MEXICO'S 1994 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ALLOWED MEXICO TO ESCAPE THE WORLDWIDE WAVE OF DEMOCRATIZATION ONE MORE TIME. IT IS NOT SURPRISING THAT MEXICO'S RULING PARTY WON THE 1994 ELECTIONS. ITS ADVANTAGES OF MONEY, MEDIA, AND COERCION WERE OVERWHELMING. HOWEVER, SEVERAL LESSONS CAN BE LEARNED FROM THE RECENT ELECTION THAT WILL ASSIST FUTURE MOVEMENTS FOR ELECTORAL DEMOCRACY IN MEXICO. FIRST, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT A BROAD MULTIPARTY COALITION IS BUILT BEHIND THE MOST CREDIBLE CANDIDATE POSSIBLE. SECOND, THE OPPOSITION PARTY NEEDS TO OFFSET THE RULING PARTY'S MEDIA DOMINATION AND EXTENSIVE NETWORK OF CLIENTELIST CONTROLS. THIRD, THE OPPOSITION PARTY NEEDS TO CONVINCE THE ELECTORATE THAT IT IS CAPABLE OF GOVERNING EFFECTIVELY. FINALLY, THE OPPOSITION PARTY MUST CONCENTRATE ON GRASSROOTS EFFORTS THAT WILL TRULY INFORM THE PEOPLE.
Since 2012, the French project TalentCampus has set up training sessions to help people to develop their soft skills. TalentCampus was created in 2012 by a cluster of universities and higher education institutions, with a national agency for PhD support (ABG Intelli'agence). It was awarded funding through a national research call (IDEFI – french government investment for the future scheme). The aim of TalentCampus is to increase excellence in higher education by exploring the development of soft skills. However, the training sessions are not only for higher education students. Indeed, the idea is for participants to discover themselves through exchanges with people from many different backgrounds. Social background, age and disciplinary diversity are key factors in the success of TalentCampus sessions, which bring together high school pupils, students (from undergraduates to doctoral students), juniors and seniors professionals and job seekers. TalentCampus training sessions are based on active pedagogy, innovative content learning and collective immersion. It also creates training programs for companies or universities who have identified specific needs. Set up as 3 to 5-day workshops during the school holidays, TalentCampus develops skills to complement academic ability, including self-confidence, communication, leadership, emotional intelligence, and stress management. The courses are supervised by specialists from many different fields: for example, sport teachers or actors. Each training session is evaluated in order to know if the trainees have achieved the intended educational objectives. We will see in this communication what learners think about active pedagogy and mixed group during the training sessions. The sessions started in 2012 in Bourgogne Franche-Comté region. National and international developments are in progress as the target of TalentCampus is to disseminate and to let diffuse its best practices at a national and international levels. Session development in education system, lifelong training, as well as scientific research development aims to reach this target. ; Desde el 2012, el proyecto francés TalentCampus ha creado cursos permitiéndole a personas, desarrollar sus propias habilidades. TalentCampus fue creado por un grupo de universidades y escuelas de educación superior y una agencia nacional para apoyo de tesis doctoral (ABG Intelli'agence). Ha ganado una subvención nacional para la investigación (IDEFI - inversión para el futuro). El objetivo es aumentar la excelencia en la educación superior mediante la exploración de desarrollo de habilidades interpersonales. Sin embargo, las capacitaciones no sólo se les proponen a los estudiantes de educación superior. De hecho, la idea es que personas se descubran a través de intercambios con diferentes personas de otros niveles. Procedencia social, edad y diversidad disciplinaria son factores claves para el éxito de las capacitaciones TalentCampus. Las sesiones reúnen adolescentes de escuela secundaria, los estudiantes (licenciatura, postgrado, doctorado), empleados y solicitantes de empleo. TalentCampus se basa en la pedagogía activa, el aprendizaje de contenido innovador e inmersión colectiva. TalentCampus también crea programas de capacitación para empresas o universidades que tienen necesidades específicas. Propuesto en forma de talleres de 3 a 5 días durante las vacaciones escolares, TalentCampus desarrolla habilidades complementarias, habilidades académicas tales como la autoestima, comunicación, liderazgo, inteligencia emocional o manejo del estrés. Diferentes tipos de instructores imparten el curso de formación, como profesores del deporte o actores comediantes. Cada sesión es evaluada para conocer si los alumnos logran objetivos educativos. Varias semanas o meses después de la formación, tienen que responder a preguntas sobre la utilidad de la capacitación. Es así como sabemos que las sesiones permiten descubrir o desarrollar sus propias habilidades. También sabemos que las personas se sienten más motivadas y quieren poner en marcha proyectos personales y profesionales. Su autoestima y confianza en sí mismos es mejor. Las sesiones se llevan a cabo en áreas regionales, nacionales e internacionales. Los próximos retos del proyecto consiste en continuar con la difusión de mejores prácticas, publicaciones científicas y sesiones internacionales.
