Financial and Economic Report of a Specific Business Group

As a result of the natural evolution of the economy, ever-changing, unpredictable and cyclical, companies must adapt as far as possible to the changes that have taken place in order to continue with their normal operating activities. Likewise, they should also try to maintain a structure for long-term growth, trying at all times to generate the maximum value. The main objective of this project is to provide financial advisory services to a business group, trying to forward solutions and measures that according to the author can be effective. For this end, the situation of the group in question is analysed from early 2008 to the present day, examining its evolution, what steps have been taken together with their corresponding results and the economic-financial situation of the company at the end of last year. Contact with the company was kept throughout the process of analysis and assessment trying to take advantage of the feedback generated so that the appropriate measures can be adopted if the management considers it to be adequate.

Group delay dispersion measurement of Yb : Gd2SiO5, Yb : GdYSiO5 and Yb : LuYSiO5 crystal with white-light interferometry

We report the measured group delay dispersion (GDD) of new crystals Yb:Gd2SiO5 (Yb:GSO), Yb:GdYSiO5 (Yb:GYSO) and Yb:LuYSiO5 (Yb:LYSO) over wavelengths from 1000nm to 1200nm, with a white-light interferometer. Those GDD data should be useful for the dispersion compensation for femtosecond pulse generation in the lasers with these new crystals as the gain media. (C) 2007 Optical Society of America

Análisis de las estrategias del sector de la máquina-herramienta y de la empresa Danobat Group

Analisis del sector de maquina herramienta y sus principales estrategias y analisis de una empresa importante del sector (DANOBAT GROUP).

Nuevo estilo de relaciones (ner). Análisis de las percepciones de los rasgos culturales del ner en las organizaciones de ner group

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Psicólogos evangélicos: interseção entre religiosidade e atuação profissional em Psicologia no Brasil

Nas últimas décadas, observa-se no campo evangélico no Brasil um maciço investimento na Psicologia, o qual se manifesta tanto no interesse pela Psicologia enquanto profissão leiga, quanto na utilização do conhecimento psicológico em atividades eclesiásticas. Outro fato especialmente verificado entre os fieis evangélicos é a demanda por realizar psicoterapia com um profissional que também seja da mesma fé. A partir da década de 1990, o investimento evangélico na Psicologia cresceu de forma visível e suscitou diversos confrontos entre psicólogos evangélicos e os órgãos de regulação profissional, principalmente o Conselho Federal de Psicologia, em torno da articulação entre a fé evangélica e a atuação profissional em Psicologia, especialmente em psicoterapia. Os evangélicos são o segmento religioso que mais cresce no Brasil nas últimas décadas, apresentando uma expansão não apenas quantitativa, mas notadamente em termos de seu destaque no cenário social brasileiro. As articulações entre Religião e Ciência são fortemente observadas na História da Psicologia no Brasil desde o período colonial, onde houve importante circulação de escritos católicos com temáticas psicológicas ("psicologia da alma"), até meados do século XX, com a introdução da psicologia em seminários católicos para auxiliar a formação dos padres. Não obstante a grande importância da temática religiosa nos processos psicossociais, percebe-se no campo da psicologia uma lacuna no tocante a estudos sobre as religiões (especialmente, em uma perspectiva histórico-social). Neste sentido, impõe-se a necessidade de reflexão sobre os sentidos da apropriação do discurso psicológico efetuada pelos evangélicos. Nossa investigação empírica teve duas etapas: a) foi aplicado um questionário eletrônico em 104 psicólogos pertencentes à religião evangélica, com o objetivo de levantar informações sobre a formação e prática profissional destes psicólogos, além de sua perspectiva pessoal acerca da relação entre sua crença religiosa e atuação profissional; b) foram selecionados 5 participantes do questionário para a realização de entrevistas, visando aprofundar a investigação de determinados temas, que emergiram da análise do questionário. Nossos resultados apontam em geral para uma multiplicidade de discursos sobre a influência da fé evangélica na atuação profissional. Entre os que relatam a total influência da religiosidade e os que afirmam uma neutralidade estrita, há um espectro com diversas posições ambivalentes que, em geral, apontam uma indissociabilidade entre a visão de mundo influenciada pela religião e a prática profissional, ao mesmo tempo em que assinalam a necessidade ética de suspensão do juízo, a fim de que a religiosidade do terapeuta não se interponha para o cliente. Tais resultados apontam a existência de um núcleo comum entre os sistemas discursivos da Psicologia e da religião evangélica que gera neste segmento religioso o interesse pela apropriação do conhecimento e prática psicológicos. A análise destas inter-relações é fundamental para os debates éticos atualmente em curso na categoria dos psicólogos acerca da interseção entre religião e atuação profissional.

