Desigualdades de género en mercado de trabajo argentino (1955-2003)

El presente artículo analiza, desde una perspectiva económica, diferentes formas en que se manifiestan las desigualdades de género en el mercado de trabajo argentino entre 1995 y 2003. Este período, signado por dos modelos macroeconómicos diferentes (el de la Convertibilidad y el posterior a la devaluación del peso); sin embargo, se caracteriza por un desempleo elevado y persistente. En síntesis, este artículo resaltará las relaciones entre género y mercado de trabajo Con este objetivo se examina información cuantitativa proveniente de la Base de Usuarios Ampliada (BUA) de la Encuesta Permanente de Hogares (EPH) correspondiente al total de aglomerados urbanos.

Desigualdades de género en mercado de trabajo argentino (1955-2003)

El presente artículo analiza, desde una perspectiva económica, diferentes formas en que se manifiestan las desigualdades de género en el mercado de trabajo argentino entre 1995 y 2003. Este período, signado por dos modelos macroeconómicos diferentes (el de la Convertibilidad y el posterior a la devaluación del peso); sin embargo, se caracteriza por un desempleo elevado y persistente. En síntesis, este artículo resaltará las relaciones entre género y mercado de trabajo Con este objetivo se examina información cuantitativa proveniente de la Base de Usuarios Ampliada (BUA) de la Encuesta Permanente de Hogares (EPH) correspondiente al total de aglomerados urbanos.

Desigualdades de género en mercado de trabajo argentino (1955-2003)

El presente artículo analiza, desde una perspectiva económica, diferentes formas en que se manifiestan las desigualdades de género en el mercado de trabajo argentino entre 1995 y 2003. Este período, signado por dos modelos macroeconómicos diferentes (el de la Convertibilidad y el posterior a la devaluación del peso); sin embargo, se caracteriza por un desempleo elevado y persistente. En síntesis, este artículo resaltará las relaciones entre género y mercado de trabajo Con este objetivo se examina información cuantitativa proveniente de la Base de Usuarios Ampliada (BUA) de la Encuesta Permanente de Hogares (EPH) correspondiente al total de aglomerados urbanos.

Neurological manifestations and molecular genetics of acute intermittent porphyria in North Western Russia

Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP, MIM #176000) is an inherited metabolic disease due to a partial deficiency of the third enzyme, hydroxymethylbilane synthase (HMBS, EC: 4.3.1.8), in the haem biosynthesis. Neurological symptoms during an acute attack, which is the major manifestation of AIP, are variable and relatively rare, but may endanger a patient's life. In the present study, 12 Russian and two Finnish AIP patients with severe neurological manifestations during an acute attack were studied prospectively from 1995 to 2006. Autonomic neuropathy manifested as abdominal pain (88%), tachycardia (94%), hypertension (75%) and constipation (88%). The most common neurological sign was acute motor peripheral neuropathy (PNP, 81%) often associated with neuropathic sensory loss (54%) and CNS involvement (85%). Despite heterogeneity of the neurological manifestations in our patients with acute porphyria, the major pattern of PNP associated with abdominal pain, dysautonomia, CNS involvement and mild hepatopathy could be demonstrated. If more strict inclusion criteria for biochemical abnormalities (>10-fold increase in excretion of urinary PBG) are applied, neurological manifestations in an acute attack are probably more homogeneous than described previously, which suggests that some of the neurological patients described previously may not have acute porphyria but rather secondary porphyrinuria. Screening for acute porphyria using urinary PBG is useful in a selected group of neurological patients with acute PNP or encephalopathy and seizures associated with pain and dysautonomia. Clinical manifestations and the outcome of acute attacks were used as a basis for developing a 30-score scale of the severity of an acute attack. This scale can easily be used in clinical practice and to standardise the outcome of an attack. Degree of muscle weakness scored by MRC, prolonged mechanical ventilation, bulbar paralysis, impairment of consciousness and hyponatraemia were important signs of a poor prognosis. Arrhythmia was less important and autonomic dysfunction, severity of pain and mental symptoms did not affect the outcome. The delay in the diagnosis and repeated administrations of precipitating factors were the main cause of proceeding of an acute attack into pareses and severe CNS involvement and a fatal outcome in two patients. Nerve conduction studies and needle EMG were performed in eleven AIP patients during an acute attack and/or in remission. Nine patients had severe PNP and two patients had an acute encephalopathy but no clinically evident PNP. In addition to axonopathy, features suggestive of demyelination could be demonstrated in patients with severe PNP during an acute attack. PNP with a moderate muscle weakness was mainly pure axonal. Sensory involvement was common in acute PNP and could be subclinical. Decreased conduction velocities with normal amplitudes of evoked potentials during acute attacks with no clinically evident PNP indicated subclinical polyneuropathy. Reversible symmetrical lesions comparable with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) were revealed in two patients' brain CT or MRI during an acute attack. In other five patients brain MRI during or soon after the symptoms was normal. The frequency of reversible brain oedema in AIP is probably under-estimated since it may be short-lasting and often indistinguishable on CT or MRI. In the present study, nine different mutations were identified in the HMBS gene in 11 unrelated Russian AIP patients from North Western Russia and their 32 relatives. AIP was diagnosed in nine symptom-free relatives. The majority of the mutations were family-specific and confirmed allelic heterogeneity also among Russian AIP patients. Three mutations, c.825+5G>C, c.825+3_825+6del and c.770T>C, were novel. Six mutations, c.77G>A (p.R26H), c.517C>T (p.R173W), c.583C>T (p.R195C), c.673C>T (p.R225X), c.739T>C (p.C247R) and c.748G>C (p.E250A), have previously been identified in AIP patients from Western and other Eastern European populations. The effects of novel mutations were studied by amplification and sequencing of the reverse-transcribed total RNA obtained from the patients' lymphoblastoid or fibroblast cell lines. The mutations c.825+5G>C and c.770T>C resulted in varyable amounts of abnormal transcripts, r.822_825del (p.C275fsX2) and [r.770u>c, r.652_771del, r.613_771del (p.L257P, p.G218_L257del, p.I205_L257del)]. All mutations demonstrated low residual activities (0.1-1.3 %) when expressed in COS-1 cells confirming the causality of the mutations and the enzymatic defect of the disease. The clinical outcome, prognosis and correlation between the HMBS genotype and phenotype were studied in 143 Finnish and Russian AIP patients with ten mutations (c.33G>T, c.97delA, InsAlu333, p.R149X, p.R167W, p.R173W, p.R173Q, p.R225G, p.R225X, c.1073delA) and more than six patients in each group. The patients were selected from the pool of 287 Finnish AIP patients presented in a Finnish Porphyria Register (1966-2003) and 23 Russian AIP patients (diagnosed 1995-2003). Patients with the p.R167W and p.R225G mutations showed lower penetrance (19% and 11%) and the recurrence rate (33% and 0%) in comparison to the patients with other mutations (range 36 to 67% and 0 to 66%, respectively), as well as milder biochemical abnormalities [urinary porphobilinogen 47±10 vs. 163±21 mol/L, p<0.001; uroporphyrin 130±40 vs. 942±183 nmol/L, p<0.001] suggesting a milder form of AIP in these patients. Erythrocyte HMBS activity did not correlate with the porphobilinogen excretion in remission or the clinical of the disease. In all AIP severity patients, normal PBG excretion predicted freedom from acute attacks. Urinary PBG excretion together with gender, age at the time of diagnosis and mutation type could predict the likelihood of acute attacks in AIP patients.

