Using COTS software promises faster time-to-market, which can yield substantial advantages over competitors with regards to earlier placement of a new product on a market. At the same time, component-based software introduces risks, such as unknown quality properties of the…

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…

El objetivo de este artículo es examinar la relación existente entre la volatilidad de la tasa de cambio y el volumen de exportaciones, usando datos brasileños. Después de establecer la existencia de cointegración entre las variables incluidas en nuestro modelo,…

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo estimar la forma reducida de una función de oferta agropecuaria de la economía argentina en el marco de un modelo de equilibrio general. Los resultados de la estimación de la oferta agropecuaria con datos que…

Se han estudiado los efectos de los complejos zinc-metionina con la relación molar 1:1 y 1:2 como suplementación alimentaria de zinc en ratones. La obtención y la caracterización de dos complejos de zinc fueron evaluadas por análisis elemental y FTIR.…

Software tools processing partially common set of data should share an understanding of what these data mean. Since ontologies have been used to express formally a shared understanding of information, we argue that they can be used to improve integration…

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. When integrating data, several issues must be addressed. Here, we focus on the problem…

Product-line architectures, i.e. a software architecture and component set shared by a family of products, represents a promising approach to achieving reuse of software. Several companies are initiating or have recently adopted a product-line architecture. However, little experience is available…

During the last years a lot of projects and lines of research have emerged from different proposals trying to find the best way to reach data integration. Two powerful techniques have appeared separately – ontology and contextual information – in…