The Impact of Unemployment on Individual Well-Being in the EU. CEPS ENEPRI Working Papers No. 29, 1 July 2004

Among the working-age population, one of the most damaging individual experiences is unemployment. Many previous studies have confirmed the devastating effects of unemployment on individual well-being, both pecuniary and non-pecuniary. Using the data from the European Community Household Panel survey, this paper examines the factors that affect unemployed workers’ well-being with respect to their situations in their main vocational activity, income, housing, leisure time and health in Europe. The research finds that unemployment substantially reduces an individual’s satisfaction levels with his or her main vocational activity and finance, while it greatly increases his or her satisfaction levels with leisure time. With respect to health, it has a small negative effect. Unemployment duration also has a small, negative impact on individual well-being, suggesting that unemployment has a lasting and aggravating effect throughout the spells of unemployment, contradicting the theory of adaptation

Nonlinear monetary policy rules: some new evidence for the US

This paper dreives optimal monetary policy rules in setups where certainty equivalence does not hold because either central bank preferences are not quadratic, and/or the aggregate supply relation is nonlinear. Analytical results show that these features lead to sign and size aymmetries, and nonlinearities in the policy rule. Reduced-form estimates indicate that US monetary policy can be characterized by a nonlinear policy rule after 1983, but not before 1979. This finding is consistent with the view that the Fed`s inflation preferences during the Volcker-Greenspan regime differ considerably from the ones during the Burns-Miller regime

Fosfatos organógenos en los recubrimientos de los granitos de Monte Louro

[Resumen] Se realiza la identificación por métodos químicos e instrumentales de un fosfato magnésico hidratado localizado en forma de recubrimientos y costras en las rocas graníticas de Monte Louro (La Coruña). La determinación del comportamiento de este mineral durante su deshidratación permite, comprobar el estrecho paralelismo existente entre la pérdida de agua y la destrucción de la newberyita. Teniendo ,en cuenta la escasa estabilidad de la newberyita en los medios de alteración y su frecuente asociación con la «struvita» se atribuye a este mineral un origen organógeno, discutiéndose la posibilidad de' que se encuentre estabilizado por la presencia de recubrimi'entos de fosfatos cálcicos (Brushita y/o Monetita)[Abstract] The identification of a hydrated magneslc phosphate is carried out by chemical and instrumental methods. This is found the shape of overlag and crust on the granitic rocks on Monte Lauro. The determination of its behaviour during the dehydratation 'is performend, let us check the elosed paralelism hetween the loss of water, and the destruction of the new" beryite structure. This mineral isimput,ed to have an organic origin taking into account its short ,stabilityin weatheringenvironments and its freguent assooiation with the «struviteD. It is presumend the posibility of becomíng stabilited by the pres,enc-e of calcic phosphate co,atings (Brushitaand/or Monetite)

Cavities formation in granite rocks under non epigenic conditions

[Resumen] Las cavidades graníticas tipo gnama y tafone se han entendido siempre como resultado de procesos de alteración epigénicos. En el trabajo se describe el hallazgo de cavidades de este tipo encontradas no en un perfil de alteración de un macizo rocoso, sino en el interior de la roca y relacionadas con las discontinuidades estructurales que la afectan, interpretándose según la teoría elástica de formación de cavidades.[Abstract] The gnarnma and tafone granite cavities are understood like the result of weathering processes developed under epigenic conditions. The paper describe the find of cavities, gnamma and tafone type, during the excavation of a granite intact rock and connected with the structural discontinuitieso The find is interpreted according the elastic theory of cavities formation

Simple method of dynamic young's modulus determination in lime and cement mortars

This study demonstrates the feasibility of using a simple method to measure the resonant fundamental frequency for determining the MOE (dynamic Young’s modulus) of lime and cement mortars. The procedure follows the instructions stated in the UNE-EN ISO 12680-1 standard for refractory products although in this study the instructions are applied to standardized RILEM 4x4x16 cm test samples made of lime and cement mortars. The simplicity of the procedure as well as its correlation to other measured variables, suggest that it can be widely applied in studies about the evolution of the physical characteristics in lime mortars, such as mechanical strength, static Young’s modulus, carbonation depth, etcPostprint (published version

Taphonomic study of the bone sample of Liñares sur (Lugo, Galicia)

[Abstract] This paper deal with the biostratinomic processes and fossildiagenetic processes which affected the bone rest of Pleistocene age from the Liñares Sur carstic cave. AH show that the active processes was creepy remaining the fossil bones close ro the original situation of the animal and showing a distinctive intervention of rodents (rooth marks) inmediately after the death of those. The burial was produced by solifiuxion which includes bone remains in between clays and shales resulting from the decalcification ofthe hybrid limesrones that constitutes the cave. After this happened the bones were affected by edaphic processes becoming encrusted, patinated and tinged by Fe and Mn oxides

Condition factors in the distribution of large mammals from Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsular) during the Upper Quaternary

[Abstract] Galicia, in theNWofthe Iberian Peninsula, was a transit area for the migrating large mammals during the Upper Quaternary. These migrations were praduced by the c1imatic changes that characterize this periodo A complete inventory of the localities with Pleistocene and Holocene faunas fram Galicia is presented, as well as several considerations about the abiotic factors that conditioned the distribution of them. These factors have been c1asified into three: lithologic, eustatic andglacial ones. Only taking into account these factors, the reconstruction of the dynamic of the quaternary large mammals will acquire signification

Effect of a heterotrimeric G protein α subunit on conidia germination, stress response, and roquefortine C production in Penicillium roqueforti

Summary. Heterotrimeric G protein signaling regulates many processes in fungi, such as development, pathogenicity, and secondary metabolite biosynthesis. For example, the Gα subunit Pga1 from Penicillium chrysogenum regulates conidiation and secondary metabolite production in this fungus. The dominant activating allele, pga1G42R, encoding a constitutively active Pga1 Gα subunit, was introduced in Penicillium roqueforti by transformation, resulting in a phenotype characterized by low sporulation and slow growth. In this work, the effect of the constitutively active Pga1G42R Gα subunit on conidial germination, stress tolerance, and roquefortine C production of P. roqueforti was studied. Pga1G42R triggered germination in the absence of a carbon source, in addition to negatively regulating thermal and osmotic stress tolerance. The presence of the Pga1G42R Gα subunit also had an important effect on roquefortine C biosynthesis, increasing production and maintaining high levels of the mycotoxin throughout a culture period of 30 days. Together, the results suggest that G protein-mediated signaling participates in the regulation of these three processes in P. roqueforti. [Int Microbiol 2009; 12(2):123-129

Self-consistent, nonlocal electron heat flux at arbitrary ion charge number

A single, nonlocal expression for the electron heat flux, which closely reproduces known results at high and low ion charge number 2, and “exact” results for the local limit at all 2, is derived by solving the kinetic equation in a narrow, tail-energy range. The solution involves asymptotic expansions of Bessel functions of large argument, and (Z-dependent)order above or below it, corresponding to the possible parabolic or hyperbolic character of the kinetic equation; velocity space diffusion in self-scattering is treated similarly to isotropic thermalization of tail energies in large Z analyses. The scale length H characterizing nonlocal effects varies with Z, suggesting an equal dependence of any ad hoc flux limiter. The model is valid for all H above the mean-free path for thermal electrons

Componentes no cristalinos y cristalinos (gibbsita y caolinita) en los productos de neoformación de rocas graníticas de Galicia.

[Resumen] El estudio de los recubrimientos y costras existentes en las diaclasas y fracturas superficiales de rocas graníticas de Galicia permite la diferenciación de dos tipos de materiales: a) Materiales con predominio de componentes con bajo grado de orden. Se localizan en las fracturas subhorizontales por las que discurre el agua que atraviesa el suelo y la saprolita. b) Materiales cristalinos de naturaleza gibbsítica y/o caolinítica. Se localizan en las fracturas verticales.[Abstract] The study of 'coatings and crust on the diaclasas and cracks on the surface of granitic rocks in Galicia, let us differenciate two kinds of materials. a) Materials in wich low order degree components are predominant. These are lacated in subhorizontal cracks through wich water flows. b) Crystalline materials with a gibbsitic and/or kaolinitic minerals, located in the vertical crack