Field notes on findings of threatened amphibian species in the central mountain range of western Panama

During field work along a transect in the Cordillera Central of western Panama between 2008 and 2010, we detected several populations of amphibian species which are considered as “Endangered” or “Critically Endangered” by the IUCN. Some of these species had suffered from serious population declines, probably due to chytridiomycosis, but all are generally threatened by habitat loss. We detected 53% of the Endangered and 56% of the Critically Endangered amphibian species that have previously been reported from within the investigated area. We report on findings of species that have not been found in Panama for many years, and provide locality data of newly discovered populations. There is a need to create a new protected area in the Cerro Colorado area of the Serranía de Tabasará, where we found 15% of the Endangered and Critically Endangered amphibian species known to Panama.Durante trabajo de campo en un transecto a lo largo de la Cordillera Central en el oeste de Panamá entre 2008 y 2010, encontramos varias poblaciones de anfibios que son considerados “En Peligro” o “En Peligro Crítico” por la UICN. Algunas de estas especies habían sufrido serias disminuciones de sus poblaciones, probablemente causadas por la quitridiomicosis, pero todas se encuentran amenazadas por pérdida de hábitat. Detectamos el 53% de las especies En Peligro y el 56% de las especies En Peligro Crítico que se habían reportado previamente en el área de estudio. Reportamos hallazgos de especies que no se habían avistado en Panamá por muchos años, así como localidades de poblaciones descubiertas por primera vez. Se requiere crear una nueva área de protección en los alrededores del Cerro Colorado en la Serranía de Tabasará, donde se han encontrado 15% de los anfibios En Peligro y En Peligro Crítico de todo Panamá

Diseño de herramientas para mantenimiento preventivo, basado en el análisis FMECA, en la maquinaria más crítica de embotellado de viña Valdivieso

166 p.La siguiente memoria se presenta como una ayuda, a la planta de embotellado de Viña Valdivieso, para dejar bases de organización en las labores de mantenimiento preventivo, a través del diseño de herramientas metodológicas como son: Procedimientos y las listas de chequeo. Estas herramientas servirán en las labores y toma de registros, para un seguimiento continuo de los equipos, esperando obtener con esto una mayor disponibilidad de los equipos a un menor costo. Para esto se comienza desarrollando un diagnostico de la situación del mantenimiento, utilizando un software evaluativo de la gestión de este, logrando aplicar en las áreas deficientes del mantenimiento, medidas correctivas que elevan el nivel de definición en un alto porcentaje, recomendando generar y organizar ciclos de supervisión de los equipos en periodos de tiempos fijos, integrando a los operarios y contando con herramientas para mantenimiento preventivo, de manera tal que se justificará así el desarrollo de este trabajo. Posteriormente, se desarrolla un análisis FMECA, con cuyo resultado se define donde concentrar los recursos del mantenimiento priorizando en función de frecuencia y criticidad, jerarquizando todos los equipos que componen el proceso productivo, compuesto por 11 máquinas, a través del análisis de las mismas, por lo que se selecciona al Tribloc como el más crítico, realizándole un análisis de subsistemas entendiendo así el orden del FMECA.De los datos obtenidos del análisis FMECA, se logra determinar los modos de falla, efecto, modo de reconocimiento y solucionarios de las fallas más críticas, implementando así las herramientas del mantenimiento preventivo propuestas. Siendo estos un aporte para aquellas personas que no poseen un conocimiento profundo del equipo ya que reciben un material claro, estructurado y con parámetros definidos con los cuales es posible lograr una correcta interpretación y solución de la falla./ABSTRACT: The following work is presented as an aid, to the Valdivieso Winery bottling plant, to made roots of organization in preventive maintenance, through designed methodological tools such as: procedures and check lists. These tools will serve as in Jack's records, for continuous monitoring and work teams, hoping for with this greater availability of equipment at a lower cost. It begins developing a diagnosis of the maintenance situation, using an management evaluation software, to implement corrective measures on deficient maintenance areas, that raise the level of definition in a high percentage, recommending generate and organize cycles of monitoring equipment in fixed time periods, integrating operators and with tools for preventive maintenance in a manner such that justify well the development of this work. Subsequently, an analysis, FMECA, whose result is defined is developed where concentrate the resources of the maintenance priority depending on frequency and criticality, order of the FMECA hierarchy all equipments that make up the production process, consisting of 11 machines, through the analysis of them, so it is selected to the Tribloc as the most critical analysis of subsystems being understood as well. Data obtained from the FMECA analysis, be achieved determine modes of failure, effect, recognition mode and failures more criticism, thus implementing the proposed preventive maintenance tools. These being a contribution for those who do not possess a deep equipment knowledge since they receive a clear, structured material and with defined parameters with which it is possible to achieve a correct interpretation and solution of fault

La apropiación juvenil de las TIC. El contraste entre usuarios hogareños y usuarios de cibercafé

