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Factors influencing wolf Canis lupus roadkills in Northwest Spain
No full textInternational audienceRoadkill is one of the most prominent causes of wildlife mortality. Much research effort has focussed on collisions with ungulates because of traffic safety. However, studies about large carnivore roadkills are scarce despite vehicles being a main cause of mortality. The absence of studies can be explained in part because of difficulties in obtaining sufficient sample sizes. We collected data from locations of 82 wolf roadkill sites in the Castilla y León Region, northwest Spain. We evaluated different models to characterise collision localities using logistic regressions with corrections for rare events. The best models included traffic and human disturbance parameters. Landscape variables did not improve predictive power. Fencing was a decisive key predictor; roadkill was proportionally higher along fenced highways than on similar major roads that lacked fences. Wolf-vehicle collisions were more common in agricultural areas, although wolf densities were lower in these zones. Both the higher density of important roads and a greater proportion of roaming wolves on the plateau may explain this pattern
Entre la emblemática y el arte efímero. A propósito del "Arcus aliquot triumphal et monumenta victor classicae" de Joannes Sambucus
No full textLa relación entre emblemática y arte efímero constituye una realidad palpable a lo largo de los siglos XVI y XVII, con influencias mutuas entre ambas manifestaciones culturales. Sin duda alguna, el caso más singular de sintonía entre arte efímero y emblemática es el del “Arcus aliquot triumphal et monumenta victor classicae” de Sambuco, una obra que aunaba un tratado de emblemática con la supuesta crónica de una ficticia entrada triunfal. A través de dieciséis composiciones figuradas, Sambuco, el autor de uno de los tratados más importantes y trascendentales de la emblemática del siglo XVI, publicó en 1572 en Amberes una curiosa obra, apenas conocida, que se sitúa a medio camino entre el libro de emblemas y la crónica de una entrada triunfal.The relationship between Emblematics and Ephemeral Art constitutes a palpable reality throughout XVIth and XVIIth centuries, with mutual influences between both cultural manifestations. Undoubtedly, the most singular case of agreement between Ephemeral and Emblematic Art is "Arcus aliquot triumphal et monumenta victor classicae" by Sambuco, a dissertation that mixed an Emblematics treatise with the supposed chronicle of a fictional triumphal entry. Through sixteen figurative compositions, Sambuco, the author of one of the most important and transcendental treatises of the Emblematics in the XVIth century, published in 1572 in Antwerp a curious work, barely known, situated halfway between the book of emblems and the chronicle of a triumphal entry.peerReviewe
Talking Away the Crisis? The E3/EU-Iran Negotiations on Nuclear Issues. College of Europe EU Diplomacy Paper 6/2007, November 2007
No full textThe E3/EU-Iran negotiations on nuclear issues have been ongoing since summer 2003 with the aim to find a balance between Iran’s desire to establish a peaceful nuclear enrichment programme and satisfying the safeguards of the international community against the possible development of a nuclear weapons programme. This paper provides an analysis of these negotiations and draws the conclusion that the E3, and later the E3/EU, have entered the negotiations with Iran without a clear strategy or alternative outcomes, focusing only on ‘getting what they want’. It argues that in order to reach a mutually acceptable solution, the E3/EU needs to take a more pro-active stand in preparing the pre-negotiations and negotiations. It will be important to find a common formula. The E3/EU needs to create a win-win situation and end the crisis before it is too late
Diario de Campo: Boletín Interno de los investigadores del área de Antropología. 82 (2006) febrero. Diario de Campo
No full text- Festín para fotógrafos por Juan Llano Rocamora. - El atlas etnográfico de los pueblos originarios por Teresa Mora Vázquez. - Música, Evolución e Identidad por Thomas Stanford. - El mobbing: Problema emergente para la investigación antropológica de las sociedades complejas por Florencia Peña Saint Martin, Arturo Luis Alonzo Padilla y Rolando Javier González Arias. - Los nombres y las cosas en lenguas de clasificadores numerales por Saúl Morales Lara. - Arquitectura, nacionalismos y contrarrevolución por Carlos Mariano Tur Donati. - El lienzo de Tlaxcala por Nazario A. Sánchez Mastranzo. - La colección Espino Barros por María Hernández Ramírez. - Matemática indígena: cazadores-recolectores por Irene Jiménez. - Haciendas y comunidades en el siglo XVIII: un panorama en la jurisdicción de Tlalnepantla, México por José Antonio González Gómez. - Fricassée et Fricandeau. Los primeros pasos de la cocina francesa en México por José Luis Juárez López. - Conflicto social y gestión del patrimonio cultural por Jesús Antonio Machuca Ramírez. - El patrimonio cultural en peligro: a propósito de la nueva Ley de Fomento y Difusión de la Cultura por Victor Joel Santos Ramírez
