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Do Rent-Seeking and Interregional Transfers Contribute to Urban Primacy in Sub-Saharan Africa?
2006
We develop an economic geography model in which mobile skilled workers choose between working in the production sector or becoming part of an unproductive political elite. The elite sets tax rates on skilled and unskilled workers to maximize its own welfare by extracting rents, thereby influencing the spatial allocation of production and changing the available range of consumption goods. We show that such behavior increases the likelihood of agglomeration and of urban primacy. In equilibrium, the elite may tax the unskilled workers but will never tax the skilled workers, and there are rural-urban transfers towards the agglomeration. The size of the elite and the magnitude of the tax burden …
Effects of Including Sprints in One Weekly Low-Intensity Training Session During the Transition Period of Elite Cyclists
2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of including 30-s sprints in one weekly low-intensity training (LIT) session during a 3-week transition period in elite cyclists. Sixteen male elite cyclists (maximal oxygen uptake, VO2max: 72 ± 5 ml·kg−1·min−1) reduced their training load by ~60% for 3 weeks from the end of competitive season and performed only LIT or included 30-s sprints (SPR) in one weekly LIT-session. Performance and physiological capacities were evaluated during a prolonged (~2.5 h) test-session, including a strength test, a submaximal blood lactate profile test, an incremental test to exhaustion to determine VO2max, 1 h continuous cycling including four maximal…
The formation of feed-in tariffs and the emergence of wind power in Finnish routine corporatism: favoring the economics of large-scale energy product…
2021
We explore the role and influence of the Finnish energy elite’s inner circle in the process of transition to renewable energy. Finland is a corporatist country where economic interest groups have p...
Disasters in the Society of Fear
2019
From immemorial times, Aborigines and ancient cultures were frightened of disasters because these events were seen as divine reprisals or punishment for their sins (as the Noah’s Ark myth shows). Although modern science introduced instrumental thinking to understand disasters, improving the quality of life, it is equally true that capitalism obscured the diagnosis of scientists to protect the system. Blind to see the real problems of earth, today, capitalism offers distorted answers to the problem of climate change, migration and refugee crises, and even to the economic downturn. Based on the tactics of blaming Others, the elite allude to poverty as the precondition toward humanitarian disa…
High-Pressure Raman Scattering of CaWO4 Up to 46.3 GPa: Evidence of a New High-Pressure Phase
2014
International audience; The high-pressure behavior of CaWO4 wasanalyzed at room temperature by Raman spectroscopy.Pressure was generated using a diamond-anvil cell and Ne aspressure-transmitting medium. The pressure range of previousstudies has been extended from 23.4 to 46.3 GPa. Theexperiments reveal the existence of two reversible phasetransitions. The first one occurs from the tetragonal scheelitestructure to the monoclinic fergusonite structure and isobserved at 10 GPa. The onset of a previously unknownsecond transition is found at 33.4 GPa. The two high-pressurephases coexist up to 39.4 GPa. The Raman spectra measuredfor the low-pressure phase and the first high-pressure phase arecons…
Being a teacher's child, a favorable condition to be part of the French higher education elite ?
2018
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Difusión agronómica y protagonismo de las élites en los orígenes de la agricultura contemporánea : Valencia, 1840-60
1999
Se analizan aquí algunos mecanismos de difusión de conocimientos agronómicos en una zona agraria de la periferia europea caracterizada por los elevados rendimientos del suelo. Se estudia también el papel de las élites rurales en este proceso, destacando la función de legitimación social que ese papel tenia en la sociedad liberal del siglo XIX. Los resultados muestran que la innovación técnica no tuvo una única procedencia: se recibió información desde la Europa más avanzada pero también desde otros continentes, y se sistematizaron y difundieron técnicas empíricas ya conocidas en el propio país. This paper analyses some of the processes to spread agricultural knowledge in an agricultural are…
Manual de laboratori per a tècniques en anàlisi criminal
2014
El document forma part dels materials docents programats mitjançant l'ajut del Servei de Política Lingüística de la Universitat de València. Aquestes sessions pràctiques pretenen familiaritzar l’estudiant amb algunes de les tècniques bioquímiques i genètiques que permeten detectar la variabilitat en les poblacions humanes i la seva possible aplicació en la identificació de persones.
Developing narrative identities in youth pre-elite sport : bridging the present and the future
2019
Narrative research has contributed to understandings of athletic identity as an evolving story of the self that is creatively put together by the agentic individual but necessarily dependent on broader narratives within which we all live our lives. However, most studies in sport have focused on retrospective ‘big stories’ of athletes’ lives, rather than on-going, future-oriented identity construction through storytelling. In this study, we explored Finnish pre-elite athletes’ emerging stories of the self to understand the processes associated with the narrative selection and the resources they tap into in making sport meaningful to them. Nine women and eight men aged 17–18 were invited to c…
“She is where I’d want to be in my career” : Youth athletes’ role models and their implications for career and identity construction
2019
Abstract Objectives While role models have been documented to play a vital role in adolescents’ career development and identity exploration, in sport psychology they remain an untapped resource. The present study drew on narrative inquiry to explore the patterns of role model selection by adolescent student-athletes and the narrative maps these role models provide for self-construction. As a second objective, the study sought to understand the impact of gender on the selection and meaning of role models. Method Eighteen Finnish student-athletes (10 women, eight men) aged 17-18 participated in conversational interviews. We analysed the data with thematic and structural narrative analyses. Re…