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Maximal potentials, maximal singular integrals, and the spherical maximal function
2014
We introduce a notion of maximal potentials and we prove that they form bounded operators from L to the homogeneous Sobolev space Ẇ 1,p for all n/(n − 1) < p < n. We apply this result to the problem of boundedness of the spherical maximal operator in Sobolev spaces.
Do social enterprises walk the talk? Assessing microfinance performances with mission statements
2019
We study mission drift in social enterprises by examining whether these organizations stick to the actual mission enshrined in their mission statements. We use data from microfinance organizations (MFOs), a homogeneous group of social enterprises which have been scrutinized—and sometimes criticized—for mission drift. We focus on three publicly recognized and non-mutually-exclusive microfinance social missions identified by previous studies: poverty alleviation, women's empowerment, and rural financial inclusion. Based on hand-collected data from 199 MFOs worldwide, our results suggest strong coherence between social missions and actual practices. Hence, we argue that, with respect to MFOs' …
Caracterización conductual y neuroinmune de la resiliencia al estrés social: Efectos reforzantes de la cocaína
2020
Numerosos estudios preclínicos han demostrado que el estrés social incrementa la vulnerabilidad a los efectos reforzantes de la cocaína. Sin embargo, los resultados obtenidos no son homogéneos, observándose siempre una subpoblación que no muestra dicho incremento. Utilizando el modelo de derrota social (DS) repetida en ratones, en este trabajo hemos querido caracterizar conductualmente a los ratones resilientes al incremento de los efectos reforzantes de la cocaína inducido por el estrés social. Utilizamos ratones adultos macho de la cepa C57/BL6 a los que sometimos al protocolo de DS repetida y tres semanas más tarde, realizamos el Condicionamiento de Preferencia de Lugar (CPL) inducido po…
Pyramid symmetry transforms: From local to global symmetry
2007
Pyramid computation is a natural paradigm of computation in planning strategies and multi-resolution image analysis. This paper introduces a new paradigm that is based on the concept of soft-hierarchical operators implemented in pyramid architecture to retrieve global versus local symmetries. The concept of symmetry is mathematically well defined in geometry whenever patterns are crisp images (two levels). Necessity for a soft approach occurs with multi-levels images and whenever the separation between object and background is subjective or not well defined. The paper describes two new pyramid operators to detect symmetries based on previously introduced conventional operators. For sake of …
Thiazolium-based catalysts for the etherification reaction of benzylic alcohols under solvent-free condition
2015
Thiazolium and imidazolium hybrid materials were prepared by radical reactions between a mercaptopropyl-modified SBA-15 mesoporous silica and bis-vinylthiazolium or bis-vinylimidazolium dibromide salts. These hybrid materials were characterized by several techniques and were employed in the etherification reaction of 1-phenylethanol. Solvent-free conditions at 160C under different gas phases (oxygen, air, nitrogen and argon) were used. The thiazolium-based material displayed excellent performances. Further studies were carried out using unsupported thiazolium salts, with or without a methyl group at the C-2 position of the thiazolium moiety. These studies allowed us to propose a reaction me…
Zur polymerisation und copolymerisation des natriumvinylsulfonats
1959
Natriumvinylsulfonat (VS-Na) zeigt in konzentrierten wasrigen Losungen eine ausgepragte Polymerisationsneigung. Die Polymerisationsgeschwindigkeit und der erreichte Umsatz hangen stark von der Aciditat der Losungen ab. Es wurde gefunden, das mit der Polymerisationsdauer und mit wachsendem Umsatz auch die Molekulargewichte der Polymerisate ansteigen. Wasserunlosliche oder nur begrenzt losliche ungesattigte Verbindungen wie Styrol, Vinylacetat und andere konnen in Dimethylsulfoxyd in homogener Losung mit VS-Na copolymerisiert werden. Sodiumvinylsulphonate (VS-Na) shows a strong tendency for polymerization in concentrated aqueous solutions. The rate of polymerization and the conversion depend …
Southern-Tyrrhenian seismicity in space-time-magnitude domain
2006
An analysis is conducted on a catalogue containing more than 2000 seismic events occurred in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea between 1988 and October 2002, as an attempt to characterise the main seismogenetic processes active in the area in space, time and magnitude domain by means of the parameters of phenomenological laws. We chose to adopt simple phenomenological models, since the low number of data did not allow to use more complex laws. The two main seismogenetic volumes present in the area were considered for the purpose of this work. The first includes a nearly homogeneous distribution of hypocentres in a NW steeply dipping layer as far as a…
La deportividad como categoría moral: Las propuestas de Keating y Feezell
2018
En el presente artículo nos proponemos rescatar la importancia de ver la deportividad como categoría moral desde la aportación realizada por Keating en su artículo de 1964. Ampliando la propuesta pionera de Keating con la realizada por Feezell se analizan los pro y contra de la distinción entre deporte y atletismo. Centrándonos en la importancia de ver la deportividad como una categoría moral que se aplica al deporte y al atletismo de forma homogénea, viendo que por encima del énfasis de la victoria se impone el trabajo cooperativo y en equipo, sin el cual no podría existir un comportamiento ético en deporte
The linear birth and death process under the influence of independently occurring disasters
1989
A population developing according to a time homogeneous linear birth and death process is subjected to an independently occurring random sequence of disasters. Using an embedded Galton-Watson process with random environments explicit results about the probability of extinction and the asymptotic behavior of the process are obtained.
Ergodicity for a stochastic Hodgkin–Huxley model driven by Ornstein–Uhlenbeck type input
2013
We consider a model describing a neuron and the input it receives from its dendritic tree when this input is a random perturbation of a periodic deterministic signal, driven by an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. The neuron itself is modeled by a variant of the classical Hodgkin-Huxley model. Using the existence of an accessible point where the weak Hoermander condition holds and the fact that the coefficients of the system are analytic, we show that the system is non-degenerate. The existence of a Lyapunov function allows to deduce the existence of (at most a finite number of) extremal invariant measures for the process. As a consequence, the complexity of the system is drastically reduced in c…