Banking industry evolution along the Texas-Mexico border

Maquiladora ; Income ; Remittances ; Emerging markets ; Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas ; Debit cards

Estudio de la ganancia media de los trabajadores españoles

Se pretende mostrar a través del estudio de datos reales de dos Comunidades Autónomas cuáles son los factores más relevantes a la hora de determinar cuál es el salario de una persona

Revising the Texas index of leading indicators

The Texas Leading Index (TLI), produced monthly by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, combines eight measures that tend to anticipate changes in the Texas business cycle by about three to nine months.. ; The TLI was first published in the Dallas Fed’s Economic Review in July 1988. The index’s approaching 20th anniversary provides an apt occasion to review its real-time performance and look at ways it might be improved to keep up with the changing structure of the Texas economy and the availability of new data sources. ; We find that the TLI performed well in the one recession since 1990 and, used in a model forecasting Texas employment, has done well in real time when compared with other forecasts. Although the current version of the TLI works reasonably well, we suggest changes to the TLI that generally reflect the growing importance of services and globalization and the reduced importance of energy production in Texas business cycles.Economic indicators ; Forecasting ; Index numbers (Economics)

Análisis estratégico de la movilidad eléctrica

Compendio de debilidades, amenazas, fortalezas y oportunidades del automóvil eléctrico a nivel mundial en la actualidad desde un plano económico en base a estudios científicos.Universidad de Sevilla. Grado en Finanzas y Contabilida

Full steam ahead for Texas ports

Trade ; North American Free Trade Agreement ; Petroleum industry and trade

Diffusion-reaction model for alkali-silica reaction in concrete

A new diffusion-reaction model for the potentially deleterious Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR) process in concrete is presented. The model involves three coupled diffusion processes, two in-goingand one out-goingfrom the aggregate viewpoint. Alkali (Na+ and K+) and Calcium (Ca2+) ions diffuse “inwards”, from high molar concentration sites in the pores of the cement paste phase of the concrete specimen or at its boundaries, towards the aggregate-cement paste interfaces or the inner cracks of the aggregates. The OH- ions associated with alkali and calcium ions attack certain forms of silica in the aggregates (the “reactive silica”), dissolving it in the form of silicate ions which in turn diffuse back to the cement paste phase (“outwards”). The final potentially deleterious ASR precipitation process involves those silicate ions, plus calcium and alkalis. It takes place wherever the reactants are available by precipitating silicate hydrates of two kinds (Calcium-Silicate-Hydrates –CSH or Calcium-Alkali-Silicate-Hydrates –CASH) in a proportion depending on concentrations and temperature. The diffusion-reaction equations of this process are discretized in space and time using finite differences. An example of application in 1D is presented to illustrate the capabilities to reproduce realistically the ASR process, including some novel features not usually which are not considered in the available literature, such as the role of calcium in the development of the reaction and the inherent relationship between the reaction product composition and its swelling capacity

Espiritual pero no religiosa: la cultura de la transformación personal

This study analyzes the development of a culture of personal transformation in contemporary societies, showing its forms and orientations, and pointing to the factors that favor its development. This new culture unifies psychology and spirituality, emphasizes the transformational power of the experience of transcendence, and flourishes in an heterogeneous and loosely organized milieu driven by trends toward individualization and hybridization. The interpretative hypothesis is that this cultural development is a response to a societal change at the level of the individual: the expansion of the self. The culture of personal transformation can be explained as a response to the existential turmoil that is inherent to the expansion of the self.En este estudio se analiza la relevancia cultural que ha adquirido el tema de la transformación personal en las sociedades contemporáneas, analizando las orientaciones que adopta y los factores que lo propician. La nueva cultura de la transformación personal unifica psicología y espiritualidad, enfatiza el poder transformador de las experiencias de trascendencia y florece en un milieu heterogéneo y flojamente organizado donde dominan la orientación individualizadora y la hibridación de enfoques y tradiciones. En el estudio se avanza la hipótesis interpretativa de que este desarrollo cultural es una respuesta a un proceso de cambio societal en el nivel del individuo al que denominamos la expansión del yo. El vínculo entre la expansión del yo y la cultura de la transformación personal es el malestar existencial que es inherente a la expansión del yo, para el que la cultura de la transformación personal provee una respuesta