265 research outputs found
Dossier : Sexe et sexualités au Maghreb. Essais d'ethnographies contemporaines
No full textCe recueil assemble une dizaine d’enquêtes conduites dans les différents pays du Maghreb (Libye, Tunisie, Algérie, Maroc, Mauritanie), qui cherchent à élucider les conditions dans lesquelles se crée une économie sociale des sexualités, plus diverse que ne le laisse supposer le paradigme d’une « personnalité arabo-musulmane ». Refusant les perspectives « orientalistes » (une sexualité arabo-islamique expliquée à partir des textes sacrés), culturalistes (une configuration maghrébine de la sexualité), moralistes (des sociétés corrompues par l’Occident) ou militantes (défense des libertés individuelles, féminisme, islamisme), ces ethnographies contemporaines restituent les tensions entre individualisme et ethos communautaire, entre prescriptions nationales et locales, entre éthique occidentale et prédication religieuse, l’une et l’autre intensément médiatisées. Sans prétendre à une exhaustivité ni même à une représentativité de la gamme des situations réelles, ces enquêtes convergent sur un point : si toutes sortes de pratiques s’observent au Maghreb en matière de sexualité, les intéressés entendent bien ne pas se laisser enfermer dans des catégories. Quelle que soit leur orientation sexuelle du moment, ils ne l’instrumentalisent pas forcément pour construire une identité de prostituée, d’homosexuels ou de libertins. En ce sens, la dynamique des pratiques, ni plus ni moins moderne ou plurale que ce que l’on voit ailleurs, échapperait à l’obsession de la norme couramment assignée aux sociétés musulmanes. Valérie Beaumont, Corinne Cauvin Verner, François Pouillo
Does strict employment protection discourage job creation? Evidence from Croatia
No full textEmployment protection legislation in Croatia is among the most strict in Europe. Firing is difficult and costly, and flexible forms of employment are limited. Is this apparent rigidity reflected-as one would expect based on standard economic theory-in low labor market dynamics? Is job creation low and hiring limited? Is the job security of insiders achieved at the cost of outsiders not being able to enter thelabor market? The author attempts to answer these questions by examining job flows. If the employment protection legislation is binding, then job and worker turnover should be low. He shows that this is indeed the case. Hiring is limited and the average job tenure is very long in Croatia. Job destruction is low, however job creation is still lower. The result is accumulation of unemployment, in large part due to new labor market entrants not being able to find a job. The high degree of job protection also seems to strengthen the bargaining position of insiders and results in relatively high wages. So, wages in Croatia are higher than among its competitors, even after adjusting for productivity. These high labor costs are likely to contribute to limited job creation in existing firms, but also are likely to discourage the entry of-and thus job creation in-new firms. The author presents evidence that firm growth has been indeed limited in Croatia, contributing to the low employment level. The author examines other potential causes of high unemployment in Croatia (the unemployment benefit system, labor taxation, the wage structure, and skill and spatial mismatches). He argues that they do not play a substantial part in accounting for poor labor market outcomes in Croatia. The author concludes that the stringent employment protection legislation is the key labor market institution behind low job creation and high unemployment. Based on this he recommends specific measures aimed at liberalizing the labor market to foster job creation and employment.Labor Management and Relations,Labor Policies,Labor Markets,Environmental Economics&Policies,Trade Finance and Investment,Labor Markets,Labor Management and Relations,Labor Standards,Banks&Banking Reform,Environmental Economics&Policies
Occult nonmetallic intraocular foreign bodies presenting as fulminant uveitis: a case series and review of the literature
No full textYevgeniy V Sychev,1 Elizabeth A Verner-Cole,2 Eric B Suhler,2 J Timothy Stout,2 G Atmaram Vemulakonda1 1Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; 2Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA Abstract: Intraocular foreign bodies (IOFBs) can complicate globe trauma and are associated with a high incidence of severe vision loss. Occult IOFBs present a particular challenge as they are not diagnosed promptly and tend to present with advanced complications, including endophthalmitis and retinal detachment. In this report, we present three cases of occult nonmetallic IOFBs presenting as fulminant uveitis, and we also review the literature. Keywords: intraocular foreign body, endophthalmitis, vitrectomy, traum
Pyramidová vzestupná cesta ve Staré Říši: vývoj architektury a definice reliéfního výzdobného programu
