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Recently, many authors have embraced the study of certain properties of modules such as projectivity, injectivity and flatness from an alternative point of view. Rather than saying a module has a certain property or not, each module is assigned a relative domain which, somehow, measures to which extent it has this particular property. In this work, we introduce a new and fresh perspective on flatness of modules. However, we will first investigate a more general context by introducing domains relative to a precovering class X . We call these domains X -precover completing domains. In particular, when X is the class of flat modules, we call them flat-precover completing domains. This approach allows us to provide a common frame for a number of classical notions. Moreover, some known results are generalized and some classical rings are characterized in terms of these domains.

Desde mediados del siglo XX, el estudio de las políticas públicas se ha constituido en uno de los campos más relevantes para la ciencia política, como también para otras disciplinas, tales como economía, sociología, psicología, ingeniería, entre otros. En esta línea, el libro Contemporary approaches to public policy, editado por Guy Peters y Philippe Zittoun, es una contribución central, puesto que hace un balance de las principales aproximaciones al estudio contemporáneo de las políticas públicas, desde un enfoque interdisciplinario. Además, este libro aborda con una perspectiva amplia cada una de las perspectivas, lo que lo hace una pieza de conocimiento de interés para la comunidad académica, como también para tomadores de decisiones.

In the last few years, López-Permouth and several collaborators have introduced a new approach in the study of the classical projectivity, injectivity and flatness of modules. This way, they introduced subprojectivity domains of modules as a tool to measure, somehow, the projectivity level of such a module (so not just to determine whether or not the module is projective). In this paper we develop a new treatment of the subprojectivity in any abelian category which shed more light on some of its various important aspects. Namely, in terms of subprojectivity, some classical results are unified and some classical rings are characterized. It is also shown that, in some categories, the subprojectivity measures notions other than the projectivity. Furthermore, this new approach allows, in addition to establishing nice generalizations of known results, to construct various new examples such as the subprojectivity domain of the class of Gorenstein projective objects, the class of semi-projective complexes and particular types of representations of a finite linear quiver. The paper ends with a study showing that the fact that a subprojectivity domain of a class coincides with its first right Ext-orthogonal class can be characterized in terms of the existence of preenvelopes and precovers.

In Enochs' relative homological dimension theory occur the so called (co)resolvent and (co)proper dimensions which are defined using proper and coproper resolutions constructed by precovers and preenvelopes, respectively. Recently, some authors have been interested in relative homological dimensions defined by just exact sequences. In this paper, we contribute to the investigation of these relative homological dimensions. We first study the relation between these two kinds of relative homological dimensions and establish some "transfer results" under adjoint pairs. Then, relative global dimensions are studied which lead to nice characterizations of some properties of particular cases of self-orthogonal subcategories. At the end of the paper, relative derived functors are studied and generalizations of some known results of balance for relative homology are established.