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European Mediterranean Women and the “Showdown” Between Public Emancipation and Private Self-oppression

2020

This chapter emphasizes the unfinished nature of a form of late-modernity still hanging in the balance between frameworks of representation and legitimization regarding women and the roles they play within the public sphere in virtue of the emancipation that has taken place and the contradictions which emerge when trying to reconcile old and new models of femininity. We shall, therefore, try to disengage some of the knots linking gender violence and “cultural representations” but, above all, the “adaptive preferences” and “corrosive disadvantages” found in European women’s private lives, which clash totally with their social achievements and are attributable to emotional oppression and, sim…

Bitumen stabilized ballast: a potential solution for railway track-bed

2016

Railway ballast degradation under dynamic loads progressively leads to loss of mechanical performance and geometry of the track, so that maintenance interventions are frequently needed. In order to system- atically avoid this issue, recently solutions have been proposed to reinforce track-bed by using polyur- ethane and/or resins as well as asphalt layers among others. Nonetheless, their main limitations are related to the high initial cost and low productivity. To cope with these limitations, in this study, bitumen stabilized ballast (BSB) is proposed as a new solu- tion for ballast stabilization. This method aims at improving durability and reducing settlement by mod- ifying both stiffnes…

Baltic Sea in Estonian and Finnish media : discussed topics and stakeholders

2016

In this paper the stakeholders and most discussed topics of Baltic Sea in the media are examined. Baltic Sea is a fragile ecosystem that provides variety of services to the locals. Not only the locals hold the stake, but also industries and governments. This paper aims to present the complexity of stakeholder network and contradicting interests. Altogether 104 newspaper articles from Estonian and Finnish media on Baltic Sea were used as the data source and the concerning topics, themes and stakeholders were surveyed. The qualitative data was inserted to the textual analysis software QDA Miner 4 Lite. Three main topics were named according to the concept of three pillars of sustainability- e…

La génesis de la fiscalidad municipal en Cataluña

1996

En 1361, el municipio de Barcelona ingresaba una cantidad cercana a las 52.000 l.; de esta suma, el 56% procedía de los impuestos indirectos (imposicions), el 34% de la deuda pública y sólo un 9% del impuesto directo. Un año antes, en 1360, la universidad de Cervera ingresaba una cifra próxima a las 7.000 l.: mientras el 40% procedía de las imposicions, el 60% restante se repartía, casi a partes idénticas, entre la deuda pública y la talla. En 1357/1358, los ingresos del municipio de Yalls ascendían a 763 l.: el 70% de esta cantidad venía de las imposicions y el 30% de las talles. Un año más tarde, en 1359, la universidad de Reus ingresaba 1.237 l.; el 41% de esta cifra procedía del impuest…

Body, town planning, and participation : the roles of young people and sport

2012

Director Compensation Incentives and Acquisition Outcomes

2018

The principal objective of this chapter is to investigate the relation between director compensation structure and shareholder interests in the context of acquisitions. Our evidence suggests that acquirer firms that compensate their directors with a higher proportion of incentive-based compensation have significantly higher stock returns around the announcement. An increase in director equity-based pay results in a lower probability of value-destroying acquisitions and a lower acquisition premium for targets. We further find that acquirers with higher equity-based pay exhibit greater improvements in stock price and operating performance following acquisitions.

El barrio como espacio deliberativo. Los procesos institucionales de participación en l'Horta Sud (València) en las legislaturas 'del cambio' = The n…

2021

Los nuevos gobiernos municipales 'del cambio' están promoviendo procesos de participación barriales, sobre todo a partir de 2019, por lo que tienen un carácter novedoso y poco estudiado. En este marco, se presentan dos experiencias institucionales de participación de la comarca de L'Horta Sud (València) que pretenden fomentar la implicación del vecindario en la mejora de la calidad de vida de sus barrios. A partir de las técnicas de observación directa, entrevista abierta y recopilación documental, se exponen las fases y los resultados de estos procesos, evaluados sobre la base de diferentes dimensiones. Asimismo, se comparan con iniciativas similares y con otras fórmulas de participación c…

An adaptive-PCA algorithm for reflectance estimation from color images

2008

This paper deals with the problem of spectral reflectance estimation from color camera outputs. Because the reconstruction of such functions is an inverse problem, stabilizing the reconstruction process is highly desirable. One way to do this is to decompose reflectance function on a basis functions like PCA. The present work proposes an algorithm making PCA adaptive in reflectance estimation from a color camera output. We propose to adapt the PCA basis derivation by selecting, for each sample, the more relevant elements from the training set elements. The adaptivity criterion is achieved by a likelihood measurement. Finally, the spectral reflectance estimation results are evaluated with th…

Q-Chem 2.0: a high-performanceab initio electronic structure program package

2000

ABSTRACT: Q-Chem 2.0 is a new release of an electronic structure programpackage, capable of performing first principles calculations on the ground andexcited states of molecules using both density functional theory and wavefunction-based methods. A review of the technical features contained withinQ-Chem 2.0 is presented. This article contains brief descriptive discussions of thekey physical features of all new algorithms and theoretical models, together withsample calculations that illustrate their performance. c 2000 John Wiley S electronic structure; density functional theory;computer program; computational chemistry Introduction A reader glancing casually at this article mightsuspect on t…

The role of sport-specific play and practice during childhood in the development of adolescent Finnish team sport athletes

2016

This study sought to understand the role of sport-specific play and practice in the development of adolescent team sport athletes in the Finnish sports development system. Participants were male, 15-year-old soccer (n = 141), ice hockey (n = 204), and basketball (n = 96) players, divided into three groups based on the amount of sport-specific play and practice experienced during childhood. Data were collected with sport-specific inventories of practice history, tactical skills, psychological skills, and sport-specific skill test. Results showed that athletes with more sport-specific play and practice during childhood had more sport-specific play and practice during adolescence, better techn…