Dinámicas relacionales en la implementación de programas sociales participativos en Chile : Una mirada desde los actores sobre las políticas públicas a nivel local

La presente investigación observa críticamente las metas y criterios de los programas públicos participativos desarrollados en la comuna de Peñalolén, desde una perspectiva que se centra específicamente en la observación de las estrategias, recursos y lógicas que los actores despliegan en la implementación de dichos programas, principal espacio de interacción social donde se disponen y transitan bienes y servicios públicos entre los agentes estatales y los beneficiarios de las mismas (Martínez Nogueira, 2007). Es en este espacio de construcción social –y no uno donde simplemente se aplica un protocolo dado– donde los límites de la participación se muestran en toda su complejidad, en tanto que ahí se encuentran y tensionan las diferentes lógicas representadas por los diferentes actores que interactúan. Las lógicas de los actores refieren a las maneras de pensar y a los modos de comportamiento colectivos, según los roles que desarrollan los sujetos en el espacio social; y en este sentido, el espacio local se vuelve relevante en tanto es en él donde se pueden identificar la lógica del operador –funcionarios públicos– y del receptor –beneficiarios– de los bienes y servicios estatales (Alonso, 2004).Mesa 18: El Estado como problema y solución: Estado, administración y políticas públicas.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació

Boston Hospitality Review: Fall 2014

Boston Market Hotel Review by Andrea Foster -- The Prevalence of Longevity Amongst Leading Brands by Bradford Hudson -- European River Cruising On The Rise Among American Tourists by Melinda Jàszbernèny -- Building A Spirit of Inclusion: Pan Am and The Cultural Revolution by Mirembe B. Birigwa -- Re-imagining The Hotel Guestroom for The Millennial Business Traveler by Alexis Oliver -- Introducing RevPASH: The Free Webtool Application by Peter Szend

Muddying the Waterfall: How Ambiguous Liability Statutes Distort Creditor Priority in Condominium Foreclosures

Intentionally or not, every state’s law regarding lien priority and post-foreclosure liability allocates risk between mortgage lenders and privately governed “common interest communities” (CICs), such as condominiums. When lenders secure their interests with mortgages on property within a CIC, the mortgages may compete against the CIC’s interests for primacy in the lien hierarchy. Modern state regimes typically delineate the respective rights of mortgagees and CIC associations according to lien-priority statutes. Older condominium-enabling statutes, however, do not address CIC lien priority directly and speak only to continuing joint and several liability for subsequent purchasers. These older and more ambiguous statutes do not indicate how state law intended to — or should — balance the competing interests of mortgage lenders and community associations. Today, these vague statutes present important and politically charged issues that merit legislative consideration and clarification. Furthermore, recent case law demonstrates that a plain-meaning construction of such an un-clarified statute can produce an outcome that is wrong as a matter of law and unwise as a matter of policy. This article examines the problems of vague statutory provisions regarding assessment obligations and their effect on lien priority. It advocates for judicial interpretations that focus on the purposes and intent of these provisions while upholding basic lien-priority law, and it urges legislative clarification of the existing language

Effects of Task Requirements on Choice of Upper Extremity Use in Subjects Chronic Post-stroke

Purpose: To explore how task requirements influence reaching in people post-stroke. Subjects: Eleven subjects chronic post-stroke with mild to moderate stroke severity Methods: Participants performed sitting reaching tasks under six conditions: object size (small or large), object location (Right or Left) and speed (slow or fast). Subjects were not instructed how to reach. The number of hands used, arm choice (paretic (P) or nonparetic (NP)), and if they reached contralaterally were recorded. Qualitative self-efficacy data was also collected. Data Analysis: A general estimating equation model was used to calculate odds ratios, controlling for side of weakness and hand dominance. Descriptive statistics were run and qualitative comments reviewed for trends. Results: All reaches were one-handed. Speed and object size were significantly associated with NP UE use (p = 0.002 and p = 0.03 respectively). The odds of using the paretic UE were 10.4 times lower (95% CI: 2.3 - 46.9) for the fast speed and 2.4 times lower (95% CI: 1.1 - 5.4) for the large size. Subjects only reached contralaterally with their NP UE (36.7% of time). Conclusions: Subjects chronic post-stroke with mild/moderate severity use their P UE less to reach for objects that are larger and when reaching faster.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/u_poster_2017/1025/thumbnail.jp

Common parietal activation in musical mental transformations across pitch and time

We previously observed that mental manipulation of the pitch level or temporal organization of melodies results in functional activation in the human intraparietal sulcus (IPS), a region also associated with visuospatial transformation and numerical calculation. Two outstanding questions about these musical transformations are whether pitch and time depend on separate or common processing in IPS, and whether IPS recruitment in melodic tasks varies depending upon the degree of transformation required (as it does in mental rotation). In the present study we sought to answer these questions by applying functional magnetic resonance imaging while musicians performed closely matched mental transposition (pitch transformation) and melody reversal (temporal transformation) tasks. A voxel-wise conjunction analysis showed that in individual subjects, both tasks activated overlapping regions in bilateral IPS, suggesting that a common neural substrate subserves both types of mental transformation. Varying the magnitude of mental pitch transposition resulted in variation of IPS BOLD signal in correlation with the musical key-distance of the transposition, but not with the pitch distance, indicating that the cognitive metric relevant for this type of operation is an abstract one, well described by music-theoretic concepts. These findings support a general role for the IPS in systematically transforming auditory stimulus representations in a nonspatial context. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved

The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study

In the late sixties the Canadian psychologist Laurence J. Peter advanced an apparently paradoxical principle, named since then after him, which can be summarized as follows: {\it 'Every new member in a hierarchical organization climbs the hierarchy until he/she reaches his/her level of maximum incompetence'}. Despite its apparent unreasonableness, such a principle would realistically act in any organization where the mechanism of promotion rewards the best members and where the mechanism at their new level in the hierarchical structure does not depend on the competence they had at the previous level, usually because the tasks of the levels are very different to each other. Here we show, by means of agent based simulations, that if the latter two features actually hold in a given model of an organization with a hierarchical structure, then not only is the Peter principle unavoidable, but also it yields in turn a significant reduction of the global efficiency of the organization. Within a game theory-like approach, we explore different promotion strategies and we find, counterintuitively, that in order to avoid such an effect the best ways for improving the efficiency of a given organization are either to promote each time an agent at random or to promote randomly the best and the worst members in terms of competence.Comment: final version published on Physica A, 10 pages, 4 figures, 1 table (for on-line supplementary material see the link: http://www.ct.infn.it/cactus/peter-links.html

Boston Hospitality Review: Fall 2016

The Heart of Successful Hotels: Going Beyond the Monopoly Game Strategy By Joseph Khairallah and Andrea Foster -- Fragments of the Past By Peter Szende and Annie Holcombe -- Hospitality Branding in the Age of the Millennial By Allen Adamson and Chekitan S. Dev -- In 2017 What Will a Restaurant Actually Be? A New Taxonomy By Christopher Muller -- The Unreal Thing: Faux Heritage at Disney By Bradford Hudson -- An Insider’s Look at the 2016 Philadelphia Democratic National Convention: Hospitality and Inclusion at Work By Erin Tucker, Leora Halpern Lanz, and Juan Lesme

How To Change The Narrative Of The Women\u27s Suffrage Movement -- And Why It Matters

Hi, my name is Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Women\u27s Leadership at Marquette University. In honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment and in recognition of how important women are in this current election, we are delighted to bring you our virtual conference on Women\u27s Suffrage and Innovation. Thank you for joining us