Simulación del crecimiento urbano con AMEBA: Modelo Basado en Agentes para la ocupación residencial by Carolina Cantergiani, Montserrat Gómez Delgado

“… La utilización de Modelos Basados en Agentes (MBA) abre nuevas posibilidades para simular, entender y analizar los resultados del proceso de crecimiento y ocupación urbana teniendo en cuenta diferentes actores implicados en el mismo. El prototipo AMEBA (Agent-based Model for the Evolution of urBan Areas) pretende simular este fenómeno, donde interactúan planificadores, promotores inmobiliarios y la población, a partir del desarrollo de tres submodelos independientes. …”
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Public accountability and institutional change in Latin America. Introduction to dossier by Adrián Gurza-Lavalle

“…We analyze the interdependence between these types of control through a typology based on coercion and par-ticipation in the interplays between the State and non-State actors. We then review the main challenges raised by the institutional changes that have occurred in Latin America since the democratic transitions. …”
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THE TRANSFORMATIONAL EVOLUTION OF THE ROMANIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE-SRI IN THE LIGHT OF THE SECURITY SECTOR REFORM by Iulia-Mihaela DRĂGAN

“…As the intelligence services represent a category of the core actors of the security sector in a state, this article aims to gradually evaluate the implementation of the reform attributes using a methodology based on the analysis of activity reports and relevant public documents, starting from the establishment of SRI to present. …”
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The geographical factors affecting ICT diffusion process in the healthcare sector. A case study in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan by Tsutomu Nakamura

“…Regional differences in diffusion patterns and their factors are indicated through a focus on the decision-making of related actors, including system-promoting agencies. This study also clarifies the status of system utilization and the effects of and issues with the system. …”
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Not tourism-phobia but urban-philia: understanding stakeholders’ perceptions of urban touristification by Asunción Blanco-Romero, Macià Blàzquez-Salom, Marc Morell, Robert Fletcher

“…We endeavour to understand the meaning that different actors involved in the city's touristification attach to this term, and in particular the perceptions of citizens’ movements that claim to espouse not tourism-phobia but urban-philia. …”
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Le rôle des milieux de presse dans la fondation de l’Etat belge et la création d’une « opinion publique » nationale (1830-1860) by Pierre Van den Dungen

“…These opinion-piece writers established themselves as ‘patriots’ and Belgians fighting against the Dutch government press and its wage-earning publicists publicists. Major actors in the Belgian Revolution of 1830, they rose to hold important office in the new State. …”
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La gobernanza regional compleja del comercio electrónico latinoamericano: una perspectiva comparada de la Alianza del Pacífico, la Comunidad Andina y el Mercosur by Julissa Castro-Silva

“…Methodology: A comparative qualitative analysis of the Pacific Alliance, the Andean Community, and Mercosur, together with process tracing, will shed light on their progress in this area, taking into account the degree of linkage they maintain with three mechanisms that foster collaboration and coordination dynamics among various institutions an d actors. Conclusions: The analysis shows that, within systems characterized by growing institutional density and diversity—such as the Latin American e-commerce environment—regional cooperation can be facilitated when regional trade agreements are embedded in a broader trade regime, where there is a clear sequencing among different agreements, and when orchestrators and policy networks are present. …”
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Modelo de gestión del conocimiento para el desarrollo agropecuario local by Alexander Báez Hernández, Carlos Alberto Hernández Medina, José Manuel Perdomo Vázquez, Roberto Garcés González, Magdalys Alibet Carrasco

“…Limitaciones: es necesario capacitar a los actores locales al realizar estos emprendimientos pues el desconocimiento puede traer grandes fracasos. …”
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Perros y antimineros: Discursos extractivistas y prácticas represivas en el Perú by Rocío Silva Santisteban

“…Sus expresiones radicales están en calificar a los actores de las resistencias locales como «perros», colocados en una otredad radical recubierta de desprecio, asco y temor.…”
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THE “SOFTPOWER” POLICY OF TURKEY TOWARDS GEORGIA by L. M. Aleksanyan

“…At present moment the interests of both regional (Turkey, Iran) and global actors (the United States, NATO, the EU, Russia and others.) intersect in the region. …”
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Strategies to improve access to cognitive behavioral therapies for anxiety disorders: A scoping review. by Jean-Daniel Carrier, Frances Gallagher, Alain Vanasse, Pasquale Roberge

