99 research outputs found
Analysis of Shocks Affecting Europe: EMU and some Central and Eastern Acceding Countries
No full textThis paper deals with the synchronization of business cycles and economic shocks between the euro area and acceding countries. We therefore extract the business cycle component of output by using Hodrick-Prescott filter. Supply and demand shocks are recovered from estimated structural VAR models of output growth and inflation using long run restriction (Blanchard and Quah). We then check the (A) symmetry of these shocks by calculating the correlation between euro area shocks and those of the different acceding countries. We find that several acceding countries have a quite high correlation of demand shocks with the euro area however supply shocks are asymmetric; the correlation between euro area and central and east European countries (CEECs) is negative. We therefore conclude that joining the European Monetary Union is not yet possible: central and east European countries have to make structural changes to join the European Monetary Union.Central and East European countries, Euro area, SVAR models, Hodrick-Prescott filter, Symmetric-asymmetric shocks
La oportunidad para elevar reclamaciones por desequilibrio económico del contrato estatal : aplicación de la buena fe y de los actos propios bajo la jurisprudencia del Consejo de Estado
No full text66 páginasEl Consejo de Estado ha desarrollado la regla conforme a la cual todas las reclamaciones que emanen del desequilibrio económico del contrato estatal deben hacerse al momento de suscribir documentos tales como prórrogas, suspensiones, contratos adicionales u otrosíes. De no ser así, se finiquitan los asuntos pendientes para las partes, no siendo posible discutir posteriormente hechos anteriores por resultar contrario al principio de la buena fe y a los actos propios.
Teniendo en cuenta lo anterior, se pretende analizar la restricción en la forma de aplicar el principio de la buena fe, pues al privilegiarse escenarios concretos de reclamación por desequilibrios económicos se disminuye la posibilidad de lograr el reajuste del contrato y la consecuente reparación de un daño. Hacerlo en momentos distintos a los señalados atrás, no supone per se y en todos los casos, una violación del principio general de buena fe y a la regla "venire contra factum proprium non valet", ni necesariamente un actuar desleal frente a las cargas recíprocas que genera el vínculo jurídico en un contrato conmutativo.The Colombian Council of State has developed the rule whereby every single claim grounded on the economic unbalance of public contracts must be made by the contractor at the precise moment of entering into contractual documents such as extensions, suspensions, additions or amendments. If not, pending issues between the parties are deemed to be solved, and the contractor is banned from filing any claim in the future based on past circumstances, for doing so would violate the principle of good faith and the doctrine of one´s own acts.
Taking this into account, this paper seeks to analyze the way in which the principle good faith can be applied, because by privileging certain sceneries of economic, the Council of State is in fact reducing the likelihood of obtaining the adjustment of the contract and the repair of the damage inflicted on the contractor. Claiming for the economic unbalance of the contract in moments different to the ones noted before, does not entail per se the violation of the principle of good faith and the rule “venire contra factum proprium non valet”, not even acting unfairly in face of reciprocal duties caused by legal relations in an agreement.MaestríaMagíster en Derech
Ecofeminist view of nature in rural trilogy by Eliza Orzeszkowa
No full textArtykuł jest poświęcony analizie i interpretacji wizerunku natury w powieściach Orzeszkowej. Autor analizuje trzy powieści: Niziny, Dziurdziowie, Cham, odnosząc się do artykułów dotyczących ekofeminizmu oraz ekokrytyki. Orzeszkowa jako narrator kobiecy przedstawia naturę jako kobietę. Natura ma olbrzymi wpływ na życie ludzkie. Organizuje codzienną rutynową egzystencję (np. w Dziurdziach i Chamie). Ludzie, którzy mieszkają na wsi i są połączeni z naturalnym cyklem wegetatywnym, są nazwani ludźmi natury; w Nizinach Pietrusia żyje w harmonii z naturą, podobnie jak Paweł w Chamie, który woli przebywać w towarzystwie natury niż ludzi. Protagoniści Orzeszkowej są mądrzy oraz wrażliwi. Znają cel swojej egzystencji oraz miejsce w ekosystemie. W powieściach Orzeszkowej natura jest antropomorfizowana: czuje oraz cierpi podobnie jak ludzie. Warto podkreślić, że natura reaguje na niemoralne zachowania ludzi wobec natury oraz człowieka (w Dzirudziach oraz w Chamie).This article is devoted to analyzing and interpreting the image of nature in Orzeszkowa’s novels. The author analyses 3 novels: Niziny, Dziurdziowie, Cham and refers to ecofeminism and ecocriticism articles. Orzeszkowa as a female narrator presents nature as a woman. Nature has huge influence on human’s life. It organizes daily routine. People, who live in the country and are connected with natural cycle of vegetative growth, are called ‘nature people’. They are wise, sensitive. They know the purpose of their existence and their place in ecosystem. The nature is anthropomorphised: it feels and suffers like humans. It is worth mentioning that nature reacts when people’s behaviour is immoral
Locke’s political liberty: readings and misreadings
