The aim of this paper is to discuss the prospects of Latin American public universities. Its main assertion is that universities could become important actors of development in Latin America, but prevailing trends point in another direction. The paper focuses on the interactions between, on the one hand, specific traditions and social contexts, and, on the other hand, global trends concerning t...

A latin square is an n x n square matrix each of which cells contains a symbol chosen from the set 11,2, ... ,n]; each symbol occurs exactly oncl~ in each row or column of the matrix. A partial latin square is a latin square in which some cells are unoccupied. We consider the problem of obtaining necessary and sufficient conditions for a partial latin square to be completed to a latin square. F...

Immigrants have long been perceived to take jobs away and to push down the wages of native workers. Given that the recent bout of Latin American immigration in the 1980s and 1990s coincided with the fall in earnings and employment of the less skilled, it is not surprising that, like previous immigration waves, recent Latin American immigration is sometimes blamed for the misfortunes of less ski...

This paper analyzes the patterns of health biotechnology publications in six Latin American countries from 2001 to 2015. The countries studied were Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico. Before our study, there were no data available on HBT development in half of the Latin-American countries we studied, i.e., Argentina, Colombia and Chile. To include these countries in a scientome...

 The use of optimal orthogonal array latin hypercube designs is proposed. Orthogonal arrays were proposed for constructing latin hypercube designs by Tang (1993). Such designs generally have better space filling properties than random latin hypercube designs. Even so, these designs do not necessarily fill the space particularly well. As a result, we consider orthogonal-array-based latin...

In this thesis, the problem of completing partial latin squares is examined. In particular, the completion problem for three primary classes of partial latin squares is investigated. First, the theorem of Marshall Hall regarding completions of latin rectangles is discussed. Secondly, a proof of Evans’ conjecture is presented, which deals with partial latin squares of order n containing at most ...

A critical set in a latin square is a subset of its elements with the following properties: 1) No other latin square exists which also contains that subset. 2) No element may be deleted without destroying property 1. Let scs(n) denote the smallest possible cardinality of a critical set in an n × n latin square. It is conjectured that scs(n) = n/4 , and that only the back-circulant latin square ...

No annotation guidelines concerning substandard Latin are presently available. This paper describes an annotation style of substandard Latin that supplements the method designed for standard Latin by the Perseus Latin Dependency Treebank and the Index Thomisticus Treebank. Each word of the corpus can be assigned only one morphological analysis. In our system, the analysis can be either function...

Let G = (V,E) be an edge-colored graph, i.e., G is assigned a surjective function C : E → {1, 2, · · · , r}, the set of colors. A matching of G is called heterochromatic if its any two edges have different colors. Let (B,C) be an edge-colored bipartite graph and d(v) be color degree of a vertex v. We show that if d(v) ≥ k for every vertex v of B, then B has a heterochromatic matching of cardina...

great fortuna in Arabic and then in Western medicine, where it spread and circulated mainly in an anonymous Arabic-Latin version until the beginning of the sixteenth century, when it was again translated into Latin by Wilhelm Kopp of Basle, physician of the French king. Probably at the same time in which the Arabic-Latin version was made, Burgundio of Pisa (d. 1 193) translated the De loc. aff ...