A catalog of 1.5273 micron diffuse interstellar bands based on APOGEE hot telluric calibrators
, 2016 High resolution stellar spectroscopic surveys provide massive amounts of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) measurements. Data can be used to study the distribution of the DIB carriers and those environmental conditions that favor their formation.
Elyajouri, Meriem +3 more
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Determinants of Student Achievements in the Primary Education of Paraguay [PDF]
The idea that schooling scores depend on a combination of family background characteristics, ability and school (institutional) variables is quite clear.
Carlos Villalobos Barría, Thomas Otter
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Towards a strategy for pro-poor growth in South-Eastern Europe [PDF]
In order to qualify economic growth as “pro-poor”, at least per capita income-growth rates of the poor should be larger than the corresponding growth-rates of the non-poor resulting in a lower degree of distributional inequality.
Hermann Sautter
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Women and Deliberative Water Management in Brazil [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper we consider some gender aspects of the evolution of water management in Brazil. In our work on women and water, we have been inspired by ecofeminist philosophy and the concept of 'feministThis research was supported by the Social Sciences ...
Moraes, A., Perkins, Patricia E. (Ellie)
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Inequality of Opportunity in Brazil [PDF]
This paper proposes a method to decompose earnings inequality into a component due to unequal opportunities and a residual term. Drawing on the distinction between ‘circumstance’ and ‘effort’ variables in John Roemer’s work on equality of opportunity, we
Francisco H.B. Ferreira +2 more
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Energy innovation in Latin America: R&D effort, deployment, and capability accumulation [PDF]
Ibero-America, just as the rest of the world, faces an increasing urgency to transform existing energy systems. In the past, incentives to develop energy systems were induced mainly by changes in demand (derived from industrialization and urbanization ...
Francisco Aguayo +2 more
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Intrahousehold Health Care Financing Strategy and the Gender Gap: Empirical Evidence from India [PDF]
The “missing women” dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of health care in the country. No studies, however, have directly examined this discrimination in relation to household behavior in health ...
Abay Asfaw +2 more
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Creating a Regional Security Community in Southern Latin America: The Institutionalisation of the Regional Defence and Security Policies [PDF]
Interdependence, collective identities and common institutions are the preconditions for the evolution of a pluralistic security community. While the interaction of the states of Southern Latin America already meets the first two criteria, this article ...
Daniel Flemes
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Goldberg, K. Meira, Walter Aaron Clark, and Antoni Pizà, eds. "Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song and Dance: Spaniards, Natives, Africans, Roma." Newscastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. [PDF]
, 2020 Nocilli, Cecelia
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Perspectives on the World Income Distribution - Beyond Twin Peaks Towards Welfare Conclusions [PDF]
This paper contributes towards the growing debate concerning the world distribution of income and its evolution over that past three to four decades. Our methodological approach is twofold.
Hajo Holzmann +2 more
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