Labour market assimilation of immigrants in Spain: employment at the expense of bad job-matches?

Spain has traditionally been known as a country of emigrants. However, in the last decade, Spain has experienced an unprecedented boom of immigration from three localized areas: Latin America, Africa and East Europe. In this paper, we study the behaviour of recent immigrants in the Spanish labour market identifying the major differences with the native population and tracking whether these differences fade away as their years of residence in Spain increase. With this objective, we focus on four labour market outcomes: labour supply, unemployment, incidence of overeducation and incidence of temporary contracts. Results show that, compared to natives, immigrants face initially higher participation rates, higher unemployment rates, higher incidence of overeducation and higher incidence of temporary contracts. However, five years after their arrival we could broadly say that participation rates start to converge to native rates, unemployment rates decrease to levels even lower than those of natives, and the incidence of temporary contracts and overeducation remains constant: no reduction of the gap with Spanish workers is observed. Therefore, we conclude that the Spanish labour market is managing to absorb the so called, 'immigration boom ', but at the expense of allocating immigrants in bad job-matches.immigration; assimilation; labor force participation; unemployment; overeducation; temporary contracts;

New Silver Nanosensor for Nickel Traces. Part II: Urinary Nickel Determination Associated to Smoking Addiction

A new fluorescence silver nanosensor assisted by surfactant has been recently synthesized and applied to ultra trace nickel determination. The methodology was validated by the standard addition method and satisfactorily applied to nickel determination in urine without previous treatment, coming from subjects with different smoking addiction levels and second hand smokers. Within-day precision was better than 0.011 CV. The reproducibility (between-days precision) was also evaluated over 3 days by performing six determinations each day with a CV of 0.025. The proposed methodology represents a promising approach in the area of biological monitoring due to its low operation cost, simplicity of instrumentation, high sampling speed and non-polluting solvents. Obtained results of urinary nickel concentration were successfully correlated with the tobacco addiction.Fil: Talio, María Carolina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Luis. Instituto de Química de San Luis. Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Facultad de Química, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Química de San Luis; ArgentinaFil: Luconi, M. O.. Universidad Nacional de San Luis; ArgentinaFil: Fernandez, Liliana Patricia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Luis. Instituto de Química de San Luis. Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Facultad de Química, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Química de San Luis; Argentin

Integrating ESG Factors in Equity Investing

This project aimed at developing an effective methodology to incorporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors into equity investment process of Brasil Capital, a Brazilian asset management company. The project was divided in three phases. The first phase was a research about ESG Integration practices, with its relevant factors, issues, source of information, and tools and techniques. The second phase was an analysis on Brasil Capital: corporate profile, investment decision processes, culture, organizational structure, and its adherence to an ESG integration. The third phase consists of a guide to the integration of ESG factors into Brasil Capital investment decision process, with recommendations and next steps.Master of ScienceSchool for Environment and SustainabilityUniversity of Michiganhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/140076/1/FernandezMaestri_Carolina_Practicum_Final.pd

The Discursive Construction of Risk in Medicine and Health Media

In this paper, I argue the way that health risks are constructed in women’s popular health media obscure the individual risks of acquiring an illness by suggesting everyone is at risk, while at the same time portraying risks as if they are within one’s control, thus leaving the audience with a mixed message about risk mediation and its limits

Inward FDI in Argentina and its policy context

With a long-standing tradition of an international business presence, Argentina followed an open investment policy since its early stages of development. The most recent wave of foreign direct investment (FDI) growth took place between 2004 and 2008, with investments primarily in the manufacturing, natural resources and new technology sectors. In 2008, inward FDI flows reached US$ 10 billion, positioning the country as a relevant investment destination worldwide. Moreover, with a 50% annual increase, Argentina was one of the ten fastest growing FDI destinations in the world. In 2009, inward FDI contracted due to the global economic crisis in line with the rest of the world

Added phosphorus availability and re-distribution in both natural and cultivated vertisols