长白山阔叶红松林生态系统碳密度对采伐干扰的响应研究

本研究以长白山地区原始和次生的阔叶红松林为对象，在2007和2008年共建立了8种类型10块1 ha样地。通过野外调查和取样分析，得到各样地森林生态系统的植物、枯死物和土壤碳密度值，并结合采伐样地经营历史情况（采伐时间和强度），得到长白山地区原始阔叶红松林生态系统碳密度参考值和次生阔叶红松林生态系统碳密度对采伐强度和植被恢复时间的响应特征。在此基础上，通过建立阔叶红松林乔木碳密度与生态系统碳密度的回归关系，并结合露水河林业局3个时期（1987、1995和2003年）的小班数据和原始林碳密度参考值，估算露水河林业局林业用地3个时期和潜在的碳储量。主要研究结果如下： （1）原始阔叶红松林生态系统碳密度参考值：植被、枯死物、土壤和生态系统碳密度值分别为149.18±54.57、20.93±14.33、156.39±14.99、326.50±34.52 t•ha-1。其中下木层、乔木层碳密度分别是1.55±0.74，147.63±54.39 t•ha-1；粗木质残体和枯枝落叶碳密度分别是15.64±13.66、5.29±1.72 t•ha-1；0-50 cm的各层土壤碳密度分别为62.14±6.31、46.17±10.25、27.82±6.20、12.57±4.67、7.69±2.20 t•ha-1。 （2）原始阔叶红松林生态系统碳密度对采伐干扰的响应特征为：采伐干扰均会减少生态系统碳密度；其中植被碳库对采伐干扰最为敏感且碳密度值均减少，采伐强度直接决定植被碳密度的减少程度和恢复时间；枯死物碳库对采伐干扰最不敏感且碳密度值是先增加后减少，采伐强度和植被恢复时建群树种决定枯死物碳密度的变化程度；土壤碳库对高强度采伐干扰敏感，采伐强度决定土壤碳密度是否发生变化。 （3）估算露水河林业局林业用地在1987、1995、2003年和潜在的森林生态系统碳储量分别为29.58×106 t、27.55×106 t、30.46×106 t和38.75×106 t。

长白山森林资源变化动态与景观格局预测

长白山区是东北地区重要的生态功能区，多年以来由于不合理的森林经营导致了森林质量明显下降，生态功能显著退化。因此，分析森林资源变化动态及其影响因素，明确人类活动对森林资源的影响，并提出合理的经营方案，对该区森林资源保护和恢复具有重要意义。本文以具有典型代表性的露水河林业局为研究对象，以1987，1995和2003三期森林资源二类调查资料为主要数据来源，利用ARCGIS、ARCVIEW和FRAGSTATS等软件为技术手段，分析该局资源变化、景观特征及格局变化及其与人为干扰的关系；同时以2003年森林资源二类调查数据为基础，应用景观空间直观模型LANDIS，设定5种不同的采伐预案：对照（无采伐）、方案I（一般公益林和商品林每十年分别采伐总面积的5%和10%+天然更新）、方案II（一般公益林和商品林每十年分别采伐总面积的10%和15%+天然更新）、方案Ⅲ（采伐同方案I+人工更新）和方案Ⅳ（采伐同方案II+人工更新），模拟未来300年森林景观变化，以揭示在不同的经营方案下森林资源的长期演替动态及空间分布特征，结果表明： 1.森林资源的质量发生了显著变化。过去16年间该区森林覆盖率增加了6.9%，但是森林蓄积量下降了60.58万m3；成、过熟林面积持续增加，中龄林面积急剧减少；1987年到1995年该区森林蓄积减少了110万m3，而1995年到2003年间森林蓄积增加了49.7万m3，这些表明1995年到2003年森林经营措施更有利于森林恢复。但中、幼龄林在16年间面积、蓄积持续减少，近年来采伐的主要是中龄林，说明成、过熟林面积的增加是以牺牲中龄林为代价的。 2.森林景观破碎化程度加剧。过去的16年间景观异质性程度加大，景观斑块内部的连通性增强。而景观类型的斑块数、边界密度、蔓延度逐渐增加，散布并列指数、多样性指数和均匀度等指数在逐渐的降低。1987年到2003年斑块数增加了979块，同时最大斑块占景观面积比例逐渐下降，1987年为28.7%，2003年减少到12.7%；由于经营方式变为采阔保针，大量采伐阔叶树种补植针叶树种，景观基质由1987年的阔叶混交林，转变为1995年后的混合景观基质；在斑块水平上阔叶混交林的平均斑块面积下降最多，边界分割程度最高，这表明天然次生林类型受人类干扰最大；从景观指数变化趋势看景观破碎化在1995年到2003年的变化趋势较1987年到1995年的变化趋势有所减缓。 3.LANDIS模型对5种不同的森林管理预案模拟结果表明：无采伐和低强度择伐+人工造林方案到模拟后期不同程度的增加了成、过熟林面积，更有利于增加森林质量和维护森林景观的完整性。人工造林与不造林相比，造林方案显著增加了造林树种的分布面积；造林方案下造林树种的分布面积、成、过熟林面积较其它预案要高，因此，用原始阔叶红松林中的关键种造林，有利于森林结构的优化及向阔叶混交林景观的转化，促进森林质量的提高和景观的恢复。

