AEC industry is currently facing a remarkable transformative stage given by the use of disruptive technologies alongside a gradually increasing interest form project participants to enhance collaborative dynamics in projects, throughout the implementation of technologies such as Building Information Modelling, migrating from a fragmented conduct workflow in the built environment projects, to a share and open- access iterative process. The rising popularity and the wide adoption of these technology had unleash a high level of digital information and sharing transactions, overcoming the capacity of current digital infrastructures, entailing some collateral effects for the AEC organisations, such as handling with vast amount of information during multiple projects, increasing the complexity of data and resulting in a mistrust on the reliability on the information. Blockchain is the unbounded innovation technology behind cryptocurrencies, the characteristics of this platform presents multiple similarities with the database in the BIM files and the network workflows of information set a feasible scenario for the application of this technology as a backbone of BIM, this study sought to unveil and explore possible technological fusion between these two ground-breaking technologies, to achieve these goals, this study sets a qualitative methodology conducted with two approaches, a systematic literature review regarding previous research about this technologies alongside personal interviews with professionals in the AEC industry related to this. The findings on these two approaches are later discussed and analysed unveiling the best path that future researchers might follow to continue with the development of these technologies, benefiting the AEC industry in the long term. Resumen: La industria de AEC se enfrenta actualmente a una notable etapa de transformación dada por el uso de tecnologías disruptivas junto con un interés gradualmente creciente de los participantes del proyecto para mejorar la dinámica de colaboración en los proyectos, a lo largo de la implementación de tecnologías como el Modelado de información de construcción, migrando desde un flujo de trabajo fragmentado en entornos constructivos, a un proceso iterativo de acceso abierto y compartido. La creciente popularidad y la amplia adopción de estas tecnologías han desencadenado un alto nivel de información digital y transacciones de intercambio, superando la capacidad de las infraestructuras digitales actuales, lo que conlleva algunos efectos colaterales para las organizaciones de AEC, como el manejo con gran cantidad de información durante múltiples proyectos, aumentando la complejidad de los datos y dando lugar a una desconfianza en la fiabilidad de la información. Blockchain es la tecnología de innovación ilimitada detrás de las criptomonedas, las características de esta plataforma presentan múltiples similitudes con la base de datos en los archivos BIM y los flujos de trabajo de la red de información establecen un escenario factible para la aplicación de esta tecnología como columna vertebral de BIM, este estudio buscó Revelar y explorar la posible fusión tecnológica entre estas dos tecnologías innovadoras, para lograr estos objetivos, este estudio establece una metodología cualitativa realizada con dos enfoques, una revisión sistemática de la literatura sobre investigaciones anteriores sobre estas tecnologías junto con entrevistas personales con profesionales en la industria de AEC relacionados a esto. Los resultados de estos dos enfoques se discuten y analizan más tarde, revelando el mejor camino que los futuros investigadores podrían seguir para continuar con el desarrollo de estas tecnologías, beneficiando a la industria de AEC a largo plazo.

Sergio Cabrera is a prominent figure in the history of Colombian cinema: with seven long-feature films made throughout a career of more than thirty years, the director is one of the most renowned Colombian filmmakers in the country and abroad. His oeuvre has always aimed to address Colombian social reality through an original blending of his approach to cinema as an auteur and the deployment of accessible genres, narratives, and aesthetics. However, his relevance has not always been accompanied by a thorough scholarship that methodically analyses his films. This dissertation aims to fill this gap regarding academic studies about Cabrera’s films, especially considering his work as a corpus, not separately. In the following study, the author makes a textual analysis that aims to critically describe the aesthetic and ideological elements within three films from the 1990’s by Sergio Cabrera that constitute the director’s representation of Colombian society, focusing on three main social issues depicted in each film: social class (La estrategia del caracol), gender (Ilona llega con la lluvia), and armed conflict (Golpe de estadio). To do such analysis, this dissertation uses the concept Melorealism, an encompassing category coined by Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez to outline the aesthetic, ideological, and economical factors that have shaped Latin American films from 1990s. The analysis will ultimately show that Cabrera’s oeuvre is constantly moving within a spectrum defined by utopia and reality. Resumen: Sergio Cabrera es una figura destacada en la historia del cine colombiano: con siete largometrajes realizados a lo largo de una carrera de más de treinta años, el director es uno de los cineastas colombianos más reconocidos en el país y en el extranjero. Su obra siempre ha tenido como objetivo abordar la realidad social colombiana a través de una combinación original de su enfoque del cine como autor y el despliegue de géneros, narrativas y estéticas accesibles. Sin embargo, su relevancia no siempre ha estado acompañada de un estudio exhaustivo que analice metódicamente sus películas. Esta tesis tiene como objetivo llenar este vacío con respecto a los estudios académicos sobre las películas de Cabrera, especialmente considerando su trabajo como un corpus, no por separado. En el siguiente estudio, se realiza un análisis textual que tiene como objetivo describir críticamente los elementos estéticos e ideológicos dentro de tres películas de la década de 1990 de Sergio Cabrera que constituyen una representación de la sociedad colombiana desde la perspectiva del director, centrándose en tres temas sociales principales representados en cada película: clase social (La estrategia del caracol), género (Ilona llega con la lluvia) y conflicto armado (Golpe de estadio). Para hacer dicho análisis, esta disertación utiliza el concepto Melorealismo, una categoría acuñada por Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez para delinear los factores estéticos, ideológicos y económicos que han dado forma a las películas latinoamericanas de la década de 1990. El análisis finalmente mostrará que la obra de Cabrera se mueve constantemente dentro de un espectro definido por la utopía y la realidad.

