News on Leptogenesis

The possibility to explain the CMB measurement of the baryon asymmetry with leptogenesis results in a stringent bound on the neutrino masses such that [(m_1)^2+(m_2)^2+(m_3)^2]^(1/2) < 0.30 eV. We discuss the implications of such a bound for future experiments on the absolute neutrino mass scale.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures included. Talk given at the Third Tropical Workshop: Neutrinos, Branes and Cosmology, 19-23 August 2002, San Juan, Puerto Rico. v2 references adde

Puerto Rico and the Netherworld of Sovereign Debt Restructuring

Puerto Rico has incurred debt well beyond its ability to repay. It attempted to address its fiscal woes through legislation allowing the restructuring of some its debt. The Supreme Court put a stop to this effort, holding that Congress in the Bankruptcy Code barred the Commonwealth from enacting its own restructuring regime. Yet all agreed that the Bankruptcy Code did not provide anything in its place. While Congress quickly enacted PROMESA in an attempt to address the Puerto Rico’s fiscal ills, we explore in this paper whether Congress has the power to bar Puerto Rico from enacting a restructuring mechanism and not offer an alternative. We submit that the answer is no. When it comes to a state, the Supreme Court has held that the power to issue debt necessarily implies the power to restructure that debt. Congress can preempt that power, so long as it puts something in its place. To preempt and leave nothing, however, runs afoul of our federal system. The same reasoning, with greater force, applies to Puerto Rico. The federal government entered into a compact with the citizens of Puerto Rico, granting them, among other things, the power to issue debt. Puerto Rico implicitly received the power to restructure this debt. Congress could offer a substitute to any regime that Puerto Rico might enact, but it cannot leave the Commonwealth without any means to address its fiscal affairs

El impacto formativo del proyecto de solidaridad ?manos solidarias? del colegio Champagnat en la escuela ?san Luis Gonzaga? del municipio de Ibagu?

85 P?ginasRecurso Electr?nicoEste trabajo tiene como finalidad describir el impacto o la influencia que el proyecto ?Manos Solidarias? desarroll? en una comunidad marginal de la ciudad de Ibagu? para analizar desde la reflexi?n los cambios generados por ?ste en el actuar y el pensar de esta poblaci?n en torno al valor de la solidaridad. La descripci?n del impacto de este proyecto se origina desde los mismos miembros de la escuela, a trav?s del uso de una encuesta en la cual se conoce la percepci?n que tienen estudiantes, padres de familia y profesores y una entrevista semiestructurada en la cual una muestra representativa profundiz? en aspectos como cambios y el por qu? de ?stos.ABSTRACT This final report has as a main purpose to describe the impact or the influence of the Project ?Manos Solidarias? held it in escuela ?San Luis Gonzaga?, focusing in changes that this work brought. This school is a vulnerable neighborhood of Ibagu? city. This description comes from people?s point of view, through two collecting instruments: a survey in which participants? answers questions about main topics of the Project; and then, a structure interview in which subjects got deeply on the matters of changes that they experimented while the Project was carried out.INTRODUCCI?N 15 1. PROBLEMA DE INVESTIGACI?N 16 2. JUSTIFICACI?N 17 3. MARCO TE?RICO 19 3.1 SOLIDARIDAD 19 3.1.1 Conceptos Generales 19 3.2 EL IMPACTO FORMATIVO DE UN QUEHACER 23 3.3 DESARROLLO HUMANO SOSTENIBLE 23 3.4 PROYECTO ?MANOS SOLIDARIAS? COLEGIO CHAMPAGNAT IBAGU?. 25 4. OBJETIVOS 28 4.1 OBJETIVO GENERAL 28 4.2 OBJETIVOS ESPEC?FICOS 28 5. MARCO METODOL?GICO 29 5.1 DEFINICI?N Y DESCRIPCI?N DEL TRABAJO INVESTIGATIVO 29 5.2 ?POR QU? UTILIZAR ESTE TIPO DE INVESTIGACI?N? 29 5.3 CONTEXTO INVESTIGATIVO Y POBLACI?N 30 5.3.1 Contexto investigativo (La Escuela) 30 5.3.2 Poblaci?n. 30 5.4 FASES DEL PROYECTO 30 5.4.1 Fase 1: Aplicaci?n de instrumentos de recolecci?n de datos. 30 5.4.2 Fase 2: Sistematizaci?n, categorizaci?n y an?lisis de los datos. 34 5.4.3 Fase 3: Interpretaci?n de los datos. 35 5.4.4. Fase 4: Presentaci?n y redacci?n de resultados (Informe final). 36 5.4.5 Fase 5: Redacci?n de conclusiones y recomendaciones. 36 6. RESULTADOS Y DISCUSI?N 37 6.1 RESULTADOS Y DISCUSI?N 37 6.1.1 Proyecto ?Manos Solidarias? una mirada desde el interior de la Escuela ?San Luis Gonzaga?. 37 6.2.2 Categorizaci?n de los cambios del proyecto ?Manos Solidarias? en la comunidad. 62 7. CONCLUSIONES 73 8. RECOMENDACIONES 76 REFERENCIAS 79 ANEXOS 8

