El primerWalsh: el género policial como laboratorio

This study analyzes the Rodolfo Walsh’s first detective short stories published in the newspapers (1950-1964), and not included in Variaciones en rojo (1953). The study takes special attention to the two «Las tres noches de Isaías Bloom» versions (1950 and 1954). Those stories are characterized by his hesitations in the genre and by his adaptation to the local context. Also, it is possible to see his future poetics typical features: his worry to register the colloquial way of speaking, the inclusion of the Argentinean landscape and his social restlessness

A Simulated Annealing Method to Cover Dynamic Load Balancing in Grid Environment

High-performance scheduling is critical to the achievement of application performance on the computational grid. New scheduling algorithms are in demand for addressing new concerns arising in the grid environment. One of the main phases of scheduling on a grid is related to the load balancing problem therefore having a high-performance method to deal with the load balancing problem is essential to obtain a satisfactory high-performance scheduling. This paper presents SAGE, a new high-performance method to cover the dynamic load balancing problem by means of a simulated annealing algorithm. Even though this problem has been addressed with several different approaches only one of these methods is related with simulated annealing algorithm. Preliminary results show that SAGE not only makes it possible to find a good solution to the problem (effectiveness) but also in a reasonable amount of time (efficiency)

Livros raros em bibliotecas digitais: preservação e acesso

O trabalho analisa o uso das bibliotecas digitais na preservação de livros raros e em seu acesso a esses livros, caracterizando a noção de livro raro na Biblioteconomia ao mesmo tempo em que diferencia as noções de biblioteca eletrônica, virtual, digital e o processo de automação de bibliotecas. A partir destas distinções e da relação entre as práticas de conservação e restauro aplicadas aos livros raros e a preservação de documentos digitais, investiga as possibilidades de preservação e acesso propiciadas pelas bibliotecas digitais aos livros raros, tendo o levantamento e revisão bibliográficos como métodos adotados para a pesquisa

Making inroads in educational leadership within the Euro-Mediterranean context : a collaborative initiative between Italy and Malta

A sense of urgency shapes our national discourse on state education. Students strive to meet new academic standards while their teachers work to improve the quality and equity of education opportunities. Yet achievement gaps persist, particularly in urban and rural schools . The demand for effective leadership is clear. We need school leaders who visualise successful student learning, understand the work necessary to achieve it, and have the skills to engage with others to make it happen. How can we prepare more individuals to meet these challenges? This paper explores what three universities – two in Italy and one in Malta – are doing to establish a programme that offers an innovative pathway to school leadership. It presents the inception of this partnership, the rationale behind the discourse that has evolved over the years, and the establishment of links between the universities and other bodies within the Mediterranean and Commonwealth contexts with the aim of preparing the next generation of school leaders needed within the Euro-Mediterranean region. The concluding part presents a number of opportunities that lie ahead and highlights the various challenges that await us as we embark on this journey.peer-reviewe

A ética da informação na era digital: desenho de uma experiência pedagógica no âmbito da cooperação científica luso-brasileira = Ethics of information in the digital age: design of an educational experience in scientific cooperation framework luso-brazilian

Este trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar reflexões sobre os resultados de projeto de pesquisa conduzido no Observatório do Mercado de Trabalho em Informação e Documentação CNPq, na Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo em colaboração com a Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. O trabalho apresenta reflexões sobre dimensões éticas que acompanha a atual era digital com vista a ministrar nos cursos de graduação de Biblioteconomia, Arquivologia, Museologia, e Ciência da Informação, uma disciplina que condense essas reflexões e problemática, desenvolvendo competências para uma ação ética na atividade profissional.This work aims to presents partial results on the research project conducted at the Observatory of the Labour Market in Information and Documentation, CNPq - School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. The subject of the article is a reflection on some ethical dimensions accompanying the current digital age as well as to support the development of the Information Ethic syllabus to be offered at Librarianship, Archival, and Information Science courses

The Boston University-Chelsea Partnership or the Role of Networking for School System Reform

The longstanding partnership between Boston University and the Chelsea Public School District of Chelsea, Massachusetts is unique for many reasons. Perhaps the most recognizable feature of this Partnership, however, is that it is the only example of an American university engaging in the day-to-day management of a public school system. The BU/Chelsea partnership will come to an official end in 2008. The original intent of the partnership has always been to provide Chelsea with the strong foundation to run its schools autonomously. In an effort to build this foundation, the university has, over the years, made a point of sharing its managerial and educational expertise. The future development and the effective and efficient management of the Chelsea School District will not depend solely upon whether the university has shared its expertise effectively, however. If that were the case, at the termination of the project, even the intangible assets, e.g. knowledge, upon which the success of the District was based, will be lost. Instead, Chelsea¿s opportunity to continue to achieve excellent performance results depends on how well Boston University, the ¿flagship business¿ of the Partnership, has been able to share, with the other members of the Network, the responsibility of managing the system. Moreover, continuing the good work begun almost twenty years ago depends on the intellectual capital the District has managed to ¿accumulate¿, and on the ability to produce new capital, through the promotion of knowledge-management processes. This report endeavors to determine how the Partnership changed the involvement of staff members, students, their families and the community as a whole, thereby promoting the creation of a network of primarily private and non-profit institutions (already in existence or created at the time) to improve the schooling system.JRC.G.9-Econometrics and applied statistic

Three-dimensional cell culture of human mesenchymal stem cells in nanofibrillar cellulose hydrogels

Human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are the most intensely studied and clinically used adult stem cell type. Conventional long-term cultivation of MSCs as a monolayer is known to result in a reduction of their functionality and viability. In addition, large volumes of cell culture medium are required to obtain cell quantities needed for their clinical use. In this proof of concept study, we cultivated human MSCs within a 3D nanofibrillar cellulose (NFC) hydrogel. We show that NFC is biocompatible with human MSCs, and represents a feasible approach to upscaling of their culture

Metaplasia ossea diagnosticata su leiomioma uterino

Riportiamo un caso di metaplasia ossea in un leiomioma uterino scoperto casualmente in una donna di 53 anni operata di isterectomia totale per una neoformazione annessial