Esta tesis se centra en el estudio de la consolidación de suelos blandos tratados con drenes verticales prefabricados de banda, comparando datos reales recogidos en un caso de obra (Diques Nº1 y Nº3 del Embalse de Lebrija), con los obtenidos…

This paper presents a preliminary evaluation of the distribution at the household level of benefits from the Sistema de Protección Social en Salud (SPSS), or Seguro Popular, in its initial phase of operations. This health protection scheme was introduced in…

Does stronger integration in world trade affect levels of democracy? Using a system of simultaneous equations in a panel of 23 Latin American countries between 1970 and 1999, this paper assesses the possible channels through which trade may affect democracy.…

The recent comparative literature on authoritarian institutions has been tracing the consequences formal institutions bear on the longevity of authoritarian rule. Striving to explain transitions from electoral authoritarian regimes, the present paper shifts emphasis from the presence of institutions (multiparty…

"En este trabajo se llevó a cabo la modelación numérica de la circulación atmosférica en la región centro-norte de México en la zona de transición de la Sierra Madre Oriental. Se estudiaron los efectos de frentes fríos y calidos y…

Este resumen se compone de una introducción, que explica el enfoque y contexto de la Tesis, seguida de una sección sobre su organización en partes y capítulos. Después, sigue una enumeración de las contribuciones recogidas en ella, para finalizar con…

An ecological threshold, defined as the point at which there is an abrupt change in a quality, property or phenomenon or where small changes in a driver (i.e. wind, light, water masses properties) may produce large responses in the ecosystem.…

This article aims at identifying and characterizing the different configurations of the relevant factors related to administrative procedures, in order to learn about their behavior, and so about decision-making processes. Delays in administrative circuit concretion, users dissatisfaction and lack of…

Este trabajo presenta una estimación de sistemas incompletos de demanda utilizando datos de encuestas de hogares para Argentina, Bolivia y Paraguay. El enfoque empírico consiste en la estimación de un sistema con especificación LinQuad corregido por sesgo de selección y…

Frequent graph pattern mining is an important problem in diverse research fields
but, until recently, algorithms that focus on the problem had only used graph
isomorphism to identify occurrences of a given pattern. In the last years, however,
a few…