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Irrigated Agriculture in Spain: Diagnosis and Prescriptions for Improved Governance
2012
The objective of this paper is to diagnose the current state of irrigation in Spain in order to support government decision makers to improve the design and application of their plans for action. The analysis implemented shows that this sector faces two main challenges: the decrease in the support given by the Common Agricultural Policy (lower subsidies/incomes) and the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (stricter environmental requirements). While the survival of extensive irrigated agriculture in inland regions depends on farmers producing different crops and modernizing production techniques, littoral regions must respond with technological innovation, especially te…
The poverty line and subsistence minimum in Latvia
1994
This article gives a picture of the difficulties of defining poverty and setting up a poverty line in a post-communist country in the period of transition to democracy and a market economy. The ongoing processes are linked with the deterioration of living standards and wellbeing of the population. The government has attempted to protect the population socially, accepting a subsistence minimum and later a crisis subsistence minimum. It is difficult to argue that the activities of the government have been successful and helped much in improving the living standards of the population of Latvia.
H$^{-}$ extraction systems for CERN’s Linac4 H$^{-}$ ion source
2018
Linac4 is a 160 MeV linear H accelerator at CERN. It is an essential part of the beam luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and will be the primary injector into the chain of circular accelerators. It aims at increasing the beam brightness by a factor of 2, when compared to the currently used 50 MeV linear proton accelerator, Linac2. Linac4’s ion source is a cesiated RF-plasma H ion source. Several beam extraction systems were designed for H beams of 45 keV energy, 50 mA intensity and an electron to H ratio smaller than 5. The goal was to extract a beam with an rms-emittance of mm mrad. One of the main challenges in designing an H extraction system is dumping of the co-extra…
Ventas upju baseina apgabala upju hidromorfoloģiskais novērtējums
2018
Bakalaura darba ietvaros tiek izvērtēta Cieceres, Ēdas un Vankas upju hidromorfoloģiskā kvalitāte, nokartētas upju hidromorfoloģiskās vienības (biotopi), kā arī tiek aprēķināta biotopu atbilstība izvēlētajām zivju sugām. Tika apsekotas sekojošas upes: Ciecere lejpus HES (hidroelektrostacija) kaskādes, Vanka lejpus Ēdoles HES un Ēda (Šķēde) lejpus Šķēdes dzirnavu HES. Pētījums veikts, lai efektīvi pielāgotu ekoloģiskā caurplūduma aprēķināšanas metodiku un MesoHABSIM modeli Latvijas apstākļiem, kas līdz šim nav darīts. Darba mērķis ir novērtēt mazo HES darbības ietekmi uz upju ekosistēmām Ventas upju baseina apgabalā. Upju kartēšana, hidromorfoloģisko un hidroloģisko datu ievākšana notika 201…
The development of Finnish museums over the last forty years
2018
The focus of this article is the development of Finnish museums since the 1970s, when the Ministry of Education started to understand the social benefits of museums as social memory organizations with activities of research and education. At this point in time the Ministry began actively developing the preconditions for museum work, the main ”tools” being several political museum committees which created a museum hierarchy and network, ensured state subsidy through museum acts, established university studies of museology, and gave support to the Finnish Museums Association.
La diffusion des NTIC au sein du réseau urbain français et le rôle des acteurs publics
2001
The study deals with the ways in which the general public and the government make use of new information and communication technologies. We analyze the physical locations of Internet sites with “fr” as their domain names. The data were provided by the French NIC center (AFNIC). Using this sample (a quarter of all French sites), we find a rather even distribution of French sites in the Paris area plus the other main French cities, and the remainder of France. In addition, we try to enumerate the initiatives of the public actors responsible for the regional planning of the new information and communication technologies. Firstly, we clarify the economic and legal framework in which public acto…
Entre la Diputación del General de Cataluña y la Cámara Apostólica: la trayectoria del colector Bernat Vallès (1365-1389)
2021
Bernat Vallès fue un miembro de la clerecía barcelonesa de la segunda mitad del siglo XIV y uno de los considerados «primeros presidentes» de la Generalitat de Cataluña. Fue nombrado diputado eclesiástico en las Cortes de Tortosa de 1365 y, en ese mismo año, se le documenta ya en relación con la Cámara Apostólica de Aviñón. Centrándonos en su perfil polifacético y empleando documentación del Archivo de la Corona de Aragón y del Archivo Apostólico Vaticano, nos interesa analizar la gestión fiscal y financiera de este personaje en relación con la fiscalidad regia y pontificia. Todo ello, en un periodo significativo para la consolidación de la fiscalidad general en la Corona de Aragón y la fis…
Promoting self-employment: Does it create more employment and business activity?
2021
International audience; We assess the economic impact of reforms promoting self-employment in the three countries that have implemented such reforms since the early 2000s: the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and France. To that end, we use an unbalanced cross country-industry dataset of 4,226 observations, including 12 OECD countries and 20 market industries, over the 1995-2016 period. We first observe, using country-level data, that the share of self-employed workers in total employment is quite stable or declines over the period in all countries in our dataset, except in the three countries where large reforms promoting self-employment have been implemented, and only after these reforms. …
Microbiological investigation of Raphanus sativus L. grown hydroponically in nutrient solutions contaminated with spoilage and pathogenic bacteria
2012
Abstract The survival of eight undesired (spoilage/pathogenic) food related bacteria (Citrobacter freundii PSS60, Enterobacter spp. PSS11, Escherichia coli PSS2, Klebsiella oxytoca PSS82, Serratia grimesii PSS72, Pseudomonas putida PSS21, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia PSS52 and Listeria monocytogenes ATCC 19114T) was investigated in mineral nutrient solution (MNS) during the crop cycle of radishes (Raphanus sativus L.) cultivated in hydroponics in a greenhouse. MNSs were microbiologically analyzed weekly by plate count. The evolution of the pure cultures was also evaluated in sterile MNS in test tubes. The inoculated trials contained an initial total mesophilic count (TMC) ranging between 6.…
Loyalty Formation for Different Customer Journey Segments
2019
The proliferation of new touchpoints empowers today's customers to design their own journey from search to purchase. To address this new complexity, we segment customers by their use of specific touchpoints in the customer journey, investigate the association of several covariates with segment membership, consider the rise of mobile devices as potential "game changers" of existing segments, and explore how the relationships among product satisfaction, journey satisfaction, customer inspiration, and customer loyalty differ across segments. Based on anticipated utility theory and using latent class analyses on large-scale data from two samples of 2,443 and 2,649 journeys, we identify five tim…