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"Applying environmentally responsible strategies to the interior design process, Sustainable Commercial Interiors provides designers with everything they need to know about sustainability when working on commercial projects. Organized to mimic the LEED Green Building Rating System, this book covers everything from global environmental issues to water and energy usage to the latest information on materials, finishes, and furnishings. The Second Edition is fully updated to reflect the new LEED 2012 guidelines and includes fifteen brand new case studies that illustrate the green design and building strategies employed in a variety of commercial projects. Illustrated in full color throughout, the new edition includes instructor ancillary materials for classroom use"--

Pioneers project: Looking inside planetary interiors
PIONEERS European project develops the next generation of instruments that will reveal planetary interiors, explains Professor Raphael F. Garcia from ISAE-SUPAERO. After decades of exploration of planetary surfaces, our knowledge of planetary interiors and internal structures remains very limited. However, the structure of a planetary body tells us a lot about how it formed and evolved during the last 4.5 billion years. It is critical to understand our solar system to know better the thousands of planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy. Are these planets water-rich? for how long? Can these sustain life? Even at the scale of our solar system these questions are not fully solved because the clues to their answers are hidden deep inside our nearby planets, their moons, and asteroid bodies. Even if all these objects formed from the same materials that formed our Sun, the hazard of accretion generated very different objects evolving differently.

En la actualidad las empresas están inmersas en un ambiente de mercados abiertos por lo cual están obligadas a operar con calidad excelente y vigilar que esto sea una norma constante. Para lo cual requieren de un apoyo confiable y sólido para organizar y aprovechar adecuadamente sus recursos y ser cada día más competitivos. La administración junto con el departamento interno de contabilidad, juegan un papel muy importante para el éxito de cualquier empresa, la cual constituye una herramienta fundamental, es un medio en el cual nos permite a su vez evaluar el desarrollo de la organización y detectar oportunidades de mejora. El presente documento, permite realizar una evaluación real de la oportunidad de negocio, identificar supuestos para el éxito; brindar la posibilidad de explicar, justificar, proyectar y evaluar los supuestos de base del negocio. Entregar al empresario la primera herramienta administrativa para su empresa. Además de exponer con detalle la estructura organizacional de la empresa, señalando los puestos y la relación que existe entre ellos. Explicar la jerarquía, los grados de autoridad y responsabilidad, las funciones y actividades de lasunidades orgánicas o departamentos que la conforman para deslindar responsabilidades, evitar duplicación de funciones y detectar omisiones. En la actualidad un gran número de organismos sociales han adoptado el uso de Modelo de Negocio, como medio para la satisfacción de distintos tipos de necesidades, así como para definir los requerimientos de recursos de todo tipo, en un panorama de tiempo y las formas de consecución de ellos. Su objetivo sustancial es propiciar el mejor aprovechamiento delos recursos humanos y materiales, al establecer objetivos y metas de corto y largo plazo, evaluar el estado actual y futuro de la empresa y del entorno en que operará.

Political and cultural agendas determine the programs of public libraries, implying complex and often conflicting requirements in terms of their functioning. On one hand, they intend to materialize a political discourse of open and equal access to knowledge. On the other, they have functional and epistemological needs that might restrict or condition the distribution and access of books, equipment, and people. This article looks at how space, program, and use interrelate in the emergence of public libraries as a building type, focusing on how they express an intended public message and fulfil specific social and cultural effects. It is argued that each of these three aspects underpins power relations in libraries. By embedding an epistemology of science, space also embeds social and cultural hierarchies. Through defining an educational agenda for public libraries, program endorses the idea that citizenship depends on instruction and literacy, implying technocracy. Finally, by becoming collective under the frames of space and program, use materializes the idea of a "self-regulated society," which embeds a twofold process: to be regulated by all others and to engage in a process of participatory action and regulation. The article reviews the literature on the historical emergence of public libraries and recommends that studies of contemporary libraries should consider how this building type originally framed social relationships through its architecture, materializing specific ideologies of politics and culture.