Education and earnings inequality in Mexico
No full textEducation attainment levels increased dramatically for Mexico's labor force in the 1980s and early 1990s. In parallel, the country experienced a pronounced increase in earnings inequality from 1984-94, reflected in a higher dispersion of wages and an absolute decline in the real incomes of less educated, poorer Mexicans. This increased wage dispersion presents policymakers with a tradeoff between efficiency considerations (favoring increased spending on higher education) and equity considerations (favoring a more equal distribution of per student spending) in the allocation of fiscal resources to education. The author concludes that the best way to deal with this equity-efficiency tradeoff is to encourage greater private participation in higher education. His main findings are that: a) The accumulation of human capital during 1984-94, as proxied by education attainment, was accompanied by a more equal distribution of education attainment levels over that period and, thus, exerted an equalizing effect on the distribution of incomes. The increased income inequalityobserved over that period appears to be caused by an increased rate of skill-based technological change, whose transmission to Mexico and other developing countries may have been facilitated by the increased openness of their economies. b) The greater dispersion of wager observed in Mexico during the past decade raised the rates of return on investing in higher education, reversing the traditional pattern where primary education exhibits the highest rates of return. c) The social rates of return across levels of schooling were more uniform in 1994 than in 1984, suggesting a more efficient assignment of education spending. At the same time, the distribution of spending on education became more egalitarian, as per student spending in higher education declined markedly compared with per student spending at the primary level. This surprising coincidence in the pattern of spending on education was only possible because Mexico started out with a very distorted resource allocation in education that was both highly inequitable and inefficient. As Mexico's policymakers are on the way to correcting these distortions, the opportunities for avoiding the equity-efficiency tradeoff within Mexico's centralized education framework will become progressively exhausted. d) There is little reason to expect the pace of technological change, which appears mainly responsible for raising wage dispersion and the relative returns on higher education, to abate. Efficiency considerations dictate that Mexico should respond by devoting more resources to higher education. However, the federal budget, which traditionally has financed the lion's share of higher education costs in Mexico, is unable to accommodate additional spending on higher education, while spending cuts elsewhere in the education sector are bound to raise serious equity questions. Thus, to avoid falling behind in terms of human capital accumulation, greater private sector participation is necessary, at least, in terms of cost recovery from the main beneficiaries of higher education.Decentralization,Teaching and Learning,Environmental Economics&Policies,Public Health Promotion,Curriculum&Instruction,Teaching and Learning,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Gender and Education,Curriculum&Instruction
LA TRADUCCIÓN DE LAS CITAS ENTRE LA TRADICIÓN Y LA INNOVACIÓN. ESTUDIO DE CASO: LAS INSERCIONES DE LOS MISERABLES DE VICTOR HUGO EN TERRA ALTA DE JAVIER CERCAS
No full textThere is a trend among Spanish writers to cite authors without specifying the publishing house, the year of the publication or the page number. In essayistic texts, the bibliography may complete the missing data, except for the page number. In literary texts, nevertheless, this information is generally missing. This tendency can be justified by the authors’ intention to renew the reading experience, making it more fluent by clearing away the academic appearance in a novel. The present article compares varioustranslations of Javier Cercas’ Terra Alta including fragments from Les Misérables, with a focus on the presence or the absence of references to their location in the Hugo’s novel. At the end, the analysis will emphasize which of them is more respectful to the French masterpiece, without ignoring the need of a fluid reading experience. Traditionally, a published translation is required to be more rigorous when rendering quotations, that should