the high courts. The foregoing, having as reference the different administrative processes through which the procedural subjects act and develop judicially for the protection of their rights. The legislator clarifies that at the time of issuing its rulings, due protection must be given to the rights of each of the procedural parties, taking into account that invoking the principle of fiscal sustainability by the administration would be going against said protection. Consequently, this research work seeks to answer the questions: Does it generate any affectation to the rights of the procedural subjects to invoke the principle of fiscal sustainability when making rulings? And what is the role of the constitutional block in said administrative procedure? The Political Constitution of Colombia of 1991 in its article 93, provides the clause of inclusion of international norms such as treaties signed and ratified by the Nation for the protection of human rights as it has been repeatedly indicated that it is judicial protection. effective