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    Labor-Force Participation Rates and the Informational Value of Unemployment Rates: Evidence from Disaggregated US Data

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    The informational value of the aggregate US unemployment rate has recently been questioned be-cause of a unit root in the labor-force participation rate; the lack of mean reversion implies that long-run changes in unemployment rates are highly unlikely to reflect long-run changes in jobless-ness. This paper shows that this critique also extends to unemployment rates for sub-populations, such as prime-aged males.Unit-root test;

    S. Gregorius Magnus, Moralia in Job (prima pars).

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    GREGORIUS I MAGNUS (s.), papa. Moralia in Job, l. I-XXVNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution.F. 1-243v S. GREGORIUS MAGNUS, Moralia in Job, L. I-XXV (M. Adriaen, C. C. S. L., CXLIII-CXLIIIB); le ms. est cité, C. C. S. L., CXLIII, p.XXV. Chaque livre est précédé d'une table de chapitres. Le ms. est incomplet par suite de lacunes matérielles. Épître dédicatoire : adresse (1v); fin de l'épître à partir de «[... ad allegorie sensum] violenter inflectimus...» (éd. cit., CXLIII, p. 6-7 lig. 172-229) (2). — Prologue : «In Dei nomine Patris et domini nostri Jhesu Christi et Spiritus sancti incipit prologus super capitula Moralie [sic] b. Gregorii pape... Christi Jhesu Gregorius servus ac urbis Rome venerabilissimus composuit...-... sine labore inveniretur» [RAINERIUS, Tabula in Gregorii magni Moralia in Job, prologus]; cf. Stegmüller, Repertorium biblicum, VI, n° 8913 (2). — Table des chapitres du l. I (2-2v); Préface et L. I, liés (ibid., 8-24 et 25-58) (2v-5v et 5v-12). — L. II-X (ibid. 59-577) (12-119v). — L. XI-XVII (éd. cit., CXLIIIA, 585-885) (119v-185v). — L. XVIII, incomplet : début de la table des chapitres (185v); fin du livre, à partir de «[... videre potest. Et] ecce rursum audio quod Psalmista...» (ibid., p. 954-955, c. LIV lig. 138-186) (186). — L. XIX, incomplet : table des chapitres (186); début du livre jusqu'à : «... consolatione respirant. Hoc igitur in [loco...]» (ibid., p. 956-957, c. I, lig 1-49) (186-186v); fin du livre à partir de : «[... pes ambulet] et rursum quicquid...» (ibid., p. 991-1002, c. XXV lig. 62-c. XXX) (187-189v). — L. XX-XXII (ibid., 1003-1135) (189v-219v). — L. XXIII-XXIV (éd. cit., CXLIIIB, 1143-1229) (220-239). — L. XXV, incomplet. Le texte s'arrête à «... In Scriptura sacra quasi aliquando [pro similitudine]» (ibid., p. 1230-1250, c. I-X lig. 2) (239-243v).Provient de l'abbaye bénédictine puis camaldule depuis 1213 et supprimée en 1808 de Sancta Maria de Vangadizza (Badia Polesine Vangaliciense, dioc. d'Adria, Vénétie) dont on lit l'ex-libris du XIIIe-XIVe s. dans la marge sup. du f. 3 : «Liber monasterii Sancte Marie de Vangad[izza] prima pars Moralium s. Gregorii»; cet ex-libris est répété dans la marge inférieure du f. 185v; cf. Avril et Załuska, loc. cit. Le ms. est entré à la Bibliothèque nationale pendant la Révolution

    Facial Uplift: Plastic Surgery, Cosmetics, and the Retailing of Whiteness in the Work of Maria Cristina Mena

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    This article analyzes how Mexican American author María Cristina Mena’s short magazine fiction boldly illustrates the emerging U.S. beauty industry as effectively producing whiteness for sale in the neocolonial marketplace. Her representations of Mexican women’s use of cosmetics articulate how the beauty industry both lends structure to and is structured by the idea of race; at the same time, she reminds her audience that the impact of beauty products and services is in large part determined by the political and economic context of the goods themselves. Through the techniques of role reversals, character development and dramatic irony, Mena’s stories portray the U.S. beauty industry as a dynamic trade that exports new forms of whiteness across its southern border. Far from depicting Mexican women as passive consumers in the neocolonial marketplace, however, Mena shows how beauty products and services can be appropriated as limited yet potent acts of resistance.This article was published as Schuller, Kyla. "Facial Uplift: Plastic Surgery, Cosmetics, and the Retailing of Whiteness in the Work of Maria Cristina Mena," Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Summer 2009), pp. 82-104. No part of this article may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or distributed, in any form, by any means, electronic, mechanical, photographic, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Indiana University Press. For educational re-use, please contact the Copyright Clearance Center (508-744-3350). For all other permissions, please visit Indiana University Press' permissions page.Peer reviewe

