Caracterización y diagnóstico de calidad tejeduría en guanga Inga y Camëntsá departamento del Putumayo.

49 hojas : ilustraciones : fotografías.

Informe Final de actividades relacionadas en el plan de trabajo del contrato interinstitucional suscrito entre Artesanías de Colombia S. A. y la Alcaldía de Palmira, Valle del Cauca.

40 hojas : ilustraciones fotografías.

Bisutería de manillas tejidas y collares elaborados con ensarte de materiales vegetales : proyecto de indígenas desplazados a Bogotá, Bogotá, 2003.

17 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías a color.

The ways in which new public management ideas impact upon the administrative culture of 'street-level' bureaucrats and professionals working within Irish social policy

The conventional meaning of culture is ‘widely shared and strongly held values’ of a particular group or society (Bradley and Parker, 2006: 89). Culture is not a rigid concept; it can be influenced or altered by new ideas or forces. This research examines the ways in which one set of ideas in particular, that is, those associated with New Public Management, have impacted upon the administrative culture of 'street-level' bureaucrats and professionals within Irish social policy. Lipsky (1980: 3) defined 'street-level' bureaucrats as ‘public service workers who interact directly with citizens in the course of their jobs, and who have substantial discretion in the execution of their work’. Utilising the Competing Values Framework (CVF) in the analysis of eighty three semi-structured interviews with 'street-level' bureaucrats and professionals, an evaluation is made as to the impact of NPM ideas on both visible and invisible aspects of administrative culture. Overall, the influence of NPM is confined to superficial aspects of administrative culture such as; increased flexibility in working hours and to some degree job contracts; increased time commitment; and a customer service focus. However, the extent of these changes varies depending on policy sector and occupational group. Aspects of consensual and hierarchical cultures remain firmly in place. These coincide with features of developmental and market cultures. Contrary to the view that members of hierarchical and consensual culture would pose resistance to change, this research clearly illustrates that a very large appetite for change exists in the attitudes of 'street-level' bureaucrats and professionals within Irish social policy, with many of them suggesting changes that correspond to NPM ideas. This study demonstrates the relevance of employing the CVF model as it is clear that administrative culture is very much a dynamic system of competing and co-existing cultures.

Living with acquired brain injury

This study found that natural community supports were comprised of two distinct groupings; firstly immediate families, friends and peer support groups; secondly neighbours and local community groups such as sporting and activity- based organisations and groups. The findings of this study indicate that living with acquired brain injury involves a process where the person moves from acute high intensity health services onto rehabilitative services and then onto re-establishing independent lives. It is evident that smooth transitions and interconnectivity of services are essential in facilitating this recovery process. Instrumental to the recovery is the support of immediate family and close friends, who form people’s immediate natural support network and go a long way towards facilitating individuals in rebuilding their lives. A key finding of this study is that broader natural community supports do not appear to play as central a role in supporting individuals to live independent lives when compared to the role of family and friends. The lack of involvement of broader community groups, in many ways, prompted individuals to contact formal support services. For the majority of participants, independence is facilitated through the combination of immediate natural community supports and formal services. The role of formal support services is key to developing broader community support networks. This study found a blurred division between formal services and broader community support networks. The authors recommended that the role of formal supports services in acting as a bridge between the needs of the individual and the development of meaningful community networks, be formally recognised and further developed. Additionally, they argued that the importance of the role of broader natural community, supports such as those provided by community and sporting groups must be enhanced. Greater awareness of the issues faced by people living with acquired brain injury and its often invisible nature is necessary in this endeavour. The authors stated it is important to recognise that there are multiple issues impacting on independent living and these issues intersect, for instance with age, gender, employment, qualifications and so on. A lack of public awareness of acquired brain injury was found to be a key barrier to independent living, along with issues relating to socialising, access to employment and finances. The findings of this study reflect the complexities of living with acquired brain injury and the need for holistic support that is cognisant of the factors which impact on integration. It is vital that flexible, personalised services are developed which are fit for purpose and meet the needs of not only people with acquired brain injury but also their immediate natural community support network. Recognition of the intersection between immediate/ broader natural community supports and formal services is also key to developing the comprehensive and practical supports required to achieve an independent life. This was a qualitative study and all participants were sourced through Headway, a community based service provider for people with ABI. Data collection was divided into two stages: firstly focus groups, followed by individual interviews. Four focus groups were convened in Cork (2), Dublin (1) and Limerick (1). Each focus group was facilitated by at least two members of the research team and a total of twenty-six individuals participated in the focus groups. Thematic analysis of the data was undertaken to guide and inform the second stage of the study; the individual interviews. Ten interviews were undertaken with individuals who presented with ABI in the Cork and Limerick regions.

