Department of Commerce, Credit Union FY2008

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El rompecabezas de aprender a jugar a rugby

La comunicación pretende mostrar la experiencia que hemos vivido en el proceso de construcción y consolidación de un equipo de rugby universitario formado por jugadores y jugadoras mayoritariamente inexpertas en nuestro deporte. Por lo tanto, centraremos nuestra comunicación en el ámbito de las habilidades individuales del jugador y el conocimiento teórico del deporte. Para hacerlo, además del estudio del prototipo de jugador que conforma el equipo, también debemos abordar la problemática propia que surge en la construcción de un equipo novel.

L'enseignant de yoga européen entre adhikāra et pédagogie : une analyse de la qualification socio-religieuse des enseignants dans la rencontre entre l' Union européenne de yoga et le lignage de T. Krishnamacharya

Résumé: Ce travail porte sur la formation des enseignants de yoga européens dans la deuxième partie du 20ème s. Il analyse la construction de leur qualification et de leur éligibilité par rapport aux modalités indiennes de la transmission. Pour ce faire, il étudie l'émergence de l'enseignant de yoga européen au sein de l'Union européenne de yoga (fondée en 1972), une institution promouvant un yoga holiste qui n'a pas encore fait l'objet d'une étude de cas. Le devenir européen des modalités de transmission est étudié à travers la rencontre de l'Union européenne de yoga avec son partenaire indien privilégié, le lignage de l'ācārya T. Krishnamacharya et en particulier avec le fils de ce dernier, T.K.V. Desikachar. Privilégiant l'analyse du matériel constitué par les revues de yoga, ce travail démontre comment la qualification de l'enseignant de yoga européen se construit dans les années 1960- 1990 dans l'interaction que les formateurs européens entretiennent avec le partenaire indien de la rencontre (chap. 2 et 3). L'Union, qui réunit plusieurs fédérations nationales de yoga et plusieurs traditions de yoga, est l'une des premières institutions à mettre en place, en 1976, un diplôme à l'intention des enseignants de yoga. Les caractéristiques de cette formation sont identifiées à travers l'analyse des curriculums mis en place par les formateurs de l'Union (chap. 4). Les acteurs prennent soin de motiver les spécificités de leur enseignement - celles qu'ils revendiquent et celles dont leurs adversaires les accusent - par des notions empruntées aux textes indiens du yoga et par la construction d'une « scène autorisante », le Congrès annuel de yoga de Zinal (chap. 5). Ce travail étudie la mise en place, par l'Union, d'un discours de la « pédagogie européenne du yoga » et d'une logique d'alliance entre certains lignages européens de yoga et celui de T. Krishnamacharya pour revendiquer des innovations dans la transmission du yoga en Europe : par exemple, la promotion des Yoga-Sūtra, le respect des différences individuelles chez l'élève, l'autorité féminine sur le yoga et la réhabilitation d'un christianisme alternatif. Ce travail démontre aussi que, dans le contexte contemporain, le yoga est un lieu de débats entre une conception traditionnelle et initiatique de la transmission et une conception pédagogique imprégnée de valeurs égalitaires et libertaires. Le travail identifie les points d'achoppement de cette rencontre autour des notions de la transmission indienne telle qu'adhikāra (l'éligibilité différenciée) ou sraddhā (la confiance dans le maître) en concluant par une analyse de la négociation de l'autorité spirituelle entre T.K.V. Desikachar et ses élèves (chap. 6).

Audit report on Union County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on Union County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Regional economic dynamics and convergence in the european union

Deepening in the European Union (EU) integration process has enhanced the question of economic disparities at a regional level. Theconvergence process observed until the late seventies was exhausted onwards incoincidence with important changes in the economic activity. The paper showshow these factors would have provoked a regional differenciated response that,despite being important, would have not strengthened the decrease in regionalinequalities. We use an alternative and (in our opinion) richer approach to thetraditional convergence analysis, where the evolution of the whole regionaldistribution is what matters and not that of a representative economy. Moreover,when analysing inequalities among regional economies, the geographical spaceacquire an outstanding role. Hence, we apply spatial association tests and relatethem to the convergence analysis

An analysis of inflation rates in the European Union using wavelets : strong evidence against unit roots

In this paper we assume inflation rates in European Union countries may in fact be fractionally integrated. Given this assumption, we obtain estimations of the order of integration by means a method based on wavelets coefficients. Finally, results obtained allow reject the unit root hypothesis on inflation rates. It means that a random shock on the rate of inflation in these countries has transitory effects that gradually diminish with the passage of time, that this, said shock hasn¿t a permanent effect on future values of inflation rates

The Impact of Monetary Union on EU-15 Sovereign Debt Yield Spreads

With European Monetary Union (EMU), there was an increase in the adjusted spreads (corrected from the foreign exchange risk) of euro participating countries' sovereign securities over Germany and a decrease in those of non-euro countries. The objective of this paper is to study the reasons for this result, and in particular, whether the change in the price assigned by markets was due to domestic factors such as credit risk and/or market liquidity, or to international risk factors. The empirical evidence suggests that market size scale economies have increased since EMU for all European markets, so the effect of the various risk factors, even though it differs between euro and non-euro countries, is always dependent on the size of the market.

Union power, minimum wage legislation endogenous labor supplies and production

The objective of this work is to study the impact of the unions' bargaining power on production and wages. We present a model where a competitive final good is produced through two substitutable intermediate goods, one produced by unskilled labor and the other by skilled labor. Potential workers decide at their cost to become skilled or unskilled and, thus, labor supplies are determined endogenously. We find that the reallocation of the labor supplies due to changes in the unskilled (or skilled) unions¿ bargaining power may have a positive impact on the final goods production. At the same time, total labor earnings increase with the unskilled unions¿ bargaining power if the final goods production increases too. We also show that the minimum wage legislation has efects similar to an increase in the bargaining power of the unskilled unions.

An analysis of inflation rates in the European Union using wavelets : strong evidence against unit roots

In this paper we assume inflation rates in European Union countries may in fact be fractionally integrated. Given this assumption, we obtain estimations of the order of integration by means a method based on wavelets coefficients. Finally, results obtained allow reject the unit root hypothesis on inflation rates. It means that a random shock on the rate of inflation in these countries has transitory effects that gradually diminish with the passage of time, that this, said shock hasn¿t a permanent effect on future values of inflation rates

Regional economic dynamics and convergence in the european union

Deepening in the European Union (EU) integration process has enhanced the question of economic disparities at a regional level. Theconvergence process observed until the late seventies was exhausted onwards incoincidence with important changes in the economic activity. The paper showshow these factors would have provoked a regional differenciated response that,despite being important, would have not strengthened the decrease in regionalinequalities. We use an alternative and (in our opinion) richer approach to thetraditional convergence analysis, where the evolution of the whole regionaldistribution is what matters and not that of a representative economy. Moreover,when analysing inequalities among regional economies, the geographical spaceacquire an outstanding role. Hence, we apply spatial association tests and relatethem to the convergence analysis