The Implications of Greek, Turkish, and U.S. Triangular Relations on Transatlantic Security

Since the discovery of hydrocarbon resources in the Eastern Mediterranean, tensions between Turkey and Greece have been exacerbated due to enhanced geostrategic competition in the region (Dursun-Ozkanca 2021). Against the background of Turkey’s increased self-confidence in its foreign policy in the region and its “Blue Homeland” doctrine on maritime claims in the Eastern Mediterranean (Gingeras 2020) as well as its changing relations with the EU and the US, the need for scholarly analyses of regional competition in the Eastern Mediterranean and its implications for transatlantic security relations has become more evident. While there have been few academic works focusing on the diplomatic row between Turkey and Greece in the 1990s (Öymen 2000; Bağcı 2001; Missiroli 2002; Bilgin 2003; Tsakonas 2008), there is no theoretically informed and up-to-date analysis of the developments in the Eastern Mediterranean in the literature. Several solutions have been proposed, but some are unrealistic or attempt to address the entirety of the problem at once. Instead, I propose cementing foundational relations through commercial diplomacy – a strategy backed by the U.S. Department of State in the recently publicized ten-year Global Fragility Plan (United States Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability, 2020)

Núcleos de apoyo contable y fiscal Naf

En el presente trabajo se evidenciará la participación de un estudiante de la UniversidadCooperativa de Colombia en los Núcleos de Apoyo Contable y Fiscal NAF y se anexarálaevidencia de la respuesta oportuna que dió a todas las solicitudes por parte de los usuarioscontribuyentes. Los Núcleos de Apoyo Contable y Fiscal NAF fueron creados por la DIANcomorecaudadora de Impuestos con el propósito de crear una relación directa entre la DIANy loscontribuyentes, brindándoles una herramienta con la cual puedan resolver todas sus inquietudes sobre el manejo del portal y diferentes temas y conceptos tributarios. Es importante enfatizar en que el incumplimiento del pago de los impuestos por partedelos contribuyentes, causa en el país problemas económicos y deficiencias para dar respuestaalas necesidades sociales de los colombianos por falta de recursos en el Estado. De estarealidad surge la necesidad de crear los Núcleos de Apoyo Contable y Fiscal NAF, dondelaDIAN hace un acompañamiento permanente y capacitación a estudiantes de Universidadespara que puedan dar respuesta a las dudas y necesidades de los contribuyentes de Colombiayasí incentivar el cumplimiento en sus obligaciones tributarias y disminuir la evasión y fraudefiscal.Introducción -- Descripción del Problema --Objetivos General -- Objetivos Específicos -- Justificación -- Marco de Referencia -- Marco legal -- Metodología -- Asesorías Día No 1 -- Fecha de Asesoría -- Consulta realizada -- Diagnóstico Formulado -- Norma Aplicada -- Análisis de la Normatividad Aplicable -- Asesorías Día No 2 -- Fecha de Asesoría -- Consulta realizada -- Diagnóstico Formulado -- Norma Aplicada -- Análisis de la Normatividad Aplicable -- Asesorías Día No 3 -- Fecha de Asesoría -- Consulta realizada -- Diagnóstico Formulado -- Norma Aplicada -- Análisis de la Normatividad Aplicable -- Asesoría Día No 4 -- Fecha de Asesoría -- Consulta realizada -- Diagnóstico Formulado -- Norma Aplicada -- Limitaciones Encontradas -- Resultados Obtenidos -- Conclusiones -- Recomendaciones -- Referencias Bibliográficas -- Anexos -- Anexo 1. Asesorías 22-Febrero-2022 -- Anexo 2. Asesorías 01-Marzo-2022 -- Anexo 3. Asesorías 08-Marzo-2022 -- Anexo 4. Asesorías 29-Marzo-2022

Aproximación cuadrática al flujo de carga óptimo en sistemas de distribución considerando generación distribuida

El flujo de carga optimo tiene como objetivo la planeación del sistema de potencia permitiendo que este trabaje de forma segura y contable, y as suministrar la demanda que el sistema requiera minimizando una función objetivo mientras que satisface restricciones operativas de la red. Este trabajo de grado busca encontrar por medio de una aproximación cuadrática soluciones convexas al flujo de carga optimo considerando generación distribuida. Utilizando la herramienta CVX de Matlab se realizó el flujo de carga optimo con el objetivo de minimizar las pérdidas y encontrar la potencia generada de los generadores distribuidos que se consideraron. La metodología se desarrolló en los sistemas de prueba IEEE33 e IEEE13. Los resultados que se obtuvieron muestran que la implementación de generación distribuida disminuye las pérdidas del sistema

La reforma del Estado en materia de licitación pública como punto de partida para estimular la participación de oferentes

