Search results for " Integration"
showing 10 items of 1034 documents
The Coordination Problem in Regional Integration
2021
A catch-22 situation or coordination failure between the slow creation of well-integrated regional markets and low economic diversification (plus sophistication and specialization) is unfolding in Africa. Ubiquitous trade barriers translate into a paradoxical tariff pattern by which African neighbours are treated worse than remote trade partners. In the face of widespread irregularities and high trade costs, ‘trade facilitation’ has become an important technical approach to easing trade with the support of donor agencies. This chapter examines the systemic potential and limits of trade facilitation programmes. As a general alternative to institution-heavy, imperfect integration along the tr…
Estimation of significant solvent concentration ranges and its application to the enhancement of the accuracy of gradient predictions.
2004
Abstract The solvent concentration range actually useful for gradient predictions is significantly narrower than the total range scanned in a gradient run. This range, called “solvent informative range” (SIR), if known with the highest accuracy, allows to predict gradient retention times ( t g ) with minimal error. The small size of the SIR supports the application of the linear solvent strength theory (LSST). Furthermore, LSST allows a closed-form solution to the integral required to predict gradient retention times, which eliminates numerical integration, needed with other retention models. A methodology that calculates the SIR by applying error analysis, and uses it to improve the accura…
Vertical integration and profitability of the agrifood industry in an economic crisis context
2015
<p>In a setting of economic and financial crisis, most companies experienced a reduction in their profitability. Thus, our study allows us to identify vertical integration strategies developed by companies to overcome the crisis. This paper is aimed at unveiling the determining factors of the profitability of Spanish agrifood firms, depending on whether they are backwards vertically integrated or not. In order to attain our objective, we implemented a first difference regression model. The main contributions of the article lie in the incorporation of a variable that distinguishes integrated firms from the rest and the separate analysis of the two groups of firms. The results suggest t…
Una experiencia de aprendizaje para madres y padres de alumnos inmigrantes.
2004
Este trabajo presenta el diseño de un proyecto de investigación que está siendo desarrollado por la Unidad de Investigación de Psicología Social de la Universitat de Valéncia y el Ayuntamiento de Quart de Poblet, enmarcado en el programa europeo Regionet Integra, y cuyo objetivo es diseñar un Programa de itinerarios formativos para madres y padres de alumnos inmigrantes que facilite el proceso de escolarización de los alumnos y a la vez promueva la integración social de sus padres a través de la participación en el sistema educativo.
States of mourning: A quantitative analysis of national mournings across European countries
2018
Despite their growing incidence over the last decades, national days of mourning received curiously sparse attention throughout social sciences and death studies. This study investigates the 327 national mournings observed across European countries between 1989 and 2017 in terms of their national variance, temporal dynamics, typology of events that led to their declaration, and victimology. Drawing on a Durkheimian-inspired conceptualization of national mournings as political rites of solidarity and reconciliation, this article finds empirical support for the thesis that the frequency with which European countries declare national mourning is a negative function of a society's level of soci…
Arte y acción social en prisiones. Diseñando un taller permanente, primeras experiencias.
2017
Resumen: El taller de expresion artistica, del Centro Penitenciario Madrid IV en el municipio de Navalcarnero, es un proyecto de arte comunitario y educacion artistica realizado por alumnos voluntarios de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Comparte objetivos con las practicas del voluntariado y la accion social y pretende servir de apoyo a la reeducacion e inclusion social de sus participantes. Tras una primera fase piloto se considero la posibilidad de mantener el taller de forma permanente, estableciendo una segunda fase en cuyo analisis se centrara este articulo. Diversos estudios demuestran la eficacia de estos proyectos como herramienta de integracion …
Adaptació escolar, actituds i aprenentatge del català en l'alumnat de les aules d'acollida de primària i secundària a Catalunya (curs 2005-2006)
2008
In the last years a very important amount of immigrant students unaware of Catalan, a language typical of the educational system of Catalonia, have arrived to Catalonia. To face this situation an organizational educative model, known as newcomers classrooms, was started in 2003. It aims at speeding up the access of immigrant students to Catalan conversational uses in order to facilitate their school integration. This article presents a study that evaluates the results of newcomers classrooms, using as data the whole number of students that attended them in the course 2005-2006: 10.043 pupils of primary education (of 591 schools) and 6.474 pupils of secondary education (of 332 secondary scho…
Community-Based Organisations’ Role in Refugee Integration : A Case Study in Kristiansand, Norway
2018
Master's thesis Global development and planning UT505 - University of Agder 2018 Refugees is one of the major concentration of the world without considering the borders or economic level of the country. Recently, Europe also has received large number of refugees. Norway has also received many refugees from conflict zones recently. When refugees arrive to the host country it is the country responsibility to start and conduct the refugee integration process. Norway has its own refugee integration plan, and municipalities are given more responsibilities in refugee integration process. I have selected the Kristiansand municipality as my research area which is one of the municipalities in Norway…
Exploring the role of CBOs in the social integration of refugees : Case study in Kristiansand, Norway
2017
Master's thesis Global development and planning UT505 - University of Agder 2017 The arrival of refugees to European countries have increased with the conflicts around the world. However, the influx of more migrants in search of safety, better lives and work in the developed world continues to create a deep social cleavage. This thesis investigates some commonly neglected dimensions of forced migration and refugee integration. It examines the challenges refugees face in their everyday lives, and how CBOs address the challenges through their social integration programs and activities. Norway has a refugee integration plan and most of the responsibilities of the integration has been given to …
Pervasive access to MRI bias artifact suppression service on a grid.
2009
Bias artifact corrupts magnetic resonance images in such a way that the image is afflicted by illumination variations. Some of the authors proposed the Exponential Entropy Driven - Homomorphic Unsharp Masking (E2D-HUM) algorithm that corrects this artifact without any a priori hypothesis about the tissues or the Magnetic Resonance image modality. Moreover, E2D-HUM does not care about the body part under examination and does not require any particular training task. People who want to use this algorithm, which is Matlab-based, have to set their own computers in order to execute it. Furthermore, they have to be Matlab-skilled to exploit all the features of the algorithm. In our work we propos…