Este trabajo documenta el impacto de las recientes crisis en Argentina sobre diferentes aspectos de la pobreza, con particular atención en la crisis económica de 2002. Discutimos la metodología de medición de pobreza en Argentina y utilizamos una regla simple…

The fact that nutrition affects education outcomes is accepted by researchers and by policy makers. It is simple. Children cannot learn if they are hungry. The validity of the empirical approaches used to show a causal relationship from nutrition to…

The term Federated Databases refers to the data integration of distributed, autonomous and heterogeneous databases. However, a federation can also include information systems, not only databases. At integrating data, several issues must be addressed. Here, we focus on the problem…

The studies of Relational Data Base Management Systems and Databases constitute nowadays a main tren of investigation in large businesses and universities of the entire world. The creation of a data base engine keeps being a challenge since there are…

This book provides an excellent foundation for the principles of database and data management. It explains some of the more difficult concepts fairly well. The book is meant for an introductory course in database management which is usually required as…

The main objective of this paper centers on reviewing the evolution of Decision Support System´s (DSS) architectures, particularly as they apply to natural resources. Today it is difficult to conceive the existence of a rural planning automated system that doesn't…

A data warehouse efficiently processes a given set of queries by utilizing the multiple materialized views. Owing to the constraint on space and maintenance cost, the materialization of all views is unfeasible. One of the critical decisions involved in the…

This work studied the effect of treatment with a high frequency ultrasound bath (40 kHz and a power of 80 W.) on the pH, foaming capacity and stability of the foam of the white of hens eggs (sample 1/120 hours…

Las poblaciones de altura se desarrollan en ambientes determinados por la disminución de la presión de oxígeno en el aire, a la que se suman características climáticas extremas, como intensa radiación solar, bajas temperaturas con gran amplitud térmica, extremada aridez…

Este trabajo discute la aplicación de diferentes técnicas para determinar las propiedades estacionales de datos trimestrales. En particular, enfocamos el test de Hylleberg et al. y los estadísticos propuestos por Canova y Hansen y los aplicamos a una serie microeconómica.…