Geography of innovative activities in the andalusian aeroespace cluster

Esta investigación tiene por objetivo el análisis de la actividad innovadora en los recintos tecnológicos dedicados a la actividad aeronáutica de Andalucía. Concretamente, se analizan si existen diferencias significativas en términos de innovación entre las firmas localizadas en espacios innovadores y las que no. También, se estudian los elementos de los recintos tecnológicos que pueden constituir un reclamo para las empresas innovadoras y se analizan cuáles de ellos podrían ser más efectivos en la atracción de las empresas.This paper aims at analyzing innovation in corporarions located within the so called innovation areas. Namely it will be studied wether there are significative differences in terms of innovation between firms located inside and outside innovation areas. Furthermore, it have been studied which factors might have the strongest effect on the attraction of innovative firms

What Are the Driving Forces of Individuals’ Retirement Savings?

The purpose of this paper is to analyze what factors are driving the retirement savings of European individuals and whether there are marked differences in retirement preparation among a sample of European countries. Our evidence is based on a sample of 6,036 individuals from eight European countries. The results show that although the percentage of savers for retirement varies widely across countries, the driving forces of the decision to save for retirement are quite similar. Thus, this decision is positively related to individuals’ age, financial literacy, household income, and saving habit. In addition, the results suggest that country-level institutional factors also play a crucial role in an individual’s retirement attitudes.retirement savings, financial literacy, Europe

The role of the electrolyte on the SERS spectra of pyridine

SERS spectra of pyridine has been recorded on a silver electrode in a potential range from 0.0 to -1.20 V with a saline solution, pyridine / KCl (0.1M / 0.1M), by using the 514.5 nm exciting line by us [1]. Under these experimental conditions, the maximum intensity of the enhanced 8a and 9a bands is reached at -0.75 V and -1.20 V, respectively, being the 9a band what dominates the spectrum at negative electrode potential. Although this behavior has been explained under a resonant charge transfer mechanism, the nature of the electronic resonance processes involved in the enhancement of each band is different. The 8a band is enhanced due to an electronic excitation between the ground and excited charge transfer electronic state of the metal-adsorbate surface complex, while the activity of the 9a band is due to a plasmon-like excitation taking into account an overall electronic structure of small metal clusters [2] which is able to selectively modify the relative intensities of specific SERS band. We intend now to record pyridine SERS spectra under the same experimental conditions but varying only the type of electrolyte in order to check how it affects the relative intensities and vibrational wavenumbers of the bands as well as the electrode potential to which the enhanced bands reach the maximum intensity. Different electrolytes like KCl, NaCl, KBr, NaBr and Na2SO4, have been selected in such way that allows us to compare SERS spectra in which changes only the cation or the anion of the electrolyte. From the analysis of all these SERS spectra, it can be concluded that no significant wavenumbers shifts have been detected, while the relative intensities of the bands and the electrode potential to which the maximum intensity is reached are slightly modified. NaBr electrolyte requieres more negative electrode potential in order to enhance the 8a and 9a bands and to resolve the 12 and 1 pair. Acknowledgements We are grateful to the Spanish MINECO (CTQ2012-31846) and Junta de Andalucía (FQM-5156 and 6778), for financial support. References [1] J.F. Arenas, I. López Tocón, J.C. Otero, and J.I. Marcos, J. Phys. Chem. 100, 9254-9261 (1996). [2] J. Román-Pérez, I. López-Tocón, J.L. Castro, J. F. Arenas, J. Soto and J.C. Otero, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.17, 2326-2329 (2015).Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Cómo las fuentes gubernamentales se cuelan en los infográficos de los medios impresos

The sources are a crucial aspect in the course of the journalistic work. They are the origin of most of the informative products and, through their explicit identification, they are a guarantee of development of the verification process. Graphics, which already are incorporated into the pages of newspapers, are stories that begin in some data provided by a person, institution or document, both traditional and digital. The characterization of graphic sources is the objective. The result, a marked character governmental and an important presence of international sources.Las fuentes son un aspecto determinante en el transcurso de la labor periodística. Son el origen de la mayor parte de los productos informativos y suponen, a través de su identificación explícita, una garantía de que se ha desarrollado el proceso de verificación que permitirá construir la noticia. Los gráficos, que ya están incorporados a las páginas de los periódicos, son relatos que también comienzan con algún dato facilitado por una persona, institución o documento, tanto tradicional como digital. La caracterización de las fuentes infográficas era el objetivo. El resultado, un marcado carácter gubernamental/público de las mismas y una presencia importante de fuentes internacionales

