This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on household survey microdata from 20 countries. The situation of older people is characterized in terms of income, employment, education, health…

The work carried out in the thesis describes efficient virtual environments management. One of the main contributions is a middleware scheduling optimization based on Grid environments. Being the overall goal to get an optimal resource selection plus a coordinate task…

In the midst of a serious macroeconomic crisis Argentina implemented a large social program -the Programa Jefes de Hogar (PJH)- that provides cash transfers to unemployed household heads meeting certain criteria. In practice, giving the difficulties in monitoring informal jobs,…

En este trabajo se analiza la emergencia de sistemas de educación de gran escala en un marco donde el crecimiento se asocia con cambios en la configuración de la economía. Se modelan los incentivos que le elite económica puede tener…

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Purpose – The idea that knowledge management can be a potential source of competitive advantage has gained strength in the last few years. However, a number of business actions are needed to generate an appropriate environment and infrastructure for knowledge…

Research on German exiles usually focuses on activities of refugees from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. Where it looks at international anti-fascist cooperation,
it mostly concentrates on politically motivated initiatives (for example the writers’ congresses in 1934 and 1935, in Moscow…

This is an electronic version of an article published in the Journal of Mental Health, 16(3), pp.375-387. Journal of Mental Health is available online at: http://informahealthcare.com/journal/jmh., Aims: This study evaluates real world employment support for people with severe mental health…

The goal of this work was centered in the graph visualization. The hope is that the extra dimension would give, literally, more space, and that this would ease the problem of displaying large structures. In spite of their apparent simplicity,…

This thesis describes the design, implementation and evaluation of FPGA Architecture of a Digital ANN (Artificial Neural Networks) by using four components: data memory, weights memory, neuron module, and control unit. All these components have a generic orthogonal structure in…