The Future of the Asylum Institute in the World

What is the future of the Asylum Institute? In our opinion it is of the utmost importance to urgently proceed to universalize and to uniform the rights and obligations of asylum seekers and sheltered, the qualified entities who evaluate the asylum requests, the essential and necessary criteria and requirements for the concession of asylum, and to trigger the necessary processes and procedures which will enable to successfully achieve the so yearned for international protection.N/

Representing Roomates' Preferences with Symmetric Utilities

In the context of the stable roommates problem, it is shown that acyclicity of preferences is equivalent to the existence of symmetric utility functions, i.e. the utility of agent i when matched with j is the same as j 's utility when matched with i .

Manifold-Marketing:a new marketing archetype for the information age, applied to the adoption of oral contraceptives and other drugs by end-users

Taking into account the new communication paradigm of Social Media this paper proposes an original marketing archetype for the information age named by the authors as “ManifoldMarketing”. The conducted study explores the contribution of participating in social networks on the Internet for the adoption process of oral contraceptives (OCs) and other drugs by their end users. Empirical data for this research was collected from a sample of 1162 respondents of a target population formed by Portuguese women, current or potential users of OCs who had reached a level of college education. The results obtained after applying a package of statistical techniques involving descriptive statistics, nonparametric tests and multivariate analysis show that the use of the Internet as well as the participation in the social network Facebook can contribute to the adoption process of OCs. Market segments which are relevant to pharmaceutical marketing were identified based on criteria that associate the information and communication technologies (ICT) with the adoption process of OCs carried out by the consumers themselves. This study also demonstrates that the adoption model and segmentation proposed can be generalized to other markets in the health sector. Considering the obtained results and the proposed "Manifold Marketing", innovative pharmaceutical marketing guidelines are presented.N/

The Correlation Matrix of the Brazilian Central Bank's Standard Model for Interest Rate Market Risk

Central Bank of Brazil is implementing a Value At Risk (V.A.R.) methodology to establish minimum capital requirements for financial institutions to bear market risk derived from interest rate fluctuations. This article shows that the construction of the correlation matrix of the Brazilian Central Bank's Standard Model for Interest Rate is coherent, in the sense it is positive defined.

UEFA Euro 2004 Tourism Impact Analysis

The purpose of this paper is exactly to approximate the tourism economic impact of the UEFA Euro 2004 in Portugal. The survey concentrates on the immediate, direct and short-term additional revenue brought into one region by the foreign sport event spectators. One innovating aspect of this paper is the direct data collection on the foreign visitors spending, contouring simulation and forecast problems. Results show an immediate short-term return investment costs generated an immediate and short-term revenue of less than one tenth of the investment costs and overall revenue leakage (or income export) of nearly 325% (50,142 million Euro) of the revenue within the defined regional spatial circuit.UEFA Euro 2004, tourism impact of major sport events, sport event tourism.