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Online_Appendix – Supplemental material for Is the Bridge Broken? Increasing Ethnic Attachments and Declining Party Influence among Latino Voters
No full textSupplemental material, Online_Appendix for Is the Bridge Broken? Increasing Ethnic Attachments and Declining Party Influence among Latino Voters by Jason L. Morín, Yoshira Macías Mejía and Gabriel R. Sanchez in Political Research Quarterly</p
Appendix_(1) – Supplemental material for The Racial Implications of Voter Identification Laws in America
No full textSupplemental material, Appendix_(1) for The Racial Implications of Voter Identification Laws in America by Matt A. Barreto, Stephen Nuño, Gabriel R. Sanchez and Hannah L. Walker in American Politics Research</p
Latinos and the 2016 Election Latino Resistance and the Election of Donald Trump
No full textIntro -- Contents -- Foreword by Rubén O. Martinez -- Preface by Gabriel R. Sanchez -- Latino Influence in the 2016 Presidential Election: Beyond All or Nothing by Justin H. Gross and Ivelisse Cuevas-Molina -- The Latino Rejection of the Trump Campaign: The Biggest Voter Gap on Record by Barbara Gomez-Aguinaga and Gabriel R. Sanchez -- The Latinx Gender Gap in the 2016 Election by Jessica Lavariega Monforti -- Did Latino Millennial Voters Turn Out in 2016? by Maria Livaudais, Edward D. Vargas, and Gabriel R. Sanchez -- Colorado: Latinos and the 2016 Election by Robert R. Preuhs -- Calexit: California Moves Left as the Nation Moves Right by Ivy A. M. Cargile, Jason L. Morin, and Adrian D. Pantoja -- Virginia's New Latino Voters: The Future of the Nuevo South by Xavier Medina Vidal and Zessna García Ríos -- North Carolina Latinos and the 2016 Election by Betina Cutaia Wilkinson -- Ecological Inference Meets the Texas Two-Step by Francisco I. Pedraza and Bryan Wilcox-Archuleta -- Florida's Latino Electorate in the 2016 Election by Benjamin G. Bishin and Casey A. Klofstad -- Demography Realized? The 2016 Latino Vote in Nevada by David F. Damore -- A Mirage in the Desert: Arizona and Latinos in the 2016 Presidential Election by Lisa M. Sanchez and Stephen A. Nuño-Pérez -- Mobilizing the Latino Vote? Partisan and Nonpartisan Selective Outreach of Latino Voters in the 2016 Election by Ricardo Ramírez and Juan Angel Valdez -- The Puerto Rican Diaspora in the 2016 Elections by Aileen Cardona-Arroyo -- Latinos in National Politics: 2016 and Beyond by Luis Ricardo Fraga -- Appendix: Discussion of the Latino Decisions Coverage of the 2016 Election by Joaquin Alfredo Angel Rubalcaba and Edward D. Vargas -- ContributorsDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Intra and Inter organisational determinants of electronic-based traceability adoption: evidences from the French agri-food industry
No full textTraceability, the ability to trace the origin of products throughout the supply chain, has become an instrument to assure food quality and safety in agri-food chains. This process is organized within both institutional and market constraints, yet it integrates also a technological sphere marked by the unprecedented development of information and communication technologies. This paper analyses the factors influencing firms’ behaviour, with regards to adopting electronic-based traceability, in the French agri-food industry. These factors (microeconomic determinants) related to firms’ internal characteristics and the factors related to their environment. We use data from the ICT and Electronic Commerce survey from 2002, carried out by the French National Institute of Statistics (INSEE). A Probit type model is used, which allow us to take into account the firm’s determinants for its organisational choice, differentiating from those adopting (or not) an electronic-based traceability tool. Our main results show that the choices of electronic-based traceability depend on and interact with their own organizational characteristics and those of their competitive, industrial and local environment. Traceability technologies evidence the complementarities between organisational and technological practices. Large industrial firms known for their established identity and a brand image seem distant from standard traceability practices, contrarily to agribusinesses, which are subjected to regulations and look forward to use traceability for both complying with their downstream contracts and add value to their regional specificities.Traceability, Technology adoption, Agri-food industry, Agribusiness, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,
The generation of live offspring from vitrified oocytes
No full textOocyte cryopreservation is extremely beneficial for assisted reproductive technologies, the treatment of infertility and biotechnology and offers a viable alternative to embryo freezing and ovarian grafting approaches for the generation of embryonic stem cells and live offspring. It also offers the potential to store oocytes to rescue endangered species by somatic cell nuclear transfer and for the generation of embryonic stem cells to study development in these species. We vitrified mouse oocytes using a range of concentrations of trehalose (0 to 0.3 M) and demonstrated that 0.1 and 0.3 M trehalose had similar developmental rates, which were significantly different to the 0.2 M cohort (P < 0.05). As mitochondria are important for fertilisation outcome, we observed that the clustering and distribution of mitochondria of the 0.2 M cohort were more affected by vitifrication than the other groups. Nevertheless, all 3 cohorts were able to develop to blastocyst, following in vitro fertilisation, although developmental rates were better for the 0.1 and 0.3 M cohorts than the 0.2 M cohort (P < 0.05). Whilst blastocysts gave rise to embryonic stem-like cells, it was apparent from immunocytochemistry and RT-PCR that these cells did not demonstrate true pluripotency and exhibited abnormal karyotypes. However, they gave rise to teratomas following injection into SCID mice and differentiated into cells of each of the germinal layers following in vitro differentiation. The transfer of 2-cell embryos from the 0.1 and 0.3 M cohorts resulted in the birth of live offspring that had normal karyotypes (9/10). When 2-cell embryos from vitrified oocytes underwent vitrification, and were thawed and transferred, live offspring were obtained that exhibited normal karyotypes, with the exception of one offspring who was larger and died at 7 months. We conclude that these studies highlight the importance of the endometrial environment for the maintenance of genetic stability and thus the propagation of specific genetic traits
