Joyería Hefestos vida y muerte empresarial : estudios empíricos de perdurabilidad de la morbilidad a la perdurabilidad

Este trabajo de grado es un acercamiento a las lecciones empresariales de perdurabilidad basado en el caso de estudio de Joyería Hefestos. Esta empresa ha sido símbolo de la reproducción de piezas de arte precolombino y artesanías de nuestro país, alcanzando reconocimiento nacional e internacional por su originalidad, diseño y calidad. El objetivo de esta investigación es identificar la ruta de éxito que Joyería Hefestos implementó para salir de la crisis que enfrentó durante la década de los noventa. Por tal motivo, se identificarán las causas de la crisis, evaluando las decisiones que la empresa tomó para sobrevivir y hoy en día permanecer en el mercado de la joyería en Colombia. Este proyecto de investigación trabajó de la mano con el Sr. Javier Parra,gerente general; empleados y académicos que nos permitieron evaluar la situación de la empresa antes, durante y después de la crisis. Mediante diferentes herramientas como entrevistas, encuestas y visitas empresariales se evaluó la pertinencia las decisiones estratégicas que se tomaron en el momento preciso para sortear este periodo de caos y alcanzar solvencia financiera y operativa. El trabajo se estructuró bajo los lineamientos de la línea de Estrategia de la Universidad del Rosario, donde se analizaron las variables de Dirección y Gerencia para explicar las causas y consecuencias antes, durante y después de la crisis de la gestión administrativa. Esto permitirá identificar la ruta del éxito mediante la cual la empresa superó este periodo gracias a la incorporación bajo los estatutos del acuerdo de reestructuración Ley 550/1999 que permitió en gran medida el resurgimiento de la empresa junto con el compromiso fiel y constante del personal de Joyería Hefestos.

Viabilidad para una empresa dedicada a la producción de artesanías decorativas en la ciudad de Pasto. Amelí

Colombia es un país con diversas culturas, muchos de estos rasgos son aun arraigados y se conservan hasta el día de hoy intactos, entre estos se pueden encontrar, comida, vestuario, forma de hablar, herramientas y costumbres en general, una de las más fuertes expresiones culturales son las artesanías y Colombia es un país que tiene un gran potencial en este sector. El sector de las artesanías en Colombia tiene un gran apoyo de parte de diferentes entidades, privadas, mixtas y publicas las que se ocupan de brindar soporte a las empresas del sector con el fin de capacitar a los artesanos colombianos para que así puedan llegar a ofrecer productos que cumplan con las características, requerimientos y estándares requeridos por los clientes nacionales e internacionales. El siguiente documento plasma un estudio con el fin de conocer la viabilidad para crear una empresa dedicada a la producción y comercialización de artesanías decorativas ubicada en la ciudad de Pasto departamento de Nariño, donde existe la mayor cantidad de artesanos en Colombia, valiéndose del ingenio para crear artículos con alto valor agregado con técnicas novedosas plasmadas en los productos finales de la empresa denominada Amelí.

Sobre la identitat dels Matiners a les comarques del N.E. de Catalunya

This study attempts to throw some light on the identity of the Matiners of the regions of north-eastern Catalonia by analizing a notebook which was a register of rebels. This notebook gives the age, geographical origin and profession of the rebels. The War of the matiners (1846-49) was a Catalan rebellion framed within the context of popular opposition to the regime of the moderates, and in the midst of a general crisis. Themen who formed the groups of ((trabucaires)) were particulary young (the problem of recriting must not be forgotten), and came from the country, the crafts, and industry, and were militarized above all in the interior regions

Tagua y plata: expresiones contemporáneas (Zonas de contacto y zonas de macidez) [Notas y Apuntes]

A propósito de esta exposición de joyas y objetos ornamentales confeccionados a base de tagua y plata, el autor realiza un breve recorrido sobre la presencia y significaciones de estos dos materiales en la literatura y el folklore ecuatorianos. Indica que la muestra propone renovadas perspectivas en cuanto a colores, texturas y diseño, en una acertada amalgama de vegetal y mineral. Los diseños de plata recurren, al mismo tiempo, a motivos ancestrales, mágicos, sin olvidarse del impacto visual y táctil que pueden producir. La concepción de estas joyas de creación colectiva trasciende, entonces, los límites de lo folklórico, y las convierte en una propuesta estética novedosa.

Landscape of intelligent cores: An autonomic multi-agent approach for space application

Space applications are challenged by the reliability of parallel computing systems (FPGAs) employed in space crafts due to Single-Event Upsets. The work reported in this paper aims to achieve self-managing systems which are reliable for space applications by applying autonomic computing constructs to parallel computing systems. A novel technique, 'Swarm-Array Computing' inspired by swarm robotics, and built on the foundations of autonomic and parallel computing is proposed as a path to achieve autonomy. The constitution of swarm-array computing comprising for constituents, namely the computing system, the problem / task, the swarm and the landscape is considered. Three approaches that bind these constituents together are proposed. The feasibility of one among the three proposed approaches is validated on the SeSAm multi-agent simulator and landscapes representing the computing space and problem are generated using the MATLAB.

