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The objective of this thesis is to explore in greater depth the process of creating a public health observatory and the processing of the information needed to take territorial decisions in the county of Alt Empordà. The outcome is the creation of Indika, the Health and Social Pole of the Alt Empordà. Indika is a public health agency that acts as the territory's health and well-being agent. The objective of Indika is to generate knowledge about the impact of social determinants of health in Alt Empordà. To do so, it uses a working framework based on three points: to inform, to discuss, and to act. This working framework served to produce the visual information solutions, including infographics, collections of indicators, and a web application whose purpose is to portray the existing problems in the territory to start debate with the different political and social agents to take decisions on improvement initiatives. Apart from creating a public health observatory, two parallel lines of action have also been developed in this thesis: the creation of public structures to store information based on events as a way of structuring medical information. These two lines of investigation have resulted in the creation of the "Indika Data Repository", an information repository about the county of Alt Empordà, using the collaborative platform GitHub and the implementation of the eventr package in R programming language, and currently published in the Comprehensive R Archive Network. Eventr is a package whose purpose is to facilitate the implementation of architectures based on events ; Aquesta tesi té com a objectiu aprofundir en el procés de creació d'un observatori de salut pública i el tractament de la informació necessària per a la presa de decisions territorials a la comarca de l'Alt Empordà. El resultat ha estat la creació d'Indika pol de salut i social de l'Alt Empordà. Indika és un observatori de salut pública que actua com a agent de salut i benestar del territori. L'objectiu d'Indika és generar coneixement sobre ...

The objective of this thesis is to explore in greater depth the process of creating a public health observatory and the processing of the information needed to take territorial decisions in the county of Alt Empordà. The outcome is the creation of Indika, the Health and Social Pole of the Alt Empordà. Indika is a public health agency that acts as the territory's health and well-being agent. The objective of Indika is to generate knowledge about the impact of social determinants of health in Alt Empordà. To do so, it uses a working framework based on three points: to inform, to discuss, and to act. This working framework served to produce the visual information solutions, including infographics, collections of indicators, and a web application whose purpose is to portray the existing problems in the territory to start debate with the different political and social agents to take decisions on improvement initiatives. Apart from creating a public health observatory, two parallel lines of action have also been developed in this thesis: the creation of public structures to store information based on events as a way of structuring medical information. These two lines of investigation have resulted in the creation of the "Indika Data Repository", an information repository about the county of Alt Empordà, using the collaborative platform GitHub and the implementation of the eventr package in R programming language, and currently published in the Comprehensive R Archive Network. Eventr is a package whose purpose is to facilitate the implementation of architectures based on events ; Aquesta tesi té com a objectiu aprofundir en el procés de creació d'un observatori de salut pública i el tractament de la informació necessària per a la presa de decisions territorials a la comarca de l'Alt Empordà. El resultat ha estat la creació d'Indika pol de salut i social de l'Alt Empordà. Indika és un observatori de salut pública que actua com a agent de salut i benestar del territori. L'objectiu d'Indika és generar coneixement sobre ...

A partir de 2011 se ha reforzado el gobierno económico de la UE a través de seis instrumentos legislativos, el llamado Six Pack, que supone fundamentalmente una reforma de la supervisión de la política presupuestaria de los Estados miembros. Más recientemente el Tratado de estabilidad, coordinación y gobernanza de UE de marzo de 2012 (TECGUE) establece un conjunto de normas destinadas a promover la disciplina presupuestaria a través de un pacto presupuestario a reforzar la coordinación de sus políticas económicas y a mejorar la gobernanza de la zona del euro. En el presente trabajo se analiza si este modelo basado en una estricta disciplina presupuestaria es compatible con los postulados del Estado social, y más concretamente con los principios de justicia del gasto público. En efecto, a partir de la reforma del art. 135 de la Constitución Española, el principio de estabilidad presupuestaria debe ser interpretado coordinadamente con otros principios constitucionales que en el momento presente están plenamente vigentes y pueden adquirir una nueva función: la de actuar como límite y medida del objetivo de estabilidad presupuestaria. Del mismo modo se analizan los principios de coordinación entre las políticas presupuestarias y de endeudamiento de los Estados miembros en un Estado con una pluralidad de Haciendas, como es el caso español. ; From 2011 onwards, the Economic Governance of the EU on the Member States has been strengthened through six main instruments of legislation, the so-called Six Pack, which is primarily a supervision reform of the Member States budgetary policy. More recently Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance of EU from March 2012 (TECGUE) establishes a set of rules aimed to promote the budgetary discipline through a fiscal pact, to strengthen the coordination of their economic policies and to improve governance within the euro area. In this paper we analyze whether this model based on a strict budgetary discipline is well-matched with the tenets of the welfare state, and more specifically with the public spending principles of justice. Indeed, since the reform of art. 135 of the Spanish Constitution, the principle of budgetary stability should be interpreted in coordination with other constitutional principles which at present are in full force and can acquire a new role: to operate as a boundary and a extent of the budgetary stability objective. Similarly, principles of coordination between the General Government Debt and Budgetary Policies of the Member States within a state with a plurality of Public Finances, such as the Spanish case, have been also analyzed.

