En ésta tesis se presenta un estudio de caso basado en la metodología investigación acción que sintetiza las perspectivas de un Sistema Regional de Innovación y la aplicación del enfoque de Planeamiento Adaptativo No Sinóptico para su desarrollo. Los objetivos de esta investigación son: 1) identificar a los actores del sistema y sus interacciones que incentivan la innovación y; 2) indagar sobre la aplicación del enfoque de planeamiento adaptativo para organizar sistemas de innovación. La investigación concluye que el enfoque de Planeamiento Adaptativo No Sinóptico denominado “Planeamiento Interorganizacional”, que emplea la metodología de “reticulación”, es apropiado para su aplicación en la organización de Sistemas Regionales de Innovación. / Tesis

La presente investigación se desarrolló en el distrito de Nuevo Progreso, provincia de Tocache. En el subsector agrícola, los pequeños productores que vienen trabajando de manera individual se han enfrentado a diversos inconvenientes, que en ocasiones no han podido superar. Los pequeños productores cacaoteros vienen desarrollando una agricultura de bajo rendimiento y calidad por múltiples razones, una de ellas es porque no reciben capacitaciones técnicas adecuadas en el manejo y cuidado del cacao; originando que al momento de vender la producción obtengan insuficientes ingresos como para garantizar las subsistencias de las siguientes campañas y lograr una mejor calidad de vida para ellos; de esta problemática nace la necesidad de trabajar en conjunto, ayudándose mutuamente para solucionar los problemas, de forma individual no han podido realizarlo. El objetivo del estudio fue proponer un modelo de asociación en los pequeños productores cacaoteros en el Distrito de Nuevo Progreso, analizando los factores que hacen posible la formación de una asociación, del mismo modo dar a conocer los fenómenos que impiden asociarse y que elementos contribuye al logro o mejores resultados de una gestión empresarial. El diseño que se utilizó fue de enfoque cuantitativo- cualitativo. Se realizó encuestas dirigidas a los pequeños productores cacaoteros, basada en encuestas sociológicas que han realizado una medida aproximada de capital social, para el análisis de la información obtenida se utilizó el programa de EXCEL. El principal resultado obtenido fue la implementación del modelo asociativo en el distrito Nuevo Progreso en el año 2013. / Tesis

The Kalahari San or Bushmen are one of the most researched ethnic groups. As such, multiple images, produced by research, popular literature and films exist of them. Tsumkwe, the administrative centre of what used to be known as 'Bushmanland' during Apartheid, occupies a special place in the context of San image production as it is the site of most visual material produced about San, a popular destination for tourists who want to see San and a successful indigenous governed conservancy that attracts many NGOs and other projects aimed at San. The people living in Tsumkwe are the Ju|'hoansi, a group considered to be part of the 'San' category. This thesis considers ethnographic questions about the Ju|'hoansi and those who visit them, through a framework based on the theory of images. How do the Ju|'hoansi inhabit the multiple images of San-ness which non-San bring to Tsumkwe and how do they navigate the pressures of both San sociality and expectations from outsiders within and outside the structures of knowledge which shape our perception of these images? In addition to general participant observation in Tsumkwe and the surrounding Nyae Nyae conservancy, I make use of ethnographic data from filmmaking workshops I conducted with Ju|'hoan participants. These workshops created important primary data. Further, by inverting the hitherto passive relationship to film into an active one, the engagement with the medium and its production enabled usually invisible concepts and understanding of self and others to become articulated. Additionally, I conducted interviews with tourists, researchers and NGO workers. As Gordon discusses in The Bushman Myth, the label of San or Bushmen is an externally invented and constructed category. Over the course of the 20th century, a multitude of images of the San have emerged, ranging from 'underdeveloped primitives', to no 'noble savages' to 'disempowered minorities'. However outdated, once articulated, remnants of these images have remained and contribute to the body of preconceived ideas outsiders approach the San with. | Inhabiting Images: Ju|'hoansi, vi San, and Others In Tsumkwe, different images exist simultaneously. In interactions with outsiders, Ju|'hoansi informants confirmed and enacted sometimes opposing images, depending on the context, without considering one more 'true' than another. Some Ju|'hoansi were able to switch between different images particularly well. Despite of the Ju|'hoansi community in Tsumkwe being accepting of the various images of San-ness brought in by outsiders, Tsumkwe was overall governed by Ju|'hoan values and sociality which stopped any of the NGOs that tried to establish themselves and their world views in Tsumkwe from becoming too dominant. Egalitarian pressures, however, also affect not only outsiders seeking to establish themselves but also Ju|'hoansi. Additionally, many Ju|'hoansi, experience the multitude of images brought in as a pressure. This double pressure can be somewhat relieved through carefully negotiated play in which caricatures of identities are acted out playfully. Despite possible overlap between San images and Ju|'hoan sociality, it is useful to understand San images as being a reflection on those who construct them. For the Ju|'hoansi, these images are part of the world they inhabit creatively.