be taken from an existing translation, with the mandatory specification of the publishing house, the year, the page number and the translator’s name. But when footnotes are missing in the source text, the translator is entitled to act as the author himself. Consequently, this article also brings up questions related to this specific situation: should a translator specify all the details about the insertion, paying tribute to one of his or her peers that translated the quoted book, even if this might affect the reading experience? Or should they ignore the existing translation, if outdated or erroneous, and provide a new one, turning to the indirect translation or to the original text (Hugo’s Les Misérables)? And finally, should the translator specify his or her choices in a footnote or act discreetly, running the risk of being accused of plagiarism
Raízes integralistas da teoria tridimensional do direito: história das ideias de Miguel Reale (1933-1953)
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Jurídicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito, Florianópolis, 2014.Este trabalho narra a história das ideias jurídicas de Miguel Reale, jurista e filósofo brasileiro, desde sua adesão ao Integralismo (1933) até a publicação de ?Filosofia do Direito? (1953). A pesquisa centrou-se na interpretação das ?Memórias? do autor (1987), em cotejo com suas obras sobre Integralismo, Teoria do Direito, Teoria do Estado, Filosofia Política e Filosofia do Direito. Também foi realizada pesquisa empírica sobre o diário integralista ?Acção?, dirigido por Reale de 1936 a 1938, cujos exemplares encontram-se microfilmados no Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo. As trajetórias intelectual e política do autor foram analisadas conjuntamente, mediante métodos da historiografia e da sociologia dos intelectuais, apoiados nas categorias analíticas de Michel Foucault e Pierre Bourdieu.Abstract : This work is a historical narrative about juridical ideas of Professor Miguel Reale, a brasilian jurist and philosopher, from the time he became involved with the political movement known as ?Integralismo? (1933) until the publication of ?Filosofia do Direito? (1953). This research was based on my interpretation of Reale?s memories (?Memórias?, from 1987), in comparison with his works about ?Integralismo?, Theory of Law, Theory of State, Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law. In adition to this, it contains an empirical research about ?Acção?, an integralist newspaper directed by Reale between 1936 and 1938. Nowadays, this material is microfilmed in the ?Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo?, the State of São Paulo?s Public Archive. The intellectual and political trajectories of the author were analyzed altogether, through the methods of historiography and sociology of intellectuals. Some analytical categories created by Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu were used to achieve this purpose
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No full textIn my time here at UCSD the training has not only helped develop and expand my artistry but also gifted me an unwavering clarity of purpose. I believe the acting process I’ve built along with the help from faculty and experiences have prepared me for what’s to come. My first show, The Elaborate entrance of Chad Deity, unlocked my purpose. To reach that little kid in every audience who never had the right words, who wants to connect, be entertained, distracted, who watches and thinks, “wow, that’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen”. What truly has helped me to do so is knowing confidently that I am enough and trusting in my mind, body, and voice. My trust in my understanding of text has given me the ability to grasp what the author says and expand with my own imagination but also know I may not always have the answers, but what’s important is to ask the questions and remember thoughts are living. My understanding of my own body has also been crucial, the miniscule details in which our bodies operate inspires the way I think about my work. It has given me a grasp on scale, imagination, point of view, and ease. Trust in my voice has shown me to be open, vulnerable, and precise, with the technique to do so over any period of time. With this new foundation I’m confident in inspiring my inner child and making art I’ll be proud of for years to come
Car-Following Model using Machine Learning Techniques: Approach at Urban Signalized Intersections with Traffic Radar Detection
