3,282 research outputs found
Evaluating EU policies on public services: a citizensÂŽ perspective
This article evaluates EU policies on public services â particularly public network services - from the citizensÂŽ point of view. It is first argued that citizensÂŽ perceptions about these services are important because they are essential for quality of life, but also because they exhibit economic characteristics such as asymmetrical information, adverse selection and positive externalities. Changing EU policy on public services is synthesised and classified into two main phases in section two. Citizen satisfaction with public services as revealed through surveys from 1997 to 2007 is explored in the third section. In the discussion, the prospects for EU policy on public services are considered and, it is argued that, from the perspectives of subsidiarity and proportionality, policy towards strengthening the common market is being increasingly uploaded to the supranational level in the form of directives, whilst cohesion and redistribution policies are being downloaded to the national level or dealt with at the supranational level by âsoftâ instruments.Economics of public services; evaluation; citizen; consumer; satisfaction; privatization; liberalization; competition
HADAS: tool for analysis and development of sustainable applications
Durante esta Conferencia Internacional, representantes del Gobierno, autoridades locales, instituciones pĂșblicas y privadas, vicerrectores de InternacionalizaciĂłn y talento nacional e internacional crearon un ecosistema para fomentar las colaboraciones nacionales e internacionales, asĂ como la presentaciĂłn de nuevas ideas para resolver retos que afectan a la sociedad. Se trata de un foro Ășnico, donde se presentaron trabajos cientĂficos y se otorgaron premios con el fin de fomentar el rigor y la excelencia cientĂfica.Universidad de MĂĄlaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional AndalucĂa Tech
Quantum simulation of dark energy candidates
Additional scalar fields from scalar-tensor, modified gravity or higher
dimensional theories beyond general relativity may account for dark energy and
the accelerating expansion of the Universe. These theories have lead to
proposed models of screening mechanisms, such as chameleon and symmetron
fields, to account for the tight experimental bounds on fifth-force searches.
Cold atom systems have been very successfully used to constrain the parameters
of these screening models, and may in future eliminate the interesting
parameter space of some models entirely. In this paper, we show how to
manipulate a Bose-Einstein condensate to simulate the effect of any screened
scalar field model coupled conformally to the metric. We give explicit
expressions for the simulation of various common models. This result may be
useful for investigating the computationally challenging evolution of particles
on a screened scalar field background, as well as for testing the metrology
scheme of an upcoming detector proposal.Comment: 26 pages, 3 figure
Fundamentos para el anĂĄlisis econĂłmico del tabaquismo: la utilidad marginal y los umbrales de asimilaciĂłn
Current regulation of smoking in Spain (Law 28 /2005) defines and reallocates environmental property rights in favour of nonsmokers. From this point of view, it is important to analyze the social desirability of maximizing the utility of a category of individuals knowing that this requires the exclusion of the other category. In our analysis we consider that the ability of individuals to tolerate tobacco smoke in the environment not only depends on marginal utility (or disutility) but also on consumption thresholds about what they are willing to tolerate or perform. We find a bang bang solution switching between zero-pollution (exclusion of smokers) and maximum tobacco consumption (exclusion of nonsmokers).The paper also shows why, in the presence of compulsive smokers, the prohibition of tobacco consumption may be economically rational
Explaining Telecoms and Electricity Internationalization in the European Union: A Political Economy Perspective
One consequence of the liberalization of certain services in the European Union was that a number of formerly inward-looking incumbents in telecommunications and electricity rapidly transformed themselves into some of the worldâs leading Multinationals. However, the precise relationship between liberalization and incumbent internationalization is contested. This article tests three persuasive arguments derived from the political economy literature on this relationship. The first claims that those incumbents most exposed to domestic liberalization would internationalise most. The second asserts the opposite: incumbents operating where liberalization was restricted could exploit monopolistic rents to finance their aggressive internationalisation. The third argument claims that a diversity of paths will be adopted by countries and incumbents vis-Ă -vis liberalization and internationalization. Using correlation and cluster analysis of the sample of all major EU telecoms and electricity incumbent Multinationals evidence is found in favour of the third hypothesis. Internationalization as a response to liberalization took diverse forms in terms of timing and extent and this is best explained using a country, sector and firm logic.Electricity, European Union, Internationalization, Liberalization, Telecommunications, Political Economy, Multinational Corporations, National Champions
Nuevos formatos artĂsticos y comunicativos en Instagram
Instagram es una de las redes sociales mĂĄs visuales que existen hasta el momento.
Gracias a sus posibilidades creativas algunos de los usuarios que la utilizan han desarrollado
nuevos formatos artĂsticos y comunicativos dentro de la aplicaciĂłn. Estos usuarios son
denominados como creativos-comunicadores y son reconocibles son su inconformismo creativo a
la hora de desarrollar contenido para esta red social.
La forma de compartir contenido en Instagram ha ido evolucionando desde su surgimiento en
2010, donde la espontaneidad era la esencia de la aplicaciĂłn, posteriormente se comenzĂł a
desarrollar, por parte de los usuarios creativos-comunicadores, perfiles mucho mĂĄs meticulosos y
cuidados estableciendo temĂĄticas o paletas de color entre sus fotografĂas para conseguir un feed
estéticamente equilibrado.
Pero, lejos de quedar aquĂ estos usuarios aprovechan todas las posibilidades creativas que
Instagram pone a su alcance llegando a crear nuevos formatos artĂsticos y comunicativos como los
vĂdeos cinematogrĂĄficos en formato vertical para Stories, series adaptadas para Instagram,
mosaicos a gran escala en los feeds y la creaciĂłn de nuevos hĂbridos entre imagen y vĂdeo.Universidad de Sevilla. Grado en Periodism
Por la revitalizaciĂłn del mundo rural frente al saqueo de la banca
Desde hace dos años okupo una finca abandonada y gestiono una pequeña producción diversificada, con huerto, gallinas, pollos camperos, cabras, cerdos, conejos y colmenas. Produzco lo que necesito y vendo los excedentes a mis vecinas y vecinos de Jåbaga (Cuenca) y poblaciones cercanas, pero el banco me quiere echar
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