No full textIn the spring of 1994, an unexpected discovery to the North of the upper part of Sahure's causeway changed the long established belief that the mortuary complex of Sahure was excavated completely by L. Borchardt.1 Four huge limestone blocks decorated in basrelief of the highest quality bearing unique polychrome scenes were discovered during that spring, proving Borchardt's excavations of Sahure's complex were incomplete. These four blocks were evidence that more decorated blocks and fragments were still under the masses of sand surrounding the upper part of the causeway which had never been investigated by Borchardt? This surprising discovery was the result of cleaning being done in the area in preparation to open the Abusir necropolis for tourists. The work was under the supervision of Zahi Hawass. Hawass stopped the work at Abusir and reburied the blocks after they were photographed and drawn with the help of the Czech mission working at Abusir. Only a preliminary report was published by Zahi Hawass and Miroslav Verner to present the discovery to scholars.3 In their report, a survey of the causeways from royal funerary complexes was performed to alert scholars that many causeways are partially or completely unexcavated and need to be given more attention.4 In 2002, the present author was trusted by Hawass...Czech Institute of EgyptologyČeský egyptologický ústavFilozofická fakultaFaculty of Art
Pyramid causeway in the Old Kingdom: evolution of the architecture and definition of the relief decoration program
No full textIn the spring of 1994, an unexpected discovery to the North of the upper part of Sahure's causeway changed the long established belief that the mortuary complex of Sahure was excavated completely by L. Borchardt.1 Four huge limestone blocks decorated in basrelief of the highest quality bearing unique polychrome scenes were discovered during that spring, proving Borchardt's excavations of Sahure's complex were incomplete. These four blocks were evidence that more decorated blocks and fragments were still under the masses of sand surrounding the upper part of the causeway which had never been investigated by Borchardt? This surprising discovery was the result of cleaning being done in the area in preparation to open the Abusir necropolis for tourists. The work was under the supervision of Zahi Hawass. Hawass stopped the work at Abusir and reburied the blocks after they were photographed and drawn with the help of the Czech mission working at Abusir. Only a preliminary report was published by Zahi Hawass and Miroslav Verner to present the discovery to scholars.3 In their report, a survey of the causeways from royal funerary complexes was performed to alert scholars that many causeways are partially or completely unexcavated and need to be given more attention.4 In 2002, the present author was trusted by Hawass..
Activities, employment, and wages in rural and semi-urban Mexico
No full textThe author addresses the labor markets in rural and semi-urban Mexico. The empirical analyses show that non-farm income shares increase with overall consumption levels and, also, with time. Rural-dwellers in lower quintiles of the consumption distribution tend to earn a larger share of their nonagricultural incomes from wage labor activities. For the poorest, low-productivity wage labor activities are important. The quantile wage regression analysis for rural Mexico shows a rather heterogeneous impact pattern of individual characteristics across the wage distribution on monthly wages. The author's findings reveal that education is key to earning higher wages, and that workers in more dispersed rural areas earn less than their peers in semi-urban rural areas (localities with less than 15,000 inhabitants). The rural non-farm sector is heterogeneous and includes a great variety of activities and productivity levels across non-farm jobs. Moreover it can reduce poverty in a couple of distinct but qualitatively important ways in rural Mexico. The analysis of non-farm employment in rural Mexico suggests that the two key determinants of access to employment and productivity in non-farm activities are education and location.Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Economics&Finance,Banks&Banking Reform,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Municipal Financial Management
Temporal provinsialism och svenskt lynne : Kjell Espmark, Verner von Heidenstam och den svenska glömskans historia
No full textIn fiction and non-fiction alike, the author and literary scholar Kjell Espmark (1930–2022) frequently returns to the idea that Swedish culture is characterized by a lack of historical consciousness, or, in his own words, a temporal provincialism. In the following article, I study how this idea is manifested in Espmark’s satirical novella Resan till Thule (2017). In addition to the analysis of Espmark’s view of history and its literary expressions, I argue that the novella contains an important dialogue, in terms of intellectual and literary history, vis-à-vis Verner von Heidenstam’s essay “Om svenskarnas lynne” (1896). The purpose of the article is to examine the similarities between these texts and thereby to outline an incipient historiography of the idea of a particularly Swedish ahistoricity
Manuscripta Medica Tom. III
No full textPp. 3-17: Bibliographic tables
(loosely pertinent to medicine - subjects include nutrition of trees, why sea is salt)
Listing author and work; 11 narrow columns:
Impressus = town where printed
Tempus = year of publ.
