Trade and investment flows between the Caribbean and the rest of the hemisphere in the context of the FTAA

Includes bibliography

Taxa de câmbio e estratégia de crescimento econômico de longo prazo da China

Pós-graduação em Economia - FCLAR

A periodization of Latin American development in the Robinsonian tradition

This paper analyzes Joan Robinson's growth model and then adapts it in order to provide an explanatory taxonomy of Growth Eras. The Growth Eras or Ages were for Robinson a way to provide logical connections between output growth, capital accumulation, the degree of thriftiness, the real wage and illustrate a catalogue of growth possibilities. This modified taxonomy follows the spirit of Robinson's work, but it takes different theoretical approaches. which imply that some of the classifications do not fit perfectly the ones here suggested. Latin America has moved from a Golden Age in the 1950s and 1960s to a Leaden Age in the 1980s, having two traverse periods, one of which the process of growth and industrialization accelerated in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which is referred to as a Galloping Platinum Age, an one in which a process of deindustrialization and reprimarization and maquilization of the productive structure took place, starting in the 1990s, which could be referred as the Creeping Platinum Age.

CEPAL Review no.88

Celso Furtado’s contributions to structuralism and their relevance today / Ricardo Bielschowsky. -- Has investor protection been rendered obsolete by the Argentine crisis? / Michael Mortimore and Leonardo Stanley. -- The rights-based approach in development policies and strategies / Victor Abramovich. -- Can the Latin American and Caribbean countries emulate the Irish model of FDI attraction? / Ruth Rios-Morales and David O’Donovan. -- The slow comeback of industrial policies in Latin America and the Caribbean / Wilson Peres. -- A low-growth model: informality as a structural constraint / Mario Cimoli, Annalisa Primi and Maurizio Pugno. -- The Argentine labour market in a financially globalized world / Mario Damill and Roberto Frenkel. -- Social precarity in Mexico and Argentina: trends, manifestations and national trajectories / María Cristina Bayón. -- The Fiscal Covenant in Guatemala: lessons learned from the negotiations / Juan Alberto Fuentes K. and Maynor Cabrera. -- Changes in Chile’s production structure, 1986-1996: output and industrial interdependence / José Miguel Albala-Bertrand. -- Guidelines for contributors to the CEPAL Review. -- CEPAL Review on the Internet. -- Recent ECLAC publications.

O emprego na transição para uma economia verde: cenários para o Brasil com base no consumo de energia pela indústria

Pós-graduação em Economia - FCLAR

Suplementação alimentar com 'beta'-glucano e mananoligossacarídeo para tilápias do Nilo em tanques-rede

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Simulação do enovelamento de proteínas desnaturadas utilizando o método de crescimento de cadeias em rede tetraédrica

Pós-graduação em Biofísica Molecular - IBILCE

Determinação da idade e crescimento da piramutaba Brachyplatystoma vaillantii (Valenciennes, 1840) (Siluriformes : Pimelodidae) capturada no estuário amazônico

Neste trabalho foram analisados exemplares de piramutaba (Brachyplalystoma vaillantii) provenientes de pescarias experimentais no estuário amazônico. Para o estudo de determinação da idade foram analisados acúleos das nadadeiras peitorais e dorsal, opérculos, otólitos (lapillus) e vértebras. Da análise destas estruturas rígidas foi concluído que a vértebra é a estrutura mais adequada para determinar a idade da piramutaba, pois esta estrutura apresentou 59% de anéis nítidos e uma boa correlação entre o seu raio e o comprimento furcal do peixe (r² = 0,9889 e p<0,05). Os anéis etários das vértebras foram validados pelo método da distribuição de freqüências por classes de comprimento. A piramutaba forma dois anéis etários por ano em suas vértebras. A relação entre o peso total e o comprimento furcal da piramutaba descreve seu crescimento como alométrico e a equação que descreve este crescimento é Wt = 6,1 * 10^-6 * Lf^3,1129. A proporção sexual de piramutaba verificada não foi de 1:1, onde o número de fêmeas foi superior ao de machos. Foi observado um número máximo de dez anéis nítidos nas vértebras de piramutaba. O modelo de crescimento utilizado neste trabalho foi o de von Bertalanffy para as estimativas das equações de crescimento em comprimento e em peso. Os parâmetros de crescimento (k, t₀ e L∞) foram estimados através de quatro diferentes métodos: contagem de anéis nas vértebras, retrocálculo, decomposição dos raios e distribuição de freqüências por classes de comprimento. Os parâmetros de crescimento foram: k = 0,138 ano^-1, t₀ = -0,239 e L∞ = 110,5 cm (contagem de anéis); k = 0,119 ano^-1, t₀ = -0,202 e L∞ = 110,5 cm (retrocálculo); k = 0,096 ano^-1, t₀ = -0,146 e L∞ = 110,5 cm (decomposição dos raios) e k = 0,127 ano^-1, t₀ = -0,236 e L∞ = 110,5 cm (distribuição de freqüências).

