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The members of the “Consell General” of Valencia since the death of Ferdinand the Catholic to the “Germanías” (1515-1523)

2001

En el ámbito municipal de la Valencia foral, el Consell General de la capital del Reino destacaba por su elevado número de miembros y la amplia presencia del elemento artesanal. En este trabajo, que se enmarca cronológicamente en los años previos y coetáneos al desarrollo de las Germanías, se estudian las características de los diferentes colectivos que integraban dicha asamblea, así como los procedimientos electorales, su composición personal y grado de participación en las sesiones celebradas. Entre otras valoraciones, queda de manifiesto el moderantismo que caracterizó la actitud de dicho organismo en el transcurso de la revuelta. In the municipal field of Valencia’s city at the statutor…

The Stackelberg equilibrium as a consistent conjectural equilibrium

2011

International audience; We consider a static game with conjectural variations where some firms make conjectures while others do not. Two propositions are proved. We first show that there exists a continuum of conjectural variations such that the conjectural equilibrium locally coincides with the Stackelberg equilibrium (Proposition 1). Second, we define the conditions under which a conjectural equilibrium is a locally consistent equilibrium (i.e. such that conjectures are fulfilled). The conceptof (local) consistency is restricted to firms making conjectures. Two conditions on consistency are featured: consistency within a cohort and consistency among cohorts. The Stackelberg equilibrium fu…

Evaluating the protecting effects of two consolidants applied on Pietra di Lecce limestone: A neutronographic study

2020

Abstract In this work a combined laboratory-based and neutronographic investigation was carried out on a type of limestone, known as Pietra di Lecce stone, widely used in Italian Baroque as construction material. The limestone was treated with two different commercially-available coatings, namely nanosilica and nanolime, and artificially weathered by salt crystallization and temperature/relative humidity jumps. The aim was to provide an experimental evidence of the protective and consolidating effectiveness of the two treatments by looking at the water absorption process occurring inside the pore network of the analyzed stones. The analysis of the wetting front position revealed significant…

Reforms and decentralization: friends or foes

2013

Systemic concerns about markets, capitalism and the role of the state in the economy are salient again. Relatively large-scale reforms of economic and social arrangements are seriously considered. Historical experience suggests that reforms of that kind are sometimes associated with important changes in institutional arrangements pertaining to political decentralization. To explore the relationship between economic reforms and decentralization, the paper argues that a reform has two dimensions. It is a process and it is a design. The organization of the paper is inspired by that distinction. For economists, it seems natural to reason in terms of design -- that is, to perceive reform as the …

A Learning-Automata Based Solution for Non-equal Partitioning: Partitions with Common GCD Sizes

2021

The Object Migration Automata (OMA) has been used as a powerful tool to resolve real-life partitioning problems in random Environments. The virgin OMA has also been enhanced by incorporating the latest strategies in Learning Automata (LA), namely the Pursuit and Transitivity phenomena. However, the single major handicap that it possesses is the fact that the number of objects in each partition must be equal. Obviously, one does not always encounter problems with equally-sized groups (When the true underlying problem has non-equally-sized groups, the OMA reports the best equally-sized solution as the recommended partition.). This paper is the pioneering attempt to relax this constraint. It p…

Argumentation graphs with constraint-based reasoning for collaborative expertise

2018

International audience; Collaborative processes are very important in telemedicine domain since they allow for making right decisions in complex situations with multidisciplinary staff. When modelling these collaborative processes, some inconsistencies can appear. In semantic modelling (conceptual graphs), these inconsistencies are verified using constraints. In this work, collaborative processes are represented using an argumentation system modelled in a conceptual graph formalism where inconsistencies could be particular bad attack relation between arguments. To overcome these inconsistencies, two solutions are proposed. The first one is to weight the arguments evolving in the argumentati…

Sprachlernberatung für DaF

2011

Trotz der zunehmenden Etablierung der Sprachlernberatung in der Erwachsenenbildung beschränkt sich die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema meist auf einzelne sporadisch veröffentliche Beiträge, die nur begrenzt einen Einblick in die Breite des Tätigkeitsfeldes zulassen. Eine systematische Erfassung davon, wie das Beratungskonzept im Fremdsprachenbereich und speziell in Deutsch als Fremdsprache konkret umgesetzt wird, ist aber nötig, um seine theoretischen Grundlagen zu überprüfen und damit zu der bisher kaum erfolgten empirischen Erforschung dieses Bereichs anzuregen. In der Verschiedenheit der einzelne Beiträge will dieses Buch eine Übersicht darüber geben, was Sprachlernberatung heute in unt…

On the imprecision of consumer's spatial preferences

1978

Faced with a set of needs of different intensities and which he perceives more or less indistinctly, a consumer is not normally capable of selecting among the elements belonging to his set of possible consumptions, those he prefers or is indifferent to and those from which he is likely to derive utility. Moreover the goods and services are attainable to different degrees (available in supply space) and his knowledge is perfect only in border-line cases with the result that his world is generally imprecise. Even someone with an exceptional gift for discrimination is not capable of formulating for any pair of goods, his preference or indifference according to binary logic. The purpose of this…

El consumo de productos petrolíferos en el País Valenciano

1981

Banking Competition, Housing Prices and Macroeconomic Stability

2012

We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with an imperfectly competitive bank-loans market and collateral constraints that tie investors credit capacity to the value of their real estate holdings. Banks set optimal lending rates taking into account the effects of their price policies on their market share and on the volume of funds demanded by each customer. Lending margins have a significant effect on aggregate variables. Over the long run, fostering banking competition increases total consumption and output by triggering a reallocation of available collateral towards investors. However, as regards the short-run dynamics, we find that most macroeconomic variables are more responsive …