Forma = octavo/quarto etc.
Alphab = ?
Plagula = lit. sheet of paper (?= oversize "fold out" page?)
Tab. & fig. = tables and drawings
Lingua = language
Pretium = price
(Last column not labelled)
Col. 7 assigns symbol either of mercury or sulphur.
Manquer, Jacobus
Ask
Stridbergus
Verner
Saxholm
Melin
Tolstadius, Andrea
Arnelius, Suno
Pilnaus
Vennervalt, Andreas
Jerling, Daniel
Hedenberg, Peter
Lonberg, Eric
Stecksenius, Israe
Temporal provinsialism och svenskt lynne [Elektronisk resurs] : Kjell Espmark, Verner von Heidenstam och den svenska glömskans historia
No full textFörfattaren och litteraturforskaren Kjell Espmark (1930–2022) återkommer i åtskilliga texter – i både skönlitteratur och sakprosa – till en idé om att den svenska kulturen präglas av en omfattande historielöshet, eller en temporal provinsialism som han inte sällan benämner det. I den föreliggande artikeln studerar jag hur denna idé tar sig till uttryck i Espmarks satiriska kortroman Resan till Thule (2017). Utöver att analysera Espmarks historiesyn och dess litterära uttryck argumenterar jag för att romanen bär på en idé- och litteraturhistoriskt betydelsefull dialog visavi Verner von Heidenstam (1859–1940) och dennes essä ”Om svenskarnas lynne” (1896). Syftet med artikeln är att undersöka likheterna dessa texter emellan, för att därigenom också lämna en begynnande skiss över en den svenska historielöshetens historia.In fiction and non-fiction alike, the author and literary scholar Kjell Espmark (1930–2022) frequently returns to the idea that Swedish culture is characterized by a lack of historical consciousness, or, in his own words, a temporal provincialism. In the following article, I study how this idea is manifested in Espmark’s satirical novella Resan till Thule (2017). In addition to the analysis of Espmark’s view of history and its literary expressions, I argue that the novella contains an important dialogue, in terms of intellectual and literary history, vis-à-vis Verner von Heidenstam’s essay “Om svenskarnas lynne” (1896). The purpose of the article is to examine the similarities between these texts and thereby to outline an incipient historiography of the idea of a particularly Swedish ahistoricity
Wage determination in Northeast Brazil
No full textThe author analyzes the labor markets in the Northeast region of Brazil that includes Pernambuco, Bahia, and Ceará states. Her findings show a rather heterogeneous impact pattern of individual characteristics on monthly wages across the wage distribution. That is, the magnitude of the effect of a wage determinant is different depending on whether the worker is placed in the lower, median, or top of the wage distribution. The findings reveal that basic schooling matters for all four geographical areas and across the income distribution. However, poor workers are awarded lower returns than their richer peers, and in Bahia and Ceará, the poor do not obtain any returns to basic schooling. Furthermore, the impact of 5-8 or 9-11 years of education is larger than that of 1-4 years of completed education. The returns obtained by a median worker are higher in Ceará and Pernambuco than in Bahia. Finally, completed tertiary education offers the largest returns of all levels of education. The median worker receives a premium of 105, 249, and 216 percent in Ceará, Pernambuco, and Bahia, respectively. Hence, one direct policy implication is to increase the quality of education, in particular in poorer neighborhoods. Experience impacts positively on wages and it increases with age until workers reach 50 years of age. However, returns to experience are falling significantly across the wage distribution. For the poor and younger generations, experience contributes more to wages than education. The occupation of workers is important for wage determination. All workers in the included occupational groups are paid more than workers engaged in agricultural activities. Workers employed as technicians or administrators obtain the highest returns. The white/nonwhite wage disparity reveals that white workers are paid 17 percent more than their nonwhite co-workers, takinginto account other characteristics. Gender disparities are large in the Northeast and heterogeneous across the wage distribution. The time spent in the current state impacts adversely on wages. That is, those that have stayed earn, on average, less than the newcomers. There are no considerable differences between male and female workers. Union membership has a positive impact on workers'wages.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Curriculum&Instruction,Teaching and Learning,Gender and Education,Economic Theory&Research
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