Empowerment of Indigenous Women and Social Exclusion in Combating Poverty in the State of Veracruz Mexico

In Mexico, the Productive Organization Program for Indigenous Women (POPMI) seeks the empowerment of productive capacities in indigenous women. Our study analyzes POPMI outreach, focusing our attention on women beneficiaries who present a high degree of social exclusion and multidimensional poverty in the State of Veracruz. In the study area, the 542 indigenous women benefited in POPMI, presented a condition of multidimensional poverty and a degree of social exclusion: very high, high and medium, they represent only 22.19% of the total beneficiaries of this program In 2010, since at the state level a total of 2,243 indigenous women were cared for. The results show that the localities where the condition of multidimensional poverty and very high, medium and high levels of social exclusion have been excluded in the coverage of POPMI

The Schr\"odinger formulation of the Feynman path centroid density

We present an analysis of the Feynman path centroid density that provides new insight into the correspondence between the path integral and the Schr\"odinger formulations of statistical mechanics. The path centroid density is a central concept for several approximations (centroid molecular dynamics, quantum transition state theory, and pure quantum self-consistent harmonic approximation) that are used in path integral studies of thermodynamic and dynamical properties of quantum particles. The centroid density is related to the quasi-static response of the equilibrium system to an external force. The path centroid dispersion is the canonical correlation of the position operator, that measures the linear change in the mean position of a quantum particle upon the application of a constant external force. At low temperatures, this quantity provides an approximation to the excitation energy of the quantum system. In the zero temperature limit, the particle's probability density obtained by fixed centroid path integrals corresponds to the probability density of minimum energy wave packets, whose average energy define the Feynman effective classical potential.Comment: 29 pages, 2 figures, 1 Table, J. Chem. Phys. (in press

Complementarity analysis of the Priority Areas Development Program and the Priority Attention Areas Program in the National Crusade Against Hunger Program in indigenous municipalities in the State of Veracruz Mexico

Mexico, with the commissioning of the "National Crusade Against Hunger Program" in 2013, aimed at serving the population that presents both extreme poverty and food deprivation. The article aims to analyze whether the criterion of the selection of the municipalities of the State of Veracruz incorporated in the National Crusade Against Hunger Program (PNCH) show complementarity with the efforts in the fight against poverty in the social expenditure strategy applied in the Priority Attention Zones Program (ZAP) and the Priority Areas Development Program (PDZP) and, particularly, the indigenous municipalities that have a greater degree of social exclusion. The adjustment of a binary logistic regression model is presented, in order to assess the incidence of contextual factors to interpret the scope of the strategy adopted by the federal government in the fight against poverty and hunger. As a result, it is evident that there is no continuity in the fight against poverty, since the municipalities included in the strategy Priority Areas of Attention and Program of Development of Priority Zones are not considered in the selection of municipalities incorporated in the National Program of Crusade Against Hunger, a situation that identifies the relationship between programs is not complementary

Modern public finances as a proposal for an emerging country: The social approach in the fight against poverty in Mexico

In Mexico, the management of public resources has been questioned by the State, and mainly the results that the public administration at its three levels (federal, state and municipal), by the lack of transparency in the application and verification of public resources. The experience that gives us the operation of different emerging programs that focused on reducing social and economic inequality in the country, we can locate them as the first attempts in the search for a solution that is complex. Moving from the role of the benefactor and welfare state to the promoter of the regions and in the recognition of the focalization of priority attention areas, the path that has been taken is not only the beginning. Recognizing the public nature of public finances as a promoter of social development, we must understand it as the one assumed by the State through social, political and economic co-responsibility to solve poverty and marginalization of its own public policy orientation and vision of solution has been made since the eighties. From the above, we can point out some preliminary conclusions including the study of the indigenous language-speaking population with a high level of social exclusion in the methodology for the definition of multidimensional poverty in Mexico, will allow the allocation of public resources in the fight against poverty to be effective since it will make it possible to identify to the target population that is subject to social exclusion and marginalization. This invites us to a final reflection: What to do to address the just social demands of the indigenous population that is immersed in poverty, marginalization and exclusion? What to do so that they do not leave their communities, and if they have already done so, how to attend to the needs of family groups that are due to the expense of a remittance that may never arrive