“…Each of these strategies is defined, and critical information for their operationalization is provided, including the actors that could be involved in their implementation.…”
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THE PHENOMENON OF FLAGSHIP UNIVERSITIES OF REGIONAL ECONOMY IN MODERN RUSSIA by S. A. IVANOV, E. N. SOKOL-NOMOKONOV

“…The paper attempts to determine the status and goals of establishing flagship universities, to organize the planning of their activities, to structure and interact with other actors in the region. The authors mark out the following main functions the flagship universities perform: to prepare and to realize a wide range of educational programs for perspective economic system of the region; to do a wide range of initiative research in the sphere of regional development, using spatial resources of the region, environmental protection, development regional and local societies which transform into subsequent actions and decisions of regional and local authorities; together with regional authorities to create technological platforms which ensure the transformation of the results of educational and research activities into real innovative businesses in the process of experimental modeling of relevant business processes. …”
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Marché foncier et évolution des usages et des valeurs de la terre agricole à Regueb (Tunisie) by Mathilde Fautras

“…The aim of this article is to understand the process of land commodification, by analysing the land market “local system of actors”, and the relationships between this system and the evolution of the uses and the values of a land. …”
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¿Una revolución pacífica y armada? Cambio, conflicto, violencia social y política durante la revolución bolivariana de Venezuela, 1989-2006 by José Ignacio Ponce López

“…Se contextualiza el desarrollo sociopolítico venezolano entre 1989 y 2006, para sostener que, entre estos años, la violencia social y política ha estado muy presente, pero reconociéndose distintos momentos y tendencias en su devenir al ser aplicada por distintos actores: el movimiento popular, el gobierno, la oposición partidista y empresarial. …”
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Crisis y transformaciones recientes en la región vitivinícola argentina. Mendoza y San Juan, 1970-2005 by Rodolfo A. Richard-Jorba

“…La mención de algunos antecedentes sobre un siglo de trayectoria vitivinícola permiten apreciar con mayor claridad las transformaciones recientes de la agroindustria y el papel de los diferentes actores sociales involucrados. Particularmente destacados son los cambios operados por el Estado, que actuó como promotor, regulador y empresario, desregulador y, nuevamente, promotor, pero siempre articulado con los sectores empresarios. …”
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Rising Value of Turkish Foreign Policy: Cultural Diplomacy by Fırat Purtaş

“…Thus, a strategy to be developed by leading NGOs which are the main actors of cultural diplomacy, and providing them the resources they need, will not only strengthen the democratic structure of the country. …”
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Kitsch and Avant-garde Television in Blackpool (Peter Bowker, BBC, 2004) by Nicole Cloarec

“…In a device reminiscent of Dennis Potter’s work, actors burst into song sequences and dance routines with their voice superimposed on the original, blurring the distinction between diegetic and non-diegetic origins and undermining all mimetic illusion. …”
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Ambiguity and confusion around the celebration of the Mawlid. by Mehdi Berriah

“…The first is to analyse the reception of Ibn Taymiyya’s words on the subject and how they are used and integrated into the discourse of contemporary religious actors involved in the debate on the Mawlid. The second aim is to use the comparison of sources to clarify Ibn Taymiyya’s stance on the Mawlid, a topic that is unquestionably relevant in ongoing debates within the Muslim religious community.…”
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Le microphone dans la balance : espaces et enjeux sonores des procès historiques des attentats de Paris et de Nice by Aurore Juvenelle

“…Listening to these trials is then analyzing the sound as a central issue of a device aimed at ensuring the publicity of the proceedings to an exceptional number of actors, particularly the civil parties, inside and outside the courtroom. …”
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Vestir la democracia by Verónica Joly

“…El trabajo indaga en el discurso de los principales actores vinculados al inicio del DIYT: expertos convocados a la FADU para la creación de la carrera, autoridades universitarias que instituyeron el Diseño en la UBA, artistas y diseñadores de los años 80 relacionados con la primera cátedra de Diseño de Indumentaria y agentes de difusión del fenómeno en la época. …”
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