Energetic electron signatures in an active magnetotail plasma sheet

Particles with energies of tens to hundreds of keV provide a powerful diagnostic of the acceleration processes that characterise the Earth’s magnetosphere, in particular the highly dynamic nightside plasma sheet. Such energetic particles can be detected by the RAPID experiment, onboard the quartet of Cluster spacecraft. We present results from the study of a series of quasi-periodic, intense energetic electron signatures in the magnetotail revealed by RAPID Imaging Electron Spectrometer (IES) observations some 19 Earth radii (RE) downtail, associated with the passage of a highly geoeffective, high-speed solar wind stream. The RAPID-IES signatures – interpreted in combination with magnetic field and lower-energy electron measurements from the FGM and PEACE experiments on Cluster, respectively, and with reference to energetic electron observations from the CEPPAD-IES instrument on Polar – are understood in terms of repeated encounters of the Cluster spacecraft with the tail plasma sheet in response to the resultant tail reconfiguration in each of a series of substorms. We consider the Cluster response for two of these substorms (identified according to the conventional expansion phase onset indicators of particle injection at geosynchronous orbit and Pi2 pulsations at Earth) in terms of two possible tail configurations in which a Near-Earth Neutral Line forms either antisunward or sunward of the Cluster spacecraft. The latter scenario, in which the reconnection X-line is assumed to form sunward of Cluster and subsequently migrate downtail such that the spacecraft become engulfed in a tailward expanding plasma sheet, is shown to be more consistent with the observations.

Gulliver, medium, technique

In the four Parts of Gulliver’s Travels the narrator attends closely to the manual skills, crafts and techniques of the different countries visited and to the materials and instruments by which they are mediated. The patterned, motif-like presentation of these observations and their rich contextual background, historical and literary, indicate their special significance. These references to technique play an important, previously underappreciated roll in Gulliver. They form a thematic connection between its embodied, sensual, compulsive descriptions of the world and its socio-political satire, the latter focusing on technocratic, professionalized statecraft. They are crucial to the peculiar fullness with which Swift’s writing imagines different communities of practice, different ecologies of mind.

Piano Performance at the New York Trade School

A piano player is shown performing at the New York Trade School. He is likely playing on a piano tuned or built by students in the Piano Crafts Department at the school. Black and white photograph.

Plumbing Department

Students in the Plumbing Department at the New York Trade School are shown working on bathroom equipment in a plumbing classroom. Black and white photograph with some damage to the edges.

The haystack that got away

The National Library and the National Folk Festival have joined forces to foster a tradition-bearers oral history project aimed at recording the practical skills and knowledge of those engaged in traditional Australian crafts.

"Our fingers were never idle" : women and domestic craft in the Geelong region, 1900-1960

This thesis is an exploration of women's domestic crafts in the Geelong region, between 1900 and I960, Through analysing oral testimony and the women's handicraft artefacts, the nature of the domestic production of handicrafts and the meanings the makers have constructed around their creations and their lives is illuminated. The thesis is organised around the themes of work, space, the construction of femininity, memory, time and meaning. The thesis argues that until recently, the discipline of history has privileged the experiences of men over those of women. It challenges the trivialising of women’s handicrafts. It also argues that within the restrictive social structures around them and within the confined nature of their situations, the women of my study asserted themselves to transform their environments and to improve their situations through labour in the home. In ‘making do’, recycling materials and creating functional and decorative needlework items for their homes and families, the women were often finding solutions to pressing practical and economic problems. Doing handicrafts was rarely just a passive way of filling in time. Rather, making and creating was for these women a multi-layered activity that similtaneously fulfilled a complex range of needs for themselves and their families. A multiplicity of deeply personal, aesthetic, familial, social, practical and economic needs were met in the making of domestic craft artefacts, whose symbolism reflected the values and meanings of the women's cultures, homes and families.

Creative pedagogies : "art-full" reading and writing

This paper reports on a small-scale research inquiry, designed to support teachers in a Melbourne primary school to bring together the arts, reading and writing in their classrooms in ways that create possibilities for "art-full" teaching and learning. The principal, concerned by underperformance on State literacy tests of the school’s largely working-class and NESB population, requested David Hornsby and other members of the project team from the Education Faculty at La Trobe University to offer whole-school professional development. The focus was on developing oral language as a foundation for literacy learning, enacting Britton’s claim that “reading and writing float on a sea of talk”. The project team introduced the teachers to a range of innovative classroom practices for using visual and performance arts, literature, music and crafts. Drawing on video, interviews and writing samples, a number of teachers worked collaboratively with the research team to develop case studies of individual students with a range of literacy aptitudes and social skills. A key research question was: "What do children take from their engagement in arts-based activities into reading of literary texts, and potentially into writing from the perspective of another character?" In this paper we ponder this from three vantage points: by outlining the informing principles in our research project; confirming insights from current interdisciplinary work about children learning to see, do, act and say in play; and analysing the research data from the initial phase.

Using GIS Network Analyst to Identify Suppliers for a Produce Co-op in Waterville, ME

The idea for organizing a cooperative market on Waterville Main Street was proposed by Aime Schwartz in the fall of 2008. The Co-op would entail an open market located on Main Street to provide fresh, local produce and crafts to town locals. Through shorter delivery distances and agreements with local farmers, the co-op theoretically will offer consumers lower prices on produce than can be found in conventional grocery stores, as well as an opportunity to support local agriculture. One of the tasks involved with organizing the Co-op is to source all of the produce from among the hundreds of farmers located in Maine. The purpose of this project is to show how Geographic Information System (GIS) tools can be used to help the Co-op and other businesses a) site nearby farms that carry desired produce and products, and b) determine which farms are closest to the business site. Using GIS for this purpose will make it easier and more efficient to source produce suppliers, and reduce the workload on business planners. GIS Network Analyst is a tool that provides network-based spatial analysis, and can be used in conjunction with traditional GIS technologies to determine not only the geometric distance between points, but also distance over existing networks (like roads). We used Network Analyst to find the closest produce suppliers to the Co-op for specific produce items, and compute how far they are over existing roads. This will enable business planners to source potential suppliers by distance before contacting individual farmers, allowing for more efficient use of their time and a faster planning process.

Building a Piano

Four students in the Piano Crafts Department at the New York Trade School are shown working on building a piano. Notice the aprons worn by the students are embroidered with the department name. Black and white photograph.