Representative democracy faces profound problems. Electoral turnout has declined to such an extent that the legitimacy of the mandate to govern is drawn into question [19,p. 33]. This problem is exacerbated and reinforced by a feeling of disconnection and distrust between the governed and the governors and a perception that voting and other forms of participation do not influence electoral outc...

the growing importance of the environmental and social policies in the spanish savings banksand the large differences between them, take us to delve into those factors that influence on the amounts spent on environment and welfare fund.in this line, we have analyzed all the spanish savings banks, over the period 2004-2008 and using the methodology of panel data, the effect that the composition ...

the growing importance of the environmental and social policies in the spanish savings banksand the large differences between them, take us to delve into those factors that influence on the amounts spent on environment and welfare fund.in this line, we have analyzed all the spanish savings banks, over the period 2004-2008 and using the methodology of panel data, the effect that the composition ...

The recent development of retrieval techniques and advances in 3D shape representation has induced a large amount of research. This paper presents a methodology with three options to retrieve shapes in 3D data bases, based on mapping shapes in 1D using representative sequences, which are matched using Fast Dynamic Time Warping distance. The three options are compared through a performance measu...