The importance of the knowledge universities constantly generate through research cannot be denied, and the appliance of this knowledge and its potential impact in industry has created challenges for the relation among academics and practitioners. One important topic for higher education is how to better generate relevant knowledge than can relate to industry and contribute to knowledge creation. That question has been examined by engaged scholarship where collaboration has been a tool to put both universes together. However, this model also faces some challenges which make pertinent the study of new ways to transfer knowledge from academia to industry. This research attempts to find the extent into which the appliance of creativity in knowledge translation could enhance knowledge transfer effectiveness. Advertising has shown effectiveness with the use of creativity; therefore, this research aims to link creative advertising and knowledge transfer to experiment with the role of creativity for a better academic communication. Resumen: No se puede negar la importancia del conocimiento que las universidades generan constantemente a través de la investigación y que el uso de este conocimiento y su impacto en la industria ha creado desafíos para la relación entre académicos y profesionales. Un tema importante para la educación superior es cómo generar conocimiento relevante que sea posible de relacionar con la industria y contribuir a la creación de conocimiento. Esa pregunta ha sido examinada en diferentes tipos de estudio en donde la colaboración ha sido una herramienta para unir ambos universos. Sin embargo, este modelo también enfrenta algunos desafíos que hacen pertinente el estudio de nuevas formas de transferir conocimiento de la academia a la industria. Esta investigación intenta encontrar en qué medida el uso de la creatividad en la traducción del conocimiento podría mejorar la eficacia en la transferencia de conocimiento. La publicidad ha demostrado efectividad con el uso de la creatividad; Por lo tanto, esta investigación tiene como objetivo vincular la publicidad creativa y la transferencia de conocimiento para experimentar el papel de la creatividad en la comunicación académica.

Results from the recent excavations at the Cuncaicha rock shelter (4480 m above sea level) suggest a successful colonization of the Andean highlands by groups of foragers during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene. The discovery of Early and Late Holocene human remains buried in the site brings new opportunities to assess mobility and occupation strategies during this period. In this study, isotopic analysis of strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and oxygen (δ18O) in faunal and human dental enamel helped to identify the most likely areas where humans obtained food and consumed water during their formative years. Collection of modern plant and water samples also helped to define a reliable background for the mobility analysis within the study area.87Sr/86Sr ratios andδ18O on dental enamel showed that Early Holocene humans lived within the Pucuncho Basin and obtained most of their resources from there. Isotopic analyses are an important step for modeling the mobility patterns of the Early Holocene occupants of Cuncaicha.

"We studied temporal variation in adult size and sexual size dimorphism (SSD) of seven hunting spider species, Ctenus amphora, C. crulsi, C. manauara, C. villasboasi (Ctenidae), Phoneutria fera, P. reidyi (Ctenidae), and Ancylometes rufus (Pisauridae) in a tropical rainforest, and one species from a relatively open vegetation habitat, C. minor, in central Amazonia. Size variation was great within and among field trips. Spiders were generally smaller in October (end of dry season) when compared with other months: adults of C. amphora, C. crulsi and C. manauara were significantly smaller in October 1995 when compared to February 1996; P. fera were smaller in October 1998 than in June 1998; and A. rufus were smaller in October 1998 than in August 1998. The temporal variation in size is possibly a result of low prey availability during the dry season. Six species had significant differences in prosoma length between males and females: C. amphora, C. crulsi, C. manauara and C. minor had larger males (which is considered rare in spiders), and P. reidyi and P. fera had larger females. However, considering an alternative index of size, the ‘‘rough area’’ (an approximate measure of the area of the spider as seen from above), the males were significantly larger for all species (up to 2.8 times in C. minor), because they have longer legs relative to their prosoma length. We suggest that selection for high mobility may be the reason for adult males with longer legs, and that the smaller species had higher degrees of sexual dimorphism in leg length because of the relative size of obstacles in the leaf litter. Resumen: Estudiamos la variación temporal en el tamaño adulto y el dimorfismo del tamaño sexual (SSD) de siete especies de arañas cazadoras, Ctenus amphora, C. crulsi, C. manauara, C. villasboasi (Ctenidae), Phoneutria fera, P. reidyi (Ctenidae) y Ancylometes rufus (Pisauridae) en una selva tropical, y una especie de un hábitat de vegetación relativamente abierto, C. minor, en la Amazonía central. La variación de tamaño fue excelente dentro y entre las excursiones. Las arañas fueron generalmente más pequeñas en octubre (final de la estación seca) en comparación con otros meses: los adultos de C. amphora, C. crulsi y C. manauara fueron significativamente más pequeños en octubre de 1995 en comparación con febrero de 1996; P. fera fueron más pequeños en octubre de 1998 que en junio de 1998; y A. rufus fueron más pequeños en octubre de 1998 que en agosto de 1998. La variación temporal en el tamaño es posiblemente el resultado de la baja disponibilidad de presas durante la estación seca. Seis especies tenían diferencias significativas en la longitud del prosoma entre machos y hembras: C. amphora, C. crulsi, C. manauara y C. minor tenían machos más grandes (lo que se considera raro en las arañas), y P. reidyi y P. fera tenían más hembras, Sin embargo, considerando un índice de tamaño alternativo, el ""área rugosa"" (una medida aproximada del área de la araña como se ve desde arriba), los machos fueron significativamente más grandes para todas las especies (hasta 2,8 veces en C. minor), porque tienen piernas más largas en relación con la longitud de su prosoma. Sugerimos que la selección para una alta movilidad puede ser la razón de los machos adultos con patas más largas, y que las especies más pequeñas tenían grados más altos de dimorfismo sexual en la longitud de las patas debido al tamaño relativo de los obstáculos en la hojarasca."

