Juan Gómez García

An Impact Analysis of the European Structural Funds on the Variation of the Rate of Employment and Productivity in Objective 1 Regions

Regional policies seek to enable regions to increase their competitiveness and development, and as such one priority Objective of activities financed by Structural Funds is higher employment, higher productivity and economic activity. How efficiently the regions apply the funds is a fundamental issue for the development and continuity of regional policies. We therefore consider that determining the efficiency of European regional policies is an issue of high importance, and this is the main aim of this study. We have considered it appropriate to use the available information to apply a mathematical technique known as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which allows us to calculate the technical efficiency and inefficiency of the Structural Funds applied in the Objective 1 regions for the period 2000–2006. Furthermore, we wish to determine if the regions have been more efficient in creasing their levels of employment or in increasing productivity. Our study applies this methodology along with other methods like regression analysis, profit analysis and factorial analysis to determine the variation in the rate of unemployment and productivity in these European Regions. The study reveals that only eight regions are efficient, although none of them is run in all the models.Regional policies seek to enable regions to increase their competitiveness and development, and as such one priority objective of activities financed by Structural Funds is higher employment, higher productivity and economic activity. How efficiently the regions apply the funds is a fundamental issue for the development and continuity of regional policies. We, therefore, consider that determining the efficiency of European regional policies is an issue of high importance, and this is the main aim of this study. We have considered it appropriate to use the available information to apply a mathematical technique known as data envelopment analysis, which allows us to calculate the technical efficiency and inefficiency of the Structural Funds applied in the Objective 1 regions for the period 2000--2006. Furthermore, we wish to determine if the regions have been more efficient in increasing their levels of employment or in increasing productivity. Our study applies this methodology along with other methods such as regression analysis, profit analysis and factorial analysis to determine the variation in the rate of unemployment and productivity in these European Regions. The study reveals that only eight regions are efficient, although none of them is in all the models run.

Determinación de un eje hipotético en registros incompletos. Su utilidad para la individualización de las marcas de mordeduras humanas

Resumen El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar la posibilidad de identificar las marcas de dientes humanos a partir de un analisis metrico basado en los angulos que forman los incisivos con respecto a un eje intercanino hipotetico. El analisis de la validez de este metodo utiliza el trazado anteriormente citado teniendo en cuenta diferentes zonas anatomicas y diferentes proyecciones fotograficas. Para el estudio, se registro con cera la mordida normal de 50 estudiantes voluntarios; dicha impresion se utilizo para el montaje de los moldes de yeso en un articulador. Con este articulador se infligieron tres mordeduras a un muneco cubierto de plastilina en tres zonas diferentes (hombro, antebrazo y mano) y se tomaron fotografias en diferentes angulos. Los resultados fueron analizados estadisticamente con el fin de establecer una correlacion con los valores reales de las mediciones de cada modelo de yeso (control). La aplicacion de lo que denominamos “el metodo del borde incisal” para el estudio de las distintas proyecciones fotograficas de marcas de dientes hechas en diferentes zonas anatomicas nos muestran unos resultados con una variacion minima entre los valores de control y el problema (nivel de confianza del 95%). Se aprecian diferencias significativas solo en el caso de los incisivos laterales (42 y 22).