El objetivo es establecer las relaciones del crecimiento radial de Alnus acuminata con la estacionalidad climática del Valle del Mantaro teniendo como método general el descriptivo correlacional, de tal manera que el método descriptivo se utilizó para describir a Alnus acuminata y sus características de desarrollo y factores favorables para el desarrollo de sus anillos de crecimiento y de formación, y el método Correlacional para determinar la relación del crecimiento radial de Alnus acuminata con la estacionalidad climática del Valle del Mantaro, las muestras de estudio fueron extraídas de Apata y de San Pedro de Saño para realizar la correlación del crecimiento anual de los anillos de la especie en estudio, se trabajó con las estaciones meteorológicas de Jauja y Santa Ana respectivamente por la cercanía a las zonas de extracción. De Apata se extrajeron 12 rodajas de cada una de ellas se tomó 3 radios en total se procesó 36 muestras de este lugar, de San Pedro de Saño se extrajeron con barreno 37 muestras donde todas fueron procesadas, se determinó que la mayor cantidad de años son las muestras de Apata con 79 años en comparación a las muestras de San Pedro de Saño de 48 años; para tener las cronologías y así establecer el potencial dendrocronológico se trabajó con el programa COFECHA Y ARSTAN que nos permite saber que muestras son óptimas para el estudio, de las cuales 13 muestras fueron aptas para seguir con el proceso de estudio de Apata y 14 de San Pedro de Saño, posterior a ello se realizó la comparación de las cronologías de Alnus acuminata con las estaciones climáticas de Jauja y Santa Ana con las variables de precipitación, temperatura máxima y mínima mensual y estacional. Como conclusiones se tuvo que la variable que tiene influencia positiva en el desarrollo de los anillos de crecimientos es la precipitación, mientras que en los meses que se registra mayor temperatura estos entran en dormancia determinando así que la especie Alnus acuminata posee un gran potencial dendrocronológico para próximos estudios, ya que sus anillos de crecimiento están demarcados por las variables climáticas de temperatura y precipitación.

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Historia / En una ida a la Biblioteca Nacional por que los estudiantes de historia ? tambi?n vamos a veces a ese templo? me vi obligado a bajarme antes de la micro y a caminar por una calle de San Isidro desolada. Anduve por diez cuadras tratando de no maltratar mi cuello aunque poco pude hacer de tanto que me dobl? para ver los edificios: los montones de edificios que se levantan como insolentes provocaciones al pasado. Y sin embargo ah? estaba algo del barrio que fue. Algunas casonas, algunos conventillos, otros almacenes chicos y tristes, tambi?n algunos peruanos... La parroquia, antiguo testigo maltratado por el tiempo, escondido de los miles que a diario pasan por Santa Rosa, miraba de reojo a una de las Comisar?a de Fuerzas Especiales, aunque sin intenciones pol?ticas. En un arrebato m?stico me sent? en su placita, como anta?o lo hiciera el pobrer?o, para tomar el fresco durante la siesta en los calurosos d?as del verano1. Escuch?, silencioso, el murmullo de las micros, y en esa pasada se me col? un recuerdo de tiempos que no viv?. La parroquia, sus murallas y sus lamentos me hablaban... Quisiera poder contarlo como algo m?s que una historia. Algunas veces he caminado por esa calle, me he sentado en la plaza, e incluso he invertido tiempo y gastado mis codos en los bares del sector. Sin embargo, a este informe lo mandan los archivos. Y aterriz?ndolo un poco m?s, los papeles de la Biblioteca Patrimonial de la Facultad de Medicina de nuestra casa de estudios. Esta escuela de Medicina, que funcion? en el que fuera hospital de pobres, fundado quiz? por Valdivia en el lejano siglo XVI y entregado a la orden de San Juan de Dios reci?n iniciado el siglo siguiente, hered? del hospital colonial sus bienes, pero m?s importante en lo que respecta a este informe, sus papeles.