黄土丘陵区小流域系统生态经济要素分析——以宁夏隆德县李太平小流域为例

以隆德县李太平小流域为例,对比分析了退化小流域系统恢复重建过程中系统的生态经济要素变化,揭示系统演变趋势。应用能值方法分析了投入产出的动态变化,评价治理的生态经济效果。结果显示:农、林、牧业用地比例由1990年的6·2∶2·0∶1·0变为2003年的1·9∶1·4∶1·0,土地利用及种植结构趋于合理,农业产值所占比重由79·6%下降为54·8%,林业、牧业、副业产值比例分别由9·6%、9·6%、1·1%上升为22·7%、15·1%、7·4%,收入多样性指数也呈增加趋势,显示了流域收入构成的多元化,有利于生态经济系统的稳定。同时,恩格尔系数减小,表明人民生活水平日益提高。基于能值的流域生态经济系统投入产出效率动态研究结果表明在调整后的土地利用格局及种植结构下,净能值产出率由1990年的2·5增长到2003年的3·41,资源利用效率逐年提高,环境负荷率在1990、1995和2003年分别为2·55、2·44和2·11,呈减小趋势,能值持续性指数从1990年的0·98增加到2003年的1·62,经济与生态环境的协调性不断提高。研究结果表明该治理模式是成功的。

A 3-min all-out test to determine peak oxygen uptake and the maximal steady state

Burnley, M., Doust, J., Vanhatalo, A., A 3-min all-out test to determine peak oxygen uptake and the maximal steady state, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 38(11):1995-2003, November 2006. RAE2008

Global retrieval of ATSR cloud parameters and evaluation (GRAPE): dataset assessment

The Along-Track Scanning Radiometers (ATSRs) provide a long time-series of measurements suitable for the retrieval of cloud properties. This work evaluates the freely-available Global Retrieval of ATSR Cloud Parameters and Evaluation (GRAPE) dataset (version 3) created from the ATSR-2 (1995�2003) and Advanced ATSR (AATSR; 2002 onwards) records. Users are recommended to consider only retrievals flagged as high-quality, where there is a good consistency between the measurements and the retrieved state (corresponding to about 60% of converged retrievals over sea, and more than 80% over land). Cloud properties are found to be generally free of any significant spurious trends relating to satellite zenith angle. Estimates of the random error on retrieved cloud properties are suggested to be generally appropriate for optically-thick clouds, and up to a factor of two too small for optically-thin cases. The correspondence between ATSR-2 and AATSR cloud properties is high, but a relative calibration difference between the sensors of order 5�10% at 660 nm and 870 nm limits the potential of the current version of the dataset for trend analysis. As ATSR-2 is thought to have the better absolute calibration, the discussion focusses on this portion of the record. Cloud-top heights from GRAPE compare well to ground-based data at four sites, particularly for shallow clouds. Clouds forming in boundary-layer inversions are typically around 1 km too high in GRAPE due to poorly-resolved inversions in the modelled temperature profiles used. Global cloud fields are compared to satellite products derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) measurements, and a climatology of liquid water content derived from satellite microwave radiometers. In all cases the main reasons for differences are linked to differing sensitivity to, and treatment of, multi-layer cloud systems. The correlation coefficient between GRAPE and the two MODIS products considered is generally high (greater than 0.7 for most cloud properties), except for liquid and ice cloud effective radius, which also show biases between the datasets. For liquid clouds, part of the difference is linked to choice of wavelengths used in the retrieval. Total cloud cover is slightly lower in GRAPE (0.64) than the CALIOP dataset (0.66). GRAPE underestimates liquid cloud water path relative to microwave radiometers by up to 100 g m�2 near the Equator and overestimates by around 50 g m�2 in the storm tracks. Finally, potential future improvements to the algorithm are outlined.