    Future Waste Scenarios for Sweden based on a CGE-model

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    Over the last decades, waste quantities have grown steadily in close relation to economic growth. To tackle the problem of continuing waste growth within the EU, waste prevention was listed among four top priorities in the EU Sixth environment Action Programme. A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model is here used for projecting future quantities of hazardous and non-hazardous waste in Sweden to 2030. The effects of driving forces behind waste generation are illustrated by comparing the results of waste projections for a Baseline scenario and four alternative scenarios. The scenarios differ mainly in GDP growth rates and in the assumptions about future waste intensities of the economic activities of firms and households. We use a high-resolution data set on waste flows of 18 various types of non-hazardous waste and 16 various types of hazardous waste attributed to six waste-generating sources for the base year 2006. Waste generated in the scenarios, thus, relate to firms’ material input, output, employees, capital scrapping and fuel combustion as well as households’ consumption. The impact of economic growth in increasing the generation of nonhazardous and hazardous waste is apparent when comparing the growth of waste from 2006 to 2030 in the five scenarios. On the contrary, technological change resulting in less waste intensive production processes and changed behaviour among households, making their activities less waste intensive, have a strong reducing effect, especially on generation of non-hazardous waste relating to firms’ material input.general equilibrium model; waste generation; decoupling; waste intensities waste scenarios.

    Imagens de Otto Maria Carpeaux: esboço de biografia

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    Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, Florianópolis, 2015.Este esboço de biografia procura citar algumas imagens de Otto Maria Carpeaux: construções biográficas de naturezas múltiplas, elaboradas em contextos, por atores e sob condições igualmente díspares. Está constituído a partir de uma visão crítica da História, o que permite que ?outras imagens?, fragmentárias e não monumentais, também tenham espaço. Em diálogo com o princípio da montagem, este esboço apresenta-se em duas partes. Na primeira, Imagens possíveis, estão citadas as imagens elaboradas em vida e post mortem acerca do austríaco-brasileiro que nasceu em Viena em 1900, se exilou no Brasil em 1939 e morreu no Rio de Janeiro, em 1978. Na segunda, Montagens possíveis, apresentam-se duas possibilidades de exercício biográfico: pela leitura alegórica do documentário O velho e o Novo (Otto Maria Carpeaux), entendido como instrumento de intervenção no contexto ditatorial brasileiro e de uma reelaboração biográfica concernentes às suas experiências europeias; e pelo Caderno de imagens críticas, registro dos encontros em Carpeaux pelo meio de imagens críticas produzidas a partir da cesura do presente.Abstract : This biographical sketch attempts to quote some images of Otto Maria Carpeaux: various types of biographical constructions, carried out in different contexts by disparate authors under conditions just as distinct. It stems from a critical view of history, allowing for ?other images? fragmented and non-monumental ? to share the space.In dialogue with the montage principle, this sketch has two parts. The first, Possible Images, quotes the images produced during and after the life of the Austrian-Brazilian, who was born in Vienna in 1900, went to Brazil in exile in 1939 and died in Rio de Janeiro in 1978. The second part, Possible Montages, presents two possibilities of a biographical exercise: through the allegorical reading of documentary O Velho e o Novo (Otto Maria Carpeaux), understood as an instrument of intervention in the Brazilian dictatorship context and as a biographical retelling of the author?s European experiences; and through my Scrapbook of Critical Images, a record of the encounters in Carpeaux through critical images produced from the caesura of the present

    Analysing future solid waste generation - Soft linking a model of waste management with a CGE-model for Sweden

