Rodríguez Álvarez, Alicia. Documentos notariales vernáculos del condado de Durham (siglo XV): Estudio y edición. Córdoba: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Córdoba y Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1997, 253 pp.

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Exploring Male and Female Voices through Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality in Some Modern English Travel Texts on the Canaries

This article describes authorial voice through evidential and epistemic sentential devices in a corpus of 19th and early 20th century travel texts. The corpus contains four works written by female travellers and the other four by men. Therefore, apart from providing a catalogue of the strategies deployed by the authors in order to mark modality and evidentiality, we also report on expected differences in their frequencies of use in relation to the writer’s gender. In addition, the interest of this study lies in the fact that, to the best of our knowledge, no research on writer stance has previously been carried out in texts belonging to the genre of travel writing

El gobierno corporativo electrónico: su desarrollo en la empresa española.

En el inicio del siglo XXI, las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones, y en especial Internet, están alterando el medio y los modelos de comunicación entre sociedades cotizadas e inversores. Es por ello, que el gobierno corporativo no puede permanecer al margen de este proceso y, en cualquiera de sus vertientes, debe incorporar la tecnología en su desarrollo y para la incorporación de sus grupos de interés, especialmente los accionistas, en la vida social de la empresa.accionistas, Internet, gobierno corporativo electrónico, voto electrónico.

The adoption of quality management practices and their impact on business performance in small service companies: the case of Spanish travel agencies

Abstract The main objective of this study is to examine the motivations for adopting quality practices and their impact on the performance of travel agencies. The results are based on 448 personal surveys that were administered by travel agency managers. Structural equation modelling was used to conclude that the adoption of quality practices significantly impacts the competitiveness and financial performance of travel agencies. Therefore, the results of this paper suggest that being proactive about quality issues can confer significant benefits to travel agen-cies. These benefits can make the difference between survival and failure in a highly competitive sector

El gobierno corporativo electrónico: su desarrollo en la empresa española

En el inicio del siglo XXI, las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones, y en especial Internet, están alterando el medio y los modelos de comunicación entre sociedades cotizadas e inversores. Es por ello, que el gobierno corporativo no puede permanecer al margen de este proceso y, en cualquiera de sus vertientes, debe incorporar la tecnología en su desarrollo y para la incorporación de sus grupos de interés, especialmente los accionistas, en la vida social de la empresa

On the Unification of Active Galactic Nuclei

The inevitable spread in properties of the toroidal obscuration of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) invalidates the widespread notion that type 1 and 2 AGNs are intrinsically the same objects, drawn randomly from the distribution of torus covering factors. Instead, AGNs are drawn \emph{preferentially} from this distribution; type 2 are more likely drawn from the distribution higher end, type 1 from its lower end. Type 2 AGNs have a higher IR luminosity, lower narrow-line luminosity and a higher fraction of Compton thick X-ray obscuration than type 1. Meaningful studies of unification statistics cannot be conducted without first determining the intrinsic distribution function of torus covering factors.Comment: ApJ Letters, to be published. This is the final, journal version; minor editing revisions from original on

Financial analyst assessment of business information disclosed on the internet

Financial analysts are responsible for conducting a thorough detailed review of a company in order to get a real accurate picture of the value of the company. The use of Internet technology enables companies to make a large amount of information available to anyone who is interested anywhere in the world at a low cost. Yet not all information has the same relevance when it comes to company valuation. This article analyzes and demonstrates the value of information made available to fi nancial analysts on the Internet using a Delphi analysis. As a result an index was obtained which measures usefulness of information.

Testing the Unification Model for AGN in the Infrared: are the obscuring tori of Type 1 and 2 Seyferts different?

We present new mid-infrared (MIR) imaging data for three Type-1 Seyfert galaxies obtained with T-ReCS on the Gemini-South Telescope at subarcsecond resolution. Our aim is to enlarge the sample studied in a previous work to compare the properties of Type-1 and Type-2 Seyfert tori using clumpy torus models and a Bayesian approach to fit the infrared nuclear spectral energy distributions (SEDs). Thus, the sample considered here comprises 7 Type-1, 11 Type-2, and 3 intermediate-type Seyferts. The unresolved IR emission of the Seyfert 1 galaxies can be reproduced by a combination of dust heated by the central engine and direct AGN emission, while for the Seyfert 2 nuclei only dust emission is considered. These dusty tori have physical sizes smaller than 6 pc radius, as derived from our fits. Unification schemes of AGN account for a variety of observational differences in terms of viewing geometry. However, we find evidence that strong unification may not hold, and that the immediate dusty surroundings of Type-1 and Type-2 Seyfert nuclei are intrinsically different. The Type-2 tori studied here are broader, have more clumps, and these clumps have lower optical depths than those of Type-1 tori. The larger the covering factor of the torus, the smaller the probability of having direct view of the AGN, and vice-versa. In our sample, Seyfert 2 tori have larger covering factors and smaller escape probabilities than those of Seyfert 1. All the previous differences are significant according to the Kullback-Leibler divergence. Thus, on the basis of the results presented here, the classification of a Seyfert galaxy as a Type-1 or Type-2 depends more on the intrinsic properties of the torus rather than on its mere inclination towards us, in contradiction with the simplest unification model.Comment: 21 pages, 14 figures, Appendix including supplementary figures. Accepted by Ap