[Group Portrait of Catholic Veterans]
No full textPhotograph of four veterans and a priest. All wear caps of Catholic veterans. They hold awards and trophies. L-R: Gabriel Tamayo; Father Joseph Houser; Manuel Castillo; Sam Guerra; Romeo Sanchez
"A má hora" do Estado Democrático de Direito no caudilhismo hispano-americano
No full textTCC(graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Ciências Jurídicas. Direito.O objetivo do presente trabalho monográfico é abordar o déficit democrático no Estado de Direito durante o caudilhismo hispano-americano com base nos referenciais teóricos do Direito e Literatura e da História a partir do romance de Gabriel García Márquez, A má hora. Através da análise desta obra literária, será demonstrada a configuração do Estado hispano-americano no período do caudilhismo, dando-se ênfase à contradição entre o modelo de Estado de Direito racional-positivista adotado pelas repúblicas de colonização espanhola após a conquista de sua independência e o exercício de fato do poder político pelos caudilhos, os quais se caracterizavam como chefes de bandos armados cujos objetivos maiores eram o controle político nacional enquanto projeto pessoal de poder. A relação entre os caudilhos, o aparato estatal e a população era essencialmente marcada pelo autoritarismo, pelo clientelismo e pelo personalismo, elementos incompatíveis com um Estado Democrático de Direito, uma vez que os governos caudilhistas eram sustentados pela autoridade em contraposição à soberania popular, carecendo, portanto, de legitimação democrática
Activity of immobilized metallic phthalocyanines in the multicomponent synthesis of dihydropyridine derivatives and their subsequent aromatization
No full textSeveral supported metallo-sulphonated phthalocyanines (FePcS-NH2-SiO2, CoPcS-NH2-SiO2, and CuPcS-NH2-SiO2) and iron hexadecachlorinated phthalocyanines (FePcCl16-NH2-SiO2 and FePcCl16-NH2-SBA-15) were synthesized and evaluated as alternative catalysts for a green multicomponent Hantzsch reaction between an aromatic aldehyde, methyl or ethylacetoacetate and ammonium acetate to obtain the corresponding dihydropyridines or phenylpyridines depending on the reaction conditions. High selectivities (over 80%) to the 2-phenylpyridines, under oxidant and solvent free conditions at room temperature were obtained. While the formation of 1,4-dihydripyridine derivatives were favored at temperatures above 45 °C (selectivities around of 50%). In addition, the 1,4-dihydripyridine derivatives were aromatized to the corresponding pyridines using t-BuOOH as oxidant, acetonitrile as solvent and at a reaction temperature of 50 °C.Fil: Sanchez, Laura Mabel. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ciencias Aplicadas ; ArgentinaFil: Sathicq, Angel Gabriel. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ciencias Aplicadas ; ArgentinaFil: Romanelli, Gustavo Pablo. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ciencias Aplicadas ; ArgentinaFil: González, Lina M.. Universidad de Antioquia; ColombiaFil: Villa, Aida L.. Universidad de Antioquia; Colombi
Arrabalde e universo: percursos da noção de linguagem em Jorge Luis Borges
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura.Neste trabalho se explora a visão sobre a linguagem em alguns textos de Jorge Luis Borges em três períodos de escrita, os textos iniciais (1918-1925), os textos da sua primeira etapa (1925-1928) e os da segunda etapa (posteriores a 1930). Nestas etapas são identificados e comparados os elementos que caracterizam a tematização da linguagem. Assim, a escrita borgeana é analisada na sua profunda reflexão sobre as diversas temáticas lingüísticas e filosóficas que envolvem o estudo da linguagem, desde a análise da língua espanhola e de uma postura regionalista até as considerações universalistas que abordam a relação entre linguagem e realidade, bem como a partir de óticas convencionalistas e naturalistas que vêem na linguagem um sistema de signos arbitrários ou relacionados com as coisas às quais as palavras se referem
Replication Data for: Constitutional Origins and Liberal Democracy: A Global Analysis, 1900-2015
No full textThe files contain the data and Stata code to replicate all results in "Constitutional Origins and Liberal Democracy: A Global Analysis, 1900-2015", forthcoming at APSR.
A strong tradition in democratic theory claims that only constitutions made with direct popular involvement can establish or deepen democracy. Against this view, we argue that new constitutions are likely to enhance liberal democracy when they emerge through a plural agreement among political elites with distinct bases of social support. Power dispersion during constitution writing induces the adoption of institutions that protect opposition forces from the arbitrary use of executive power without unduly impairing majority rule. However, since incumbents may renege on the bargain, the democratizing effect of politically plural constitutional agreements is likely to be larger in the short term, when the identity of negotiating political forces and the balance of power between them tend to remain stable. We find support for these arguments using an original global dataset on the origins of constitutions between 1900 and 2015 and a difference-in-differences design
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