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DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES IN REGIONS OF LATVIA

2021

For successful economic transition to the new stage of development improvements in business environment, as also the entrepreneurswho are ready to start your own business and to set up new companies. One of the main challenges the EU Member States face isthe need to boost their level of entrepreneurship and to become more competitive in the global market. That was one of the mainobjectives set by the Lisbon European Council, in March 2000, with a view to improving the Union’s performance in terms of employment,economic reform and social cohesion. Entrepreneurship is not only a driving force in the creation of new jobs, but it alsoincreases and enhances competitiveness and growth, personal f…

Structural problems for the renewal of planning styles: the spanish case1

2005

This article first presents a historical review of Spain's involvement in the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) preparation process to determine whether ESDP guidelines are different from, contrary to or in harmony with the interests of Spanish proposals. Particular attention is paid to the priority lines and territorial objectives of the Spanish delegation and its emphasis in substantive issues related to cohesion, and linking spatial planning with European Union (EU) funding. If, as the network paradigm maintains, spatial development is not possible without new methods of governance, our work has to focus on two related questions. The first question regards the evolution and…

Effect of inter-crystal scatter on estimation methods for random coincidences and subsequent correction.

2008

Random coincidences can contribute substantially to the background in positron emission tomography (PET). Several estimation methods are being used for correcting them. The goal of this study was to investigate the validity of techniques for random coincidence estimation, with various low-energy thresholds (LETs). Simulated singles list-mode data of the MADPET-II small animal PET scanner were used as input. The simulations have been performed using the GATE simulation toolkit. Several sources with different geometries have been employed. We evaluated the number of random events using three methods: delayed window (DW), singles rate (SR) and time histogram fitting (TH). Since the GATE simula…

Interesujące gatunki chrząszczy (Coleoptera) z Puszczy Piskiej

2022

W lipcu 2002 roku huragan zniszczył drzewostany na znacznym obszarze Puszczy Piskiej. Część uszkodzonego lasu – 475 ha – pozostawiono bez ingerencji (Las Ochronny „Szast”) – do naturalnej sukcesji. W latach 2005–2021 badano chrząszcze na wybranych powierzchniach pohuraganowych i kontrolnych. Do odłowów stosowano różne typy pułapek (IBL-2bis, Netocia, Moerickego). Uzupełnieniem były odłowy Coleoptera metodą „na upatrzonego” oraz analizy potencjalnego materiału lęgowego chrząszczy. W sumie w trakcie badań wykazano 1000 gatunków Coleoptera. W pracy przedstawiono dane taksonów: rzadkich, reliktów puszczańskich i wymienionych w Czerwonej Liście zwierząt ginących i zagrożonych w Polsce. Ogółem 32…

Vascular Microarchitecture of Murine Colitis-Associated Lymphoid Angiogenesis

2009

In permissive tissues, such as the gut and synovium, chronic inflammation can result in the ectopic development of anatomic structures that resemble lymph nodes. These inflammation-induced structures, termed lymphoid neogenesis or tertiary lymphoid organs, may reflect differential stromal responsiveness to the process of lymphoid neogenesis. To investigate the structural reorganization of the microcirculation involved in colonic lymphoid neogenesis, we studied a murine model of dextran sodium sulfate (DSS)-induced colitis. Standard 2-dimensional histology demonstrated both submucosal and intramucosal lymphoid structures in DSS-induced colitis. A spatial frequency analysis of serial histolog…

Anthropology of Political, Social and Cultural Memory: Practices in Central and Eastern Europe: Program & Abstracts : International Scientific Confer…

2020

Geometry/Time Measurement/Sundials Graphical Resolution via Algorithmic and Parametric Processes

2018

Every people, in every historical period, developed methods to measure Time both at a daily scale and at a yearly scale. Some of them constructed sundials to represent the apparent trajectory of the Sun around the Earth, by using and developing tools from descriptive and projective Geometry, mainly. This subject acquired a great multidisciplinary interest since ancient times, also for Science of Representation applications. This study presents the first results of an ongoing research concerning some aspects related to Time Measurement. The geometric-spatial setting of the Sun-Earth system is described and is structured parametrically via algorithms, following the known conventions shared an…

A neural network based automatic road signs recognizer

2003

Automatic road sign recognition systems are aimed at detection and recognition of one or more road signs from real-world color images. In this research, road signs are detected and extracted from real world scenes on the basis of their color and shape features. A dynamic region growing technique is adopted to enhance color segmentation results obtained in the HSV color space. The technique is based on a dynamic threshold that reduces the effect of hue instability in real scenes due to external brightness variation. Classification is then performed on extracted candidate regions using multilayer perceptron neural networks. The obtained results show good detection and recognition rates of the…

Does the GATT/WTO promote trade? After all, Rose was right

2019

This paper re-examines the effect of the GATT/WTO on trade using recent econometric developments that allow us estimating structural gravity equations with the Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood (PPML) estimator on a large dataset that requires computing high-dimensional fixed effects. By doing so, we overcome computational limitations that are present in previous studies. In line with Rose’s (Am Econ Rev 94:98–114, 2004) seminal work, we find that, unlike regional trade agreements and currency unions, the GATT/WTO accession has not generated positive trade effects. This result is robust to the use of alternative measures of trade flows, across periods and country groups, to changes in the p…

Social rights of young people: The role of local and regional authorities

2020

En el marco de toda una serie de debates, resoluciones y otros instrumentos tendentes a fortalecer la integración, participación y compromiso de la juventud a nivel local y regional, este artículo pone el acento en los derechos sociales de los jóvenes garantizados por la Carta Social Europea. Subraya el papel esencial de los entes locales y regionales, en virtud de sus competencias en el ámbito social, para facilitar el acceso y el ejercicio efectivo de los derechos sociales por parte de los jóvenes; a tal efecto, se pone el énfasis en el cumplimiento de la Carta Social y su jurisprudencia como fuentes de inspiración para la acción local y regional en este terreno. El artículo hace un llama…