'Travestido, Transformado, Definitivamente Distinto’? Transgenericidad and Gender Trouble in Leonardo Padura’s Máscaras

This article considers how Máscaras (1995), the third novel in Cuban author Leonardo Padura's post‐Soviet detective fiction series Las cuatro estaciones , transforms the genre. This article argues that at once using and subverting US tenets of noir, the author successfully transfigures archetypes of form and content, in particular commenting on the figure of the Hombre Nuevo . The article discusses Máscaras as an example of a trans‐genre/transgenericidad: the novel demonstrates how postmodern symptoms such as self‐awareness and metanarrativity, deviant from the archetypal crime genre, reinforce and inform notions of fluid and performative representations of bodies and sexualities in Cuba

Substance Misuse Intervention Proposal for Harrison County

Background: A report produced in 2021 analyzing substance misuse in Panola, Harrison, and Gregg counties emphasized the need for intervention on substance misuse in the area. We decided to create a therapeutic community program to be implemented in the Harrison County Jail to target the specific need of the inmates with substance charges and Harrison County as a whole. Our approach was guided by the Community Partnership Model

Spatial distribution and residency of green and loggerhead sea turtles using coastal reef habitats in southern Mozambique

Sea turtles spend the majority of their immature and adult lives in foraging grounds, yet few studies have examined their abundance and condition in these areas when compared to more accessible nesting beach habitats. Here, a 5-year dive log, photo-identification (photo-ID) and surface encounter datasets were used to investigate the abundance, individual movements and distribution of sea turtles along 40 km of coastal reefs in southern Mozambique. A generalized linear model (GLM) was constructed with turtle sightings as the response variable. Habitat type, year and day of the year, as well as underwater visibility, were significant predictors of turtle sightings. However, only 8% of the total variance was explained by the model, indicating that other variables have a significant influence on turtle movement and distribution. Photo-ID differentiated 22 individual green turtles Chelonia mydas and 42 loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta from 323 photo-ID encounters. A majority (64%) of the photos could be used to identify the individual. Although residency times of up to 1152 days were calculated for juvenile green turtles, a low overall resighting rate indicates that individual turtles either had large home ranges or were transient to the area. Surface encounter data revealed a preference for nearshore shallow waters and an increased abundance close to reef systems. Sea turtles' preferences for shallow, nearshore habitats are likely to increase the encounter risk with opportunistic and targeted artisanal fishers who catch sea turtles

Super-high-frequency SAW resonators on AlN/Diamond

This letter describes the procedure to manufacture high-performance surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators on AlN/diamond heterostructures working at frequencies beyond 10 GHz. In the design of SAW devices on AlN/diamond systems, the thickness of the piezoelectric layer is a key parameter. The influence of the film thickness on the SAW device response has been studied. Optimized thin films combined with advanced e-beam lithographic techniques have allowed the fabrication of one-port SAW resonators with finger width and pitch of 200 nm operating in the 10–14 GHz range with up to 36 dB out-of-band rejection

The visible environment of galaxies with counterrotation

In this paper we present a statistical study of the environments of 49 galaxies in which there is gas- or stellar- counterrotation. The number of possible companions in the field (to apparent magnitude 22), their size and concentration were considered. All the statistical parameters were analysed by means of Kolgomorov-Smirnov tests, using a control sample of 43 galaxies without counterrotation. From our data, no significant differences between the counter-rotating and control samples appear. This is different to Seyfert or radio-loud galaxies which lie in environments with a higher density of companions. On the contrary, if a weak tendency exists, for galaxies with gas counterrotation only, it is discovered in regions of space where the large scale density of galaxies is smaller. Our results tend to disprove the hypothesis that counterrotation and polar rings derive from a recent interaction with a small satellite or a galaxy of similar size. To a first approximation, they seem to follow the idea that all galaxies are born through a merger process of smaller objects occurring very early in their life, or that they derive from a continuous, non-traumatic infall of gas that formed stars later. Whatever the special machinery is which produces counterrotation or polar rings instead of a co-planar, co-rotating distribution of gas and stars, it seems not to be connected to the present galaxy density of their environments.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in A&

Sputter optimization of AlN on diamond substrates for high frequency SAW resonators

The AlN/diamond structure is an attractive combination for SAW devices and its application at high frequencies. In this work, the synthesis of AlN thin films by reactive sputtering has been optimized on diamond substrates in order to process high frequency devices. Polished microcrystalline and as-grown nanocrystalline diamond substrates have been used to deposit AlN of different thickness under equal sputtering conditions. For the smoother substrates, the FWHM of the rocking curve of the (002) AlN peak varies from 3.8° to 2.7° with increasing power. SAW one port resonators have been fabricated on these films, whose electrical characterization (in terms of S11 parameters) is reported