No full textThe canonical image of John Locke as one of the first philosophes is so deeply engrained that we could forget that he belonged to a very different historico-political context. His influence on Enlightenment thought, not least that of his theories of political liberty, has been the subject of widespread debate. In Locke’s political liberty: readings and misreadings a team of renowned international scholars re-evaluates Locke’s heritage in the eighteenth century and the ways it was used. Moving beyond reductive conceptions of Locke as either central or peripheral to the development of Enlightenment thought, historians and philosophers explore how his writings are invoked, exploited or distorted in eighteenth-century reflections on liberty. Analyses of his reception in England and France bring out underlying conceptual differences between the two nations, and extend an ongoing debate about the difficulty of characterising national political epistemologies. The traditional Anglocentric view of Locke and his influence is demystified, and what emerges is a new, more diverse vision of the reception of his political thinking throughout Europe. Of interest to political philosophers and historians, Locke’s political liberty: readings and misreadings reveals how the issues identified by Locke recur in our own debates about difference, identity and property – his work is as resonant today as it has ever been. Wilda Anderson, Preface Christophe Miqueu, Introduction – Beyond canon and revision: exploring Locke’s réception I: From resistance to toleration Jean Terrel, Constituent power and resistance: did Locke have any followers? Pierre Lurbe, Political liberty in John Toland’s Anglia Libera Daniel Carey, Two strategies on toleration: Locke, Shaftesbury and diversity Christopher Brooke, ‘Locke en particulier les a traitées exactement dans les mêmes principes que moi’: revisiting the relationship between Locke and Rousseau Gerhardt Stenger, Liberty and toleration: Locke, Voltaire and ‘laïcité à la française’ II: From propriety to property Duncan Kelly, The propriety of liberty and the quality of responsible agency Pierre-Yves Quiviger, Sieyès as a reader of John Locke: metaphysics, politics and law Jørn Schøsler, The reception of Locke’s political philosophy in Denmark – an historical approach James Farr, Locke, natural law and New World slavery Jean-Fabien Spitz, Nozick’s ‘Locke on Property’: an obituary John Dunn, Postface Summaries Selected bibliography Inde
The conception of word in praxis poetry
No full textOrientador: Maria Eugenia da Gama Alves Boaventura DiasDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da LinguagemResumo: Este trabalho descreve e analisa a concepção de palavra na poesia práxis, manifestação vanguardista brasileira do final dos anos 50 do último século. Dividida em três capítulos, a dissertação concentra-se na obra do fundador de Práxis, Mário Chamie, especificamente Lavra Lavra (1962) e no manifesto didático que lhe serve de posfácio. No primeiro capítulo, levantam-se as questões concernentes à oposição entre palavra e discurso no debate sobre poesia no Brasil e apresentam-se as primeiras idéias de Chamie sobre o assunto. A partir da análise de textos poéticos e teóricos do autor, detectamos uma linha que vai de uma concepção segundo a qual a palavra poética configura o mundo a uma visão que subordina a poesia aos dados concretos da realidade. No segundo capítulo, são analisados os princípios apresentados no manifesto didático do poema práxis e alguns textos de Lavra Lavra. Nesta parte, são apresentadas as concepções do autor acerca da palavra como "matéria-prima" e "energia". No terceiro e último capítulo discute-se a noção de engajamento em literatura, ressaltando-se os impasses entre experimentalismo e participação social na poesia brasileira dos anos 60. Também é apresentada a natureza do engajamento social de PráxisAbstract: This dissertation describes and analyses the conception of word in Praxis Poetry, Brazilian avant-garde manifestation of the late 50's last century. The dissertation, divided into three chapters, focuses on the founder of Praxis, Mário Chamie, specifically Lavra Lavra (1962) and on the didactic manifest that was used as a postscript. In the first chapter, we present Chamie's first ideas raising questions concerned on opposition between word and speech in debate about poetry in Brazil. From the analysis of poetical and theoretical texts of the author, we detected a line of thinking in which the poetical word sets the world to a vision that subordinates poetry to specific evidences of reality. We analysed, in the second chapter, the principles presented on didactic manifest of Praxis, as some Lavra Lavra texts. This part shows the author's conceptions about the word as "raw material" and "energy". In the last chapter we discuss the involving notion at literature, emphasizing the impasses between the experimentalism and social participation in Brazilian poetry in the 60 years. Besides it has been presented the nature of engagement of PraxisMestradoMestre em Teoria e História Literári
Comparative clinical performance of two types of drug-eluting stents with abluminal biodegradable polymer coating: Five-year results of the DESTINY randomized trial
No full textIntroduction and Objectives: The Stents Coated With the Biodegradable Polymer on Their Abluminal Faces and Elution of Sirolimus Versus Biolimus Elution for the Treatment of de Novo Coronary Lesions - DESTINY Trial is a non-inferiority randomized study that compared the Inspiron (TM) sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) with the control Biomatrix (TM) Flex biolirms-eluting stent (BES). Previous reports in the first year showed similar outcomes for both stents, in clinical, angiographic, optical coherence tomography, and intravascular ultrasound assessments. The present analysis aims to compare the clinical performance of these two biodegradable polymer drug-eluting stents five years after the index procedure.Methods: A total of 170 patients (194 lesions) were randomized in a 2:1 ratio for treatment with SES or BES, respectively. The primary endpoint for the present study was the five-year rate of combined major adverse cardiac events, defined as cardiac death, myocardial infarction, or target lesion revascularization.Results: At five years, the primary endpoint occurred in 12.5% and 17.9% of the SES and BES groups, respectively (p=0.4). There was no definite or probable stent thrombosis among patients treated with the novel SES stent during the five years of follow-up, and no stent thrombosis after the first year in the BES group.Conclusions: The novel Inspiron (TM) stent had similar good clinical performance in long-term follow-up when compared head-to-head with the control latest-generation Biomatrix (TM) Flex biolimus-eluting stent. (C) 2020 Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia. Published by Elsevier Espana, S.L.U
Religion and education gender gap: Are Muslims different?