En este trabajo se analizan los modos en que los jóvenes de sectores populares se apropian de la computadora e Internet, contrastando usuarios hogareños y usuarios de cibercafé. El análisis se basa en datos cuantitativos construidos mediante una encuesta realizada a jóvenes usuarios de TIC residentes en La Matanza en el año 2010. La encuesta indagó diversos temas relativos al vínculo de los jóvenes con las TIC: frecuencia y lugares de acceso, antigüedad de su experiencia con la computadora, habilidades informáticas y tipo de usos más frecuentes de la computadora e Internet.The purpose of this paper is to analyze the different ways of computer and Internet appropriation by popular classes’ youth comparing home users and cybercafé users. The analysis is based on a survey conducted in La Matanza during 2010. The questionnaire examined different topics relative to youth and ICT relationship: frequency and place of access; time experienced with computer; digital skills and type of more frequent uses of computer and Internet.Fil: Benitez Larghi, Hector Sebastian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico La Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educacion; ArgentinaFil: Moguillansky, Marina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Ponce de León, Jimena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento; ArgentinaFil: Aguerre, Carolina. Universidad de San Andres; ArgentinaFil: Fontecoba, Ariel. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Departamento de Ciencias Exactas; Argentin

A new small-bodied ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of North Patagonia (Río Negro Province, Argentina)

The most representative ankylosaurian remains from Argentina have been found in sediments of the Allen Formation (Campanian–Maastrichtian) in Salitral Moreno, Río Negro Province. Several authors have discussed the identity and history of these remains. In this study, we review all published material along with some new remains in order to summarize all the knowledge about these ankylosaurs. Previously published material includes a tooth, dorsal and anterior caudal vertebrae, a femur and several osteoderms. The new remains include synsacral and caudal elements, a partial femur and osteoderms. The anatomy of the tooth, the synsacrum, the mid-caudal vertebra, the femur and the osteoderms, and the histology of the post-cervical osteoderms, support a nodosaurid identification, as proposed in previous descriptions of the Salitral Moreno material. Patagopelta cristata gen. et sp. nov. is a new nodosaurid ankylosaur characterized by the presence of unique cervical half-ring and femoral anatomies, including high-crested lateral osteoderms in the half rings and a strongly developed muscular crest in the anterior surface of the femur. The ∼2 m body length estimated for Patagopelta is very small for an ankylosaur, comparable with the dwarf nodosaurid Struthiosaurus. We recovered Patagopelta within Nodosaurinae, related to nodosaurids from the ‘mid’-Cretaceous of North America, contrasting the previous topologies that related this material with Panoplosaurini (Late Cretaceous North American nodosaurids). These results support a palaeobiogeographical context in which the nodosaurids from Salitral Moreno, Argentina, are part of the allochthonous fauna that migrated into South America during the late Campanian as part of the First American Biotic Interchange. https://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FBA24443-F365-49FD-A959-10D2848C2400.Fil: Riguetti, Facundo Javier. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Maimónides. Centro de Ciencias Naturales, Ambientales y Antropológicas; ArgentinaFil: Pereda Suberbiola, Xabier. Universidad del País Vasco; EspañaFil: Ponce, Denis Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Instituto de Investigación en Paleobiología y Geología; ArgentinaFil: Salgado, Leonardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Instituto de Investigación en Paleobiología y Geología; ArgentinaFil: Apesteguía, Sebastián. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Maimónides. Centro de Ciencias Naturales, Ambientales y Antropológicas; ArgentinaFil: Rozadilla, Sebastian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia"; ArgentinaFil: Arbour, Victoria. University of Victoria; Canad

Electoral Cycles, Investment, and Institutional Constraints in Developing Democracies

A longstanding question is whether policy uncertainty reduces private fixed investment in developing democracies. Yet studying the question empirically has proven challenging given that economic activity can cause as well as result from policy uncertainty. We investigate this issue within the context of electoral business cycles, building on research that suggests elections provide an exogenous source of policy uncertainty. As a central part of this analysis, which involves four decades of data from 57 developing democracies, we examine how institutional constraints moderate the relationship. Three main findings emerge. First, on average, elections are associated with a decline in private fixed investment. Second, however, this effect varies according to the level of institutional constraints; as they increase, the electoral cycle becomes less pronounced, including in specifications that account for the potential endogeneity of the institutions. Third, the effects are larger and more robust in systems with fixed elections

Electoral Cycles, Investment, and Institutional Constraints in Developing Democracies

A longstanding question is whether policy uncertainty reduces private fixed investment in developing democracies. Yet studying the question empirically has proven challenging given that economic activity can cause as well as result from policy uncertainty. We investigate this issue within the context of electoral business cycles, building on research that suggests elections provide an exogenous source of policy uncertainty. As a central part of this analysis, which involves four decades of data from 57 developing democracies, we examine how institutional constraints moderate the relationship. Three main findings emerge. First, on average, elections are associated with a decline in private fixed investment. Second, however, this effect varies according to the level of institutional constraints; as they increase, the electoral cycle becomes less pronounced, including in specifications that account for the potential endogeneity of the institutions. Third, the effects are larger and more robust in systems with fixed elections

Corporate Social Responsibility in Spanish professional soccer: a relationship for the development of a new citizenship?

