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The Keeper of the Salt. Hidden economy and clash of jurisdiction in the Valley of Cofrentes in the mid XVIIIth Century
2006
La muerte violenta de un guardia de la real renta de salinas en un barranco de Cofrentes, en febrero de 1747, puso al descubierto la existencia de una fábrica clandestina y de una red de contrabando de sal que abastecía a numerosos conventos valencianos. Dos factores coyunturales propiciaron su aparición: las dificultades de suministro de uno de los principales alfolíes reales y el impuesto extraordinario fijado sobre el precio de la sal con motivo de la guerra de Sucesión austríaca. Pero, al margen de ello, el caso revela las carencias estructurales del aparato de vigilancia y las contradicciones entre los distintos ámbitos jurisdiccionales implicados, que hicieron posible la articulación …
Criminal networks analysis in missing data scenarios through graph distances.
2021
Data collected in criminal investigations may suffer from: (i) incompleteness, due to the covert nature of criminal organisations; (ii) incorrectness, caused by either unintentional data collection errors and intentional deception by criminals; (iii) inconsistency, when the same information is collected into law enforcement databases multiple times, or in different formats. In this paper we analyse nine real criminal networks of different nature (i.e., Mafia networks, criminal street gangs and terrorist organizations) in order to quantify the impact of incomplete data and to determine which network type is most affected by it. The networks are firstly pruned following two specific methods: …
Empowering women in place. València summer school equals-eu
2023
Los avances hacia la igualdad de género en Europa han sido muy significativos a lo largo del último siglo, sin embargo, aún hay margen de mejora en algunas de las dimensiones clave. La Estrategia de la UE para la Igualdad de Género 2020-2025 aboga por una Europa en la que mujeres y hombres, niñas y niños, sean iguales, en la que las mujeres tengan las mismas oportunidades de participar y prosperar en la sociedad. La UE se ha comprometido a mejorar la inclusión social, económica y política de las mujeres y las niñas. Sin embargo, aún no ha surgido una estrategia concluyente para eliminar la desigualdad de género y remodelar los estereotipos institucionalizados y las prácticas discriminatoria…
The interaction between social media, knowledge management and service quality: A decision tree analysis
2020
The existing literature fails to identify to which extent the utilization of social media could be relevant for increasing the effectiveness of knowledge management, in respect to overall business operations. In order to shed some light on this area we define three goals. Firstly, we investigate to what extent the different activities of clients on social media (SM), are important to the processes of knowledge management (KM) in companies. Secondly, we examine to what extent KM functions can be relevant in attaining the quality of IT services. Thirdly, we analyze to what extent KM mediates between SM and the quality of IT services, that is, which client activities on SM should be formalised…
Educación para la ciudadanía democrática en la cultura digital
2011
Asumiendo la importancia de las nuevas tecnologías en las aulas, especialmente en las actuales sociedades de la información y la comunicación, y siguiendo las recomendaciones de la Unión Europea a favor de la alfabetización mediática, el presente trabajo reflexiona acerca de la necesidad de educar no solo en los usos técnicos y eficientes de las tecnologías comunicativas, sino también en el uso responsable y cívico de las mismas, favoreciendo así los procesos participativos y deliberativos que son el sustento de una democracia viva. El sueño griego de la «isegoría», del igual derecho de todos al uso de la palabra, puede hacerse realidad en la cultura digital, si bien es cierto que un uso hi…
Communication of Dienvidkurzemes region libraries on social media during Covid-19
2022
Jau vairāk nekā desmit gadus dažādas sociālo tīklu vietnes lielai sabiedrības daļai ir kļuvušas par galveno saziņas veidu ar draugiem, radiem, kā arī ar uzņēmumiem un valsts pārvaldes iestādēm, tai skaitā ar bibliotēkām. Covid-19 laiks parādīja to, ka sociālo tīklu vietnes patiesi ir nozīmīgs komunikācijas kanāls daudziem uzņēmumiem un organizācijām. Autores pētījuma mērķis ir noskaidrot, kā Dienvidkurzemes novada publiskajās bibliotēkās mainījās informācijas nodošanas paradumi to klientiem un lietotājiem un vai komunikācija sociālo tīklu vietnēs kļuva aktīvāka. Lai mērķi sasniegtu, autore veica aptaujas ar lietotājiem un bibliotēku darbiniekiem, kā arī tika veikta dokumentu analīze Dienvid…
The Spanning Tree based Approach for Solving the Shortest Path Problem in Social Graphs
2016
Nowadays there are many social media sites with a very large number of users. Users of social media sites and relationships between them can be modelled as a graph. Such graphs can be analysed using methods from social network analysis (SNA). Many measures used in SNA rely on computation of shortest paths between nodes of a graph. There are many shortest path algorithms, but the majority of them suits only for small graphs, or work only with road network graphs that are fundamentally different from social graphs. This paper describes an efficient shortest path searching algorithm suitable for large social graphs. The described algorithm extends the Atlas algorithm. The proposed algorithm so…
Renewable energies: Worldwide trends in research, funding and international collaboration
2019
The main aim of this study was to analyse scientific and energy production, funding, collaboration among countries and most cited papers on the renewable energies topic through bibliometric and social network study of articles included in the Web of Science database. 12,167 papers were recovered from 2007 to 2016. Wind power is the energy from which a greater number of articles have been published (n = 3,930), followed by solar energy (n = 2,570) and ocean energy (n = 1,565). The United States leads the world production of articles (n = 2,320), followed by China (n = 1,629), the United Kingdom (n = 1007), Germany (n = 730) and Spain (n = 729). China is the leading country in financed works …
Beyond the Family and the Household: Occupational Family Networks
2009
Although families and kinship have been studied extensively from a historical perspective, less attention has been paid to their significance and role in the formation of local social networks.This study makes use of extensive Finnish records of godparentage to map local networks to analyze the factors (kinship, work relations, neighborhood, friendship) that influenced their formation. It argues that, in the context of a closed industrial community, occupation and kinship were the major cornerstones of these networks. Only after work-related inequality was slowly eliminated in the early twentieth century did kinship begin to gain ground as the main influencing factor.
Building capabilities among e-scrappers in informal electronic waste management: the case of the Nigerian e-scrappers
2016
This study examines the capabilities of e-scrappers developed through the constant interaction with electronic waste (e-waste). Video-based interviews were conducted with 29 male e-scrappers in Edo and Lagos States, Nigeria. Data analysis reveals that over time, e-scrappers in Nigeria are driven by aspirations not only of financial security but also of societal acceptance and recognition. Progressively, they have developed capabilities such as effective extraction methods based on individual abilities, market demand and the presence of an active social network, which have had a significant impact on the choices of the developed capabilities.