By ignoring how conflict and displacement disrupt the location of home for those who flee within national borders, studies on displacement have largely failed to fully understand the material and symbolic impacts of living without a place called home. Drawing on the experiences of internally displaced people in Colombia, this paper argues that following conflict and displacement home becomes neither an entirely fixed place those who escape conflict unequivocally want to return nor an entirely mobile space they necessarily experience on the move. Rather than ambiguously attached to the place left behind or refashioned on the move, the empirical findings reveal that home is consistently experienced by the displaced as a tension between ‘here’ and ‘there’ or ‘nowhere’. Although many displaced people do find a physical place to live following displacement they experience the sense of being trapped in a liminal space where they feel emotionally and existentially homeless. Analysis of detailed interviews shows that most of them continue to search for a sense, rather than a place called, home. A home which is emotional and affective rather than purely physical. The paper concludes by highlighting how sedentarist and non-sedentarist understandings of home coexist in the displaced location of home.

Kingdon’ (2014) Multiple Stream Framework (MSF) is a novel agenda-setting model, which is recognised for introducing agency into the agenda-setting processes. Empirical evidence indicates that there are cases in which a policy entrepreneur couples the three streams, from the MSF model, to close a policy window, for maintaining a policy status quo. Yet, the closing window policy entrepreneur role has not been developed under the MSF. Therefore, this study has been designed to initially explore the process by which an interest group couples to close a policy window under the MSF. This research applied the theoretical constructs of the MSF model in a Colombian television policy case study. In this case, two interest groups competed for a different policy result. One of them was a collective policy entrepreneur advocating for a policy status quo. The key findings of the research are that: (i) one interest group acted as a collective policy entrepreneur, and coupled the three streams to introduce a topic on the agenda for maintaining a policy status quo; and (ii) to handle the power imbalance, this coupling strategy was developed within a favourable narrative and problem categorization. These findings are synthesised and embodied in the following three key propositions: (i) Interest groups aiming for a policy status quo might act as policy entrepreneurs when they are willing to invest their resources to introduce a topic on the agenda, for maintaining a policy status quo. (ii) Policy entrepreneurs that advocate for a policy status quo might use an agenda-setting strategy within the MSF processes. (iii) When there are two competing policy entrepreneurs in an agenda-setting process and one believes that has less power than the other, the agency strategy might involve the re-categorization of the problem and a favourable narrative to handle the power imbalance. To my knowledge, this research is original as it is the first attempt across the agenda-setting literature to empirically study how a policy window is being closed under the MSF. Therefore, this work might be used in future research, to continue the exploration of the policy entrepreneur role in closing a window under the MSF model.

The Tokyo Derby begins! But Hiraizumi remains unmoved when Tatsumi's plans expose Tokyo V's weaknesses. The pride of the players of a famous club is just waiting for the moment to change the team!

The preseason match heads toward its conclusion, and the season finally starts! Coach Tatsumi brings out strong feelings in everyone.

The team tournament at the High School Karuta Championships. Chihaya and the rest of Mizusawa High faces off against the elite squad and frequent title holder that is Fujisaki High. Each of their players is forced into a difficult battle where they feel the difference in skill between them and their opponent. Chihaya is paired up against Rion, who like Chihaya has a strong "feel" for the game. Chihaya knows that she cannot allow Rion to build any more of a lead and launches a daring attack in order to force the momentum back on her side. But just as she leaps for a card, a sharp pain runs through her finger. How will Chihaya get out of this predicament...? In Volume 15, Taichi's bout holds the key to everyone's fate.