Threads of Terror, Crime, & Slavery: “He Who Would Pry Behind the Scenes Oft Sees a Counterfeit”

Over the past decade, there has been a greater appreciation of how “following the money trail” directly contributes to the fight against terrorism, crime, and corruption around the world. Money serves as the oxygen for any activity, licit or illicit; it is the critical enabler for any organization, from international crime syndicates like the Mexican cartels to terrorist groups like the FARC, ISIS, and Hezbollah. Financial intelligence has helped governments to better understand, detect, disrupt, and counter criminal and terrorist networks and expose political corruption. Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, . . . [nations] have strengthened their ability to combat money laundering and terrorist financing and consciously incorporated the financial instrument of national power into their national security strategies. But trying to starve the terrorists of money is like trying to catch one kind of fish by draining the ocean. A better strategy has evolved . . . as [governments] learned more about how [Al Qaida] raises, moves, and spends money. Terrorists are selling fakes to fund attacks—attacks in our cities that try to make victims of all of us. You wouldn’t buy a live scorpion, because there’s a chance that it would sting you on the way home, but would you still buy a fake handbag if you knew the profits would enable someone to buy bullets that would kill you and other innocent people six months later? Maybe not

The Ethically Required Level of Mental Capacity Needed for Consent to Participate in Clinical Research on the Terminally Ill

While medical informed consent documents have received much attention in literature and throughout varying North American legal jurisdictions, the competence needed to be able to provide informed consent is often overlooked. This is especially apparent in the medical research field where clinical trials are done with terminally ill human subjects. However, analyzing competence is crucial for the protection of subjects’ autonomy. If informed consent is to be truly considered an expression of autonomous action, then it is necessary that the decision-maker be sufficiently competent to provide that informed consent. Given the vital role that competence plays in proper autonomous decision-making, the following will first engage in an examination of the concept of competence and second the requisite competence needed for terminally ill subjects to be able to provide informed consent to research participation. Since there is still some disagreement regarding the components of competence, first a proper description of competence will be provided. This will involve depicting competence as being comprised of four sub-abilities, specifically understanding, appreciation, reasoning, and voluntariness. With the proper depiction of competence, the remainder of this work will contend that current approaches to determine competency requirements are flawed, that the medical research context ought to require more stringent competency requirements than the medical practice context for the terminally ill, and that a Subject Rights Advocate (SRA), unaffiliated with the research study, should be employed to bolster/enhance and evaluate the competence of terminally ill potential subjects, as well as solicit the final informed consent. It will additionally be argued that the method the SRA ought to use in achieving such aims should be based on a conversational approach

?Stanislavski es Stalin? : teatro, experimentación y política en la última dictadura militar argentina (1976-1983)

In 1975, the Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores (PST), of Trotskyist orientation, had turned into a clandestine organization and part of its leadership had gone into exile in Colombia. At 1977, under the military dictatorship, a group of people connected to the party conformed the Taller de Investigaciones Teatrales (TIT). In this paper internal documents of the organization will be analyzed whit the purpose of reflecting about the way in wich the labour of the party in the theatrical field was gestated, researching the experimental character of its aesthetics and, at the same time trying to explane the tensions and different conceptions about of the link of the theatrical groups with the party. For the latter, the already mentioned interviews with some of the members will be added to the documents

Spectrophotometric Resolution of Stellar Atmospheres with Microlensing

Microlensing is a powerful tool for studying stellar atmospheres because as the source crosses regions of formally infinite magnification (caustics) the surfaceof the star is resolved, thereby allowing one to measure the radial intensity profile, both photometrically and spectroscopically. However, caustic crossing events are relatively rare, and monitoring them requires intensive application of telescope resources. It is therefore essential that the observational parameters needed to accurately measure the intensity profile are quantified. We calculate the expected errors in the recovered radial intensity profile as a function of the unlensed flux, source radius, spatial resolution the recovered intensity profile, and caustic crossing time for the two principle types of caustics: point-mass and binary lenses. We demonstrate that for both cases there exist simple scaling relations between these parameters and the resultant errors. We find that the error as a function of the spatial resolution of the recovered profile, parameterized by the number of radial bins, increases as $N_R^{3/2}$, considerably faster than the naive $N_R^{1/2}$ expectation. Finally, we discuss the relative advantages of binary caustic-crossing events and point-lens events. Binary events are more common, easier to plan for, and provide more homogeneous information about the stellar atmosphere. However, a sub-class of point-mass events with low impact parameters can provide dramatically more information provided that they can be recognized in time to initiate observations.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journa

