Comparative analisys of colombian public quality management model with the chilean case.

La Gestión de la Calidad es una herramienta versátil de aplicación en diversa tipología de organizaciones. Sin embargo, intentar abordarla desde el ámbito de lo público, implica hacer un análisis detallado de su complejidad respecto al entorno del Estado, su estructura, la interacción con las partes interesadas, además de su finalidad de satisfacción a un cliente, que se aleja del concepto tradicional empresarial, porque el cliente de la Administración Pública no se rige bajo lógicas de productividad ni rentabilidad económica, sino social: lograr el mejoramiento de la calidad de vida del ciudadano sujeto de derechos, promoviendo un crecimiento y desarrollo económico convergente, regulando adicionalmente el mercado en un contexto de globalización. Para lograr esto, se debe armonizar ambos modelos de gestión en sistemas integrados que alineen los procesos de la estructura del Estado, hacia una cultura de mejoramiento continuo que conlleve a la satisfacción de las necesidades del ciudadano. Este reto se ha abordado en Colombia, desde inicios de los años 90’s con la implementación del New Public Management, tendencia que adoptó tanto lenguaje como prácticas empresariales, que aterrizaron nuevas herramientas de gestión en los aparatos estatales para su optimización. Sin embargo, la tarea por perfeccionar estos modelos de gestión de calidad públicos es continua: abordar casos exitosos como el del Estado Chileno es una premisa para proponer, recomendar oportunidades de mejora y buenas prácticas de gestión pública de calidad.The Quality Management system is a versatile tool for application in a different type of organizations. However, attempting to approach it from the public sphere implies a detailed analysis, because of its complexity at the state level, complex structure, interaction with stakeholders, and its goal of satisfying a client. It moved away from the traditional business concept due to the client in the Public Administration is not conceived by logics of productivity and economic profitability, but social. To achieve the improvement in the quality of life, promoting growth, and economic development convergent, it is necessary to regulate the market in a context of globalization. Both management models must be harmonized in an integrated system aligned to the processes of the State structure towards a culture of continuous improvement and satisfaction of the needs of the citizen. The task of refining the public quality management models is a continuous process, and addressing successful cases such as Chilean State is a premise to propose and recommend opportunities for improvement and good quality public management practices

Un estudio sobre algunas caracterizaciones algebraicas del teorema de ceros de Hilbert para anillos no conmutativos de tipo polinomial

In this paper we present a survey of some algebraic characterizations of Hilbert’s Nullstellensatz for non-commutative rings of polynomial type. Using several results established in the literature, we obtain a version of this theorem for the skew Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt extensions. Once this is done, we illustrate the Nullstellensatz with examples appearing in noncommutative ring theory and non-commutative algebraic geometry.En este artículo presentamos un estudio sobre algunas caracterizaciones algebraicas del teorema de Nullstellensatz de Hilbert para anillos no conmutativos de tipo polinomial. Utilizando varios resultados establecidos en la literatura, obtuvimos una versión de este teorema para las extensiones de Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt. Una vez hecho esto, ilustramos el Nullstellensatz con ejemplos que aparecen en la teoría de los anillos no conmutativa y en la geometría algebraica no conmutativa

What They Don’t Want You to Know About Planet X: Surviving 2012 and the Aesthetics of Conspiracy Rhetoric

Predictions of catastrophe at the end of the year 2012 are popular enough to be exploited by Hollywood and debunked by NASA. Drawing from a YouTube video series predicting a 2012 cataclysm caused by “Planet X,” we ask whether the discourse in question is a conspiracy theory and demonstrate how it exemplifies the challenges of analyzing rhetoric in the “paranoid style.” Examining these videos in terms of evidence, credibility, and inter-textuality, this article articulates an aesthetic of conspiracism, going beyond identifying the components of paranoid style to answer what makes a good conspiracy theory as such

Preseason Lower Extremity Functional Test Scores Are Not Associated With Lower Quadrant Injury - A Validation Study With Normative Data on 395 Division III Athletes

Background: Preseason performance on the lower extremity functional test (LEFT), a timed series of agility drills, has been previously reported to be associated with future risk of lower quadrant (LQ = low back and lower extremities) injury in Division III (D III) athletes.Validation studies are warranted to confirm or refute initial findings. Hypothesis/Purpose: The primary purpose of this study was to examine the ability of the LEFT to discriminate injury occurrence in D III athletes, in order to validate or refute prior findings. It was hypothesized that female and male D III athletes slower at completion of the LEFT would be at a greater risk for a non-contact time-loss injury during sport. Secondary purposes of this study are to report other potential risk factors based on athlete demographics and to present normative LEFT data based on sport participation. Methods: Two hundred and six (females = 104; males = 102) D III collegiate athletes formed a validation sample. Athletes in the validation sample completed a demographic questionnaire and performed the LEFT at the start of their sports preseason. Athletic trainers tracked non-contact time-loss LQ injuries during the season. A secondary analysis of risk based on preseason LEFT performance was conducted for a sample (n = 395) that consisted of subjects in the validation sample (n = 206) as well as athletes from a prior LEFT related study (n = 189). Study Design: Prospective cohort Results: Male athletes in the validation sample completed the LEFT [98.6 (± 8.1) seconds] significantly faster than female athletes [113.1 (± 10.4) seconds]. Male athletes, by sport, also completed the LEFT significantly faster than their female counterparts who participated in the same sport. There was no association between preseason LEFT performance and subsequent injury, by sex, in either the validation sample or the combined sample. Females who reported starting primary sport participation by age 10 were two times (OR = 2.4, 95% CI: 1.2, 4.9; p = 0.01) more likely to experience a non-contact time-loss LQ injury than female athletes who started their primary sport at age 11 or older. Males who reported greater than three hours per week of plyometric training during the six-week period prior to the start of the preseason were four times more likely (OR = 4.0, 95% CI: 1.1, 14.0; p = 0.03) to experience a foot or ankle injury than male athletes who performed three or less hours per week. Conclusions: The LEFT could not be validated as a preseason performance measure to predict future sports injury risk. The data presented in this study may aid rehabilitation professionals when evaluating an injured athlete’s ability to return to sport by comparing their LEFT score to population norms

Modeling truncated pixel values of faint reflections in MicroED images.

The weak pixel counts surrounding the Bragg spots in a diffraction image are important for establishing a model of the background underneath the peak and estimating the reliability of the integrated intensities. Under certain circumstances, particularly with equipment not optimized for low-intensity measurements, these pixel values may be corrupted by corrections applied to the raw image. This can lead to truncation of low pixel counts, resulting in anomalies in the integrated Bragg intensities, such as systematically higher signal-to-noise ratios. A correction for this effect can be approximated by a three-parameter lognormal distribution fitted to the weakly positive-valued pixels at similar scattering angles. The procedure is validated by the improved refinement of an atomic model against structure factor amplitudes derived from corrected micro-electron diffraction (MicroED) images

Master\u27s Recital

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Junior Recital

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