102 research outputs found
Economic Freedom and Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America: A Panel Gravity Model Approach
No full textThis paper employs a panel data gravity model to examine the impact of economic freedom (EF) on foreign direct investment (FDI) in the context of Latin American countries. Our results suggest that while FDI responds to many EF measures positively, such results cannot be generalised.Economic freedom, FDI, Latin America, panel gravity model.
David Bellos’ indirect translation of Ismail Kadare’s The file on H : a contextual analysis
No full textThis article is a linguistic study of David Bellos’ indirect translation of Ismail Kadare’s The File on H (1997), a novel first published in 1980-1981 in the Albanian literary review Nëntori, and translated into English on the basis of Jusuf Vrioni’s French version, Le Dossier H (1989). Also called "double", "mediated" or "second-hand", indirect translation is an understudied phenomenon, often criticised by scholars because of its greater distance to the original. Cay Dollerup (2000: 23), for example, argues that the grammatical structure of the mediating language (ML) obscures the distinctions made in the source language (SL), and that possible "mistakes" in the ML may be repeated in the target language (TL). Do fidelity and loyalty to the author become weakened in Bellos’ indirect translation? To what extent is such weakening discernible linguistically? And does this particular case of indirect translation reveal notable patterns or recurring types of linguistic shifts between ST and TT? Showing that some of the features specific to Kadare’s Albanian writing are tempered in the doubly-translated English text, yet highlighting that similar shifts occur in the three language directions involved, this article demonstrates that changes between ST and TT may occur in indirect translation regardless of the strategies adopted by MT – thus challenging the hypothesis that linguistic shifts in indirect translation follow a single or consistent pattern
The Author in the Recording Studio: Phil Spector and the Patriarchal Author Figure within Pop Rock
No full textYale Nurse: Yale University School of Nursing Alumnae/i Association Newsletter, Fall 2003
No full textthis issue features the commencement and graduation activities of the Class of 2003 and the Sybil Palmer Bellos Lecture for 2003 by author and journalist Anna Quindlen.
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The Lessons that Tolstoy and Father Sergius Hold for Public Administration: Revisiting Three Root Questions
No full textThis essay revisits three root questions relevant to public administration: To whom or what does one owe loyalty? Do we need complex institutions? What moral principles should guide public administration? The author draws inspiration from both the life of Leo Tolstoy and his short story titled Father Sergius. The two have many parallels with inherent lessons for individual public administrators. The essay comes to the conclusion that the principle of the good example can serve as a paradigm for the field of ethics.</jats:p
Book Review: The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise. (Author: Georges Perec. Translated by David Bellos. London: Verso, 2011)
No full textThe author Georges Perec is best known as a leader of the oulipo movement of French experimental writers. In the early part of the twentieth century, a dominant force in French literature was surrealism, which maintained an aesthetic ideology of freedom that was perhaps best represented by the technique of automatic writing. In such writing an author put down on paper whatever words came into his or her mind in order to supposedly unleash a Freudian id unconstrained by faculties of conscious sense-making. Although the oulipoian writers often have created texts which seem similar to those of the surrealists in their lack of conventional order and sense, their procedure has been to impose constraints rather than disregard them. Influenced by the elaborate procedures used by Raymond Roussel, also a major influence on the surrealists, they forced their writing to follow strict and often arbitrary rules which prevented or limited free expression.
