269 research outputs found
Smuggling and trafficking of Romanian women in the Region of Madrid
No full textTras la caída de los regímenes comunistas y el desplome soviético en el Este de Europa, ocurrieron transformaciones trascendentales. Con el telón de fondo de las transiciones económicas, políticas y sociales, aumentó de la emigración procedente de estos países, hacia los países desarrollados de la UE. Entre los múltiples tipos de emigraciones que se realizaron a partir de los años noventa, apareció en el escenario, la cara más oscura de la inmigración irregular: el tráfico de mujeres. El artículo analiza desde una perspectiva social el fenómeno del tráfico de mujeres procedentes en Rumanía, con destino España, Comunidad de Madrid. Se analiza el contexto, la situación en el origen, la organización del tráfico y la dramática situación de las víctimas en el destino. La autora considera que a pesar de las dificultades a la hora de medir y cuantificar el tráfico de mujeres, es importante realizar la aproximación a la víctima para conocer la realidad sobre esta cara negra y oculta de la inmigración internacional.After the fall of the communist regimes and the Soviet collapse in the East of Europe, transcendental transformations happened. With the basic curtain of the economic transitions, political and social, the fury of the emigration coming from these countries untied, towards the developed countries of the EU. Between the multiple types of emigrations that were realised from the Nineties, within the industry of the migration, appeared in the scene, the darkest face of immigration to irregular: the traffic of women. The article analyzes from a social perspective the phenomenon of the traffic of originating women in Rumania, with Spain destiny, Community of Madrid. We analyze the situation in the origin, the organization of the traffic and the dramatic situation of the victims in the destiny. The author considers that in spite of the difficulties at the time of measuring and quantifying the traffic of women, it is important to realise the approach to the victim to know the reality on this black face and hides of international immigration
A FIRST COMPOSITIONAL ATTEMPT INTO THE WORLD OF SILENT SHORT FILMS – SANCTUARY BY NELIO COSTA (WITH MUSIC BY ŞERBAN MARCU)
No full textThis paper presents the author\u27s first attempt at writing film music. The film under discussion is Sanctuary, a silent short film produced by Nelio Costa, Professor of film journalism at the UNA University Center in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The study highlights the suggestions that the composer derived from the film, the musical solutions the composer came up with in order to “counterpoint” the visual discourse and the context in which the film was presented, at the 2nd edition of the InnerSound International New Arts Festival, in Bucharest, 2013
The Influence of Interdependence Relationships on Trust Repair Strategies and Collaboration Fluency
No full textIntelligent agents are increasingly required to engage in collaboration with humans in the context of human-agent teams (HATs) to achieve shared goals. Interdependence is a fundamental concept in teamwork. It enables humans and robots to leverage their capabilities and collaboratively work towards a shared goal, fostering the development of trust through joint activities. Considering the great importance of trust, the effectiveness of trust repair strategies is crucial as they help mitigate the negative consequences of errors, enabling efficient collaboration between humans and robots. For this reason, the effectiveness of the trust repair strategies must be examined comprehensively by taking into consideration multiple factors, including the interdependence relationships within HATs. This paper aims to examine the impact of a mix of interdependence and independence relationships on trust violation and repair, but also on collaboration fluency. Thus, an experiment (n = 30) was conducted to study how interdependence affects trust violation, trust repair and collaboration fluency. Participants collaborated with a robot during a search and rescue mission in a simulated environment. Results show that there is a significant influence of interdependence on trust violations, but not on collaboration fluency or trust repair. Furthermore, the paper also emphasises the need for future research that investigates the effectiveness of trust repair strategies for HATs in different interdependence relationships.CSE3000 Research ProjectComputer Science and Engineerin
From the Marginal Immigrant to the Mobile Citizen: Reconstruction of Identity of Romanian Migrants in Spain
No full textThis paper looks into the complex interplay of identity (re)construction as conducted by Romanian immigrants to Spain within the context of the enlargement of the European Union towards Eastern Europe. By using qualitative research techniques, the paper attempts to highlight how the migration process, which is closely tied to border dynamics and European expansion occurring in stages from 1990 to the present, has influenced the (re)construction of identity and the change of discourse among immigrants. As part of the analysis, the study looks into the factors that contribute to the initial loss of the components of identity, identity reconstruction, and the types of identity emerging from the process of mobility. Finally, the paper examines to what extent immigrants' temporary work movements influence the nature of identity construction. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.This paper comes as a result of the research project entitled ‘Eastern European migration to Spainin the context of border geopolitics: circulatorymobility and return’ (CSO 2010-14870), withfunding from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and coordination by the author, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher ‘Ramón y Cajal’ (RyC 2009-03834)Peer reviewe
