TESIS PARA OPTAR AL GRADO DE MAGÍSTER EN ADMINISTRACIÓN / La industria de mascotas, ha venido presentando un auge notorio a nivel mundial, se estima que moverá US$100 billones en 2017 de acuerdo con datos de Euromonitor International. Las tendencias mundiales explican en buena parte el alto crecimiento y potencial del sector de mascotas1. La tendencia a humanizarlas identificada como una de las 3 principales en la industria, abre las puertas al desarrollo de negocios muy interesantes, que parten de la diversificación de las líneas de negocio tradicionales de la categoría y generan nuevas formas o alternativas de suplir de una mejor forma las necesidades tradicionales. Es por eso que surge DogY, una empresa en la industria de servicio para el cuidado de las mascotas en ciudad de Panamá. País en donde el 57.8% de la población posee una mascota. DogY presta un servicio de estética canina, ofrecido en un vehículo móvil acondicionado en la puerta de la casa del cliente. Cubriendo los rubros de baño y aseo, venta de accesorios y alimentos. El mercado objetivo está compuesto por los hogares de clase media alta y alta que cuentan con perro como mascota y residen en los corregimientos de San Francisco, Betania, Bella Vista, Juan Díaz, Amelia Denis de Icaza y Ancón de la provincia de Panamá. Por lo que se estima un mercado objetivo de 5,861 hogares, equivalente a US$ 4,430,936. La estrategia de diferenciación estará enmarcada en ofrecer servicio de alta calidad con horarios flexibles. El equipo gestor está conformado por Amailys Amaya y Liliana Agudelo, Ingenieras Industriales y estudiantes de MBA. El análisis financiero muestra que el proyecto es factible y que requiere una inversión inicial de US$ 188,739. El VAN es positivo y la TIR de 13.56% superior a la tasa de descuento exigida al proyecto estimada en 12.29%.

Education has given much attention to problems involved in grouping boys and girls for instruction. This emphasis is evidenced through the considerable space in professional literature which has hen devoted to this problem. Even so, the matter remains an issue in that considerable disagreement persists. However, there seem to be some general principles that have come to be commonly accepted. The writer, in her position of teaching boys and girls, faces this problem continuously. Thus, she has a keen interest in discovering more effective ways of meeting problems involved in grouping boys and girls for instruction. In order to satisfy this interest the writer has chosen her own school situation as a point of study. / Typescript. / "August, 1953." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: Virgil E. Strickland, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 30-31).

The field of wildlife rescue and rehabilitation continues to grow as human expansion increases the rate of deforestation in Latin America. Wild animals that are often rescued from becoming orphaned or injured are rehabilitated in captivity until considered suitable for release back into the wild. Sloths (Bradypus spp. and Choloepus spp.) are a common species admitted to rescue centers throughout Latin America due to their poor dispersal abilities and vulnerability to anthropogenic impacts. Post-release monitoring is fundamental in measuring the success of wildlife rescue programs, however, few studies have assessed the outcomes of releasing hand-reared sloths back into the wild. I studied the ecology of rehabilitated and relocated Hoffmann’s two-toed sloths (C. hoffmanni) in central Panamá. My objectives were to: (1) use a soft-release technique to quantify activity budgets of individuals prior to release in the wild, (2) analyze movement trajectories and estimate home range sizes, (3) assess habitat selection, and (4) determine survival rates and causes of mortality for rehabilitated and released two-toed sloths. Eleven two-toed sloths rescued from the wild were hand-reared in captivity for a mean total of 727  193 days (mean  SE value across all sloths) at the Pan-American Conservation Association facilities in Colón Province, Panamá. During 2019-2020, sloths were processed into 2 groups, radiomarked, placed in an outdoor 500 m2 soft-release enclosure for 3 months, and released in nearby Soberanía National Park. I conducted 580 hr of behavioral observations during soft-release to quantify activity budgets for 5 main activity states. A linear mixed model was used to compare two-toed sloth activity budgets in response to sex, age, season (i.e., dry vs. wet), session time (i.e., morning vs. evening) and month. Rehabilitated two-toed sloths spent 80.0% of their time resting, becoming active and more alert in the evening, exhibiting behavioral patterns similar to wild two-toed sloths (as ascertained from existing literature). I used homing to radiotrack two-toed sloths for 210 radio-days during which I used a paired analysis approach to measure tree height, crown height, height to crown base, diameter at breast height, abundance of lianas, canopy depth, and canopy closure at 118 used and random locations. Habitat selection was modeled using conditional logistic regression and movement trajectories were analyzed using ArcGIS. Rehabilitated two-toed sloths traveled shorter distances than wild two-toed sloths, traveling a mean linear distance of 82.3  21.6 m and a mean distance of 25.6  9.5 m between successive locations. Mean home range size for released two-toed sloths was 2.92  1.19 ha with females occupying larger areas than males. I did not find strong evidence of habitat selection; however, rehabilitated two-toed sloths chose trees with a smaller dbh than available. Habitats used by rehabilitated two-toed sloths closely resembled those used by wild two-toed sloths, selecting trees with dense crowns and 50% lianas. Monthly survival for rehabilitated two-toed sloths (0.72  0.14) was low relative to wild sloths, and monthly estimates for males (1.00  0.00) and females (0.44  0.22) did not differ (P  0.30). Eight mortalities were recorded with predation and natural causes being the main causes of mortality. My study provides information that can be useful in evaluating the costs and benefits of sloth rescue and rehabilitation programs throughout Latin America.

