Planeamiento estratégico sobre el Departamento del Atlántico

El Plan estratégico del Departamento del Atlántico tiene como objetivo primordial la búsqueda de la solución a los problemas sociales del territorio y la calidad de vida de sus habitantes. A partir de allí se despliegan aspectos de suma importancia como la vivienda, la salud, la educación y la nutrición que se consideran fundamentales para dejar atrás un panorama negativo de pobreza y retraso económico a cambio de grandes perspectivas de crecimiento y transformación regional que se perciben en torno al Departamento, impulsadas principalmente por el Distrito de Barranquilla. En este documento se plantea una visión de la realidad actual del Departamento con respecto a Colombia y el mundo, que permiten establecer las debilidades y amenazas que se deben combatir y las fortalezas y oportunidades que se deben potencializar para alcanzar los objetivos estratégicos del Departamento, materializados en proyectos de inversión para el desarrollo de infraestructura vial, industrial, portuaria y hospitalaria, firma de acuerdos comerciales con el resto el mundo basados en el aprovechamiento de una estratégica posición geográfica y la búsqueda de mayores ventajas competitivas, con la concentración en el fortalecimiento del núcleo de la sociedad a través de la inversión en educación, seguridad alimentaria, adopción de técnicas agrícolas y otros medios que permitirán alcanzar un desarrollo integral para el departamento, generar empleo, favorecer el crecimiento económico y por ende contribuir a mejorar la calidad de vida de los habitantes.The Strategic Plan of the Atlantic Department has as main objective search for solutions to the social problems of the territory and the life quality of its residents. Important issues such as housing, health, education and nutrition that are considered essential to leave behind a negative portrait of poverty and economic backwardness in exchange for large regional growth prospects and perceived transformation unfold about the Department, primarily driven by the city of Barranquilla. This document provides a vision of the current department reality respect to Colombia and the world, and establish the weaknesses and threats that must be combated also the strengths and opportunities that should potentiate to reach the strategic objectives of the Department, materialized in investment projects for the roads development, industrial, port and hospital infrastructure, the signing of trade agreements with the rest of the world, based on the exploitation of a strategic geographical position and seeking greater competitive advantage, with concentration on strengthening the nucleus of society through investment in education, food security, adoption of farming techniques and other ways that will reach an integral development for the department, create jobs, promote economic growth and thus help improve the life quality of the population.Tesi

Generations No.6: Towards a global university

Apreciados graduados UNAB. En esta edición de “Generaciones” les presentamos los aspectos más relevantes del Plan de Desarrollo 2013-2018 que tiene como base los principios y valores institucionales que han marcado nuestro rumbo durante estas seis décadas de trabajo ininterrumpido por la región y el país. Dicho Plan se logró gracias a la realización de un trabajo conjunto y minucioso por parte de todos los integrantes de las dependencias de la UNAB. Es así como el rumbo que seguiremos en los próximos seis años está marcado por la noción clara de cómo será nuestro crecimiento en número de estudiantes y en la ampliación de nuestra oferta académica, entre otros factores.Editorial; Por Alberto Montoya Puyana…3 Saludo; Por Marcela Peralta Bautista…4 La voz del graduado…6 Institucional Plan de desarrollo 2013-2018; Por Carolina Toscano Vargas…7 Ruta del Empleo 2013; Por Luz Yaqueline Hernández Castañeda…10 El graduado UNAB, un profesional integral y competitivo; Por Adolfo Segura Moya…12 Planeta Joven 2013; Por Marcela Peralta Bautista…14 La literatura enredada; Por Santiago Gómez Mejía…20 Embarazo adolescente problema de salud pública; Por Bernardo Useche Aldana…22 Educación siglo XXI; Por Iliana Restrepo Hernández…24 ¿Usar las TIC o dejarse usar por ellas?; Por Julio Eduardo Mejía Gómez…26 Colombia tiene un estado laico; Por Alejandro Alvarado Bedoya…28 Mecatrónica: el rombo de la ingeniería actual; Por Omar Lengerke Pérez…30 Ocho años en la ‘Onda’ de la investigación; Por César Aurelio Rojas Carvajal…32 Emprendimiento Perseverancia, la clave del éxito; Por Redacción Generaciones UNAB…34 Graduados destacados; Por Redacción Generaciones UNAB…36 Generaciones en cifras…42 Conociendo el CPA; Por Luis Fernando Rueda Vivas…43Dear UNAB graduates. In this edition of "Generations" we present the most relevant aspects of the 2013-2018 Development Plan, which is based on the principles and institutional values ​​that have set our course during these six decades of uninterrupted work in the region and the country. Said Plan was achieved thanks to the accomplishment of a joint and meticulous work on the part of all the members of the dependencies of the UNAB. This is how the course that we will follow in the next six years is marked by a clear notion of how our growth in number of students will be and in the expansion of our academic offer, among other factors

