The determinants of Foreign Direct Investments attraction in Portugal and Spain: A comparative analysis

Double Degree. A Work Project presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Master Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics and a Master Degree in Business Engineering from Louvain School of Management

Internationalization of UniPlaces to the Spanish market: Internationalization plan to Madrid, Spain

Field Lab in Entrepreneurial Innovative Ventures

“What matters?”: The case of sustainability reporting in Spain and Portugal

This project explores the case of Sustainability Reporting in Spain and Portugal and the recently launched new generation of Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines. The sample of the study is composed of companies included in the “GRI Report list 1999-2015”. In particular 2013 onwards 51 companies that published their G4 Report are taken into consideration. An indirect study is conducted based on the content of the sustainability reports of companies that implemented the Global Report Initiatives (GRI) reporting guidelines in order to identify focus areas of sustainability reporting in Spain and Portugal, analyzing trends and patterns relevant for observation. The project also promotes a discussion of the usability of the G4 guidelines and the adoption of materiality definition.

Luta Armada em Portugal (1970-1974)

A problemática do recurso à luta armada para derrubar a ditadura em Portugal gerou discussões, debates e rupturas no seio da oposição portuguesa muito antes de terem surgido as primeiras organizações que realizaram acções armadas. Foi no rescaldo da campanha para as eleições presidenciais de 1958, perante o apoio popular à campanha de Humberto Delgado, candidato da oposição, e a constatação da dimensão da fraude eleitoral, que ocorreram as primeiras discussões acerca da inevitabilidade recorrer à violência armada para derrubar a ditadura. Porém, apenas na década de 70 as circunstâncias políticas, económicas e sociais no país favorecem o aparecimento de outras organizações armadas. Os quase dez anos de guerra colonial tinham desgastado o regime e as manifestações contra a guerra eram cada vez maiores, com o numero de desertores e refractários a crescer de ano para ano. Ao mesmo tempo, o pais ia-se industrializando e terciarizando; assistia-se ao crescimento da classe média, da escolarização, da emigração e a uma mudança de mentalidade, trazida pelo acesso cada vez maior ao que se passava no mundo. Seria neste contexto que as formas tradicionais de oposição, baseadas em manifestações pacíficas e abaixo-assinados, são sentidas como ultrapassadas e ineficazes e começam a proliferar as organizações marxistas-leninistas que teorizavam sobre a luta armada e concebiam planos de acções armadas contra o regime, aumentando o número daqueles que defendiam que o regime só cairia com o recurso à violência. Em 1967, a LUAR, levava a cabo a primeira acção armada contra o regime, o assalto à agência do Banco de Portugal na Figueira da Foz, para obter dinheiro que seria utilizado no financiamento de futuras acções armadas. Em 1970, o Partido Comunista Português, depois de um prolongadíssimo período de maturação, avançava com a ARA que levou a cabo a primeira acção em Outubro desse ano, a sabotagem ao navio Cunene que participa da logística de apoio à guerra colonial. Em 1971, foram as Brigadas Revolucionárias que desencadearam a primeira acção, um atentado bombista contra o Quartel da Nato na Fonte da Telha. Até ao 25 de Abril de 1974, várias acções armadas seriam cometidas por estas organizações, com a particularidade de apenas atingirem o aparelho repressivo e militar do regime, e de seguirem o princípio irredutível de não fazer vítimas mortais entre os civis. O 25 de Abril de 1974, corresponderia ao epílogo de um processo de contestação armada ao Estado Novo que foi acelerando nos seus derradeiros anos.