Exploring an agent as an economic insider threat solution

The insider threat is a security problem that is well-known and has a long history, yet it still remains an invisible enemy. Insiders know the security processes and have accesses that allow them to easily cover their tracks. In recent years the idea of monitoring separately for these threats has come into its own. However, the tools currently in use have disadvantages and one of the most effective techniques of human review is costly. This paper explores the development of an intelligent agent that uses already in-place computing material for inference as an inexpensive monitoring tool for insider threats. Design Science Research (DSR) is a methodology used to explore and develop an IT artifact, such as for this intelligent agent research. This methodology allows for a structure that can guide a deep search method for problems that may not be possible to solve or could add to a phenomenological instantiation.

Within the carnal: re-reading Merleau-Ponty through the language of drawing

In order to present visual art as a paradigm for philosophy, Merleau-Ponty investigated the creative processes of artists whose work corresponded closely with his philosophical ideas. His essays on art are widely valued for emphasising process over product, and for challenging the primacy of the written word in all spheres of human expression. While it is clear that he initially favoured painting, Merleau-Ponty began to develop a much deeper understanding of the complexities of how art is made in his late work in parallel with his advancement of a new ontology. Although his ontology remains unfinished and only exists as working notes and a manuscript entitled The Visible and Invisible, Merleau-Ponty had begun to appreciate the fundamental role drawing plays in the making of art and the creation of a language of expression that is as vital as the written or spoken word. Through an examination of Merleau-Ponty’s unfinished manuscript and working notes my thesis will investigate his working methods and use of materials and also explore how he processed his ideas by using my own art practice as the basis of my research. This research will take the form of an inquiry into how the unfinished and incomplete nature of text and artworks, while they are still ‘works in progress’, can often reveal the more human and carnal components of creative processes. Applying my experience as a practitioner and a teacher in an art school, I focus on the significance of drawing practice for Merleau-Ponty’s later work, in order to rebalance an overemphasis on painting in the literature. Understanding the differences between these two art forms, and how they are taught, can offer an alternative engagement with Merleau-Ponty’s later work and his struggle to find a language to express his developing new ontology. In addition, by re-reading his work through the language of drawing, I believe we gain new insights which reaffirm Merleau-Ponty's relevance to contemporary art making and aesthetics.

Broadband electromagnetic cloaking with smart metamaterials.

The ability to render objects invisible with a cloak that fits all objects and sizes is a long-standing goal for optical devices. Invisibility devices demonstrated so far typically comprise a rigid structure wrapped around an object to which it is fitted. Here we demonstrate smart metamaterial cloaking, wherein the metamaterial device not only transforms electromagnetic fields to make an object invisible, but also acquires its properties automatically from its own elastic deformation. The demonstrated device is a ground-plane microwave cloak composed of an elastic metamaterial with a broad operational band (10-12 GHz) and nearly lossless electromagnetic properties. The metamaterial is uniform, or perfectly periodic, in its undeformed state and acquires the necessary gradient-index profile, mimicking a quasi-conformal transformation, naturally from a boundary load. This easy-to-fabricate hybrid elasto-electromagnetic metamaterial opens the door to implementations of a variety of transformation optics devices based on quasi-conformal maps.

Low-loss directional cloaks without superluminal velocity or magnetic response.

The possibility of making an optically large (many wavelengths in diameter) object appear invisible has been a subject of many recent studies. Exact invisibility scenarios for large (relative to the wavelength) objects involve (meta)materials with superluminal phase velocity [refractive index (RI) less than unity] and/or magnetic response. We introduce a new approximation applicable to certain device geometries in the eikonal limit: piecewise-uniform scaling of the RI. This transformation preserves the ray trajectories but leads to a uniform phase delay. We show how to take advantage of phase delays to achieve a limited (directional and wavelength-dependent) form of invisibility that does not require loss-ridden (meta)materials with superluminal phase velocities.

Three-dimensional broadband omnidirectional acoustic ground cloak.

The control of sound propagation and reflection has always been the goal of engineers involved in the design of acoustic systems. A recent design approach based on coordinate transformations, which is applicable to many physical systems, together with the development of a new class of engineered materials called metamaterials, has opened the road to the unconstrained control of sound. However, the ideal material parameters prescribed by this methodology are complex and challenging to obtain experimentally, even using metamaterial design approaches. Not surprisingly, experimental demonstration of devices obtained using transformation acoustics is difficult, and has been implemented only in two-dimensional configurations. Here, we demonstrate the design and experimental characterization of an almost perfect three-dimensional, broadband, and, most importantly, omnidirectional acoustic device that renders a region of space three wavelengths in diameter invisible to sound.

