E-government and Public Services : a Case Study of the Inter-administrative Portal CAT365. Research report (sythesis document)

Aquest estudi analitza els usos de les TIC a l'administració autonòmica catalana. De forma més específica, l'estudi se centra en la interacció entre l'ús d'un vessant concret de les TIC, la xarxa Internet, per part de l'administració pública, i determinats aspectes centrals d'aquest tipus d'institucions: la seva organització i estructura internes, la provisió de serveis públics o la relació amb altres agents socials. Hem analitzat, doncs, el fenomen del govern electrònic en el marc particular de la Generalitat de Catalunya, estudiant-ne el grau de desenvolupament i penetració, les seves característiques més remarcables i els problemes més importants que s'hi plantegen. El projecte de recerca es concreta en un estudi de cas sobre un projecte d'innovació específic però de gran abast, que es trobava en el moment de realització de l'estudi en la seva primera fase d'implementació: el projecte Administració Oberta de Catalunya (AOC). Concretament ens hem centrat en el vessant d'aquesta iniciativa pública que es concretava en la creació d'un portal interadministratiu a Internet, el portal www.cat365.net, destinat a proveir electrònicament serveis públics de totes les administracions que operen a Catalunya. L'estudi analitza les transformacions internes de l'administració que s'hi poden trobar associades i els elements que les condicionen, tant positivament com negativa. Igualment, intentem analitzem el que aquestes transformacions poden suposar per a la relació entre els ciutadans i les institucions públiques.

1.° Bartholomaei Facii ad Alphonsum Regem dialogus de vitae felicitate. — 2.° Ejusdem epistola ad Robertum Strozam. — 3.° Mafei Vegii, Laudensis, dialogus de felicitate et miseria. — 4.° Ejusdem ad Eustachium, fratrem suum, dialogus de injuriis veritati illatis. — 5.° Anonymi dialogus inter Epicureum et Stoïcum de virtute et voluptate. — 6.° Platonis dialogus de morte contemnenda : interprete Cincio, Romano. — 7.° Plutarchi sermo de virtute et vitio : eodem interprete. — 8.° Apologia Socratis : authore Platone ; interprete verò Leonardo Aretino. — 9.° Platonis Crito : interprete anonymo. — 10.° Luciani Toxaris, sive, dialogus de amicitia : interprete anonymo.

Rogerii de Gaignieres

1.° M. T. Ciceronis ad Caium Trebatium, Jurisconsultum, topica : passim inter lineas glossae. — 2.° A. Manlii Severini Boëtii in Ciceronis topica commentariorum libri sex.

Colbertinus

1.° M. T. Ciceronis rhetoricorum ad Herennium libri quatuor. — 2.° Joannis Boni Andreae, civis Bononiensis, ars dictaminis. — 3.° Joannis Candidi, Secretarii Imperialis, liber artis novae epistolarum. — 4.° Forma appellationis Raymundi de Oppeda, Sistarciensis Episcopi. — 5.° Ars memoriae secundùm Aristotelem et S. Thomam de Aquino. — 6.° Tractatus de baculo Jacob : authore anonymo. — 7.° Exordia secundùm Cassiodorum, de pace facienda inter Imperatorem et Regem. — 8.° Petri Blesensis epistolae nonnullae. — 9.° Guidonis de Columna historiae Trojanae libri decem priores.

Colbertinus

Gualteri Castellionensis Alexandreis : passim inter lineas glossae et ad marginem scholia.

Colbertinus

Chromosomal rearrangements and gene flow over time in an inter-specific hybrid zone of the Sorex araneus group.

Most hybrid zones have existed for hundreds or thousands of years but have generally been observed for only a short time period. Studies extending over periods long enough to track evolutionary changes in the zones or assess the ultimate outcome of hybridization are scarce. Here, we describe the evolution over time of the level of genetic isolation between two karyotypically different species of shrews (Sorex araneus and Sorex antinorii) at a hybrid zone located in the Swiss Alps. We first evaluated hybrid zone movement by contrasting patterns of gene flow and changes in cline parameters (centre and width) using 24 microsatellite loci, between two periods separated by 10 years apart. Additionally, we tested the role of chromosomal rearrangements on gene flow by analysing microsatellite loci located on both rearranged and common chromosomes to both species. We did not detect any movement of the hybrid zone during the period analysed, suggesting that the zone is a typical tension zone. However, the gene flow was significantly lower among the rearranged than the common chromosomes for the second period, whereas the difference was only marginally significant for the first period. This further supports the role of chromosomal rearrangements on gene flow between these taxa.

The average inter-crossing number of equilateral random walks and polygons

In this paper, we study the average inter-crossing number between two random walks and two random polygons in the three-dimensional space. The random walks and polygons in this paper are the so-called equilateral random walks and polygons in which each segment of the walk or polygon is of unit length. We show that the mean average inter-crossing number ICN between two equilateral random walks of the same length n is approximately linear in terms of n and we were able to determine the prefactor of the linear term, which is a = (3 In 2)/(8) approximate to 0.2599. In the case of two random polygons of length n, the mean average inter-crossing number ICN is also linear, but the prefactor of the linear term is different from that of the random walks. These approximations apply when the starting points of the random walks and polygons are of a distance p apart and p is small compared to n. We propose a fitting model that would capture the theoretical asymptotic behaviour of the mean average ICN for large values of p. Our simulation result shows that the model in fact works very well for the entire range of p. We also study the mean ICN between two equilateral random walks and polygons of different lengths. An interesting result is that even if one random walk (polygon) has a fixed length, the mean average ICN between the two random walks (polygons) would still approach infinity if the length of the other random walk (polygon) approached infinity. The data provided by our simulations match our theoretical predictions very well.

The Öresund region: A dynamic region in Europe due to inter-regional collaboration?

El cluster Medicon Valley es troba a la regió d'Oresund binacional que s'estén per Dinamarca i Suècia, inclosa la Universitat de Lund, ciutat i tercera ciutat més gran de Suècia, Malmö (veure figura 1). El 2000, aquestes dues parts nacionals estaven connectades físicament per l'establiment dels 18 quilòmetres de longitud, enllaç fix del Øresund (ponts i túnels).