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Proceso Y Marco Jurídico De La Descentralización En El Ecuador, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

El surgimiento de la cuestión local en Ecuador tuvo lugar a fines de la década de 1970 y principios de la de 1980, en el contexto de la redemocratización que vivía el país. Los antecedentes más inmediatos al proceso de descentralización fueron algunos artículos consignados en la nueva constitución, que se aprobó mediante referéndum. En ella se introdujeron elementos que tienden a fortalecer el conjunto del régimen autonómico, aunque sin un impacto práctico real -fase declarativa-

Posteriormente, el fortalecimiento local y la modernización del Estado pusieron al orden del día el debate sobre la reforma de este, con la aprobación, …

Desarrollo Cultural Y Gestión En Centros Históricos, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

El presente libro quiere aportar en esta línea, al discutir dos temáticas relacionadas: cultura y gestión alrededor de los centros históricos. Para este esfuerzo editorial confluyen la Empresa del Centro Histórico, entidad de gestión, y FLACSO, organismo internacional dedicado a la formación. Las dos instituciones ven la necesidad de formar nuevos actores de la renovación de los centros históricos y, en este proceso, reflexionar sobre las experiencias concretas de actuación. Pero también trabajar la docencia paralelamente al ejercicio de la renovación de los centros históricos, bajo modalidades presenciales y semipresenciales.

Se debe destacar que los materiales de esta publicación fueron …

Parlamento Y Gobierno En Uruguay. Hacia Una Teoría Del Ciclo Político, Daniel Chasquetti, Juan A. Moraes

Daniel Chasquetti

El presente trabajo indaga el conjunto de la producción legislativa de importancia, como un indicador central para demostrar la forma en como se comporta el proceso de gobierno en Uruguay. Este desarrollo permite establecer las características de la relación entre el Poder Ejecutivo y el Poder Legislativo, así como inferir los efectos que tanto el marco institucional como las propias reglas electorales generan sobre los proceso de decisión. El trabajo está dividido en cuatro secciones. En la primera se presenta el conjunto de reglas con las cuales los partidos y fracciones juegan en la arena parlamentaria y se vinculan con …

What One Person Can Do: A Theory Of Personal Involvement In Establishing Library-Faculty Partnerships, Bruce Gilbert

Bruce Gilbert

Centers on some of the theoretical and philosophical concerns that are encountered in the process of establishing librarian-teacher-faculty relationships. These thoughts should be of interest to those (particularly librarians) who wish to establish such relationships or those who wish to re-think and revitalize existing relationships.

Reasons As Carriers Of Culture: Dynamic Vs. Dispositional Models Of Cultural Influence On Decision Making, Donnel A. Briley, Michael W. Morris, Itamar Simonson

Donnel A Briley

We argue that a way culture influences decisions is through the reasons that individuals recruit when required to explain their choices. Specifically, we propose that cultures endow individuals with different rules or principles that provide guidance for making decisions, and a need to provide reasons activates such cultural knowledge. This proposition, representing a dynamic rather than dispositional view of cultural influence, is investigated in studies of consumer decisions that involve a trade-off between diverging attributes, such as low price and high quality. Principles enjoining compromise are more salient in East Asian cultures than in North American culture, and accordingly, we …

El Sector Informal En La Separación Del Material Reciclable De Los Residuos Sólidos Municipales En El Estado De México, Christine Wamsler

Christine Wamsler

No abstract provided.

Wetland Landscapes And Archaeological Sites In The Coquille Estuary: Middle Holocene To Recent Times, Scott Byram, Robert Witter

R. Scott Byram, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Government Debt, Taxes And Growth, Riccardo Fiorito

riccardo fiorito

By using a small discrete-time model, we evaluate the impact of distortionary taxation on the government debt-to-GDP ratio. Once the standard model is modified accordingly, the increase of distortionary taxation has a growth cost that affects the debt-to-GDP ratio which rises as long as the ratio rises. The empircal implementation uses data drawn from Italy's record and is based on realistic shocks to the relevant parameters.

Unified Matrix Processor Design For Fct-Iv And Fst-Iv Hartley Based Transforms, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.

Evidence For Prehistoric Maize Horticulture At The Pine Hill Site, Deerfield, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Chilton, Largy B. Tonya, Kathryn Curran

Elizabeth S. Chilton

The degree of reliance on maize horticulture by New England Algonquians during the Late Woodland Period (ad 1000–1600) is a subject of debate among archaeologists in the region. Archaeological evidence from the Pine Hill site (19FR17), Deerfield, Massachusetts, indicates that while maize was apparently stored by native peoples in subterranean pits, it was not necessarily a staple food; there is, in fact, more evidence to suggest that maize was a dietary supplement in the middle Connecticut Valley (Massachusetts portion) during the Late Woodland period. Evidence from the Pine Hill site and other sites underscores the need for attention to diversity …

The Post-Apartheid City And The Globalization Of Eroding The Landscape Of Apartheid, David Lanegran

David Lanegran, Retired

No abstract provided.

Minnesota: Nature's Playground, David A. Lanegran

David Lanegran, Retired

No abstract provided.

Paradoxical Constraints To Agricultural Intensification In Malawi: The Interplay Between Labor, Land And Policy, William G. Moseley

William G Moseley

No abstract provided.

