Desperate Courage\u27: Griswoldville\u27s Lopsided Outcome Signaled The Confederacy\u27s End

Judging by the total number of troops involved (no more than 4,000), the casualties for both sides (fewer than 700), and its strategic significance (none at all), the clash that took place near Griswoldville, Georgia, in November 1864 was not a battle, but merely a minor engagement. Yet Griswoldv...

Bloody Bill\u27 Revisited: Novel Confers Glory On Bushwhackers That Historical Facts Deny

On the reverse side of the title page of Wildwood Boys the following disclaimer appears: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author\u27s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, ...

Working Paper 97 - Soaring Food Prices and Africa's Vulnerability and Responses: An Update

Food prices rose rapidly in 2007 and in early2008, but started falling during the second halfof 2008. Despite this fall, many African countriesare yet to recover from the severe economicand social strain caused by the suddenescalation of prices. This situation, however,has triggered renewed attention that couldboost agriculture and help it acquire its rightfulplace on Africa’s development agenda. Indeed,numerous opportunities to exploit Africa’s unusedproduction potential exist, but this requiresappropriate policy responses, accompanied byadequate investments to enhance Africa’s agriculturalrevitalization.This paper seeks to review current food priceson the continent and present a country levelvulnerability analysis that formed the basis forthe Bank’s operational and policy response tofood price increases.

Internet com a eina en farmacologia clínica

Internet té tres utilitats per al món de la farmacologia: la comunicació, la formació i la recerca. En aquest treball de la Fundació Institut Català de Farmacologia es revisen breument aquestes aplicacions i es descriu l'experiència d'organització virtual d'un treball de recerca adreçat a promoure l'ús racional de medicaments en països llatinoamericans.Internet tiene tres utilidades en el mundo de la farmacología: la comunicación, la formación y la investigación. En este trabajo de la "Fundació Institut Català de Farmacologia" se revisan, brevemente, algunas de estas aplicaciones y se describe la experiencia de organización virtual de un trabajo de investigación dirigido a promover el uso racional de medicamentos en países latinoamericanos

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¿Perciben del mismo modo alumnado y profesorado el desarrollo de competencias docentes? El caso de un grado de ciencias de la actividad física y el deporte

La competencia docente hace referencia a la capacidad del profesorado para resolver con éxito las exigencias complejas que se le planteen en el contexto educativo. Estas competencias deben ser adquiridas, en parte, durante la formación inicial del profesorado. Esta investigación pretende comparar como perciben el profesorado y alumnado el desarrollo de competencias docentes en un grado de Ciencias de la Actividad física y el Deporte. Para ello, se pasó en el curso 2014-15 una escala de valoración autoadministrada a 65 estudiantes de 4º curso y otra a 29 profesores/as. Existen diferencias significativas en la percepción del profesorado y alumnado en 24 de las 46 competencias del cuestionario. En todas las competencias el alumnado proporcionó una puntuación media más elevada que el profesorado, excepto en 9 competencias transversales. Resulta necesario seguir profundizando en las razones de esta diferencia de percepción realizando entrevistas y grupos focales que aporten información más cualitativa

Social Models for Dealing with Inequalities

Production of INCASI Project H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 GA 691004This chapter compares social models in Europe and Latin America. The goal is to study the interaction between two institutions: on the one hand, pre-distributive (ex ante) institutions, such as the structure and coverage of collective bargaining and, on the other hand, post-distributive (ex post) institutions, such as unemployment protection and social policy. Pre-distributive institutions are important for correcting inequalities in the labour market, because they introduce guidelines for egalitarian wage structures. Post-distributive institutions help to mitigate inequalities generated in the labour market. The methodology is based on statistical analysis of a series of indicators related to pre and post-distributive policies. The results present three types of model: (1) coordinated economies, typical of neo-corporatist Scandinavian countries; (2) mixed economies, typical of Mediterranean systems, and (3) uncoordinated economies, which equate to liberalism and the Latin American 'structural heterogeneity' model. It is neo-corporatist coordinated economies that generate the most pre and post-distributive equality. In turn, uncoordinated economies, and Latin American ones in particular, generate more inequalities due to highly informal employment and the weakness of their post-distributive institutions

Performance of the First ANTARES Detector Line

In this paper we report on the data recorded with the first Antares detector line. The line was deployed on the 14th of February 2006 and was connected to the readout two weeks later. Environmental data for one and a half years of running are shown. Measurements of atmospheric muons from data taken from selected runs during the first six months of operation are presented. Performance figures in terms of time residuals and angular resolution are given. Finally the angular distribution of atmospheric muons is presented and from this the depth profile of the muon intensity is derived.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figure

Acoustic and optical variations during rapid downward motion episodes in the deep north-western Mediterranean Sea

An Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was moored at the deep-sea site of the ANTARES neutrino telescope near Toulon, France, thus providing a unique opportunity to compare high-resolution acoustic and optical observations between 70 and 170 m above the sea bed at 2475 m. The ADCP measured downward vertical currents of magnitudes up to 0.03 m s-1 in late winter and early spring 2006. In the same period, observations were made of enhanced levels of acoustic reflection, interpreted as suspended particles including zooplankton, by a factor of about 10 and of horizontal currents reaching 0.35 m s-1. These observations coincided with high light levels detected by the telescope, interpreted as increased bioluminescence. During winter 2006 deep dense-water formation occurred in the Ligurian subbasin, thus providing a possible explanation for these observations. However, the 10-20 days quasi-periodic episodes of high levels of acoustic reflection, light and large vertical currents continuing into the summer are not direct evidence of this process. It is hypothesized that the main process allowing for suspended material to be moved vertically later in the year is local advection, linked with topographic boundary current instabilities along the rim of the 'Northern Current'.Comment: 30 pages, 7 figure

The ANTARES Optical Beacon System

ANTARES is a neutrino telescope being deployed in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of a three dimensional array of photomultiplier tubes that can detect the Cherenkov light induced by charged particles produced in the interactions of neutrinos with the surrounding medium. High angular resolution can be achieved, in particular when a muon is produced, provided that the Cherenkov photons are detected with sufficient timing precision. Considerations of the intrinsic time uncertainties stemming from the transit time spread in the photomultiplier tubes and the mechanism of transmission of light in sea water lead to the conclusion that a relative time accuracy of the order of 0.5 ns is desirable. Accordingly, different time calibration systems have been developed for the ANTARES telescope. In this article, a system based on Optical Beacons, a set of external and well-controlled pulsed light sources located throughout the detector, is described. This calibration system takes into account the optical properties of sea water, which is used as the detection volume of the ANTARES telescope. The design, tests, construction and first results of the two types of beacons, LED and laser-based, are presented.Comment: 21 pages, 18 figures, submitted to Nucl. Instr. and Meth. Phys. Res.