Roadblocks to the implementation of problem-oriented policing in Montevideo

In the broad context of Uruguay’s police reform, the Ministry of Interior is implementing a pilot Problem-Oriented Policing (POP) program in Montevideo since late 2012. This research examined the obstacles confronted by the program throughout its implementation. Using a grounded theory approach, qualitative data was collected through 20 semi-structured interviews with members of the Uruguay National Police (UNP) of different ranks. Findings were analyzed based on the following categories: a) contextual factors; b) theoretical and practical inaccuracies; c) characteristics, skills and actions of project managers; d) resistance and motivational issues; e) resources; f) external support and cooperation. Consistent with research conducted on POP in other settings, findings suggest the program confronted a diverse set of obstacles over its implementation corresponding to all but one of the proposed categories. The study concludes with a series of recommendations to inform future POP endeavors by the UNP.Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovació

Roadblocks to the implementation of problem-oriented policing in Montevideo

In the broad context of Uruguay’s police reform, the Ministry of Interior is implementing a pilot Problem-Oriented Policing (POP) program in Montevideo since late 2012. This research examined the obstacles confronted by the program throughout its implementation. Using a grounded theory approach, qualitative data was collected through 20 semi-structured interviews with members of the Uruguay National Police (UNP) of different ranks. Findings were analyzed based on the following categories: a) contextual factors; b) theoretical and practical inaccuracies; c) characteristics, skills and actions of project managers; d) resistance and motivational issues; e) resources; f) external support and cooperation. Consistent with research conducted on POP in other settings, findings suggest the program confronted a diverse set of obstacles over its implementation corresponding to all but one of the proposed categories. The study concludes with a series of recommendations to inform future POP endeavors by the UNP.Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovació

A Graph Theory of Rook Placements

Two boards are rook equivalent if they have the same number of non-attacking rook placements for any number of rooks. Define a rook equivalence graph of an equivalence set of Ferrers boards by specifying that two boards are connected by an edge if you can obtain one of the boards by moving squares in the other board out of one column and into a singe other column. Given such a graph, we categorize which boards will yield connected graphs. We also provide some cases where common graphs will or will not be the graph for some set of rook equivalent Ferrers boards. Finally, we extend this graph definition to the $m$-level rook placement generalization developed by Briggs and Remmel. This yields a graph on the set of rook equivalent singleton boards, and we characterize which singleton boards give rise to a connected graph.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figure

How to make electric power markets work : the case of Central America

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-88).by José Federico Castillo Martínez.M.S

Multiorgan retrieval and preservation of the thoracic and abdominal organs in Maastricht III donors

This editorial describes the indications and technical aspects of the simultaneous retrieval of thoracic and abdominal organs in Maastricht III donors as well as the preservation of such organs until their implantation.©The Author(s) 202

Influence of thinning intensity and canopy type on Scots pine stand and growth dynamics in a mixed managed forest

Aim of the study: We analysed the effects of thinning intensity and canopy type on Scots pine growth and stand dynamics in a mixed Scots pine-beech forest. Area of the study: Western Pyrenees. Material and methods: Three thinning intensities were applied in 1999 (0, 20 and 30% basal area removed) and 2009 (0, 20 and 40%) on 9 plots. Within each plot, pure pine and mixed pine-beech patches are distinguished. All pine trees were inventoried in 1999, 2009 and 2014. The effects of treatments on the tree and stand structure variables (density, basal area, stand and tree volume), on the periodic annual increment in basal area and stand and tree volume, and on mortality rates, were analysed using linear mixed effects models. Main Results: The enhancement of tree growth was mainly noticeable after the second thinning. Growth rates following thinning were similar or higher in the moderate than in the severe thinning. Periodic stand volume annual increments were higher in the thinned than in the unthinned plots, but no differences were observed between the thinned treatments. We observed an increase in the differences of the Tree volume annual increment between canopy types (mixed < pure) over time in the unthinned plots, as beech crowns developed. Research highlights: Moderate thinning is suggested as an appropriate forest practice at early pine age in these mixed forests, since it produced higher tree growth rates than the severe thinning and it counteracted the negative effect of beech on pine growth observed in the unthinned plots.Keywords: competition; Fagus sylvatica L.; Pinus sylvestris L.; forest management; mortality; Mediterranean forest