Multicriteria Decision-Making Methods for Optimal Treatment Selection in Network Meta-Analysis
No full textBackground: Network meta-analysis exploits randomized data to compare multiple interventions and generate rankings. Selecting an optimal treatment may be complicated when multiple conflicting outcomes are evaluated in parallel. Design: The present study suggested the incorporation of multicriteria decision-making methods in network meta-analyses to select the best intervention when multiple outcomes are of interest by creating partial and absolute rankings with the TOPSIS, VIKOR, and PROMETHEE algorithms. The TOPSIS and VIKOR techniques represent distance-based methods for compromise intervention selection, whereas the PROMETHEE analysis method allows the definition of preference and indifference thresholds. In addition, the PROMETHEE technique allows a variety of modeling options by selecting alternative preference functions. Different weights may be applied to outcomes objectively with the entropy method as well as subjectively with the analytic hierarchy process, enabling the individualization of treatment choice depending on the clinical scenario. Results: Visualization of decision analysis may be performed with multicriteria score-adjusted scatterplots, while league tables may be constructed to depict the PROMETHEE I partial ordering of interventions. A simulated study was performed assuming equal weights of outcomes, and the TOPSIS, VIKOR, and PROMETHEE II methods were compared using a similarity coefficient, indicating a high degree of agreement among methods, especially with higher numbers of interventions. Conclusions: Multicriteria decision analysis provides a flexible and computationally direct way of selecting compromise interventions and visualizing treatment selection in network meta-analyses. Further research should provide empirical data about the implementation of multicriteria decision analysis in real-world network meta-analyses aiming to define the most suitable method depending on the clinical question. Multicriteria decision-making methods can be implemented in network meta-analysis to indicate compromise interventions. The TOPSIS, VIKOR, and PROMETHEE methods can be used for optimal treatment selection when conflicting outcomes are evaluated. The weights of outcomes can be defined objectively or subjectively, reflecting the priorities of the decision maker. (Figure presented.). © The Author(s) 2022
Museo Histórico de San Miguel de Allende: Guanajuato
No full textLa información de esta miniguía se basa en trabajos de Francisco de la Maza, Rosalía Aguilar, Claudia Burr, Claudia Canales y en el expediente del Museo Histórico de San Miguel de Allende de la Sección de Monumentos Históricos del Centro INAH Guanajuato.La construcción de la casa que alberga al museo histórico se inició en 1760 y fue el regalo de bodas que don Domingo de Allende dio a su esposa María Josefa de Unzaga, padres del caudillo insurgente José Ignacio María de Allende y Unzaga. Como correspondía a la clase acomodada de la villa, la mansión, de influencia barroca, tiene dos niveles. La fachada es asimétrica de un paramento y su acceso principal lo enmarca una bella portada con elementos neoclásicos. Como otros edificios que existen en San Miguel, su fábrica es de cantera labrada. Complementan la arquitectura, herrería en balcones, rejas y barandales de sencillos pero bellos diseños. A fines de 1810 toda la casa fue confiscada por el gobierno. Establecida la República, el inmueble fue devuelto a sus dueños, quienes lo vendieron. En 1976 fue adquirido por las autoridades del estado de Guanajuato, iniciando su restauración en 1985; ese mismo año el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia presentó un proyecto para la conformación de un museo en la casa del caudillo. Aprobada la propuesta, los trabajos de producción y montaje se iniciaron a finales de 1989, inaugurándose el museo en marzo del siguiente año.</p
LITERATURE REVIEW OF MASONRY STRUCTURES UNDER EARTHQUAKE EXCITATION UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS
No full textThis work aims to
analyze and
reveal critical features of the papers
published
since
1990
on the topic of masonry structures under earthquake loading. In particular,
detailed
information for
nearly
three thousand papers (exactly 2909) was extracted from the Scopus database
[1],
and investigated in two stages.
Initially, the papers were analyzed in terms of
simple statistics and
keyword time
series –as
either
raw
or
normalized data
–
in order to describe the evolution of the relevant research during the past twenty-seven years
(1990-2016, inclusive)
.
