Sistema de Registro y Selección de Pares Evaluadores para el Consejo Nacional de Evaluación y Acreditación CNEA, en el segundo semestre del año 2013

Desde hace ya algunos años, los sistemas de información han cambiado la forma en que operan las organizaciones actuales. A través de su uso se logran importantes mejoras, pues automatizan los procesos operativos y suministran una plataforma de información necesaria para la toma de decisiones. En el presente trabajo monográfico se muestra el análisis y diseño de un sistema de información de Registro y Selección de Pares Evaluadores para el Consejo Nacional de Evaluación y Acreditación (CNEA), el cual se encuentra realizando la primera etapa de la Evaluación Institucional. Primeramente se explican los procesos que realiza el CNEA para llevar a cabo sus tareas, los cuales sirvieron de base para la creación del sistema. Seguido de esto, se detallan los objetivos planteados para este proyecto y los procedimientos y herramientas utilizadas para el desarrollo del mismo. Finalmente se muestran los resultados del análisis y el desarrollo del sistema de información

Capital account regulations for stability and development: a new approach

This repository item contains a single issue of Issues in Brief, a series of policy briefs that began publishing in 2008 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.In the wake of the financial crisis numerous emerging market and developing countries have been deploying what have traditionally been referred to as ‘capital controls’ to curb excessive speculation on their currencies and domestic assets. In response to those efforts, French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on the International Monetary Fund to develop a set of guidelines for the use of capital controls. The goal is for the President to present such guidelines at the G-20 Summit in Cannes this year. The IMF has published a preliminary set of guidelines to that end. This policy brief provides a critical review of those guidelines and offers an alternative protocol for a development friendly-approach to capital account regulation. In this policy brief, the co-conveners of the Pardee Center Task Force on Managing Capital Flows for Long-Run Development argue that capital account regulations (CARs) should be viewed as an essential tool in the macroeconomic policy toolkit. Based on discussions that occurred at the Task Force meeting in September 2011, the authors present an alternative set of guidelines for how and when CARs should be employed, and call for international financial institutions and international trade agreements to ensure that policy space remains available to allow developing countries to employ CARs when deemed necessary for financial stability and economic development

Capital account regulations for stability and development: a new approach

This repository item contains a single issue of Issues in Brief, a series of policy briefs that began publishing in 2008 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.In the wake of the financial crisis numerous emerging market and developing countries have been deploying what have traditionally been referred to as ‘capital controls’ to curb excessive speculation on their currencies and domestic assets. In response to those efforts, French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on the International Monetary Fund to develop a set of guidelines for the use of capital controls. The goal is for the President to present such guidelines at the G-20 Summit in Cannes this year. The IMF has published a preliminary set of guidelines to that end. This policy brief provides a critical review of those guidelines and offers an alternative protocol for a development friendly-approach to capital account regulation. In this policy brief, the co-conveners of the Pardee Center Task Force on Managing Capital Flows for Long-Run Development argue that capital account regulations (CARs) should be viewed as an essential tool in the macroeconomic policy toolkit. Based on discussions that occurred at the Task Force meeting in September 2011, the authors present an alternative set of guidelines for how and when CARs should be employed, and call for international financial institutions and international trade agreements to ensure that policy space remains available to allow developing countries to employ CARs when deemed necessary for financial stability and economic development

Capital account liberalization in China: a cautionary tale

This repository item contains a policy brief from the Boston University Global Economic Governance Initiative. The Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) is a research program of the Center for Finance, Law & Policy, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. It was founded in 2008 to advance policy-relevant knowledge about governance for financial stability, human development, and the environment.This policy brief synthesizes some of the main themes and policy recommendations discussed at a February 2014 workshop of the Pardee Task Force for Regulating Capital Flows at Boston University, and presented in this report, though the specific recommendations discussed in this brief are our own. The main message is that China would do well to draw lessons from both the economics literature and country experiences with capital account liberalization. Such an approach would guide China to adopt a carefully sequenced and cautionary approach to capital account liberalization

Surficial Geology of the Chicxulub Impact Crater, Yucatan, Mexico

The Chicxulub impact crater in northwestern Yucatan, Mexico is the primary candidate for the proposed impact that caused mass extinctions at the end of the Cretaceous Period. The crater is buried by up to a kilometer of Tertiary sediment and the most prominent surface expression is a ring of sink holes, known locally as cenotes, mapped with Landsat imagery. This 165 +/- 5 km diameter Cenote Ring demarcates a boundary between unfractured limestones inside the ring, and fractured limestones outside. The boundary forms a barrier to lateral ground water migration, resulting in increased flows, dissolution, and collapse thus forming the cenotes. The subsurface geology indicates that the fracturing that created the Cenote Ring is related to slumping in the rim of the buried crater, differential thicknesses in the rocks overlying the crater, or solution collapse within porous impact deposits. The Cenote Ring provides the most accurate position of the Chicxulub crater's center, and the associated faults, fractures, and stratigraphy indicate that the crater may be approx. 240 km in diameter

