Globalization and the Scrambling Process of Catching Up in Mexico

Clemente Ruiz Duran 서울대학교 경제연구소 2019 Seoul journal of economics Vol.32 No.1

In the last 50 years, Mexico’s manufacturing growth has been fostered, although its competitiveness has relied on the low wage paradigm. In this article, the country’s immersion in globalization is analyzed, thereby departing from the effects derived by the oil crisis that forced the country to leave the trap of natural resources to generate productive value chains through the economic opening boosted by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and subsequently, by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Such economic opening allowed the development of global value chains through original equipment manufacturing in the automotive, electronics, pharmaceutical, and medical devices industries. However, this process has been characterized by low investment coefficients and scarce innovation compared with Korea, Malaysia and China, due to the lack of an institutional framework that could have promoted innovation to allow the country to overcome the middle-income trap.

Biochar Characterization: Evaluating their Potential as Sources of Stable C And Inorganic Nutrients

Joyce Clemente,Suzanne Beauchemin,Ted Mackinnon,Yves Thibault,Rolando Lastra,Derek Smith,Bryan Tisch 한국토양비료학회 2014 한국토양비료학회 학술발표회 초록집 Vol.2014 No.6

Acute cholecystitis in neutropenic patients

Uriel Clemente-Gutierrez,German Esteban Sanchez Morales,Paulina Moctezuma Velazquez,Alexandra Rueda de Leon Aguirr,Jesus Morales Maza,Ismael Dominguez-Rosado,Heriberto Medina-Franco 한국간담췌외과학회 2019 Annals of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery Vol.23 No.3

Backgrounds/Aims: The frequency of acute cholecystitis reported in neutropenic patients is between 0.4-1.65%. Clinical manifestations differ from general population as well as clinical approach, diagnosis and treatment. The aim of this work is to describe clinical characteristics, diagnostic approach, and outcomes of patients with hematological diseases that presented with neutropenia and fever associated with acute cholecystitis in a tertiary referral hospital. Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of patients with diagnosis of neutropenia and fever associated with acute cholecystitis in the period between January 2000 and January 2017. Quantitative variables were analyzed with mean and standard deviation, and qualitative variables with frequency and percentage. Results: During the study period, 2007 patients presented with neutropenia and fever. Twelve of them (0.59%) had associated acute cholecystitis. The most common hematologic disease among these patients was lymphoblastic leukemia. Acute acalculous cholecystitis was diagnosed in 6 cases (50%). Eleven patients (91.6%) had a severe presentation and cholecystostomy was performed in 9 (75%) cases. The main cause of mortality was septic shock (33.3%). Conclusions: Treatment of acute cholecystitis in patients with neutropenia must be individualized. Cholecystostomy should be considered as a bridge therapy for an interval cholecystectomy.

Guanxi in Chinese Commerce: Informal Enforcement in Spanish Philippines

Tina S. Clemente 서울대학교 경제연구소 2013 Seoul journal of economics Vol.26 No.2

How did Chinese merchants remedy opportunism in a prevailing scenario of weak state enforcement during the Spanish period in the Philippines? The paper attempts to analyze 19th century historical accounts in elucidating how the utilization of guanxi sanctions provides useful insights in addressing the gap between state enforcement and property rights violation. These sanctions constitute informal enforcement among Chinese merchants based on personalistic ties. With credible enforcement, Chinese principals could manage networks that facilitated merchandize trade throughout the Philippines. By the 19th century, Chinese networks consisting of Chinese merchants and agents became crucial in large scale wholesale and retail trade.

Automatic Tools of Match Analysis: Inspecting Soccer Team`s Dispersion

( Filipe Manuel Clemente ),( Micael Santos Couceiro ),( Fernando Manuel Lourenco Martins ),( Ajit Korgaokar ) 한국스포츠정책과학원(구 한국스포츠개발원) 2012 International Journal of Applied Sports Sciences Vol.24 No.2

The contracting-expanding soccer teams` relationship is one of the most important dynamic behaviors of the game. Therefore, a soccer game was analyzed using the centroid and stretch index method, while recording the team`s ball possession status (with or without ball possession). The correlation test suggest an inverse relationship between opposing teams (r (1508)=- 0.054) during all game. When considering ball possession by the teams, the results of the stretch index confirm that there are statistical differences with a small effect between the moments with and without possession of the ball for team B (F(1; 1506)=22.777; p-value≤0.001; =0.015; Power=0.998). Therefore, it was possible to confirm that the contracting -expanding relationship is an intrinsic behaviour of a soccer game in relation to ball possession.

A Look at Korean Historical Drama: Cultural Negotiation of Cold War Influence on Notions of Development in the Philippines

Tina S. Clemente 경남대학교 극동문제연구소 2020 ASIAN PERSPECTIVE Vol.44 No.2

The article considers how Korean historical drama can enrich the discourse of development and change. The study interrogates Cold War legacies in development thinking in the Philippines entrenched by US education and pop culture and contextualizes Korean drama, a representation of counter- dominant cultural flows, within cultural flows in Asia, the reception of the dramas in Asia, and patronage and influence in the Philippines. Focusing on the historical genre of Korean drama in particular, a cultural negotiation of Cold War influenced-development perspectives in the Philippines is problematized. Unpacking the complex content in Korean historical drama through intertextual analysis provokes a critical elucidation of notions of development and change and underscores interdiscursive utility for the development discourse in the Philippines.

Monitoring a steel building using GPS sensors

Fabio Casciati,Clemente Fuggini 국제구조공학회 2011 Smart Structures and Systems, An International Jou Vol.7 No.5

To assess the performance of a structure requires the measurement of global and relative displacements at critical points across the structure. They should be obtained in real time and in all weather condition. A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) could satisfy the last two requirements. The American Global Position System (GPS) provides long term acquisitions with sampling rates sufficient to track the displacement of long period structures. The accuracy is of the order of sub-centimetres. The steel building which hosts the authors’ laboratory is the reference case-study within this paper. First a comparison of data collected by GPS sensor units with data recorded by tri-axial accelerometers is carried out when dynamic vibrations are induced in the structure by movements of the internal bridge-crane. The elaborations from the GPS position readings are then compared with the results obtained by a Finite Element (FE) numerical simulation. The purposes are: i) to realize a refinement of the structural parameters which characterize the building and ii) to outline a suitable way for processing GPS data toward structural monitoring.

Online correction of drift in structural identification using artificial white noise observations and an unscented Kalman Filter

Eleni N. Chatzi,Clemente Fuggini 국제구조공학회 2015 Smart Structures and Systems, An International Jou Vol.16 No.2

In recent years the monitoring of structural behavior through acquisition of vibrational data has become common practice. In addition, recent advances in sensor development have made the collection of diverse dynamic information feasible. Other than the commonly collected acceleration information, Global Position System (GPS) receivers and non-contact, optical techniques have also allowed for the synchronous collection of highly accurate displacement data. The fusion of this heterogeneous information is crucial for the successful monitoring and control of structural systems especially when aiming at real-time estimation. This task is not a straightforward one as measurements are inevitably corrupted with some percentage of noise, often leading to imprecise estimation. Quite commonly, the presence of noise in acceleration signals results in drifting estimates of displacement states, as a result of numerical integration. In this study, a new approach based on a time domain identification method, namely the Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF), is proposed for correcting the “drift effect” in displacement or rotation estimates in an online manner, i.e., on the fly as data is attained. The method relies on the introduction of artificial white noise (WN) observations into the filter equations, which is shown to achieve an online correction of the drift issue, thus yielding highly accurate motion data. The proposed approach is demonstrated for two cases; firstly, the illustrative example of a single degree of freedom linear oscillator is examined, where availability of acceleration measurements is exclusively assumed. Secondly, a field inspired implementation is presented for the torsional identification of a tall tower structure, where acceleration measurements are obtained at a high sampling rate and non-collocated GPS displacement measurements are assumed available at a lower sampling rate. A multi-rate Kalman Filter is incorporated into the analysis in order to successfully fuse data sampled at different rates.

Thermogravimetric and Spectroscopic Characterization of Biochar Carbon

Joseph Martin,Joyce Clemente,Brad Joern,Cliff Johnston,Suzanne Beauchemin 한국토양비료학회 2014 한국토양비료학회 학술발표회 초록집 Vol.2014 No.6

System identification of a super high-rise building via a stochastic subspace approach

Lucia Faravelli,Filippo Ubertini,Clemente Fuggini 국제구조공학회 2011 Smart Structures and Systems, An International Jou Vol.7 No.2

System identification is a fundamental step towards the application of structural health monitoring and damage detection techniques. On this respect, the development of evolved identification strategies is a priority for obtaining reliable and repeatable baseline modal parameters of an undamaged structure to be adopted as references for future structural health assessments. The paper presents the identification of the modal parameters of the Guangzhou New Television Tower, China, using a data-driven stochastic subspace identification (SSI-data) approach complemented with an appropriate automatic mode selection strategy which proved to be successful in previous literature studies. This well-known approach is based on a clustering technique which is adopted to discriminate structural modes from spurious noise ones. The method is applied to the acceleration measurements made available within the task I of the ANCRiSST benchmark problem, which cover 24 hours of continuous monitoring of the structural response under ambient excitation. These records are then subdivided into a convenient number of data sets and the variability of modal parameter estimates with ambient temperature and mean wind velocity are pointed out. Both 10 minutes and 1 hour long records are considered for this purpose. A comparison with finite element model predictions is finally carried out, using the structural matrices provided within the benchmark, in order to check that all the structural modes contained in the considered frequency interval are effectively identified via SSI-data.