Strategic and operational risk in an international collaboration agency: a knowledge management solution

The International Cooperation Agency (identified in this article as IDEA) working in Colombia is one of the most important in Colombian society with programs that support gender rights, human rights, justice and peace, scholarships, aboriginal population, youth, afro descendants population, economic development in communities, and environmental development. The identified problem is based on the diversified offer of services, collaboration and social intervention which requires diverse groups of people with multiple agendas, ways to support their mandates, disciplines, and professional competences. Knowledge creation and the growth and sustainability of the organization can be in danger because of a silo culture and the resulting reduced leverage of the separate group capabilities. Organizational memory is generally formed by the tacit knowledge of the organization members, given the value of accumulated experience that this kind of social work implies. Its loss is therefore a strategic and operational risk when most problem interventions rely on direct work in the socio-economic field and living real experiences with communities. The knowledge management solution presented in this article starts first, with the identification of the people and groups concerned and the creation of a knowledge map as a means to strengthen the ties between organizational members; second, by introducing a content management system designed to support the documentation process and knowledge sharing process; and third, introducing a methodology for the adaptation of a Balanced Scorecard based on the knowledge management processes. These three main steps lead to a knowledge management “solution” that has been implemented in the organization, comprising three components: a knowledge management system, training support and promotion of cultural change

Genome Sequence of the Native Apiculate Wine Yeast Hanseniaspora vineae T02/19AF

The use of novel yeast strains for winemaking improves quality and provides variety including subtle characteristic differences in fine wines. Here we report the first genome of a yeast strain native to Uruguay, Hanseniaspora vineae T02/19AF, which has been shown to positively contribute to aroma and wine quality.Fil: Giorello, Facundo M.. Universidad de la República; UruguayFil: Berná, Luisa. Instituto Pasteur de Montevideo; UruguayFil: Greif, Gonzalo. Instituto Pasteur de Montevideo; UruguayFil: Camesasca, Laura. Inst. de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable; UruguayFil: Salzman, Valentina. Instituto Pasteur de Montevideo; Uruguay. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Medina, Karina. Universidad de la Republica. Facultad de Química; UruguayFil: Robello, Carlos. Instituto Pasteur de Montevideo; UruguayFil: Gaggero, Carina. Inst. de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable; UruguayFil: Aguilar, Pablo S.. Instituto Pasteur de Montevideo; UruguayFil: Carrau, Francisco. Sección Enología; Urugua

Experiencias compartidas sobre detección de micotoxinas de Fusarium a las harinas de soja, trigo y otros cultivos

Experiencias compartidas sobre detección de micotoxinas de Fusarium a las harinas de soja, trigo y otros cultivosFil: Peruzzo, Alejandra. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentin

Despojo como sinónimo de progreso: territorios riojanos acechados

El presente trabajo pretende reflexionar sobre el conflicto socioambiental en el territorio de la Provincia de La Rioja, producto del avance del modelo neoextractivista y neocolonizador; particularizado en proyectos de minería a gran escala, también denominada a cielo abierto. Estos conflictos traen aparejados la disputa de concepciones sobre el territorio, los bienes comunes y los pretendidosmodelos de desarrollo, interpelando los modos de mercantilización de la vida y la naturaleza. La provincia de La Rioja no queda fuera de la reconfiguración del capital financiero. Razón por la que la lucha y resistencia de los pueblos en el territorio riojano, realizada a partir de asambleas de vecinos autoconvocados es un caso paradigmático. En algunos casos los vecinos lograron expulsar a empresas multinacionales, en distintos momentos de diversos intentos de instalación de emprendimientos megamineros. Tal es el caso del Famatina, cordón montañoso que deviene en el principal proveedor de agua potable por sus numerosos glaciares y cimas nevadas. Fundamental para la biodiversidad y la actividad productiva agrícola en la región

The Effect of Starspots on Spectroscopic Age and Mass Estimates of Non-Accreting T~Tauri Stars in the Taurus-Auriga Star Forming Region

