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This special issue of Río Bravo: A Journal of the Borderlands highlights a series of essays and creative work presented at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas Foco conference at the University of Texas, Pan American in the Río Grande Valley in South Texas in February 2013. We are excited by the quality of the essays in this special issue, and we encourage scholars and activists in the Chicana/o and Latina/o studies community to engage with the scholarship and creative work in this volume. A print copy will be available sometime this August. The Mexican American Studies Center at the at the University of Texas, Pan American is pleased to announce the adoption of Río Bravo amidst the historical transitioning of UTPA into UTRGV. Author Instructions and Manuscript submission guidelines will be available in Fall 2014 and we will begin to accept essay submissions in October 2014

Military activities in Matamoros during the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1915

The 1910 Mexican Revolution is among the bloodiest civil wars of the twentieth century. Throughout Mexico, battles broke out among emerging revolutionary factions. Fighting occurred along Mexico\u27s northern border. Military activity also spilled unto US territory. Several works have examined the Revolution\u27s effect on American border towns. The impact that the war had on Mexican border towns has been largely overlooked. This thesis will provide a Mexican border perspective of the Mexican Revolution. It traces military activity in Matamoros, Tamaulipas from 1910 to 1915. The study also explores Matamoros\u27 strategic importance to the military factions that fought to achieve control over this border city

Recent developments in nuclear structure theory: an outlook on the muonic atom program

The discovery of the proton-radius puzzle and the subsequent deuteron-radius puzzle is fueling an on-going debate on possible explanations for the difference in the observed radii obtained from muonic atoms and from electron-nucleus systems. Atomic nuclei have a complex internal structure that must be taken into account when analyzing experimental spectroscopic results. Ab initio nuclear structure theory provided the so far most precise estimates of important corrections to the Lamb shift in muonic atoms and is well poised to also investigate nuclear structure corrections to the hyperfine splitting in muonic atoms. Independently on whether the puzzle is due to beyond-the-standard-model physics or not, nuclear structure corrections are a necessary theoretical input to any experimental extraction of electric and magnetic radii from precise muonic atom measurements. Here, we review the status of the calculations performed by the TRIUMF-Hebrew University group, focusing on the deuteron, and discuss preliminary results on magnetic sum rules calculated with two-body currents at next-to-leading order. Two-body currents will be an important ingredient in future calculations of nuclear structure corrections to the hyperfine splitting in muonic atoms.Comment: 10 pages, accepted proceedings of the "55th International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics", 23-27 January 2017, to appear on Po

Estrategias de empresas de menos de diez empleados en épocas de crisis económica

Mediante este trabajo se pretende conocer, por un lado, cómo la recesión económica ha afectado a las microempresas en España y, por otro, si se han llevado a cabo actuaciones estratégicas y, en su caso cuáles, que permitieran combatir dicha recesión. Además se va estudiar, de manera paralela, los efectos de género en la administración de la microempresa en este mismo contexto. Para ello, se va a realizar una exposición teórica sobre las características que definen y diferencian la gestión estratégica empresarial llevada a cabo por las empresas de menos de 10 trabajadores en épocas de crisis, haciendo un especial hincapié en la gestión de la mujer empresaria. Posteriormente, se realizará un estudio empírico exploratorio a nivel nacional, en concreto, se va a realizar un estudio de campo con un análisis estadístico descriptivo

Implantación de un programa de alto rendimiento en la universidad: estudio y análisis de resultados en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales

La detección y gestión del talento constituyen hoy en día un gran reto para nuestra sociedad y, en buena medida, de ellos dependen los avances y éxitos venideros. La atención a la diversidad, el respeto y el apoyo a las diferencias individuales de los alumnos es una condición que debe estar presente en cualquier sistema educativo (Touron Figueroa, 2000). Al igual que hay programas de apoyo a los estudiantes con dificultades de aprendizaje debe haber programas que ayuden a aquellos con más necesidades de estudio e investigación

Estudio sobre los efectos de la recesión económica en las microempresas y sus estrategias llevadas a cabo: especial referencia a las mujeres empresarias.