Environmental monitoring review group feedback

The Drought Monitoring workshop of October 1996, held at the Jarvis Leyland Hotel in Preston, England, established 4 priority issues for dealing with the question: How do we monitor the environment to pick up unexpected change ? 1. Review existing data, and review related study areas throughout the country. 2. Modelling and analysis of data 3. Monitoring / new data / sentinel species' 4. Public relations / Promotion. A group was set up to review issue 1 and feedback to the main group. This report establishes this feedback to the group and refers to existing data / monitoring, other Regional and national work, external Organisations and Recommendations. Appendix 1, is a summary of work completed at the workshop.

NMFS / Interagency Working Group Evaluation of CITES Criteria and Guidelines.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: At present, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) criteria used to assess whether a population qualifies for inclusion in the CITES Appendices relate to (A) size of the population, (B) area of distribution of the population, and (C) declines in the size of the population. Numeric guidelines are provided as indicators of a small population (less than 5,000 individuals), a small subpopulation (less than 500 individuals), a restricted area of distribution for a population (less than 10,000 km2), a restricted area of distribution for a subpopula-tion (less than 500 km2), a high rate of decline (a decrease of 50% or more in total within 5 years or two generations whichever is longer or, for a small wild population, a decline of 20% or more in total within ten years or three generations whichever is longer), large fluctuations (population size or area of distribution varies widely, rapidly and frequently, with a variation greater than one order of magnitude), and a short-term fluctuation (one of two years or less). The Working Group discussed several broad issues of relevance to the CITES criteria and guidelines. These included the importance of the historical extent of decline versus the recent rate of decline; the utility and validity of incorporating relative population productivity into decline criteria; the utility of absolute numbers for defining small populations or small areas; the appropriateness of generation times as time frames for examining declines; the importance of the magnitude and frequency of fluctuations as factors affecting risk of extinction; and the overall utility of numeric thresh-olds or guidelines.

Beluga, Delphinapterus leucas, Group Sizes in Cook Inlet, Alaska, Based on Observer Counts and Aerial Video

Belugas, Delphinapterus leucas, groups were videotaped concurrent to observer counts during annual NMFS aerial surveys of Cook Inlet, Alaska, from 1994 to 2000. The videotapes provided permanent records of whale groups that could be examined and compared to group size estimates ade by aerial observers.Examination of the video recordings resulted in 275 counts of 79 whale groups. The McLaren formula was used to account for whales missed while they were underwater (average correction factor 2.03; SD=0.64). A correction for whales missed due to video resolution was developed by using a second, paired video camera that magnified images relative to the standard video. This analysis showed that some whales were missed either because their image size fell below the resolution of hte standard video recording or because two whales surfaced so close to each other that their images appeared to be one large whale. The correction method that resulted depended on knowing the average whale image size in the videotapes. Image sizes were measured for 2,775 whales from 275 different passes over whale groups. Corrected group sizes were calcualted as the product of the original count from video, the correction factor for whales missed underwater, and the correction factor for whales missed due to video resolution (averaged 1.17; SD=0.06). A regression formula was developed to estimate group sizes from aerial observer counts; independent variables were the aerial counts and an interaction term relative to encounter rate (whales per second during the counting of a group), which were regressed against the respective group sizes as calculated from the videotapes. Significant effects of encounter rate, either positive or negative, were found for several observers. This formula was used to estimate group size when video was not available. The estimated group sizes were used in the annual abundance estimates.