Does High Unemployment Rate Result in a High Divorce Rate?: A Test for Japan.

El objetivo de este artículo es determinar si el incremento en la tasa de desempleo tiene algún efecto sobre la tasa de divorcios. Con este fin se utilizan series de tiempo y datos de corte transversal para Japón. También se incluyen la tasa de crimenes y el promedio de las horas trabajadas como variables explicativas. Adicionalmente se efectúa análisis de cointegración con el fin de evitar relaciones espúreas entre las series de tiempo. Los resultados sugieren que existe una correlación positiva entre la tasa de desempleo y la tasa de divorcios. También confirmamos que existe una relación cronológica cercana entre el desempleo y el divorcio.

Speed and acceleration.

En esta publicación se hace a los estudiantes preguntas, que tienen que contestar, sobre la velocidad y aceleración. Cuadros, gráficos y experimentos prácticos ayudan a entenderlas. Cada experimento o demostración contiene una lista del equipo que se necesita para realizarlo y las instrucciones paso a paso. La mayoría de los experimentos y demostraciones se pueden hacer con objetos que se pueden encontrar en el propio domicilio.

Articulation rate : effects of age, fluency, and syntactic structure

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Influencia de la deshidrataci??n en la condici??n f??sica espec??fica del k??rate (modalidad de kumite)

Se presenta un trabajo de investigaci??n sobre la deshidrataci??n y sus efectos sobre el organismo en el rendimiento deportivo de manera espec??fica. El objetivo del estudio es conocer la influencia o grado de afecci??n de la deshidrataci??n (2% inducida mediante sauna y restricci??n de l??quidos) en la condici??n f??sica del k??rate deportivo (en la modalidad de kumite o combate). La aplicaci??n de este estudio al marco escolar se centra b??sicamente en contenidos que pueden ser impartidos en la asignatura de Acondicionamiento F??sico de 2?? de Bachillerato, en alto rendimiento deportivo, prescrito en el curr??culo oficial de esta materia.

La evaluaci??n formativa en k??rate : metodolog??a observacional, autoevaluaci??n y coevaluaci??n de un kata b??sico

Comunicaci??n presentada en las Jornadas sobre Investigaci??n e Innovaci??n en la Educaci??n F??sica escolar celebradas en el CEP de La Laguna, del 2 al 5 de junio de 2010

Enhancement of oxidation rate of a-Si nanoparticles during dehydrogenation

Oxidation of amorphous silicon (a-Si) nanoparticles grown by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition were investigated. Their hydrogen content has a great influence on the oxidation rate at low temperature. When the mass gain is recorded during a heating ramp in dry air, an oxidation process at low temperature is identified with an onset around 250°C. This temperature onset is similar to that of hydrogen desorption. It is shown that the oxygen uptake during this process almost equals the number of hydrogen atoms present in the nanoparticles. To explain this correlation, we propose that oxidation at low temperature is triggered by the process of hydrogen desorption

The effect of click rate in variance ratios for auditory brainstem responses in normal hearing ears

This paper investigates the effect of varying presentation (click) rates in variance ratios for auditory brainstem responses (ABR).

Average annual reading growth rate progress of children who are deaf, use a cochlear implant and attend an auditory-oral school

Reading growth rate averages were established for children who are deaf, have a unilateral cochlear implant and attend an auditory-oral school.

Differential sensitivity to tonal frequency and to the rate of modulation of broad-band noise by hearing-impaired listeners

This dissertation examined whether a hearing impairment of the auditory end-organ has the same or a differential effect on the place and periodicity processes. Differential sensitivities for four normally hearing listeners and for both ears of five patients with unilateral Meniere’s disease were measured for tonal frequency and rate of sinusoidally amplitude-modulated noise at common frequencies and rates of the stimulus.

Global Acceleration and Dispossesion: Regression in the Right to Life and Public Health during Ecuador’s Neoliberal Decades

The present essay’s central argument or hypothesis is, consequently, that the mechanisms accelerating a wealth concentrating and exclusionary economy centred on the benefit and overprotection of big business—with a corresponding plundering of resources that are vital for life—generated forms of loss and regression in the right to healthcare and the dismantling of institutional protections. These are all expressed in indicators from 1990-2005, which point not only to the deterioration of healthcare programs and services but also to the undermining of the general conditions of life (social reproduction) and, in contrast to the reports and predictions of the era’s governments, a stagnation or deterioration in health indicators, especially for those most sensitive to the crisis. The present study’s argument is linked together across distinct chapters. First, we undertake the necessary clarification of the categories central to the understanding of a complex issue; clarifying the concept of health itself and its determinants, emphasizing the necessity of taking on an integral understanding as a fundamental prerequisite to unravelling what documents and reports from this era either leave unsaid or distort. Based on that analysis, we will explain the harmful effects of global economic acceleration, the monopolization and pillaging of strategic healthcare goods; not only those which directly place obstacles on the access to health services, but also those like the destructuration of small economies, linked to the impoverishment and worsening of living modes. Thinking epidemiologically, we intend to show signs of the deterioration of broad collectivities’ ways of life as a result of the mechanisms of acceleration and pillage. We will then collect disparate evidence of the deterioration of human health and ecosystems to, finally, establish the most urgent conclusions about this unfortunate period of our social and medical history.