On the Utility of the Inverse Gamma Distribution in Modeling Composite Fading Channels

We introduce a general approach to characterize composite fading models based on inverse gamma (IG) shadowing. We first determine to what extent the IG distribution is an adequate choice for modeling shadow fading, by means of a comprehensive test with field measurements and other distributions conventionally used for this purpose. Then, we prove that the probability density function and cumulative density function of any IG-based composite fading model are directly expressed in terms of a Laplace-domain statistic of the underlying fast fading model, and in some relevant cases, as a mixture of well-known state-of-the-art distributions. We exemplify our approach by presenting a composite IG/two-wave with diffuse power fading model, for which its statistical characterization is directly attained in a simple form.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Tras el análisis de la dimensión intangible en el estudio de la ciudad: el caso de Córdoba

Reflexión acerca de los aspectos inmateriales que sirven para dar valor y significado al patrimonio material urbano. Teniendo como referencia al viajero Antonio Ponz y su obra “Viage de España”, se analizan los textos y los juicios críticos de este autor referidos a la ciudad de Córdoba. En este contexto se consideran las ideas del viajero respecto a la decadencia de la ciudad (a pesar de las excelencias con que la naturaleza le obsequió) y respecto a un urbanismo carente de vitalidad y dinamismo. En este último aspecto pondrá su atención y comentario tanto en los elementos más significativos de la zona intramuros como en aquellos otros que llamaron su atención extramuros de la antigua ciudad

El Archivo de Paisaje de Andalucía

Expresión de un proyecto de trabajo encaminado a la constitución de una gran base de datos acerca de los paisajes andaluces. De carácter preferentemente gráfico, su contenido sería una especie de almacén o “archivo” con las más diversas formas gráficas de expresión de paisaje: fotos, dibujos, mapas, etc… que, debidamente integradas en un espacio web al efecto, estarían disponibles para los expertos en paisaje que lo demandasen. La forma de organización de dicho “archivo de paisaje”, sus contenidos, su relación con los distintos tipos de paisaje y con las variedades regionales andaluzas, constituyen algunos de los aspectos que se definen en este trabajo

Ecosistema Big Data en un clúster de Raspberry Pi

Esta investigación mostrara un paso a paso de como instalar y configurar Hadoop en un clúster de raspberrys pi, describiendo y explicando desde los fundamentos de Big Data hasta todo el ecosistema de Apache y para que funciona cada tecnología. Además de recopilar información de algunas de las publicaciones mas relevantes relacionadas con Big Data

The Haunted House in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

In A Mercy Toni Morrison tackles the multilayered and strikingly powerful Gothic “haunted” house metaphor from a female perspective. Her revenants and hauntings are not just individual, but also historical, political and cultural manifestations. Through the Gothic dwelling, Morrison explores the fragmented personal and familial identities, conventional gender arrangements, failed domestic ideology, racist and colonial past, etc., in a patriarchal society dominated by whites. Her transgressive rewriting draws attention to the impact of slavery and racism and, consequently, to the othering of ethnic females, especially blacks. Morrison not only depicts the unspeakable horrors of American history, but also provides ways for its regeneration, such as women’s empowerment and their struggle for self-definition. Morrison’s revisitation of the “haunted” house formula offers an alternative female perspective on American identity and history.En A Mercy Toni Morrison aborda la poderosa y compleja metáfora de la casa gótica “encantada” desde una perspectiva femenina. Sus fantasmas no son exclusivamente individuales, sino manifestaciones históricas, políticas y culturales. Mediante la mansión gótica, Morrison analiza la fragmentada identidad personal y familiar, las convenciones de género, la fallida ideología doméstica, el pasado racista y colonial, etc., en una sociedad patriarcal dominada por blancos. Su reescritura transgresora destaca el impacto de la esclavitud y el racismo y, consecuentemente, la alterización de la mujer étnica, especialmente las negras. Morrison no sólo describe los inefables horrores góticos de la historia americana, sino que también proporciona formas de regeneración, tales como el empoderamiento de la mujer y su lucha por autodefinición. La revisitación de Morrison de la fórmula de la casa “encantada” ofrece una perspectiva femenina alternativa de la identidad e historia americanas