Parent Stars of Extrasolar Planets. XII. Additional evidence for trends with vsini, condensation temperature, and chromospheric activity

Several recent studies have reported differences in vsini, abundance-condensation temperature trends, and chromospheric activity between samples of stars with and without Doppler-detected planets. These findings have been disputed, and the status of these results remains uncertain. We evaluate these claims using additional published data and find support for all three.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS as a Lette

Teleagro: iot applications for the georeferencing and detection of zeal in cattle

The loss of reproductive efficiency of animals and cattle rustling have become one of the main concerns of farmers. The decrease in reproductive efficiency is mainly due to the low percentage in heat detection. Reproductive efficiency is commonly measured by the interval between births, which affects the daily milk production of the cow during its productive life and the income associated with the sale of milk from its production, conditioning the profitability of the farmers. The zeal for its part consists of the theft of bovine cattle that usually is used for its commercialization, bringing considerable losses. According to figures from the Observatory of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law of the Fundacion Colombia Ganadera, Fundagán, only during 2014 there were 164 cases of cattle rustling, resulting in the loss of 3,798 cattle throughout the country, which represents a loss for the producers of 15 billion of Colombian money. This project proposes the development of a technological platform that combines hardware, software and communications systems of the latest technology and with open standards to provide an economic and reliable solution to the Colombian and Latin American livestock industry. In Colombia, there is a history of products and prototypes that have been developed to alleviate this problem, no platforms of similar benefits have been found that are accessible to farmers in the country. In this article, the different stages developed to obtain a validated prototype with the beneficiary entity and their respective results are socialized

The Stories We Tell

These voices you will hear in this edition of First Gen Voices were crafted and cultivated in a summer trip to the Dominican Republic, where our writers had the opportunity to workshop and reflect on their experiences being first-generation. The purpose? To share their work, mind, and feelings about the struggles and incredible experiences they have made. It is their strength, resilience, and love. Enjoy

Diseño de un sistema de gestión de archivos médicos físicos para la unidad de admisión y registros médicos del Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social Hospital Regional de Santa Ana, El Salvador

Las personas que son cotizantes de algún servicio médico, esperan que este servicio sea el adecuado, al momento de llegar a utilizarlo, esperan que les proporcionen la mejor atención y a su vez les proporcione calidad en su servicio, pero cuando esto no ocurre; se generan retrasos y molestias a los cotizantes debido a fallas de las unidades de apoyo. El diseño del sistema de gestión pretende aportar una mejor visión a los problemas que están presentes en el sistema de atención y registros médicos, y así poder solucionar la problemática que tanto adolece a la institución

Valorización de la reputación corporativa

La reputación corporativa (RC) es una ventaja competitiva inherente y única para cada organización, además de ser un activo intangible cuantificable. Ante ello el presente trabajo de investigación está motivado por el interés de conocer cuál es la mejor forma de valorizar la RC. Asimismo, la importancia del estudio radica en el interés creciente de las organizaciones por conocer la contribución subyacente de la RC en el valor de la empresa ya que en la medida que esto sea conocido motivará a crear, desarrollar y mantener la RC como parte de su estrategia de sostenibilidad y crecimiento. Para emprender este trabajo, se utilizó el proceso secuencial de Revisión de Literatura-MAGG, siendo este una adaptación del modelo de revisión de literatura de Machi y McEvoy (2009) y la guía para hacer una revisión de literatura de Chris Hart (2003). En base al objetivo de la presente tesis, se realizó la revisión de literatura de diversos estudios de investigación y se lograron identificar las variables que pueden contribuir a determinar la forma de calcular la valorización de la RC, asimismo, se identificaron los elementos que afectan el cálculo de la valorización para estas variables, sin embargo, no se encontraron modelos de medición cuantitativos para valorizar la RC que puedan ser aplicados de manera general o estándar en las organizaciones, ya que las formas de valorizar la RC que se encontraron estaban asociadas a situaciones, limitaciones y restricciones particulares. El presente trabajo tiene como finalidad brindar los elementos necesarios para tener un punto de partida en la construcción de modelos que puedan cuantificar el aporte de la RC en el valor de la empresa. Así el trabajo permite concluir que la valorización de la RC se puede obtener en función de los indicadores financieros (ROA, valor en libros, ventas y valor del mercado), estos a su vez pueden variar por la influencia de elementos como el tamaño de la empresa, el tiempo y el sector económico.Corporate reputation (CR) is an inherent and unique competitive advantage for every organization, and is a quantifiable intangible asset. The present research is motivated by the interest to know which the best way to value the CR is. In addition, the importance of this study is based on the increasing interest of companies to know the underlying contribution of CR in the value of the company and to the extent that this value is known it will motivate you to build, develop and maintain the CR as part of their sustainability and development strategy. To develop this study, the secuencial process of literature review- MAGG was used, as an adaptation of Machi and McEvoy (2009) model for literature review and the Guide to make a literature review of Chris Hart (2003). Based on the objective of the present thesis, a review of the diverse investigative studies was made and be able to identify the variables that contribute to determine the way of calculating the value of the CR, in addition, the elements that affect the calculation of the value of these variables were identified. No models of quantitative measurement necessary to value the CR were, however, found, that can be applied in a general or standard manner in the organizations, since the forms of the CR value found were associated with situations, particular limitations and restrictions. The present study is intended to be able to offer the necessary elements to have a starting point in the construction of models that can quantify the input of the CR in the value of a company. This research concludes that the valuation of the CR can be obtained as a financial metrics function (ROA, book value, sales, and market value). These metrics may vary, as well, given other factors such as the size of the enterprise, time, and the economic sector.Tesi