Uneven mobility experiences: Life-strategy expectations among Eastern European undergraduate students in the UK and Spain
No full textThis article looks at the uneven mobility experiences of Eastern European (EE) undergraduate students within the European Union (EU) as a fundamental aspect of human intra-European mobility. It addresses the issue of student mobility by focusing on two samples of Romanian and Bulgarian undergraduates studying in the UK and Spain, after the EU enlargement towards the East. Based on 70 in-depth qualitative interviews, the study evaluates the motivations, experiences and expectations of students and their families in the context of life-course trajectories. I argue that the socio-economic situation of the country of origin, the different strategies used by EE students and their families, and the country they choose for study overseas – the UK or Spain – create uneven mobility and influence their future life-strategy mobility after graduation. The main thematic findings, that is, mobility as a platform for permanent migration and family reunification, uncertain mobility as a tool for competition, and mobility for return, show the relation between the reasons why students study overseas and subsequent mobility aspirations. The conclusions highlight the need to integrate mobile students into the study of mobility as pivotal actors in the global circuit of mobility who favour both host and origin societies.This article comes as a result of the research project entitled: ‘Eastern European migration to Spain in the context of border geopolitics: circulatory mobility and return’ (CSO 2010-14870), with funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and coordination by the author, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher ‘Ramón y Cajal’ (RYC 2009-03834)Peer reviewe
Taking stock after the Warsaw COP. CEPS Commentary, 4 December 2013
No full textDrawing on his direct participation in the latest round of climate talks in Warsaw, Andrei Marcu looks at the results of the 19th COP through the lens of three basic questions, with a view to understanding how much progress was made and where we stand two years ahead of Paris.
Are the targets adequate and how do we reach environmentally adequate targets?
Can one understand and compare what other Parties are promising to do to ensure that the level of effort is comparable and equitable, and that companies are not asked to do more than their competitors in other jurisdictions? Is there comparability and equity in the eyes of the beholder?
Do we understand what tools each country uses (what is available, what one gets as support) to ensure that no one country (and its companies) gets an easier ride or competitive advantage in meeting the commitment/promises that countries make.
The author asserts that these questions need to be answered if an agreement is to be reached in 2015. And if they are not, he warns of mistrust, fear of carbon leakage and the temptation to resort to protectionist measures to compensate for competitive disadvantage
Narrative support for technical documents: Formalising Rhetorical Structure Theory
No full textBusiness Process Re-engineering (BPR) is an area that requires a lot of technical documents and an important feature of a well-written document is a coherent narrative. Even though computer software has helped authors in many other aspects of writing, support for document narratives is almost non-existent. Therefore, we introduce CANS (Computer-Aided Narrative Support), a tool that uses Rhetorical Structure Theory to enhance the narrative of a document. From this narrative, the tool generates questions to prompt the author for the content of the document. CANS also allows the author to explore alternative narratives for a document. A catalogue of predefined narrative structures for popular types of documents is provided too. Our tool is still in its rudimentary stages but sufficiently complete to be demonstrated
Lattice score based data cleaning for phrase-based statistical machine translation
No full textStatistical machine translation relies heavily
on parallel corpora to train its models
for translation tasks. While more and
more bilingual corpora are readily available,
the quality of the sentence pairs
should be taken into consideration. This
paper presents a novel lattice score-based
data cleaning method to select proper sentence
pairs from the ones extracted from a
bilingual corpus by the sentence alignment
methods. The proposed method is carried
out as follows: firstly, an initial phrasebased
model is trained on the full sentencealigned
corpus; then for each of the sentence
pairs in the corpus, word alignments
are used to create anchor pairs and sourceside
lattices; thirdly, based on the translation
model, target-side phrase networks
are expanded on the lattices and Viterbi
searching is used to find approximated decoding
results; finally, BLEU score thresholds
are used to filter out the low-score
sentence pairs for the data cleaning purpose.
Our experiments on the FBIS corpus
showed improvements of BLEU score
from 23.78 to 24.02 in Chinese-English
The length of schooling and the timing of family formation
No full textThis directory contains Stata code that replicates the tables and figures for the following paper:
Title: The length of schooling and the timing of family formation
Journal: CESifo Economic Studies
DOI: 10.1093/cesifo/ifab014
Author: Josefine Koebe and Jan Marcu
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