EU ANTI-COVID POLICY IN THE WESTERN BALKANS

The pandemic generated by COVID-19 has brought new challenges for global politics. For this reason, the EU has been changing its policy towards the Western Balkans. The entire region is known to be engaged in the European integration process, which has received new issues associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the «Team Europe» package was launched on April 2020 to support EU partner countries in response to coronavirus and its consequences. This programme includes the most vulnerable countries of the European Neighborhood Policy, Africa and the Western Balkans. The core task was to back the health system and the socio-economic recovery of the partner states. In addition, the distribution of vaccines against COVID-19, called as «vaccine diplomacy», has become a peculiar policy area. The EU is vigorously involved in this process, especially allocating funds to the COVAX program and its internal distribution mechanisms. Consequently, the purpose of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of the EU anti-crisis policy in the Western Balkans. The article deals with the initial measures implemented by the EU to aid the countries of the region. Moreover, the author touches upon the issue of the launching of the EU’s vaccine distribution process.

The Discipline as a Field of Struggle

This chapter is an inquiry into the discipline of international law as a social form. What is that content which is contained within this form? What sort of social structure does it presume and enable? Taking as its point of departure the concept of knowledge production, this chapter develops a critical account of international law as a field of theoretical labour and ideological contestation. How is the process of knowledge-production in international law today actually set up? What are those basic products which it produces? What kind of added value does it add to them and how is this value extracted and appropriated in practice? This chapter seeks to explain the disciplinary politic that surrounds these and other related issues as a reflection of discursively sublimated inter-group conflicts, the ultimate object of which is the internal distribution of resources and the power to decide the intra-disciplinary division of labour.

Hombres de la villa y hombres de fuera de la villa en Piera durante la Baja Edad Media

Analysis of the unpublished documentation about Piera (Catalonia) between the 10th and 15th centuries to interpret the late-medieval organisation of the “man from outside the town” against the “men of the town” in fiscal and defensive matters. The agrarian landscape created in 10th-11th centuries where the disorganised frontier area was, saw an increase in the farmed area in the 12th and 13th centuries, creating farms in emphyteusis and with monasteries and urban investors accumulating direct domain. This increased tax burden on the peasants by the owners at the end of the 13th and early 14th centuries, led to the first complaint to the king by the men from outside the town against the men of the town. This would be repeated shortly after regarding the internal distribution of the Crown’s fiscal demands and in the second half of the century, for the defensive system. The difficulties arisen in the second half of the 14th century show the unviability of many of the farms created in the previous century and contributed to the accumulation of property among the urban investing elite. The urban influence on the countryside –for the town itself and for the bourgeoisie of Barcelona and their monastery of Pedralbes– favoured heavy pressure in the 15th century, the nullification of the rural capacity for organisation and a malaise that led to the negotiated reduction in the tax burden.

Influence of Thermal Enclosures on Energy Saving Simulations of Residential Building Typologies in European Climatic Zones

Nowadays, the computational simulation of the energy consumption in buildings is a key issue to determine the most proficient configuration between the construction solutions and the necessary equipment, without compromising comfort and accomplishing the legal requirements for each country. The feasible and most profitable solutions can lead to minimizing CO2 emissions and environmental impact. In this work, the internal enclosures influencing the evaluation of energy consumption by energy simulation have been analysed in order to obtain an accurate solution when all the information regarding the internal partitions is not available. The main aim of the present research was to evaluate the role of internal distribution in the simulations of the total building energy consumption. Differences between the results of the energy simulations of buildings that are calculated considering their internal distribution, and those in which only the exterior geometry that makes up the perimeter of the envelope are being described. In this way, it is intended to establish a correction factor based on the building typology and the European climate zone that allows simulation tools to describe the energy reality of a building without knowing its internal distribution.

Empirical evaluation on the effect of enterprise quality immune response based on EMIBSGTD-TAS

Effective enterprise quality immune response can grasp the “pathogenesis”, “clinical manifestations” and “treatment” of enterprise quality dissident factors, which is the goal pursued continuously by enterprise quality management. Drawing on the theory of enterprise immunity, construct the evaluation index system of enterprise quality immune response effect, and use the evaluation model of interval binary semantic grey target decision based on two-dimensional association sampling (EMIBSGTD-TAS) to evaluate the quality immune response effect of the selected target company. The boundary and internal distribution situation weaken the influence of the extreme value of the index on the decision result, and introduce the interval binary semantic set value statistical method to determine the index weight, reduce the information loss and fuzzy error. It can be seen from the evaluation results that the model has practicability and feasibility, and provides a new idea for the evaluation of the effect of enterprise quality immune response.

THE ROLE OF INTERNAL MARKETING IN ACHIEVING EMPLOYEE`S SATISFACTION - A FIELD STUDY ON A SAMPLE OF ALGERIA TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMERCIAL AGENCY EMPLOYEES IN THE CITY OF (LAGHOUAT) ALGERIA-

It has become imperative for enterprises that are active in the face of intense competition, to provide all the appropriate conditions in which they keep their employees, as they are a major source of success and superiority, so they must achieve their satisfaction. The most important marketing mechanisms on which the enterprise depends in achieving excellence are: "Internal Marketing", a modern marketing concept that cares about employees and focuses on ensuring their satisfaction, where they feel that they are an effective partner that does not spare him and contributes to the growth of the enterprise and its superiority, because the employee is an internal client and his satisfaction will inevitably achieve the satisfaction of the external client. Therefore, this research aims to identify its theoretical concepts, and the extent to which it is applied in practice through a study: the role of internal marketing in achieving the satisfaction of Algeria telecommunications commercial agency employees in the city of (Laghouat) Algeria. The study found a statistically significant role for the internal marketing of Algeria telecommunications commercial agency in Laghouat city in achieving the satisfaction of employees at the 5% level of significance, and the factor that has the biggest role is "internal distribution

Hierarchical star formation in nearby galaxies

Aims. The purpose of this work is to study the properties of the spatial distribution of the young population in three nearby galaxies in order to better understand the first stages of star formation. Methods. We used ACS/HST photometry and the “path-linkage criterion” in order to obtain a catalog of young stellar groups (YSGs) in the galaxy NGC 2403. We studied the internal distribution of stars in these YSGs using the Q parameter. We extended these analyses to the YSGs detected in in NGC 300 and NGC 253 our previous works. We built the young stars’ density maps for these three galaxies. Through these maps, we were able to identify and study young stellar structures on larger scales. Results. We found 573 YSGs in the galaxy NGC 2403, for which we derived their individual sizes, densities, luminosity function, and other fundamental characteristics. We find that the vast majority of the YSGs in NGC 2403, NGC 300 and NGC 253 present inner clumpings, following the same hierarchical behavior that we observed in the young stellar structures on larger scales in these galaxies. We derived values of the fractal dimension for these structures between ∼1.5 and 1.6. These values are very similar to those obtained in other star forming galaxies and in the interstellar medium, suggesting that the star formation process is regulated by supersonic turbulence.