In a second phase, bibliometric maps of the papers were developed, regarding
their similarities with respect to a variety of the papers’ characteristics such as:
author keywords
and
author names
. The resulting diagrams constitute comprehensive maps of the relevant literature, with respect to the associations among the particular characteristics. The
bibliometric maps were constructed based on a rigorous methodology, which converts
each
item (for example, keyword) to a
two
-
dimensional
(x, y)
point on the
bibliometric
map
. These
distances
between items
reflect the dissimilarities
between
them,
for a particular characteristic. The numerical procedure
involved in the construction
of the map is a constrained optimization problem which was formulated and solved with an efficient
methodolog
The Changing Meaning of Transparency
No full textDecrying the perils of big business and financial fraud in the early 1900s, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously said that “sunlight is…the best of disinfectants.” Brandeis’s metaphor for the power of transparency to regulate and rein in the abuses of corporate and governmental power became central to progressive reform in the early 20th century. But according to a recent paper, the goals of transparency advocates today—and the political and regulatory values associated with Brandeis’s sunlight symbol—have drastically shifted. Despite transparency’s progressive origins, modern advocates now pursue a more libertarian, skeptical bent that aims to make government not more democratic and functional but smaller and less effective. According to the paper’s author—Columbia Law School professor David Pozen—sunlight laws can return to their progressive origins. But doing so will first require that advocates stop praising transparency as an end in itself and treat open government laws as a complement to, rather than a substitute for, substantive underlying regulation. Progressives have long believed that shining a light into the shadows of businesses’ operations would expose corporate misconduct and limit corporations’ influence in government. This faith, Pozen argues, pervaded progressives’ advocacy for a wide variety of laws: food quality and labeling laws such as the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act of 1906, corporate financial disclosure laws, and laws that would require corporations to publicize their wages and workplace safety conditions more openly. Reformers pushed for transparency in government more directly by passing whistleblower protections and the first federal campaign finance disclosure law, along with civil service examination requirements to attack patronage. These policies—and their emphasis on open government—reflected the progressives’ fundamental faith in the improvement of public institutions and the ability to make them more responsive to the popular will, Pozen writes. If the progressive era aimed to make government substantively more democratic, the 1960s and 1970s saw a proliferation of new open government laws that pursued similar goals, but through procedural reforms. Pozen points to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), passed in 1966, as the era’s iconic legislative achievement on behalf of transparency. FOIA allows anyone to request records from federal agencies at a small cost, particularly in comparison to the government’s cost of fulfilling the requests. By exposing Congress and federal agencies to the public eye, Pozen writes, FOIA and other laws of the era aimed to prevent “well-heeled insiders” from capturing the legislative and regulatory process, thus improving “the fairness, deliberativeness,” and “public interestedness of their work.” Starting in the late 1970s, though, open information laws started to be increasingly used for different ends: to reveal administrative dysfunction and make the case for smaller government and less regulation. According to Pozen, corporations—often those under government investigation by federal agencies such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency—began to dominate the FOIA requester pool, creating procedural roadblocks and stymying regulators. Laws that require agencies to open their meetings to the public—such as the Federal Advisory Committee Act and Government in the Sunshine Act—have been transformed in a similar way, Pozen writes. Because of the procedural burdens, agencies have simply stopped using advisory committees or convening agency meetings in the first place, he claims. Moreover, Pozen argues that laws mandating increased transparency in the legislative process have actually made the process more susceptible to corporate capture. The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970—which, among other things, allowed congressional committee hearings to be televised and permitted the disclosure of House members’ committee votes—effectively eliminated congressional anonymity. This change actually made it easier for industry lobbyists to track and then influence legislators’ voting records. Pozen argues that even federal campaign finance disclosure laws have been weaponized to advance deregulatory agendas. As the federal courts began to invalidate laws imposing monetary limits on campaign donations in the early 2000s—culminating with the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission—many judges pointed to disclosure laws on the books as a seemingly adequate means to protect against undue corporate influence in politics. The rightward drift of transparency laws can be slowed and even redirected, though. To do this, Pozen advocates for changing the political conversation about government transparency, emphasizing transparency as a complementary regulatory tool rather than merely as an end in itself. Without being paired with stronger enforcement mechanisms and funding, Pozen argues that transparency will remain susceptible to politicization. Pozen’s article, “Transparency’s Ideological Drift,” will appear in the Yale Law Journal
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