Aplicativo móvil para la gestión de ventas en la empresa internacional Expreso San Cristóbal SRL, 2021

El presente proyecto de investigación tiene la finalidad de desarrollar un aplicativo móvil para mejorar la gestión de ventas, la cual está orientado a la problemática que tiene la empresa hacia con sus clientes y vendedores, pues no tienen un manejo correcto de las ventas y sus clientes en su mayoría no vuelven a usar estos servicios por ende estamos brindando una herramienta fácil y ágil de utilizar como es el aplicativo móvil que ayudará a mejorar las ventas de pasajes y sobre todo a retener a los clientes para que a través de sus diferentes facilidades puedan volver y seguir realizando sus viajes con la empresa. Al tener en cuenta la problemática de la empresa y los antecedentes tanto nacionales como internacionales investigados, se planteó las hipótesis que actúan sobre los indicadores que hemos propuesto: la efectividad del cierre de ventas y la tasa de retención de los clientes, donde nuestra muestra para la efectividad al cierre de ventas está estratificada en 20 días y la muestra para la tasa de retención de clientes están estratificadas en 7 semanas, los cuales fueron validados por tres expertos de la especialidad. El presente proyecto de investigación tiene un tipo de estudio experimental - aplicada, el diseño de estudio es pre-experimental, de enfoque cuantitativo y método hipotético deductivo. Para el desarrollo del aplicativo se siguió el marco de trabajo de la metodología ágil SCRUM junto con la arquitectura de desarrollo MVVM. En la implementación se realizaron las pruebas de análisis descriptivo e inferencial a través de la prueba de Shapiro-Wilk y T de Student de acuerdo al tamaño de la muestra investigada. Se concluye que el aplicativo móvil mejoró la gestión de ventas en la empresa Internacional Expreso San Cristóbal SRL, de nuestro indicador tasa de retención en de clientes en un 7.45% y del indicador efectividad de cierre de ventas en un 5.50%. Lo cual permitió alcanzar los objetivos planteados en esta investigación

Pequenos agricultores II. Métodos de avaliação econômica e financeira.

Este trabalho apresenta uma metodologia destinada ao estudo das pequenas propriedades rurais. A metodologia esta sendo usada como um dos componentes da analise global do sistema fazenda, pelo Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuária do Tropico Semi-Arido (CPATSA-EMBRAPA). A metodologia esta dividida em: descrição das potencialidades existentes (recursos, fatores e produtos); caracterização da sobrevivência (consumo familiar); estudo do patrimonio; analise economica-financeira (custos, consumo familiar, ingressos); produção (vegetal, animal, artesanal e outras produções); eficiência; investimentos. O documento e dirigido a pesquisadores e técnicos de orgaos de desenvolvimento, para reforçar a compreensão e o dialogo com os pequenos agricultores.bitstream/item/209196/1/ID-8443-2-Class-307.72-Cutter-V855p-Pequenos-agricultores-II.pd

Problem gamblers share deficits in impulsive decision-making with alcohol-dependent individuals

Aims: Problem gambling has been proposed to represent a ‘behavioural addiction’ that may provide key insights into vulnerability mechanisms underlying addiction in brains that are not affected by the damaging effects of drugs. Our aim was to investigate the neurocognitive profile of problem gambling in comparison with alcohol dependence. We reasoned that shared deficits across the two conditions may reflect underlying vulnerability mechanisms, whereas impairments specific to alcohol dependence may reflect cumulative effects of alcohol consumption. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Out-patient addiction treatment centres and university behavioural testing facilities. Participants: A naturalistic sample of 21 male problem and pathological gamblers, 21 male alcohol-dependent out-patients and 21 healthy male control participants. Measurements: Neurocognitive battery assessing decision-making, impulsivity and working memory. Findings: The problem gamblers and alcohol-dependent groups displayed impairments in risky decision-making and cognitive impulsivity relative to controls. Working memory deficits and slowed deliberation times were specific to the alcohol-dependent group. Conclusions: Gambling and alcohol-dependent groups shared deficits in tasks linked to ventral prefrontal cortical dysfunction. Tasks loading on dorsolateral prefrontal cortex were selectively impaired in the alcohol-dependent group, presumably as a consequence of long-term alcohol use