This paper analyzes the initial filing and the subsequent renewal decisions of the international patent applicants. Specifically I use as data input a comprehensive patent documentation collected from the EUropean Patent Office (EPO) that was unprecedented in its level of disaggregation by various characteristics such as nationality of inventor, type of technology and designated country of pate...

The increasing proportion of immigrants in Spanish society is placing pressure on the National Health Care System to accommodate the needs of this population group while keeping costs under control. In the year 2000, a law was approved in Spain according to which all people, regardless of their nationality, are entitled to use health care services under the same conditions as Spanish citizens, ...

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Research and present polls indicate that educational institutions and workplaces are becoming more diverse in gender, ethnicity, and nationality (Milem, Chang, & Antonio, 2005; Burns, Barton, & Kerby, 2012). As the demographics in the United States change, the global economy expands, and the new concept of “tossed salad” America emerges, Americans will experience new dimensions of diversity (In...

In this paper, we study how usability professionals’ thinking about system use relates to that of system developers and end users. We conducted 72 repertory-grid interviews to capture how usability professionals, developers, and users describe their system use. The participants in each stakeholder group were from China, Denmark, and India. Our results indicate that usability professionals focus...

The study examines national pride among youths between the ages of 20-25 years old in Malaysia and determines whether national pride varies by orientation in self-identification (more in nationality or racial identity terms) and language use in interracial communication with peers. The responses of 375 Malays, 238 Chinese and 77 Indian youths were analyzed. It was found that: (i) Malay and Chin...

In highly multicultural societies, the economic status hierarchy may come to mimic the hierarchy of global wealth, reinforcing social inequality by tying pay scales to national wealth. We investigated how nationality influences expectations of payment in the UAE. Participants reported how much they expected people to be paid and how much skill they were perceived to have by nationality. They al...

We compared the relationship between gender role beliefs and antigay prejudice in Chile and the United States. Participants were Chilean and American university students. In Study 1, Chileans were more prejudiced than Americans, and men were more prejudiced than women. In Study 2, gender role beliefs mediated cultural and sex differences in prejudice. Chileans held more traditional gender role ...

The benefits of the family implication in the educational process of children and its repercussion in the quality of the education are facts widely demonstrated. The aim of this research knew the range of possible groups whose children study in the stage of childhood education, formed from a set of variables of family participation and sociodemographics. Thus, this research counted on the help ...