Executive Order Number Thirty One, June 29, 1987

Establish gift reporting requirements for the Executive Department of State Government.

Executive Order Number Forty One, November 6, 1990

Empowers the Governor to accept retrocession of Federal jurisdiction if offered by appropriate federal authorities.

Executive Order Number Sixty One, 1997

Assigns responsibility to coordinate disparate information technology and to provide enterprise-wide information technology services to the exectutive branch agencies to the Information Technology Services (ITS) director appointed by the Governor.

Communication, Coordination, and Efficiency in Evolutionary One-population Models

We analyze the role of commitment in pre-play communication for ensuring efficient evolutionarily stable outcomes in coordination games. All players are a priori identical as they are drawn from the same population. In games where efficient outcomes can be reached by players coordinating on the same action we find commitment to be necessary to enforce efficiency. In games where efficienct outcomes only result from play of different actions, communication without commitment is most effective although efficiency can no longer be guaranteed. Only when there are many messages then inefficient outcomes are negligible as their basins of attraction become very small.

Not one odour but two: A new model for nestmate recognition.

Recognition systems play a key role in a range of biological processes, including mate choice, immune defence and altruistic behaviour. Social insects provide an excellent model for studying recognition systems because workers need to discriminate between nestmates and non-nestmates, enabling them to direct altruistic behaviour towards closer kin and to repel potential invaders. However, the level of aggression directed towards conspecific intruders can vary enormously, even among workers within the same colony. This is usually attributed to differences in the aggression thresholds of individuals or to workers having different roles within the colony. Recent evidence from the weaver ant Oecophylla smaragdina suggests that this does not tell the whole story. Here I propose a new model for nestmate recognition based on a vector template derived from both the individual's innate odour and the shared colony odour. This model accounts for the recent findings concerning weaver ants, and also provides an alternative explanation for why the level of aggression expressed by a colony decreases as the diversity within the colony increases, even when odour is well-mixed. The model makes additional predictions that are easily tested, and represents a significant advance in our conceptualisation of recognition systems.

A One-Shot Prisoners Dilemma with Procedural Utility

This article introduces a model of rationality that combines procedural utility over actions with consequential utility over payoffs. It applies the model to the Prisoners Dilemma and shows that empirically observed cooperative behaviors can be rationally explained by a procedural utility for cooperation. The model characterizes the situations in which cooperation emerges as a Nash equilibrium. When rational individuals are not solely concerned by the consequences of their behavior but also care for the process by which these consequences are obtained, there is no one single rational solution to a Prisoners Dilemma. Rational behavior depends on the payoffs at stake and on the procedural utility of individuals. In this manner, this model of procedural utility reflects how ethical considerations, social norms or emotions can transform a game of consequences.

Drama i espectacle operístic : la dialèctica entre espai i temps en el Parsifal de Herheim i el ritus com a obra d’art del futur

Parsifal és, segons la manera en què es mire, l’excepció dins el llistat de drames musicals wagnerians pel tractament sense precedents que fa de motius catòlics en un lloc i un moment com la recentment unificada Alemanya, on la construcció de la identitat nacional passava per un model social i cultural concret i, per tant, també religiós. Però una òptica diferent ens pot apropar a una ingent quantitat de paral·lelismes entre el model artístic expressat per Wagner en els seus escrits teòrics de joventut i alguns dels elements estètics i ideològics de la seua darrera obra. L’espectacle operístic en l’actualitat continua sent fruit de la societat en què es gesta i per això Stefan Herheim utilitza una visió diacrònica de la recepció d’aquesta obra wagneriana com a un dels motius principals sobre els quals construirà una dramatúrgia densa i meditada en què es durà a terme fins a les seues últimes conseqüències una revisió en clau contemporània del concepte d’obra d’art del futur.

One Un Programme 2010 Annual Report Many Strenghts, One Mission United Nations Cape Verde

This is the second annual report on the One UN Programme in Cape Verde, covering the year 2010. The report high-lights joint efforts and achievements of the UN System, the Government and Civil Society within the framework of the One Programme. It includes both programmatic and financial reporting. It gives concrete examples of the development impact of the “Cape Verde Transition Fund” -- both how those funds were used, and how they complemented additional resources available to the UN system (e.g. core funds plus contributions resulting from other resource mobilization efforts). The report shows how UN system activities have supported national priorities as defined in the Cape Verdean Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (GPRSP II).