"Coordinate Compounds And Khmer Phrase Structure.", John Haiman, N. Ourn

John Haiman

No abstract provided.

Goal Programming As A Solution Technique, Ken Wise, D. E. Perushek

Ken Wise

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Losing The Race: Self-Sabotage In Black America By John H, Mcwhorter, Bertin M. Louis Jr.

Bertin M. Louis Jr.

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Classification In Knowledge Represantation And Discovery, Barbara H. Kwasnik

Barbara H. Kwasnik

The link between classification and knowledge is explored. Classification schemes have properties that enable the representation of entities and relationships in structures that reflect knowledge of the domain being classified. The strengths and limitations of four classificatory approaches are described in terms of their ability to reflect, discover, and create new knowledge. These approaches are hierarchies, trees, paradigms, and faceted analysis. Examples are provided of the way in which knowledge and the classification process affect each other.

Demanding Respect: The Uses Of Reported Speech In Discursive Constructions Of Interracial Contact, Richard Buttny, Princess L. Williams

Richard Buttny

No abstract provided.

Reduplication In Southern Paiute And Correspondence Theory, Naomi Gurevich

Naomi Gurevich

In Southern Paiute, word initial w is realized as a labialized velar nasal intervocalically if it finds itself in such an environment upon morphological concatenation. McCarthy and Prince (1995) argue that a serial analysis of this alternation vis-à-vis reduplication leads to an ordering paradox, but an Optimality Theoretic analysis of the interaction between reduplication and the morphophonemic alternation in the language is able to account for the data. This analysis of Southern Paiute data, along with a handful of other examples in their work, is put forth by McCarthy and Prince as strong evidence in support of Correspondence Theory. I …

Review Of Searching For Hawa's Secret, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.

Review Of City Of Plagues: Disease, Poverty And Deviance In San Francisco, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.

Toward An Understanding Of Academic And Nonacademic Tasks Procrastinated By Students: The Use Of Daily Logs, Steven J. Scher, Joseph R. Ferrrari

Steven J. Scher

For five consecutive days, at either the beginning or the end of a term, college students (30 women, 7 men) listed daily academic and nonacademic tasks they intended to complete and whether they actually completed them. Students reported nonacademic tasks (e.g., household chores, making telephone calls, exercising, and playing sports) as completed most often regardless of the time within the term. Results from 2 (early vs. later sessions) by 2 (completed vs. not completed tasks) by 2 (academic vs. nonacademic tasks) ANOVAs found that procrastinated tasks early in the term were more effortful and anxiety provoking than any other task …

Society, Science, And Values, Morton A. Heller

Morton A. Heller

No abstract provided.

The Recall Of Completed And Noncompleted Tasks Through Daily Logs To Measure Procrastination, Steven J. Scher, Joseph R. Ferrari

Steven J. Scher

For five consecutive days, participants listed daily tasks they intended to complete. Recall of listed tasks served as the primary dependent variable. Characteristics of the task, including whether or not the task was actually completed, did not, in general, predict recall. The one exception was that the rated importance of the task to one's family did increase the likelihood of recall. Individual differences in avoidant procrastination were negatively related to the likelihood of recalling listed tasks. Avoidant procrastination also was related (positively) to false positive rates, the degree to which individuals "recalled" tasks that they had not listed the previous …

Mcdonald's U: Virtual Technology And Humanities Futures In The Corporatized University, Lina Carro, Nancy A. Knowles

Lina Carro

No abstract provided.

Grundlagenreflexionen Zur Thematik Anthropomorpher Schnittstellen, Rudolf Kaehr

Rudolf Kaehr

Report for the EMBASSI Project

Which Kind Of Legal Order? Logical Coherence And Praxeological Coherence, Mario Rizzo

Mario Rizzo

This article addresses the classic question: How can the common law ensure relative certainty of expectations and also adapt to economic or other changes in society?

"The Shaman And The Priest: Ghosts, Death And Ritual Specialists In Tharu Society.", Arjun Guneratne

Arjun Guneratne

No abstract provided.

Access To Another Mind: Naturalistic Theories Require Naturalistic Data, Mark A. Krause, Gordon Burghardt

Gordon Burghardt

If there is to be a natural theory of consciousness that would satisfy both philosophers and scientists, it must be based on naturalistic data and minimal clutter accumulated from semantic arguments. Carruthers offers a 'natural' theory of consciousness that is rather myopic. To explore the evolutionary basis of consciousness, a natural theory should include comparative psychological and neurological data that encompass nonlinguistic measures. Such an approach could provide a clearer picture of the adaptive function, mechanisms, and origins of consciousness.

The Coming Slavery: The Determinism Of Herbert Spencer, Mario J. Rizzo

Mario Rizzo

Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) believed that Victorian Britain was moving toward a society of total regimentation (slavery). This movement was part of a cosmic process of evolution and dissolution. While the long-run (but not ultimate) destination of society was a higher form of social organization based on voluntary and complex interpersonal relationships, the immediate tendency was retrograde—a movement away from the liberation of mankind from the bondage of previous eras. This Article explores (1) the reasons for the retrograde movement, (2) its inevitability, and (3) the role of ideas in the process. The general conclusion is that in an effort to …