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    Parallel to the efforts of the EU to achieve a significant and overall reduction of waste quantities within the EU, the Swedish parliament enacted an environmental quality objective stating that ‘the total quantity of waste must not increase …’ i.e. an eventual absolute decoupling of waste generation from GDP. The decoupling issue is ad-dressed, in the present paper, by assessing future waste quantities, for a number of economic scenarios of the Swedish economy to 2030 with alternative assumptions about key factors affecting waste generation and waste management costs. We use an integrated top-down/bottom-up approach by linking a CGE-model of the Swedish economy with a systems engineering model of the Swedish waste management system. In this way, we can in more detail consider the interaction between waste generation and waste management costs (waste disposal prices) when assessing future waste quantities. A relative decoupling of waste generation takes place in all scenarios, i.e. total waste quantities increase at a lower rate than GDP. Absolute decoupling, which re-quire total waste quantities to stabilize or to reduce, does not take place in any of the scenarios. This means that the present Swedish Environmental quality objective of stabilizing waste quantities is not met in any of the scenarios with total waste genera-tion levels of 110 per cent up to nearly 200 per cent of that in 2006. The overall impression from our analysis is that costs are high for reducing waste generation irrespective of the type of waste reduced. In other words, the waste treat-ment costs are low compared to the costs for reducing waste. This situation also means that the use of policy instruments, which induce substitution by increasing the price of waste disposal services, will have very small reducing effects on the generation of all types of waste unless the price increase brings about an introduction of waste preventing techniques and affect households in the direction of a less waste intensive behaviour. For example, the policy instruments used must affect the pattern of household consumption pattern more directly, as a differentiation of the value added tax, rather than to be directed towards the waste management sector. Economic policy instruments introduced in the waste management sector are more likely to affect the choice of waste management solutions than prevent waste generation. Linking a macroeconomic and a systems engineering model for waste manage-ment, gives us a tool useful also for capturing the macroeconomic effects, such as GDP growth and structural changes, when designing policy instruments intended to prevent waste generation or take waste management in a more sustainable direction.general equilibrium model; systems engineering; solid waste; waste management; waste generation; decoupling; EMEC; NatWaste; top-down/bottom-up; waste policy instruments