Accurate age and mass determinations for young pre-main sequence stars are made challenging by the presence of large-scale starspots. We present results from a near-infrared spectroscopic survey of ten T-Tauri Stars in Taurus-Auriga that characterize spot filling factors and temperatures, the resulting effects on temperature and luminosity determinations, and the consequences for inferred stellar masses and ages. We constructed composite models of spotted stars by combining BTSettl-CIFIST synthetic spectra of atmospheres to represent the spots and the photosphere along with continuum emission from a warm inner disk. Using a Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo algorithm, we find the best-fit spot and photospheric temperatures, spot filling factors, as well as disk filling factors. This methodology allowed us to reproduce the 0.75-2.40 micron stellar spectra and molecular feature strengths for all of our targets, disentangling the complicated multi-component emission. For a subset of stars with multi-epoch observations spanning an entire stellar rotation, we correlate the spectral variability and changes in the filling factors with rotational periods observed in K2 and AAVSO photometry. Combining spot-corrected effective temperatures and Gaia distances, we calculate luminosities and use the Stellar Parameters of Tracks with Starspots (SPOTS) models to infer spot-corrected masses and ages for our sample of stars. Our method of accounting for spots results in an average increase of 60% in mass and a doubling in age with respect to traditional methods using optical spectra that do not account for the effect of spots.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ. Preprin

Foreign in influence and domestic policy: A survey

In an interconnected world, economic and political interests inevitably reach beyond national borders. Since policy choices generate external economic and political costs, foreign state and non-state actors have an interest in influencing policy actions in other sovereign countries to their advantage. Foreign influence is a strategic choice aimed at internalizing these externalities and takes many forms. We distinguish three broad types of intervention strategies, (i) voluntary agreement interventions between the intervening foreign power and the target country, (ii) policy interventions based on rewarding or sanctioning the target country to obtain a specific change in policy and (iii) institution interventions aimed at influencing the policy choice by changing the political institutions in the target country (with or without a civil war). We propose a unifying theoretical framework to understand when and which form of foreign influence is chosen and use it to organize and evaluate the new political economics literature on foreign influence along with work in cognate disciplines. Foreign intervention plays a more important role for a proper understanding of domestic policy choices, for institutional dynamics and for internal conflict than is commonly acknowledged in both empirical and theoretical research

Descendants of the first stars: the distinct chemical signature of second generation stars

Extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars in the Milky Way (MW) allow us to infer the properties of their progenitors by comparing their chemical composition to the metal yields of the first supernovae. This method is most powerful when applied to mono-enriched stars, i.e. stars that formed from gas that was enriched by only one previous supernova. We present a novel diagnostic to identify this subclass of EMP stars. We model the first generations of star formation semi-analytically, based on dark matter halo merger trees that yield MW-like halos at the present day. Radiative and chemical feedback are included self-consistently and we trace all elements up to zinc. Mono-enriched stars account for only $\sim 1\%$ of second generation stars in our fiducial model and we provide an analytical formula for this probability. We also present a novel analytical diagnostic to identify mono-enriched stars, based on the metal yields of the first supernovae. This new diagnostic allows us to derive our main results independently from the specific assumptions made regarding Pop III star formation, and we apply it to a set of observed EMP stars to demonstrate its strengths and limitations. Our results may provide selection criteria for current and future surveys and therefore contribute to a deeper understanding of EMP stars and their progenitors.Comment: 18 pages, 20 figures, published in MNRA

Interpolación Espacial Mediante Aprendizaje de Máquinas en Viñedos de la Provincia de Mendoza, Argentina

El presente trabajo se enmarca en el problema de interpolación espacial de variables vitícolas por medio de Support Vector Machines (SVM) y Local SVM (LSVM), a partir de mediciones geo-espaciales en viñedos de distintas bodegas de la provincia de Mendoza. Los resultados de estas técnicas son comparados con los dos métodos de interpolación de uso más extendido empleadas en Viticultura de Precisión para el modelado de datos agrícolas: Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) y Kriging. Los resultados obtenidos en este trabajo muestran una mejora en la calidad de las interpolaciones, condicionada en la cantidad de datos disponibles, donde LSVM y SVM en general obtienen resultados de mayor calidad.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ

Segmentación de imágenes en viñedos para la medición autónoma de variables vitícolas

En el presente trabajo se ofrece un estudio experimental para segmentación de madera sobre imágenes de viñedos en condiciones realistas de clima e iluminación. Los resultados son muy alentadores y se presenta la medición del diámetro de tronco en las vides fotografiadas como un caso de uso real. Se consideran tres tecnologías de segmentación: K-means, Gaussian Mixture y Support Vector Machines. Además de diámetro de tronco se exponen otros casos en donde nuestro enfoque es potencialmente útil dentro del contexto de Viticultura de Precisión.Eje: Workshop Agentes y sistemas inteligentes (WASI)Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI