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World impact of kernel European Union 9 countries from Google matrix analysis of the world trade network
(Springer, 2021-05)
We use the United Nations COMTRADE database for analysis of the multiproduct world trade network. With this data, considered for years 2012–2018, we determined the world trade impact of the Kernel of EU 9 countries (KEU9), ...
Existence and definability of states of the world
(Elsevier Science, 2005-01)
We present here a notion of state of the world general enough to embrace most circular phenomena in economics and game theory. We prove that it obtains by unfolding beliefs only if the process of belief generation has a ...
World Images and The Time-Space Notions: From An Epistemological Point of View
(Paripex, 2014-02)
This paper propose to show the relevance of a reconsideration of the time-space notions, in order to make possible an epistemological analysis of the world images as an ontological component of theories. The argumentative ...
World Literatures, Cosmopolitan Publics: Welcoming the PEN Club to Buenos Aires in 1936
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2019-06)
In this article we use the rich sources provided by the press coverage of the 1936 Congress of the PEN Club in Buenos Aires to examine international interactions around literature in times of violence and censorship. We ...
Le world university service et l´Amérique latineThe itinerary of world university service in Latin America
(Institut Pierre Renouvin - Université Paris I, 2014-11)
Le World University Service, organisation internationale créée en 1920, oeuvrait dans trois dominaines distincts: l´eduction, l´aide au développement et les droits de l´homme. Dans les années 1950, son champ d´activité ...
An analytics approach to the FIFA ranking procedure and the World Cup final draw
(Springer, 2019-03)
This paper analyzes the procedure used by FIFA up until 2018 to rank national football teams and define by random draw the groups for the initial phase of the World Cup finals. A predictive model is calibrated to form a ...
World-Systems from ‘the Theory’ to ‘a Perspective’: On Social Interconnections in Bronze Age Afro-Eurasia
(Freie Universität Berlin. Excellence Cluster Topoi, 2020-10)
Boundaries, limits and frontiers are topics of special interest to those involved in studying interconnectivity among different societies, both past and present. World-Systems Analysis (WSA), derived from World-Systems ...
Neurocognitive determinants of performance variability among world-language users
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014-04)
Although the notion of world language has been variously defined, most accounts acknowledge inter-user performance variability as a key aspect of the construct. The sociocultural aspects of such a phenomenon have been ...
The conundrum of functional brain networks: Small-world efficiency or fractal modularity
(Frontiers Editorial, 2012-05)
The human brain has been studied at multiple scales, from neurons, circuits, areas with well-defined anatomical and functional boundaries, to large-scale functional networks which mediate coherent cognition. In a recent ...
Vacuum thin shells in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet brane-world cosmology
(IOP Publishing, 2018-03)
In this paper we construct new solutions of the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet field equations in an isotropic Shiromizu-Maeda-Sasaki brane-world setting which represent a couple of Z 2-symmetric vacuum thin shells splitting from ...