LAS ‘NUEVAS’ UNIVERSIDADES DEL CONURBANO BONAERENSE: (10 AÑOS DESPUÉS)

Las políticas que impulsan la reforma del sistema de educación superior desde fines de la década del 80 – y conforme a un contexto internacional - tiene su fundamento en diagnósticos relacionados con la expansión de la matrícula, la restricción de fondos públicos y el nuevo rol del estado y del mercado, entre otros. En ese marco, la creación de nuevas universidades – desde fines de la década del 80 hasta mediados de la década del 90 - parece ser una expresión de las políticas oficiales por generar nuevas alternativas entre las instituciones de educación superior que acompañen el proceso de reforma. Habiendo transcurrido 10 años se trata de analizar cómo plasmaron aquellas políticas de reforma, desde diversos aspectos de la organización y de los proyectos académicos, en tres universidades del conurbano bonaerense y cuáles pueden ser las novedades que las instituciones de referencia aportan en la actualidad

PROBING ELDERLY PEOPLE’S DAILY LIFE: AN EXPLORATORY PATH TOWARD THE PRACTICAL DIMENSION OF HOSPITAL MOOD

The paper describes the use of cultural probes in a design process that involves elderly people and it explores some their implications and effects. We describe a project where probes were used in a different way compared to their first description by Gaver. We show the way we build our probes and our use of them and we highlight some interesting effects that we expirienced in the field. This expirience suggests that Cultural probes might help in establishing a proper hospital mood in the adoption and acceptance of new technologies yet to be implemented. This point help us look at the concept of hospitality in a much practical way and it suggests the idea that hospital mood can be – if not engineered – at least favoured, triggered and established by diluting the “visit of the stranger”

Towards Future Health Social Networking: Patient Generated Content And The Role Of Community Pharmacists

In this paper we aim to develop a patient centered perspective that puts at the centre of our focus patient practices and their appropriation of medical information, prescribed use of drugs and of health-care technology. Within this frame, we will initially discuss evidence from a qualitative case study on the role of community pharmacists in patients dealing with their problems. In line with the 2.0 revolution, we then suggest a technological architecture based on patient generated content and their health social networking – as many Health 2.0 platforms already do – that focuses on local relation and take into account the empirically assessed role of pharmacists and investing them with an interesting local task. Future challenges and initial reflections of the proposed approach will be discussed at the end

Localized quasiholes and the Majorana fermion in fractional quantum Hall state at nu=5/2 via direct diagonalization

Using exact diagonalization in the spherical geometry, we investigate systems of localized quasiholes at nu=5/2 for interactions interpolating between the pure Coulomb and the three-body interaction for which the Moore-Read state is the exact ground state. We show that the charge e/4 quasihole can be easily localized by means of a delta-function pinning potential. Using a tuned smooth pinning potential, the quasihole radius can be limited to approximately three magnetic length units. For systems of two quasiholes, adiabatic continuity between the Moore-Read and the Coulomb limit holds for the ground state, while for four quasiholes, the lowest two energy states exhibit adiabatic continuity. This implies the existence of a Majorana fermion for pure Coulomb interaction. We also present preliminary results in the Coulomb limit for braiding in systems containing four quasiholes, with up to 14 electrons, diagonalizing in the full spin-polarized sector of the second Landau-level Hilbert space.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figure

El campo jurídico en San Juan, una lectura en la larga duración

Esta ponencia presenta una lectura posible del proceso de constitución del campo jurídico en la provincia de San Juan entendido como un proceso en la larga duración. Para ello se reconstruye históricamente el sistema de relaciones a fin de identificar los agentes sociales que han participado por las luchas de apropiación del capital en juego (el jurídico), sus trayectorias y las estrategias específicas que desarrollan. El recurso a las genealogías permite asumir una perspectiva epistemológica coherente con la producción del conocimiento generado que, a su vez, sostiene el supuesto de que la lógica social (y familiar) subtiende el proceso de conformación de los campos y del Estado en la provincia; supuesto que guía el desarrollo de esta línea de investigación. .Fil: Henríquez, María Griselda . Universidad Nacional de San JuanFil: Castilla, María Josefina . Universidad Nacional de San JuanFil: Storni, Silvia Susana . Universidad Nacional de San Jua

Rethinking the role of users in ICT design: Reflections for the internet

This paper reports on work from an interdisciplinary project exploring the design of future telecommunications services, networks and applications, particularly focusing on the Internet1. A starting point for this work is our contention that users and technology are co-constructed in the design process and that in some cases it is difficult to distinguish between designers and users since users may play a variety of roles. Some academics argue that the future of the Internet depends on controlling and limiting what users do. Others argue that the future of the Internet will depend on maintaining its openness and enabling users. In our project we seek to critically explore these assertions and empirically examine the role of the user in internet design. This paper outlines some key concepts and presents two case studies to support our approach