Special Drawing Rights: International Monetary Support for Developing Countries in Times of the COVID-19 Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic is having dramatic effects on the global economy. It has led to a shut-down of borders, a collapse of tourism and international passenger travel, a disruption of global trade and investment, and a sharp contraction of economic activity all over the world. Developing and emerging economies have also been hit by the largest-ever outflow of portfolio capital, crumbling commodity prices, a contraction of remittances, and depreciation of their currencies. As of 20 April, 103 developing countries have approached the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for emergency financing. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has referred to the effects of COVID-19 as “the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression”. Both the IMF and UNCTAD reckon that emerging market and developing countries have an immediate need of $2.5 trillion

Primary School Vision Screening Involving Teachers in Nampula, Mozambique

Purpose: There is no plan for a national child eye care programme or existing human resource infrastructure to address the immediate challenge of child eye health in Mozambique.This study aims to design, implement and evaluate a school based pediatric vision screening service, to identify those in need of eye care services, among Mozambique’s 11,561,000 children. Methods: Primary School Screening took place in three schools in Nampula, Mozambique in September 2010 and March 2011. The children’s vision was screened by an optometry student, optometrist or teacher with Log MAR ETDRS letters at 4 Meters. Ophthalmoscopy was performed on all children by qualified optometrists. Children requiring refraction were refracted on site, those needing ophthalmological assessment were referred to the ophthalmologist in Nampula Central Hospital. Results: 770 children were screened in total. The ocular abnormality detection rate was 10.65%, and included 7.40% of children requiring spectacle provision, and the remaining 3.25% requiring referral to the Ophthalmology Unit. The distribution of myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism among children provided spectacles was 28.57%, 12.5% and 58.93% respectively, and overall prevalence in the study sample was 2.21%, 0.91% and 4.29% respectively. Referrals for ocular health abnormalities included, cataract (26.92%), ptosis (23.08%), glaucoma (15.38%). All teachers interviewed are eager to participate in a vision screening programme. Two Primary School Teachers were trained in vision screening. Teachers scored 100% case detection agreement with optometrists and student optometrists, with no noted false positive or false negative referrals. Conclusions: Teachers appear to have an adequate level of education and interest to undertake vision screening in children. This study will inform a regional pilot teacher screening project for Nampula, which will include the addition of “Vision Screening” to teacher training modules at Universidade Pedagogica, Nampula, as part of a plan to develop a national child eye care programme for Mozambique

Appropriate criteria set for personnel promotion across organizational levels using analytic hierarchy process (AHP)

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Factores protectores y de riesgo en dos personas adolescentes que intentaron suicidarse: Recomendaciones para la prevención desde la Orientación

CualitativoResumen Esta investigación estudia el tema: Factores protectores y de riesgo en dos personas adolescentes que intentaron suicidarse: Recomendaciones para la prevención desde la Orientación., para establecer la importancia de estudiar el contexto del intento de suicidio en la vida del joven, desde una perspectiva de desarrollo personal en Orientación. Con el objeto de conocer lo encontrado en el tema del suicidio e intento de suicidio adolescente se construyó un marco teórico que fundamentó el proceso de investigación con los constructos teóricos acerca de la etapa de la adolescencia, los aspectos principales de su desarrollo, los retos y amenazas que enfrentan las personas adolescentes en la conformación de una identidad y el establecimiento de un proyecto y un sentido de vida. En este mismo apartado se destacó la importancia que ha tenido el estudio y la atención del intento de suicidio en la población adolescente tanto a nivel nacional como internacional. Esto mediante la exposición de iniciativas de países para crear políticas y servicios de atención basadas en la prevención, información y concientización como respuesta a una situación creciente y alarmante especialmente dentro de la población joven, como lo es el intento suicida. En el mismo sentido, se da un rol primordial a la persona profesional en Orientación en la prevención y atención de jóvenes en periodo adolescente que ha intentado suicidarse, tomando en cuenta el estado de vulnerabilidad y riesgo que representa el intento suicida en el desarrollo personal de este tipo de población. xv Se construyó, un marco metodológico desde el paradigma cualitativo, que describe los constructos teóricos, operacionales, categorías y subcategorías emergentes que brindan la información pertinente para aplicar los procedimientos, instrumentos y el análisis de los datos. Como resultado, la metodología empleada posibilita que las personas investigadoras lograsen profundizar en el contexto y las experiencias que han vivido dos adolescentes y sus familiares con respecto al intento de suicidio. Posteriormente, en el procesamiento de los datos, se da orden a la información recolectada y con la sistematización se ilustra los alcances que se obtuvieron en la investigación con base en los objetivos que inicialmente fueron propuestos. A partir del análisis de datos realizado, conjugando la información recolectada y la teoría, facilitó la presentación de conclusiones y recomendaciones con el objetivo de resaltar la importancia de la disciplina de la Orientación ante la realidad del intento suicida adolescente, al enfatizar en la necesidad de la prevención, desde un enfoque de desarrollo.UCR::Vicerrectoría de Docencia::Ciencias Sociales::Facultad de Educación::Escuela de Orientación y Educación Especia