Proposed financial model for sustainable corporate growth

Issues such as technical and economic capacity in the production of goods and services, administrative and financial management, and marketing policies, are crucial for sustainable growth of organizations, understood as a dynamic process that has an effect on value creation of organizations. The objective of this paper is to define a model including the particular aspects of policy affecting sustainable growth corporate, based on the quantification of financial components. For the realization of this document took into account various studies and research concepts and approaches discussed trying to identify factors of growth corporate, such as planning, control, management, financial management and human resources, monitoring and evaluation, among others. However this document is limited to analyze components related to financial managementAspectos como la capacidad técnica y económica en la producción de bienes y servicios, la gestión administrativa y financiera, y las políticas de comercialización o mercadeo, son determinantes para el crecimiento sostenible de las organizaciones, entendido como un proceso dinámico que tiene efecto en la creación de valor de las mismas. El objetivo fundamental de este trabajo es definir un modelo que contenga los aspectos particulares que afectan una política de crecimiento corporativo sostenible, a partir de la cuantificación de componentes financieros. Para la realización de este documento se tuvieron en cuenta diversos estudios e investigaciones que exponen conceptos y enfoques que tratan de identificar factores de crecimiento corporativo, tales como planificación, control, dirección, manejo de recursos financieros y humanos, monitoreo y evaluación, entre otros1. Sin embargo, el presente documento se limitará a analizar componentes relacionados con la gestión financier

Relating Freshwater Flow with Estuarine Water Quality in the Southern Everglades Mangrove Ecotone

Florida Bay is more saline than it was historically, and reduced freshwater flows may lead to more phosphorus inputs to the mangrove ecotone from the marine end-member. This is important given plans to restore freshwater flow into eastern Florida Bay. We investigated the relationships between salinity, nutrients, and hydrologic variables in the mangrove ecotone of Taylor Slough. We expected that total phosphorus (TP) would increase with salinity, reflecting a downstream marine source, while total nitrogen (TN) would increase with flow in the mangrove ecotone. Despite expectations of increased flows improving the ecological health of lower Taylor Slough and Florida Bay, total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) dynamics may shift in response to new conditions of flow and salinity as well as organic carbon, N, and P availability. Our results showed that TP concentrations are more discharge-driven while TN is more variable and potentially derived from different sources along the flow path from the freshwater Everglades marshes to Florida Bay. Increased flow of freshwater through Taylor Slough will likely decrease TP concentrations in this historically oligotrophic and P-limited ecosystem. However, more studies along the mangrove ecotone is needed to understand how increased flows will affect nitrogen dynamics relative to phosphorus

The ππ→πγ⋆\pi\pi\to\pi\gamma^\star amplitude and the resonant ρ→πγ⋆\rho\to\pi\gamma^\star transition from lattice QCD

We present a determination of the $P$-wave $\pi\pi\to\pi\gamma^\star$ transition amplitude from lattice quantum chromodynamics. Matrix elements of the vector current in a finite-volume are extracted from three-point correlation functions, and from these we determine the infinite-volume amplitude using a generalization of the Lellouch-L\"uscher formalism. We determine the amplitude for a range of discrete values of the $\pi\pi$ energy and virtuality of the photon, and observe the expected dynamical enhancement due to the $\rho$ resonance. Describing the energy dependence of the amplitude, we are able to analytically continue into the complex energy plane and from the residue at the $\rho$ pole extract the $\rho\to \pi \gamma^\star$ transition form factor. This calculation, at $m_\pi\approx 400$ MeV, is the first to determine the form factor of an unstable hadron within a first principles approach to QCD.Comment: 20 pages, 16 figures, 3 table

Critical Translingual Perspectives on California Multilingual Education Policy

Policies restricting bilingual education have yielded to policy frameworks touting its benefits. This shift corresponds with evolving lines of debate, focusing now on how bilingual education can best support racialized bilingual learners. One element of this new debate is the perspective on language underlying curriculum in bilingual programs, with a focus on translanguaging– normalization of the language practices of bilingual communities and positing that bilinguals draw from a singular linguistic repertoire. This article examines initiatives undertaken in California between 2010 and 2019 using Critical Policy Analysis. The work highlights that while opportunities for translanguaging have arisen, tensions between heteroglossic perspectives and the impulses toward standardization and commodification of language undermine such possibilities, and that notable gaps remain between teacher preparation frameworks and intended pedagogical practice

17 new very low-mass members in Taurus. The brown dwarf deficit revisited

Recent studies of the substellar population in the Taurus cloud have revealed a deficit of brown dwarfs (BD) compared to the Trapezium cluster population (Briceno et al 1998; Luhman 2000; Luhman et al 2003a; Luhman 2004). However, these works have concentrated on the highest stellar density regions of the Taurus cloud. We have performed a large scale optical survey of this region, covering a total area of 30 deg^2, and encompassing the densest part of the cloud as well as their surroundings, down to a mass detection limits of 15 Jupiter Masses (MJ). In this paper, we present the optical spectroscopic follow-up observations of 97 photometrically selected potential new low-mass Taurus members, of which 27 are strong late-M (SpT < M4V) candidates. These observations reveal 5 new very low mass (VLM) Taurus members and 12 new BDs. Combining our observations with previously published results, we derive an updated substellar to stellar ratio in Taurus of Rss =0.23 +/- 0.05. This ratio now appears consistent with the value previously derived in the Trapezium cluster under similar assumptions of 0.26 +/- 0.04. We find strong indication that the relative numbers of BDs with respect to stars is decreased by a factor 2 in the central regions of the aggregates with respect to the more distributed population. Our findings are best explained in the context of the embryo-ejection model where brown dwarfs originate from dynamical interactions in small N unstable multiple systems.Comment: 20 pages, 15 figure

