HAVE SPANISH COMPANIES BUILT GREATER ENTREPRENEURSHIP AFTER PRIVATIZATION?

This study analyses some of the strategic and organizational changes experienced in public firms following privatization in its double facet: sale of companies and deregulation. Specifically, we analyse the process of innovation in terms of products, processes and organization. We also look into the development of new businesses and strategic renewal, which in the end shape the entrepreneurial capacity of a company. A sample of Spanish firms which were privatized between 1985 and 2000 shows that after privatization, these companies have experienced a significant increase in entrepreneurship. These changes are even more appreciable when a high sector competition is added to the ownership shift. Once they join the private sector, their level of product, process and organizational innovation is higher. They also develop new businesses at national level, reinforce their international activity and embark on strategic renewal processes by shedding the lesser profitable businesses and modifying their competitive strategy so as to gain efficiency.

A collection of definitions and fundamentals for a design-oriented inductor model

This paper defines and develops useful concepts related to the several kinds of inductances employed in any comprehensive design-oriented ferrite-based inductor model, which is required to properly design and control high-frequency operated electronic power converters. It is also shown how to extract the necessary parameters from a ferrite material datasheet in order to get inductor models useful for a wide range of core temperatures and magnetic induction levels

ELEMENTS INVOLVED IN THE TERRITORY BRAND FROM RESIDENTS’ PERCEPTION: THE CITY OF MÁLAGA

The brand might create a position of the territory that could be useful for the development of geographical spaces. It could also become a solid basis upon which to make decisions about the tourism planning of a city. This paper deals with the features, which are recognized by residents as those that are involved in the creation of Málaga brand. In order to achieve the goals set in this research, a descriptive methodology has been used. This study has been carried out using a questionnaire in which 1230 residents have participated. The findings have corroborated the hypotheses. Indeed, the results show that Málaga brand is being built under the concept of culture and that some places of the city are vital in the making of the territory image. This also encourages economic growth and hence employment. This paper offers important implications and tools to both public and private institutions insofar as they promote tourism promotion campaigns

Diversiones públicas en la Ciudad de México, 1920-1924

El divertirse es sustancial y primario, se da en todos los individuos, sociedades y en todos sus niveles. Sin embargo, implica más que un entretenimiento, que una actividad recreativa, en él se sociabiliza y socializa. Este último elemento definido como el aprendizaje, apropiación y transformación de los elementos socioculturales con los cuales convivimos, como las conductas, hábitos o modelos de vida, valores, visiones sobre el pasado, presente y futuro de una sociedad dada, y que están materializados en una serie de elementos culturales como las obras artísticas, de las cuales se componen las diferentes formas de diversión, y en elementos legal es , como reglamentos y leyes a las cuales están sujetas las diversiones a las cuales acudimos. Estos elementos configuran una cosmovisión de la vida personal y social que tanto vanaglorian las buenas conductas como a su vez sancionan, por ejemplo, lo que se considera fuera de los cánones de “moralidad y buenas costumbres” de una época determinada, tanto en el ámbito público como en el privado. Estos últimos rubros son esenciales, sin embargo, se hace especial énfasis en el ámbito público, en otras palabras, cuando los individuos se reúnen entre sí, por ejemplo en un café, en el teatro, el cine, las mismas calles y plazas públicas, llegando a formar vínculos de diferente magnitud e índole, como personales, laborales, de resistencia y de protesta social, de identidad nacional, que cohesionan e integran a la sociedad en general, y dicho proceso se denomina, sociabilidad. Al evolucionar el hombre y la sociedad también lo han hecho las formas en que se juega y se entretiene, ya no sólo es una forma natural y primaria, se complejiza, civiliza y controla desde el momento en que los instrumentos de socialización se ponen en marcha, se estipulan normas y reglamentos, se censura y prohíbe para normar, modificar y orientar tanto las diversiones en sí como las conductas de los espectadores. Entonces, si las diversiones públicas 2 son un espacio que por su esencia de aglutinamiento de individuos se puede poner en marcha de manera efectiva la socialización, por lo tanto, resulta sumamente atractivo que en estos espacios los grupos de poder (élites, autoridades y los medios de comunicación) puedan tratar de imponer su visión y concepción acerca de una serie de elementos como las prácticas sociales, las conductas, valores sociales, etc

Spatial effects in parasite-induced marine diseases of immobile hosts

Emerging marine infectious diseases pose a substantial threat to marine ecosystems and the conservation of their biodiversity. Compartmental models of epidemic transmission in marine sessile organisms, available only recently, are based on non-spatial descriptions in which space is homogenized and parasite mobility is not explicitly accounted for. However, in realistic scenarios epidemic transmission is conditioned by the spatial distribution of hosts and the parasites' mobility patterns, calling for an explicit description of space. In this work, we develop a spatially explicit individual-based model to study disease transmission by waterborne parasites in sessile marine populations. We investigate the impact of spatial disease transmission through extensive numerical simulations and theoretical analysis. Specifically, the effects of parasite mobility into the epidemic threshold and the temporal progression of the epidemic are assessed. We show that larger values of pathogen mobility imply more severe epidemics, as the number of infections increases, and shorter timescales to extinction. An analytical expression for the basic reproduction number of the spatial model, R~0, is derived as a function of the non-spatial counterpart, R 0, which characterizes a transition between a disease-free and a propagation phase, in which the disease propagates over a large fraction of the system.Fil: Giménez Romero, Àlex. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos; EspañaFil: Vazquez, Federico. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Calculo. - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Calculo; Argentina. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos; EspañaFil: López, Cristóbal. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos; EspañaFil: Matías, Manuel A.. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos; Españ

Facial Geometry Identification through Fuzzy Patterns with RGBD Sensor

Automatic human facial recognition is an important and complicated task; it is necessary to design algorithms capable of recognizing the constant patterns in the face and to use computing resources efficiently. In this paper we present a novel algorithm to recognize the human face in real time; the systems input is the depth and color data from the Microsoft KinectTM device. The algorithm recognizes patterns/shapes on the point cloud topography. The template of the face is based in facial geometry; the forensic theory classifies the human face with respect to constant patterns: cephalometric points, lines, and areas of the face. The topography, relative position, and symmetry are directly related to the craniometric points. The similarity between a point cloud cluster and a pattern description is measured by a fuzzy pattern theory algorithm. The face identification is composed by two phases: the first phase calculates the face pattern hypothesis of the facial points, configures each point shape, the related location in the areas, and lines of the face. Then, in the second phase, the algorithm performs a search on these face point configurations