A Model-Driven Approach for Business Process Management

The Business Process Management is a common mechanism recommended by a high number of standards for the management of companies and organizations. In software companies this practice is every day more accepted and companies have to assume it, if they want to be competitive. However, the effective definition of these processes and mainly their maintenance and execution are not always easy tasks. This paper presents an approach based on the Model-Driven paradigm for Business Process Management in software companies. This solution offers a suitable mechanism that was implemented successfully in different companies with a tool case named NDTQ-Framework.Keywords/Index Terms: Model-Driven Web Engineering, Web Engineering, Web Development Methodologies, Business Process Managemen

Participatory Militias: An Analysis of an Armed Movement's Online Audience

Armed groups of civilians known as "self-defense forces" have ousted the powerful Knights Templar drug cartel from several towns in Michoacan. This militia uprising has unfolded on social media, particularly in the "VXM" ("Valor por Michoacan," Spanish for "Courage for Michoacan") Facebook page, gathering more than 170,000 fans. Previous work on the Drug War has documented the use of social media for real-time reports of violent clashes. However, VXM goes one step further by taking on a pro-militia propagandist role, engaging in two-way communication with its audience. This paper presents a descriptive analysis of VXM and its audience. We examined nine months of posts, from VXM's inception until May 2014, totaling 6,000 posts by VXM administrators and more than 108,000 comments from its audience. We describe the main conversation themes, post frequency and relationships with offline events and public figures. We also characterize the behavior of VXM's most active audience members. Our work illustrates VXM's online mobilization strategies, and how its audience takes part in defining the narrative of this armed conflict. We conclude by discussing possible applications of our findings for the design of future communication technologies.Comment: Participatory Militias: An Analysis of an Armed Movement's Online Audience. Saiph Savage, Andres Monroy-Hernandez. CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 201

Androgen receptor gene polymorphism influence fat accumulation: a longitudinal study from adolescence to adult age.

To determine the influence of androgen receptor CAG and GGN repeat polymorphisms on fat mass and maximal fat oxidation (MFO), CAG and GGN repeat lengths were measured in 128 young boys, from which longitudinal data were obtained in 45 of them [mean?±?SD: 12.8?±?3.6 years old at recruitment, and 27.0?±?4.8 years old at adult age]. Subjects were grouped as CAG short (CAGS ) if harboring repeat lengths ?21, the rest as CAG long (CAGL ); and GGN short (GGNS ) if GGN repeat lengths ?23, or long if >?23 (GGNL ). CAGS and GGNS were associated with lower adiposity than CAGL or GGNL (P?<?0.05). There was an association between the logarithm of CAG repeats polymorphism and the changes of body mass (r?=?0.34, P?=?0.03). At adult age, CAGS men showed lower accumulation of total body and trunk fat mass, and lower resting metabolic rate (RMR) and MFO per kg of total lean mass compared with CAGL (P?<?0.05). GGNS men also showed lower percentage of body fat (P?<?0.05). In summary, androgen receptor CAG and GGN repeat polymorphisms are associated with RMR, MFO, fat mass, and its regional distribution in healthy male adolescents, influencing fat accumulation from adolescence to adult age

An AGAMOUS-related MADS-box gene, XAL1 (AGL12), regulates root meristem cell proliferation and flowering transition in Arabidopsis

11 pages, 5 figures, 1 table.-- PMID: 18203871 [PubMed].-- PMCID: PMC2259045.-- Supplementary information available at: http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/content/full/pp.107.108647/DC1MADS-box genes are key components of the networks that control the transition to flowering and flower development, but their role in vegetative development is poorly understood. This article shows that the sister gene of the AGAMOUS (AG) clade, AGL12, has an important role in root development as well as in flowering transition. We isolated three mutant alleles for AGL12, which is renamed here as XAANTAL1 (XAL1): Two alleles, xal1-1 and xal1-2, are in Columbia ecotype and xal1-3 is in Landsberg erecta ecotype. All alleles have a short-root phenotype with a smaller meristem, lower rate of cell production, and abnormal root apical meristem organization. Interestingly, we also encountered a significantly longer cell cycle in the strongest xal1 alleles with respect to wild-type plants. Expression analyses confirmed the presence of XAL1 transcripts in roots, particularly in the phloem. Moreover, XAL1beta-glucuronidase expression was specifically up-regulated by auxins in this tissue. In addition, mRNA in situ hybridization showed that XAL1 transcripts were also found in leaves and floral meristems of wild-type plants. This expression correlates with the late-flowering phenotypes of the xal1 mutants grown under long days. Transcript expression analysis suggests that XAL1 is an upstream regulator of SOC, FLOWERING LOCUS T, and LFY. We propose that XAL1 may have similar roles in both root and aerial meristems that could explain the xal1 late-flowering phenotype.This work was supported by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), México (grant nos. CO1.41848/A–1, CO1.0538/A–1, and CO1.0435.B–1); Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico (DGAPA)-Programa de Apoyo a Proyectos de Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica (PAPIIT), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM; grant nos. IN230002 and IX207104); and the University of California-MEXUS ECO IE 271 to E.R.A.-B. R.T.-L. was a recipient of CONACYT and DGAPA-PAPIIT-UNAM fellowships (no. IX225304). J.G.D. was supported by DGAPA-PAPIIT-UNAM (grant nos. IN210202 and IN225906) and CONACYT (grant no. 49267).Peer reviewe

