The sources suggested for the originally British and variously spelled English slang idiom put the kibosh on [...] are so diverse — ranging, for example, from Irish and Scots Gaelic to Yiddish and Hebrew, not to mention English — that…

Tanto en sus escritos narrativos como en los políticos, sociológicos e históricos, es posible percibir en José Victorino Lastarria un idealismo latente –cifrado en la máxima «combatir la ignorancia»– que va construyendo una filantropía señera en las coordenadas latinoamericanas. La…

In recent years, several contributions have been focused on a new sort of productive systems that share some characteristics with Marshallian industrial districts. These contributions have analysed the competitiveness of these new areas and how have been promoted by policy…

We develop a theory to explain the transition from stagnation to modern growth. We focus on the forces that shaped the evolution of total factor productivity in agriculture and manufacturing across history. More specifically, we build a multisector model of…

En este artículo se presenta un sistema de conversión fonética con información fonológica para el gallego. El conversor permite evaluar diferentes procesos fonológicos como la silabificación o la derivación fonológica, así como transcribir automáticamente léxicos con información fonética de diferentes…

There is no enough evidence about the effects of the new information and communication technologies (ICT) in Spain and how these ICT cause differences between regions. So, the aim of this work is to analyze the regional disparities relative to…

Se presentan los aspectos técnicos, científicos y culturales más sobresalientes desarrollados desde el año 2001 en relación con las investigaciones del Proyecto Fonelas. Esta investigación tiene su eje en el conocimiento integral de los registros del yacimiento de grandes mamíferos…

The construction of a teenager population’s citizenship identity is influenced by the cultural and social capital belonging to every student, as well as by two aspects of school organisation. On the one hand, there is an academic contribution motivated by…

Adaptive websites usually change as effect of user navigational actions. Most current web engineering approaches (which consider personalization) allow to detect basic user browsing behaviour (e.g. user click on a link) but don’t consider the definition of (complex) behaviour events…

The consideration of personalization politics in the context of any web application modelling method obliges to the revision of its different modelling activities, which must be adapted to take into account the information regarding the user (usually gathered in a…