Throughout most of the modern history of the Western hemisphere, explorers, engineers and merchants have been interested in finding or building a waterway that would connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. By the early part of the sixteenth century most of these people had settled their attention on the Central American Isthmus. Several major commercial nations showed an interest in the project at one time or another, including France, Spain, Great Britain and the United States. Serious attention to building a canal started in the late nineteenth century with two areas, southern Nicaragua and central Panama becoming the two most logical sites for canal construction. By the middle of the 1880's the United States had private interests trying to start a canal in Nicaragua, while· the end of that decade saw the formation of a French canal in Panama. The United States seemed committed to a Nicaraguan canal.as late as 1901, yet the U.S. government eventually bought a concession, interceded in a revolution and built a canal through Panama. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the major characters in the struggle to determine a canal route and to build a canal, and to investigate the role played by the several presidential commissions established to discern both the feasibility of any canal and in the final analysis determine which canal route would be the best. Special emphasis was paid to the Isthmian Canal Commission of 1899-1901, popularly known as the Walker Commission.

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Research provides biological and ecological information on Hydrilla Verticillata (L. f.) Royle in Gatun Lake, Panama for an ongoing management program of aquatic weeds in the Panama Canal. Morphological and genetic variation, standing crop and life cycle were determined.

San Felipe de Neri, a neighborhood located in the Historic District of Panama, is the object of physical, economic and social transformations that are affecting its residents' daily lives. Revitalization and gentrification drive these transformations as wealthy Panamanians invest in the neighborhood, and affluent foreigners flock to it since it became a World Heritage Site in 1997. This dissertation addresses perceptions and reactions residents have because of these physical, economic and social challenges. This study poses four main questions: 1. What physical, economic, and social (quality of life) changes have taken place in the Historic District of San Felipe from the early twentieth century to the present? To what extent are these changes the result of global processes, local processes, or both? 2. How do residents perceive these changes? Is there any significant difference in opinions and attitudes among residents regarding changes that revitalization and gentrification impose on the neighborhood? If so, how and why are they different? 3. To what extent have residents participated in these transformations? and 4. How do residents who have been relocated perceive these changes? My research analyzes Smith's five characteristics of a third wave of gentrification: first, the transformed role of the state; second, the penetration by global finance; third, changing levels of political opposition; fourth, geographical dispersal; and fifth, the sectoral generalization of gentrification and its relevance for my case study of San Felipe. This methodology enlists quantitative and qualitative methods to address these research questions to gain insight about residents' perspectives regarding these transformations. Findings indicate that both residents and ex-residents of San Felipe view the outcomes of revitalization and gentrification in mixed ways. Both groups mostly agree that the improvement of the physical conditions of the neighborhood is a positive outcome for preserving the material heritage, and for encouraging international and national tourism benefiting the country. Regardless of their economic and social status, residents claim that the place where they have lived for a long time is no longer theirs, except in their memories. They face the threat of eviction and an uncertain future. Former residents—those who have been displaced—have mixed views as well. On the one hand, they have improved their living standards because they now have better housing infrastructures. On the other hand, their new locations are scattered about the city and are often in dangerous areas that lack the amenities of San Felipe. Others feel that in the process they have lost a home; a place filled with meaningful memories and to which one day they dream of returning. A diverse residential population is the only way to save historic centers from becoming museums that present a pastiche and a 'façadism' catered to the international consumer. Preserving the human and physical patrimony is the most viable way to achieve sustainability and development in historic areas. Associations had no permanent places to meet with residents. This eroded the desire of residents to participate, and encouraged them to accept whatever owners wanted to give them to move out of the neighborhood. In the end, they became disenfranchised. A lack of both leadership and strong social movements, and the dissemblance of grass-root organizations through co-optation, clientelism, and even deception became the norm in the neighborhood. / Ph. D.

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For various reasons, the city of New Orleans has often been ignored in discussions of the New South movement. New Orleans politicians joined the movement during the Progressive Era, much later than other Southern municipal leaders. In becoming a New South city, the Crescent City was launched onto the international trade scene. By an examination of city leaders' efforts to gain federal rights to host an exposition in celebration of the Panama Canal, this study argues New Orleans not only became a New South city, but an international trade entrepôt. Though the exposition efforts failed, the efforts of the city to cultivate its business and hospitality potential served the city well.