636 research outputs found

    Term Limits: Do they really Affect Fiscal Policy Choices?

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    According to reputational models of political economy, a term limit may change the behavior of a chief executive because he does not have to stand for election. We test this hypothesis in a sample of 52 countries over the period 1977-2000, using government spending, social and welfare spending and deficit as policy choice variables using panel data estimation techniques. We are unable to find significant differences in the behavior of term-limited and non term-limited chief executives. This is in contrast with some previous empirical results based on U.S. states and international data.term limits, comparative politics, fiscal policy

    Valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale e crescita del capitale creativo: il distretto culturale della Valle Camonica.

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    La Fondazione Cariplo dà vita, nel 2009, al progetto Distretti Culturali, con il quale si impegna a finanziare la crescita culturale di specifici ambiti territoriali con il fine dichiarato di promuoverne lo sviluppo anche economico. Dalla lettura dei documenti della Fondazione inerenti il progetto emerge come essa identifichi la creatività, e non in primis il turismo, come possibile cinghia di trasmissione tra crescita culturale ed economica. La creatività è intesa come fattore determinante al fine di migliorare la competitività di un territorio. Questo approccio dimostra come, a livello di indirizzi di politica culturale, il mondo delle fondazioni bancarie stia recependo le istanze della letteratura internazionale di Economia della Cultura ben prima della controparte pubblica. Si argomenta che tale circostanza è probabilmente legata al caratterizzarsi di tali enti per un orizzonte temporale lungo, in quanto essi sono meno sottoposti alle distorsioni tipiche dell’agire del policy maker pubblico, tra cui quelle legate alla pressione elettorale. Ma le caratteristiche di governance di tali enti non garantiscono che tale caratterizzazione si manterrà anche in futuro

    El valor y la importancia de las marcas en el mercado y la historia de las marcas blancas y su crecimiento.

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    Las marcas de los productos juegan un papel muy importante para el desarrollo y crecimiento de estas mismas. En lo que vienen hacer las marcas de productos básicos (impulso o comodities) son muy influenciadas por la publicidad que viene hacer el reflejo del análisis intenso del marketing. Cada producto resulta clasificado en función de la necesidad que pretende satisfacer y es jerarquizada según el orden de prioridad de las necesidades. Los consumidores nos vemos en la libertad de escoger cualquier marca de producto que queramos en el mercado. La marca juega un papel muy importante entre la diferencia entre productos básicos y para esto hay que decidir bien cual es el target. No hay que olvidar que para gestionar una marca es muy importante saber comprenderla. El valor de las marcas ha evolucionado mucho en estos últimos años donde ahora el valor intangible es el valor más alto que tienen la marca ya que este representa el valor en la mente de los consumidores. Este valor de la marca se encuentra entre la comunicación del producto y las características inmateriales del producto

    Promotion du dépistage des infections à Chlamydia Trachomatis auprès des adolescents: une revue de littératiure étoffée

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    Ce travail a pour but d’effectuer un état des lieux des connaissances et des méthodes actuelles sur la promotion du dépistage de la CT. De plus, il est intéressant de savoir quelle est l’investissement ainsi que le rôle de l’infirmier face à cette problématique ceci afin de trouver des stratégies permettant d’adapter le rôle et la pratique infirmière et d’intégrer de nouvelles approches pour le métier

    Better Research Software Tools to Elevate the Rate of Scientific Discovery -- or why we need to invest in research software engineering

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    In the past decade, enormous progress has been made in advancing the state-of-the-art in bioimage analysis - a young computational field that works in close collaboration with the life sciences on the quantitative analysis of scientific image data. In many cases, tremendous effort has been spent to package these new advances into usable software tools and, as a result, users can nowadays routinely apply cutting-edge methods to their analysis problems using software tools such as ilastik [1], cellprofiler [2], Fiji/ImageJ2 [3,4] and its many modern plugins that build on the BigDataViewer ecosystem [5], and many others. Such software tools have now become part of a critical infrastructure for science [6]. Unfortunately, overshadowed by the few exceptions that have had long-lasting impact, many other potentially useful tools fail to find their way into the hands of users. While there are many reasons for this, we believe that at least some of the underlying problems, which we discuss in more detail below, can be mitigated. In this opinion piece, we specifically argue that embedding teams of research software engineers (RSEs) within imaging and image analysis core facilities would be a major step towards sustainable bioimage analysis software.Comment: 8 pages, 0 figure
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