International Capital Flows, Technology Spillovers and Local Credit Markets.

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Visual and interactive exploration of point data

Point data, such as Unit Postcodes (UPC), can provide very detailed information at fine scales of resolution. For instance, socio-economic attributes are commonly assigned to UPC. Hence, they can be represented as points and observable at the postcode level. Using UPC as a common field allows the concatenation of variables from disparate data sources that can potentially support sophisticated spatial analysis. However, visualising UPC in urban areas has at least three limitations. First, at small scales UPC occurrences can be very dense making their visualisation as points difficult. On the other hand, patterns in the associated attribute values are often hardly recognisable at large scales. Secondly, UPC can be used as a common field to allow the concatenation of highly multivariate data sets with an associated postcode. Finally, socio-economic variables assigned to UPC (such as the ones used here) can be non-Normal in their distributions as a result of a large presence of zero values and high variances which constrain their analysis using traditional statistics. This paper discusses a Point Visualisation Tool (PVT), a proof-of-concept system developed to visually explore point data. Various well-known visualisation techniques were implemented to enable their interactive and dynamic interrogation. PVT provides multiple representations of point data to facilitate the understanding of the relations between attributes or variables as well as their spatial characteristics. Brushing between alternative views is used to link several representations of a single attribute, as well as to simultaneously explore more than one variable. PVT’s functionality shows how the use of visual techniques embedded in an interactive environment enable the exploration of large amounts of multivariate point data

The Star as Antihero: Ricardo Darín in Carancho

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el film Carancho (2010, Pablo Trapero) teniendo en cuenta los rasgos codificados del cine negro, especialmente aquellos relacionados con la construcción del personaje protagónico y su destino como también con los espacios que habita y en los que se desenvuelve. Se prestará particular atención a la imagen estrella de Ricardo Darín en la construcción de su personaje, un antihéroe cuya naturaleza opaca y difusa difiere de la representación clásica de la estrella cinematográfica. Para ello, emplearemos el concepto de imagen estrella de Richard Dyer y James Naremore.The purpose of this article is to explore the film Carancho (2010, Pablo Trapero), taking into account the characteristics that typify the film noir genre, particularly those related to character construction and the fate of the main character, on the one hand, and the spaces within which he moves and plays his role, on the other. Particular attention will be paid to Ricardo Darín’s star image in the construction of the protagonist of the film, an antihero whose diffuse and opaque nature differs from the classical representation of a cinematographic star. To this end, the concept of star image will be used following Richard Dyer and James Naremore, in particular.Fil: Soria, Carolina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin

Unearthing Ethnocentrism in Music Research: Latin American Experiences with Ethnomusicology

Latin American Studie

Place and action: The school building as an enhancer of the learning process

This paper aims to highlight the relevance of the built space towards society, and more specifically the influence that the school building bears for the learning process, that there takes place. It also intends to emphasize the relevance of studies on space use, assuming that they provide a comprehensive input on the actual occupancy of a particular space, and that conversely present guidelines as an operative design tool when intervening on that or other buildings with a similar brief. Ultimately, contributing for a more complete and effective spatial, social and pedagogical answer to the actual needs and wants of the users, at each particular time, throughout its lifecycle.Hence, it will regard first the relationship between architecture and society, focusing on the bond between providers and users of the places, thought and lived in. Itwill then concentrate on school buildings and their input towards education, considering space use research as a means to understand space as a social «setting» and also a social «influence». Finally, it will address psychosocial studies on spatiality, while dealing with means and techniques within architectural studies concerned with this relationship. Firstly in its generic assertion and secondly and more specifically applied to school buildings.Peer Reviewe

Portraits of Julius Caesar: a proposal for 3D analysis

Here I suggest the use of a 3D scanning and rendering to create some virtual copies of ancient artifacts to study and compare them. In particular, this approach could be interesting for some roman marble busts, two of which are portraits of Julius Caesar, and the third is a realistic portrait of a man recently found at Arles, France. The comparison of some images indicates that a three-dimensional visualization is necessary.Comment: Key-words: Image processing, 3D Scanner, 3D visualization, Ancient Rome, Julius Caesa

Principlism: bioethics as procedure?

In their book Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Tom Beauchamp and James Childress offer an account of bioethics, called “Principlism”, by way of specifying and balancing four clusters of principles.2 These principles are found, as the author state, in a common morality, understood as a set of universally shared moral beliefs. This paper seeks to introduce the following questions: Does this account of Beauchamp and Childress flow from common morality in a natural way? Can their proposals claim to be endorsed by the authority of common morality? If not, in what way does Principlism contribute to bioethics