Sex and socioeconomic inequalities of lung cancer mortality in Barcelona, Spain and Sao Paulo, Brazil

The objective of this paper was to assess sex and socioeconomic inequalities in lung cancer mortality in two major cities of Europe and South America. Official information on mortality and population allowed the estimation of sex- and age-specific death rates for Barcelona, Spain and Sao Paulo, Brazil (1995-2003). Mortality trends and levels were independently assessed for each city and subsequently compared. Rate ratios assessed by Poisson regression analysis addressed hypotheses of association between the outcome and socioeconomic covariates (human development index, unemployment and schooling) at the inner-city area level. Barcelona had a higher mortality in men (76.9/100000 inhabitants) than Sao Paulo (38.2/100 000 inhabitants); although rates were decreasing for the former (-2%/year) and levelled-off for the [after. Mortality in women ranked similarly (9.1 for Barcelona, 11.5 for Sao Paulo); with an increasing trend for women aged 35-64 years (+ 7.7%/year in Barcelona and + 2.4%/year in Sao Paulo). The socioeconomic gradient of mortality in men was negative for Barcelona and positive for Sao Paulo; for women, the socioeconomic gradient was positive in both cities. Negative gradients indicate that deprived areas suffer a higher burden of disease; positive gradients suggest that prosmoking lifestyles may have been more prevalent in more affluent areas during the last decades. Sex and socioeconomic inequalities of lung cancer mortality reinforce the hypothesis that the epidemiologic profile of cancer can be improved by an expanded access to existing technology of healthcare and prevention. The continuous monitoring of inequalities in health may contribute to the concurrent promotion of well-being and social justice.

High-School Students´ Summer Jobs and their Ensuing Labor Market Achievement : the Long Term Effect

In part because of high and persistent youth unemployment, adolescent students’ transition from school to work is an important policy and research topic. Many countries have implemented public programs offering summer jobs or work while in high-school as measures to smooth the transition. While the immediate effect of the programs on school attendance, school grades, and disposable income is well documented, their effect on the transition to the labor market remains an open question. Observational studies have shown strong positive effects of summer jobs, but also that the estimated effect is highly vulnerable to selection bias. In this paper, some 3700 high-school students applying for summer jobs in the period 1995-2003,via a program, are followed to 30 years of age. A quarter of the applicants were randomly offered a summer job each year. Among the remaining students, 50% had a (non-program related) summer job while in high-school. We find the income, post high-school, for the offered and non-offered groups to be similar and conclude that the effect of summer jobs on the transition to the labor market is inconsequential.

