The evolution of Local Labour Market Areas in contrasting region

In many European local labour markets, a growing minority of workers are making longer commuting trips. One consequence for research into journey-to-work flows, which usually seeks to identify the boundaries of local labour market areas (LLMAs), is that these boundaries represent a ¡¥snap shot¡¦ of an increasingly volatile pattern. The challenge for regional science is how best to represent the way LLMAs evolve. «Is it sufficient to simply update maps, using a consistent method which is applied to successive ¡¥snap-shot¡¦ datasets? This approach will be illustrated in contrasting regions. «Is it possible to produce new approaches to analysis which can better draw attention to those areas where change has been rather more, or less, strong? The paper will end with some explorations in pursuit of this aim.

Mujer y sexualidad multifuncional en Crimen legal de Alejandro Sawa

La presente investigación examina la situación de la mujer en la sociedad de la Restauración a través de la novela Crimen legal de Alejandro Sawa. Se analiza, de este modo, la reificación que sufren los personajes femeninos en los roles de mujer burguesa casada y prostituta. A pesar de su disparidad, ambos casos convergen en mostrarse como una denuncia contra la opresión de género.The present investigation examines the situation of women in the Restoration society through the novel Crimen legal by Alejandro Sawa. It is analyzed, in this way, the reification that female characters suffer when they play the married middle-class woman and prostitute. In spite of their disparity, both cases, are shown as a denunciation against the gender oppression

Smoothness properties for the optimal mixture of two isotropic materials the compliance and eigenvalue problems

The present paper is devoted to obtaining some smoothness results for the solution of two classical control problems relative to the optimal mixture of two isotropic materials. In the first one, the goal is to maximize the energy. In the second one, we want to minimize the first eigenvalue of the corresponding elliptic operator. At least for the first problem it is well known that it does not have a solution in general. Thus, we deal with a relaxed formulation. One of the applications of our results is in fact the nonexistence of a solution for the unrelaxed problem. In this sense, we improve a classical nonexistence result by Murat and Tartar for the maximization of the energy which was obtained assuming the solution smooth. We also get a counterexample to the existence of a solution for the eigenvalue problem which, to our knowledge, was an open problem.Ministerio de Ciencia e InnovaciónJunta de Andalucí

Existence of a sequence satisfying Cioranescu-Murat conditions in homogenization of Dirichlet problems in perforated domains

In a paper of 1982, D. Cioranescu and F. Murat considered the problem satisfied by the limit u of the sequence un solution of 0 −∆un = f in Ωn, un = 0 on ∂Ωn, where Ωn is a sequence of open sets which are contained in a fixed bounded open set Ω. In order to make this, they imposed several hypotheses about the sequence Ωn. Their results were later extended to the p-Laplacian operator by N. Labani and C. Picard. In the present paper, we prove that these hypotheses may be reduced to the following one: There exists a sequence zn ∈ W1,p(Ω) which is zero in Ω \ Ωn and which converges weakly to 1 in W1,p(Ω). Indeed, G. Dal Maso and U. Mosco have solved the above homogenization problem in the general case in which we do not make any hypothesis about Ωn using Γconvergence methods and recently, G. Dal Maso and A. Garroni have also solved this general problem by a method close to the one used by D. Cioranescu and F. Murat.In un lavoro del 1982, D. Cioranescu e F. Murat hanno considerato il problema soddisfatto dal limite u di una successione un di soluzioni di 0 −∆un = f in Ωn, un = 0 su ∂Ωn, dove Ωn è una successione di insiemi aperti che sono contenuti in un fissato insieme aperto limitato Ω. Tale studio richiede di imporre numerose ipotesi sulla successione Ωn. I risultati di D. Cioranescu e F. Murat sono stati estesi in seguito da N. Labani e C. Picard al caso del p-Laplaciano. Nel presente lavoro, noi dimostriamo che le ipotesi su Ωn possono essere ridotte a un’unica ipotesi, la seguente: esiste una successione zn ∈ W1,p(Ω) che vale zero su Ω \ Ωn e che converge a 1 debolmente in W1,p(Ω). Il problema di omogeneizzazione nel caso generale in cui non si fa alcuna ipotesi sulla successione Ωn è stato risolto da G. Dal Maso e U. Mosco con metodi di Γ-convergenza e recentemente G. Dal Maso e A. Garroni hanno risolto il problema generale con metodi prossimi a quelli usati da D. Cioranescu e F. Murat

La sexualidad en el centro: una lectura feminista de "Historias del Kronen"

La sexualidad ocupa un lugar central en Historias del Kronen de José Ángel Mañas. Desafiando toda univocidad, ésta se presenta como una construcción social en constante cambio y sometida a negociación por los agentes sociales. Dentro de esa multifuncionalidad, destaca el valor que adquiere en las relaciones de poder, convirtiéndose en un elemento de manipulación y de dominio donde se impone lo masculino sobre lo femenino, lo heterosexual sobre lo homosexual.Everything revolves around sexuality in Historias del Kronen by José Ángel Mañas. It challenges everything regarding to the univocal and so, it’s showed as an ongoing social construction and submitted to negotiation by the social agents. Related to that multi-functionality, we must emphasize the importance that it gets when it comes to power relationships, and so it becomes a manipulation and control element where the masculine prevails over the feminine, the heterosexual over the homosexual

Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine

Stem cells constitute a set of undifferentiated cells with the capacity to differentiate into other cell types and to self-renew [...]

Exponential decay for the solutions of nonlinear elliptic systems posed in unbounded cylinders☆

We study the asymptotic behavior at infinity of the solutions of a nonlinear elliptic system posed in a cylinder of infinite length. The problem is written in a variational formulation, where we ask the derivative of the solutions to be in Lp. We show that an exponential decay at infinity for the second member implies exponential decay for the derivative of the solutions. We also give an application of this result to the study of boundary layers problems

Homogenization of general quasi-linear Dirichlet problems with quadratic growth in perforated domains

In this paper, we study the homogenization of a Dirichlet problem in perforated domains for an operator which is the perturbation of the Laplace operator by a general nonlinear term with quadratic growth in the gradient. We show that a new term, which does not depend on the gradient, but which is nonlinear, appears in the limit problem. We also give a corrector result

Reducing Self-Stigma in People with Severe Mental Illness Participating in a Regular Football League: An Exploratory Study

For the past 15 years, a regular indoor football competition has been taking place in Madrid (Spain) with 15 teams from different mental health services in the city, in which teams face off weekly as part of a competition lasting nine months of the year. We are not aware of whether a similar competition experience is offered in other cities. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate whether participating in this league, called Ligasame, has an influence on participants’ self-stigma. To do so, the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness scale (ISMI) was adapted into Spanish and applied to 108 mental health patients, 40% of which participated in Ligasame, and the remainder of which did not. The results obtained reflect significant differences between those participating in Ligasame and those that did not in terms of two specific dimensions related to self-stigma (stereotype endorsement and stigma resistance) and total score. On the other hand, no significant differences were found in terms of other variables, such as patients’ prior diagnosis, age or belonging to different resources/associations. In this article, we discuss the importance of these results in relation to reducing self-stigma through participation in a regular yearly mental health football league