Los informes de Amici Curiae ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos

En reiteradas oportunidades la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (en adelante "la Corte") ha recibido informes de amici curiae, tanto en casos contenciosos como en opiniones consultivas. El presente trabajo está destinado a establecer qué es un amicus curiae y a señalar tanto su base legal como la importancia de su intervención en los procesos que se vienen ventilando ante la Corte

The Impact of Regulation on Growth and Informality: Cross-Country Evidence

This paper studies the effects of regulation on economic growth and the relative size of the informal sector in a large sample of industrial and developing countries. Along with firm dynamics, informality is an important channel through which regulation affects macroeconomic performance and economic growth in particular. The paper concludes that a heavier regulatory burden -- particularly in product and labor markets -- reduces growth and induces informality. These effects are, however, mitigated as the overall institutional framework improves.

Natural disasters and university enrolment: Evidence from L’Aquila earthquake

Although there are several studies looking at the effect of natural disasters on economic growth, less attention has been dedicated to their impact on educational outcomes, especially in more developed countries. We use the synthetic control method to examine how the L’Aquila earthquake affected subsequent enrolment at the local university. This issue has wide economic implications as the University of L’Aquila made a large contribution to the local economy before the earthquake. Our results indicate that the earthquake had no statistically significant effect on first-year enrolment at the University of L’Aquila in the three academic years after the disaster. This natural disaster, however, caused a compositional change in the first-year student population, with a substantial increase in the number of students aged 21 or above. This is likely to have been driven by post-disaster measures adopted in order to mitigate the expected negative effects on enrolment triggered by the earthquake

Important Teacher Qualities for Integrating Blended Learning in Higher Education

Blended learning is widely accepted in Peruvian higher education for a number of reasons, including the fact that it allows students more leeway to accommodate their own unique schedule and learning needs. The present qualitative research investigates the qualities of effective teachers that are crucial to the successful implementation of blended learning from the vantage point of experts, who can gain valuable insight into the causes of organizational problems and the best strategies for resolving them. There are seven positive characteristics of blended learning teachers, such as the ability to recognize the need for pedagogical change or the confidence to incorporate technology into learning processes, and four negative characteristics, such as a lack of familiarity with blended learning or anxiety about students use of technology. Blended learning in higher education is investigated here to identify the factors that influence it

Biodiversidad microtemporal de la aracnofauna en el agrosistema del olivo cultivar Arauco en La Rioja, Argentina.

La Rioja es una de las provincias de mayor producción de olivo en Argentina. En los olivares de España, principal productor mundial, el elevado rendimiento actualmente obtenido, se debe al manejo integrado y conservación de la biodiversidad deespecies benéficas en campo. Dentro de esta biodiversidad, la aracnofauna se caracteriza por tener las especies generalistaspredadoras y presentar alta diversidad taxonómica con respuestas a cambios ambientales específicos, afectados por la abundancia de presas y por el manejo de su habitad.Esta investigación se desarrolló en el fundo La Candelaria en el cultivo de olivo cultivar Arauco durante los meses de octubre adiciembre de 2012. Se tomó una muestra mensual en 10 árboles, las cuales fueron analizadas en el CENIIT de la UNLaR. La interpretación de los datos se realizó mediante tablas de frecuencias y los índices de Shannon y Simpson. En el agroecosistema del olivo de La Rioja se registraron seis morfoespecies de arañas. Los resultados reflejaron una mayor riqueza específica (S=6), índice de equidad (0.87) y mayor diversidad (0.91) de la aracnofauna en el mes de noviembre.Biodiversity microtemporal of arachnofauna in crop Arauco olive in La Rioja, Argentina.AbstractLa Rioja is one of the largest provinces of olive production in Argentina. In the olive groves of Spain, the main producer, currently the high performance achieved is due to the integrated management and conservation of biodiversity of beneficial species in the field. Within this biodiversity, arachnofauna is characterized by generalist predatory species high taxonomic diversity and present with specific responses to environmental changes, affected by the abundance of prey and their habitat management.This research was conducted at the crop La Candelaria in cultivar Arauco during the months of October to December 2012. A sample monthly 10 trees, which were analyzed in the UNLaR CENIIT. The interpretation of the data using frequency tables and indexes Shannon and Simpson. In the olive agroecosystem La Rioja were six morphospecies of spiders. The results showed a higher species richness (S = 6), equity index (0.87) and diversity (0.91) of the arachnofauna in November.Keywords: Arachnofauna; Biodiversity; Cultivar Arauco; Olive crop

Using thermal UAV imagery to model distributed debris thicknesses and sub-debris melt rates on debris-covered glaciers

Supraglacial debris cover regulates the melt rates of many glaciers in mountainous regions around the world, thereby modifying the availability and quality of downstream water resources. However, the influence of supraglacial debris is often poorly represented within glaciological models, due to the absence of a technique to provide high-precision, spatially continuous measurements of debris thickness. Here, we use high-resolution UAV-derived thermal imagery, in conjunction with local meteorological data, visible UAV imagery and vertically profiled debris temperature time series, to model the spatially distributed debris thickness across a portion of Llaca Glacier in the Cordillera Blanca of Peru. Based on our results, we simulate daily sub-debris melt rates over a 3-month period during 2019. We demonstrate that, by effectively calibrating the radiometric thermal imagery and accounting for temporal and spatial variations in meteorological variables during UAV surveys, thermal UAV data can be used to more precisely represent the highly heterogeneous patterns of debris thickness and sub-debris melt on debris-covered glaciers. Additionally, our results indicate a mean sub-debris melt rate nearly three times greater than the mean melt rate simulated from satellite-derived debris thicknesses, emphasising the importance of acquiring further high-precision debris thickness data for the purposes of investigating glacier-scale melt processes, calibrating regional melt models and improving the accuracy of runoff predictions

Plan de implementaci?n de estrategias de sostenibilidad basadas en la certificaci?n B Corp para una MYPE peruana del sector hidrocarburos

Hoy en d?a, se est? impulsando una tendencia que se empieza a extender en las empresas, las que no solo buscan lograr sus objetivos econ?micos, sino tambi?n, a trav?s de sus acciones y procesos, buscan beneficiar a su entorno, que incluye a stakeholders, medio ambiente, sociedad y econom?a del pa?s. Es as? que la certificaci?n voluntaria en sostenibilidad viene cobrando relevancia, entre ellas, la B Corp, y en especial en las mypes creadas en los ?ltimos a?os, siendo el sector de hidrocarburos, una industria con el potencial de aplicar a esta certificaci?n. Es por ello que, esta investigaci?n cualitativa, de dise?o de investigaci?n - acci?n pr?ctico, busca identificar estrategias organizacionales sostenibles basadas en la certificaci?n B Corp, aplicando el an?lisis de las 5 fuerzas de Porter y la matriz FODA para la empresa Biocom. A partir de una entrevista a profundidad con el gerente general de la empresa, se comprob? la viabilidad de la implementaci?n de la mayor?a de las estrategias propuestas, pero aun as? Biocom no llega al puntaje m?nimo para certificarse como empresa B en el periodo establecido, sin embargo, si lograr?a ser una empresa m?s sostenible