Reseña del libro de Briceño Ruiz, José y Simonoff, Alejandro (2015) Integración y cooperación regional en América Latina: Una relectura a partir de la teoría de la autonomía. Buenos Aires: Biblos

Fil: Zurita, María Delicia. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.

Reseña del libro de Briceño Ruiz, José y Simonoff, Alejandro (2015) Integración y cooperación regional en América Latina: Una relectura a partir de la teoría de la autonomía. Buenos Aires: Biblos

Fil: Zurita, María Delicia. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.

The Cinema of Raul Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies

This book is the first major academic engagement with the idiosyncratic Chilean-born filmmaker Raul Ruiz. It examines his work from the context of Allende's Chile to France and Europe from the 1970s, examining such themes as aesthetics and politics, simulation, multiplicity and theories of the image

Reseña del libro de Briceño Ruiz, José y Simonoff, Alejandro (2015) Integración y cooperación regional en América Latina: Una relectura a partir de la teoría de la autonomía. Buenos Aires: Biblos

Fil: Zurita, María Delicia. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.

Evaluación de las propiedades térmicas de las rocas de la zona noroccidental del Volcán Nevado del Ruiz e impactos ambientales asociados a proyectos geotérmicos

Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo realizar una evaluación preliminar del potencial geo-térmico de la zona norte y noroccidental del Volcán Nevado del Ruiz (VNR), mediante la medición de la conductividad térmica y la capacidad calorífica de muestras de roca, e identificar los principales impactos ambientales asociados al aprovechamiento de los re-cursos geotérmicos en zonas volcánicas. El VNR es un estratovolcán activo, ubicado en el Parque Nacional Natural Los Nevadas, en los límites entre los departamentos de Caldas y Tolima. La explotación de los recursos geotérmicos en esta área podría suplir las necesi-dades energéticas locales, particularmente para la agricultura basada principalmente en el cultivo de café. La conductividad térmica y la capacidad calorífica fueron determinadas en 62 muestras de roca colectadas en la zona norte y noroccidental del VNR durante una salida de campo realizada en noviembre del 2014; la conductividad térmica fue medida utilizando una son-da de aguja, y la capacidad calorífica fue estimada de acuerdo con el tipo de roca. Estos datos, junto con el flujo de calor, se utilizaron para estimar la temperatura a profundidad y posteriormente calcular el potencial geotérmico a lo largo de un perfil geológico inferido trazado en el área del estudio. Los impactos ambientales fueron identificados a partir de una revisión bibliográfica que permitió seleccionar tres centrales geotérmicas en opera-ción ubicadas en zonas volcánicas, similar a la futura central geotérmica planeada en el área del VNR, para las cuales algunos impactos habían sido caracterizados.

Dialogo con Rose Marie Ruiz, ex presidenta ejecutiva del IMA (Costa Rica)

Introducción De larga e intensa trayectoria en la vida académica costarricense, Rose Marie Ruiz ( ex Rectora de la Universidad Nacional, UNA) acaba de finalizar su gestión de dos años como Presidenta Ejecutiva del Instituto Mixto de Ayuda Social (IMAS), A la tarea ahí desarrollada, y a los logros alcanzados, se refiere en esta conversación con Antonieta Camacho y Tomás Saraví, de PERSPECTIVAS RURALES.

Early Modern Trading Networks in Europe. Cooperation and the case of Simon Ruiz.

