Asesoría en diseño y asistencia técnica al sector artesanal del Norte de Santander.

14 hojas.

Fortalecimiento de la actividad artesanal mediante el desarrollo de productos para el sector madera mueble y la optimización de los Procesos Productivos en el Municipio de El Retiro - Antioquia.

110 hojas.

Informe de avance del proyecto innovación en mueble étnico y mejoramiento de la competitividad de 30 microempresas del sector de la madera en Pasto, No. 166C.

28 hojas : ilustraciones, cuadros.

Consideraciones en torno al sector artesanal colombiano y a la necesidad de crear un taller de diseño artesanal.

40 hojas.

Informe de resultados programa mejoramiento de la competitividad del sector artesano de la población victima y vulnerable APD 2013.

253 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías, mapas, esquemas.

Asesoría de diseño para el proyecto de fortalecimiento empresarial y comercial para el sector artesanal en el departamento del Atlántico.

129 hojas : ilustraciones.

Dotación del taller cerámico para la vereda Patio Bonito sector el Silencio municipio de Nemocón.

6 hojas.

Asesoria técnica y en diseño al Programa Nacional de Conformación de Cadenas Productivas para el sector artesanal : informe final

83 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías a color.

Empaques y embalajes para cadenas productivas en el sector artesanal. Cadenas productivas de : los chinchorros y hamacas (Guajira), la seda (Cauca), el mimbre (Tolima y Cundinamarca), la guadua (Quindío, Caldas y Risaralda), la caña flecha (Córdoba y Sucre), la cerámica (Huila), la joyería (Antioquia), los tejidos y hamacas (Bolívar y Sucre).

894 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías a color.

Diagnóstico y asesoría en diseño para el sector artesanal del municipio de La Playa Belén.

4 hojas : ilustraciones.

Diseño e innovación tecnológica aplicados en el proceso de desarrollo del sector artesanal colombiano : informe final : innovación, mejoramiento y desarrollo tecnológico.

14 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías a color.

Across the prairie in a motor caravan; a 3,000 mile tour by two Englishwomen on behalf of religious education,

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The Private Sector and HIV/AIDS in Africa: Taking Stock of Six Years of Applied Research

Background: Until recently, little was known about the costs of the HIV/AIDS epidemic to businesses in Africa and business responses to the epidemic. This paper synthesizes the results of a set of studies conducted between 1999 and 2006 and draws conclusions about the role of the private sector in Africa’s response to AIDS. Methods: Detailed human resource, financial, and medical data were collected from 14 large private and parastatal companies in South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, and Ethiopia. Surveys of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were conducted in South Africa, Kenya, and Zambia. Large companies’ responses or potential responses to the epidemic were investigated in South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, and Rwanda. Results: Among the large companies, estimated workforce HIV prevalence ranged from 5%¬37%. The average cost per employee lost to AIDS varied from 0.5-5.6 times the average annual compensation of the employee affected. Labor cost increases as a result of AIDS were estimated at anywhere from 0.6%-10.8% but exceeded 3% at only 2 of 14 companies. Treatment of eligible employees with ART at a cost of $360/patient/year was shown to have positive financial returns for most but not all companies. Uptake of employer-provided testing and treatment services varied widely. Among SMEs, HIV prevalence in the workforce was estimated at 10%-26%. SME managers consistently reported low AIDS-related employee attrition, little concern about the impacts of AIDS on their companies, and relatively little interest in taking action, and fewer than half had ever discussed AIDS with their senior staff. AIDS was estimated to increase the average operating costs of small tourism companies in Zambia by less than 1%; labor cost increases in other sectors were probably smaller. Conclusions: Although there was wide variation among the firms studied, clear patterns emerged that will permit some prediction of impacts and responses in the future.

Cerebellar Learning in an Opponent Motor Controller for Adaptive Load Compensation and Synergy Formation

This paper shows how a minimal neural network model of the cerebellum may be embedded within a sensory-neuro-muscular control system that mimics known anatomy and physiology. With this embedding, cerebellar learning promotes load compensation while also allowing both coactivation and reciprocal inhibition of sets of antagonist muscles. In particular, we show how synaptic long term depression guided by feedback from muscle stretch receptors can lead to trans-cerebellar gain changes that are load-compensating. It is argued that the same processes help to adaptively discover multi-joint synergies. Simulations of rapid single joint rotations under load illustrates design feasibility and stability.

A Self-Organizing Neural Model for Motor Equivalent Phoneme Production

This paper describes a model of speech production called DIVA that highlights issues of self-organization and motor equivalent production of phonological units. The model uses a circular reaction strategy to learn two mappings between three levels of representation. Data on the plasticity of phonemic perceptual boundaries motivates a learned mapping between phoneme representations and vocal tract variables. A second mapping between vocal tract variables and articulator movements is also learned. To achieve the flexible control made possible by the redundancy of this mapping, desired directions in vocal tract configuration space are mapped into articulator velocity commands. Because each vocal tract direction cell learns to activate several articulator velocities during babbling, the model provides a natural account of the formation of coordinative structures. Model simulations show automatic compensation for unexpected constraints despite no previous experience or learning under these constraints.