Performance and First Physics Results of the SVT Trigger at CDF II

For the first time in a hadron collider, a novel trigger processor, the Silicon Vertex Trigger (SVT), allows to select the long-lived heavy flavor particles by cutting on the track impact parameter with a precision similar to that of the offline reconstruction. Triggering on displaced tracks has enriched the B-physics program by enhancing the B yields of the lepton-based triggers and opened up full hadronic triggering at CDF. After a first commissioning period, the SVT is fully operational, performing very closely to its design capabilities. System performance and first physics results based on SVT selected data samples are presented.Comment: Invited talk at the Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, IPPP Durham, April 2003 (eConf C0304052). 4 pages LaTeX, 6 eps figure

Strategy formation effects on managerial action: Strategy in the back of your head

This paper examines the interplay between top and middle level managers as strategy-making settles and in subsequent managerial action. It reports on an exploratory case study at a car service company that has an aggressive expansion strategy. The study examines the context and characteristics of the strategy-making process and the specific evolution of fourteen strategic initiatives. Of particular interest was that the interplay between top managers and middle managers was resolved through a legitimizing mechanism. This interplay took place through deliberation and agreement, with extensive participation, and developed into shared views of strategy which provided legitimation. Once settled, strategic initiatives were subsequently developed in harmony with the strategic intent. This agreement provided guidance to carry out strategic initiatives and was a source of resilient strategic conversation. From analysis of the case, a model presenting how strategic intent interacts with the creation of strategic initiatives is presented. This model aims at overcoming the mutually exclusive bottom-up and top-down sources of influence, integrating both in a process model.Strategy-making; middle management; top management; managerial action;

Determinantes de la transparencia contable en los municipios

La información contable debe ofrecerse a sus destinatarios en tiempo oportuno, ya que unos datos presentados a destiempo se convierten en inútiles para el fin al que están dirigidos. El propósito de este trabajo es analizar la relación entre esta manifestación de la transparencia, consistente en la obligación que tienen las Entidades Locales de rendir en el plazo legal su Cuenta General al órgano de control externo, y diversos factores presupuestarios y políticos, utilizando para ello una muestra formada por los municipios valencianos, referida al ejercicio 2009. Los resultados indican que los municipios de mayor tamaño, con inversiones más elevadas, menores niveles de deuda y menor competencia política presentan una probabilidad más alta de cumplimiento. Sin embargo, el signo ideológico o la participación electoral no parecen desempeñar un papel relevante. El trabajo se fundamenta en una amplia muestra de municipios, de diferentes tamaños, y aporta varios resultados que difieren de los encontrados hasta ahora

The CMS hardward alignment system

The different hardware-based alignment systems of the CMS detector are briefly described including its overall projected performance. Initial systems performance during the first CMS magnet operation to 4 T nominal magnetic field is also summarized

A primitivity criterion

In this note we give a generalization of Furtwängler's primitivity criterion [E], in order to assure that a polynomial is primitive through his coefficients

What’s Really Wrong with Fining Crimes? On the Hard Treatment of Criminal Monetary Fines

Among the advocates of expressive theories of punishment, there is a strong consensus that monetary fines cannot convey the message of censure that is required to punish serious crimes or crimes against the person (e.g., rape). Money is considered an inappropriate symbol to express condemnation. In this article, I argue that this sentiment is correct, although not for the reasons suggested by advocates of expressivism. The monetary day-fine should not be understood as a simple deprivation of money, but as a punishment that reduces the offender’s capacity to consume for a certain period of time. Conceived in this manner, I argue that it is perfectly suitable to convey censure. However, the practical impossibility of ensuring that the person who pays the fine is the same person who has been convicted of the offense seriously undermines the acceptability of the monetary fine as an instrument of censure. Minimizing the risk of the fine’s hard treatment being transferred to third parties is a necessary condition for the monetary fine to be considered a viable alternative to lengthy prison sentences

Ressenyes

Obra ressenyada: Pere LLUÍS FONT, Immanuel Kant. Sis assaigs i un diàleg d'ultratomba. Barcelona: Arpa, 2016