Inicialmente, el Estado moderno, nacido de la revolución francesa, era acérrimamente liberal, lo cual suponía la menor injerencia posible de la administración en los asuntos privados de los ciudadanos. Esto, unido a la revolución industrial que tuvo lugar a lo largo del siglo XIX, hizo nacer lo que conocemos por capitalismo, que en poco tiempo llevó a tal extremo la explotación de unos ciudadanos por otros, que generó situaciones sociales insostenibles. Tras estos estallidos revolucionarios, la concepción del Estado empieza a evolucionar hacia lo que hoy conocemos como Estado Social de Derecho, es decir, un Estado preocupado por el bienestar medio de la mayoría de los ciudadanos y que, para conseguir tal objetivo, fomenta, por una parte, la actividad económica privada, fortaleciendo las infraestructuras y el entramado económico y social del país, y por otra parte interviene corrigiendo desigualdades y prestando un mayor número de servicios a los ciudadanos. Este progresivo e importante incremento de las actuaciones del Estado provoca que la administración pública necesite utilizar, cada vez más, la contratación con particulares para hacer frente a la realización de determinados servicios y, por fin, cuando tales contrataciones se generalizan, surgen definitivamente los contratos administrativos, diferenciados de los contratos civiles, con una regulación específica propia, determinada por una doble exigencia: las peculiaridades funcionales de la Administración como organización y las peculiaridades derivadas del interés público y de la posición dominante de la administración

Conceptualizing Quality of College Life

The objectives of this study were to mathematically model the quality of college life (QCL) concept and to study the associations between attachment style, emotion regulation abilities, psychological needs fulfillment and QCL via structural equation modeling. Data was collected from 507 undergraduate students (men = 178, women = 329; age M = 21.78 years, SD = 4.37). This data was used to provide evidence for the validity of the College Adjustment Scales (CAS) as a measure of quality of college life. The CAS demonstrated good convergent validity with the World Health Organization Quality of Life measure (WHOQOL), Subjective Well-being and Psychological Well-being Scales. Results: Students who were insecurely attached were as likely to feel adequate in their academic and professional endeavors as securely attached students. However, insecurely attached students had lower QCL levels, lower fulfillment of psychological needs and more emotion regulation difficulties than securely attached students. The results also indicated that Anxious Attachment and Avoidant Attachment were positively and strongly associated. Nonetheless, Anxious Attachment and Avoidant Attachment affected QCL through different mechanism. Emotion regulation mediated the path between Anxious Attachment and QCL while the fulfillment of psychological needs mediated the path between Avoidant Attachment and QCL. The fulfillment of psychological needs also mediated the path between emotion regulation and QCL. The described pattern of results was found for three separate models representing 1) the student’s attachment with their romantic partner, 2) best friend and 3) mother. Additionally, the study’s findings suggest a change in primary attachment figure during the college years. Emotion regulation, the fulfillment of psychological needs and QCL were all affected more strongly by the student’s attachment style with their romantic partner and best friend compared to their attachment style with their parents

Understanding Quality of Life in Older Adults

I analyzed the 2004 and 2006 Health and Retirement Study data to test structural equation models of the quality of life (QOL) construct. The participants (N = 1352) were non-institutionalized individuals aged 42 and older (M = 65.70, SD = 10.88), with an average education of 12.73 years (SD = 2.96) and of varied ethnicities. The results indicated that physical functioning, affective experience, life satisfaction and social support could serve as indicators for a second order QOL factor. Furthermore, the developed QOL model explained 96% of the variance of the CASP-19 (Control, Autonomy, Self-realization and Pleasure), a QOL measure that reflects fulfillment of psychological needs. The results also indicated that Depression and Life Satisfaction are related through reciprocal causation and that Physical Functioning is more likely to cause a change in Depression than the reverse. The results suggest that QOL is a complex, multidimensional concept that should be studied at different levels of analysis

Citizen participation, collective action and digital media: Seeking spatial justice in Manizales, Colombia

Ph. D. Thesis.This thesis explores the possibilities and limitations of citizen participation and collective action for spatial justice across the online and offline spaces of the everyday. It uses the case study of Manizales, Colombia; a city that proclaims itself as innovative, socially inclusive and participatory. Two hypotheses informed the research design. One, that despite city’s efforts on digital innovation, local government in Manizales had yet to use the collaborative potential of digital media, in order to improve participatory and collaborative processes of city-making. And two, that there are significant differences in the perceptions from local government and social collectives, about the transforming potential of collective action and digital media uses for inclusion and participation. Consequently, the research questions explore the relationships between governmental initiatives and the everyday life of socio-territorial movements seeking spatial justice, as well as the ways in which citizens mobilise, the local roles of digital media in collective action, and the implications of the findings to transform debates about spatial justice in Manizales and beyond. Drawing on five months of place-based participant observation in Manizales, a year and a half of netnographic exercises (online participant observation), complemented by interviews and perception exercises, the thesis provides an empirical analysis that is grounded in the everyday processes of city-making, from the formal protocols to the informal and alternative. Three socio-territorial movements in the city served as the sub-cases of study, which included several individuals and collectives that became crucial participants in this research. Overall, this thesis highlights the importance of understanding local socio-political contexts in relation to processes and efforts around digital innovation for participation and collective action. Additionally, it argues that the expansion of urban planning, as a practice that embraces and makes the most of the chaos of participation – both online and offline, requires recognition and integration of city-making practices outside of hegemonic structures of power. Moreover, the findings reveal a case of urban contestation as an exercise of transgressive, rather than insurgent citizenship, which can enrich current debates about the Right to the City and practical approaches towards data and spatial justice in the city.Research Excellency Academy, School of Architecture Planning and Landscape at Newcastle Universit

Digenís Acritas i Tirant lo Blanc: estudi comparatiu sobre aspectes concrets de les dues obres

Treball Final de Master en Comunicació Intercultural i d'Ensenyament de Llengües. Codi: SAN014. Curs: 2013/201