Variação do coeficiente de capturalidade na frota arrasteira paulista dirigida ao camarão-rosa

Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia) - IBRC

Comparação de ajustes do modelo de Gompertz a dados de crescimento

Pós-graduação em Biometria - IBB

Influence of the initial condition in equilibrium last-passage percolation models

In this paper we consider an equilibrium last-passage percolation model on an environment given by a compound two-dimensional Poisson process. We prove an L-2-formula relating the initial measure with the last-passage percolation time. This formula turns out to be a useful tool to analyze the fluctuations of the last-passage times along non-characteristic directions.

Nonlocal asymmetric exclusion process on a ring and conformal invariance

We present a one-dimensional nonlocal hopping model with exclusion on a ring. The model is related to the Raise and Peel growth model. A nonnegative parameter u controls the ratio of the local backwards and nonlocal forwards hopping rates. The phase diagram, and consequently the values of the current, depend on u and the density of particles. In the special case of half-lling and u = 1 the system is conformal invariant and an exact value of the current for any size L of the system is conjectured and checked for large lattice sizes in Monte Carlo simulations. For u > 1 the current has a non-analytic dependence on the density when the latter approaches the half-lling value.

Pyrochlore der Pegmatit-Provinz Nazareno, Brasilien

Zusammenfassung:Mit Hilfe einer neuen Formel für die Minerale der Pyrochlor-Gruppe werden sämtliche Endglieder der Na-Ca-Mikrolithe und der Ba-haltigen Mikrolithe aus der Pegmatit-Provinz Nazareno beschrieben: Die Na-reichsten Proben haben nahezu die Idealzusammensetzung eines idealen Pyrochlors, d.h. . Die Ca-reichsten Varietäten weisen maximal auf, wobei der Besetzungsanteil des Ca am A2+ ca. 93% beträgt. Die Ba-haltigen Mikrolithe sind durch eine Defektstruktur gekennzeichnet, wobei für das mögliche Endglied kein Beispiel in den Daten vorliegt. Das Endglied mit dem geringsten Defektcharakter hat folgende Stöchiometrie:

The adaptive power of the present: Perceptions of past, present, and future life satisfaction across the life span

Despite remarkable stability of life satisfaction across the life span, it may be adaptive to perceive change in life satisfaction. We shed new light on this topic with data from 766 individuals from three age groups and past, present, and future life satisfaction perceptions across the life span. On average, participants were most satisfied with their current life. When looking back, satisfaction increased from past to present, and when looking ahead, satisfaction decreased into the future. Trajectories were best fitted with a curvilinear growth model. Neuroticism and extraversion predicted the level of trajectories, but none of the Big Five predicted the slope. We conclude that humans have an adaptive capacity to perceive the present life as being the best possible.

Analyzing diffuse scattering with supercomputers

Two new approaches to quantitatively analyze diffuse diffraction intensities from faulted layer stacking are reported. The parameters of a probability-based growth model are determined with two iterative global optimization methods: a genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO). The results are compared with those from a third global optimization method, a differential evolution (DE) algorithm [Storn & Price (1997). J. Global Optim. 11, 341–359]. The algorithm efficiencies in the early and late stages of iteration are compared. The accuracy of the optimized parameters improves with increasing size of the simulated crystal volume. The wall clock time for computing quite large crystal volumes can be kept within reasonable limits by the parallel calculation of many crystals (clones) generated for each model parameter set on a super- or grid computer. The faulted layer stacking in single crystals of trigonal three-pointedstar- shaped tris(bicylco[2.1.1]hexeno)benzene molecules serves as an example for the numerical computations. Based on numerical values of seven model parameters (reference parameters), nearly noise-free reference intensities of 14 diffuse streaks were simulated from 1280 clones, each consisting of 96 000 layers (reference crystal). The parameters derived from the reference intensities with GA, PSO and DE were compared with the original reference parameters as a function of the simulated total crystal volume. The statistical distribution of structural motifs in the simulated crystals is in good agreement with that in the reference crystal. The results found with the growth model for layer stacking disorder are applicable to other disorder types and modeling techniques, Monte Carlo in particular.