The fates of both native and added phosphorus were studied in a Leptic Hapludert, by Hedley´s fractionation method. The objectives of this study were to: a) assess the reaction of a natural grassland and a cultivated grassland in a Vertisol with added P by fertilization; b) to study the association between inorganic and organic P labile, moderately labile or non-labile forms with P availability for ryegrass growth; c) to test whether ryegrass growth may reflect the effect of a release of P from the soil with the incubation. Soil samples were taken from: a) Natural soil and, b) Cultivated soil that had been fertilized with 120 kg ha-1 yr-1 of TSP. In the laboratory, one group of samples was fertilized with P (0-200 mg P kg-1) and then incubated 25 days at 28 oC. The other group was also fertilized with P but was not incubated. After P fractionation,, ryegrass was grown in a greenhouse 45 days and the dry yield of shoots was measured. Inorganic labile P forms increased with the level of added P in both soils, and these forms were closely associated with ryegrass growth. The inorganic resistant P forms also increased with the level of added P in both soils, but more P was removed from the incubated samples suggesting that part of the added P was redistributed during the incubation. For both soils, the organic labile P decreased with the level of addition in the incubated samples but increased in the non-incubated samples. The organic more resistant P forms did not differ between the natural and cultivated soil and did not show a consistent distribution with added P or incubation. This suggests that these P forms had little influence on P availability in short or medium periods of reaction between soil and P.Fil: Fernandez Lopez, Carolina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales; Argentina; Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina;Fil: Mendoza, Rodolfo Ernesto. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales; Argentina

The Role of Natriuretic peptides in Renovascular Hypertension and its correlation with the Evolution of Myocardial Hypertrophy

The interactions between pressure and volume overload that occur in hypertension lead to different patterns of cardiac hypertrophy and to increase in natriuretic peptides (NPs). The profiles of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) synthesis and secretion have been investigated in models of hypertension. However, the different evolution of these profiles during the acute and chronic periods of pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy is still unknown. For this reason, we studied one-kidney, one clip model using Sprague-Dawley rats at weeks 2, 4, 6 and 12 and correlated the evolution of these profiles with cardiac hypertrophy and hypertension. We observed a positive correlation between blood pressure elevation and the degree of cardiac hypertrophy, with a time-dependent increase in both parameters from week 2. Levels of BNP expression showed an early increase after 2 weeks of treatment while ANP increased significantly after 6 weeks. Yet, the increase in ANP expression was gradual, allowing its correlation with hypertrophy and hypertension. The NP expression has a differential response in the early stages of the development of hypertrophy induced by the renovascular model, with an early increase in BNP expression. Once hypertrophy develops, BNP expression is no longer specific and the increase of both NPs depends on and correlates with the degree of cardiac hypertrophy.Fil: Cerrudo, Carolina Susana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica; ArgentinaFil: Cavallero, Carmen Susana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica; ArgentinaFil: Rodríguez Fermepin, Martin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica; ArgentinaFil: Hertig, Cecilia Margarita. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular "Dr. Héctor N. Torres"; ArgentinaFil: Fernandez, Belisario Enrique. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica; Argentin

Sometimers, Alzheimer’s? I love That! That’s definitely me”: Readers’ Responses to Fictional Dementia Narratives

https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS001476%2F1This article presents findings from an interdisciplinary project which invited readers to experience the impact of dementia via fictional characters’ narratives. Combining methods from critical gerontology and literary linguistics—a field that examines the language of literature—we undertook an empirical reader response study of dementia fiction. We constructed a large corpus of dementia fiction; selecting 12 extracts, each containing first-hand, focalized accounts of fictional characters’ experiences of living with dementia. Readers (31) were purposively sampled for 4 separate reading groups—student social workers (9); general public (9); family carers (6); and people with dementia (7). Over 6 weeks they engaged in separate, facilitated, on-line group discussions of extracts. Discussions were independently coded using ATLAS.ti. Although readers from all 4 groups reported that fictional characters drew them into the internal life of someone with dementia, some carers questioned whether fictional characters’ experiences were plausible. Readers with dementia recognized themselves in the extracts; viewing fictional characters as eloquent envoys of their lived experiences of diagnosis, social isolation, loss of language, and use of humor. Fictional characters offer an entry point for understanding contrasts in caregiver and care-receiver experiences of dementia. Fictional characters are potentially useful for moving dementia narratives beyond monstrous cultural metaphors and onto a disability-based rights agenda.Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/S001476/1