Executive Order Number Fifty-One, December 8, 2006

Executive order signed by Governor Thomas Vilsck

Executive Order Number One, January 27, 2007

Orders that the United States Flag be flown at half-staff to honor any member of Iowa National Guard, Iowa Air National Guard or an Iowa resident serving as a member of the United States Armed Forces who is killed in the line of duty.

A Adopção, pela primeira vez – Constrangimentos Encontrados na Adopção n óptica Financeira

Os efeitos da globalização da economia, a graduação de Cabo Verde à categoria de país de desenvolvimento médio, a entrada para a OMC, a parceria especial com a União Europeia, são acontecimentos verificados num passado próximo que vieram trazer novas exigências ao país em diversos domínios. A preparação das contas e o relato da informação pode ser considerada uma delas. De facto, o normativo contabilístico existente até então, assente num Plano Oficial de Contabilidade (PNC) aprovado por diploma legislativo datada de 1984 já não respondia a todas as necessidades de informação nos domínios da contabilidade, fiscalidade e financeira. O trabalho assenta sobretudo na adopção do SNCRF – Sistema de Normalização Contabilística e de Relato Financeiro. O objectivo é analisar o processo de adopção pela primeira vez deste sistema e os impactos que esta adopção teve na posição financeira nas empresas. Foi feito um estudo de caso para ilustrar este processo. Descrevemos como foi adoptado o SNCRF, fizemos uma apreciação a essa adopção e sugerimos melhoria que deveria ser introduzidas para que os resultados do processo incorporassem a quase totalidade dos procedimentos instituídos nos diversos documentos normativos e legais. Ao trabalho foi dado uma dimensão prática consubstanciada num estudo de caso que serviu para ilustrar o processo de transição. O estudo foi abordado numa perspectiva apreciativa tendo sido inventariadas as situações que deveriam ser salvaguardas (de acordo com o novo normativo e imperativos legais) no processo de transição / conversão e que não foram feitas. Demonstrou-se ainda (através da análise da posição financeira da entidade), que o processo de adopção implicou algumas alterações na estrutura financeira e no valor do capital próprio. A conclusão que se chegou indica que o processo não terá sido tão linear como se desejaria apesar de em, substancia, os principais requisitos terem sido cumpridos. The effects of globalization of its economy, the upgrading of Cape Verde to the category of medium development country, the entry to WTO, the special partnership with European Union, are recent events that brought new demands to the country in several areas. . Preparation of the accounts and information report are included in these new requirements. In fact, the accounting standards till then in force, based on an Official Chart of Accounts (PNC) in force after a law of 1984, didn’t meet the requirements on accounting, fiscal and financial information. This work is basically on the adoption of the new SNCRF – System of Accounting Standardization and Financial Reporting. Our aim is to review the initial adoption process of such system and the impacts this adoption has caused to the financial position of enterprises. A case study is included to illustrate this process. We describe how the SNCRF was adopted; we made an analysis of this adoption and suggested improvements to be introduced in such way that the results of the process include most of the procedures established by law. A practical dimension was attached to this work, through a case study illustrating the transition process. The study adopted an analytical approach, listing the situations that should have been (according to the new standards and legal prescriptions) but were not prevented during the transition / conversion process. The study shows (by the analysis of the financial statements of the studied entity) that the adoption process implied some changes to the financial structure and to the owners’ equity value). One arrives to the conclusion that the process was not as linear as one would expect, although essentially the main requirements were accomplished.

Proteinaceous infectious behavior in non-pathogenic proteins is controlled by molecular chaperones.

External stresses or mutations may cause labile proteins to lose their distinct native conformations and seek alternatively stable aggregated forms. Molecular chaperones that specifically act on protein aggregates were used here as a tool to address the biochemical nature of stable homo- and hetero-aggregates from non-pathogenic proteins formed by heat-stress. Confirmed by sedimentation and activity measurements, chaperones demonstrated that a single polypeptide chain can form different species of aggregates, depending on the denaturing conditions. Indicative of a cascade reaction, sub-stoichiometric amounts of one fast-aggregating protein strongly accelerated the conversion of another soluble, slow-aggregating protein into insoluble, chaperone-resistant aggregates. Chaperones strongly inhibited seed-induced protein aggregation, suggesting that they can prevent and cure proteinaceous infectious behavior in homo- and hetero-aggregates from common and disease-associated proteins in the cell.