Genome-wide association study of Tourette Syndrome

Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a developmental disorder that has one of the highest familial recurrence rates among neuropsychiatric diseases with complex inheritance. However, the identification of definitive TS susceptibility genes remains elusive. Here, we report the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of TS in 1285 cases and 4964 ancestry-matched controls of European ancestry, including two European-derived population isolates, Ashkenazi Jews from North America and Israel, and French Canadians from Quebec, Canada. In a primary meta-analysis of GWAS data from these European ancestry samples, no markers achieved a genome-wide threshold of significance (p<5 × 10−8); the top signal was found in rs7868992 on chromosome 9q32 within COL27A1 (p=1.85 × 10−6). A secondary analysis including an additional 211 cases and 285 controls from two closely-related Latin-American population isolates from the Central Valley of Costa Rica and Antioquia, Colombia also identified rs7868992 as the top signal (p=3.6 × 10−7 for the combined sample of 1496 cases and 5249 controls following imputation with 1000 Genomes data). This study lays the groundwork for the eventual identification of common TS susceptibility variants in larger cohorts and helps to provide a more complete understanding of the full genetic architecture of this disorder

CNV Analysis in Tourette Syndrome Implicates Large Genomic Rearrangements in COL8A1 and NRXN1.

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder with a strong genetic component. However, the genetic architecture of TS remains uncertain. Copy number variation (CNV) has been shown to contribute to the genetic make-up of several neurodevelopmental conditions, including schizophrenia and autism. Here we describe CNV calls using SNP chip genotype data from an initial sample of 210 TS cases and 285 controls ascertained in two Latin American populations. After extensive quality control, we found that cases (N = 179) have a significant excess (P = 0.006) of large CNV (>500 kb) calls compared to controls (N = 234). Amongst 24 large CNVs seen only in the cases, we observed four duplications of the COL8A1 gene region. We also found two cases with ∼400kb deletions involving NRXN1, a gene previously implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders, including TS. Follow-up using multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (and including 53 more TS cases) validated the CNV calls and identified additional patients with rearrangements in COL8A1 and NRXN1, but none in controls. Examination of available parents indicates that two out of three NRXN1 deletions detected in the TS cases are de-novo mutations. Our results are consistent with the proposal that rare CNVs play a role in TS aetiology and suggest a possible role for rearrangements in the COL8A1 and NRXN1 gene regions

Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

Juxtaposing BTE and ATE – on the role of the European insurance industry in funding civil litigation

One of the ways in which legal services are financed, and indeed shaped, is through private insurance arrangement. Two contrasting types of legal expenses insurance contracts (LEI) seem to dominate in Europe: before the event (BTE) and after the event (ATE) legal expenses insurance. Notwithstanding institutional differences between different legal systems, BTE and ATE insurance arrangements may be instrumental if government policy is geared towards strengthening a market-oriented system of financing access to justice for individuals and business. At the same time, emphasizing the role of a private industry as a keeper of the gates to justice raises issues of accountability and transparency, not readily reconcilable with demands of competition. Moreover, multiple actors (clients, lawyers, courts, insurers) are involved, causing behavioural dynamics which are not easily predicted or influenced. Against this background, this paper looks into BTE and ATE arrangements by analysing the particularities of BTE and ATE arrangements currently available in some European jurisdictions and by painting a picture of their respective markets and legal contexts. This allows for some reflection on the performance of BTE and ATE providers as both financiers and keepers. Two issues emerge from the analysis that are worthy of some further reflection. Firstly, there is the problematic long-term sustainability of some ATE products. Secondly, the challenges faced by policymakers that would like to nudge consumers into voluntarily taking out BTE LEI

Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pT) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MadGraph + pythia and sherpa, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BlackHat + sherpa. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pT distributions of the leading jets at high pT values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.United States. Dept. of EnergyNational Science Foundation (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio

Search for stop and higgsino production using diphoton Higgs boson decays

Results are presented of a search for a "natural" supersymmetry scenario with gauge mediated symmetry breaking. It is assumed that only the supersymmetric partners of the top-quark (stop) and the Higgs boson (higgsino) are accessible. Events are examined in which there are two photons forming a Higgs boson candidate, and at least two b-quark jets. In 19.7 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV, recorded in the CMS experiment, no evidence of a signal is found and lower limits at the 95% confidence level are set, excluding the stop mass below 360 to 410 GeV, depending on the higgsino mass

Severe early onset preeclampsia: short and long term clinical, psychosocial and biochemical aspects

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy specific disorder commonly defined as de novo hypertension and proteinuria after 20 weeks gestational age. It occurs in approximately 3-5% of pregnancies and it is still a major cause of both foetal and maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide1. As extensive research has not yet elucidated the aetiology of preeclampsia, there are no rational preventive or therapeutic interventions available. The only rational treatment is delivery, which benefits the mother but is not in the interest of the foetus, if remote from term. Early onset preeclampsia (<32 weeks’ gestational age) occurs in less than 1% of pregnancies. It is, however often associated with maternal morbidity as the risk of progression to severe maternal disease is inversely related with gestational age at onset2. Resulting prematurity is therefore the main cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity in patients with severe preeclampsia3. Although the discussion is ongoing, perinatal survival is suggested to be increased in patients with preterm preeclampsia by expectant, non-interventional management. This temporising treatment option to lengthen pregnancy includes the use of antihypertensive medication to control hypertension, magnesium sulphate to prevent eclampsia and corticosteroids to enhance foetal lung maturity4. With optimal maternal haemodynamic status and reassuring foetal condition this results on average in an extension of 2 weeks. Prolongation of these pregnancies is a great challenge for clinicians to balance between potential maternal risks on one the eve hand and possible foetal benefits on the other. Clinical controversies regarding prolongation of preterm preeclamptic pregnancies still exist – also taking into account that preeclampsia is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the Netherlands5 - a debate which is even more pronounced in very preterm pregnancies with questionable foetal viability6-9. Do maternal risks of prolongation of these very early pregnancies outweigh the chances of neonatal survival? Counselling of women with very early onset preeclampsia not only comprises of knowledge of the outcome of those particular pregnancies, but also knowledge of outcomes of future pregnancies of these women is of major clinical importance. This thesis opens with a review of the literature on identifiable risk factors of preeclampsia

Optimasi Portofolio Resiko Menggunakan Model Markowitz MVO Dikaitkan dengan Keterbatasan Manusia dalam Memprediksi Masa Depan dalam Perspektif Al-Qur`an

Risk portfolio on modern finance has become increasingly technical, requiring the use of sophisticated mathematical tools in both research and practice. Since companies cannot insure themselves completely against risk, as human incompetence in predicting the future precisely that written in Al-Quran surah Luqman verse 34, they have to manage it to yield an optimal portfolio. The objective here is to minimize the variance among all portfolios, or alternatively, to maximize expected return among all portfolios that has at least a certain expected return. Furthermore, this study focuses on optimizing risk portfolio so called Markowitz MVO (Mean-Variance Optimization). Some theoretical frameworks for analysis are arithmetic mean, geometric mean, variance, covariance, linear programming, and quadratic programming. Moreover, finding a minimum variance portfolio produces a convex quadratic programming, that is minimizing the objective function ðð¥with constraintsð ð 𥠥 ðandð´ð¥ = ð. The outcome of this research is the solution of optimal risk portofolio in some investments that could be finished smoothly using MATLAB R2007b software together with its graphic analysis