Prevalencia de caries de infancia temprana en ninos de 1, 2 y 3 anos de edad con sindrome bronquial obstructivo y poblacion normal, pertenecientes al Centro de Salud de la Comuna de Rauco en el ano 2009

88 p.La caries es una de las enfermedades de mayor prevalencia en el mundo; de etiología multifactorial, se ha descrito que los niños bajo tratamiento médico prolongado presentan un mayor riesgo de caries. Dentro de estos factores se encuentran las Infecciones Respiratorias Agudas, las cuales son la principal causa de atención pediátrica en Chile.; dentro de las IRA se encuentra el Síndrome Bronquial Obstructivo, cuyo tratamiento se basa en el uso de antibióticos e inhaladores. La acción de estos inhaladores en el medio oral puede provocar la disminución del flujo salival y el aumento de los niveles de estreptococos mutans y lactobacilos, sumado a esto el consumo de fármacos líquidos de base edulcorada. La caries y el SBO son un problema de salud pública, y en la actualidad no hay estudios que relacionen estos factores. Por lo tanto el propósito de este estudio fue evaluar la relación entre esta patología respiratoria y la prevalencia de caries, y compararla con población sana de la misma edad.Objetivo: Determinar la prevalencia de Caries de Infancia Temprana en niños con Síndrome Bronquial Obstructivo y niños sanos de 1,2 y 3 años de edad. Método: El estudio se realizó con un total de 138 niños de 1,2 y 3 años, de los cuales 78 diagnosticados con Síndrome Bronquial Obstructivo constituían el grupo estudio y 60 pacientes, sin diagnóstico de SBO, el grupo control. Resultados: La prevalencia de CIT en el grupo estudio fue de 69 % y en el grupo control de 67%. Al determinar la prevalencia de CIT severa en fue de 30 % en ambos grupos. Según la distribución por sexo, la prevalencia de CIT fue del 68% para las niñas y de 71% para los niños en el grupo estudio, y en el grupo control de 72% para las niñas y de 66% para los niños. El número de CIT por niño del grupo estudio fue de 3,13 y por niño del grupo control fue de 3,01. Prevalencia de CIT según duración de tratamiento: 0-1 año de 19%; 1-2 años 23%; y de 27% para 2 años y más. Prevalencia de CIT según severidad SBO: SBO leve 64%, SBO moderado 71% y SBO severo 90%. Prevalencia de CIT según tratamiento farmacológico: 71% para el uso de inhalador, 75%para el uso de inhalador y jarabe; y de 67% para los niños que utilizaban inhalador, jarabe y comprimido. Riesgo Relativo: 1.05 Conclusión: Finalizado el presente estudio, se evidencia una tendencia respecto a la mayor prevalencia de niños con Caries de Infancia Temprana en el grupo con Síndrome Bronquial Obstructivo (grupo estudio), que el grupo de pacientes sin Síndrome Bronquial Obstructivo (grupo control), aunque no muestra significancia.En el grupo estudio se observó mayor prevalencia de caries en pacientes que tenían más tiempo de tratamiento (27%), diagnóstico de SBO severo (90%) y cuyo tratamiento farmacológico era de inhalador y jarabe (75%) PALABRAS CLAVES: Caries de Infancia Temprana (CIT), Síndrome Bronquial Obstructivo (SBO), Infección Respiratoria Aguda (IRA)