Mujeres en Accion: Design and Baseline Data

Derechos, coordinacion y accion social en dominios multi-agentes

Dado que el cc alculo de utilidades no puede dar cuenta de una parte importante de la conducta de los agentes en Sistemas de M ultiples Agentes (SMA), los investigadores han adoptado progresivamente un enfoque mm as normativo. De-safortunadamente, el uso de leyes sociales ha resul-tado ser un recurso demasiado restrictivo. Parece que se necesita un concepto a medio camino entre la anarqu a y la...

Mujeres en el Cruce: Remapping Border Security through Migrant Mobility

There is little doubt that the migration of women out of Latin America has been steadily increasing since the 1980s. Their increased participation in the labor market is best understood in the context of global restructuring in what been referred to as the feminization of international migration (Ramírez, García Domínguez, and Miguez Morais 2005). Yet, little is known about their actual migrati...

The Indirect Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: An Empirical Analysis of Familias En Accion

The Stroke Data Bank: design, methods, and baseline characteristics.

The National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke initiated the Stroke Data Bank, which is a multicenter project to prospectively collect data on the clinical course and sequelae of stroke. Additional objectives were to provide information that would enable a standard diagnostic clinical evaluation, to identify prognostic factors, and to provide planning data for fut...

Tracking Parkinson’s: Study Design and Baseline Patient Data

BACKGROUND There is wide variation in the phenotypic expression of Parkinson's disease (PD), which is driven by both genetic and epidemiological influences. OBJECTIVES To define and explain variation in the clinical phenotype of PD, in relation to genotypic variation. METHODS Tracking Parkinson's is a multicentre prospective longitudinal epidemiologic and biomarker study of PD. Patients att...