Arachidonic acid effect on the allosteric gating mechanism of BK (Slo1) channels associated with the β1 subunit

Arachidonic acid (AA) is a fatty acid involved in the modulation of several ion channels. Previously, we reported that AA activates the high conductance Ca2+- and voltage-dependent K+ channel (BK) in vascular smooth muscle depending on the expression of the auxiliary β1 subunit. Here, using the patch-clamp technique on BK channel co-expressed with β1 subunit in a heterologous cell expression system, we analyzed whether AA modifies the three functional modules involved in the channel gating: the voltage sensor domain (VSD), the pore domain (PD), and the intracellular calcium sensor domain (CSD). We present evidence that AA activates BK channel in a direct way, inducing VSD stabilization on its active configuration observed as a significant left shift in the Q-V curve obtained from gating currents recordings. Moreover, AA facilitates the channel opening transitions when VSD are at rest, and the CSD are unoccupied. Furthermore, the activation was independent of the intracellular Ca2+ concentration and reduced when the BK channel was co-expressed with the Y74A mutant of the β1 subunit. These results allow us to present new insigths in the mechanism by which AA modulates BK channels co-expressed with its auxiliary β1 subunit.Fil: Martín, Pedro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos; ArgentinaFil: Moncada, Melisa. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos; ArgentinaFil: Castillo, Karen Noel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Valparaíso; ChileFil: Orsi, Federico. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos; ArgentinaFil: Ducca, Gerónimo Marcelo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos; ArgentinaFil: Fernández, José Manuel. Universitat Pompeu Fabra; EspañaFil: González, Carlos. Universidad de Valparaíso; ChileFil: Milesi, Verónica. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos; Argentin

Text mining aplicado a la base de datos del Servicio del 911 de la provincia de Jujuy

La minería de texto o text mining la englobamos dentro de las técnicas y modelos de minería de datos o data mining, que es el análisis matemático para deducir patrones y tendencias que existen en los datos, patrones que no pueden detectarse mediante una exploración tradicional de los datos porque las relaciones son demasiado complejas o por el volumen de datos que se maneja. A diferencia del data mining, el text mining trabaja sobre datos no estructurados en grandes colecciones de datos. La base de datos del Servicio del 911 de la provincia de Jujuy presenta un panorama muy interesante, ya que si bien la información que maneja dicho servicio es almacenada en una base de datos estructurada, la tabla principal que almacena los incidentes que son cargados por los tele-operadores posee un campo llamado descripción donde allí se vuelca la información más importante y los detalles del llamado de emergencia, información que no puede almacenarse en los campos del formulario de carga. Este campo ofrece una alternativa muy interesante de exploración pues el contenido no estructurado de dicho campo no es analizado ni tenido en cuenta por los informes tradicionales que utilizan en la actualidad.Eje: Bases de Datos y Minería de Datos.Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informátic

Site survey para la implementación de una red WI-FI

En este trabajo se propone una alternativa para la realización de estudios de sitio a bajo costo, para la implementación de una red Wifi en las instalaciones de la Facultad de Ingeniería, analizando los parámetros más importantes para determinar la colocación apropiada de los dispositivos inalámbricos con el objetivo de obtener la red deseada, evitando interferencias, reduciendo zonas de cobertura conflictivas, evitando que los dispositivos se desconecten y perjudiquen a la red completa.Eje: Arquitecturas, Redes y Sistemas Operativos.Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informátic

Site survey para la implementación de una red WI-FI

En este trabajo se propone una alternativa para la realización de estudios de sitio a bajo costo, para la implementación de una red Wifi en las instalaciones de la Facultad de Ingeniería, analizando los parámetros más importantes para determinar la colocación apropiada de los dispositivos inalámbricos con el objetivo de obtener la red deseada, evitando interferencias, reduciendo zonas de cobertura conflictivas, evitando que los dispositivos se desconecten y perjudiquen a la red completa.Eje: Arquitecturas, Redes y Sistemas Operativos.Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informátic