The Sacrality of The Mountain

In this thesis I explore the conception of the mountain as a sacred space based on the definition provided by Mircea Eliade in The Sacred and The Profane and other works. I recognize three major elements in Eliadean sacral spatiality: a) order and orientation b) liminality and c) reality. Using various sources but mainly the oracle bones inscriptions, the Yugong ( Tributes of Yu ) of the Shujing ( Book of Documents ) and the Shanjing ( Classic of Mountains ) of the Shanhaijing ( Classic of Mountains and Seas ), I demonstrate how the three basic components of sacrality are to be found in each of the aforementioned sources, therefore showing the prevalence of the understanding of the mountain as a sacred space from the late Shang, through the Warring States, until the early imperial periods; and explaining its epochal variations throughout the course of early Chinese history. In doing this, I also argue that the acquisition of numinous properties from mountains was quintessential to the construction of religious power and political legitimacy in Early China

Evaluating the impact of an active labour market policy on employment: short- and long-term perspectives

The Labour Market Insertion Contract was an Active Labour Market Policy introduced in Spain. It was aimed at individuals who had difficulties entering the labour market, and it was introduced with the purpose of reducing the rate of unemployment. This article provides an estimation of the average impact that this contract had on the employability of individuals in the short and long term. A microeconomic analysis was carried out based on causal statistical inference by using propensity score matching and kernel and radial estimators. Data was taken from the most comprehensive database available, which is the Continuous Sample of Work Histories. Results are consistent with literature reports and show that the employability of participants was inferior to that of individuals with similar, temporary-type contracts. This research contributes to the literature by evaluating whether there was empirical evidence to support the political decision to revoke or replace this kind of direct employment programme.Junta de Andalucía proyecto SEJ-132Universidad Autónoma de ChileUniversidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Análisis Económico y Política Económic

Scalar Perturbations of two-dimensional Horava-Lifshitz Black Holes

In this article, we study the stability of black hole solutions found in the context of dilatonic Horava-Lifshitz gravity in $1+1$ dimensions by means of the quasinormal modes approach. In order to find the corresponding quasinormal modes, we consider the perturbations of massive and massless scalar fields minimally coupled to gravity. In both cases, we found that the quasinormal modes have a discrete spectrum and are completely imaginary, which leads to damping modes. For a massive scalar field and a non-vanishing cosmological constant, our results suggest unstable behaviour for large values of the scalar field mass.Comment: 18 pages, 1 figure. Accepted version in EPJC. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:gr-qc/070109

The Repressive and Specific Constitutionality Control of the International Treaties as Source of National Law: A Critical View of the Sentences N°1288 y N°2789 of the Chilean Constitutional Court

Se estudian y analizan dos resoluciones del Tribunal Constitucional en las cuales se pronuncia sobre la procedencia del recurso de inaplicabilidad por inconstitucionalidad de los tratados internacionales. En el primero de ellos se sustenta la posibilidad de impetrar la acción de inaplicabilidad, en el segundo y sin mayor razonamiento se descarta tal opción. Frente a ello se razona de forma crítica y considerando a los tratados internacionales como fuente del derecho interno, que éstos sí son preceptos legales y sí son objeto de control represivo concreto de constitucionalidad, dejando claro, la eventual posibilidad de la responsabilidad internacional del Estado.We study and analyze two decisions of the Constitutional Court in which it rules on the merits of the action of unconstitutionality of international treaties. In the first it is based implore the possibility of action of inapplicability, in the second and without further reasoning that option is discarded. It argues against critically and considering international treaties as a source of domestic law, which they themselves are legal provisions and it is subject to specific repressive control of constitutionality, making it clear, the eventual possibility of international responsibility of the State

Cosmological dynamics of dark energy in scalar-torsion f(T,ϕ)f(T,\phi) gravity

It is investigated the cosmological dynamics of scalar-torsion $f(T,\phi)$ gravity as a dark energy model, where $T$ is the torsion scalar of teleparallel gravity and $\phi$ is a canonical scalar field. In this context, we are concerned with the phenomenology of the class of models with non-linear coupling to gravity and exponential potential. We obtain the critical points of the autonomous system, along with the stability conditions of each one of them and their cosmological properties. Particularly, we show the existence of new attractors with accelerated expansion, as well as, new scaling solutions in which the energy density of dark energy scales as the background fluid density, thus, defining the so-called scaling radiation and scaling matter epochs. The scaling solutions are saddle points, and therefore, the system exits these solutions to the current epoch of cosmic acceleration, towards an attractor point describing the dark energy-dominated era.Comment: Accepted version for publication in EPJC. 17 pages, 3 tables and 10 figure

Efectividad de clindamicina comparada con oxacilina en el tratamiento de celulitis en pacientes pediátricos hospital Víctor Lazarte Echegaray Julio 2017 - Junio 2018

La celulitis sigue siendo un problema infeccioso frecuente en los servicios de pediatría de los diferentes hospitales del Perú por lo que el proyecto estudia la efectividad de clindamicina comparada con oxacilina en el tratamiento de celulitis en pacientes pediátricos del Hospital Víctor Lazarte Echegaray julio 2017 – junio 2018. El proyecto tiene como objetivo comparar la efectividad de dos antibióticos muy usados en los hospitales como son oxacilina y clindamicina y encontrar la mejor alternativa antibiótica. La efectividad es el equilibrio entre eficacia y eficiencia, es decir, se es efectivo si se es eficaz y eficiente. La eficacia es lograr un resultado o efecto (aunque no sea el correcto). En cambio, eficiencia es la capacidad de lograr el efecto en cuestión con el mínimo de recursos posibles viable o sea el cómo.Trabajo de investigació

Propuesta De Un Modelo De Gestión Para La Prevención De Incendios Forestales En Pinus Radiata En La Comunidad Ganquis Provincia De Chimborazo

The objective of this study was to elaborate a management model proposal for the prevention of forest fires in the plantation of Pinus radiata located in the community of Ganquis. The approach of the management model proposal started with a forest inventory and the subsequent identification of the threats and vulnerabilities of the plantation and community. Once the information was collected, next step consisted in determining the indexes of risks to forest fires for which an adaptation was made of the methodology proposed by Sun Mountain International for the analysis of vulnerability at the municipal level raised by UNDP. The results obtained were a historical analysis of the forest fires at the province level in Chimborazo, an inventory of the volume of wood existing in the plantation and 9 potential threats and 10 vulnerabilities at the community of Ganquis and at the plantation of Pinus radiata sorrounding it. With these results the proposal of the management model for the prevention of forest fires was carried out, which has 3 guidelines that are directed to the formation of community fire brigades, prevention actions and establishment of response procedures. It is recommended that at the institutional level a system of forest fire registry be standardized in order to generate the necessary information to carry out more detailed studies on forest fires and their incidence on various natural resources

Odd-parity perturbations in the most general scalar-vector-tensor theory

In the context of the most general scalar-vector-tensor theory, we study the stability of static spherically symmetric black holes under linear odd-parity perturbations. We calculate the action to second order in the linear perturbations to derive a master equation for these perturbations. For this general class of models, we obtain the conditions of no-ghost and Laplacian instability. Then, we study in detail the generalized Regge-Wheeler potential of particular cases to find their stability conditions.Comment: 22 pages, Mathematica Noteboo