cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Capacity building primary care responses to domestic violence in Brazil: designing a training model
Creators: name: Lucchesi, Vanessa
name: Signorelli, Marcos
name: Priotto, E
name: Hooker, Leesa
name: Taft, Angela
name: Hegarty, Kelsey
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: Abstract

 Background
 Violence against women (VAW) is a public health challenge in Brazil. The country ranks 6th globally for femicide, with a high prevalence of domestic violence, amplified by the pandemic. Primary healthcare (PHC) workers can play a significant role caring for survivors, but their training on how to identify and respond to survivors is a major gap. This study aimed to investigate frontline PHC workers' needs and concerns in the care of VAW survivors, aiming to co-design a participatory model of capacity building to be implemented in the Brazilian PHC.

 Methods
 This study is based on participatory action-research (PAR) through participant observation and in-depth interviews with an interdisciplinary team of 13 PHC workers from Paranaguá, South of Brazil. Data were collected between Aug/2020-Jan/2021, transcribed, coded and synthetized through thematic analysis.

 Results
 Major needs and concerns were: 1) unanimous need of capacity building for all PHC workers and managers; 2) training ideally should be face-to-face, and more than one day, based in practical cases (not just in theory); 3) clarifying the role of the cross-sectoral network and referral options; 4) contents needs to address confidentiality, qualified listening, empathy and respect, with practical guidance on how to approach survivors. Other issues included: integrating VAW approaches with violence against children and adolescents; ensuring PHC units have a private room to care for survivors; and electing a key professional in each unit, with more specialized knowledge, to support survivors and staff.

 Conclusions
 This PAR revealed key issues to collaboratively design a capacity building model for PHC in Brazil, tailored to local needs. The next step will be applying for funding to implement a pilot training.

 Key messages
 Frontline PHC workers routinely attend cases of VAW, therefore their insights are essential to design capacity building to care for survivors in PHC settings. Training healthcare workers to care for survivors of violence needs to address local concerns, targeting knowledge, skills and competences.
ความรอบรู้ด้านสุขภาพ: สถานการณ์และผลกระทบต่อสภาวะสุขภาพของผู้สูงอายุ
Creators: name: วิมลรัตน์ บุญเสถียร
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต
Year: 2563
Subjects: ความรอบรู้ด้านสุขภาพ, สภาวะสุขภาพ, ผู้สูงอายุ

description: วารสารการพยาบาลและสุขภาพ สสอท., 2, 1, 1-19.
ประโยชน์ของกล้วยต่อสุขภาพ: มุมมองด้านภูมิปัญญาไทย
Creators: name: ผกาพรรณ บุญเต็ม
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต
Year: 2563
Subjects: การดูแลสุขภาพ, ภูมิปัญญาไทย, ประโยชน์จากกล้วย

description: วารสารการพยาบาลและสุขภาพ สสอท., 2, 1, 20-29
Data storage & retention - notes. RDM Support basic training course for information specialists session 3
Creators: name: Selm, Mariette Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Notes for session 3 of RDM Support. RDM Support is a basic training course in research data management (support) for information specialists. The training course was developed by Mariëtte van Selm for the information specialists of the Library of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), within the framework of the RDM Support project (2013-2015). The training course was held from January to April 2014.
Data storage & retention - video transcript. RDM Support basic training course for information specialists session 3
Creators: name: Selm, Mariette Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Video transcript for session 3 of RDM Support. RDM Support is a basic training course in research data management (support) for information specialists. The training course was developed by Mariëtte van Selm for the information specialists of the Library of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), within the framework of the RDM Support project (2013-2015). The training course was held from January to April 2014.
Evaluating multisensory integration in individuals with autism and schizophrenia utilizing EEG data
Creators: name: Theodoros, Balougias
Publisher: name: National Technological University of Athens
Year: 2025
Subjects: EEGNet
Electroencephalography
Schizophrenia
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Slice Tensor Component Analysis

description: Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο--Μεταπτυχιακή Εργασία. Διεπιστημονικό-Διατμηματικό Πρόγραμμα Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών (Δ.Π.Μ.Σ.) "Μεταφραστική Βιοιατρική Μηχανικής και Επιστήμης"
Data management planning - notes. RDM Support basic training course for information specialists session 2
Creators: name: Selm, Mariette Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Notes for session 2 of RDM Support. RDM Support is a basic training course in research data management (support) for information specialists. The training course was developed by Mariëtte van Selm for the information specialists of the Library of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), within the framework of the RDM Support project (2013-2015). The training course was held from January to April 2014.
title: Ανίχνευση πτητικών ενώσεων μυκήτων μέσω χημικών-αισθητήρων νανοσωματιδίων
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Galanopoulos, Anastasios
Publisher: name: National Technological University of Athens
Year: 2025
Subjects: Πτητικές οργανικές ενώσεις
Μύκητες
Χημικοί αισθητήρες
Νανοσωματίδια
Πολυμερή
Volatile organic compounds
Fungi
Chemical sensors
Nanoparticles
Aspergillus