In the late 1800s in San Francisco, Chinese immigrants faced racism and were blamed for the city’s public health crisis. To the rest of San Francisco, disease originated from Chinese people. However, through data visualization we can see that this was not the case. This paper maps cases of disease against the city’s sanitation system and shows how the lack of adequate infrastructure contributed to high rates of disease. Data visualization is an increasingly important tool that historians need to utilize to uncover new insights.

The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of communication with elderly mental health clients regarding medication concordance.

Every day, children are removed from their homes of origin by Children & Family Services and placed into foster care. When the county foster homes become full, private foster family agencies are relied upon to take in the overflow. For a variety of reasons, private agencies are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain sufficient numbers of foster parents to house all of these children. This is a pressing problem in the social work field as, without proper placement options, many children will simply fall through the cracks in the system. The purpose of this research was to explore and address the many concerns surrounding foster parenting, thereby improving foster parent recruitment and retention. Surveys were completed by foster family agency staff (both private and county), current and former foster parents, and people who have considered foster parenting but later changed their minds. Qualitative data gleaned from these surveys revealed improvement that could be made in foster parent recruitment and retention for both private and county agencies. This research has the potential to increase the pool of available foster homes and save the lives of many children.

The following study attempted to operationalize the willingness to work hard component of Hogan’s RAW model of employability. Willingness to Work Hard, the W in the model, appears to be multi-faceted; a qualitative synthesis of themes suggests that the construct may be dispositional. I examined proactive personality by using the G ProACT scale to help understand the multi-dimensionality of Willingness to Work Hard. Taking initiative, rigidness, planning, and anticipating opportunities were the four subscales that emerged. The purpose of my study was to collect evidence of construct validity for the proposed measure. I examined the relationship between the G ProACT measure and discriminant and convergent variables. A survey was distributed among CSUSB students that contained the G ProACT measure, demographic related items, and other established measures to gather construct validity. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with 488 participants indicated a lack of support for the hypothesized model. Specifically, the CFA revealed that three of the four factors did not relate to the presumed construct of proactive personality. Rigidness showed no relationship whereas anticipating opportunities and planning demonstrated marginal relationships to the underlying construct. Follow-up analyses indicated that taking initiative was the only subscale deemed as strongly factorable. Findings suggest a need to further explore taking initiative to determine if the measure appropriately captures the dispositional nature of Willingness to Work Hard. Future research should continue to examine if proactive personality or other motivational constructs are an appropriate fit for the RAW model.

First excavated in 1938, the site of Muscupiabit (CA-SBR-425/H) has long been a subject of archaeological research in the San Bernardino Mountains. Previous excavations at the site have either been unpublished or limited in scope. A primary goal was to obtain a radiocarbon date for the site, giving a definitive age to the site. Other goals included determining the population size of Muscupiabit as well as the function of the site and its place in the Serrano settlement system. To obtain dateable material, an excavation was conducted in hopes of locating a thermal feature. An intact thermal feature was found and charcoal was recovered. In order to adequately address the proposed research questions, museum collections were used to gain a larger sample size. A large quantity of artifacts had been excavated in the 1980s but were never analyzed. Between those excavations and the 2017 excavations, 7 units were analyzed. Additionally, population records from the Spanish mission system were analyzed to address research questions about population size. Based on a radiocarbon date, shell bead types, and population records, it appears that Muscupiabit was occupied in the late 17th/early 18th century and was likely abandoned by 1815. Despite its location along a trade route, the site does not appear to have been controlling trade. Muscupiabit was intermarried with other villages but it’s level of political independence cannot be determined at this time.