Fractional polynomials and model selection in generalized estimating equations analysis, with an application to a longitudinal epidemiologic study in Australia

In epidemiologic studies, researchers often need to establish a nonlinear exposure-response relation between a continuous risk factor and a health outcome. Furthermore, periodic interviews are often conducted to take repeated measurements from an individual. The authors proposed to use fractional polynomial models to jointly analyze the effects of 2 continuous risk factors on a health outcome. This method was applied to an analysis of the effects of age and cumulative fluoride exposure on forced vital capacity in a longitudinal study of lung function carried out among aluminum workers in Australia (1995-2003). Generalized estimating equations and the quasi-likelihood under the independence model criterion were used. The authors found that the second-degree fractional polynomial models for age and fluoride fitted the data best. The best model for age was robust across different models for fluoride, and the best model for fluoride was also robust. No evidence was found to suggest that the effects of smoking and cumulative fluoride exposure on change in forced vital capacity over time were significant. The trend 1 model, which included the unexposed persons in the analysis of trend in forced vital capacity over tertiles of fluoride exposure, did not fit the data well, and caution should be exercised when this method is used.

Reestruturação produtiva na Petrobrás e ação sindical dos petroleiros do RN

Ce travail a l objectif d analyser la question de la restructuration productive dans la Petrobrás/ RN et les implications possibles sur l action syndicale du Sindipetro/RN pendant la période 1995 2003. La restructuration productive dans la Petrobrás/RN commence dans la décennie 1990 quand l entreprise, au niveau national, décide d adhérer au Programa Brasileiro de Qualidade e Produtividade PBQP lancé par le gouvernement Collor comme motivation et priorité pour que les entreprises s adaptent à l ouverture de l économie brésilienne au marché extérieur. De ce fait, la Petrobrás/RN afin de se maintenir dans le marché compétitif et mondialisé , adopte des techniques administratives basées sur la philosophie de la qualité totate, met au point des inovations technologiques et organisationnelles, tout en altérant sa base technique et adopte, encore, la tertiairisation de quelques activités visant à la reduction des coûts. De telles mesures ont atteint de façon remarquable l action du Sindipetro/RN qui commence alors à agir selon la logique de la politique néo-libérale du gouvernement de conduite anti-syndicale. Face à ces faits le syndicat a rédéfini ses actions dans le but de trouver des manières de poursuivre les luttes syndicales dans cette conjoncture de difficultés dans les relations de travail. Celui-ci s engage donc à entamer les négociations comme stratégie afin de préserver les privilèges de la catégorie et d éviter la perte des droits acquis

Estado desenvolvimentista e o Nordeste :o BNB na busca de um modelo de desenvolvimento regional

This research tried to follow up with the way of intervention that a developing State promotes it regional development, once its action departs from a quantitative conception until its acting focused in maintenance, like the strategy of local development input in the Northeastern of Brazil in the 90 s. particularly, the attention was focused onto Banco do Nordeste which, between 1995 and 2002, achieved a organization changing process to get fit itself to the new conception of development and State, that advocates the maintenance and the participation of the society in its accomplishment, becoming itself the main agent of the Federal Government in the Region. By taking over the strategy of local development, Banco do Nordeste starts, at least in speech, to be less of a bank to become more of a development agent , representing some development and hope to overcome the social and economical inequalities of the Region. The hypothesis that surrounds this essay is that this reorientation experienced at Banco do Nordeste is related to three factors: timing; the Institution of a project of international technical cooperation with PNUD; the unrest of an employees group, who used to fight for the acting increase of the Bank to beyond the credit acting; and, above all, the juncture created in Ceara from the second half of the 80 s, expressed, mainly, for the political rise of a group of businessmen, who took over and modernized the standards of public management in the State, transforming the cearense experience into reference in Brazil and the world. The research was developed from information got through the use of semi-structured interviews and documental research and, as complementary resource, field observation. The interviews were done with BNB managers between 1995 and 2003, some of them current administrators (2003-2006), plus one of CAPEF directors and the present president of AFBNB. The research revealed that strategic place taken by BNB in the period studied did not come to represent a rupture in its organizational culture, being strongly attached to factors that allows its operation. When some of these elements stopped existing, it was observed a retracing in the pattern of state intervention in the Region. This conclusion restates the vision of State that guided this thesis, identified as relationships field, of different interests; space where social conflicts are established; incarnated through the institutions