description: Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο--Μεταπτυχιακή Εργασία. Διεπιστημονικό-Διατμηματικό Πρόγραμμα Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών (Δ.Π.Μ.Σ.) “Μικροσυστήματα και Νανοδιατάξεις”
Data management planning - video transcript. RDM Support basic training course for information specialists session 2
Creators: name: Selm, Mariette Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Video transcript for session 2 of RDM Support. RDM Support is a basic training course in research data management (support) for information specialists. The training course was developed by Mariëtte van Selm for the information specialists of the Library of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), within the framework of the RDM Support project (2013-2015). The training course was held from January to April 2014.
Research data management: an introduction - video transcript. RDM Support basic training course for information specialists session 1
Creators: name: Selm, Mariette Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Video transcript for session 1 of RDM Support. RDM Support is a basic training course in research data management (support) for information specialists. The training course was developed by Mariëtte van Selm for the information specialists of the Library of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), within the framework of the RDM Support project (2013-2015). The training course was held from January to April 2014.
Note-taking in reading
Creators: name: Gaitan, Angela
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2017

description: ¿Cómo empezar a tomar notas mientras lee? Hay un millón de maneras de tomar notas mientras lee. Este documento proporciona una visión general básica de las maneras de tomar notas y las vincula con las habilidades de tomar notas, como las abreviaturas.
Hedging - Use of Cautious Language TASKS
Creators: name: Potter, Matt
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2017

description: Documento: El inglés académico se caracteriza por el uso de un lenguaje cauteloso, por no ser demasiado confiado o directo en hacer declaraciones. Esto ayuda a evitar ser incorrecto. Esta es una habilidad difícil de dominar en la escritura y el habla, especialmente para el inglés académico.
การรับรู้และการจัดการเมื่อมีสัญญาณเตือนในผู้ที่เสี่ยงต่อการเกิดโรคหลอดเลือดสมอง
Creators: name: อาณัติ วรรณะ
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต
Year: 2563
Subjects: การจัดการเพื่อป้องกัน, การจัดการเมื่อมีสัญญาณเตือน, การรับรู้, ผู้ที่เสี่ยงต่อการเกิดโรคหลอดเลือดสมอง

description: วารสารการพยาบาลและสุขภาพ สสอท., 2, 1, 30-44
Trusting the Press and Political Trust: A Conditional Relationship
Creators: name: Ariely, Gal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Meta Science

description: Despite the fact that the media serves as a vital source of information about politics, the relation between media trust and political trust has largely been overlooked, especially outside the USA. Adopting a comparative approach, this study examines the way(s) in which trust in the press and political trust are related across dissimilar media environments. Analyzing survey data from 32 European countries, we found that while trust in the press and political trust are positively related, the magnitude of the relation differs across countries. This variation is explained by three structural components within the media environment: media autonomy, journalistic professionalism, and party/press parallelism. The multilevel models indicate that countries with more media autonomy and journalistic professionalism evince a weaker relation between media trust and political trust. A stronger relation obtains in media environments characterized by party/press parallelism. These findings illustrate how media environments affect citizen perceptions toward the political sphere: the less restricted and more professional the media environment, the more the public perceptions have the opportunity to be affected by what is being reported.
Modal Verbs - Predictions
Creators: name: Rivas, Juan Manuel
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2017

description: Infografía que expone como los verbos modales de predicción se usan con frecuencia en la escritura académica y el habla. Esto se debe a que en la comunidad académica rara vez queremos decir que algo es 100% cierto. ¡Podríamos estar equivocados! Los verbos modales pueden ayudar a que nuestras declaraciones sean menos fuertes y más aceptadas.
Research data management: an introduction - notes. RDM Support basic training course for information specialists session 1
Creators: name: Selm, Mariette Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Notes for session 1 of RDM Support. RDM Support is a basic training course in research data management (support) for information specialists. The training course was developed by Mariëtte van Selm for the information specialists of the Library of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), within the framework of the RDM Support project (2013-2015). The training course was held from January to April 2014.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Creators: name: Gaitan, Angela
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2017