Due to her tender age: Black girls and childhood on trial in South Carolina, 1885-1920

Drawing on local criminal court records in western and central South Carolina, this dissertation follows the legal experiences of black girls in South Carolina courts between 1885 and 1920, a time span that includes the aftermath of Reconstruction and the foundational years of Jim Crow. While scholars continue to debate the degree to which black children were included in evolving conversations about childhood and child protection, this dissertation argues that black girls were critical to turn-of-the century debates about all children's roles in society. Far from invisible in the courts and jails of their time, black girls found themselves in the crosshairs of varying forms of power --including intraracial community surveillance, burgeoning local government, Progressive reform initiatives and military policy -- particularly when it came to matters of sexuality and reproduction. Their presence in South Carolina courts established boundaries between early childhood, adolescence and womanhood and pushed legal stakeholders to consider the legal implication of age, race, and gender in criminal proceedings. Age had a complicated effect on black girls' legal encounters; very young black girls were often able to claim youth and escape harsher punishments, while courts often used judicial discretion to levy heavier sentences to adolescents and violent girl offenders. While courts helped to separate early childhood from the middle years, they also provided a space for African-American children and family to engage a legal system that was moving rapidly toward disenfranchising blacks.

Bridging the Divide Between the Soloist and the Ensemble Player

In conservatories and music schools, the general practice for an aspiring pianist is to focus on solo performance learning mainly solo repertoire. With the advent of the advanced degree in collaborative piano, pianists could submerge themselves in the study of duo sonatas, larger chamber music ensembles, and art song. The appearance of this degree was an important step in the development of pianists, as this kind of work requires specific training and focus to master the vast repertoire involved. However it also more clearly brought out the invisible divide separating the solo pianist from the collaborative pianist, a.k.a. the accompanist. While geniuses such as Bach, Beethoven and Brahms were known to compose and perform all types of music, the appearance of super stars such as Liszt and Paganini helped bring into being the term accompanist and since then music world has tacitly embraced this divide. The goal of my dissertational study is to show that this divide need not exist. The three recitals which comprise this dissertational project were all performed at the University of Maryland, the first on 12 November 2010 at Gildenhom Recital Hall, the second at Ulrich Recital Hall on 10 September 2011, and the third at Gildenhorn Recital Hall on 11 November 2011. The repertoire included Rachmaninoff Prelude in g# minor op. 32 no. 12 and Etude-Tableaux in Eb minor op. 29 no. 5, Brahms Sonata for Piano and Violin in d minor op. 108, Mendelssohn Piano Trio in d minor op. 49, Chopin Sonata No.2 in Bb minor, Franck Sonata for Piano and Violin, Prokofiev Piano Concerto no. 2 in g minor op. 16 with pianist Elizabeth Brown as orchestra, Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Violin in A op 47 (Kreutzer), and Paul Schoenfield Cafe Music. All works with violin and cello were performed with violinist Rebecca Racusin, and cellist Devree Lewis. The recitals were recorded on compact discs and are archived within the Digital Repository at the University of Maryland(DRUM).

Competitividad del sistema agroindustrial de café peruano, en el período 1961-2011

El cultivo de café explica el 10,2 por ciento de la superficie de Perú y es el principal cultivo agrícola. Es un importante generador de mano de obra y sustento de más de 150.000 familias de pequeños agricultores. El consumo interno es muy bajo (menor a 0,5 Kg por habitante) y su principal destino es la exportación, la cual ha crecido significativamente en los últimos años, mostrando una tasa de crecimiento muy por encima de la media mundial. El crecimiento de la producción y exportación de este cultivo en Perú, en medio de una actividad donde coexiste con fuertes competidores mundiales lleva a preguntar: ¿Tiene competitividad dinámica el Sistema Agroindustrial de Café peruano, entre el periodo 1961-2011? y en caso de tenerlas ¿Sobre qué factores se fundamentan sus ventajas competitivas dinámicas?. En base a esto, el objetivo de la investigación consistió en determinar la competitividad dinámica del SAG de café de Perú en los últimos 50 años y especificar los principales factores físicos, económicos e institucionales que la sustentan. Para el logro del objetivo se utilizó una combinación de metodologías descriptivas, cualitativas (diamante de Porter y matriz FODA) y cuantitativa mediante el Índice de Ventajas Comparativas Reveladas y el modelo econométrico. La competitividad del sistema agroindustrial del café en Perú, entre los años 1961-2011, registra un comportamiento creciente, que se expresa a través de una tendencia con pendiente positiva. El análisis cualitativo de la competitividad de la producción y comercialización de café en Perú, utilizando la metodología de Porter sobre La Ventaja Competitiva de las Naciones (1991), permitió identificar qué las ventajas competitivas del SAG de café, principalmente se basan en los factores básicos a través de las condiciones físicas, y al factor trabajo. Se observa una baja dinámica en Investigación y Desarrollo (ID). Por otra parte se destaca como variable importante, por su incidencia institucional la relevancia de la política comercial de Perú basada en la apertura externa. A través de la matriz FODA, se estableció la posición del SAG café en el cuadrante oportunidades/fortalezas. Se definió un modelo econométrico de series de tiempo, cuyos estadísticos fueron significativos. La variable dependiente, como proxy de la competitividad, se consideró el IVCR, y las variables explicativas fueron el índice de evolución de la mano de obra, el índice rendimiento por hectárea y una variable dummy que representa el cambio institucional. Se puede concluir que Perú tiene ventajas competitivas dinámicas para la producción y comercialización de café, debido al comportamiento de las VCR, que se basan, principalmente, en factores básicos y en políticas gubernamentales adecuadas, que permiten la estabilidad e inserción internacional a partir de los años noventa, pero requieren de un mayor impulso en investigación y desarrollo para que sus ventajas sean más sustentables.

