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On the trail of local welfare innovations in rural Finland
2019
Final Draft In Finland, the rural areas have been most affected by the developments threatening the survival of the welfare state as well as by conflicting efforts to save it. However, there are rural communities that have—as a response to the mainstream policy emphasizing economic efficiency and individual responsibility—developed innovative solutions to secure their welfare. Based on a case study focusing on two of such communities, these local welfare innovations are a result from a combination of external causes and local resources including the sense of community and a diverse enough community structure. The authors argue that in the context of welfare policy, the promotion of local we…
A Methodology for Protection of Trees Against Lightning Strikes as a Measure to Prevent Fires and Loss of Human Life
2021
Some regions may be characterized by a very low annual lightning ground flash density, and yet lightning strikes seem to have been in those areas the cause of widespread wildfires in forested areas. Due to global climate change, these occurrences seem to be an increasing threat. In this paper, the authors discuss the withstand capability of trees against lightning and introduce the criteria for the deployment of tree lightning protection systems (TLPS) to protect forested areas, where deemed necessary by the tree risk assessment. This work analytically identifies the critical trunk radius of the tree below which the tree may explode in the case of a lightning strike and ignite the surroundi…
Més de 25 anys fent camí. Ètica i Treball Social
2011
This article contains the main data from a research study on the ethics and deontology committee of the Association of Social Workers of Catalonia. It describes the history of the committee, some factual information about the consultations addressed to it, the consulting persons and other items, and proposes recommendations for the ethics committees of social work.
On-line quizzes to evaluate comprehension and integration skills
2016
[EN] This work demonstrates the use of a 2.0 tool, namely, Socrative, to evaluate one of the cross-curricular competences indicated by the Universitat Politècnica de València, specifically, comprehension and integration. It has been applied to the courses in different areas: sciences, engineering and languages. As part of its implementation, activities were proposed that could be done at the beginning, during or at the end of the class to, on the one hand, help students acquire the knowledge associated with the course(s), and on the other, gather evidence that demonstrates acquisition of said competence. The results show a high level of satisfaction by the students with the use of the Socra…
How do remuneration committees affect corporate social responsibility disclosure? empirical evidence from an international perspective
2022
The main goal of this study is to analyze whether the existence of remuneration committees tend to disclose more corporate social responsibility (CSR) information. In addition, we test the moderating role played by the proportion of independent directors on boards of directors with the relationship between the constitution of remuneration committees and CSR disclosure. Previous research does not appear to have addressed these questions. The research questions proposed are tested using an international sample of 28,610 listed companies, and we took into consideration information on industrial companies from the Middle East, developed Asian and Pacific countries, both emerging and developed E…
A strong electroweak phase transition from the inflaton field
2016
We study a singlet scalar extension of the Standard Model. The singlet scalar is coupled non-minimally to gravity and assumed to drive inflation, and also couple sufficiently strongly with the SM Higgs field in order to provide for a strong first order electroweak phase transition. Requiring the model to describe inflation successfully, be compatible with the LHC data, and yield a strong first order electroweak phase transition, we identify the regions of the parameter space where the model is viable. We also include a singlet fermion with scalar coupling to the singlet scalar to probe the sensitivity of the constraints on additional degrees of freedom and their couplings in the singlet sec…
I think there’s a teacher hiding behind that text book : first year teacher trainees conceptions of creative EFL teaching
2010
Luova englanninopettaminen on opettamista, joka ei tukeudu yksinomaan oppikirjoihin ja muihin valmiisiin materiaaleihin. Luova englanninopettaja käyttää kieltä opettaessaan vaihtelevia opetusmenetelmiä ja -materiaaleja. Yhdelle opettajalle tämä voi tarkoittaa yletöntä ylimääräistä työmäärää, toiselle vaihtelua ja vapautta opettamiseen. Luovaan englanninopettamiseen liittyviä käsityksiä ja tuntemuksia ei ole kuitenkaan tutkittu laajasti varsinkaan suomalaisessa kontekstissa eikä siis voida sanoa, miten ne vaikuttavat englanninopettajan kokemuksiin omasta työstään. Aiemmat luovuutta käsittelevät tutkimukset ovat käsitelleet opettajuuden eri puolia laajemmin, jolloin luovaan opettamiseen ei …
Metaphorical representation of European migration crisis in Spanish and Russian press in 2017
2018
Resumen: El artículo presenta un estudio contrastivo de las metáforas extraídas de los textos noticiosos relativas a la crisis de refugiados publicados en 2017 en las páginas Web de seis periódicos, tres de los cuales son de España y tres de Rusia. El corpus español está compuesto de noticias tanto nacionales como internacionales. La investigación tiene perspectiva sincrónica y apela por la metodología mixta entre el periodismo y la lingüística. El análisis abarca estudio estructural de las metáforas en los textos periodísticos y pone de manifiesto su relación con la actualidad que refleja. El estudio combina la mirada cualitativa y cuantitativa. Abstract: This article presents a contrastiv…
KERNEL ESTIMATION OF THE TRANSITION DENSITY IN BIFURCATING MARKOV CHAINS
2023
We study the kernel estimator of the transition density of bifurcating Markov chains. Under some ergodic and regularity properties, we prove that this estimator is consistent and asymptotically normal. Next, in the numerical studies, we propose two data-driven methods to choose the bandwidth parameters. These methods are based on the so-called two bandwidths approach.
The trees in the middle of Paradise (Gn 2:9) during the Great Lent: Orthodox hymnography as biblical interpretation
2022
The article examines the interpretation of the Scripture in Byzantine hymnography during the Great Lent. Some notable recent contributions focus on Andrew of Crete’s and Romanos the Melodist’s compositions, illustrating the hymnographic way of understanding the Scriptures. The author of this study presents a selection of stanzas from hymns of the Triodion that refer to the trees of Paradise. Hymnography perceives the trees in Genesis 2–3 in direct connection with the cross. Only rarely is the tree of life a metaphor for Jesus, as the shadow of the tree of the cross is seldom a metaphor for protection. Another interesting aspect in relation to hymnography is the fact that it represents a typ…