International Complementarities of National Capitalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 114-139
Author(s):  
Philip Manow
Keyword(s):  
German Economy ◽  
State Reform ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Wage Moderation ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Long Time ◽  
German Model ◽  
The Common ◽  
Welfare State Reform

The adjustment pattern of the German model to low growth and to the transition to the service economy proved unsustainable in the medium to long term, and ultimately led to a profound welfare state reform that in many respects broke with the quasi-corporatism of Modell Deutschland. This has been associated with the spectacular revival of the German economy, before and after the Great Recession, also because its competitive characteristics were significantly strengthened within the euro area. Yet, the success of Modell Deutschland of course also contributes to the increasing imbalances and to the divergent economic dynamics within the common currency area, which ultimately have the potential to disrupt it. The chapter explains in more detail how wage moderation remained stable in Germany even though the strategic interaction with the German Bundesbank, on which the wage-moderation arrangement for a long time had been based, was a thing of the past after the introduction of the euro. It points to functional equivalents for the disciplining effect of Germany’s accommodating social policy.

scholarly journals KINEMATIC ANALYSIS EVOLUTION OF EXTENDED LANDSLIDES: TWO CASE STUDIES FROM WESTERN GREECE

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 730
Author(s):  
K. Kavoura ◽  
S. Anagnostopoulou ◽  
K. Servou ◽  
N. Depoundis ◽  
K. Nikolakopoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Model ◽  
Temporal Evolution ◽  
Data Normalization ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Triggering Factor ◽  
The Common ◽  
Western Greece ◽  
Heavy Rainfalls

Two of the most well known historical landslide occurrences are analyzed and their temporal evolution is presented. The sites of Panagopoula and Karya are often referred as the most representative cases of long term ground displacements based on inclinometer monitoring data. Regarding these cases, the heavy rainfalls constitute the main controlling (triggering) factor, while flysch is the critical landslide-prone formation which significantly contributes to landsliding. The inclinometer data through a long time period were analyzed and typical movement diagrams were compiled. A simple statistical model including data normalization through several active stages (phases) of movement is used to identify the common kinematic features as well as to estimate the velocity trend type of movement.

scholarly journals Xenointoxication of a Rabbit for the Control of the Common Bed Bug Cimex lectularius L. Using Ivermectin

Scientifica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Gale E. Ridge ◽  
Wade Elmer ◽  
Stephanie Gaines ◽  
Xiaolin Li ◽  
Danie Schlatzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Cimex Lectularius ◽  
Blood Levels ◽  
Bed Bugs ◽  
Bed Bug ◽  
Antiparasitic Drug ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Common

Human bed bug infestations have undergone a recent global resurgence. The human antiparasitic drug ivermectin has been proposed as a strategy to help control bed bug infestations, but in vivo data are lacking. We allowed separate populations of the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius L., to feed once on a rabbit before and after it was injected subcutaneously with 0.3 mg/kg of ivermectin, and bed bug morbidity and mortality were recorded. Ivermectin levels in the rabbit were measured using high-performance liquid chromatography and mass spectroscopy. Ivermectin blood levels of ∼2 ng/mL caused reductions in bed bug fecundity, and levels of >8 ng/mL caused bed bug death and long-term morbidity including reductions in refeeding, mobility, reproduction, and molting. Gut bacterial cultures from the fed bed bugs showed that ivermectin altered the bed bug gut microbiome.

Labour market fluctuations in GIPS – shocks vs adjustments

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 913-939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Antosiewicz ◽  
Piotr Lewandowski
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Open Economy ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
German Economy ◽  
Impulse Response Functions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Cyclical Fluctuations ◽  
German Model ◽  
Lower Variability

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify factors behind cyclical fluctuations and differences in adjustments to shocks in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain (GIPS) and a reference country – Germany. The authors try to answer the question whether the GIPS countries could have fared differently in the Great Recession if they reacted to shocks affecting them like a resilient German economy would have. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a DSGE model of real open economy with search and matching on the labour market and endogenous job destruction, estimated separately for each country. The authors calculate impulse response functions, historical decompositions and perform counterfactual simulations of the response of the German model to the sequence of shocks identified for each of GIPS. Findings The authors find that all GIPS countries were more vulnerable to productivity and foreign demand shocks than Germany. They would have experienced lower macroeconomic volatility if they reacted to their shocks like Germany. Employment (unemployment) rates in GIPS would have been less volatile and higher (lower) during the Great Recession, especially in Spain and Greece. Real wage volatility would have been higher, especially in Spain and Portugal. Originality/value The trade-off between unemployment and wage adjustments vis-à-vis Germany was the largest in Spain, which also would have experienced lower variability of job separations and hirings. The evolution of the labour market in Greece and Portugal was driven rather by its higher responsiveness to GDP fluctuations than in Germany, whereas Italy emerges as the least responsive labour market within GIPS.

scholarly journals European Growth Models Before and After the Great Recession

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-134
Author(s):  
Lucio Baccaro ◽  
Jonas Pontusson
Keyword(s):  
Growth Models ◽  
German Economy ◽  
Growth Dynamics ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Net Exports ◽  
Economic Stagnation ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The One ◽  
The Uk

This chapter summarizes and elaborates on the “growth models perspective” proposed by Baccaro and Pontusson (2016). In addition, the chapter updates the previous analysis of post-Fordist growth trajectories in Germany, Italy, Sweden and the UK. With growth models operationalized in terms of the contributions of different components of aggregate demands to GDP growth, the analysis shows that the growth models that these countries adopted in the period prior to the crisis of 2008–10 have by and large persisted into the 2010s. Exports remain the driver of German economy while household consumption remains the key to British economic growth and Italy continues to be mired by economic stagnation. Sweden is the one case for which one observes a shift in growth dynamics in the wake of the crisis, with domestic consumption playing a more important role relative to net exports.

