Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Gestión y Dirección de Empresas / El área de operaciones de Anglo American Sur, presenta diversas necesidades que requieren la generación de distintas solicitudes de servicios para abordar sus urgencias, por lo que es imprescindible que la gestión de contratos cumpla eficazmente con todo aquello que se precisa para cubrir los requerimientos en las distintas áreas. Sin embargo, los procesos de licitación, son una actividad lenta que no logra cubrir oportunamente la generación de contratos que satisfagan plenamente las aspiraciones, tanto de la Gerencia de Adquisiciones y Contratos, como de las áreas que generan los requerimientos en Anglo American Sur, en cuanto a seguridad, medio ambiente, calidad, precio, plazos y relaciones con terceros. Por ello es que a través del análisis de todos los procesos y documentos utilizados al efecto, se identificaron aquellos problemas que existen en la gestión de contratos, de manera de proponer mejoras en ello, bajo la responsabilidad de la Gerencia de Adquisiciones y Contratos. Los resultados muestran que los principales problemas se basan en el detalle y desarrollo de los antecedentes de licitación, tanto técnicos como administrativos, además de la demora en la atención de los requerimientos por parte de los contratadores y la poca participación de estos al inicio de los requerimientos. Finalmente, se sugirió como mejora, la estandarización de documentos a través de la formulación de una estructura o guía de lo que debe contener como mínimo cada documento; y para el caso de documentos más administrativos (Bases Administrativas y Contratos), adicionalmente se sugiere la opción de generar un documento que contenga todos los posibles tipos de servicios a contratar y las cláusulas que debe contener cada uno, de manera de facilitar su elaboración y agilizar los procesos.

Title in English: Development of the English law between the 7th and 10th century on the example of the oldest Anglo-Saxon codes taking into account legal development in Danelaw Abstract in English This diploma thesis aims to describe the development of law in England between the 7th and 10th century, i.e. in the so-called Anglo-Saxon period of English history. During this period, especially in the 9th and 10th century, both the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and the Scandinavian conquerors came to power alternately. At the same time, this period is characterized by the creation of Legal Codes in the individual kingdoms, by which the kings of the time regulated the most problematic legal issues. In my work, I proceeded chronologically in terms of the law of Anglo-Saxons. Firstly, I made a historical introduction to Anglo-Saxon colonization using primary and secondary sources and provided an explanation of the most important institutions that occurred with minor variations in all Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Subsequently, I focused on individual kingdoms, in which written sources in the form of the original Legal Codes have been preserved. Based on these primary and also secondary sources, I analysed the Codes, where I dealt with the legal institutes contained in them, then I compared the codes with each other and pointed...

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This dissertation examines the renderings into poetry of the life and works of the American Modernist painter, Georgia O’Keeffe. This study intends to show how these poems have interpreted, de-codified and translated O’Keeffe’s subjects into words by making room for new meaningful images, thereby expanding what O’Keeffe meant to do with her art, and thus nourishing her artistic legacy. It borrows the term radicant from Nicolas Bourriaud to capture the essence of O’Keeffe, as an artist who set her roots in motion in order to approach art in heterogeneous contexts and formats, transplanting and thus sharing new creative behaviors. The introduction presents the development of ekphrastic writing, a summary of the principal aesthetic and critical theories I have adopted, a reflection on the reasons why O’Keeffe often showed a certain reticence to the world of words, and the explanation of the materials and methodology that support this study. A section of four chapters analyzes the extent to which poetry prompted by O’Keeffe’s paintings provides not only accurate and eulogistic descriptions of her art but also an encounter between what W. J. T. Mitchell called two “paragonal” media that expand the interpretation of her art on the one hand, and the scope of ekphrastic poetry on the other. The first chapter explores the poems related to the places where O’Keeffe lived and from which she drew inspiration, and aims at confirming her idea that her legacy depends on what she made of these spaces. The second chapter examines the poems that refer to O’Keeffe’s living and still natures whose close-up study echoes her idea of realizing the Great American Painting as the celebration of the vastness and miracle of the world in which we live. The third chapter concentrates on the poems inspired by O’Keeffe’s painted human artifacts that emphasize the importance of a poetry of common things, an attitude that O’Keeffe shared with poet William Carlos Williams. The fourth chapter presents poems inspired by photographs that portray O’Keeffe, and intends to assert photography as the tertium quid in the complementary relationship between painting and poetry, thus reaffirming the connecting and radicant power of the arts. I conclude this study by arguing that in visual art as well as in poetry the shared process of selecting and emphasizing helps the artists to get at the essence of things, and thus to disentangle the complicated facets of existence. The analysis of the resistance of meanings in the dialogue between the artist’s artwork and the poet’s composition appears to define the intangible that artist, poet and viewer/reader have tried to articulate. May Swenson’s “O’Keeffe Retrospective” functions as a final poetic gallery through which the poet conducts the reader/viewer in a radicant lyrical portrait of the painter, where the thingness of O’Keeffe’s things is fully celebrated, and the readers can clearly see what they have merely looked at. The two appendices include the reproductions of the visual references analyzed in this study, and a selection of three poems with my Italian translation.

This research investigates the extent to which diaspora can be considered a useful term of reference for the exploration and critical interrogation of the literary works written by authors of Arab origin in Europe, Canada and the United States. The aim of this study is to develop an alternative theoretical model to analyze and critically interrogate works that have been written beyond the boundaries of a national literature and that blur the opposition "migrant" vs. "national" or "ethnic" vs. "mainstream." This study makes use of an integrated methodology and draws its theoretical tools from deconstruction, post-colonial studies, feminist theory, and Edouard Glissant's poetics of creolization. It is an interdisciplinary and multilingual work that puts in dialogue literature with philosophy and sociology and explores texts written in English, French, German, and Italian.

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No / This paper is published in a special volume of the Außenpolitische Dokumente der Republik Österreich series, a major undertaking of the Austrian Academy. The book is the result of an international conference sponsored by the Austrian Foreign Ministry on the fiftieth anniversary of the Austrian State Treaty. More importantly, it is the first comprehensive review of the foreign policy of the First Republik, and of Austria¿s relations with both the great powers and the neighbouring small states. The chapter on Anglo-Austrian relations is an outline of a relatively well-known chapter of diplomatic history, but it is also a contribution to the ongoing historical debate about the extent of British involvement in Central European affairs. Making reference to Foreign Office documents, the private papers of British diplomats and rarely accessed Central European archival sources, the chapter explodes the myth of British `indifference¿ towards the Danubian region, and argues that Vienna remained a `favourable observation point¿ for British diplomats right until the Anschluß. In particular, it challenges the jaded thesis, maintained by both British and Central European diplomatic historians, that the 1930s ushered in a period of disengagement from Anglo-Austrian, Anglo-Czech and Anglo-Hungarian relations. Contrary to earlier works, the paper shows that the Foreign Office was far from indifferent to the survival of the First Republic, despite its disapproval and deliberately muted criticism of authoritarian rule and the oppression of the left-wing opposition. Whilst Austria had a special geopolitical importance for Britain, the author¿s reappraisal of Anglo-Austrian relations opens up new avenues in the research of British policy towards certain other Central European countries.