This study aimed to determine if legislation on violence against women (VAW) worldwide contains key components recommended by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the United Nations (UN) to help strengthen VAW prevention and provide better integrated victim protection,…

Applying design patterns is considered a helpful technique for designing software systems.
Patterns description, however, results not sufficiently precise providing a weak understanding and making it difficult to be certain when a pattern is being used correctly. We have formally…

El número de trabajadores agrícolas temporales a Michigan, coloca a ese estado en el cuarto lugar en la Unión Americana, con aproximadamente 45 mil trabajadores por año, la mayoría de ellos hispánicos provenientes de México (datos del 2006).
La…

The Semantic Web attempts to reach a state in the future where everything on the Web will no longer be only machine-readable, but also machine-understandable. An ontology is an explicit specification of a conceptualization. A conceptualization is an abstract, simplified…

This paper identifies and quantifies through a Bayesian Network model (BN) the various factors of Operational Risk (OR) associated with the payment process PROCAMPO. The BN model is calibrated with data from events that occurred during the period 2008-2011. Unlike…

Vertical partitioning, in which attributes of a relation are
assigned to partitions, is aimed at improving database
performance. We extend previous research that is based on
a single relation to multi-relation database environment,
by including referential integrity constraints, access time

La empresa familiar forma parte fundamental de las estructuras productivas tanto de las economías industrializadas como en vías de desarrollo. A pesar de carecer de datos rigurosos que permitan corroborarlo, la empresa familiar tiene un papel preponderante en la generación…

This paper is an attempt to define how a
specific data structure might be used to
store, in a persistent manner, temporal
information during a computer simulation.
In particular, it considers the sort of
temporal information generated during a
discrete…

We describe the design, implementation and deployment of the multi-level agent-based system architecture developed for the SEWASIE project. The aim of the system is to help the user in querying heterogeneous data sources which are integrated by means of ontologies.…

Se analiza un conjunte de fenómenos “anómalos” para la teoría de la conducta, come el autnmeldeamientn, el autnmantenimiento, la conducta adjuntiva y el referzamientn no contingente. Se hace incapié en la necesidad de considerar las características físicas del medio experimental,…