Campaña de lanzamiento: Audi

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo el desarrollo de una campaña de lanzamiento para la marca Audi, en relación a la nueva gama de autos eléctricos (Audi e-tron), el cual llegará a Perú a finales del año 2021. La relevancia de este proyecto radica en la propuesta de una campaña a través de medios digitales y tradicionales en tiempos de aislamiento social a raíz de la aparición del virus COVID-19. Así mismo, la campaña propuesta forma parte de la revolución en el mercado automotriz al promocionar la primera gama de autos de lujo 100% eléctricos al país. Se tomó en cuenta la realización de encuestas a 107 personas de nivel socioeconómico A y B +, entre los 31 a 65 años, además de entrevistas a profundidad al público objetivo de Audi. Parte de los retos encontrados incluyen: la consideración por parte de los consumidores de que el Perú aún no cuenta con la infraestructura necesaria para recibir modelos eléctricos, el temor a altos costos de mantenimiento y el menor interés por el factor ecológico del producto; en contraste con el interés de los mismos por el reconocimiento de la marca, su calidad y la innovación propia del producto. Nuestra propuesta presenta al producto bajo el concepto de “La Nueva Era” creado con nuestra metodología del Doble Nudo.The present work aims to develop a launch campaign for Audi, in relation to the new range of electric cars (Audi e-tron), which will arrive in Peru at the end of 2021. The relevance of this project lies in the proposal of a campaign through digital and traditional media in times of social isolation as a result of the appearance of the COVID-19. Likewise, the proposed campaign is part of the revolution in the automotive market by promoting the first range of 100% electric luxury cars to the country. Surveys were taken into account with 107 people of socioeconomic status A and B +, between the ages of 31 and 65, as well as in-depth interviews with Audi's target. Part of the challenges encountered include: the consumers think Peru still does not have the required infrastructure to receive electric models, fear of high maintenance costs and less interest in the ecological factor of the product; in contrast to their interest in the recognition of the brand, its quality and the innovation of the product itself. Our proposal presents the product under the concept of "The New Era" created through our Double Knot methodology

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourteenth from SDSS overall (making this, Data Release Fourteen or DR14). This release makes public data taken by SDSS-IV in its first two years of operation (July 2014-2016). Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulative, including the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since the first phase began operations in 2000. New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS); the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data driven machine learning algorithm known as "The Cannon"; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total). This paper describes the location and format of the publicly available data from SDSS-IV surveys. We provide references to the important technical papers describing how these data have been taken (both targeting and observation details) and processed for scientific use. The SDSS website (www.sdss.org) has been updated for this release, and provides links to data downloads, as well as tutorials and examples of data use. SDSS-IV is planning to continue to collect astronomical data until 2020, and will be followed by SDSS-V.Comment: SDSS-IV collaboration alphabetical author data release paper. DR14 happened on 31st July 2017. 19 pages, 5 figures. Accepted by ApJS on 28th Nov 2017 (this is the "post-print" and "post-proofs" version; minor corrections only from v1, and most of errors found in proofs corrected

The CDR1 and other regions of immunoglobulin light chains are hot spots for amyloid aggregation

Immunoglobulin light chain-derived (AL) amyloidosis is a debilitating disease without known cure. Almost nothing is known about the structural factors driving the amyloidogenesis of the light chains. This study aimed to identify the fibrillogenic hotspots of the model protein 6aJL2 and in pursuing this goal, two complementary approaches were applied. One of them was based on several web-based computational tools optimized to predict fibrillogenic/aggregation-prone sequences based on different structural and biophysical properties of the polypeptide chain. Then, the predictions were confirmed with an ad-hoc synthetic peptide library. In the second approach, 6aJL2 protein was proteolyzed with trypsin, and the products incubated in aggregation-promoting conditions. Then, the aggregation-prone fragments were identified by combining standard proteomic methods, and the results validated with a set of synthetic peptides with the sequence of the tryptic fragments. Both strategies coincided to identify a fibrillogenic hotspot located at the CDR1 and β-strand C of the protein, which was confirmed by scanning proline mutagenesis analysis. However, only the proteolysis-based strategy revealed additional fibrillogenic hotspots in two other regions of the protein. It was shown that a fibrillogenic hotspot associated to the CDR1 is also encoded by several κ and λ germline variable domain gene segments. Some parts of this study have been included in the chapter “The Structural Determinants of the Immunoglobulin Light Chain Amyloid Aggregation”, published in Physical Biology of Proteins and Peptides, Springer 2015 (ISBN 978-3-319-21687-4)

Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: mapping the Milky Way, nearby galaxies, and the distant universe

We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratios in the near-infrared. The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey is obtaining spatially resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies (median ). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between and 3.5 to constrain cosmology using baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions, and the shape of the power spectrum. Within eBOSS, we are conducting two major subprograms: the SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS), investigating X-ray AGNs and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5 m Sloan Foundation Telescope at the Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5 m du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, with observations beginning in early 2017. Observations at both facilities are scheduled to continue through 2020. In keeping with previous SDSS policy, SDSS-IV provides regularly scheduled public data releases; the first one, Data Release 13, was made available in 2016 July

Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratios in the near-infrared. The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey is obtaining spatially resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies (median $z\sim 0.03$). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between $z\sim 0.6$ and 3.5 to constrain cosmology using baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions, and the shape of the power spectrum. Within eBOSS, we are conducting two major subprograms: the SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS), investigating X-ray AGNs and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5 m Sloan Foundation Telescope at the Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5 m du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, with observations beginning in early 2017. Observations at both facilities are scheduled to continue through 2020. In keeping with previous SDSS policy, SDSS-IV provides regularly scheduled public data releases; the first one, Data Release 13, was made available in 2016 July