An Architecture to offer Cloud-Based Radio Access Network as a Service

This paper addresses the novel notion of offering a radio access network as a service. Its components may be instantiated on general purpose platforms with pooled resources (both radio and hardware ones) dimensioned on-demand, elastically and following the pay-per-use principle. A novel architecture is proposed that supports this concept. The architecture's success is in its modularity, well-defined functional elements and clean separation between operational and control functions. By moving much processing traditionally located in hardware for computation in the cloud, it allows the optimisation of hardware utilization and reduction of deployment and operation costs. It enables operators to upgrade their network as well as quickly deploy and adapt resources to demand. Also, new players may easily enter the market, permitting a virtual network operator to provide connectivity to its users.

Germania: l’indomabile trading state

Basato su interviste con i principali attori tedeschi e su un’analisi della letteratura, l’articolo analizza lo sviluppo recente dell’economia tedesca e la strategia tedesca nell’affrontare la crisi dell’eurozona. La Germania è uno stato commerciale (trading state), la cui crescita è fortemente trainata dalle esportazioni. Fino agli anni novanta, rigidità istituzionali forti, nel sistema di relazioni industriali e nel sistema di protezione sociale, contribuivano a conciliare lo sviluppo delle esportazioni con una crescita armonica dei consumi interni, contribuendo cosi a ingabbiare la «tigre» tedesca. A partire dagli anni novanta, sia le relazioni industriali sia la protezione sociale sono state fortemente liberalizzate, stimolando ulteriormente la competitività estera e indebolendo i consumi interni. Il modello economico tedesco, cosi come è venuto profilandosi negli ultimi dieci anni, è alla base delle politiche di austerità che la Germania impone all’Europa. Tali politiche sono fortemente condivise dai partiti politici, dagli attori sociali e dall’opinione pubblica, e le probabilità che la strategia tedesca cambi sono minime.

The Crisis and Germany: The Trading State Unleashed

Based on interviews with the main German actors and on secondary sources, the article examines the recent development of the German political economy, and the German strategy vis-à-vis the Euro zone. Germany is a trading state whose economic growth is strongly export-led. Until the years 1990s, strong institutional rigidities, both in industrial relations and in the welfare state, contributed to reconcile export growth with household consumption, thus keeping the German “tiger” on a leash. From the early 1990s on, however, both industrial relations and social protections have been strongly liberalized, thus further stimulating external competitiveness and reducing the role of consumption in the German growth model. The unleashed trading state shapes the German response to the Euro crisis and the austerity policies that Germany imposes to Europe. These policies are strongly supported by political parties, social actors, and public opinion in Germany, and the likelihood that they change in the near future is minimal.

STXBP1 encephalopathy: A neurodevelopmental disorder including epilepsy

OBJECTIVE To give a comprehensive overview of the phenotypic and genetic spectrum of STXBP1 encephalopathy (STXBP1-E) by systematically reviewing newly diagnosed and previously reported patients. METHODS We recruited newly diagnosed patients with STXBP1 mutations through an international network of clinicians and geneticists. Furthermore, we performed a systematic literature search to review the phenotypes of all previously reported patients. RESULTS We describe the phenotypic features of 147 patients with STXBP1-E including 45 previously unreported patients with 33 novel STXBP1 mutations. All patients have intellectual disability (ID), which is mostly severe to profound (88%). Ninety-five percent of patients have epilepsy. While one-third of patients presented with Ohtahara syndrome (21%) or West syndrome (9.5%), the majority has a nonsyndromic early-onset epilepsy and encephalopathy (53%) with epileptic spasms or tonic seizures as main seizure type. We found no correlation between severity of seizures and severity of ID or between mutation type and seizure characteristics or cognitive outcome. Neurologic comorbidities including autistic features and movement disorders are frequent. We also report 2 previously unreported adult patients with prominent extrapyramidal features. CONCLUSION De novo STXBP1 mutations are among the most frequent causes of epilepsy and encephalopathy. Most patients have severe to profound ID with little correlation among seizure onset, seizure severity, and the degree of ID. Accordingly, we hypothesize that seizure severity and ID present 2 independent dimensions of the STXBP1-E phenotype. STXBP1-E may be conceptualized as a complex neurodevelopmental disorder rather than a primary epileptic encephalopathy.