'Writing is a process; the act of transforming thoughts into print requires a non-linear sequence of stages or creative acts' (James B. Gray, cited by Cassany, 1993). I would add that it is also the act of transforming experience. This article describes my own personal process of transformation in the experience and understanding of vulnerable employment - a slow, open, recursive and difficult process. The first, academic, section flows easily. Then things get harder. The auto-ethnography was the most challenging part. Firstly because it was a matter of personal reflection; then because of a having to strip naked, as it were. Finding a reasonably elegant and flexible way to link the two sections was demanding, and one of the objectives of the exercise was to reach a satisfactorily readable end result.

In defence of democracy -- Legal -- Summary -- Preface -- Presentation by Miquel Caminal -- Presentation by Francesc Xavier Grau1 -- Introduction -- Translator's Note -- Democracy -- Liberalism -- Democracy and corporatism -- Spiritual problems -- The crisis of democracy -- The defects of democracy -- The objectivity of democracy -- The stability of democracy -- The relativity of democracy -- On equality among men -- Universal suffrage -- The criterion of quality in voting -- Social classification -- Truth in this world -- Parliament and democracy -- Party spirit -- Mysticism and democracy

Anti-fascism makes working or fighting against fscism the top priority, and two basic types of anti-fascism emerged in Europe and North America from 1936 to 1945. The first was revolutionary; the second was conservative and even counterrevolutionary. From the Munich Agreement to the fall of France, and in the face of strong isolationist opposition, US counterrevolutionary anti-fascists—who are usually labeled "interventionists" in the historiography—articulated to an increasingly sympathetic public how fascist regimes jeopardized the United States' national security and way of life.

This paper describes the steps undertaken by the Barcelona Institute of Culture (ICUB) to standardize criteria for describing and analysing the content of municipal museums' humanities heritage collections. The project began with an initial analysis, which led to a series of proposals based on documentation standards. These proposals were then examined with the museums in various work sessions. The result is a handbook of documentation guidelines and criteria that can be applied in all museums. At the same time, a work plan was made to adopt as a reference a Catalan translation of the Art & Architecture Thesaurus. The Catalan government's Directorate General for Cultural Heritage is responsible for the translation. Finally, the paper analyses the importance of this process of standardization in the context of new challenges for the dissemination of museum heritage online: Europeana and Linked Open Data.

This research analyses the patterns of social interaction of a specific group of young people who play on-line games in a cybercafe in Barcelona. This group can be classified as a hybrid -on-line/ off-line- since their face-to-face interaction alternates with, and is frequently superimposed on, their virtual interaction. This means that the delocalization that accompanies other uses of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) occurs only in a limited way. What does take place is a reinterpretation of the forms of social interaction of whatever group of young people; at the same time, there is also an interpretation of new information technologies, adapting them to traditional forms of socialization. It is possible to observe how physical place and cyberplace are united and intermingled in various ways, as are face-to-face life and cyber-experience.

Com la seva generació, Valls és marcat per la Guerra Civil i la repressió franquista. Per això veié la humanitat des del realisme polític pessimista i agonista; i cercà fonamentar filosòficament un «nosaltres» que acabés amb la lluita de tots contra tots. Analitzem els seus atacs als «nosaltres» construïts sobre la classe, la cultura o nació, la societat civil o el «jo» individual, l'emotivisme i el moralisme, que són impotents i alimenten el natural «agonisme» humà. A canvi, Valls primer va creure trobar el «nosaltres» en l'Església, però se'n desmarcà radicalment i només confià en una versió hegeliana de l'Estat. En aquest article, fem un balanç de l'obra i la docència acadèmica del professor recentment desaparegut ; Like the rest of his generation, Valls was marked by the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist repression. Therefore he viewed humanity from realpolitik, pessimistic and agonistic; he searched to give a philosophical base to an "we" which would end the struggle of one against another. We analyze his attacks on "we" built on class, culture or nationality, civil society o the "I" individual, emotivism or moralism, which are impotent and feed the natural human "agonism". Instead, Valls first thought he'd found the "we" in the church, but then changed radically and only trusted the Hegelian version of the state. In this article we take a balance of the work and teaching of the recently departed professor