description: Usar una variedad de sinónimos y antónimos puede hacer que su inglés académico sea mucho más completo y placentero de leer, pero no es suficiente solo cambiar palabras. En este documento puede practicar creando frases con sentido y que tengan significado.
Synonyms for Paraphrasing
Creators: name: Gaitan, Angela
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2017

description: El parafraseo es importante en tanto en el habla como en la escritura académica y los sinónimos ayudan a parafrasear, permitiendo cambiar las palabras que significan más o menos lo mismo. Si bien un diccionario de sinónimos puede ayudarlo con la palabra, este documento le puede ayudar poniéndolo en contexto con frases coherente.
Introduction to the AWL TASKS
Creators: name: Potter, Matt
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2017

description: Documento: la AWL (Academic Word List) es una lista de las palabras más importantes en el mundo académico. Si usted las puede dominar, entonces su escritura académica y el discurso serán totalmente diferentes. Estos ejercicios introducen el AWL en preparación para un trabajo más avanzado.
A Convenient Modification of the Fischer Indole Synthesis with a Solid Acid
Creators: name: Sosale Chandrasekhar
name: Mukherjee, Somnath
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Microbiology

description: A new one-pot version of the titled reaction involves heating a mixture of a carbonyl compound, a phenylhydrazine, and the cation exchange resin Amberlite IR 120 in refluxing ethanol. A variety of enolizable aldehydes, and ketones and several substituted phenylhydrazines could thus be converted to the corresponding indoles in excellent yields (70–88%). Reaction times were typically 6–10 h, with the resin being then filtered off and the product isolated after minimal workup.
Approved Doctoral Proposal (2020): Aquinas on the Rite of Mass – A systematic, historical and comparative Synthesis of St. Thomas Aquinas on the liturgical Rites of Holy Mass in Comparison with Pope Innocent III and St. Albert the Great.  Submitted and approved at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), March 4, 2020
Creators: name: Witkowski, Dominik Pascal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Thomas Aquinas
Albert the Great
Innocent III
Theology
Thomism
Fundamental Theology
Systematic Theology
Eucharist
Holy Mass
Sacrifice of the Mass
Mystagogy
STL Thesis
Liturgy
Scholastic Theology
Medieval Theology
Dominican Studies
Thomistic Studies

description: This is the doctoral research proposal submitted in January 2020 and officially approved in March 2020 by the Faculty of Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), Rome. It outlines the structure, methodology, and objectives of the doctoral dissertation project on the Eucharistic theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (ST III, q. 83), in comparison with Pope Innocent III and Albert the Great. This proposal served as the formal basis for the author’s doctoral studies, which culminated in the successful defense of the dissertation on September 22, 2023.
THE PRINCIPLE OF MEANINGLESSNESS AND HIS JUDICIAL APPLICATION
Creators: name: Guaragni, Fabio
name: FERNANDO MARTINS MARIA SOBRINHO
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The principle of insignificance came to Europe from the First World War, in the twentieth century; highlighting here the counselor Claus Roxin, as was the one who made the first time. This study aims to understand and conceptualize the principle of insignificance, as well as the possibilities of applying it to the case. Thus, it becomes necessary the study of who becomes the legal interest and its distinction with the criminal legal interest, as well as analysis on the atypical nature of the conduct and the correlation with formal typicality and material. In this sense, there is the understanding that the principle of insignificance establishes the atypical conduct, as to be considered criminally typical, it is necessary that has affected the well, not simply a mere adaptation to the type. In addition, this principle reaffirms the idea of ultima ratio of criminal law, having a subsidiary character. It has been shown that the case law of the Brazilian Supreme Court has mechanisms for implementing the principle of insignificance and thus warding off future unnecessary penalty.
Academic connectors
Creators: name: Gibson, Sam Ling
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2017

description: Los conectores son como el pegamento que sostiene la escritura y el habla en la academia. Muchos hablantes no nativos del inglés usan conectores en exceso, y esto puede afectar el flujo en un artículo académico. Úselos con moderación y solo donde sea necesario. Recuerde, en el inglés académico, cada palabra debe tener un propósito.
Biostatistics Faculty and NIH Awards at U.S. Medical Schools
Creators: name: Guangxiang Zhang
name: Chen, John J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine

description: Statistical principles and methods are critical to the success of biomedical and translational research. However, it is difficult to track and evaluate the monetary value of a biostatistician to a medical school (SoM). Limited published data on this topic are available, especially comparing across SoMs. Using National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards and American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) faculty counts data (2010–2013), together with online information on biostatistics faculty from 119 institutions across the country, we demonstrated that the number of biostatistics faculty was significantly positively associated with the amount of NIH awards, both as a school total and on a per faculty basis, across various sizes of U.S. SoMs. Biostatisticians, as a profession, should be proactive in communicating and advocating the value of their work and their unique contribution to the long-term success of a biomedical research enterprise. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Oaxaca-Blinder type counterfactual decomposition methods for duration outcomes
Creators: name: Garcia-Suaza, Andres
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2016

description: Los métodos disponibles para realizar análisis de descomposición que se pueden aplicar cuando los datos son completamente observados, no son válidos cuando la variable de interés es censurada. Esto puede explicar la escasez de este tipo de ejercicios considerando variables de duración, las cuales se observan usualmente bajo censura. Este documento propone un método del tipo Oaxaca-Blinder para descomponer diferencias en la media en el contexto de datos censurados. La validez de dicho método radica en la identificación y estimación de la distribución conjunta de la variable de duración y un conjunto de covariables. Adicionalmente, se propone un método más general que permite descomponer otros funcionales de interés como la mediana o el coeficiente de Gini, el cual se basa en la especificación de la función de distribución condicional de la variable de duración dado un conjunto de covariables. Con el fin de evaluar el desempeño de dichos métodos, se realizan experimentos tipo Monte Carlo. Finalmente, los métodos propuestos son aplicados para analizar las brechas de género en diferentes características de la duración del desempleo en España, tales como la duración media, la probabilidad de ser desempleado de largo plazo y el coeficiente de Gini. Los resultados obtenidos permiten concluir que los factores diferentes a las características observables, tales como capital humano o estructura del hogar, juegan un papel primordial para explicar dichas brechas.
A Convenient Modification of the Fischer Indole Synthesis with a Solid Acid
Creators: name: Sosale Chandrasekhar
name: Mukherjee, Somnath
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Microbiology

description: GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
Perfil da flexibilidade de quadril em indivíduos portadores de Síndrome de Down praticantes de capoeira
Creators: name: Ferreira, Ana Charline Dantas
name: Morais, Mariana Pryscyla Silva De
name: Barros, Carla Silvana De
name: Coquerel, Patrick Ramon Stafin
name: Jônatas De França Barros
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: Trabalho apresentado em Congresso.
Trusting the Press and Political Trust: A Conditional Relationship
Creators: name: Ariely, Gal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Meta Science

description: Despite the fact that the media serves as a vital source of information about politics, the relation between media trust and political trust has largely been overlooked, especially outside the USA. Adopting a comparative approach, this study examines the way(s) in which trust in the press and political trust are related across dissimilar media environments. Analyzing survey data from 32 European countries, we found that while trust in the press and political trust are positively related, the magnitude of the relation differs across countries. This variation is explained by three structural components within the media environment: media autonomy, journalistic professionalism, and party/press parallelism. The multilevel models indicate that countries with more media autonomy and journalistic professionalism evince a weaker relation between media trust and political trust. A stronger relation obtains in media environments characterized by party/press parallelism. These findings illustrate how media environments affect citizen perceptions toward the political sphere: the less restricted and more professional the media environment, the more the public perceptions have the opportunity to be affected by what is being reported.
Works councils: an agency perspective
Creators: name: Gallego, Juan M.
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2012

description: This paper investigates the role of works councils in a simple agency frameworkin which works councils are supposed to monitor manager’s informationon behalf of the workforce, but they are independent agents who might pursuetheir private interest. First, we consider that workers can incentivizeworks councils through contingent monetary payments. In order to deter collusion,workers must pay higher compensations in states of nature where theycan be expropriated by potential coalitions among works councils and management.Collusion makes contingent payments costly and reduces workers’payoffs. Second, when elections are the exclusive mechanisms to align workscouncils’ interest, only well compensated representatives would face an intertemporaltradeoff between accepting management’s transfers at first periodand losing rents at the second period. Elections increase the cost of enteringon collusive behavior with management and works councils will try to behaveon the employees’ interest.
Design, Synthesis, and Antimicrobial Evaluation of Novel Thienopyrimidines and Triazolothienopyrimidines
Creators: name: Mahmoud, Mahmoud R.
name: El-Azm, Fatma S. M. Abu
name: Ali, Amira T.
name: Yasmeen M. Ali
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biochemistry

description: 2-Cyanoacetohydrazide and 2-amino-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzo[b]thiophene derivatives were exploited as starting materials for the syntheses of novel thienopyrimidines and triazolothienopyrimidines. The proclivity of these compounds toward one-carbon donor reagents such as carbon disulfide, phenyl isothiocyanate, and aromatic aldehydes was investigated. The structures of all synthesized compounds were ascertained by spectral and analytical data. The antimicrobial activity of the target synthesized compounds was tested against various microorganisms.
The environmental impact of civil conflict : the deforestation effect of paramilitary expansion in Colombia
Creators: name: Mendoza Romero, Dario
name: Fergusson Talero, Leopoldo
name: Vargas, Juan F.
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2014

description: Despite a growing body of literature on how environmental degradation can fuel civil war, the reverse effect, namely that of conflict on environmental outcomes, is relatively understudied. From a theoretical point of view this effect is ambiguous, with some forces pointing to pressures for environmental degradation and some pointing in the opposite direction. Hence, the overall effect of conflict on the environment is an empirical question. We study this relationship in the case of Colombia. We combine a detailed satellite-based longitudinal dataset on forest cover across municipalities over the period 1990-2010 with a comprehensive panel of conflict-related violent actions by paramilitary militias. We first provide evidence that paramilitary activity significantly reduces the share of forest cover in a panel specification that includes municipal and time fixed effects. Then we confirm these findings by taking advantage of a quasi-experiment that provides us with an exogenous source of variation for the expansion of the paramilitary. Using the distance to the region of Urab´a, the epicenter of such expansion, we instrument paramilitary activity in each cross-section for which data on forest cover is available. As a falsification exercise, we show that the instrument ceases to be relevant after the paramilitaries largely demobilized following peace negotiations with the government. Further, after the demobilization the deforestation effect of the paramilitaries disappears. We explore a number of potential mechanisms that may explain the conflict-driven deforestation, and show evidence suggesting that paramilitary violence generates large outflows of people in order to secure areas for growing illegal crops, exploit mineral resources, and engage in extensive agriculture. In turn, these activities are associated with deforestation.
A DSGE model with loss aversion in consumption and leisure: an explanation for business cycles asymmetries
Creators: name: Gómez Muñoz, Wilman Arturo
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2014

description: In this chapter, an asymmetric DSGE model is built in order to account for asymmetries in business cycles. One of the most important contributions of this work is the construction of a general utility function which nests loss aversion, risk aversion and habits formation by means of a smooth transition function. The main idea behind this asymmetric utility function is that under recession the agents over-smooth consumption and leisure choices in order to prevent a huge deviation of them from the reference level of the utility; while under boom, the agents simply smooth consumption and leisure, but trying to be as far as possible from the reference level of utility. The simulations of this model by means of Perturbations Method show that it is possible to reproduce asymmetrical business cycles where recession (on shock) are stronger than booms and booms are more long-lasting than recession. One additional and unexpected result is a downward stickiness displayed by real wages. As a consequence of this, there is a more persistent fall in employment in recession than in boom. Thus, the model reproduces not only asymmetrical business cycles but also real stickiness and hysteresis.
Business cycle asymmetries: Loss aversion, sticky prices, and wages
Creators: name: Gómez, Wilman
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: In this chapter, the Smets-Wouters (2003) New Kenesian model is reformulated by introducing the loss aversion utility function developed in chapter two. The purpose of this is to understand how asymmetric real business cycles are linked to asymmetric behavior of agents in a price and wage rigidities set up. The simulations of the model reveal not only that the loss aversion in consumption and leisure is a good mechanism channel for explaining business cycle asymmetries, but also is a good mechanism channel for explaining asymmetric adjustment of prices and wages. Therefore the existence of asymmetries in Phillips Curve. Moreover, loss aversion makes downward rigidities in prices and wages stronger and also reproduces a more severe and persistent fall of the employment. All in all, this model generates asymmetrical real business cycles, asymmetric price and wage adjustment as well as hysteresis.
Business cycle asymmentries: An investment cost approach
Creators: name: Gómez, Wilman
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: In this paper, investment cost asymmetry is introduced in order to test wheter this kind of asymmetry can account for asymmetries in business cycles. By using a smooth transition function, asymmetric investment cost is modeled and introduced in a canonical RBC model. Simulations of the model with Perturbations Method (PM) are very close to simulations through Parameterized Expectations Algorithm (PEA), which allows the use of the former for the sake of time reduction and computational costs. Both symmetric and asymmetric models were simulated and compared. Deterministic and stochastic impulse-response excersices revealed that it is possible to adequately reproduce asymmetric business cycles by modeling asymmetric investment costs. Simulations also showed that higher order moments are insu_cient to detect asymmetries. Instead, methods such as Generalized Impulse Response Analysis (GIRA) and Nonlinear Econometrics prove to be more e_cient diagnostic tools.
Combatant recruitment and the outcome of war
Creators: name: Mahmud, Ahmed-Saber
name: Vargas, Juan F.
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2015

description: Why do some civil wars terminate soon, with victory of one party over the other? What determines if the winner is the incumbent or the rebel group? Why do other conáicts last longer? We propose a simple model in which the power of each armed group depends on the number of combatants it is able to recruit. This is in turn a function of the relative ëdistanceíbetween group leaderships and potential recruits. We emphasize the moralhazard problem of recruitment: Öghting is costly and risky so combatants have the incentive to defect from their task. They can also desert altogether and join the enemy. This incentive is stronger the farther away the Öghter is from the principal, since monitoring becomes increasingly costly.Bigger armies have more power but less monitoring capacity to prevent defection and desertion. This general framework allows a variety of interpretations of what type of proximity matters for building strong cohesive armies ranging from ethnic distance to geographic dispersion. Di§erent assumptions about the distribution of potential Öghters along the relevant dimension of conáict lead to di§erent equilibria. We characterize these, discuss the implied outcome in terms of who wins the war, and illustrate with historical and contemporaneous case studies.
Unusual or isolated caves in Victoria: karst or pseudokarst?
Creators: name: White, Susan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: This paper will discuss the nature, formation and processes of a number of Victorian cave and related features that are not karstic in the usual understanding of the term. They are unusual in that they are either in a host rock that is not generally known for caves, are in a number of unusual situations and are isolated compared to the caves in most karst or pseudokarst areas.
Can consumer complaints reduce product reliability? Should we worry?
Creators: name: Coleff, Joaquín
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2013

description: We analyze a monopolist’s pricing and product reliability problem when consumers are entitled to product replacement but have heterogeneous cost of exercising this right, and we assess the implications of a decrease in consumers’ claiming cost on reliability, profit, and welfare. We find that reducing consumers’ claiming cost may reduce reliability and increase profit. Additionally, the model can explain why some firms encourage consumers to complain while others discourage consumers from complaining. We also show that welfare and profit are partially aligned, specially when consumers’ claiming cost are relatively low and the firm prefers to promote complaints; consequently, we find that encouraging complaints will eventually increase welfare
Beyond the mincer equation: the internal rate of return to higher education in Colombia
Creators: name: Maldonado, Dario
name: Guerra Forero, José Alberto
name: Garcia-Suaza, Andres
name: Guataquí, Juan
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2009

description: In order to present an estimation of the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) to higher education in Colombia we take advantage of the methodological approach provided by Heckman, Lochner and Todd (2005). Trying to overcome the criticism that surrounds interpretations of the education coefficient of Mincer equations as being the rate of return to investments in education we develop a more structured approach of estimation, which controls for selection bias, includes more accurate measures of labor income and the role of education costs and income taxes. Our results implied a lower rate of return than the ones found in the Colombian literature and show that the Internal Rate of Return for higher education in Colombia lies somewhere between 0.074 and 0.128. The results vary according to the year analyzed and individual’s gender. This last result reinforces considerations regarding gender discrimination in the Colombian labor market.
An estimation of the pattern of diffusion of mobile phones: the case of Colombia
Creators: name: Gamboa Niño, Luis Fernando
name: Otero, Jesus
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: In this paper we find that the diffusion pattern of mobile telephony in Colombia can be best characterised as following a Logistic curve. Although in recent years the rate of growth of mobile phone subscribers has started to slow down, we find evidence that there is still room for further expansion as the saturation level is expected to be reached in five years time. The estimated saturation level is consistent with some individuals possessing more than one mobile device.
Unemployment insurance : severance payments and informality in developing countries
Creators: name: Bardey, David
name: Jaramillo, Fernando
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: We analyze whether the introduction or an increase of unemployment insurance (UI hereafter) beneÖts in developing countries reduces the e§ort made by unemployed workers to secure a new job in the formal sector. We adopt a comparative static approach and we consider the consequences of an increase of current UI beneÖts on unemployed workersídecision variables in this same period, i.e. we focus on an intra-temporal trade-o§, allowing us to assume away moral hazard complications. When there is no informal sector, unemployed workers may devote their time between e§ort to secure a new job in the formal sector and leisure. In the presence of an informal sector, unemployed workers may also devote time to remunerated informal activities. Consequently, the amount of e§ort devoted to secure a new (formal) job generates an opportunity cost, which ceteris paribus, reduces the amount of time devoted to remunerated activities in the informal sector. We show that in the presence of an informal sector, an increase of current UI beneÖts decreases this marginal opportunity cost and therefore unambiguously increases the e§ort undertaken to secure a new job in the formal sector. This intra-temporal e§ect is the only one at play in presence of one-shot UI beneÖts or with severance payments mechanism.
¿Existe una trampa de pobreza en el sector rural en Colombia?
Creators: name: Zambrano, Andrés
name: Arguello, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2006

description: A diferencia de la generalidad de trabajos sobre la pobreza rural en Colombia, este estudio emplea un enfoque de activos para indagar acerca de los determinantes de la pobreza rural. En particular se examinan la existencia de no convexidades locales en el proceso de generación de ingresos, el grado de concentración de los hogares en ciertos rangos de acumulación de activos y la presencia de retornos marginales diferenciados a los activos. Con base en esto se proporciona evidencia prima facie acerca de la existencia de una trampa de pobreza en el sector rural, abriendo una línea promisoria de investigación sobre el tema, que puede contribuir de forma importante a su comprensión y a un mejor diseño de política social y sectorial.
Organic PM Emissions from Vehicles: Composition, O/C Ratio, and Dependence on PM Concentration
Creators: name: Collier, Sonya
name: Zhou, Shan
name: Kuwayama, Toshihiro
name: Forestieri, Sara
name: Brady, James
name: Zhang, Mang
name: Kleeman, Michael
name: Cappa, Christopher
name: Bertram, Timothy
name: Zhang, Qi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: ABSTRACTA suite of real-time instruments was used to sample vehicle emissions at the California Air Resources Board Haagen-Smit facility. 8 on-road, spark-ignition gasoline and 3 alternative vehicles were tested on a chassis dynamometer and the emissions were diluted to atmospherically relevant concentrations (0.5-30 µg/m3). An Aerodyne High Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (HR-ToF-MS) characterized the real-time behavior of the non-refractory organic and inorganic particulate matter (PM) in vehicle emissions. It was found that the emission of particulate organic matter (POM) was strongly affected by engine temperature and engine load and that the emission concentrations could vary significantly by vehicle. Despite the small sample size, consistent trends in chemical characteristics were observed. The composition of vehicle POM was found to be related to overall PM mass concentration where the oxygen-to-carbon (O/C) ratio tended to increase at lower concentration and had an average value of 0.12±0.06, with a range from 0.027 to 0.18. The corresponding fraction of particle-phase CO2+, or f44, ranged from 1.1% to 8.6% (average = 2.1%) and exhibited a linear variation with O/C. The average mass spectrum from all vehicles tested was also compared to those of hydrocarbon-like organic aerosol (HOA) observed in ambient air and the agreement is very high. The results of these tests offer the vehicle emissions community a first glimpse at the real-time chemical composition and variation of vehicle PM emissions for a variety of conditions and vehicle types at atmospherically relevant conditions and without chemical interferences from other primary or secondary aerosol sources.
Biostatistics Faculty and NIH Awards at U.S. Medical Schools
Creators: name: Guangxiang Zhang
name: Chen, John J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine

description: Statistical principles and methods are critical to the success of biomedical and translational research. However, it is difficult to track and evaluate the monetary value of a biostatistician to a medical school (SoM). Limited published data on this topic are available, especially comparing across SoMs. Using National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards and American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) faculty counts data (2010-2013), together with online information on biostatistics faculty from 119 institutions across the country, we demonstrated that the number of biostatistics faculty was significantly positively associated with the amount of NIH awards, both as a school total and on a per faculty basis, across various sizes of U.S. SoMs. Biostatisticians, as a profession, should be proactive in communicating and advocating the value of their work and their unique contribution to the long-term success of a biomedical research enterprise.
Body mass index as a standard of living measure: a different interpretation for the case of Colombia
Creators: name: Forero Ramírez, Nohora Yulieth
name: Gamboa Niño, Luis Fernando
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2009

description: We analyze the Body Mass Index (BMI) in a distinct way of its traditional use and it lets us use it as a proxy of standard of living for the case of Colombia. Our approach is focused on studying how far the people are from the normal range and not on the score of each one and this lets us to treat equally extreme cases as severe thinness and obesity. We use a probabilistic model (Ordered Probit) that evaluates the probability of being within the normal range or another level. We found that socioeconomic variables have a significant effect on the dependent variable and that there are no linear effects. Besides, people with difficulties for walking and adults have less probability of having a normal BMI.
Asymmetrically fair rules for an indivisible good problem with a budget constraint
Creators: name: Catagay, Kayi
name: Jaramillo Vidales, Paula
name: Klijn, Flip
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2012

description: We study a particular restitution problem where there is an indivisible good (land or property) over which two agents have rights: the dispossessed agent and the owner. A third party, possibly the government, seeks to resolve the situation by assigning rights to one and compensate the other. There is also a maximum amount of money available for the compensation. We characterize a family of asymmetrically fair rules that are immune to strategic behavior, guarantee minimal welfare levels for the agents, and satisfy the budget constraint.
An empirical note on factor shares
Creators: name: Zuleta, Hernando
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: In this study, we propose an explanation for why labor and capital shares do not seem to have a trend: an increasing trend in physical capital share is compensated by a decreasing trend in land share. Similarly, an increasing trend in human capital share is compensated by a decreasing trend in raw labor share. We also find empirical support for the claim that the elasticity of output with respect to reproducible factors, human and physical capital, is positively correlated with the income level. This result has important implications for economic growth theory and for empirical exercises related to economic growth
The crime kuznets curve
Creators: name: Fergusson Talero, Leopoldo
name: Buonanno, Paolo
name: Vargas, Juan F.
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: We document the existence of a Crime Kuznets Curve in US states since the 1970s. As income levels have risen, crime has followed an inverted U-shaped pattern, first increasing and then dropping. The Crime Kuznets Curve is not explained by income inequality. In fact, we show that during the sample period inequality has risen monotonically with income, ruling out the traditional Kuznets Curve. Our finding is robust to adding a large set of controls that are used in the literature to explain the incidence of crime, as well as to controlling for state and year fixed effects. The Curve is also revealed in nonparametric specifications. The Crime Kuznets Curve exists for property crime and for some categories of violent crime.
Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in Latin America: evidence from PISA 2006-2009
Creators: name: Waltenberg, Fábio D.
name: Gamboa Niño, Luis Fernando
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: We assess inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in six Latin American countries, employing two waves of PISA data (2006 and 2009). By means of a non-parametric approach using a decomposable inequality index, GE(0), we rank countries according to their degree of inequality of opportunity. We work with alternative characterizations of types: school type (public or private), gender, parental education, and combinations of those variables. We calculate incremental contributions of each set of circumstances to inequality. We provide rankings of countries based on unconditional inequalities (using conventional indices) and on conditional inequalities (EOp indices), and the two sets of rankings do not always coincide. Inequality of opportunities range from less than 1% to up to 27%, with substantial heterogeneity according to the year, the country, the subject and the specificication of circumstances. Robustness checks based on bootstrap and the use of an alternative index confirm most of the initial results.
Tasa de depreciación endógena y crecimiento económico
Creators: name: Parada-Bustos, Julián-David
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2008

description: En este trabajo se estudian las características de los incentivos para invertir en bienes de capital con mayor durabilidad. Se considera el hecho de que las economías que invierten en bienes de capital menos duraderos pueden tener menor crecimiento económico. Se elabora un modelo teórico en el que la tasa de depreciación es endógena y su reducción refleja innovaciones tecnológicas.Las tecnologías se diferencian por la tasa de depreciación y aquellas que son más durables son más costosas. Esta estructura puede conducir a dos estados estacionarios debido a la complementariedadentre el capital y la tasa de depreciación. El principal resultado del documento es que se encuentran trampas de pobreza asociadas con altas tasas de depreciación.
Stock return comovements and integration within the Latin American integrated market
Creators: name: Marín, Nini Johana
name: Castro, Carlos
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: Financial integration has been pursued aggressively across the globe in the last fifty years; however, there is no conclusive evidence on the diversification gains (or losses) of such efforts. These gains (or losses) are related to the degree of comovements and synchronization among increasingly integrated global markets. We quantify the degree of comovements within the integrated Latin American market (MILA). We use dynamic correlation models to quantify comovements across securities as well as a direct integration measure. Our results show an increase in comovements when we look at the country indexes, however, the increase in the trend of correlation is previous to the institutional efforts to establish an integrated market in the region. On the other hand, when we look at sector indexes and an integration measure, we find a decreased in comovements among a representative sample of securities form the integrated market.