Incidencia de la participación en el empoderamiento personal y familiar, el poder de agencia y la autogestión comunitaria de un grupo emprendedor liderado por mujeres

En estos últimos tiempos, en los que la desocupación se ha instalado en nuestra sociedad, muchas mujeres han decidido encarar un emprendimiento para generar, aportar y/ o aumentar los ingresos hogareños, motivadas por diversos motivos pero, especialmente, por la falta de trabajo. En esta ocasión realizamos un estudio de caso de un grupo liderado por mujeres que se dedicó a la producción de alimentos en Tandil. Este trabajo se propone analizar la incidencia de la participación de estas mujeres en dicho emprendimiento en el empoderamiento personal y familiar, el poder de agencia y la autogestión comunitaria. La metodología utilizada se basó en entrevistas semi estructuradas y en profundidad a las mujeres integrantes del grupo y a profesionales técnicos que trabajan con el grupo, como también en recolección de información secundaria.

Impacto de la inversión tecnológica y de la demanda externa sobre la producción y competitividad de la uva en el Perú : período 1961-2011

Las mejoras en la tecnología, se logran a partir de la innovación tecnológica, aplicando los productos del sistema científico tecnológico para desarrollar nuevos procesos y productos en una cadena agroalimentaria. La construcción de competitividad requiere de la combinación de ventajas comparativas y competitivas, siendo la innovación un elemento indispensable para la creación de ventajas competitivas y competitividad genuina. El sector de la uva en el Perú viene experimentando un crecimiento sostenido de sus exportaciones del mismo modo que lo vienen haciendo otros commodities agropecuarios. Sin embargo, se desconoce si este crecimiento se sostiene sobre la creación de ventajas competitivas del sector a partir de procesos de innovación o si el crecimiento responde principalmente a factores heredados. En base a esto el objetivo de la investigación consistió en determinar la relación del impacto de la inversión tecnológica y demanda externa sobre la producción y la competitividad del sector de la uva en el Perú, periodo 1961 - 2011. Para el logro del objetivo se utilizó una combinación de metodologías cualitativas (Diamante de Porter y Matriz FODA) y cuantitativa mediante el Índice de Ventajas Comparativas Rebeladas y dos modelos econométricos. Mediante un enfoque sistémico se registró la ventaja competitiva del sector de la uva encontrando las principales características del ambiente externo y ambiente interno que determinan la condición de productor y exportador del sector de la uva peruana. Mediante el índice de Ventaja Comparativa Revelada se observó la ventaja comparativa como exportador que presenta Perú en el periodo analizado. Las ventajas comparativas que presenta la uva peruana se basan en el clima de las zonas productoras, en el relativamente bajo costo de la mano de obra y su ubicación en América del Sur, que le permite entrar en contraestación a los mercados del Hemisferio Norte. Respecto a las ventajas competitivas, se observa un desarrollo incipiente a partir de la inversión tecnológica que impacta en el rendimiento del cultivo y en la buena calidad de la uva y se destacó la importancia de la política comercial de Perú basada en la apertura externa, razón por la cual los principales bienes de capital e insumos son importados. Los modelos econométricos uniecuacionales mostraron una relación positiva entre las variables inversión en tecnología y demanda externa respecto a la producción y la competitividad para el periodo analizado. El sector se encuentra en un camino hacia la construcción de la competitividad del sector, situándose en las etapas 1 y 2 que se corresponde con: la competitividad impulsada por los factores, y la etapa de competitividad impulsada por la inversión. Se advierte un bajo nivel de innovación que podría poner en juego la competitividad en el largo plazo, teniendo en cuenta las exigencias crecientes de los mercados que demandan el producto.