In the early modern period, trade became a truly global phenomenon. The logistics, financial and organizational complexity associated with it increased in order to connect distant geographies and merchants from different backgrounds. How did these merchants prevent their partners from dishonesty in a time where formal institutions and legislation did not traverse these different worlds? This book studies the mechanisms and criteria of cooperation in early modern trading networks. It uses an interdisciplinary approach, through the case study of a Castilian long-distance merchant of the sixteenth century, Simon Ruiz, who traded within the limits of the Portuguese and Spanish overseas empires. Early Modern Trading Networks in Europe discusses the importance of reciprocity mechanisms, trust and reputation in the context of early modern business relations, using network analysis methodology, combining quantitative data with qualitative information. It considers how cooperation and prevention could simultaneously create a business relationship, and describes the mechanisms of control, policing and punishment used to avoid opportunism and deception among a group of business partners. Using bills of exchange and correspondence from Simon Ruiz’s private archive, it charts the evolution of this business network through time, debating which criteria should be included or excluded from business networks, as well as the emergence of standards. This book intends to put forward a new approach to early modern trade which focuses on individuals interacting in self-organized structures, rather than on states or empires. It shows how indirect reciprocity was much more frequent than direct reciprocity among early modern merchants and how informal norms, like ostracism or signaling, helped to prevent defection and deception in an effective way.

The Evolution of Norms in Trade and Financial Networks in the First Global Age: the case of Simon Ruiz's network

In the 16th century, merchants and bankers gained a social influence and political relevance, due to their capacity of ‘faire travailler l’argent des autres’ (Benassar 1972:50). For the success of their activity, they built evolving networks with cooperative partners. These networks were much more than the sum of all partners. In the case study of the Castilian merchant Simon Ruiz, the network functioned in an unique way and independent from any formal institutional control. Its functioning varied in how different partners were associated and the particular characteristics and contents of these social ties. Being a self-organized network, since the formal institutions of trade regulation and the Crown control didn’t influence the network functioning, the Simon Ruiz network was deeply embedded in the economic and financial performance of the Hispanic Empires, in two different ways. The first, purely commercial. The monopolistic regime which was applied by the two crowns in the trade of certain colonial goods was insufficient to the costs of imperial maintenance. In such manner, particulars tried to rent a contract of exploration of trade, paying an annual sum to the crown, as in the Portuguese trade. Some of these agents also moved along Simon Ruiz’s network. But others were involved in relations with the imperial crowns on a second way, the finance. Maintaining Empires implied a lot of human, technical but also financial means, and most of the times Kings were forced to recur to these merchants, as we will demonstrate. What were the implications of these collaborative relations in both parts? The main goal of this paper is to comprehend the evolution of informal norms within Simon Ruiz’s network and how they influenced cooperative behavior of the agents, particularly analyzing mechanisms of sanctioning, control, punishment and reward, as well as their consequences in different dimensions: future interactions, social repercussions and in agent’s economic health and activity. The research is based in the bills of exchange and commercial correspondence of the private archive of Simon Ruiz, located in the Provincial Archive of Valladollid, Spain.

VICENTE ARAÑA SAAVEDRA - JOSÉ LÓPEZ RUIZ: VULCANISMO, DINAMICA Y PETROLOGIA DE SUS PRODUCTOS

Esta nota corresponde a resumen del libro Vulcanismo, Dinámica y petrología de sus productos de ediciones Istmo, Madrid, España, 1974 de 1481 páginas.

Exploring Iris Colour Prediction And Ancestry Inference In Admixed Populations Of South America.

New DNA-based predictive tests for physical characteristics and inference of ancestry are highly informative tools that are being increasingly used in forensic genetic analysis. Two eye colour prediction models: a Bayesian classifier - Snipper and a multinomial logistic regression (MLR) system for the Irisplex assay, have been described for the analysis of unadmixed European populations. Since multiple SNPs in combination contribute in varying degrees to eye colour predictability in Europeans, it is likely that these predictive tests will perform in different ways amongst admixed populations that have European co-ancestry, compared to unadmixed Europeans. In this study we examined 99 individuals from two admixed South American populations comparing eye colour versus ancestry in order to reveal a direct correlation of light eye colour phenotypes with European co-ancestry in admixed individuals. Additionally, eye colour prediction following six prediction models, using varying numbers of SNPs and based on Snipper and MLR, were applied to the study populations. Furthermore, patterns of eye colour prediction have been inferred for a set of publicly available admixed and globally distributed populations from the HGDP-CEPH panel and 1000 Genomes databases with a special emphasis on admixed American populations similar to those of the study samples.