Data for Democracy: Improving Elections Through Metrics and Measurement

Compiles essays on improving election data collection and reporting, management, and usage; how data improve elections; and other issues raised in a May 2008 conference; with policy recommendations. Includes a state-by-state assessment of data reporting

The World Sings to Cuba

This flyer promotes the event The World Sings to Cuba , a performance held at the San Carlos Institute in Key West,FL. The event was held on March 21, 2010.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/1148/thumbnail.jp

Free Expression in Arts Funding

The result of almost two years of research, this report surveys free expression policies among state and local arts agencies, including procedures for anticipating and handling controversy. Its purpose is to provide the arts community, as well as others interested in censorship or cultural policy, with solid research that will enable grant-making agencies to take a principled stand on artistic freedom without alienating their audiences or losing their funding. The report includes candid interviews with agency officials regarding funding disputes, political accountability, and most important, ways of reaching out to communities and opening up dialogue about challenging or provocative art. The report also contains extensive background on the "funding wars" of the 1990s, illustrations, and two appendices summarizing free expression statements and policies among all state arts agencies and a random sample of local agencies.As the Executive Summary points out, despite America's recent history of attacks on controversial art, artistic freedom in the context of public funding remains a critical issue. The ability to make challenging art that can explore all facets of the human condition, including unpleasant ones, is essential to a vibrant culture and a healthy democracy. Neither private philanthropy nor the mass media conglomerates that dominate commercial entertainment can be counted upon to support the give-and-take of diverse viewpoints, reflected through literature, theater, music, film, and other visual art, or to provide visibility for the multi-layered, varied, and inventive cultures of America

Promotores religiosos de la Educación Superior en Puerto Rico a principios del siglo XIX

Jornadas sobre la Presencia Universitaria Española en América (5. 1991. Alcalá de Henares); 11 p.En otro lugar vimos cómo el sistema educativo puertorriqueño de principios del siglo XIX respondía a los intereses de la metrópoli y de las clases sociales que configuraban la oligarquía local. Ahora veremos cómo responde también a la trayectoria ideológica y comportamiento político de sus promotores. En este sentido, miembros destacados de la jerarquía religiosa puertorriqueña como el deán Andrade desempeñaron un papel importante en la promoción de los estudios superiores en la época absolutista a fin de evitar la formación liberal o republicana que los jóvenes de la isla recibían en el extranjero.Peer reviewe

Iterative pruning PCA improves resolution of highly structured populations

BACKGROUND: Non-random patterns of genetic variation exist among individuals in a population owing to a variety of evolutionary factors. Therefore, populations are structured into genetically distinct subpopulations. As genotypic datasets become ever larger, it is increasingly difficult to correctly estimate the number of subpopulations and assign individuals to them. The computationally efficient non-parametric, chiefly Principal Components Analysis (PCA)-based methods are thus becoming increasingly relied upon for population structure analysis. Current PCA-based methods can accurately detect structure; however, the accuracy in resolving subpopulations and assigning individuals to them is wanting. When subpopulations are closely related to one another, they overlap in PCA space and appear as a conglomerate. This problem is exacerbated when some subpopulations in the dataset are genetically far removed from others. We propose a novel PCA-based framework which addresses this shortcoming. RESULTS: A novel population structure analysis algorithm called iterative pruning PCA (ipPCA) was developed which assigns individuals to subpopulations and infers the total number of subpopulations present. Genotypic data from simulated and real population datasets with different degrees of structure were analyzed. For datasets with simple structures, the subpopulation assignments of individuals made by ipPCA were largely consistent with the STRUCTURE, BAPS and AWclust algorithms. On the other hand, highly structured populations containing many closely related subpopulations could be accurately resolved only by ipPCA, and not by other methods. CONCLUSION: The algorithm is computationally efficient and not constrained by the dataset complexity. This systematic subpopulation assignment approach removes the need for prior population labels, which could be advantageous when cryptic stratification is encountered in datasets containing individuals otherwise assumed to belong to a homogenous population

Administrative burdens in the European food industry : with special attention to the dairy sector

This report investigates the relationship between administrative burdens and competitiveness in the European dairy industry. A firm perspective is used. The relationship between administrative burdens and competitiveness has been broken down into four aspects: innovation, deployment of food safety and quality systems, food labelling and supply chain transparenc

2003-2004 Survey of International Law in the Second: International Money Laundering Statue

In United States v. Dinero Express, Inc., the Second Circuit Court of Appeals was required to decide whether the remittance scheme, viewed as an entire process, qualifies as transfer under § 1956(a), despite the fact no money was wired from the United States to the Dominican Republic. The Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court\u27s holding stating that the actions of defendant qualified as a transfer