Seleção preliminar de estirpes de rizóbios para inoculação em feijoeiro comum (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

bitstream/item/66227/1/31297.pdfOrganizado por: Alberto Feiden, Milton Parron Padovan, Adalgiza Inês Campolim, Aurélio Vinícius Borsato, Ivo de Sá Motta, João Batista Catto, Tércio Jacques Fehlauer

Teatro Abierto como punto de llegada: Resistencias teatrales moleculares en la última dictadura Argentina

Taking as a kick the 40 years of the first cycle carried out by the emblematic Open Theater movement, in this article we intend to reconstruct the plots and articulations of the Buenos Aires theater community in the years before its irruption. Starting from the concept of "molecular resistance" (Brocato, 1986) we will seek to illuminate a series of campaigns and events that, according to the possibilities of the situation, allowed the development of discourses and practices of opposition to the last military dictatorship. In this way, we intend to deconstruct the character of "myth" (Barthes, 2003) of the cultural resistance to the dictatorship that has been condensed on the aforementioned theatrical movement. Together, we are interested in highlighting the role assumed by various sectors of the theatrical field in denouncing censorship since at least 1979.Tomando como puntapié los 40 años del primer ciclo realizado por el emblemático movimiento Teatro Abierto, en este artículo nos proponemos reconstruir las tramas y articulaciones de la comunidad teatral porteña en los años previos a su irrupción. Partiendo del concepto de “resistencia molecular” (Brocato, 1986) buscaremos iluminar una serie de campañas y eventos que, de acuerdo a las posibilidades de la coyuntura, permitieron desarrollar discursos y prácticas de oposición a la última dictadura militar. De este modo, pretendemos deconstruir el carácter de “mito” (Barthes, 2003) de la resistencia cultural a la dictadura que se ha condensado sobre el mencionado movimiento teatral. Conjuntamente, nos interesa poner de relieve el rol que asumieron diversos sectores del campo teatral en las denuncias a la censura desde por lo menos el año 1979.

The US Census Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Datasets

Over the last several years, the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program at the US Census Bureau has partnered with state labor market information offices to produce a collection of extremely rich datasets based on linked employer-employee records. These datasets, available free for download from the program website, offer exceptionally detailed information on a number of topics of interest to regional scientists, including migration, local labor market dynamics, and the spatial distribution of employment. This article describes the process by which these data are generated, the different publicly available datasets, and examples of research in regional science that is already using these data

Teatro Abierto (1981-1983) : Un testigo cultural de la transición democrática

En este trabajo buscaremos pensar la transición argentina enfocándonos en el análisis del ciclo (devenido en movimiento) Teatro Abierto. El movimiento que se origina en 1981 (y se repite en los años 1982, 1983 y 1985), tiene al dramaturgo Osvaldo Dragún como principal impulsor y es considerado como un hito de la visibilidad y resistencia de los teatristas y el teatro argentino a la dictadura. En él se nuclearon los principales referentes del denominado teatro de arte (Pelletieri, 1999), todos ellos actores y directores profesionales, que podemos definir como continuadores del acervo ideológico del teatro independiente (Verzero, 2013): Roberto Cossa, Carlos Somigliana, Pacho O’Donnell, Ricardo Monti, Roberto Perinelli, Griselda Gambaro y Eduardo Pavlovsky completan la lista de dramaturgos destacados que integraron está primer edición, a los que se suman más de doscientos actores, técnicos y escenógrafos. En este caso pondremos especial énfasis en ver como esta transición que se da en el orden de lo político-institucional, tiene su reflejo en un movimiento emergente de la sociedad civil. Partiremos entonces de precisar nuestro abordaje teórico en torno a la transición, para luego dar cuenta brevemente del marco político en el que tienen lugar los primeros tres ciclos de Teatro Abierto, y finalmente analizar la intervención política del movimiento.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació