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Estándares internacionales y regulación del compliance
Creators: name: Rodríguez Cárdenas, Juan Pablo
name: Merchán Rosero, Luis Ignacio
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023

description: Objetivos generales: * Comprender los estándares de regulación y autorregulación aplicables a las organizaciones en las cuales desempeñen funciones de compliance. Objetivos especificos: Resultados de aprendizaje * Identificar los antecedentes del concepto de compliance y su aplicación en el mundo empresarial. * Comprobar el desarrollo de los estándares internacionales de compliance a través de la verificación de las experiencias de implementación en las organizaciones. * Clasificar la aplicación de los diversos sistemas de compliance en Colombia y su desarrollo en los entornos empresariales y públicos.
description: El curso aborda y contiene los aspectos conceptuales del compliance en Colombia, incluyendo los antecedentes, las definiciones conceptuales y la identificación de errores en la implementación de los sistemas. También se exploran los estándares internacionales del compliance, como COSO, ISO y las directrices de la US Sentencing Commission. Además, se analiza el compliance para prevenir los riesgos como el lavado de activos y la corrupción, cubriendo los estándares internacionales y las políticas nacionales, así como los sistemas de prevención en Colombia.
Pedagogía y didáctica: aspectos metodológicos en ELE Esp
Creators: name: Rojas Valbuena, Liliana
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023

description: Objetivos generales: * Interiorizar los conceptos básicos de la materia y hacer una reflexión sobre la aplicación de dichos conceptos en la práctica docente cotidiana. Objetivos específicos: * Identificar las características principales de los métodos de enseñanza, usados para enseñar y aprender lenguas extranjeras. * Definir todos los participantes en el proceso de aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera. * Reflexionar sobre el valor del enfoque comunicativo, el enfoque nocional funcional y el enfoque por tareas y considerarlos como metodologías para enseñar la lengua extranjera.
description: En este curso se tratan los aspectos que se deben tener en cuenta para evitar la ansiedad y el estrés al realizar una clase, la posición del docente y el alumno, los estilos de aprendizaje según los perfiles como: estilos activos, reflexivos, teóricos y programáticos. Además, de aprender a cómo diseñar una clase con los diferentes estilos de aprendizaje. Se analizará la gramática tradicional, el estructuralismo, la lingüística cognitiva, los métodos comunicativos del último tercio del Siglo XX; por último, se trabajará en la comprensión escrita, oral y auditiva y cómo expresarse en estas y los fundamentos básicos para programar un curso.
STABILIZATION OF HISTORICAL ARCHIVES IN MEKELLE CITY RESCUE OF FIRE AND WATER DAMAGED DOCUMENTS, Report
Creators: name: Asfha, Alula Tesfay
name: Dawit Gebrehiwot
name: Gebrekristos, Selam
name: Yirga Asefa
name: Nega Tadesse
Publisher: name: Mekelle University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Archive
Mekelle
Postconflict

description: INTRODUCTION: The archival materials within the Mekelle Municipality building face severe threats due to poor storage conditions and safety hazards. An exposed electrical panel with open wires presents a significant fire risk, which became a reality in a recent incident likely triggered by compromised wiring or nearby cooking activities. This fire caused substantial damage to numerous documents, necessitating the urgent intervention of the municipal fire brigade. Although their quick response prevented further loss, the water used to extinguish the flames soaked many records, hastening their deterioration. The wet papers quickly morphed into a pulpy, unidentifiable mass, combining soot, dirt, and charred remnants, rendering many documents permanently unreadable. This situation underscores the urgent need for immediate archival preservation efforts, as each document represents a vital piece of Mekelle's history that must be rescued before it is lost forever.
Convite, un servicio para la organización y ejecución de eventos pequeños e informales
Creators: name: Méndez Espitia, Laura Andrea
name: Triana Jiménez, Jair Mauricio
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Planeación estratégica - Administración
subject: Gestión de negocios - Aspectos económicos
subject: Promoción de eventos especiales
subject: Experiencias
subject: Eventos pequeños e informales
subject: Reunión
subject: Servicio
subject: Millennials

description: El presente trabajo de grado es el desarrollo de un modelo de negocio para la prestación de un servicio dirigido principalmente a la generación millenial, de organización y ejecución de eventos pequeños o informales, bien sean: asados, noche de cocteles, catas de tragos, entre otros. Con el fin de convertir reuniones pequeñas en momentos únicos y convertirlos en eventos de alto valor y experiencias inolvidables. La principal problemática que se quiere resolver es el hecho de que muchas personas se encuentran con diversos obstáculos a la hora de organizar y realizar una reunión o fiesta casera, problemas tales como, inexperiencia o desconocimiento de cómo hacerlo, mal manejo del presupuesto, falta de creatividad, problemas en la recolección de la cuota o cover en caso de haber, los desplazamientos para conseguir los ingredientes y artículos para dicho evento, no saber cocinar o qué cocinar, entre otros. ¿Qué debería ofrecer un servicio que planea, organiza y ejecuta reuniones pequeñas o informales?
description: This thesis is the development of a business model for the provision of a service aimed mainly at the millennial generation, of organizing and executing small or informal events, be they: barbecues, cocktail nights, drink tastings, among others. In order to turn small meetings into unique moments and turn them into high value events and unforgettable experiences. The main problem that we want to solve is the fact that many people encounter various obstacles when it comes to organizing and holding a meeting or a home party, problems such as inexperience or ignorance of how to do it, poor budget management, lack of creativity, problems in collecting the quota or cover if there is one, travel to get the ingredients and items for that event, not knowing how to cook or what to cook, among others. What should a service that plans, organizes and runs small or informal meetings offer?
Cuentas macroeconómicas del turismo
Creators: name: Moreno Barrera, Alejandra
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023

description: Objetivos generales: * Adquirir conocimiento del modelo insumo-producto y su aplicación específica en el ámbito del turismo. Objetivos especificos: Resultados de aprendizaje * Analiza el aporte del turismo a los agregados macroeconómicos. * Identifica la relación conceptual y estadística del turismo de la Cuenta Satélite de Turismo (CST). * Identifica las relaciones sectoriales del turismo con otros sectores de la economía mediante el análisis de los coeficientes del modelo de Leontief.
description: Este curso introduce a los estudiantes en la comprensión del turismo desde una perspectiva macroeconómica. Inicialmente, se realiza un análisis del papel económico del turismo desde el enfoque de los agregados macroeconómicos. Además, busca reforzar la asimilación de los conceptos clave del turismo, previamente explicados en los cursos introductorios, que son cruciales según los manuales y las recomendaciones de los organismos multilaterales. Estas nociones incluyen el turismo interno, receptivo y emisivo, así como su relación con la Cuenta Satélite del Turismo (CST).
Problemática ambiental generada en los cementerios de Colombia. Especial atención a los vertimientos
Creators: name: Solórzano Burgos, Gareth
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Recursos naturales - Legislación
subject: Derecho ambiental - Aspectos jurídicos
subject: Incineración - Estudios de caso
subject: Residuos solidos
subject: Servicios de cremación
subject: Cementerios
subject: Efectos ambientales

description: La protección del medio ambiente se ha convertido en las últimas décadas en una preocupación elevada a rango a constitucional desde 1991. Garantizar un ambiente sano y ecológicamente equilibrado es uno de los fines del Estado colombiano en cuanto a que es indispensable para proteger la vida y la salud de las personas. Es así que desde los años setenta se expidieron las primeras normas de protección del medio ambiente y se sentaron las bases de la regulación en materia de cementerios, por lo que en este sentido la presente monografía aborda la problemática ambiental y sanitaria que se puede generar por la prestación de los diferentes servicios en los cementerios y en especial el servicio de de inhumación por debajo del nivel del suelo. La importancia de abordar la problemática derivada de la inhumación en cementerios y la aplicación del permiso de vertimientos como herramienta jurídica para prevenir los impactos negativos sobre los recursos naturales radica principalmente en el desconocimiento de lo relacionado con los vertimientos no puntuales que se presentan como resultado de las inhumaciones por debajo del nivel del suelo y en la pertinencia de examinar si tal como está contemplado en la actualidad el trámite de permiso de vertimientos resulta eficiente para proteger las aguas subterráneas y el suelo donde se ubican los cementerios.
El diseño institucional de los consejos de planeación y la participación ciudadana en la discusión de los planes de desarrollo. Un estudio de caso de armenia, Quindío
Creators: name: López Jiménez, Lina María
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Planeación económica - Aspectos sociales
subject: Desarrollo de la comunidad - Legislación
subject: Participación ciudadana - Aspectos socioeconómicos
subject: Planeación
subject: Diseño institucional
subject: Gobernabilidad
subject: Plan de desarrollo

description: El Consejo Nacional de Planeación y los consejos territoriales de planeación, en Colombia, fueron creados por la Constitución de 1991 como la expresión de la participación ciudadana en la planeación, lo cual significa que su nacimiento se produce dentro de un contexto constitucional marcado, de una parte, por el principio constitucional de la participación ciudadana; y de otra, por la planeación económica y social, como principal instrumento con que cuenta el Estado para el cumplimiento de sus fines esenciales; irradiado, así mismo, por la “fórmula definitoria del Estado” (en palabras de Correa, 2008, p. 57) del Estado social de derecho. Se tiene pues, que los consejos de planeación son concebidos constitucionalmente, como los máximos exponentes de la participación ciudadana en la planeación económica y social, con el fin de profundizar la democracia y fortalecer la gobernabilidad, como lo analizaremos en detalle en el primer capítulo. Además, tanto la Constitución, como la Ley Orgánica del Plan de Desarrollo, Ley 152 de 1994, contemplan las reglas de juego que definen quién y cómo participan y su contenido (diseño institucional participativo), en relación con los siguientes elementos del diseño: la forma como se conforman e integran, su carácter consultivo, su función de servir de foro para la discusión de los planes de desarrollo, y el papel de las autoridades de planeación frente a los consejos de planeación.
Acceso a la justicia de la población rural : justicia de paz en Nunchía (Casanare)
Creators: name: Cáceres Puentes, Dora Patricia
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cultura de paz - Aspectos sociales
subject: Elecciones - Legislación
subject: Justicia - Aspectos jurídicos
subject: Acceso a la justicia
subject: Rama judicial
subject: Resoluciones
subject: Proceso electorales

description: La presente investigación corresponde a un trabajo de campo realizado desde el año 1998 hasta el 2017, en cincuenta y dos veredas de Nunchía (Casanare), municipio de connotación rural. La apuesta jurídico-propositiva parte de un contexto de alta conflictividad que involucra el accionar de los actores irregulares del conflicto armado, siendo sus principales víctimas los campesinos. De este modo, se plantea una propuesta en derecho para la gestión de sus conflictos, la que se materializa por más de quince años continuos, a través de la implementación del ejercicio de los jueces de paz y de reconsideración. La investigación se centra en responder la pregunta: ¿la implementación de la justicia de paz en Nunchía, cambia en su usuario rural, la percepción de acceso a la justicia en la solución de sus conflictos? La respuesta se va ofreciendo en forma afirmativa durante el desarrollo de los cuatro siguientes capítulos, para indicar su mejoramiento. En la Introducción se hace la presentación de la investigación. En esta, previo a plantear su problema, se anuncia el panorama que rodea el objeto de la misma, situándolos en su contexto territorial y normativo. Supone lo anterior, la ubicación de la investigación en su punto de partida, para entender las motivaciones que dieron lugar a su surgimiento. A continuación, el problema objeto de estudio se esboza en la necesidad que tiene el campesino de acceder a la justicia para la solución de su conflicto rural en Nunchía. Así, se concreta la hipótesis en demostrar que con la implementación de los jueces de paz y de reconsideración en Nunchía, el usuario campesino cambia favorablemente la percepción de acceso a la justicia frente a sus conflictos.
Additional file 1 of Assessing the psychosocial work environment in the health care setting: translation and psychometric testing of the French and Italian Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaires (COPSOQ) in a large sample of health professionals in Switzerland
Creators: name: Peter, Karin Anne
name: Golz, Christoph
name: Bürgin, Reto Arthur
name: Nübling, Matthias
name: Voirol, Christian
name: Zürcher, Simeon Joel
name: Hahn, Sabine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplement A. Original COPSOQ-items (English and German) and translated COPSOQ-items in this study (French and Italian).
MOOC Penal abolitionism
Creators: name: Rojas Pedraza, Oriana Natalia
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2022

description: Objetivos Generales: * Promote critical reflection and analysis on penal law, criminal policy and especially on prison sentences as a form of punishment. To accomplish this, it is necessary to approach prisons from distinct perspectives: social, economic, political and cultural. The idea is to guide the participant in the in-depth study of penal abolitionism and a look at alternative forms of justice (such as restorative). Objetivos específicos: * Understand the fundamental ideas of the abolitionist proposals based on the basic notions, the reasons for its emergence and the core principles of this proposal. * Identify the three central ideas of European abolitionism. * Know some of the main exponents and proposals of Latin American abolitionism in this region, Brazil and Argentina.
description: This course will be centered on prisons considering that it is the most utilized form of punishment in our times. For this, we will firstly approach the concepts and principles on abolitionism, later we will study its origins in such a way that we will make reference to the history of prisons and the critiques on criminal policy from a social, economic and political perspective. We will review the theories and ideas of the authors who are most representative of European abolitionism such as Nils Christie, Louk Hulsman and Thomas Mathiesen, as well as the Latin American perspective based on the critiques of liberal penal law. Lastly, we will study restorative justice as an alternative to the rethinking of punishment, presenting its principal traits and characteristics.
Regulación energía renovable perspectiva técnico-económica
Creators: name: Boshell, Francisco
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2022

description: Objetivos Generales: * Brindar los elementos técnicos y conceptuales que les permita a los estudiantes comprender la actual transición energética global, su impacto sobre el cambio climático y las estrategias que están siendo implementadas por los países para acelerar la transición alineada a sus objetivos socioeconómicos. Objetivos específicos: * Entender el papel del sector energético en la descarbonización de la economía global y las rutas que hay disponibles para su transformación, alineadas con el Acuerdo de Paris sobre el cambio climático. * Adquirir la información más actualizada sobre las tecnologías que pueden apoyar la transición energética, su estado de desarrollo, aspectos económicos e innovación en este sector.
description: Este espacio académico cuenta con diferentes contenidos y actividades virtuales que permitirán la apropiación de conceptos básicos de la regulación de energías renovables desde el enfoque técnico y económico. Además, aborda la transición energética global, enfocándose en su impacto climático y las estrategias implementadas por los países. Este curso permite comprender el papel del sector energético en la descarbonización global y las rutas de transformación alineadas con el Acuerdo de París y proporciona información actualizada sobre tecnologías energéticas, su desarrollo, aspectos económicos e innovación.
Equidad judicial y responsabilidad extracontractual
Creators: name: M'Causland Sánchez, María Cecilia
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Administración de justicia - Aspectos jurídicos
subject: Culpa jurídica - Colombia
subject: Responsabilidad extracontractual - Colombia
subject: Equidad
subject: Códigos civiles
subject: Sistemas jurídicos
subject: Derecho civil

description: El estudio de la equidad es un empeño retador para cualquier jurista. Desde el inicio, debe contar con la dificultad que supone precisar su contenido; la mayor parte de los autores no se arriesga a proponer una definición y los pocos que lo hacen presentan enunciados tan generales y abstractos que resultan de poca utilidad, lo que entorpece, además, su deslinde respecto de otros conceptos jurídicos. En cualquier caso, fijar el contenido de la equidad implica determinar cuál es su función y cuál el alcance de esta en el desarrollo del derecho. Esto resulta tan importante que puede decirse que la concepción del derecho estará determinada, en gran medida, por el papel que cumple la equidad en su formación y su realización. En cuanto a la formación del derecho, no cabe duda, la equidad es un elemento esencial del proceso de creación de las normas jurídicas. El legislador, al expedir las leyes, hace formulaciones generales que buscan un resultado equitativo, esto es, la regulación, con justicia, de todos los casos que caben en la enunciación normativa general, y ello al margen de que tal resultado se encuentre determinado por elementos gnoseológicos, sociales y políticos propios de cada momento histórico y, por lo tanto, de que la concepción normativa de un determinado instituto jurídico esté influenciada por la noción de justicia que guió el pensamiento de su creador.
Taller: Organización y almacenamiento de la información
Creators: name: Ospina Patiño, Paula Andrea
name: Macetts Penagos, Leonardo Enrique
name: Sánchez Yopaza, Judy Ximena
name: Castillo Bello, Estefanía
name: Pérez Arcila, Fredy Mauricio
name: Sánchez Cortés, Cindy Lizeth
name: Vargas Cubillos, Ligia Hiomara
name: Vargas Galvis, Karen Viviana
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2022

description: Objetivos Generales: * Desarrollar habilidades clave de la competencia digital de Gestión de información, en su nivel inicial o explorador. Objetivos específicos: * Comprender los principios de organización de la información para facilitar su recuperación y uso para diferentes fines. * Identificar los gestores bibliográficos como herramientas que facilitan la organización y el almacenamiento de la información para la producción de conocimiento. * Conocer el manejo de las herramientas OneDrive y Sharepoint para organizar la información.
description: El curso se enfoca en el desarrollo integral de las habilidades de gestión de la información digital, que abarcan desde la comprensión profunda del fenómeno de la información hasta la mejora continua del proceso de búsqueda. Además, se explorarán recursos diseñados para respaldar eficazmente las actividades académicas. Los participantes no solo adquirirán conocimientos sobre los principios fundamentales de la organización de la información, sino que también desarrollarán la capacidad de identificar y utilizar gestores bibliográficos, fundamentales para facilitar la producción de conocimiento. Asimismo, se instruirán en el manejo de herramientas como OneDrive y SharePoint, potenciando así sus habilidades organizativas.
El acceso a tratamientos y medicamentos experimentales caso Estados Unidos - Colombia, estudio comparativo
Creators: name: Duque Giraldo, Mateo
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Legislación social - Aspectos jurídicos
subject: Servicios de salud - Legislación
subject: Leyes - Estudios de caso
subject: Sistemas de salud
subject: Sociedad
subject: Suministro
subject: Sentencia
subject: Corte Constitucional

description: El acceso a tratamientos experimentales en los sistemas de salud es un asunto que se ha debatido ampliamente a nivel nacional y mundial, porque supone una confrontación entre la autonomía que tienen los individuos para seleccionar los medios que consideren necesarios para recuperarse de sus dolencias y el deber de los Estados de impedir que se distribuyan fármacos cuya eficacia y seguridad no se encuentre acreditada por los organismos sanitarios. Este dilema replantea el rol que el Estado desempeña en la sociedad, en la medida que su injerencia puede colisionar con las expectativas vitales de las personas, la libertad de los actores del mercado para comercializar este tipo de fórmulas y la independencia científica de los profesionales de la salud que ordenan su suministro. Asimismo, se genera un conflicto por la manera como las autoridades abordan el concepto de riesgo, pues ante la incertidumbre de los efectos de estos procedimientos, es posible que de manera anticipada se prohíba su distribución o, muy por el contrario, puede procederse a su autorización, si no se demuestran las consecuencias nocivas de su empleo.
La participación ciudadana en el nombramiento de los magistrados de la Sala Constitucional en Venezuela
Creators: name: Volcan Garcia, Nerio Edilberto
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Participación ciudadana - Aspectos jurídicos
subject: Administración de justicia - Legislación
subject: Jurisdicción - Colombia
subject: Tribunal constitucional
subject: Revisión judicial
subject: Participación en democracia
subject: Poder político

description: El presente trabajo de investigación estudia la perspectiva constitucional del nombramiento de los magistrados de la Sala Constitucional, atendiendo al modelo de la participación ciudadana de una manera directa, cuando se hace uso del voto popular para concretar la legitimidad del magistrado de la Sala Constitucional y su independencia del Poder Político. Las modernas Constituciones plasman que la soberanía reside en el pueblo, lo que da por entendido que es el soberano quien detenta el poder. La soberanía históricamente se ha construido primero como reacción al poder omnímodo del Papa, luego contra este reacciona la soberanía del Príncipe, es decir, que la soberanía era algo inherente a la persona del Monarca; posteriormente, con la Revolución Francesa, operó un tránsito en la titularidad de la soberanía, así el Monarca fue sustituido por los ciudadanos. Los Estados democráticos en su mayoría reforman su Constitución mediante la figura del constituyente y luego, mediante mecanismos de participación directa, le ofrecen al pueblo soberano el nuevo texto constitucional. Hasta aquí, para el investigador, se cumplen formalismos para darle legalidad a los procedimientos establecidos en la Constitución.
Additional file 2 of Assessing the psychosocial work environment in the health care setting: translation and psychometric testing of the French and Italian Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaires (COPSOQ) in a large sample of health professionals in Switzerland
Creators: name: Peter, Karin Anne
name: Golz, Christoph
name: Bürgin, Reto Arthur
name: Nübling, Matthias
name: Voirol, Christian
name: Zürcher, Simeon Joel
name: Hahn, Sabine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplement B. Participants and setting characteristics stratified by language (German, French, Italian).
An Experimental Study of Ash Particles Adhesion Force in Flue Gas
Creators: name: Shi, Yuetao
name: Ma, Zhihao
name: Chu, Da
name: Wang, Xiaojuan
name: Sun, Fengzhong
name: Guo, Zhixiong
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Ash
Adhesion force
Flue gas
Denitrification
Waste heat recovery

description: In this study, experiments and analyses have been carried out to investigate the influences of denitrification and flue gas Waste Heat Recovery Systems (WHRS) on ash particles adhesion force. With use of a denitrification system, it is found that the ash particles adhesion force is strongly influenced by the mass ratio, R, of (NH4)HSO4 to ash. Three influencing zones are identified, i.e., little effect zone (R<1:150), intermediate effect zone (1:1501:60). It is necessary to operate in the little effect zone in order to avoid ash deposition in the air preheater. With use of a WHRS, it is found that the ash adhesion force is strongly affected by the flue gas temperature in comparison with the Engineering Acid Dew Temperature (EADT). With decreasing temperature below the EADT, both the collected ash amount and ash adhesion force rise, and the detected particles size increases, indicating particle accumulation that improves ash collection efficiency.
Primary Signet Ring Cell Adenocarcinoma of the Uterine Cervix: a rare neoplasm that raises the question of metastasis to the cervix
Creators: name: Cracchiolo, Bernadette
name: Heller, Debra
name: Kuhn, Theresa
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Cervix neoplasms
Signet ring cell carcinoma
Adenocarcinoma
Female
Neoplasm staging
Metastasis

description: Primary signet ring cell adenocarcinoma is extremely rare. Signet ring cell carcinoma is more commonly primary in the stomach or breast, and the more likely metastatic disease to the cervix needs to be ruled out. We present a case of primary signet ring cell carcinoma of the cervix and review the literature.
Searching for hidden planets in debris disks
Creators: name: Thilliez, Elodie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Once the tumultuous stage of planet formation completed, fully formed exoplanets and rocky debris material known as 'debris disc' are left to coexist. However this coexistence is not always as peaceful as it seems. Planets can gravitationally interact with their debris disc and induce significant asymmetries. With the improving resolution of observations, the number of spectacular images of asymmetric debris discs is increasing. Could each debris disc host a hidden planet responsible for carving the disc asymmetric features? This thesis investigates this question by numerically modeling the disc-planet interaction in order to reproduce the observed disc asymmetries.
LIS Students: Step into the Ring of Academic Librarianship - Becoming the Best Candidate
Creators: name: Charles, Leslin H.
name: Piekart, Amanda
name: Donnelly, Jaimie
name: Dokus, Lynee R.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Library students
Academic libraries
LIS programs
Library employment
Library schools
Librarians--Employment

description: Increasingly, teaching skills are becoming necessary for academic librarians. Do administrators acknowledge the priority of these skills in the daily work of librarians? Do LIS students recognize the value of information literacy or education coursework in acquiring these skills? This poster session will highlight the types of instructional responsibilities of academic librarians (Lesson Planning, Assessment Strategies, Constructing Learning Outcomes, Instructional Technology, etc.). These tasks are not only important to articulate to students the type of coursework that can be considered, but to administrators the types of skills that can be emphasized on job postings.
description: Presented at the VALE/NJ ACRL/ NJLA CUS 2014 Annual Users' Conference, Piscataway, NJ.
Ambiguous financial responsibilities: second wives and alimony reform activism in the United States
Creators: name: Crowley, Jocelyn Elise
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Alimony
Second wives
Social Movements

description: Alimony, which involves financial transfers from mostly men to women after a divorce, has recently received more scrutiny in the United States by members of an emerging social movement. These activists are attempting to change alimony policy in ways that economically benefit them. One important part of this movement are second wives, who ally themselves with their new husbands and against first wives in the pursuit of alimony reform. This analysis examines how these second wives articulate their objections to alimony by introducing the concept of economic boundary ambiguity, meaning in this case a state of human relationships where financial obligations between first and second wives are contested. In addition to creating several tangible stressors, economic boundary ambiguity can also have important consequences for women’s own social identities as well as the collective identity and the success of the social movement overall.
Differences in algorithmic parallelism in control flow and call multigraphs
Creators: name: Sgro, Vincent
name: Ryder, Barbara G.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1994

description: Our parallel hybrid analysis methods facilitate the parallelization of the analysis phase of a software transformation system, by enabling deeper semantic analyses to be accomplished more efficiently than if performed sequentially. Our previous empirical studies profiled these hybrid techniques on the Reaching Definitions problem. Recently, we have applied our method to the Interprocedural May_Alias Problem for Fortran programs in a prototype implementation. The interpretation of our results suggested further performance studies, comparing our region partition algorithms (both Bottom_Up and Forward partitioning) on call multigraphs and control flow graphs. These comparisons yielded statistically significant differences in performance of our graph partitioning techniques applied to these two graph populations. This research is part of a larger effort to calculate the modification side effects problem (MOD) for Fortran programs using our parallel hybrid techniques.
Additional file 1 of Perceptions and experiences of maternity care workers during COVID-19 pandemic in Lagos State, Nigeria; a qualitative study
Creators: name: Leung, Charlotte
name: Olufunlayo, Tolulope
name: Olateju, Zahra
name: MacArthur, Christine
name: Taylor, Beck
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1. Interview Topic Guide. Interview topic guide questions used for semi-structured interviews.
Exploration in Least-Squares Policy Iteration
Creators: name: Mansley, Christopher
name: Li, Lihong
name: Littman, Michael
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2008
Subjects: PAC-MDP
Exploration
Least-Squares Policy Iteration
Markov Decision Processes
Reinforcement Learning

description: One of the key problems in reinforcement learning is balancing exploration and exploitation. Another is learning and acting in large or even continuous Markov decision processes (MDPs), where compact function approximation has to be used. In this paper, we provide a practical solution to exploring large MDPs by integrating a powerful exploration technique, Rmax, into a state-of-the-art learning algorithm, least-squares policy iteration (LSPI). This approach combines the strengths of both methods, and has shown its effectiveness and superiority over LSPI with two other popular exploration rules in several benchmark problems.
Protezione dei dati personali e ricerca scientifica
Creators: name: Trivellato, Ugo
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: The issue of privacy versus data access is at the crossroads of the recent legislation on data protection, that extends to all kinds of personal data and their uses. The paper takes the point of view of an analytical user, i.e. a person wanting to (collect and principally) process micro data for research purposes. It focuses on some basic features of the issue and on their policy implications. First of all, the societal role of scientific research and its intrinsic needs are considered: they are the basis for motivating a "credit of confidentiality" when personal data are processed for scientific purposes. Some basic principles and guidelines for regulating this credit of confidentiality, as they are set out in recent international recommendations and regulations, are then briefly reviewed. The state of the affairs in Italy is discussed: a fairly strict act on data protection was passed in 1996; substantial improvements were introduced by further legislation; a code of conduct has been recently adopted, which is crucial both for a liberal interpretation of the rules and for making them effective (indeed, the more favourable provisions dealing with the processing personal data for research purposes were conditional on the code to come into force). The concluding remarks stress the need for additional efforts to make micro databases widely available to researchers.
description: Statistica; Vol 63, No 4 (2003); 627-648
La deontologia di chi produce e detiene dati statistici: dalla possibilità alla certezza dell'accesso
Creators: name: Boeri, T.
name: Pellizzari, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: The recently approved "Codice di deontologia e buona condotta per il trattamento di dati personali per scopi statistici e scientifici" greatly improves the Italian legislation on the privacy of personal data towards easier access to databases by researchers who intend to use them for non-commercial scientific purposes. However, the new legislation simply allows the researcher to access more and better data, it does not guarantee that the institutions that collect and posses these databases will share them with the scientists. To this end, we propose the introduction of a legal obligation - at least for public institutions - to share with researchers - at least those employed by universities - all statistical data that might be requested for non-commercial scientific studies. In this article, we document our own personal experience of requesting data from public administrations, showing how they are often reluctant, if not openly refuse, to invest resources in the dissemination of basic statistical information for research purposes. Not only would the legal obligation we propose allow these institutions to devote specific resources for the dissemination of statistical data, but it would also protect them from political pressure.
description: Statistica; Vol 63, No 4 (2003); 649-662
Compiler-Directed Dynamic Frequency and Voltage Scheduling
Creators: name: Kremer, Ulrich
name: Hsu, Chung-Hsing
name: Hsiao, Michael
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2000

description: Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling has been identified as one of the most effective ways to reduce power dissipation. This paper discusses a compilation strategy that identifies opportunities for dynamic voltage and frequency scaling of the CPU without significant increase in overall program execution time. The paper introduces a simple, yet effective performance model to determine an efficient CPU slow-down factor for memory bound loop computations. Simulation results of a superscalar target architecture and a program kernel compiled at different optimizations levels show the potential benefit of the proposed compiler optimization. The energy savings are reported for a hypothetical target machine with power dissipation characteristics similar to Transmeta’s Crusoe TM5400 processor.
Protezione dei dati personali e ricerca biomedica
Creators: name: Gallo, Ciro
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: Individual data protection is a legitimate right of everybody, but an excess of zeal in preserving privacy may seriously threaten research for statistical or scientific purposes, e.g. for epidemiological research on medical records; some compromises are needed that guarantee the individual's rights while preserving validity and feasibility of research. An ethical Code for data protection in statistical and scientific research was recently signed from most Italian statistical associations, with the aim of identifying rules and criteria for legitimately and reasonably departing from general rules of Italy's Data Protection Act, when requested from aims and design of research. This paper focuses on biomedical research. The aim is to discuss ethical aspects of clinical and epidemiological research and how they are dealt with by the Code. Peculiarities of biomedical research are first presented along with underlying ethical theories; examples of injuries of legislation on research are then reported from other countries; responses of the Code are finally discussed.
description: Statistica; Vol 63, No 4 (2003); 663-672
Self-managing federated services
Creators: name: Matias Cuenca-Acuna, Francisco
name: Nguyen, Thu
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2003

description: We consider the problem of deploying and managing replicated highly available services in federated systems that spanmultiple collaborative organizations. In particular, we present a peer-to-peer framework that supports the construction of self-managing replicated services that automatically adjust the number of replicas and their placement in response to changes in the system or client loads. Our framework is novel in that self-management is completely decentralized, depending only on a modest amount of loosely synchronized global state. More specifically, each replica is wrapped with a management agent that monitors the state of the service and the underlying system. Each agent occasionally searches for configurations that may be better than the current one with respect to an application model and explicitly stated performance and availability targets. On finding a better configuration, an agent will enact the new configuration after a random delay to avoid possible collisions. We evaluate our framework by studying a prototype UDDI service subjected to various system changes as well as client load. We show that while agents act autonomously, the service rapidly reaches a stable and appropriate configuration in response to system dynamics.
Le perplessità di un utilizzatore di dati di fronte al "Codice di deontologia e buona condotta per il trattamento di dati personali per scopi statistici e scientifici"
Creators: name: Ichino, Andrea
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: The new Code misses an important occasion to state clearly that data for statistical research are not a major threat for personal privacy. They are instead a public good that stimulates research allowing for a better understanding of reality and for an easier identification of the instruments that are necessary to improve collective welfare. The goal of the code should have been to allow an easy access to data, punishing severely any violation of privacy. The preference has been instead to impose on individual researchers complicated bureaucratic requirements, which will probably have only costs without benefits. Moreover, the use of the concept of reasonable means to define the cases in which the data allow for the identification of protected subjects raises concern because of its vagueness. The real consequences of the Code will depend on how this concept will be concretely interpreted. This interpretation will in fact determine which data should be considered personal and which ones can instead be considered anonymous.
description: Statistica; Vol 63, No 4 (2003); 673-683
Product integration methods for the solution of singular integral equations of Cauchy type
Creators: name: Gerasoulis, Apostolos
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1979

description: A method for the numerical solution of singular integral equations of Cauchy type is developed. The unknown function is expressed as a product of a weight function and a continuous function 0(t). The continuous function ~(t) is approximated by piecewise quadratic polynomials, and the singular integral equation is reduced to a linear algebraic system. Two numerical examples are given, and comparisons are made with the widely used Gauss-type methods. By comparing the stress intensity factors obtained in the solution of a singular integral equation that arises in the analysis of a cruciform crack, the superiority of the method developed here over Gauss-type methods is demonstrated.
Protezione dei dati personali e ricerca biomedica
Creators: name: Marchi, Marco
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: With the approval of the deontological Code for the treatment of personal data for scientific and statistical research, a phase of uncertainty and ambiguity in the management of sensitive health data was finally ended. The integration of the regulations for medicalm bio-medical and epidemiological research, agreed upon and/or proposed by Scientific societies, harmonize the right of privacy with the principle of free research, in the interest of all people to achieve and/or keep an optimal health state.
description: Statistica; Vol 63, No 4 (2003); 685-692
Alcune osservazioni su protezione dei dati personali e analisi statistica
Creators: name: Peracchi, Franco
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: The fact that individuals are free not to participate to a survey, or to answer in an imprecise or even misleading way, represents a simple but very effective form of protection of individual privacy, which makes it largely unnecessary to formally regulate the use of individual data in statistical analysis. The increasing use of administrative data in statistical analysis has modified the picture and brought to the forefront the need of new forms of protection of individual privacy. The regulation recently introduced in Italy represents an important step forward in this direction. However, because it ignores the distinction between statistical surveys and administrative data, this new regulation could lead to an excessive level of protection, with an unncessary increase of the direct and indirect costs of protection.
description: Statistica; Vol 63, No 4 (2003); 693-696
Significati sociali e culturali del codice deontologico per il trattamento di dati personali a scopi scientifici e alcune sue implicazioni per la ricerca sociologica
Creators: name: Schizzerotto, Antonio
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: The article deals with two different topics. First, it stresses the cultural and institutional meanings of the recent issue of a deontological code regulating the treatment of personal information collected or used for scientific purposes. Second, the article tries to show how the new rules affect the main steps of a sociological survey, namely the sampling procedure, the field work and interviewing arrangements, and the storage of personal information in an electronic data warehouse.
description: Statistica; Vol 63, No 4 (2003); 703-711
Gamma band plasticity in sensory cortex is a signature of the strongest memory rather than memory of the training stimulus
Creators: name: Weinberger, Norman M.
name: Miasnikov, Alexandre A.
name: Bieszczad, Kasia M.
name: Chen, Jemmy C.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Associative learning
Cholinergic system
Implanted memory
Nucleus basalis
Primary auditory cortex
Stimulus generalization

description: Gamma oscillations (∼30-120Hz) are considered to be a reflection of coordinated neuronal activity, linked to processes underlying synaptic integration and plasticity. Increases in gamma power within the cerebral cortex have been found during many cognitive processes such as attention, learning, memory and problem solving in both humans and animals. However, the specificity of gamma to the detailed contents of memory remains largely unknown. We investigated the relationship between learning-induced increased gamma power in the primary auditory cortex (A1) and the strength of memory for acoustic frequency. Adult male rats (n=16) received three days (200 trials each) of pairing a tone (3.66 kHz) with stimulation of the nucleus basalis, which implanted a memory for acoustic frequency as assessed by associatively-induced disruption of ongoing behavior, viz., respiration. Post-training frequency generalization gradients (FGGs) revealed peaks at non-CS frequencies in 11/16 cases, likely reflecting normal variation in pre-training acoustic experiences. A stronger relationship was found between increased gamma power and the frequency with the strongest memory (peak of the difference between individual post- and pre-training FGGs) vs. behavioral responses to the CS training frequency. No such relationship was found for the theta/alpha band (4-15 Hz). These findings indicate that the strength of specific increased neuronal synchronization within primary sensory cortical fields can determine the specific contents of memory.
Dynamics of mathematical models for bioreactors
Creators: name: Chen, Zhenzhen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Bioreactors are vessels in which a biological reaction takes place. They are ideal devices to model many natural phenomena in ecosystems. Bioreactors are used extensively in the biological treatment of wastes and the manufacture of useful bio-products. If designed and operated correctly, a bioreactor can be a relatively cost-effective method for hazardous substance removal and bio-product manufacture. Mathematical models are valuable tools to study bioreactors, since they are mathematically tractable and the relevant experiments can be carried out. Therefore, bioreactor modeling has great potential for use in many fields, such as to assist in the design of equipment, to predict long-term behaviour, to interpret data, and to control and optimize the bioreactor.

The objectives of this thesis are to develop mathematical models for bioreactors by capturing essential information on bioreactors, and then to analyse the developed models to predict the performance of bioreactors, which may provide a useful aid for improving the performance of bioreactors.