What do we know when we know a compulsive buying person? Looking at now and ahead

Over the last few decades, research has seamlessly confirmed the marked multicausal nature of compulsive buying, since variables from different realms (e.g., family, social, and contextual domains) have demonstrated their explanatory capacity. However, it has been personality variables that have, to a greater extent, aroused the interest of researchers, leading to what is now a cumbersome richness of personal constructs of different nature that seem to require some arrangement under integrative frameworks. The proposal by McAdams under the suggestive title of “What do we know when we know a person?” is, in this regard, especially attractive and thought-provoking. McAdams approaches us to the person as a whole by establishing three differentiated levels (dispositional traits, personal concerns or characteristics adaptations, life story), and it will be precisely these levels that will become the structure we will use to address the state of the art on compulsive buyers. The location of the multiple personal variables analyzed at each of the levels with a common grammar will allow us to identify what it is known, as well as what remains to be done in each space. Lastly, suggestions for the future are given, with particular emphasis on advancing our understanding of the person from each of the academic vantage points but also the suitability of designing studies that integrate and/or build bridges between dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations, and life narratives. The hope is that research in the coming years satisfactorily integrates the different visions of the person to achieve a more comprehensive, nuanced portrait of a person with compulsive buying problemsS

I+D global en la industria aeroespacial y de defensa. Creación de conocimiento con las empresas locales de los países anfitriones

In this paper we examine the impact of three host country (HC) factors like spillovers from Aerospace R&D, Military R&D and University research on a sample of aerospace firms for knowledge creation and collaboration with local HCs inventors. Data sources include a sample of 874 international plants of aerospace companies, which was split into OEM firms (Original Equipment Manufacturers) and top specialized supplier firms (TIER), and information from the HCs. The results showed the existence of knowledge spillovers from aerospace R&D and research institutions produced in HCs. The OEM group is more efficient than the TIER group in appropriating aerospace R&D. On the contrary, TIER group is more globalized and their knowledge is more based on their own expertise than on in-house R&D. Foreign aerospace firms benefit specially from research institutions’ knowledge spillovers produced in related fields to the aerospace industry.En este artículo se analiza el impacto de tres factores del país anfitrión (HC), como los knowledge spillovers procedentes de la I+D aeroespacial, la I+D militar y la investigación de Universidades en la capacidad de creación y colaboración con inventores del HC de una muestra de empresas aeroespaciales que incluye OEM (fabricantes de equipos originales) y proveedores especializados (TIER). Para ello se emplea una muestra de 874 plantas internacionales de compañías aeroespaciales con información sobre los respectivos HC. Los resultados evidenciaron la existencia de spillovers de conocimiento producidos en los HC con origen en la I+D aeroespacial y las instituciones de investigación. El grupo OEM es más eficiente que TIER en la apropiación de I+D aeroespacial. El grupo TIER está más globalizado y su conocimiento se basa más en su propia experiencia que en la I+D interna. Las empresas aeroespaciales extranjeras se benefician especialmente de los spillovers de conocimiento de las instituciones de investigación producidos en campos relacionados con la industria aeroespacial

