Indian maps of the colonial Southeast

Industrial Relations, 2000

We examine the degree to which factors associated with workers' union membership decisions are sensitive to shifts in the institutional environment of unions. Comparative logit analyses of the relationship between potential determinants of membership and actual union membership over time suggest that the factors associated with membership are elastic and may reflect shifts in the institutional context of unions.

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

In liberalized hydro-dominated power supply systems, the way managers use the knowledge they have about water levels in order to make production decisions impacts both their market power potential and the market outcomes. Assuming that the corresponding risk can be priced, we develop a dynamic hydro-dominated oligopolistic modeling framework to discuss the strategic cost of hydroelectric resources, in the context of the short-term marginal opportunity cost of storable electricity. As our contribution over previous approaches we construct a criterion embodying in a single number the strategic cost of hydropower production decisions. This criterion is built through the use of an indifference (risk-neutral) argument regarding the expected profits associated to a particular production strategy. Our result enables us to define regulatory policies to mitigate the market power potential of oligopolistic hydro-dominated producers, and to define socially optimum water allocation policies. We use data from the Colombian power market to run an informal check of the plausibility of our findings. JEL: D24, D43, Q40.

2008

En el marco de la cultura de convergencia nuevos formatos y géneros periodísticos han aparecido. Gracias a la interrelación entre usuarios, contenidos, medios y tecnologías las maneras de hacer periodismo han cambiado, al punto que experimentamos cada día con otras estrategias de comunicación como el periodismo transmedia

2012

We propose a critical analysis of the moment tensor solutions of the major seismic events that affected northern Italy in 2012. Inverting full waveforms at regional distance using the non-linear method named INPAR, we investigate period dependent resolution that affects in particular the solutions of shallow events. This is mainly due to the poor resolution of Mzx and Mzy components of the seismic tensor when inverting signals whose wavelengths significantly exceed the source depth. As a consequence, instability affects both source depth and fault plane solution retrieval, and spurious large Compensated Linear Vector Dipole components arise. The inversion performed at cutoff periods shorter than 20 s reveals in many cases different details of the rupture process, that are not resolved inverting at longer cutoff periods. Thus we conclude that inversion of full waveforms at cutoff period as short as possible should be preferred.

EUI Working papers RSCAS, 2019

The rise of global cities has raised multiple questions regarding the governance of diversity. While they are often portrayed as spaces of ungovernable global flows and as catalysts of the disappearance of national identities, this paper aims to analyse these cities’ actions and strategies to govern their cultural diversity and defend a renewed conception of the national. I combine an analysis of outward-looking strategies that promote their cultural diversity on the global cultural field, and of inward-looking strategies that attempt to project their plural identity in the urban space. I compare two cities, Doha and Singapore, which have emerged as major centres of the global economy and offer a perspective that differs from the large Western cities where the notion of global city was initially coined. The affirmation of Doha and Singapore as global cities does not go along with a process of weakening of the nation-state, but on the contrary takes part in a logic of nation building and nation branding. The paper analyses how local actors negotiate this dialectic between the global and the national. Firstly, I show that they have put transnational regional networks and identities at the centre of the promotion of these cities as cultural hub. Secondly, I show that the recognition of these cities’ diverse heritage and its display in the urban landscape, go in parallel with an increasing spatial exclusion of recent migrants.

2014 International Conference on Medical Imaging, m-Health and Emerging Communication Systems (MedCom), 2014

The main aim of this paper is to develop a low cost, low power, reliable, easily portable, compact size vital signs that processes and analyses the data acquired from sensors to determine if they are within "Normal" range or not. The methodology used in this manuscript is fingertip sensor using photo diodes and designing a FPGA using VHDL Programming. In today's very competitive business environment, building a cost effective products in a quick fashion is best done with a top down methodology utilizing hardware description languages and synthesis. So, this system is overall a wrist watch with Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, Lie detector monitoring. We can use this watch in different fields as well as for research purpose by further manipulation in programming and interfacing it can be modified accordingly.