Organismes i activitats interuniversitàries: Recent submissions
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Towards storage and access of electronic theses: A proposal of its organisation for the Consortium of Catalan Libraries
Els objectius d'aquest informe són realitzar un estudi de la tècnica en la digitalització, l'emmagatzematge i l'accés a les tesis doctorals electròniques, per tal de fer una proposta d’organització al Consorci de Biblioteques ...
Prevalence of alcohol-impaired drivers based on random breath tests in a roadside survey
Sobriety checkpoints are not usually randomly located by traffic authorities. As such, information provided by non-random alcohol tests cannot be used to infer the characteristics of the general driving population. In this ...
Sistemes d’identificació unívoca d’investigadors
El present informe exposa alguns exemples dels projectes més rellevants en l’àmbit de la identificació unívoca dels investigadors a l’hora de crear una plataforma d’accés a la informació científica. S’estructura el treball ...
Tretze maneres de mirar les biblioteques, la descoberta i el catàleg: escala, flux de treball i atenció
En aquest article s'analitza el paper del catàleg dins l’actual època de transició, i l'utilitza per il·lustrar descobriments i línies de treball més genèriques de les biblioteques. L’autor constata que hi ha un renaixement ...
The building blocks of international ecological footprint inequality: a regression-based decomposition
This paper performs an empirical Decomposition of International Inequality in Ecological Footprint in order to quantify to what extent explanatory variables such as a country’s affluence, economic structure, demographic ...
Social Determinants of Child Health in Colombia: Can Community Education Moderate the Effect of Family Characteristics?
Contextual effects on child health have been investigated extensively in previous research. However, few studies have considered the interplay between community characteristics and individual-level variables. This study ...
Financial constraints and the failure of innovation projects
Theoretical and empirical approaches have stressed the existence of financial constraints in innovative activities of firms. This paper analyses the role of financial obstacles on the likelihood of abandoning an innovation ...
Bibliotecas universitarias: cabalgando la tecnología, siguiendo al usuario
Repaso de los avances tecnológicos que más han influido en la evolución de las bibliotecas universitarias, y descripción de las actuaciones realizadas para adaptarse a los mismos: repositorios y acceso abierto, renovación ...
(Endogenous) occupational choices and job satisfaction among recent PhD recipients: evidence from Catalonia
Drawing on data from two successive cohorts of PhD graduates, this paper analyses differences in overall job satisfaction and specific job domain satisfaction among PhDs employed in different sectors four years after ...
PUC: préstamo consorciado de las bibliotecas del CBUC
Se describe brevemente el estado de la cuestión sobre el préstamo interbibliotecario (PI) consorciado a nivel internacional, y se explican las limitaciones del anterior servicio de PI del Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries ...
Una visió general de les infraestructures de recerca a Europa – i recomanacions a LIBER
Les infraestructures de recerca inclouen diferent tipologies, des d’instal·lacions úniques a altres basades en xarxes. Típicament han sorgit de necessitats específiques d’una disciplina o bé multidisciplinàries. Les ...
Alternation and Cooperation in a Two-party System: Implications for Resource-Based Developing Economies
This paper studies cooperation in a political system dominated by two opportunistic parties competing in a resource-based economy. Since a binding agreement as an external solution might be difficult to enforce due to the ...
Informality and overeducation in the labor market of a developing country
In this paper, we explore the connection between labor market segmentation in two sectors, a modern protected formal sector and a traditional- unprotected-informal sector, and overeducation in a developing country. Informality ...
Use and availability of scholarly journals in Catalan academic libraries
This paper presents the results of a survey of academics affiliated to the universities that are members of the Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC), and an analysis of the availability in the libraries ...
Repositorios sostenibles, reflexiones a partir de la experiencia española
La creación y posterior gestión de un repositorio institucional no tiene sentido si no cuenta con un número significativo de documentos y un crecimiento permanente de la colección, a un coste razonable. A partir del ...
Nonparametric estimation of Value-at-Risk
A method to estimate an extreme quantile that requires no distributional assumptions is presented. The approach is based on transformed kernel estimation of the cumulative distribution function (cdf). The proposed method ...
Leontief versus Ghosh: two faces of the same coin
In this paper we explore the sectoral and aggregate implications of some endogeneization rules (i.e. on value-added and final demand) which have been common in the Leontief model and have been recently proposed in the Ghosh ...
Do labour mobility and networks foster geographical knowledge diffusion? The case of European regions
The goal of this paper is twofold: first, we aim to assess the role played by inventors’ cross-regional mobility and networks of collaboration in fostering knowledge diffusion across regions and subsequent innovation. ...
Ecological Footprint Inequality across countries: the role of environment intensity, income and interaction effects
Recently, White (2007) analysed the international inequalities in Ecological Footprints per capita (EF hereafter) based on a two-factor decomposition of an index from the Atkinson family (Atkinson (1970)). Specifically, ...