Oral-facial-digital syndrome type VI: is C5orf42 really the major gene?

Oral-facial-digital type VI syndrome (OFDVI) is a rare phenotype of Joubert syndrome (JS). Recently, C5orf42 was suggested as the major OFDVI gene, being mutated in 9 of 11 families (82 %). We sequenced C5orf42 in 313 JS probands and identified mutations in 28 (8.9 %), most with a phenotype of pure JS. Only 2 out of 17 OFDVI patients (11.7 %) were mutated. A comparison of mutated vs. non-mutated OFDVI patients showed that preaxial and mesoaxial polydactyly, hypothalamic hamartoma and other congenital defects may predict C5orf42 mutations, while tongue hamartomas are more common in negative patients.

Na 1 Nachlass Max Horkheimer, 42 - Korrespondenzen u.a. mit Kurt Pinthus (p. I 21, 1-130)

1 Brief von Max Horkheimer an Pierre van Paassen, 31.01.1944; 1 Brief von Max Horkheimer an Frederick M. Padelford, 25.03.1941; 1 Exposé und Beilage von Karl O. Paetel sowie sowie Briefwechsel mit Karl A. Wittfogel; 2 Briefe zwischen Karl A. Wittfogel und Margot von Mendelssohn, 01.06.1941, 04.06.1941; 2 Briefe von Max Horkheimer an D. D. Paige, August 1944; 2 Briefe zwischen Maria Pape und Max Horkheimer, 23.07.1949, 29.07.1949; 1 Brief von Fritz Pappenheim an Max Horkheimer, 11.03.1939; 2 Briefe zwischen Claire Patek-Hohenadl und Max Horkheimer, 18.02.1945, 02.03.1945; 4 Briefe zwischen Wilhelm Pauck und Max Horkheimer, 1938; 2 Briefe von Max Horkheimer an Thomas Peardon, September 1941; 2 Briefe zwischen Christine Peck und Max Horkheimer, 01.02.1944, 16.02.1944; 2 Briefe zwischen Alexander H. Pekelis und Max Horkheimer, 20.10.1941, 29.10.1941; 4 Briefe zwischen Pendle Hill Wallingford und Max Horkheimer, 21.05.1940, 1940; 1 Einladung von The People Lobby an Max Horkheimer, April 1937; 1 Brief von Franz L. Neumann an Selig Perlman, 08.10.1941; 2 Briefe zwischen Florence Pfleger und Max Horkheimer, 30.10.1944, 06.11.1944; 2 Briefe zwischen The Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York und Max Horkheimer, 11.06.1936, 22.06.1936; 2 Briefe zwischen Philosophical Library New York und Max Horkheimer, 09.09.1941; 2 Briefe von Max Horkheimer an Donald A. Piatt, Oktober 1940; 1 Brief von Max Horkheimer an Alfred Pinkus, 27.08.1942; 20 Briefe und Beilage zwischen Kurt Pinthus und Max Horkheimer, 1940-1942; 1 Brief von Friedrich Pollock an das American Consul General Berlin, 20.05.1941; 1 Brief von Friedrich Pollock an den National Refugee Service New York, 30.04.1941; 4 Briefe zwischen The Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars, New York und Friedrich Pollock, 27.09.1940-1941; 1 Brief von Max Horkheimer an John Simon Guggeheim von der Memorial Foundation, 08.11.1940; 3 Brief zwischen Robert Plank und Max Horkheimer, 12.07.1944, 1944; 4 Briefe und 1 Beilage zwischen Richard S. Plant und Max Horkheimer, Januar 1939; 2 Briefe zwischen Caroline S. Platt und Max Horkheimer, 06.05.1942, 08.05.1942; 1 Brief und 2 Beilagen vom Pledge for Peace Committee New York an Max Horkheimer, 10.04.1944; 1 Brief vom Popular Publications, Inc. New York an Mein, 23.10.1939; 2 Briefe von Else Heim an die Popular Publikations, Inc. New York, 1939; 1 Brief und 1 Beilage von Frederick Pollock an Leonard Powers, 03.06.1941; 2 Briefe zwischen S. Pressburger udn Max Horkheimer, 18.06.1939, 05.07.1939; 2 Briefe zwsichen dem Preston Hotel, Swampscott und Max Horkheimer, 28.04.1937, 08.05.1937; 1 Brief von Lucio José F. Weil an das Preston Hotel, Swampscott, 25.06.1936; 5 Briefe zwischen F. V. Preve und Max Horkheimer, 1937; 4 Briefe zwischen Rena Proulx und Max Horkheimer, 1934, 1937; 2 Briefe zwischen dem Psychatry Journal of the Biology and the Pathology of Interpersonal Relations Washington und Max Horkheimer, 21.08.1939, 11.09.1939;

