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Public procurement: current situation and points of improvement
2015
[ES] La construcción pública ha sido, es y será uno de los pilares fundamentales del sector construcción español, si bien la actual situación de crisis económica y la reducción de la inversión pública en nuevas infraestructuras ha generado un descenso de actividad hasta niveles similares a los años noventa. El retorno a índices de actividad más elevados no solo se conseguirá con la recuperación de la economía del país, sino que será necesario realizar ciertas mejoras en los procesos de licitación con objeto de conseguir una mayor funcionalidad y flexibilidad en la contratación pública de obras.
The Acceptable Alternative Vehicle Fuel Price
2019
Historically, petroleum fuels have been the dominant fuel used for land transport. However, the growing need for sustainable national economics has urged us to incorporate more economical and ecological alternative vehicle fuels. The advantages and disadvantages of them complicate the decision-making process and compel us to develop adequate mathematical methods. Alternative fuel (compressed natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, and ethanol fuel mixtures), the standard prices and their ratios were investigated. A mathematical model to determine a critical ratio between alternative and conventional fuel prices had already been developed. The results of this were investigated. The results sho…
Current Accounts and Coordination of Wage Bargaining
2018
This study provides novel evidence on the impact of labor market institutions on current account dynamics. Our results suggest that a high degree of coordination of wage bargaining has a positive effect on the current account balance over the long run. This result is not driven entirely by wage moderation induced by centralized wage setting. We also provide robust evidence that a high degree of coordination of wage bargaining is associated with a slower current account adjustment toward its long-run equilibrium. This result seems theoretically plausible; the aggregate shocks in the exporting sector are largely driven by idiosyncratic shocks and the presence of idiosyncratic shocks increases…
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN COPING STRATEGIES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT AFTER SMALL BURN INJURIES. A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
2017
Objective: This study aimed at describing the coping strategies used by patients of small burns (<= 20% body surface area) at the early stage of rehabilitation process and to analyze the effect of coping strategies and body image dissatisfaction on psychiatric symptoms and quality of life.Method: Sixty-nine patients firstly admitted to an out-patient burn unit were involved in the study. Coping response to burn trauma was investigated using the Brief-COPE, while the Short-Form 36 Health Survey, the Self-report Clinical Inventory, and the Body Uneasiness Test were used respectively to assess post-burn quality of life, psychiatric symptoms, and body image dissatisfaction.Results: Avoidant …
Gestión del cuerpo y planificación urbana: Desplazamiento de significado en la reivención de cuepos y ciudades
2020
Contemporary cities have administrations increasingly marked by urban planning guidelines that are guided by business and marketing and, to attract investments and tourists, implement strategies that aim to homogenize, spectacularize and control urban space. However, other experiences in the city potentially build new meaning to it, which would escape those strategically planned, creating alternative possibilities of uses, diverging from the way thar are predicted and proposed by the governmental power in their urban marketing strategies. The article discusses how the occupation of urban spaces by transvestites for prostitution may imply reflections on the role of norms of gender in the (re…
"IL RUOLO DELLE BANCHE LOCALI NEI PROCESSI DI INTERNAZIONALIZZAZIONE DELLE PMI MARCHIGIANE"
2008
Questo lavoro contiene un'analisi empirica per valutare il grado di diffusione nell'operatività delle banche operanti nella Regione Marche, dei prodotti/servizi finanziari avanzati per facilitare una maggiore visibilità delle PMI nei mercati internazionali. L'analisi delle componenti di offerta è stata effettuata tramite la somministrazione di un questionario di un questionario contenuto in un lavoro precedentemente pubblicato dall’ABI a cura del Prof. Fabrizio Onida che però aveva come oggetto di riferimento non soltanto piccole banche ma anche filiali estere di banche commerciali locali, banche estere, intermediari finanziari non bancari (ad esempio società internazionali di leasing e fac…
Responsible Investment: Taxes and Paradoxes
2017
Abstract Taxes have become an issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR), but the role of taxation is to some extent an ambiguous and controversial issue in the CSR framework. Similarly, another unclear question is what role investors who are committed to sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) see taxes as having on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) agenda. Corporate taxes have an inverse relationship with the return of the investors: taxes paid directly affect what is left on the bottom line, reducing the return of investors. However, investors are now more aware of tax-related risks, which can include different forms of reputation risk. Corporate tax planning may…
THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF EDUCATION – A BRIEF REVIEW
2010
Information on the profitability of investment in the educational system of Romania is now almost inexistent, so the assertion that education is, at least in words, a national priority, which, exploited, can generate sustainable economic growth and social welfare, is not founded now on any economic data. Next we perform an analysis of the current global research findings in the field, emphasizing, where necessary, the problems remained unsolved.
DEVIAZIONI. DEVIANZA, DEVIANZE, DIVERGENZE
2009
"Normale", "conforme", "lecito". Un tempo era possibile comprendere e studiare la devianza attraverso queste definizioni. Categorie che oggi appaiono più che mai obsolete, come opache e sfuggenti si mostrano alle scienze sociali le nuove categorie che dovrebbero andare a sostituirle. Qui si parla di società contemporanea, di de-strutturazione, di ibridazione, di ordini giuridici molteplici, sovrapposti. Le interazioni quotidiane attingono da mappe normative la cui fonte è composita, eterogenea, intrecciata e dunque ambigua. Proprio l’intersecarsi fisico, spaziale, culturale dei vari ordini e ordinamenti normativi e delle svariate rappresentazioni del normativo evidenzia quanto, più che in p…
CRISIS: EFFECTS IN THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL FIELD
2010
This paper aims to examine how issues relating to the economic crisis on society nationally and internationally. It reflects its own analysis based on own research aspect based on several macroeconomic indicators. To this end I studied the relationship between financial crisis – the economic crisis – social crisis – political crisis.