WP 2017-358

Chile initiated in 1981 a privately managed, individual-account pension system that inspired similar reforms in many Latin American countries, and that has been considered as a possible model for Social Security in the United States. After 30 years in place, the Chilean pension system has been criticized for replicating existing inequalities in labor markets and increasing the risk of old-age poverty; for achieving lower levels of coverage; and for providing low pension benefits. Aiming at guaranteeing a minimum level of consumption upon retirement and increasing the incentives to contribute, in 2008 Chile reformed the Pension System, widening the welfare tier and improving the contributory tier through a means-testing scheme. This paper examines the impact of the 2008 Chilean pension on labor supply and well-being, using a version of the difference-in-difference estimator that assesses the effects of the reform through exogenous changes in pension wealth. Using longitudinal data from 2006 through 2012, and a sample of individuals that were not retired by the time of the implementation of the reforms, our preliminary estimates suggest that the pension reforms induced an increase in the probability of working formally, but at least among females, they reduced labor market participation. However, we find limited impacts of the reform on nonlabor outcomes. Besides some improvements in aggregate household expenditures and in measures of subjective well-being measures among males, we do not detect robust changes in health and well-being among individuals near retirement.Social Security Administration, RRC08098401, UM16-18https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/144322/1/wp358.pdfDescription of wp358.pdf : Working pape

Electrochemical SERS spectra of isonicotinic acid analyzed under a photoinduced charge-transfer mechanism

Isonicotinic (IN) acid is one of the three monocarboxilic derivatives of pyridine in which the acid group is located in para-position of the heterocyclic ring. It is a weak acid (pK2=4.86) and therefore, it is not completely ionized in neutral aqueous solutions, being the zwitterion and the anion the majority chemical species at neutral pH. In acidic solutions (pK1=1.84) the pyridinic nitrogen atom can be protonated yielding a third chemical species with positive charge [1]. In addition, IN acid shows two functional centres that can interact with the silver metallic surface such as the carboxilate group and the aromatic nitrogen atom. Therefore, the analysis of the SERS spectra of IN has been focused on identifying the chemical species adsorbed on the silver surface and its centre of interaction by considering the participation of a photoinduced charge-transfer (CT) mechanism in each particular SERS record as we have previously detected in the SERS of pyridine derivatives [2]. SERS spectra of the IN acid (5x10-3 M) have been recorded on silver at electrode potentials ranging from 0.00 up to -1.00 V and at different pH by using 0.1 M Na2SO4 aqueous solution as electrolyte. The figure shows the SERS recorded at basic pH. The experimental set up is described elsewhere and the excitation line of 514.5 nm wavelength was used. [2]. The detection of the presence of CT processes, which are similar to resonance Raman, requires to carry out quantum mechanical calculations [2].Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tec

Una aproximación al archivo de la figura de Milagros Rey Hombre, arquitecta

El archivo de la arquitecta María de los Milagros Rey Hombre es una fuente documental significativa para la investigación en el campo de las mujeres y la arquitectura. Un fondo que no estaba organizado con criterios archivísticos, ni nunca antes se había descrito. El presente texto pretende dar a conocer la estructura y el contenido de dicho archivo, así como efectuar la evaluación inicial del mismo, aplicando una serie de criterios prefijados. Con este objetivo, dicho fondo se somete a un análisis documental con el que definir un primer cuadro clasificatorio, partiendo de las series temáticas que lo integran. Esta acción nos permite abordar la transmisión del legado de esta arquitecta, poner en valor su figura y su obra, y contribuir, al mismo tiempo, a visibilizar la presencia de las mujeres en el ámbito de la arquitectura.The file of the architect María de los Milagros Rey Hombre is a significant documentary source for research in the field of Women and architecture. The Fund, which was not organised with archival criteria nor had described never, even partially, is subjected to a process of documentary analysis that made a proposal for a classification table organized in different series. The method of direct knowledge of the material through the work of field has been set as a rule of ordination the principle of provenance. The objective of this text is to understand the structure and the contents of the file as well as to make an initial evaluation of the same through a set of criteria. This visibility is a manifestation of the value of your figure and work

La lógica del proyecto: 6 elementos + 1 acción

La presente publicación pretende dar traslado de lo acontecido en las diferentes jornadas celebradas durante los meses de octubre y noviembre de 2011 en la ETSA Coruña. Se propone la reflexión acerca de los procesos lógicos de la ideación, de la sistematización precisa de los mismos para que sean transmisibles. Tecnología, Identidad, Artisticidad, Hibridación, Límite y Cultura son los conceptos elegidos, y a ellos se les suma una acción: Transmitir, infinitivo que implica a todos ellos