Mediante este trabajo se pretende conocer, por un lado, cómo la recesión económica ha afectado a las microempresas en España y, por otro, si se han llevado a cabo actuaciones estratégicas y, en su caso cuáles, que permitieran combatir dicha recesión. Además se va estudiar, de manera paralela, los efectos de género en la administración de la microempresa en este mismo contexto. Para ello, se va a realizar una exposición teórica sobre las características que definen y diferencian la gestión estratégica empresarial llevada a cabo por las empresas de menos de 10 trabajadores en épocas de crisis, haciendo un especial hincapié en la gestión de la mujer empresaria. Posteriormente, se realizará un estudio empírico exploratorio a nivel nacional, en concreto, se va a realizar un estudio de campo con un análisis estadístico descriptiv

Microwave Treatment for Cardiac Arrhythmias

NASA seeks to transfer the NASA developed microwave ablation technology, designed for the treatment of ventricular tachycardia (irregular heart beat), to industry. After a heart attack, many cells surrounding the resulting scar continue to live but are abnormal electrically; they may conduct impulses unusually slowly or fire when they would typically be silent. These diseased areas might disturb smooth signaling by forming a reentrant circuit in the muscle. The objective of microwave ablation is to heat and kill these diseased cells to restore appropriate electrical activity in the heart. This technology is a method and apparatus that provides for propagating microwave energy into heart tissues to produce a desired temperature profile therein at tissue depths sufficient for thermally ablating arrhythmogenic cardiac tissue while preventing excessive heating of surrounding tissues, organs, and blood. A wide bandwidth double-disk antenna is effective for this purpose over a bandwidth of about six gigahertz. A computer simulation provides initial screening capabilities for an antenna such as antenna, frequency, power level, and power application duration. The simulation also allows optimization of techniques for specific patients or conditions. In comparison with other methods that involve direct-current pulses or radio frequencies below 1 GHz, this method may prove more effective in treating ventricular tachycardia. This is because the present method provides for greater control of the location, cross-sectional area, and depth of a lesion via selection of the location and design of the antenna and the choice of microwave power and frequency

Improved estimates of the nuclear structure corrections in μ\muD

We calculate the nuclear structure corrections to the Lamb shift in muonic deuterium by using state-of-the-art nucleon-nucleon potentials derived from chiral effective field theory. Our calculations complement previous theoretical work obtained from phenomenological potentials and the zero range approximation. The study of the chiral convergence order-by-order and the dependence on cutoff variations allows us to improve the estimates on the nuclear structure corrections and the theoretical uncertainty coming from nuclear potentials. This will enter the determination of the nuclear radius from ongoing muonic deuterium experiments at PSI.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, 3 table

Design of Round-trip Trajectories to Near-Earth Asteroids Utilizing a Lunar Flyby

There are currently over 7,700 known Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs), and more are being discovered on a continual basis. Current models predict that the actual order of magnitude of the NEA population may range from 10' to 10 6 . The close proximity of NEA orbits to Earth's orbit makes it possible to design short duration round-trip trajectories to NEAs under the proper conditions. In previous work, 59 potentially accessible NEAs were identified for missions that depart Earth between the years 2016 and 2050 and have round-trip flight times of a year or less. We now present a new method for designing round-trip trajectories to NEAs in which the Moon's gravity aids the outbound trajectory via a lunar flyby. In some cases this gravity assist can reduce the overall spacecraft propellant required for the mission, which in turn can allow NEAs to be reached which would otherwise be inaccessible to a given mission architecture. Results are presented for a specific case study on NEA 2003 LN6

CSR Policies: Effects on Labour Productivity in Spanish Micro and Small Manufacturing Companies

This paper analyses empirical evidence of efforts to enable Spanish micro and small manufacturing companies to boost their labour productivity rates through the development of the main pillars of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies. This study aims to develop new approaches and sensibilities towards work from an ethical, values (virtues) and CSR perspective, showing how internal dimensions of CSR, such those related to relationships with employees and responsibility in processes and product quality, can improve labour performance and labour efficiency, thereby contributing to a better society. The results of a sample of 929 small businesses indicate that the social responsibility policies that most contributed to a short-term increase in labour productivity are those related to internal aspects of the company, in particular its involvement in the quality of processes and products, promotion of innovation and employee care. However, the impact on labour productivity of CSR policies related to external factors, such as relationship with stakeholders and environmental concern, could not be empirically proven in this paper