TiO2:Cex onto Al Clays for Photocatalytic Solar Water Disinfection

A novel methodology was employed to prepare new nanocomposites with photocatalytic properties based on Ce-doped TiO2 nanoparticles arranged over a layered silicate. The catalysts were porous materials formed by exfoliated silicate layers surrounded by anatase nanoparticles. In this way, the anatase was doped by different amounts of Ce, yielding to catalysts with light absorption properties on the visible region. The photocatalytic behavior was tested for different reactions: adsorption and photocatalysis, showing outstanding and promising results for the removal of bacteria by using solar light as an energy source. The influence of the physicochemical properties of the catalyst and the reaction parameters will be studied in detail to manage new catalysts for the disinfection of drinking water

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Gerontología social. Envejecimiento y calidad de vida R. Moragas Moragas. Editorial Herder, 1991. Mitos y realidades sobre la vejez y la salud. R. Fernández Ballesteros. Editorial S.G. Editores, 1991. Introducción a la gerontología. El arte de envejecer. J. Laforest. Editorial Herder, 1991. Atención primaria y psicoanálisis. J.L. Tizón. Editorial Fundación Vidal y Barraquer, 1990. Melanie Klein. Su mundo y su obra. P. Grosskurth. Editorial Paidós, 1990. Patología narcisista borderline. Monografías nº 2. V Hernández. Editorial: Fundación Vidal y Barraquer, 1991. Juegos, juguetes y ludotecas. T. Andrés Tripero (compilador). Editorial Publicaciones E.U. "Pablo Montesinos", 1991. Introducción a la educación especial. E. Sánchez. Editorial Complutense, 1992.. Psicopedagogía de la adolescencia. E. Fernándes. Editorial Narcea, 1991 La educación de los niños perturbadores. D. Galloway, C. Goodwin. Ediciones Nueva Visión, Buenos Aires, 1992. Introducción a los métodos psicofísicos. J. Muñiz Fernández. Barcelona, 1991. Neuropediatría, Neuropsicología y aprendizaje. J. Tallis, A. M. Soprano. Ediciones Nueva Visión, Buenos Aires 1991. El aprendizaje no-verbal de los humanos. E. Huertas. Editorial Pirámides, Madrid, 1992. Terapia racional-emotiva con alcohólicos y toxicómanos. A. Ellis et al. Editorial Descleé de Brower, Bilbao, 1992. Trastornos psíquicos en la infancia y juventud. G. Nissen. Editorial Herder, Barcelona, 1991. La atención al niño maltratado. O. Stevenson. Ediciones Paidós (Psiquiatría, psicopatología y psicosomática). 1ª edición en castellano. Barcelona 1992

Co-Design quantum simulation of nanoscale NMR

Quantum computers have the potential to efficiently simulate the dynamics of nanoscale NMR systems. In this work, we demonstrate that a noisy intermediate-scale quantum computer can be used to simulate and predict nanoscale NMR resonances. In order to minimize the required gate fidelities, we propose a superconducting application-specific Co-Design quantum processor that reduces the number of SWAP gates by over 90% for chips with more than 20 qubits. The processor consists of transmon qubits capacitively coupled via tunable couplers to a central co-planar waveguide resonator with a quantum circuit refrigerator (QCR) for fast resonator reset. The QCR implements the nonunitary quantum operations required to simulate nuclear hyperpolarization scenarios.The authors would like to thank Caspar Ockeloen-Korppi, Alessandro Landra, and Johannes Heinsoo for their help in de- veloping the idea of the star-architecture chip, Jani Tuorila for his support in developing the gate theory, Amin Hosseinkhani and Tianhan Liu for reviewing the manuscript, and Hen- rikki Mäkynen and Hoang-Mai Nguyen for graphic design. J.C. additionally acknowledges the Ramón y Cajal program (RYC2018-025197-I). We further acknowledge support from Atos with the Quantum Learning Machine (QLM). Finally, the authors acknowledge financial support to BMBF through the Q-Exa Project No. FZK: 13N16062