Oxygen isotope thermometry in carbonatites, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain

Crystallization temperatures of the oceanic carbonatites of Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, have been determined from oxygen isotope fractionations between calcite, silicate minerals (feldspar, pyroxene, biotite, and zircon) and magnetite. The measured fractionations have been interpreted in the light of late stage interactions with meteoric and/or magmatic water. Cathodoluminescence characteristics were investigated for the carbonatite minerals in order to determine the extent of alteration and to select unaltered samples. Oxygen isotope fractionations of minerals of unaltered samples yield crystallization temperatures between 450 and 960degreesC (average 710degreesC). The highest temperature is obtained from pyroxene-calcite pairs. The above range is in agreement with other carbonatite thermometric Studies. This is the first study that provides oxygen isotope data coupled with a CL study on carbonatite-related zircon. The CL pictures revealed that the zircon is broken and altered in the carbonatites and in associated syenites. Regarding geological field evidences of syenite-carbonatite relationship and the close agreement of published zircon U/Pb and whole rock and biotite K/Ar and Ar-Ar age data, the most probable process is early zircon crystallization from the syenite magma and late-stage reworking during magma evolution and carbonatite segregation. The oxygen isotope fractionations between zircon and other carbonatite minerals (calcite and pyroxene) support the assumption that the zircon would correspond to the early crystallization of syenite-carbonatite magmas.

Trends in lung cancer among young European women: the rising epidemic in France and Spain.

Lung cancer mortality in young women in the European Union (EU) has steadily increased until the mid 1990 s and has levelled off thereafter, but trends have been heterogeneous in various countries. We analyzed therefore age-standardized trends in lung cancer mortality in young women (20-44) for the 6 major European countries, using joinpoint regression. In the early 1970s the highest lung cancer mortality in young women was in the UK (2.1/100,000). UK rates, however, steadily declined and in 2000-2004 they were the lowest of all 6 major EU countries (1.2/100,000). The second lowest rate in 2000-2002 was in Italy, whose rates remained around 1.1/100,000 between 1970 and 1994, and increased to 1.4 thereafter. In Germany and Poland, lung cancer rates in young women rose from 0.8-1.0/100,000 in the early 1970s to 1.7-1.9 in the mid 1990 s and levelled off during the last decade. Major rises over recent years were observed in France (from 0.8/100,000 in 1985-1989 to 2.2 in 2000-2003) and in Spain (from 0.8 in the 1985-1989 to 1.7 in 2000-2004). Thus, France showed both the highest rate observed over the last 3 decades and the largest rise over the last 2 decades. Since recent trends in the young give relevant information to the likely future trends in middle age, the female lung cancer epidemic is likely to expand in southern Europe from the current rates of 5.0/100,000 in Spain and 7.7 in France to approach 20/100,000 within the next 2-3 decades. Urgent interventions for smoking cessation in women are therefore required.

Six months residence and rravels in México ; containing remarks onthe present state of New Spain, its natural productions, state of society, manufactures, trade, agriculture and antiquities

UANL

Segunda serie de documentos relativos á la invasion qué á mano armada hicieron á este estado vecinos del de Coahuila

UANL

Los funerales de D. Federico Gravina, Capitán General de la Armada Española

UANL

Ordenanzas del ejército y armada de la República Mexicana

UANL

Regamento de contabilidad para la armada nacional

UANL

Regional flows of domestic tourism in Spain = Flujos regionales del turismo doméstico en España

The paper analyses the regional flows of domestic tourism that took place in Spain in year 2000, contributing to the state of knowledge on tourism required by authorities and private firms when faced with decision making, for example, for regional infrastructure planning. Although tourism is one of the main income-generating economic activities in Spain, domestic tourism has received little attention in the literature compared to inbound tourism. The paper uses among others, gravitational model tools and concentration indices, to analyse regional concentration of both domestic demand and supply; tourism flows among regions, and the causes that may explain the observed flows and attractiveness between regions. Among the most remarkable results are the high regional concentration of demand and supply, and the role of population and regional income as explanatory variables. Also remarkable are the attractiveness of own region and neighbour ones, and that domestic tourism may be acting as a regional income redistributing activity

Entrepreneurship research in Spain : Developments and distinctiveness

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Job stress and burnout in residential child care workers in Spain. ' Estr??s laboral y burnout en educadores de acogimiento residencial en Espa??a'

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Implementation of Response to Intervention (RtI) Model in Spain : An example of a collaboration between Canarian universities and the department of education of the Canary Islands

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