Unity: una travesía musical por China

Lectora externa, fotógrafa y periodista de la Universidad de Florida nos cuenta como avanzó y concluyó su travesía por China, sus aprendizajes, sus paisajes, su gente, sus dolores y sus días.

Cultural diversity : obstacle or help in building european unity?. 'La diversidad cultural : ¿obstáculo o ayuda para la construcción de la unidad europea?'.

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Universality or acquisition of binding principles?

El artículo es un intento de dar un nuevo enfoque a la controversia sobre la universalidad de la 'Binding Theory', principalmente en los principios A y B. Los autores presentan evidencias no solo desde la lingüística sincrónica y diacrónica, sino tambia desde resultados obtenidos en experimentos en el campo de la adquisición del lenguaje, que permiten concluir que aunque estos principios sintácticos existen, no son universales.

Towards a Eurasian Economic Union: the challenge of integration and unity. CEPS Special Report No. 75/December 2012

In the lead-up to the creation of a Eurasian Economic Union in 2015, the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan represent two elements of the most ambitious regional integration project launched in the post-Soviet era since 1991. This CEPS Special Report examines both the potential and the limits of Eurasian economic integration. For the purpose of assessing the Eurasian integration process, CEPS applied a modified version of a framework first developed by Ernest B. Haas and Philippe C. Schmitter in 1964 to project whether economic integration of a group of countries automatically engenders political unity. Taking the data available for the early stages of the European integration process as a benchmark, the results for the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space point to a rather unfavourable outlook for Eurasian economic integration.

Unity as a unit

The arguments for regarding the number 1 as a unit of the SI are reviewed. Examples of dimensionless quantities are presented, and problems associated with representing the values of dimensionless quantities of very small magnitude are discussed. The logarithmic ratio units bel, decibel and neper are discussed.

Universality of rain event size distributions

We compare rain event size distributions derived from measurements in climatically different regions, which we find to be well approximated by power laws of similar exponents over broad ranges. Differences can be seen in the large-scale cutoffs of the distributions. Event duration distributions suggest that the scale-free aspects are related to the absence of characteristic scales in the meteorological mesoscale.