Analytic Continuation of the Relativistic Three-Particle Scattering Amplitudes

We investigate the relativistic scattering of three identical scalar bosons interacting via pair-wise interactions. Extending techniques from the nonrelativistic three-body scattering theory, we provide a detailed and general prescription for solving and analytically continuing integral equations describing the three-body reactions. We use these techniques to study a system with zero angular momenta described by a single scattering length leading to a bound state in a two-body subchannel. We obtain bound-state-particle and three-particle amplitudes in the previously unexplored kinematical regime; in particular, for real energies below elastic thresholds and complex energies in the physical and unphysical Riemann sheets. We extract positions of three-particle bound-states that agree with previous finite-volume studies, providing further evidence for the consistency of the relativistic finite-volume three-body quantization conditions. We also determine previously unobserved virtual bound states in this theory. Finally, we find numerical evidence of the breakdown of the two-body finite-volume formalism in the vicinity of the left-hand cuts and argue for the generalization of the existing formalism

New record of Pachyarmatherium (Cingulata: Pachyarmatheriidae) from the Late Pleistocene in Venezuela

The Falcón state, in northwestern Venezuela, preserves one of the oldest localities documenting human presence on the Americas in association with megafauna remains. One of these localities is the Late Pleistocene Taima-Taima site, which is located in the vicinity of the Caribbean coast. Excavations since the 1960s in the Taima-Taima site, and surroundings, have offered new insights into the faunal assemblages that inhabited this arid coastal savannah region during the Late Pleistocene. Isolated osteoderms collected in recent prospections allow us to report here the presence of the extinct cingulate Pachyarmatherium cf. brasiliense and Pachyarmatherium sp. from the Taima-Taima site, and the new locality Cucuruchú (Las Dunas). The record of these taxa in the Late Pleistocene of the Falcón state increases the known paleodiversity of Cingulata for the region and expands the geographical distribution of the genus, which is poorly known in South America

El portafolio virtual como instrumento de evaluación pedagógica en Ecuador. Valoraciones desde el acto docente

This research shows a study of teacher appreciation on the effectiveness of the virtual portfolio as an instrument of pedagogical evaluation in Ecuador. The study had the sample participation of 100 teachers in active practice, belonging to the Basic General Education Level, in the Coast-Galapagos region, during the first five-month period of the 2020-2021 school year. Participants were selected by intentional sampling and under informed consent. The instrument applied is a decimal scale test to measure the perception of evaluation instruments, with a total of ten propositions, each one with possible variations ranging from a minimum score of 1 to a maximum score of 10 for each proposed assertion, which Its purpose was to identify the degree of validity of this strategy. The results show that in the opinion of teachers the virtual portfolio is a highly effective tool in pedagogical evaluation, so the study concludes that its application in the educational context as a pedagogical tool is relevant and effective.La presente investigación desarrolló un estudio de la apreciación docente sobre la efectividad del portafolio virtual como instrumento de evaluación pedagógica en Ecuador. El estudio contó con la participación muestral de 100 docentes en ejercicio activo, perteneciente al nivel de educación general básica, en la región Costa-Galápagos, durante el primer quinquemestre del año lectivo 2020-2021. Los participantes fueron seleccionados por muestreo intencional y bajo consentimiento informado. El instrumento aplicado fue un test de escala decimal para medir la percepción sobre instrumentos de evaluación, con un total de diez proposiciones, cada una con variaciones posibles que van desde un puntaje mínimo de 1 hasta un puntaje máximo de 10 por cada aseveración propuesta, que tuvo como propósito identificar el grado de validez de esta estrategia. Los resultados demostraron que, a juicio de los docentes, el portafolio virtual es una herramienta altamente efectiva en la evaluación pedagógica, por lo que el estudio concluye que su aplicación en el contexto educativo como herramienta pedagógica resulta pertinente y efectivo

Estudio de un programa de beneficios para los empleados y de su administración en una empresa industrial panameña

Objetivos Generales de la Investigación: Estudiar la cobertura y efectividad de las actividades o programa de la empresa en mención, dirigidos a beneficiar a los empleados. Analizar, en caso de existir, la estructura administrativa dispuesta para el desarrollo de estas actividades o programa y proponer un modelo alterno dirigido a reemplazar o mejorar el existente. Objetivos Específicos de la Investigación: Determinar la existencia, de actividades para el bienestar del empleado en la empresa industrial estudiada. Determinar por igual, la existencia a nivel organizacional de estructuras para la ejecución de estas actividades. Identificar a nivel de los trabajadores y de la administración de la empresa la opinión existente con relación a la variedad y cobertura de estos programas. Identificar a nivel de los trabajadores de la empresa opiniones sobre otras actividades en beneficio del empleado que pueden ser desarrolladas o añadidas a las ya existentes en la empresa. Determinar, en caso de existir, si la estructura administrativa para el desarrollo de las actividades en beneficio de los empleados resulta eficaz para el logro de los objetivos propuestos. Proponer un listado detallado de actividades que, en opinión de la administración, pueden ser implementados en beneficio de los empleados. Proponer un modelo de estructura administrativa para la administración de este programa o, en caso de ser requerido, mejoras o adecuaciones a la estructura vigente

Issues and Opportunities in Exotic Hadrons

The last few years have been witness to a proliferation of new results concerning heavy exotic hadrons. Experimentally, many new signals have been discovered that could be pointing towards the existence of tetraquarks, pentaquarks, and other exotic configurations of quarks and gluons. Theoretically, advances in lattice field theory techniques place us at the cusp of understanding complex coupled-channel phenomena, modelling grows more sophisticated, and effective field theories are being applied to an ever greater range of situations. It is thus an opportune time to evaluate the status of the field. In the following, a series of high priority experimental and theoretical issues concerning heavy exotic hadrons is presented