El presente trabajo se enmarca en la relación que se establece entre la Responsabilidad Social de las empresas (RSE) y relaciones públicas en las organizaciones, visto desde el enfoque de la Teoría de la Legitimación (Lindblom, 1994). Se plantea determinar si los clubes profesionales del fútbol español apuestan por la RSE como estrategia para legitimar su rol de ciudadano corporativo en la sociedad. Como objetivos específicos se pretende (1) conocer cuál es la situación de la RSE en los clubes; (2) determinar las políticas de RSE más habituales y, (3) identificar los principales canales de relación y diálogo con los stakeholders. La metodología empleada, con un carácter descriptivo-interpretativo, se focalizará en el estudio de los 42 clubes que componen la Liga de Fútbol Profesional (temporada 2017/2018), de primera y segunda división. Para ello se analizan las memorias anuales, las webs corporativas y las fundaciones de los clubes, por constituirse éstas como instrumentos para implementar políticas de RSE. Los resultados arrojan un escaso compromiso con la RSE, donde se enfatiza la acción social, las acciones destinadas a los socios y el cumplimento con la Ley de Transparencia. La conclusión principal demuestra que los clubes profesionales se limitan a cumplir con la legislación y no tienen un compromiso real con la transparencia y la RSE. El concepto de RSE no es aplicable al sector del fútbol profesional en España.This research explores the relation existing between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Public Relations (PR) through the legitimization theory (Lindblom, 1994). With this project we aim to determine if soccer clubs are implementing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs to legitimate their role in society as corporate citizens. The specific objectives are (1) to know how CSR programs are being introduced in Spanish soccer clubs; (2) to determine their main CSR polices and (3) to identify dialogue channels with stakeholders. The methodology is based on the interpretative and descriptive analysis of 42 professional soccer clubs in the Spanish League (2016/2017), including those in the first and second division. In particular, we will analyze annual reports, their corporate websites and finally, the foundations of these clubs as instruments to develop CSR policies. The results show little commitment to CSR, which emphasizes charity, actions aimed at the members and compliance with Transparency Laws. The main conclusion is that professional clubs are limited to comply with the legislation and do not have a real commitment to transparency and CSR. The concept of CSR is not applicable to the professional soccer sector in Spain. Palabra

A para-differential renormalization technique for nonlinear dispersive equations

For \alpha \in (1,2) we prove that the initial-value problem \partial_t u+D^\alpha\partial_x u+\partial_x(u^2/2)=0 on \mathbb{R}_x\times\mathbb{R}_t; u(0)=\phi, is globally well-posed in the space of real-valued L^2-functions. We use a frequency dependent renormalization method to control the strong low-high frequency interactions.Comment: 42 pages, no figure

O papel do “Mineral Resources Expert Group” dos EuroGeoSurveys no contexto mineral Europeu

ABSTRACT: Europe shows an inevitably growing and accelerating consumption of mineral commodities and the high import dependence of strategic and critical raw materials has a serious impact on the sustainability of the EU manufacturing industry. The European Commission has long recognized the challenge of sustainable supply of mineral raw materials and steps are implemented to try to deal with this. In this context, EuroGeoSurveys and its Mineral Resources Expert Group (MREG) serve as one of the contact points for the Commission. The MREG is a group of earth scientists, experts in Economic Geology that act under the umbrella body of EuroGeoSurveys. The group acts upon requests and queries received by member states and the European Commission and provides the best available mineral expertise and information based on the knowledge of member Geological Surveys, for policy, communication, public awareness and education purposes at European level.RESUMO: A Europa mostra um inevitável e acelerado aumento de consumo de recursos minerais. A alta dependência das importações de matérias-primas estratégicas e críticas tem um forte impacto na sustentabilidade da indústria transformadora da UE. A produção de muitas matérias primas depende apenas de alguns países. O desafio do abastecimento sustentável tem sido reconhecido pela Comissão Europeia e foram implementadas etapas no sentido de tal ser assegurado. Neste contexto, o EuroGeoSurveys e o seu Grupo de Peritos em Recursos Minerais (MREG) servem como um dos pontos de contacto para a Comissão. O MREG dos EuroGeoSurveys é um grupo de Geocientistas, especialistas em Geologia Económica que trabalham sobre a tutela dos EuroGeoSurveys. O grupo atua com base em solicitações e consultas recebidas pelos Estados membros e pela Comissão Europeia e fornece os melhores conhecimentos e informações disponíveis com base no conhecimento geológico dos recursos minerais, nas esferas da política, e de comunicação, conscientização pública e educação a nível europeu.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio