cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Behavioral differences in violence: the case of intra-group differences of paramilitaries and guerrillas in Colombia
Creators: name: Caruso, Raul
name: Bassetti, Thomas
name: Cortes, Darwin
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2015

description: In most studies on civil wars, determinants of conflict have been hitherto explored assuming that actors involved were either unitary or stable. However, if this intra-group homogeneity assumption does not hold, empirical econometric estimates may be biased. We use Fixed Effects Finite Mixture Model (FE-FMM) approach to address this issue that provides a representation of heterogeneity when data originate from different latent classes and the affiliation is unknown. It allows to identify sub-populations within a population as well as the determinants of their behaviors. By combining various data sources for the period 2000-2005, we apply this methodology to the Colombian conflict. Our results highlight a behavioral heterogeneity in guerrilla’s armed groups and their distinct economic correlates. By contrast paramilitaries behave as a rather homogenous group.
Honesty After a Labor Relationship
Creators: name: Cárdenas, Juan Camilo
name: Blanco, Mariana
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2015

description: Al final de un experimento controlado, donde se contrataron asistentes de investigación para la codificación de noticias de los periódicos en línea durante un mes, elexperimentador-empleador los invitó a lanzar un dado y reportar el resultado con elfin de pagar en efectivo una cantidad proporcional y lineal en el número reportado, de1 a 6. Otro grupo (control) de estudiantes similares, fue invitado a realizar la mismatarea, pero sin tener relación laboral previa con el experimentador-empleador. Nuestrogrupo de tratamiento mostró niveles promedio más altos de honestidad, ya que ladistribución de los números reportados por estos fue menos sesgada a la derecha. Esdecir, el grupo de relaciones de trabajo fue más propenso a reportar números que estánmás cerca de la distribución uniforme (honesta) que el grupo de control, y que otrosestudios con este tipo de experimento. Se conjetura que la relación laboral del grupode tratamiento indujo mayores niveles de honestidad entre los participantes. Una delas posibles razones es que la relación de trabajo creada para el grupo de estudiantesde tratamiento incluía una serie de choques que implicaba la posibilidad de desempleoinvoluntario, generando incentivos para que los estudiantes interpretaran la honestidadcomo un rasgo que podría ser valorado en el mercado de trabajo. Este artículo contribuyea la creciente literatura sobre la comprensión de los motivos de la honestidad yel engaño.
Análisis del ciclo económico en una economía con rigideces nominales y un amplio sector informal
Creators: name: Gómez Ospina, Mónica Alexandra
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2013

description: En este trabajo se construye un modelo de Equilibrio General Dinámico Estocástico (DSGE por su siglas en inglés) con sector informal y rigideces en precios, usando como marco de análisis la teoría de búsqueda y emparejamiento del mercado de trabajo. El objetivo principal es analizar el efecto de los diferentes tipos de choques económicos sobre las principales variables del mercado laboral, en una economía con presencia importante del sector informal. Igualmente se estudia el efecto de la política monetaria, ya que la presencia de este sector afecta la dinámica del ciclo económico, y por ende los mecanismos de transmisión de la política monetaria.
Does international trade produce convergence?
Creators: name: Giraldo, Lader
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2016

description: In spite of increasing globalization around the world, the effects of international trade on economic growth are not very clear. I consider an endogenous economic growth model in an open economy with the Home Market Effect (HME) and non-homothetic preferences in order to identify some determinants of the different results in this relationship. The model shows how trade between similar countries leads to convergence in economic growth when knowledge spillovers are present, while trade between very asymmetric countries produces divergence and may become trade in a poverty or growth trap. The results for welfare move in the same direction as economic growth since convergence implies increases in welfare for both countries, while divergence leads to increases in welfare for the largest country and the opposite for its commercial partner in the absence of knowledge spillovers. International trade does not implicate greater welfare as is usual in a static context under CES preferences.
Technology choices to support international online collaboration.
Creators: name: Weaver, Debbie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: Postgraduate business students participated in an international, fully-online collaboration pilot, focused on cultural intelligence skills needed to successfully navigate the global business world. Student projects utilized a transferrable learning design, with a changeable central case study posing challenges around (in this case) managing cross-cultural teams. This paper focuses on the learning design and choice of technologies to facilitate online collaboration. The combination of using new technology, and quickly developing relationships with counterparts from across the world, proved challenging for both staff and students. However, students quickly adapted, and strategically used the technologies to efficiently collaborate, albeit in ways different to the project leaders’ expectations. Overall, the project provided an opportunity for students to network with students from other countries on real-world issues, and gain familiarity with technologies used by multi-national corporations.
¿A quiénes afecta el desempleo? análisis de la tasa de incidencia en Colombia
Creators: name: Garcia-Suaza, Andres
name: Nohora, Forero R.
name: Guataquí, Juan
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2008

description: El análisis de la dimensión de riesgo en el estudio del desempleo, complementa el estudio de aspectos como su tipología, la importancia de la intermediación laboral o la vulnerabilidad de ciertos grupos. En este sentido, la tasa de incidencia representa un indicador compuesto que tiene en cuenta el volumen de desempleados y lapersistencia en este estado mediante la incorporación de la duración media del desempleo. El análisis de la tasa de incidencia permite caracterizar de manera más completa a quienes tienen una mayor probabilidad de entrar en el desempleo o permanecer en esta situación. Se encuentra que en Colombia existen diferenciassignificativas entre la tasa de desempleo y la tasa de incidencia, lo que implica que la situación del mercado de trabajo no sólo se explica por el efecto que los choques económicos tienen sobre la composición de la oferta y demanda de trabajo sino también por los fenómenos de duración en los diferentes estados laborales. Estos eventos se pueden considerar igualmente importantes para explicar la dinámica de corto y mediano plazo del mercado laboral.
La estructura a plazos del riesgo interbancario
Creators: name: Cangrejo Jiménez, Guillermo Andrés
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2014

description: Este documento propone un modelo para la estructura a plazos del riesgo interbancario a partir del spread entre los Interest Rate Swap (IRS) y los Overnight Indexed Swaps (OIS) en dólares durante la crisis financiera 2007-08 y la crisis del euro en 2010. Adicionalmente hace la descomposición del riesgo interbancario entre riesgo de default y no-default (liquidez). Los resultados sugieren que la crisis financiera tuvo importantes repercusiones en la estructura a plazos del riesgo interbancario y sus componentes: en los años previos a la crisis, el riesgo de no-default explicaba la mayor parte del riesgo interbancario; durante la crisis y posterior a ella, el riesgo de default conducía el comportamiento del riesgo interbancario. Adicionalmente, se encuentra que, a partir de la estructura a plazos de cada componente del riesgo interbancario, la crisis financiera se caracterizó por ser un problema más de corto que de largo plazo, en contraste con la crisis del euro de 2010. Estos resultados siguen lo propuesto por Filipovic & Trolle (2012) y dejan importantes implicaciones sobre el riesgo interbancario durante los periodos de stress financiero.
A firm-level analysis of ICT adoption in an emerging economy: evidence from the colombian manufacturing industries
Creators: name: Sang, Lee
name: Gutiérrez, Luis H.
name: Gallego, Juan M.
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2011

description: This study examines ICT adoption among 3,759 Colombian manufacturing firms, and attempts to identify the factors that are conducive to the adoption and usage of ICT at the firm level. Our major findings are (i) that the adoption of a given information and communication technology is better facilitated when a firm is relatively large, has large human capital, engages in more innovative activities, and when a firm’s organizational structure is better aligned with the given technology; (ii) that positive associations between the key determinants and ICT adoptions are more pronounced for small and medium-sized firms than for large ones, and (iii) that information spillovers within industries is also a determinant of ICT adoptions by the firms.
FUSION IN FOOD INDUSTRY : THE CASE FOR UNDERSTANDING BRF SA POLICY DECISION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES SOCIOECONOMIC
Creators: name: Opuszka, Paulo Ricado
name: GABRIELA DAL VESCO
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Was extended periods of economic growth that Brazil " lived " until the mid-twentieth century, however , it took more than that to leverage the underdevelopment of the state in search of a solid and promising economic development. Were part of these periods all the political and social changes that the country has . Told largely with the benefit of natural resources and was by coffee production which began marketing with several countries . This is how the Brazilian industry began to develop , sometimes with more or less state intervention. In the search for a balanced economy the state creates bodies and authorities to try to regulate the market and prevent anti-competitive abuses . With the advent of the twenty-first century and the rapprochement of the economies , the Brazilian economic scenario quickly changed . National and foreign capital began to circulate together, the takeovers, mergers and divisions began to increase as well , the state need to regulate them . Cade , federal agency under the Ministry of Justice , established by Law 8.884 / 94, gained strength from designing your outline in 1962 and then came to guide, monitor and prevent the abuse of economic power , as well as judge their illegal activity. Thus, we intend to evaluate this work the number of transactions and business combinations in Brazil , among them mergers , made in recent decades , in particular the food industry and the merger between the companies Sadia and Perdigao SA analyzes the Cade 's judgment about this business that formed the BRF SA , one of the largest food companies in the world , the impact of Cade 's decision in this business and its consequences in the operating income of the company.
Don't make war, make elections : Franchise extension and violence in XIXth-century Colombia
Creators: name: Fergusson Talero, Leopoldo
name: Vargas, Juan F.
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: This paper studies the effect of strengthening democracy, as captured by an increase in voting rights, on the incidence of violent civil conflict in nineteenth-century Colombia. Empirically studying the relationship between democracy and conflict is challenging, not only because of conceptual problems in defining and measuring democracy, but also because political institutions and violence are jointly determined. We take advantage of an experiment of history to examine the impact of one simple, measurable dimension of democracy (the size of the franchise) on con- flict, while at the same time attempting to overcome the identification problem. In 1853, Colombia established universal male suffrage. Using a simple difference-indifferences specification at the municipal level, we find that municipalities where more voters were enfranchised relative to their population experienced fewer violent political battles while the reform was in effect. The results are robust to including a number of additional controls. Moreover, we investigate the potential mechanisms driving the results. In particular, we look at which components of the proportion of new voters in 1853 explain the results, and we examine if results are stronger in places with more political competition and state capacity. We interpret our findings as suggesting that violence in nineteenth-century Colombia was a technology for political elites to compete for the rents from power, and that democracy constituted an alternative way to compete which substituted violence.
title: South Asia Institute Newsletter, Fall 2009
Creators: name: South Asia Institute
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: South Asia Institute
subject: newsletter

description: In this Issue: Letter from the Director - People - International Collaborations - New Faculty - Distinguished Visitors - South Asia Seminar Series Fall 2008-Spring 2009 - Conference Updates - Outreach - Travel - Hindi Urdu Flagship Program - Upcoming Events
Dynamic programming for stochastic target problems, Viscosity solutions and hedging in markets with Portfolio constraints and large investors
Creators: name: Serrano, Rafael
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: The purpose of this expository arti le is to present a self- ontained overview of some results on the hara terization of the optimal value fun tion of a sto hasti target problem as (dis ontinuous) vis osity solution of a ertain dynami programming PDE and its appli ation to the problem of hedging ontingent laims in the presen e of portfolio onstraints and large investors
Demand of children in Colombia : guessing or planning
Creators: name: Gamboa Niño, Luis Fernando
name: Forero Ramírez, Nohora Yulieth
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: El artículo analiza los determinantes de la presencia de hijos no deseados en Colombia. Se utiliza la información de la Encuesta Nacional de Demografía y Salud (ENDS, 2005), específicamente para las mujeres de 40 años o más. Dadas las características especiales de la variable que se analiza, se utilizan modelos de conteo para verificar si determinadas características socioeconómicas como la educación o el estrato económico explican la presencia de hijos no deseados. Se encuentra que la educación de la mujer y el área de residencia son determinantes significativos de los nacimientos no planeados. Además, la relación negativa entre el número de hijos no deseados y la educación de la mujer arroja implicaciones clave en materia de política social.
Diferencias en los índices de masa corporal en Colombia en 2005: una aplicación de los indicadores de desigualdad
Creators: name: Forero Ramírez, Nohora Yulieth
name: Gamboa Niño, Luis Fernando
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2008

description: El trabajo estudia las diferencias en el Índice de Masa Corporal (IMC) por grupos etarios entre los 20 y 60 años teniendo como punto de referencia escalas normativas y relativas mediante el uso de algunos indicadores de pobreza y distribución del ingreso. Se encuentra que la proporción de la población con IMC fuera del rango establecido como normal aumenta con la edad. Cuando el análisis del IMC se hace con base en la distribución de la variable en el grupo de edad respectivo (medida relativa), se encuentra que las diferencias entre los grupos de edad se reducen. Aunque la desigualdad en la distribución del índice no se incrementa significativamente con la edad, los aumentos generados deben atenderse para evitar problemas de salud pública entre la población.
Creating a Discrete Model of Sap Processing Thermodynamics
Creators: name: Checkoway, Spencer M.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Maple syrup
subject: Sugar solutions
subject: Thermodynamics
subject: Natural Resources and Environment
subject: Science

description: Running a successful maple syrup operation requires attention to detail, specifically with regards to production efficiency. Despite new technology and the innovation of new production methods, the amount of energy it takes to bring sap to the sugar concentration (measured as degrees Brix or °Bx) for maple syrup remains constant. The rule of thumb used to help sugar makers estimate their fuel costs was that it takes 400,000 BTU to bring 2 °Bx sap into maple syrup.1 This rule of thumb is a close estimate, but it neglects the change in boiling point as the solution becomes more concentrated. Additionally, the amount of energy required to boil changes depending on the final concentration of syrup.2 The thermodynamic model of the sap boiling process presented here accounts for changes in the composition of the solution as it undergoes boiling, resulting in a difference in energy of +5%, +3%, and +1% for 68, 67, and 66 °Bx syrup respectively. These differences are important for all sugar makers, as they also directly affect the cost of fuel per gallon of syrup for all fuel types. This model can be used by sugarmakers when calculating how much fuel they would need at different levels of concentration and with different fuel types to assess costs associated with producing maple syrup.
A Network model of systemic risk : identifying the sources of dependence across institutions
Creators: name: Ordóñez Herrera, Juan Sebastián
name: Castro, Carlos
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: We design a financial network model that explicitly incorporates linkages across institutions through a direct contagion channel, as well as an indirect common exposure channel. In particular, common exposure is setup so as to link the financial to the real sector. The model is calibrated to balance sheet data on the colombian financial sector. Results indicate that commercial banks are the most systemically important financial institutions in the system. Whereas government owned institutions are the most vulnerable institutions in the system.
PUBLIC BANKS AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT AND INCLUSION
Creators: name: Séllos-Knoerr, Viviane
name: PAULO SERGIO DUBENA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This article analyzes the public banks as a tool for development and inclusion in that facilitate obtaining credit, demonstrating that these run the most major loans for infrastructure and the lower classes, dealing more specifically role of BNDES (National Bank for Economic and Social Development), the Bank of Brazil and Caixa Economica Federal in connection with the provision of the current credit.
Investigating Citrus Bioflavonoid Hesperidin as a novel DPP-4 Inhibitor in a Mouse Model of Metabolic Syndrome
Creators: name: Jamal, Abdulsatar
name: Jelinic, Maria
name: Thomas, Colleen
name: Drummond, Grant
name: Jamil, Dina
name: Brettle, Holly
name: Al-Aubaidy, Hayder
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Conference poster re oral presentation
Energy saving innovations, non-exhaustible sources of energy and long-run: what would happen if we run out of oil?
Creators: name: Zuleta, Hernando
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: We formulate and solve a model of factor saving technological improvement considering three factors of production: labor, capital and energy. The productive activities have three main characteristics: first, in order to use capital goods firms need energy; second, there are two sources of energy: non-exhaustible and exhaustible; third, capital goods can be of different qualities and the quality of these goods can be changed along two dimensions -reducing the need of energy or changing the source of energy used in the production process. The economy goes through three stages of development after industrialization. In the first, firms make use of exhaustible energy and the e¢ ciency in the use of energy is constant. In the second stage, as the price of energy grows the e¢ ciency in its use is increased. In the third stage, the price of exhaustible sources is so high that firms have incentives to use non-exhaustible sources of energy. During this stage the price of energy is constant. In this set up, the end of the oil age has level effects on consumption and output but it does not cause the collapse of the economic system.
title: South Asia Institute Newsletter, 2011
Creators: name: South Asia Institute
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: South Asia Institute
subject: newsletter

description: In this Issue: Letter from the Interim Director - Faculty and Student News - South Asia Golden Jubilee 1961-2011 - Seminars and Workshops - K-12 Outreach - Contemporary Baluch Art - New South Asia Faculty
Citrus bioflavonoids content and dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitory potential of commercially available supplements in Australia, USA and Canada
Creators: name: Gupta, Ankit
name: Narkowicz, Christian
name: Burgess, John
name: Nichols, David
name: Jelinek, Herbert
name: Jacobson, Glenn
name: Al-Aubaidy, Hayder
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

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title: South Asia Institute Newsletter, Fall 2012
Creators: name: South Asia Institute
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: South Asia Institute
subject: newsletter

description: In this Issue: Letter from the Director - Faculty and Student News - HUF Report - Celebrating Manto - Fall 2011 Conference - Becoming South Asian American - Archaeology in South Asia - Spring 2012 Seminar Series - Buddhism in South Asia - Texas South Asia Conference - Pakistan in Texas - Graduate Student Dispatch - K-12 Outreach - South Asia Book Award - SAI to Partner with FJWU - Sagar: Call for Papers
Conflict, wages, and multiple equilibria
Creators: name: Andonova, Veneta
name: Zuleta, Hernando
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: Firms’ compensation practices affect the protection of investors’ interests and the degree of economic inequality by changing the stakes of engaging in appropriation activities versus respecting the status quo. We use a general equilibrium model where workers can either work peacefully or join a guerrilla movement that expropriates entrepreneurs. If workers are peaceful, they receive a competitive wage. If they join a guerrilla movement, they receive a share of the appropriated wealth, which depends positively on the number of guerrilla members. In this framework, we find one low-income, low-wage equilibrium with guerrilla activity and one peaceful, high-income, high-wage equilibrium. The peaceful equilibrium can be reached through redistribution policies, which can be implemented at the firm level. In essence, through their compensation policies entrepreneurs, not the state might be able to protect their assets against expropriation and simultaneously control the internal principal-agent problem.
CIVIL LIABILITY IN FISCAL POWER ABUSE CASE
Creators: name: Séllos-Knoerr, Viviane
name: LIANA MARIA TABORDA LIMA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This article deals with the liability of the State when a performance with abuse or diversion perpetrated by the fiscal agent and seeks to establish the line between the legitimate state action for the achievement of this nefarious activity the taxpayer, demonstrating that the damage should respond not only the state as the public official, taking advantage of the theory of punitive damages.
The Influence of Problem Based Learning in the Teaching and Learning Process about Relational Psychomotricity in Participants of an Extension Event of the Study Group in Ludomotricity
Creators: name: Coquerel, Patrick Ramon Stafin
name: Nunes, Raimundo Nonato
name: Oliveira, Débora Lima De
name: Barros, Carla Silvana De
name: Ferreira, Ana Charline Dantas
name: Siqueira, Livia Cristina
name: Fábio Henrique Costa De Oliveira
name: Everton José Barbosa De Oliveira
name: Morais, Mariana Pryscyla Silva De
name: Jônatas De França Barros
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: Trabalho apresentado em Congresso.
El papel de las ideas en ciencia y tecnología en los primeros años de COLCIENCIAS
Creators: name: Cantor Vargas, Natalia
name: Villaveces-Niño, Marta-Juanita
name: Jaramillo-Salazar, Hernán
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2014

description: El presente artículo busca responder hasta qué punto pensar y participar en espacios de discusión acerca de la política de ciencia y tecnología permite resolver las tensiones propias de la interrelación de actores de la política de ciencia y tecnología, así como también legitimar la acción y decisión de la entidad llamada a diseñar la política científico-tecnológica. Con el acento puesto en las dos primeras décadas de funcionamiento de Colciencias, se concluye que la participación de los policy makers de esta entidad en las discusiones de ciencia y tecnología, así como la preocupación por pensar la ciencia y la tecnología en el entorno del modelo de desarrollo imperante en el momento, permitió una mayor consistencia y coherencia entre instrumentos y políticas y un diálogo legítimo con otras entidades y actores que por su naturaleza también implementaban políticas que afectaban a la ciencia y la tecnología.
Inserción de la migración interna y el desplazamiento forzado en el mercado laboral urbano de Colombia. 2001-2005
Creators: name: Silva, Carolina
name: Guataquí, Juan
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: Los resultados de la inserción económica de migrantes recientes y de desplazados forzados en el mercado laboral de las 10 principales ciudades de Colombia se analizan utilizando datos de la Encuesta Continua de Hogares. Adaptamos el marco teórico de selección del migrante internacional de Borjas (1982, 1985, 1987, 1990) al caso de la migración interna voluntaria e involuntaria y mediante estimaciones de modelos Logit de acceso al empleo y de ecuaciones mincerianas, ilustramos el proceso de selección positiva de los migrantes recientes y sustentamos empíricamente los resultados teóricos esperados de la inserción laboral del desplazado forzado al mercado laboral urbano, encontrando que exhibe menor probabilidad de acceso al empleo que el migrante económico y que el nativo, y padece un diferencial salarial explicado en gran parte por su condición de migrante forzado, lo cual ofrece sustento al efecto teórico esperado de una decisión exógena de migrar sugerido por Borjas (1987).
title: South Asia Institute Newsletter, Fall 2013
Creators: name: South Asia Institute
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: South Asia Institute
subject: newsletter

description: In this Issue: Letter from the Director - Faculty, Student & Alumni News - SAI Welcomes New Faculty - Recent Publications by Faculty - Ayesha Jalal's new book on Manto - Rethinking Gandhi - Emergent Voices - Hindi Urdu Flagship Report - Kathy Hansen's Curtain Call - Newly Emeritus Patrick Olivelle - K-12 Outreach - SAI Collaborations with Other UT NRCs - K-12 Educator Workshops - SAI to Partnership with NAPA - Boundaries of Buddhism - Call for Papers: SAGAR
Investment in transport capacity and regulation of regional monopolies in natural gas commodity markets
Creators: name: Gasmi, Farid
name: Oviedo, Juan
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2012

description: This paper develops a model of the regulator-regulated firm relationship in a regional natural gas commodity market which can be linked to a competitive market by a pipeline. We characterize normative policies under which the regulator, in addition to setting the level of the capacity of the pipeline, regulates the price of gas, under asymmetric information on the firm’s technology, and may (or may not) operate (two-way) transfers between consumers and the firm. We then focus on capacity and investigate how its level responds to the regulator’s taking account of the firm’s incentive compatibility constraints. The analysis yields some insights on the role that transport capacity investments may play as an instrument to improve the efficiency of geographically isolated markets.
Heterogeneity and the formation of risk - sharing coalitions
Creators: name: Moizeau, Fabien
name: Kempf, Hubert
name: Jaramillo, Fernando
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: We offer a new explanation of partial risk sharing based on coalition formation and segmentation of society in a risky environment, without assuming limited commitment and imperfect information. Heterogenous individuals in a society freely choose with whom they will share risk. A partition belonging to the core of the membership game obtains. Perfect risk sharing does not necessarily arise. Focusing on mutual insurance rule and assuming that individuals only differ with respect to risk, we show that the core partition is homophily-based. The distribution of risk affects the number and size of these coalitions. Individuals may pay a lower risk premium in riskier societies. A higher heterogeneity in risk leads to a lower degree of risk sharing. We discuss how the endogenous partition of society into risk-sharing coalitions may shed light on empirical evidence on partial risk sharing. The case of heterogenous risk aversion leads to similar results.
title: South Asia Institute Newsletter, Fall 2014
Creators: name: South Asia Institute
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: South Asia Institute
subject: newsletter

description: In this Issue: Letter from the Director - SAI Welcomes New Faculty - Photo Gallery - Faculty, Student & Alumni News - South Asia Book Awards - Spring 2014 Seminar Series - Fall 2013 Seminar Series - HUF Undergrad Wins Yale Hindi Debate - K-12 Outreach - The Very Old in Very New - In Honor of Professor Gail Minault - Austin to Karachi: A Melodious Journey - Reception and Screening with Sadia Shepard - Reflections on the FJWU Exchange - 2013 Texas Asia Conference - SAI Collaborates with Huston-Tillotson - Project to Digitize Balochistan Manuscripts - SAGAR: Call for Papers - Seminar Series: Fall 2014
Gross Inequality and Inequality of Opportunities in Basic Education: Were they affected by Latin America’s Economic Boom?
Creators: name: Waltenberg, Fábio
name: Gamboa Niño, Luis Fernando
name: Krüger, Natalia
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: In the context of economic growth and recovering socio-economic conditions, many Latin American countries have implemented deep educational reforms since the beginning of the century. This paper aims to analyse whether these changes have promoted equality of educational opportunities in the region. Both the access and knowledge and skills dimensions are evaluated for six important countries, deepening the analysis for Argentina, Brazil and Colombia, in order to better understand the trends observed. Results point to reasonable progress in access, but reflect an unsatisfactory evolution of the level and distribution of knowledge and skills as reflected by PISA test scores.
Sunbury Rings Cultural Landscapes Project: Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) investigations at Holly Green Mound
Creators: name: Kurpiel, Rebekah
name: Spry, Caroline
name: Rachcoff, Jamie
name: Penzo-Kajewski, Paul
name: (Elder), Karen Jones
name: Freedman, Delta
name: Meredith-Williams, Matthew
name: Armstrong, Brian
name: (Elder), Ron Jones
name: (Elder), Allan Wandin
name: (Elder), Bobby Mullins
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: This paper was included in the 11th issue of Excavations, Surveys and Heritage Management in Victoria and was presented at the annual Victorian Archaeology Colloquium (held on-line) by La Trobe University on 4 February 2022.
Antispasmodic effect of Ocimum selloi essential oil on the guinea-pig ileum
Creators: name: Souza, Sylvia D.F.
name: Franca, Carolina S.L.
name: Edenilson S. Niculau
name: Costa, Larissa C.B.
name: Pinto, José E.B.
name: Péricles B. Alves
name: Rosilene M. Marçal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Ocimum selloi is an herbal species popularly used in Brazil as antispasmodic. Herein, we report the antispasmodic effect of O. selloi essential oil (OS) in segments of guinea-pig ileum. OS did not reduce the tonus of the ileum. In contrast, OS reduced the contraction induced by carbachol (100 μM), BaCl2 (0.03 M) and low- and high-K+ concentrations (25 and 60 mM, respectively). OS shifted the concentration–response curve for calcium to the right in a parallel manner. GC/MS analysis showed that OS consists mostly of methyl chavicol (97.57%). These results suggest that OS antispasmodic effect is mediated through calcium channel blockade. In addition, OS effect and mode of action could be accounted for methyl chavicol.
A new ellagic acid derivative from Polygonum runcinatum
Creators: name: Zhou, Zhi-Hong
name: Min-Zhuo Liu
name: Wang, Meng-Hua
name: Qu, Wei
name: Sun, Jian-Bo
name: Liang, Jing-Yu
name: Wu, Fei-Hua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: A new ellagic acid derivative, 3,3′-dimethylellagic acid-4′-O-(6″-galloyl)-β-d-glucoside, named runcinatside (5), together with four known compounds 3,3′-dimethylellagic acid (1), 3,3′,4′-trimethylellagic acid (2), 3,3′-dimethylellagic acid-4′-O-β-d-glucoside (3) and 3-methylellagic acid-4′-O-α-l-rhamno-pyranoside (4), was isolated from the roots of Polygonum runcinatum Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don Var. sinense Hemsl and the structures of these compounds were established by spectroscopic methods and comparison with previously reported data. All compounds showed antioxidant activities in vitro and compound 5 possessed the highest activity.
Incidencia del gasto en educación sobre los hogares en Bogotá en 2003
Creators: name: Ramírez Gómez, Manuel
name: Guerra Forero, José Alberto
name: Gamboa Niño, Luis Fernando
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: Se evalúa el impacto redistributivo de las políticas educativas en Bogotá mediante el Análisis de Incidencia del Beneficio. A pesar que los hogares son autónomos con respecto a la elección entre la educación oficial y no oficial, la provisión pública de la educación genera fuertes impactos progresivos en el ingreso que se explayan hacia reducciones de pobreza y desigualdad, sin importar el cálculo del subsidio que se impute al ingreso.
Identifying metrics for the spatial characterisation of Stony Rise landforms across the landscape
Creators: name: Fraser, Shaye
name: Soto-Berelov, Mariela
name: Holden, Lucas
name: Jones, Simon
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: This paper was included in the 11th issue of Excavations, Surveys and Heritage Management in Victoria and was presented at the annual Victorian Archaeology Colloquium (held on-line) by La Trobe University on 4 February 2022.
Determinantes de los ingresos laborales de los graduados universitarios durante el periodo 2001-2004
Creators: name: Ramírez Gómez, Manuel
name: Forero Ramírez, Nohora Yulieth
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2008

description: Teniendo como referente la teoría del capital humano y la de señalización en el mercado laboral, el documento aborda la influencia de variables socioeconómicas, laborales y algunas relacionadas con las características de las Instituciones de Educación Superior (IES), sobre el ingreso laboral que devengan los recién graduados universitarios en Colombia. Se utiliza la información del Observatorio Laboral de la Educación (OLE, 2005) porque, a diferencia de otras encuestas, permite analizar detenidamente el grupo específico de graduados universitarios y obtener información sobre la profesión estudiada y sobre las IES que otorgan los diplomas. Utilizando estimaciones de Mínimos Cuadrados Ordinarios (MCO), Probit Ordenado (PO) y Regresión Intervalo (RI), se encuentra que factores como vivir en Bogotá, ser hombre, tener padres más educados y haber obtenido el título en instituciones privadas o acreditadas, se relacionan positivamente con la probabilidad de devengar ingresos laborales mayores. El área de conocimiento de la profesión estudiada, la posición ocupacional
El imaginario de la crisis: caricatura económica en Colombia en época de la gran depresión
Creators: name: Rodríguez Lesmes, Paul Andres
name: Villaveces-Niño, Marta-Juanita
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2011

description: ABSTRACT In this paper we use economic cartoons that were published inthe leading Colombian newspaper -El Tiempo-between 1928 and 1937,as a valid primary source for analysis of the tensionsand economic situations lived in Colombia during a tough worldwide economic period.Through economic cartoon it is possible to observe the perception of public opinion on economic policies and the fear and uncertainty that these were having on ordinary people. This document is part of a larger analysis that used economic cartoons as a source for examining Colombian economic history.
title: South Asia Institute Newsletter, Fall 2015
Creators: name: South Asia Institute
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: South Asia Institute
subject: newsletter

description: In this Issue: Letter from the Director - Partnership with Huston-Tillotson University (HT) - Wilson Chair Cosponsors Workshop on Climate Change - Scholars Gather After the Nepal Earthquake - Postdoc Fellow Studies Community Health Centers in India, U.S. - Faculty, Student and Alumni News - Life and Death in South India - Community Films Partnership with Indie Meme - Darbar: The Courtly Style in South Asia - Pakistani Music Showcase at SXSW 2015 - Roundtable Events on Bangladesh Garment - On Literary Deaths and Violent Censorship - K-12 Partnerships in Hindi and Urdu - UT Visit to Fatima Jinnah Women University - Mouth-Watering Project Takes UT Student to Tamil Nadu - UT Faculty Visits National Academy of Performing Arts - Rawalpindi to Hyderabad
Beyond a ‘stones and bones’ approach: Investigating the archaeological, cultural and ecological values of stony rises on Wurundjeri Woiwurrung Country, southeastern Australia
Creators: name: Goldfarb, Amanda
name: Spry, Caroline
name: (Elder), Ron Jones
name: (Elder), Allan Wandin
name: (Elder), Bobby Mullins
name: Flatley, Alissa
name: Lushey, Jonathan
name: Tuncer, Erol
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: This paper was included in the 11th issue of Excavations, Surveys and Heritage Management in Victoria and was presented at the annual Victorian Archaeology Colloquium (held on-line) by La Trobe University on 4 February 2022.
Do Colombian students underestimate higher education returns?
Creators: name: Gamboa Niño, Luis Fernando
name: Rodríguez Lesmes, Paul Andres
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: We analyze the determinants of subjective returns of higher education in Colombia.The information on expectations has been collected in categories, motivating the use ofinterval regression and an ordered probit approaches for modeling the relationship between beliefs and measures of ability, conditioning on individual, school and regional covariates. The results suggest that there are considerable differences in the size of the expected returns according to some population groups and a strong dominance of college against technical education. Gender gaps disappear in college education but it is found that girls tend to believe that professional wages are more concentrated into higher income categories than boys. Finally, it seems that Colombian students overestimate the pecuniary returns to education.
Dynamics-Informed Protein Design with Structure Conditioning
Creators: name: Komorowska, Urszula Julia
name: Mathis, Simon
name: Didi, Kieran
name: Vargas, Francisco
name: Lio, Pietro
name: Jamnik, Mateja
Publisher: name: OpenReview.net
Year: 2024

description: Current protein generative models are able to design novel backbones with desired shapes or functional motifs. However, despite the importance of a protein’s dynamical properties for its function, conditioning on dynamical properties remains elusive. We present a new approach to protein generative modeling by leveraging Normal Mode Analysis that enables us to capture dynamical properties too. We introduce a method for conditioning the diffusion probabilistic models on protein dynamics, specifically on the lowest non-trivial normal mode of oscillation. Our method, similar to the classifier guidance conditioning, formulates the sampling process as being driven by conditional and unconditional terms. However, unlike previous works, we approximate the conditional term with a simple analytical function rather than an external neural network, thus making the eigenvector calculations approachable. We present the corresponding SDE theory as a formal justification of our approach. We extend our framework to conditioning on structure and dynamics at the same time, enabling scaffolding of the dynamical motifs. We demonstrate the empirical effectiveness of our method by turning the open-source unconditional protein diffusion model Genie into the conditional model with no retraining. Generated proteins exhibit the desired dynamical and structural properties while still being biologically plausible. Our work represents a first step towards incorporating dynamical behaviour in protein design and may open the door to designing more flexible and functional proteins in the future.
Descentralización y política de vivienda de interés social en Colombia ¿Qué ha pasado?
Creators: name: Mesa Téllez, Diana
name: Villaveces-Niño, Marta-Juanita
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: Este documento busca dar respuestas a los interrogantes que surgen una década después de definida la Ley 388 de Ordenamiento Territorial y el desarrollo de los programas de vivienda de interés social a nivel de las entidades territoriales. En Colombia, el proceso de descentralización ha sido visible en sectores como educación y salud, sin embargo, la vivienda no ha tenido un desempeño continuo que permita dar cuenta de la descentralización en vivienda. Esto teniendo en cuenta que aspectos como el mercado, el suelo y la voluntad política son decisivos para profundizar en este aspecto.
Conflict and negotiation: a game theoretical approach
Creators: name: Zuleta, Hernando
name: Villaveces-Niño, Marta-Juanita
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2008

description: We study economic conflicts using a game theoretical approach. We model a conflict between two agents where each one has two possible strategies: cease-fire or neglect the truce. Under this setting, we use the concept of pre-donations, namely, a redefinition of the game where agents commit to transfer a share of their output to the other agent (Sertel, 1992), and explain under which conditions a system of pre-donations can facilitate a truce. We find that for conflicts involving high costs there is a distributive mechanism, acceptable for both parties, such that, the best strategy for both parties is Cease-Fire. However, in many cases there are no sufficient conditions for the scheme or pre-donations to be effective. We also analyze some limitations of this framework and extend the model in order to deal with some of these flaws. Finally, in order to illustrate the relevance of the theoretical results we briefly describe some of the circumstances that characterized the negotiation processes between the Colombian government and different illegal groups.
UTILIZAÇÃO DO MODELO SERVQUAL EM UMA REDE DE SUPERMERCADOS COMO INSTRUMENTO DE AVALIAÇÃO DA QUALIDADE
Creators: name: Martins, Vitor
name: Trindade, Sandro
name: Alcebíades Macêdo
name: Neves, Renato
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: O Artigo tem por objetivo avaliar o nível da qualidade de serviços prestados em
uma rede de supermercado ao consumidor paraense por meio de um estudo de caso. O
trabalho apresenta o conceito, desenvolvimento e adaptação da escala SERVQUAL. Desta
forma, foram comparadas as expectativas e as percepções de uma amostra probabilística
envolvendo clientes que utilizam diversos tipos de serviços disponibilizados no supermercado
e procurou-se determinar o grau de importância das cinco dimensões que estruturam o modelo
SERVQUAL: tangibilidade, confiabilidade, responsividade, empatia e segurança. Como
resultado da pesquisa, espera-se obter uma avaliação capaz de identificar o grau de satisfação
ou insatisfação dos clientes nos determinados tipos de serviços prestados pela empresa em
questão.
Competition between HMO and PPO: A Two-Sided Market Approach
Creators: name: Rochet, Jean Charles
name: Bardey, David
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2009

description: We set-up a two-sided market framework to model competition between a Prefered Provider Organization (PPO) and a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO). Both health plans compete to attract policyholderson one side and providers on the other side. The PPO, which is characterized by a higher diversity of providers, attracts riskier policyholders. Our two-sided framework allows to examine the consequences of this risksegmentation on the providers’ side, especially in terms of remuneration. The outcome of competition mainly depends on two effects: a demand effect, influenced by the value put by policyholders on providers access and an adverse selection effect, captured by the characteristics of the health risk distribution. If the adverse selection effect is too strong, the HMO gets a higher profit in equilibrium. On the contrary, if the demand effectdominates, the PPO profit is higher in spite of the unfavorable risk segmentation. We believe that our model, by highlighting the two-sided market structure of the health plans’ competition, provides new insights to understand the increase in the PPOs’ market share observed during the last decade in the US.
The female postabdomen of five species of Trixoscelis RONDANI 1856 (Diptera: Trixoscelididae)
Creators: name: Woznica, Andrzej Jozef
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Zoology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Morphology of female postabdominal part, including spermathecae, of five Trixoscelis species is described. Among analyzed characters the shape of sternite VII and VIII as well as the shape of spermathecae are useful in females identification to the species level
Twentieth century rock engravings at Darebin Creek, inner-city Melbourne (Wurundjeri Woiwurrung Country), southeastern Australia
Creators: name: Spry, Caroline
name: Hayes, Elspeth
name: Gunn, Robert
name: Fullagar, Richard
name: Evans, Anna
name: Morrison, Wendy
name: Chamberlain, Matthew
name: Langowski, Natalie
name: (Elder), Ron Jones
name: (Elder), Allan Wandin
name: (Elder), Bobby Mullins
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: This paper was included in the 11th issue of Excavations, Surveys and Heritage Management in Victoria and was presented at the annual Victorian Archaeology Colloquium (held on-line) by La Trobe University on 4 February 2022.