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GLOBALIZATION & REGIONALIZATION IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE
No full textThe concept of globalization refers to the growing interdependence of countries, resulting from the increasing integration of trade, finance, investments, labor markets and ideas in one globalmarketplace. The most important elements of this process are the international trade and the cross-border investment flows. Economic globalization has increased the specialization of workers, while the companies compete in global markets. Even globalization has recently become a common topic in academic discourse, many economists focused, from the 1980s and 1990s, in addition to globalization, on regionalization - the growth of networks of interdependence within multinational regions of the world. The recent decades arecharacterized by the fact that the world trade grew faster than world output, which implies that an increasing share of world GDP crosses international borders. The trend is explained, mostly, by thesubstantially declining of the trade barriers during the same period, as a result of successive trade negotiation rounds under the auspices of the GATT/WTO, unilateral trade liberalization and regional tradeagreements. Even there are global connections between all the countries, the strongest political and economic integration is being created within a few specific regions of the world: Europe, North America and East Asia.globalization, regionalization, international trade, trade agreement, trade liberalization, economic integration, global market
Generalized TASE-RK methods for stiff problems
No full textA family of Time-Accurate and Stable Explicit (TASE) methods for the numerical integration of Initial Value Problems in stiff Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) y'(t) = f (t, y) was recently introduced in [1]. The main idea was to make local extrapolation of a stabilized Euler method. More recently, in [3] a similar approach by considering the stabilization of arbitrary explicit Runge-Kutta methods (TASE-RK) was analyzed. In this case the explicit Runge-Kutta method integrates a transformed ODE obtained by multiplying the vector field f (t, y) by a certain operator which approximates the identity mapping up to a given order p. The main inconvenience of both approaches is that to reach order p the solution of p2 linear systems plus the evaluation of p derivatives are required per integration step.In order to substantially reduce the computational costs of the former approaches in the linear system solution, but maintaining the good accuracy and stability properties, a new family of TASE-RK methods which allow to introduce a few more free parameters are considered. The formulation of the methods was conceived to be implemented not only in sequential mode but it admits parallelism in a straightforward way. Furthermore, since these methods are linearly implicit, connections to the class of W-methods [19] are properly established. The order conditions for the new class of methods are widely studied by using the rooted tree theory. For p = 3, 4, new methods with p sequential stages and order p are derived and compared on semidiscrete 1D and 2D Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) to those in [1,3] and other standard Rosenbrock and W-methods in the literature.(c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of IMACS. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http:// creativecommons .org /licenses /by-nc -nd /4 .0/)
Reflections on the development and implementation of interprofessional education between pharmacy and dentistry
No full textBackground: Inter-professional education (IPE) is advocated as a key approach for modern healthcare education to develop better readiness for collaborative practice. Reports indicate that it enables the professions to “learn with, from and about each other” and can optimise exchange of experience and expertise. While there have been calls for better dentistry-pharmacy inter-professional education there is limited evidence for best practice. Aim This paper describes learning and reflections and feedback from the process of developing and implementing interprofessional learning activities between dental, pharmacy and hygiene and therapy students. Methods Data collected from staff and from student “post it note” exit polls were collated and analysed using a thematic approach to data. Results The interprofessional learning sessions were most successful when delivered in a clinical setting and when students were able to interact. Challenges for delivery included issues which included timetables, room bookings, staff training/experience, capacity and attitudes. Conclusions Interprofessional educational activity development is itself a learning process of development involving a range of factors that can contribute to success. However, there are many challenges involved. Surrounding support and willingness of staff to try new things and work together to overcome the obstacles is important in the journey to success
Author Profiling Tracks at FIRE
