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    Libro temático especializadoLa sustentabilidad también debe aplicarse al sistema de producción, buscando impulsar transformaciones graduales de los estilos y modelos productivos tradicionales a unas de mayor eficiencia. Y donde se incorpore la dimensión ambiental y geográfico-espacial, para crear estructuras productivas más progresivas y equitativas en las sociedades. Todo esto, como alternativa para revertir las tendencias de escasez y agotamiento de los recursos naturales, así como de los desequilibrios globales, cuyos costos permean todos los tejidos humanos. De esta manera, la “sustentabilidad productiva” se concibe como la generación de bienes y servicios con ciertos estándares de calidad, bajo un esquema de eficiencia, rendimiento y de organización inclusiva e integrada, con baja presión al ambiente y uso racional de los recursos, garantizando la estadía y permanencia de los insumos y materiales en el tiempo. Desde esta perspectiva, la producción sustentable y el crecimiento de largo plazo pueden ser explicados por la capacidad que tienen las economías para generar e incorporar conocimientos y tecnologías. De ahí que, la educación y las cualificaciones del capital humano, los cambios en la organización de la producción y la calidad institucional, sean elementos nodales para avanzar en la consolidación de este ambiente productivo

    7th Drug hypersensitivity meeting: part two

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    Securing the Internet of Things,

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    In the Internet of Things vision, every physical object has a virtual component that can produce and consume services. Such extreme interconnection will bring unprecedented convenience and economy, but it will also require novel approaches to ensure its safe and ethical use. In the Internet of Things (IoT), everything real becomes virtual, which means that each person and thing has a locatable, addressable, and readable counterpart on the Internet. These virtual entities can produce and consume services and collaborate toward a common goal. The user's phone knows about his physical and mental state through a network of devices that surround his body, so it can act on his behalf. The embedded system in a swimming pool can share its state with other virtual entities. With these characteristics, the IoT promises to extend "anywhere, anyhow, anytime" computing to "anything, anyone, any service." Several significant obstacles remain to fulfill the IoT vision, among them security. The Internet and its users are already under continual attack, and a growing economy-replete with business models that undermine the Internet's ethical use-is fully focused on exploiting the current version's foundational weaknesses. This does not bode well for the IoT, which incorporates many constrained devices. Indeed, realizing the IoT vision is likely to spark novel and ingenious malicious models. The challenge is to prevent the growth of such models or at least to mitigate and limit their impact. Meeting this challenge requires understanding the characteristics of things and the technologies that empower the IoT. Mobile applications are already intensifying users' interaction with the environment, and researchers have made considerable progress in developing sensory devices to provide myriad dimensions of information to enrich the user experience. However, without strong security foundations, attacks and malfunctions in the IoT will outweigh any of its benefits. Traditional protection mechanisms-lightweight cryptography, secure protocols, and privacy assurance-are not enough. Rather, researchers must discover the full extent of specific obstacles. They must analyze current security protocols and mechanisms and decide if such approaches are worth integrating into the IoT as is or if adaptations or entirely new designs will better accomplish security goals. The proper legal and technical framework is essential. To establish it, analysts must thoroughly understand the risks associated with various IoT scenarios, such as air travel, which has many interrelated elements, including safety, privacy, and economy All these requirements underline some critical first steps in implementing IoT security measures successfully: understand the IoT conceptually, evaluate Internet security's current state, and explore how to move from solutions that meet current requirements and constraints to those that can reasonably assure a secure IoT. INFRASTRUCTURE SEEDS The "Objects in a Superconnected World" sidebar describes some of the characteristics of the things in the envisioned IoT and some existing applications that are arguably partial IoT instances. The path to the IoT is not necessary a single step. In fact, it makes far more sense to gradually incorporate IoT applications into the real world by giving objects virtual personas and thinking outside the box. For example, researchers could enhance fishing vessels with sensors and communication systems that offer share

    Chasing mosquitoes: An exploration of the relationship between economic growth, poverty and the elimination of malaria in Southern Europe in the 20th century

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    This paper explores how the elimination of malaria could provide an escape from poverty with reference to the timing of the decline in malaria and its implications in terms of the labour force, the implications for the agricultural sector and the growth of the tourist industry in Portugal, Spain, Greece and Italy in the first half of the twentieth century. The paper finds that whilst the control of malaria did have an economic effect, the escape from poverty was encouraged but not explained by malaria elimination. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

    Sustentabilidad productiva sectorial

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    Libro temático especializadoLa sustentabilidad también debe aplicarse al sistema de producción, buscando impulsar transformaciones graduales de los estilos y modelos productivos tradicionales a unas de mayor eficiencia. Y donde se incorpore la dimensión ambiental y geográfico-espacial, para crear estructuras productivas más progresivas y equitativas en las sociedades. Todo esto, como alternativa para revertir las tendencias de escasez y agotamiento de los recursos naturales, así como de los desequilibrios globales, cuyos costos permean todos los tejidos humanos. De esta manera, la “sustentabilidad productiva” se concibe como la generación de bienes y servicios con ciertos estándares de calidad, bajo un esquema de eficiencia, rendimiento y de organización inclusiva e integrada, con baja presión al ambiente y uso racional de los recursos, garantizando la estadía y permanencia de los insumos y materiales en el tiempo. Desde esta perspectiva, la producción sustentable y el crecimiento de largo plazo pueden ser explicados por la capacidad que tienen las economías para generar e incorporar conocimientos y tecnologías. De ahí que, la educación y las cualificaciones del capital humano, los cambios en la organización de la producción y la calidad institucional, sean elementos nodales para avanzar en la consolidación de este ambiente productivo
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