    S. Gregorius Magnus

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    GREGORIUS Magnus I (s.), papa. Regula pastoralisHUGO DE SANCTO VICTORE. De Archa Noe moraliHUGO DE SANCTO VICTORE. De Archa Noe mystica. ExcerptaHUGO DE SANCTO VICTORE. De Institutione novitiorumHUGO DE SANCTO VICTORE. Soliloquium de arrha animaeORIGENES. Homilia de Maria MagdaleneVINCENTIUS BELLOVACENSIS. De PaenitentiaNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution.F. 1-84v VINCENTIUS [BELLOVACENSIS] : « Liber fratris Vincentii de penitencia, totus ex dictis sacrorum doctorum collectus ». Prol. : « Quia peccantibus mortaliter post baptismum sola penitencia remedium est... — ... ipsum opusculum per CXCV. capitula. subjecta distinguere » (1) ; table des 195 chapitres (1-2v) ; « Omnis arbor que non facit fructum bonum... Ex duobus enim ecclesia constat... — ... que audiebat Marthe que ministrabat » (2v-84v) ; cf. Quétif-Echard, Script. Ord. Praed., I, 239-240. F. 85-96 [GERARDUS ITERII] « Liber Hugonis de Sancto Victore de institutione noviciorum ». Prol. : « Quia, fratres, largiente Domino, de vana conversatione... — ... vos instruamus » (85-85v) ; « Primum igitur scire debetis quod hanc viam... — ... bonitatem vero orate ut vobis det Deus. Amen » (publié sous le nom d'HUGUES DE SAINT-VICTOR dans P. L., CLXXVI, 925-952) ; cf. Hauréau, Not. et extr., XXIV2, 247 ; Les oeuvres d'Hugues de Saint-Victor, 116, 124. F. 96-97 HUGO DE SANCTO-VICTORE : « Hec sunt abstracta de libro arche Noe [mystice] Hugonis de Sancto-Victore. Sancta ecclesia in fidelibus suis... — ... carnis affliccio mactat. » (P. L., CLXXVI, 681-704, passim) ; cf. Hauréau, Les oeuvres d'H. de St.-V, 78-95. F. 97-122v De archa Noe morali libri IV : « Incipit liber primus de archa Noe pro archa sapientum, archa ecclesie pro archa matris gracie Hugonis de S. Victore... ». Prol. : « Cum sederem aliquando in conventu fratrum... — ... aut parum aut nichil proderit » (97-97v) ; « Inter amorem hujus mundi et amorem Dei... — ... in contemplacione veritatis » ; épilogue : « Breviter dicturus eram, sed fateor... — ... domum Dei in te edificatam esse leteris. » (122v) (P. L., CLXXVI, 617-680) ; cf. Hauréau, ibid. F. 122v-130 « Soliloquium Hugonis de S. Victore de arra anime. Loquar secreto anime mee... — ... hoc totis precordiis concupisco » (P. L., CLXXVI, 951-970) ; cf. Hauréau, ibid., 124-130. F. 130-131, 131bis-132v [PSEUDO-]ORIGENES : « Hic incipit omelia Originis [sic]. Maria stabat ad monumentum foris plorans. In presenti sollempnitate locuturus... — ... hoc dixit michi, est honor et gloria cum Patre et Spiritu sancto in secula seculorum. Amen » (éd. dans un recueil qui commence par : Zenonis Veronensissermones luculentissimi, Venetiis, 1508, in-4° , ff. n.c. 152v-157v. F. 132v-139v Gesta Pilati, Evangelii Nicodemi pars IIa : « Passio Domini nostri J. C. secundum hoc quod Pilatus a Judeis inquisivit et postea in libris suis scripsit et Romano regi transmisit. Quod inventum est in publicis codicibus pretorii Poncii Pilati, scriptum in anno IIII° ducentesimo secundo Olinpiandis... Annas autem et Cayphas et alii summi sacerdotes... — ... et omnia in nostris codicibus prenotabimus, quoniam ipsius est regnum et potestas in s. s. Amen » ; cf. F. Stegmüller, Repertorium Bibl. M. Ae??? ., I, 149, n° 179, 12 ; texte présentant des var. importantes par rapport à celui publié par Tischendorf, Evangelia apocr., 333-416. F. 140-190 S. GREGORIUS MAGNUS, Liber regulae pastoralis, divisé en 2 livres précédés chacun d'une table des chapitres : « Incipit liber primus pastoralis cure editus a b. Gregorio papa urbis Rome, ad b. Johannem Ravennatensem episcopum » (140-155v) ; l. II (156-190) (P. L., LXXVII, 13-128). F. 85-96. HUGO DE SANCTO VICTORE, De Institutione novitiorum ; cf. bibliographie du ms. Latin 3640, f. 50 et J. Ehlers, Hugo von St Viktor, Wiesbaden, 1973, 189.Provient de la bibliothèque de Benoît XIII ; cf. Faucon, Librairie des Papes d'Avignon, II, p. 108-109, n° 511 et du collège de Foix à Toulouse ; cf. Delisle, Cab. des Mss, I, 508. Recueilli avec d'autres manuscrits de Benoît XIII par le cardinal Pierre de Foix qui le légua au Collège de Foix à Toulouse ; cf. Delisle, Cab. des mss., I, 503, n° 127 de la liste des mss. de ce collège envoyés à Colbert le 7 octobre 1680

    sj-docx-1-sjp-10.1177_14034948231187513 – Supplemental material for Evaluating national guidelines for monitoring early growth using routinely collected data in Bergen, Norway

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    Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-sjp-10.1177_14034948231187513 for Evaluating national guidelines for monitoring early growth using routinely collected data in Bergen, Norway by Melissa R. Balthasar, Mathieu Roelants, Bente Brannsether-Ellingsen, Kristine M. Stangenes, Maria C. Magnus, Siri E. HÅberg, Simon N. Øverland and PÉtur B. JÚlÍusson in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health</p

    Appunti per una rilettura del Carteggio fra Maria Savorgnan e Pietro Bembo

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    Notes for a Rereading of the Carteggio between Maria Savorgnan and Pietro Bembo · This article examines the love correspondence between Maria Savorgnan and Pietro Bembo in the early years of sixteenth-century Italy by focusing on a philological and epistolographic perspec tive and taking into consideration the recent literature. While the letters written by Savorgnan to Bembo, which are included in Carlo Dionisotti’s seminal edition of 1950, are original and autographed, Bembo’s letters to her were instead revised and rewritten by the author with the printing press in mind and published posthumously only in 1552. This revision and rewriting resulted in an epistolary romance with partially altered chronology, events and style. Moving from the analysis of Dionisotti’s edition, the article discusses a range of issues connected to this peculiar textual situation while aiming to offer suggestions for a new annotated edition of the Savorgnan–Bembo correspondence
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