No full text[EN] Benchmarking activities are vital for fostering research and addressing new challenging problems. During the last 10 years of the FIRE initiative we have been involved in the organization of more than ten tracks, with the aim of the creation of new resources in several languages that were made available to the research community. This allowed to compare the new several approaches on the same datasets. In this chapter we will focus on the description of three author profiling tracks, on their data creation as well as the results analysis.The work on the author profiling data in Arabic was made possible by NPRP Grant #9-175-1-033 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authorsRosso, P.; Rangel Pardo, FM. (2020). Author Profiling Tracks at FIRE. SN Computer Science. 1:1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-020-0073-1S1111Al Sukhni E, Alequr Q. 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The morphological effects of sediment diversions the Lower Mississippi River
No full textThe wetlands in the Mississippi delta (USA) are drastically subsiding and eroding. Many projects and researches are ongoing to determine how this “drowning effect” of the delta can be stopped. One of the solutions that could be feasible is implementing sediment diversions in the levees of the Lower Mississippi River in order to divert sediment into the delta. This thesis addresses the morphological effects of river diversions on the Lower Mississippi River. The main objective is to analyze and optimize trade-offs between delta building and river navigability. For this purpose a 2DH numerical model with Delf3D has been created; the model simulates the hydro- and morphodynamic behavior. The river reach which has been studied is the final 110 km of the river from Point a la Hache at River Kilometer 78 (RK 78) down to the mouth of the river (RK -30), below Head of Passes. The hydrodynamic model has been calibrated and verified with flow and stage data from daily observations on the river. With the available sediment data a calibration has been carried out of the morphological behavior in the river. The model has been used to simulate several scenarios to get insight in the problems in the delta. From analysis of the model results the river bed in the study area can be divided into three categories. Upstream of RK 4 the bed is subject to erosion, around RK 4 the bed is practically in equilibrium and downstream of RK 4 the bed is subject to sedimentation. The reach downstream of RK 4 is the dredging reach; after analyzing the long-term simulation of 20 years it is not expected that the dredging quantities will decrease in the future. Closing off West Bay diversion has a positive effect on the dredging quantities. The best diversion site for this study area is found in the inner bend of the river upstream of Empire (RK 47) at RK 53. This site is most efficient and diverts the largest quantities of sand through the diversion.Hydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
The Dunston Manuscript
No full textVariously titled 80 Slides and a Memory, Fit for a King and others this is the definitive performed version as an invited reading in 2001 to the Urban Design Group. It describes in blank verse the early stages of the Gateshead Garden Festival illustrated with slide
U.S. Monetary Policy and Stock Prices: Should the Fed Attempt to Control Stock Prices?
No full textThis article rejects the linkages in proposals that the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) target equity prices. The real federal funds rate (RFF) and stock prices (SP) are uncorrelated; causality tests show a positive effect of SP on RFF and a negative effect of SP on RFF. These results occur as part of the dynamics of a negative cointegrated relationship between SP and RFF. A theoretically expected inverse relation between SP and inflation accounts for the results. The negative effect of SP on FF is also confirmed in a Taylor Rule estimate. Higher stock prices anticipate lower, not higher, inflation.Monetary Policy; Bubbles; Asset Prices; Inflation.
Associating Gender with Neighbourhood Deprivation in Lagos State, Nigeria
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Transcriptions of Albanian Violin Music for Viola: History, Musical Style and Teaching Tools for the Intermediate to Advanced Player
No full textABSTRACTTranscriptions of Albanian Violin Music for Viola: History, Musical Style and Teaching Tools for the Intermediate to Advanced Player byBesnik YzeiriThe aim of the present study was fourfold: to add valuable new pieces to the viola repertoire; to do so specifically highlighting Albanian classical music; to develop a methodology for making transcriptions for that instrument; and to demonstrate the usefulness of such works specifically to guide intermediate and advanced viola performance students toward higher technical levels. The author accomplished these goals by carefully choosing appropriate pieces, exploring and comparing the transcribing methodologies of William Primrose, Watson Forbes, and Lionel Tertis, and synthesizing a framework for accomplishing the best transcription method for the task. The author then applied this framework specifically to Albanian composer Pjetër Gaci’s Concertino and Concerto for Violin and Piano, transcribing them for viola and piano, and finally using these transcriptions as case studies as teaching tools for intermediate to advanced viola students
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