El modelo 1 a 1 en las Escuelas Secundarias. Un estudio a partir de la experiencia de las provincias de Entre Ríos, Formosa y Misiones. 16H362

En el Marco del Convenio de Cooperación, N° 375/12, suscripto entre la Universidad Nacional de Misiones, el Ministerio de Educación de la Nación y la Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos (OEI), el presente proyecto pretende conocer y analizar los cambios y/o continuidades que se estarían produciendo en las aulas, instituciones, sujetos y comunidades de las provincias de Entre Ríos, Formosa y Misiones, a partir de la implementación del Programa Conectar Igualdad. Programa que resulta ser uno de los principales pilares y referentes significativos de un nuevo perfil de política educativa, por parte de un estado nacional que asume su centralidad y responsabilidad como garante del derecho a la educación y la inclusión social, educativa y digital. Cuyo fin, en última instancia, es la revalorización de la escuela pública, a partir de la promoción de la inclusión digital y el mejoramiento de la calidad de la educación, garantizando el acceso y uso de las TIC’s en los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje.

Una profesión insólita y lucrativa : la captatio testamenti

El presente trabajo se propone: 1. Determinar las distintas formas de testar que adoptó el derecho romano, a lo largo de su evolución histórica. 2. Caracterizar la captatio testamenti, una profesión insólita y lucrativa cuya existencia se constata ya en la Roma republicana, a través del testimonio de Plauto en el Miles gloriosus y que se difundió notablemente durante los primeros siglos del Imperio, en los que se convirtió en un medio de progreso social. 3. Analizar esta actividad desde diferentes perspectivas de acuerdo con los tipos humanos que participan en ella: los captatores testamentorum o heredipetae y los testatores. El corpus trabajado abarca a Plauto (Miles gloriosus), Horacio (Sátira 2,5), Séneca (De beneficiis y Epist. 95), Marcial (Epigramas), Petronio (Satiricón), Juvenal (Sátira 12), Plinio el Viejo (Hist. Natural), Plinio el Joven (Epist. 2, 20).

Por qué escribí La pasión de los nómades (1994) : un libro y muchos viajes

Se trata de una reflexión solicitada a la autora sobre su novela La pasión de los nómades (1994), que propone el retorno del Lucio V. Mansilla de Una excursión a los indios ranqueles (1879) a la Argentina de la década del '90 en el siglo XX. Novela de cruces (de géneros sexuales y ontológicos, de géneros literarios, de lenguas y culturas, de textos y discursos, del mito y la parodia ), Supone también un cruce de viajeros y merodeadores incansables: sobrenaturales peregrinos del mundo celta (Merlín y Rosaura), vulgares y menesterosos inmigrantes, fantasmas de cristianos y de ranqueles. La novela, cuya génesis se cuenta en estas páginas supuso también un viaje geográfico real sobre el que la autora se detiene especialmente.