No full textThis paper uses individual-level data and a differences-in-differences estimation strategy to test whether the education gender gap of Muslims is different from that of Christians. In particular, the paper uses data for young Lebanese and shows that, other things equal, girls (both Muslim and Christian) tend to receive more education than boys and that there is no difference between the education gender gap of Muslims and Christians. Therefore, the paper finds no support for the hypothesis that Muslims discriminate against female education. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Aigner D., 1973, J ECONOMETRICS, V1, P49, DOI 10.1016-0304-4076(73)90005-5; BECKER G., 1976, J POLITICAL EC, V84, P143, DOI DOI 10.1086-260536; BOONE P, 1996, 294 LSE CTR EC PERF; Borooah VK, 2005, J DEV STUD, V41, P1369, DOI 10.1080-00220380500186960; CHAMIE J, 1977, POPULATION STUDIES, V3, P365; DEOLALIKAR A, 2002, POVERTY CHILD MANIPU; DOLLAR D, 1999, 1 POL RES WORLD BANK; El Khoury M., 2005, RES SOCIAL SCI STUDY, V16, P133; FITMER D, 1999, 5 POL RES WORLD BANK; FREEMAN RB, 1984, J LABOR ECON, V2, P1, DOI 10.1086-298021; GLEWWE P, 2000, J PUBLIC ECON, V81, P345; Guiso L, 2003, J MONETARY ECON, V50, P225, DOI 10.1016-S0304-3932(02)00202-7; HAJJ M, 2002, J DEV EC POLICIES, V4, P43; KEYSAR A, 1995, J SCI STUD RELIG, V34, P49, DOI 10.2307-1386522; Krueger Alan, 2002, 9074 NBER; Lehrer E. L., 2005, 1725 IZA; Lehrer EL, 1999, SOC SCI RES, V28, P358, DOI 10.1006-ssre.1998.064298
PROGRESSION OF NATIVE CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE MEASURED BY INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META–ANALYSIS
No full textIncreasing women's participation in the primary school teaching force and teacher training in Nepal
No full textAlthough research shows that Nepalese parents prefer sending girls to schools with female teachers, only 12.8 percent of Nepalese primary school teachers are women. Nepal has among the lowest enrollment and retention rates for girls in the world. One strategy to correct the situation is to increase the number of women who become and remain teachers. But teacher training is also important; 60 percent of Nepalese teachers are untrained, so the quality of education is poor - often rote memorization, with the teacher simply reading textbooks aloud. The author tried to find out what factors affect Nepali women's decision to join the primary school teaching force and to participate in in-service teacher training. Prior studies, using large survey methods, did not provide the information program planners needed. The author chose a research strategy more appropriate to the Nepali culture by combining quantitative and qualitative methods. The author focused on the participation of women in the primary teaching force and on two in-service teacher training projects: the Primary Education Project (PEP); and the Radio Education Teacher Training Project (RETT). In the PEP, teachers from 10 to 15 primary schools receive in-service training in short sessions at a resource center. They get roughly a dollar a day to cover their food and lodging costs. The RETT provides in-service training to primary teachers through daily radio broadcasts, plus written assignments and monthly meetings in resource centers. Gender disaggregated information on the RETT and the PEP programs had never been collected. The author hypothesized that female teachers'needs are different from those of their male counterparts and this would reflect in differential participation rates. Some of the author's conclusions are below. First, women are more likely to be recruited as teachers or into training programs if information about positions and programs is made available to them in a timely, accessible way. To do this, extension agents could be hired to bring information from the ministry or program to intended beneficiaries. Teaching positions and training programs could be advertised in short radio messages and in letters to primary school principals. Second, women are less likely to get training if the resource center is inaccessible. To counter disincentives for women to travel away from their homes and villages, culturally acceptable travel companions, lodging, and child care should be provided. Third, the current broadcast time for radio training conflicted with women's household responsibilities. Changing the time to later in the evening would increase female participation in the program. Lastly, women often lacked family support to become teachers or to become trained. To increase such support, existing incentives (including allowances and salary increases) should be publicized.Gender and Education,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,ICT Policy and Strategies,Primary Education,Teaching and Learning
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