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AUTHOR
Helena Alves
An Approach to Measuring Perceived Quality of Life in the City Through a Formative Multidimensional Perspective
Cities compete to attract multinational companies, more tourism flows and to improve the quality of life of citizens. From a public service orientation, perceived quality of life should become a strategic input. In the last decades, scientists offered several alternative approaches to defining and measuring quality of life: social indicators, subjective measures and economic indices all with their strengths and weaknesses. This chapter conceptualizes and operationalizes perceived quality of life in the city from the perspective of its residents, proposing and validating a new measure with six dimensions through a formative index. The conceptual model and the hypotheses are tested using Part…
( n -Bu 4 N) 2 [Fe(dcbdt) 2 ] 2 . Synthesis, crystal structure and magnetic characterisation
Abstract The ( n -Bu 4 N) 2 [Fe(dcbdt) 2 ] 2 complex, where 4,5-dicyanobenzene-1,2-dithiolate (dcbdt), was prepared and characterised by X-ray diffraction, Mossbauer spectroscopy and magnetisation measurements. The crystal structure as determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction is triclinic, space group P 1 with cell parameters a =9.5660(1) A, b =13.0200(2) A, c =16.0850(2) A, α =67.554°(1), β =86.797°(1), γ =70.523°(1), V =1738.77(4) A 3 and it consists in strongly dimerised [Fe(dcbdt) 2 ] − units, which are stacked side by side as chains along a . The magnetic susceptibility shows that the [Fe(dcbdt) 2 ] − units have a low spin S =1/2 configuration and, besides a strong intradimer ant…