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Enduring the Autoimmune Aporia of Democratic Sovereignty
2021
The aim of this article is to read Rogues, in order to show that Derrida is neither a philosopher of democracy nor a critic of sovereignty , but rather a thinker of democratic sovereignty. Taking my cue from his Aporias, I argue that democratic sovereignty is aporetically in excess over itself, for it is based on articulating the path through the im-possible passage from the unconditional injunction of the ‘promise’ to the exigency of sovereignty. That is why it can neither be absorbed into the conditions of any existing democracy nor abstracted into any pure identity of sovereignty. Political trends today fail in enduring the aprioricity of aporia, as neoliberals valorize the posited condi…
Génesis y resolución de conflictos relacionados con la instalación de mezquitas y oratorios: el caso del oratorio de Singuerlín (Santa Coloma de Gram…
2017
Durante los últimos años, se han sucedido, en diferentes territorios del Estado español, los conflictos relacionados con la instalación de mezquitas y oratorios destinados a la práctica del culto musulmán. Este artículo analiza uno de los conflictos más intensos, el desatado en 2004 ante el intento de apertura del oratorio del barrio de Singuerlín en Santa Coloma de Gramenet. Se estudia su raíz, su evolución y el papel que jugó la mediación intercultural en su gestión. A partir de las entrevistas en profundidad efectuadas con los actores implicados, varios años después, se analizan los elementos estructurales del conflicto y se plantea una reflexión acerca de la forma en la que se ha ido co…
Búsqueda de compuestos con potencial terapéutico para la enfermedad de Parkinson y estudio de la relación entre la enfermedad de Parkinson y la Diabe…
2022
La enfermedad de Parkinson (EP) es la segunda enfermedad neurodegenerativa más frecuente. Actualmente, la EP no tiene cura, y las terapias existentes solo son capaces de tratar los síntomas de esta enfermedad, pero no de ralentizar o de parar su progresión. Con el objetivo de descubrir nuevos fármacos que pudieran ser útiles para tratar esta enfermedad, hemos realizado un rastreo a gran escala, evaluando los compuestos incluidos en la quimioteca Prestwick (1120 compuestos). Para ello, estudiamos el efecto de estos compuestos sobre la actividad motora en un modelo de la EP en Drosophila basado en la mutación del gen DJ-1beta (ortólogo del gen humano DJ-1, cuya mutación es causante de casos f…
Identificación de nuevas rutas de patogénesis y dianas terapéuticas en la enfermedad de Parkinson mediante el uso de modelos biomédicos
2022
La enfermedad de Parkinson (EP) es la segunda enfermedad neurodegenerativa más común, caracterizada por la pérdida progresiva de neuronas dopaminérgicas en la substantia nigra pars compacta. Esto conduce a una disminución de los niveles de dopamina en el núcleo estriado, causando los síntomas motores típicos de la enfermedad. Entre las principales causas de la neurodegeneración se encuentran el estrés oxidativo (EO) y la disfunción mitocondrial. Aunque la mayoría de los casos de EP son idiopáticos, se ha demostrado que entre el 5 y el 10% de ellos son formas familiares de la enfermedad causadas por mutaciones en determinados genes. Uno de ellos es el gen DJ-1, cuyas mutaciones están asociad…
"Lund jet plane: vertical slice, 4.00 < ln(R/#DeltaR) < 4.33" of "Measurement of the Lund jet plane using charged particles in 13 TeV proton-pr…
2020
Normalized differential cross-section of the Lund jet plane. The first systematic uncertainty is detector systematics, the second is background systematic uncertainties. The data is presented as a 1D distribution, for a single vertical slice of the Lund jet plane between 4.00 < ln(R/#DeltaR) < 4.33.
Graduate employment and the returns to higher education in Africa
2013
http://cemapre.iseg.utl.pt/educonf/2e3/files/submissions_to_web/Barounia%20Mahdi_Broeckeb%20%20Stijn.docx; In this paper, we estimate the return to higher education for 12 African countries using recent data and a variety of methods. Importantly, one of our methods adjusts for the effect of higher education on the rate of joblessness, which is substantial in most African countries, and particularly for women. Our results confirm that Mincerian coefficients cannot be interpreted as a true rate of return, and that the latter (even after taking into account the employment effect) is considerably lower than what has previously been suggested in the literature (less than half). For Sub-Saharan A…
The effect of polytechnic reform on migration
2011
This paper examines the effect of the polytechnic reform on geographical mobility. A polytechnic, higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics and also brought higher education to regions that did not have a university before. This expansion of higher education provides exogenous variation in the regional supply of higher education. The reform raised the mobility of high school graduates across local labour markets in the years after they had completed their secondary studies, which indicated increased mobility between high school and post-secondary education. We estimate that the reform enhanced the annual…
The monitoring role of female directors over accounting quality
2017
Recent research in accounting suggests female directors exert more stringent monitoring over the financial reporting process than their male counterparts. However, an emerging literature in finance and economics provides mixed findings and questions whether females in leadership roles significantly differ from their male counterparts. Building on this literature, we re-examine the link between the presence of female directors, gender biases, and financial statements quality. Using a large sample of UK firms we find that a larger percentage of women among independent directors is significantly associated with lower earnings management practices. However, we show that this relation disappears…
Technology and Labor Regulations: Theory and Evidence
2015
This paper shows that different labor market policies can lead to differences in technology across sectors in a model of labor saving technologies. Labor market regulations reduce the skill premium and as a result, if technologies are labor saving, countries with more stringent labor regulation, which bind more for low skilled workers, become less technolog- ically advanced in their high skill sectors, but more technologically advanced in their low skill sectors. We then present data on capital-output ratios, on estimated productivity levels and on patent creation, which tend to support the predictions of our model.
Youth Transition from School to Work in Spain
2001
Using a data set drawn from the Encuesta Socio-Demográfica conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística in 1991, we analyze the labor market entrance of Spanish school leavers and the match between education and work at the early stages of working life. The empirical evidence shows that human capital exerts a strong influence on the duration of unemployment. With regard to the job match between education and work we find that young workers are more likely to be underutilized compared to their adult co-workers. Regression results indicate that people with higher education have, all else being equal, a lower probability of being overeducated and a shorter lenght of unemployment. They al…