Systems of financial support for old people are experiencing serious financial difficulties worldwide and the old-age, disability, and survivors’ pension system of Cuba (the pension system from now on) is no exception to this trend. The pension system of Cuba has been extensively discussed in the literature by Mesa-Lago (see below) and it has also been analyzed in the 1994 and 1995 ASCE confere...

Big information worlds cause big problems for interfaces. There is too much to see. They are hard to navigate. An armada of techniques has been proposed to present the many scales of information needed. Space-scale diagrams provide an analytic framework for much of this work. By representing both a spatial world and its different magnifications explicitly, the diagrams allow the direct visualiz...

Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (1970-1973) fueron una organización armada de la nueva izquierda argentina que se formó en el marxismo, identificó con peronismo y apostó a un proceso revolucionario por socialismo. Pasó perspectiva foquista centrada lucha armada, práctica más amplia incluía movilización popular, disputa política ámbitos institucionales. Para fines 1973 fusionó Montoneros, gr...

Barberos, cirujanos, y gente de mar is a comprehensive examination of naval sanitary policies and their impact on the process of professionalization of the medical practitioners working for the navy during the eighteenth century. It covers the period from the end of the War of Succession to the defeat of the Franco-Spanish fleet at Trafalgar in 1805-the beginning of the decline of Spanish naval...

High-performance distributed computing appears to be shifting away from tightly-connected supercomputers to “computational grids” composed of heterogeneous systems of networks, computers, storage devices, and various other devices that collectively act as a single geographically distributed “virtual” computer. One of the great challenges for this environment is providing efficient parallel data...

Robotic platforms can be used in countless applications and in the most varied branches of activities. Such results, presented over the last two decades, can be verified in Armada et al., 2003 and Virk, 2005. It deals specifically with robots provided with legs and with the capability, or ability, to climb vertical surfaces, while many other applications/solutions can be found. As an examples: ...