O agronegócio pupunha e palmeira real: anais.

bitstream/CNPF-2009-09/39804/1/doc105.pdfEditado por Alvaro Figueredo dos Santos

Dos frontals d’altar i l’acta de consagració de Sant Serni de Tavèrnoles

The aim of this paper is to analyse the two Romanesque altar frontals which consecutively decorated the altar of the abbey church of Sant Sadurní de Tavèrnoles. Both panels were related, but in a very different way, to the consecration document of Tavèrnoles, a fascinating forgery that recalls the political context of the northern region of the county of Urgell. This context directly influenced the panels: it explains the destruction of the first in 1092, and it determines the iconographic programme of the second, made in the third quarter of the 12th century.L’objectiu d’aquest article és l’estudi dels dos frontals romànics que van decorar consecutivament el presbiteri de l’església monàstica de Sant Sadurní de Tavèrnoles. Totes dues taules es relacionen, encara que de maneres diferents, amb l’acta de consagració del temple, un document falsificat però molt interessant que evoca l’especial context històric de l’àrea septentrional del comtat d’Urgell. Aquest context incideix directament en la vida dels mobles: explica la destrucció del primer, l’any 1092, i condiciona la creació i el contingut iconogràfic del segon, elaborat probablement durant el tercer quart del segle XII

Scaling up strategies of the chronic respiratory disease programme of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (Action Plan B3: Area 5)

Abstract Action Plan B3 of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) focuses on the integrated care of chronic diseases. Area 5 (Care Pathways) was initiated using chronic respiratory diseases as a model. The chronic respiratory disease action plan includes (1) AIRWAYS integrated care pathways (ICPs), (2) the joint initiative between the Reference site MACVIA-LR (Contre les MAladies Chroniques pour un VIeillissement Actif) and ARIA (Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma), (3) Commitments for Action to the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing and the AIRWAYS ICPs network. It is deployed in collaboration with the World Health Organization Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD). The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing has proposed a 5-step framework for developing an individual scaling up strategy: (1) what to scale up: (1-a) databases of good practices, (1-b) assessment of viability of the scaling up of good practices, (1-c) classification of good practices for local replication and (2) how to scale up: (2-a) facilitating partnerships for scaling up, (2-b) implementation of key success factors and lessons learnt, including emerging technologies for individualised and predictive medicine. This strategy has already been applied to the chronic respiratory disease action plan of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing

Erratum to: Scaling up strategies of the chronic respiratory disease programme of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (Action Plan B3: Area 5).

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s13601-016-0116-9.]

The Churches' Bans on Consanguineous Marriages, Kin-Networks and Democracy

This paper highlights the role of kin-networks for the functioning of modern societies: countries with strong extended families as characterized by a high level of cousin marriages exhibit a weak rule of law and are more likely autocratic. To assess causality, I exploit a quasi-natural experiment. In the early medieval ages the Church started to prohibit kin-marriages. Using the variation in the duration and extent of the Eastern and Western Churches' bans on consanguineous marriages as instrumental variables, reveals highly significant point estimates of the percentage of cousin marriage on an index of democracy. An additional novel instrument, cousin-terms, strengthens this point: the estimates are very similar and do not rest on the European experience alone. Exploiting within country variation of cousin marriages in Italy, as well as within variation of a 'societal marriage pressure' indicator for a larger set of countries support these results. These findings point to a causal effect of marriage patterns on the proper functioning of formal institutions and democracy. The study further suggests that the Churches' marriage rules - by destroying extended kin-groups - led Europe on its special path of institutional and democratic development