La transformación de los procesos de gestión de la información en la Universidad Católica de Santa Fe a partir de la incorporación de las nuevas tecnologías

La gestión de la información y los procesos de comunicación institucional constituyen uno de los pilares fundamentales en el desenvolvimiento de la vida de las universidades. A partir de la década del 80, estos procesos sufrieron importantes cambios en todo el mundo debido a la incorporación de las nuevas tecnologías. A través del siguiente trabajo comunicaremos los procesos de gestión de la información, a partir de la incorporación de las nuevas herramientas que ofrecen las tecnologías. Presentando nuestra experiencia desde la Universidad Católica de Santa Fe, las fortalezas y debilidades del modelo de gestión en vigencia. Y proponiendo un diseño de gestión de estos procesos que contemple un uso adecuado de, lo que se considera, las principales herramientas del cambio: correo electrónico, Web y mensajería

Gestión estratégica de las estructuras académicas y administrativas, de la Universidad Católica de Santa Fe, para su adecuación al proceso de evaluación y acreditación

A partir de los años 80 comenzó a imponerse la necesidad de acordar criterios comunes respecto a los umbrales de la calidad educativa impartida por instituciones universitarias de todo el mundo. Nuestro país no quedó al margen de estas transformaciones, y comenzó el proceso con la promulgación de la legislación que fijara los criterios para la adecuación de la educación a los nuevos requerimientos de calidad. La sanción de la Ley N°24521 impulsó este cambio por el cual las universidades debieron adecuar sus estructuras académicas y administrativas para alcanzar los estándares impuestos por la acreditación. A través del presente trabajo comunicaremos la experiencia de la Universidad Católica de Santa Fe en el marco de este proceso

LOSSES CAUSED TO SEED OF TEPHROSIA VOGELII HOOK F. BY THE LIMA-BEAN POD BORER

LOSSES CAUSED TO SEED OF TEPHROSIA VOGELII HOOK F. BY THE LIMA-BEAN POD BORE

On Nichols algebras over SL(2,Fq) and GL(2,Fq)

We compute necessary conditions on Yetter-Drinfeld modules over the groups SL(2,Fq) and GL(2,Fq) to generate finite dimensional Nichols algebras. This is a first step towards a classification of pointed Hopf algebras with a group of group-likes isomorphic to one of these groups.Comment: Major exposition revision, including referees remarks. To appear in J. Math. Phys. 13 page

Modelling ground rupture due to groundwater withdrawal: applications to test cases in China and Mexico

Abstract. The stress variation induced by aquifer overdraft in sedimentary basins with shallow bedrock may cause rupture in the form of pre-existing fault activation or earth fissure generation. The process is causing major detrimental effects on a many areas in China and Mexico. Ruptures yield discontinuity in both displacement and stress field that classic continuous finite element (FE) models cannot address. Interface finite elements (IE), typically used in contact mechanics, may be of great help and are implemented herein to simulate the fault geomechanical behaviour. Two main approaches, i.e. Penalty and Lagrangian, are developed to enforce the contact condition on the element interface. The incorporation of IE incorporation into a three-dimensional (3-D) FE geomechanical simulator shows that the Lagrangian approach is numerically more robust and stable than the Penalty, thus providing more reliable solutions. Furthermore, the use of a Newton-Raphson scheme to deal with the non-linear elasto-plastic fault behaviour allows for quadratic convergence. The FE – IE model is applied to investigate the likely ground rupture in realistic 3-D geologic settings. The case studies are representative of the City of Wuxi in the Jiangsu Province (China), and of the City of Queretaro, Mexico, where significant land subsidence has been accompanied by the generation of several earth fissures jeopardizing the stability and integrity of the overland structures and infrastructure.</p

Functional architecture of Escherichia coli: new insights provided by a natural decomposition approach

The E. coli transcriptional regulatory network is shown to have a nonpyramidal architecture of independent modules governed by transcription factors, whose responses are integrated by intermodular genes

Autonomy, Good Humor and Support Networks, Potential of Community Resilience Intervention in People Victims of the Earthquake in the Calderón Parish

Resilience is a concept widely used in recent years, especially when it comes to evaluating the level of recovery of communities that are hit by natural phenomena. It can be stated that conceptually resilience constitutes the ability to react effectively and quickly to the effects of disasters, being a complex phenomenon to evaluate and define. And although the level of resilience does not necessarily imply greater control of vulnerability, it can be affirmed that the reduction of vulnerable conditions can strengthen and consolidate the resilient capacity of individuals and communities, in the face of the effects of natural disasters

Interwoven migration narratives: identity and social representations in the Lusophone world

First published online: 17 Oct 2016This article provides an exploratory analysis of the life narratives of migrants in the Portuguese-speaking world. By interweaving the life experiences of eight participants in three thematic clusters – ‘shared past’, language and sense of community – we propose a critique of the deep-seated idea of the Lusophone space as a community constructed by the harmonious conviviality of different countries and people. Drawing on contributions from cultural studies, social psychology, anthropology and sociology, we first aim to give voice to the human subjects who embark on migrations and then to understand how the engendered process of identity construction is framed by their social world, simultaneously reframing it. Thus, we aim at shedding light on the ways in which aspects of the political discourses on Lusophony are used (and are instrumental) to the migrants’ identity narrative (re)construction.This work was supported by Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia: [Grant Number PTDC/CCI-COM/105100/2008]

Abasy Atlas: a comprehensive inventory of systems, global network properties and systems-level elements across bacteria

Ibarra-Arellano MA, Campos-Gonzalez AI, Trevino-Quintanilla LG, Tauch A, Freyre-Gonzalez JA. Abasy Atlas: a comprehensive inventory of systems, global network properties and systems-level elements across bacteria. DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION. 2016;2016: baw089.The availability of databases electronically encoding curated regulatory networks and of high-throughput technologies and methods to discover regulatory interactions provides an invaluable source of data to understand the principles underpinning the organization and evolution of these networks responsible for cellular regulation. Nevertheless, data on these sources never goes beyond the regulon level despite the fact that regulatory networks are complex hierarchical-modular structures still challenging our understanding. This brings the necessity for an inventory of systems across a large range of organisms, a key step to rendering feasible comparative systems biology approaches. In this work, we take the first step towards a global understanding of the regulatory networks organization by making a cartography of the functional architectures of diverse bacteria. Abasy (Across-bacteria systems) Atlas provides a comprehensive inventory of annotated functional systems, global network properties and systems-level elements (global regulators, modular genes shaping functional systems, basal machinery genes and intermodular genes) predicted by the natural decomposition approach for reconstructed and meta-curated regulatory networks across a large range of bacteria, including pathogenically and biotechnologically relevant organisms. The meta-curation of regulatory datasets provides the most complete and reliable set of regulatory interactions currently available, which can even be projected into subsets by considering the force or weight of evidence supporting them or the systems that they belong to. Besides, Abasy Atlas provides data enabling large-scale comparative systems biology studies aimed at understanding the common principles and particular lifestyle adaptions of systems across bacteria. Abasy Atlas contains systems and system-level elements for 50 regulatory networks comprising 78 649 regulatory interactions covering 42 bacteria in nine taxa, containing 3708 regulons and 1776 systems. All this brings together a large corpus of data that will surely inspire studies to generate hypothesis regarding the principles governing the evolution and organization of systems and the functional architectures controlling them