No full textThis master thesis aims to gain new empirical insights into longitudinal driving behavior by means of the enumeration of a new hybrid car-following (CF) model which combines parametric and non parametric formulation. On one hand, the model, which predicts the drivers acceleration given a set of variables, benefits from innovative machine learning techniques such as Gaussian process regression (GPR) to make predictions when there exist correlation between new input and the training dataset. On the other hand, it uses existent traditional parametric CF models to predict acceleration when no similar situations are found in the training dataset. This formulation guarantees a complete and continues model and deals with the challenges of new available types of dataset in the transport field: noisy and incomplete yet with large amount of data. Multiple models have been trained using the Optimal Velocity Model (OVM) as a basis parametric model and a dataset collected in the PPA project in Amsterdam by traffic radar detection in stop and go traffic conditions. The other main innovation of this thesis is that variables rarely included in any CF model such as the status and the distance of drivers to the traffic light are also analyzed. Results show that the GPR model formulation is robust as the model performs better than OVM alone according to the main KPI, but still collisions occasionally occur. Moreover, results depict that traffic light status actively influences driver behavior. Overall, this thesis gives insights into new powerful mathematical techniques that can be applied to describe longitudinal driving behavior or any modeled process
Sinonimia intramodal e intermodal de los significados gramaticales, denotativos y connotativos, de las formas temporales del verbo en las lenguas española y rusa: estudio teórico de las relaciones sinonímicas entre los significados gramaticales del verbo español y del ruso, propuesta de clasificación y aplicación a la enseñanza de español como segunda lengua a los hablantes nativos de ruso = Intramodal and intermodal synonymy of the grammatical, denotative and connotative meanings of the temporal forms of the verb in the Spanish and Russian languages
No full text300 p.El presente estudio está dedicado a los estudiantes de español, hablantes nativos de ruso. Establece la correlación entre la sinonimia gramatical verbal en español y ruso modernos. El autor investiga este tipo de sinonimia en las lenguas española y rusa basada en el análisis de los significados gramaticales de las formas temporales para determinar la correlación entre sus campos semánticos en la sintagmática y establecer el grado de sus relaciones sinonímicas. La sinonimia verbal se examina a nivel de la convergencia semántica, denotativa y connotativa, de las estructuras verbales temporales en el plano de las relaciones intramodales e intermodales. Además, el autor procura clasificar los tipos de sinonimia verbal gramatical en español y ruso.
En la investigación, el sistema verbal de la lengua española ha sido sometido a un análisis sistémico a partir de los correspondientes logros de científicos españoles, latinoamericanos y rusos.
El autor de esta tesis, por primera vez en el hispanismo ruso, ha elaborado los criterios de sinonimia verbal intramodal e intermodal sobre la base de los significados denotativos y connotativos de las formas temporales del verbo en las lenguas española y rusa.
Este trabajo puede ser útil, desde el punto de vista teórico, para los que estudien la lengua española y otras lenguas indoeuropeas genéticamente relacionadas entre sí, y, sobre todo, desde el punto de vista práctico, para los hablantes nativos de ruso = This study is dedicated to Spanish students, native Russian speakers. The main goal of this study is to show that the types of verbal synonymy, which work in modern Spanish and Russian The author examines the verbal synonymy in the Spanish and Russian languages based on the analysis of the grammatical meanings of temporal forms to determine the correlation between their semantic fields in the syntagmatic and to establish the degree of their synonymic relations. Verbal synonymy is investigated at the level of semantic, denotative and connotative convergence of temporal verbal structures in the plane of intramodal and intermodal relations. In addition, the author attempts to classify the types of verbal grammatical synonymy in Spanish and Russian.
In the investigation, the verbal system of the Spanish language has been subjected to a systemic analysis based first on the corresponding achievements of Spanish, Latin American and Russian scientists.
The author of this thesis, for the first time in Russian Hispanism, has elaborated the criteria of intramodal and intermodal verbal synonymy based on the denotation and connotation of the temporal forms of the verb in the Spanish and Russian languages.
This work can be useful, from a theoretical point of view, for those who study the Spanish language and other Indo-European languages genetically related to each other, and above all, from a practical point of view, for native speakers of Russian
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