[Otros] The LM-EM algorithm has the advantage to calculate the emission probabilities needed for the reconstruction process on the fly, without the need of a pre-calculated system matrix. The reconstruction time for this algorithm strongly depends on the used backprojector and the available statistics. This algorithm when implemented in systems using monolithic crystals to detect gamma radiation allows one to extensively exploit the virtual pixilation feature, not available for systems based on pixilated crystals. In this work we present a backprojector for LM-EM, the TOR method, which achieves a tradeoff between computational efficiency and image quality. Its temporal subset algorithm optimization (LM-OS) has also been implemented in order to achieve real-time reconstructions. To evaluate the performances of LM-OS algorithm with the TOR method backprojector and only with one iteration on the datasets, studies based on the system spatial resolution, uniformity, and contrast coefficients were carried out and they were compared with those obtained with LM-EM and MLEM algorithms using twelve iteration. Finally, a study on reconstruction time using LM-OS has been performed with breast patients data ; Project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and co-funded with FEDER's funds within the INNPACTO 2011 program. This work was supported by the Spanish Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica (I+D+i) under Grant No. FIS2010-21216-CO2-01 and the Valencian Local Government under Grants PROMETEOII/2013/010 and ISIC 2011/013 ; Moliner, L.; Correcher, C.; González Martínez, AJ.; Conde, P.; Crespo, E.; Hernandez, L.; Rigla, JP. (2013). Time reconstruction study using tubes of response backprojectors in List Mode algorithms, applied to amonolithic crystals based breast PET. IEEE. 14-18. https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829372 ; S ; 14 ; 18
Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution models with historical and projected deforestation to show that at least 36% and up to 57% of all Amazonian tree species are likely to qualify as globally threatened under International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List criteria. If confirmed, these results would increase the number of threatened plant species on Earth by 22%. We show that the trends observed in Amazonia apply to trees throughout the tropics, and we predict that most of the world's >40,000 tropical tree species now qualify as globally threatened. A gap analysis suggests that existing Amazonian protected areas and indigenous territories will protect viable populations of most threatened species if these areas suffer no further degradation, highlighting the key roles that protected areas, indigenous peoples, and improved governance can play in preventing large-scale extinctions in the tropics in this century. ; Alberta Mennega Stichting ; ALCOA Suriname ; Amazon Conservation Association ; Banco de la República ; CELOS Suriname ; CAPES (PNPG) ; Conselho Nacional de Desenvovimento Científico e Tecnológico of Brazil (CNPq) Projects CENBAM, PELD (558069/2009-6), PRONEX-FAPEAM (1600/2006), Áreas Úmidas, MAUA; PELD (403792/2012-6), PPBio, PVE 004/2012, Universal (479599/2008-4), and Universal 307807- 2009-6 ; FAPEAM projects DCR/2006, Hidroveg with FAPESP, and PRONEX with CNPq ; FAPESP ; Colciencias ; CONICIT ; Duke University ; Ecopetrol ; FEPIM 044/2003 ; The Field Museum ; Conservation International/DC (TEAM/Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Manaus ; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation ; Guyana Forestry Commission ; Investissement d'Avenir grant of the French ANR (CEBA: ANR-10-LABX-0025 ; IVIC ; Margaret Mee Amazon Trust ; Miquel fonds ; MCTI–Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi–Proc. 407232/2013-3–PVE-MEC/MCTI/CAPES/CNPq; National Geographic Society (7754-04 and 8047-06 to P.M.J.; 6679-99, 7435-03, and 8481-08 to T.W.H.); NSF-0726797 to K.R.Y ; NSF Dissertation Improvement ; Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research WOTRO (grants WB85-335 and W84-581) ; Primate Conservation Inc. ; Programme Ecosystèmes Tropicaux (French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development) ; Shell Prospecting and Development Peru ; Smithsonian Institution's Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program ; Stichting het van Eeden-fonds ; The Body Shop ; The Ministry of the Environment of Ecuador ; TROBIT ; Tropenbos International ; U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF-0743457 and NSF-0101775 to P.M.J.; NSF-0918591 to T.W.H.) ; USAID ; Variety Woods Guyana ; Wenner-Gren Foundation ; WWF-Brazi ; WWF-Guianas ; XIIéme Contrat de Plan Etat Région-Guyane (French Government and European Union) ; European Union ; UK Natural Environment Research Counci ; European Research Council ; Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