Mechanical characteristics and surface elemental composition of a Yasargil titanium aneurysm clip after long-term implantation

2010 ◽  
Vol 112 (6) ◽  
pp. 1260-1262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasunari Otawara ◽  
Kuniaki Ogasawara ◽  
Hiroshi Kashimura ◽  
Yoshitaka Kubo ◽  
Akira Ogawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Titanium Alloy ◽  
Mechanical Characteristics ◽  
Bending Test ◽  
Corrosion Resistant ◽  
Aneurysm Clip ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Long Time ◽  
And Control

The mechanical properties of titanium-alloy aneurysm clips after long-term implantation in the human cranium are unclear. The characteristics of a Yasargil titanium aneurysm clip were evaluated after long-term implantation for 12 years in a patient with a cerebral aneurysm. The closing forces of the retrieved clip before and after implantation were approximately equal. The bending test showed no differences between the retrieved and control clips. Titanium oxide and calcium were identified on the surface of the retrieved clip, which indicated the formation of corrosion-resistant layers. Titanium-alloy clips retain their mechanical properties in the human cranium for a long time.

scholarly journals CONFLICTIZATION OF UKRAINIAN ETHNOCULTURAL SPACE AS THE OBJECT OF UKRAINIAN STUDIES

2019 ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
Yuriy Fihurnyi
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Common ◽  
Further Development

The article deals with the essence of Ukrainian ethnic, national and ethnocultural processes and their influence on the development of the Ukrainian ethnocultural space as an object of Ukrainian studies. Ethnic processes have been found to be sequential changes that have occurred and will occur with the Ukrainian people throughout their development and existence as a self-sufficient ethnic community, and are directly related to the ethnogenesis of Ukrainians. It is proved that nation-building processes are complex transformations that occur both in a regular order (evolutionary) and abrupt (revolutionary) and contribute to the formation of a nation, the highest form of political structuring of the ethnic group and its further development and self-organization, which eventually lead to political emergence. nation, and the creation of Ukrainian civil society. It is shown, that the Ukrainian ethno-cultural processes is a process of a long-term historical development, in which Ukrainians created on the territories of their existence an ethno-cultural space based on the common origin and territories of Ukrainians, the existence of traditional Ukrainian culture, the intriduction of the Christian faith. It was pointed out that the Ukrainian ethnocultural space includes a peculiar and unique complex of material and spiritual culture of the Ukrainian people created during a long time, and acquired originality and perfection. Eight “conflicting points” in Ukrainian ethnocultural development have been determined. The synergistic interaction of ethnic, state-forming, nation-forming and ethno-cultural processes contributed to the long-time consistent development of the Ukrainians from a small ethnic community lived in the Middle Dnieper as their core trerritiry to the modern nation whose representatves are living on different continents.

scholarly journals Multi-Timescale Education Program for Temporal Expansion in Ecocentric Education: Using Fixed-Point Time-Lapse Images for Phenology Observation

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuhiko W. Nakamura ◽  
Akio Fujiwara ◽  
Hill Hiroki Kobayashi ◽  
Kaoru Saito
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Time Lapse ◽  
School Students ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Time Concepts ◽  
The Common

Ecocentric education programs should include a method for the in-depth understanding of multi-scale ecological time concepts. To accomplish this, the common restriction that ecocentric education should pertain only to realistic nature may have to be removed. The purpose of this research was to confirm the validity of a program featuring phenology observation, employing fixed-point time-lapse images as climate change learning, and to obtain suggestions on the influence of the program on the multi-timescale concepts of the learners. An observation sheet listing images of cherry flowering from 16 April to 15 March each year from 1996 to 2017 was created, and the 50-min educational program using the observation sheet was conducted with 189 third year junior high school students. The tendencies among students’ answers to the two questions before and after the program suggest that the program contributed to the students acquiring the hundreds-year timescale concept based on the short-term timescale concept of dynamic nature. The contribution of this research is to visualize long-term and multi-scale ecological time concepts. By combining long-term time-lapse images with everyday nature experiences, the possibility of expanding such emotions as wonder and attachment to nature towards a long-term ecological timescale is achieved.

Time Progress of Compressive Strength of High Performance Concrete

2013 ◽  
Vol 486 ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ondřej Holčapek ◽  
Filip Vogel ◽  
Tomáš Vavřiník ◽  
Martin Keppert
Keyword(s):  
Compressive Strength ◽  
High Performance ◽  
High Performance Concrete ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Ultra High Performance Concrete ◽  
Lower Strength ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Common

Development in the field of concrete engineering is increasingly focused on the practical application of high performance concrete (HPC) or ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) in construction practise. Newly developed kings of concrete are newly using in transport and building structures. The process of hydration of hydraulic binders based on Portland cement doesn ́t stop after 28 days, when the test of compressive strength take place, but it ́s a long time process that takes for many months. For design we use the values of strength of 28 days. This paper explorers how does the long-term development of compressive strength of HPC runs. The composition of HPC is significantly different from the common concrete lower strength classes. The question of the influence of additives, filler on microsilica based, silica flour to the time development of compressive strength is being explored in this paper. There is also recorded the influence of curing condition of the test specimens to the compressive strength. The age of testing samples starts at a very early ages 1, 3, 7, 21, 28, 45, 90 and 180 days. The strength in uniaxial compression was measured on cubes with dimension 100 mm.

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