The Latin American dependentistas produced a knowledge that criticized the Eurocentric assumptions of the cepalistas, including theorthodoxMarxist and theNorthAmericanmodernization theories. The dependentista school critique of stagism and developmentalism was an important intervention that transformed the imaginary of intellectual debates in many parts of the world. However, I will argue that ...

In the classical multivariate time series models the residuals are assumed to be normally distributed. However the assumption of normality is rarely consistent with the empirical evidence and leads to possibly incorrect inferences from financial models. The copula theory allows us to extend the classical time series models to nonelliptically distributed residuals. In this paper we analyze the t...

Quantitative risk analysis (QRA) is a systematic approach for evaluating likelihood, consequences, and risk of adverse events. QRA based on event (ETA) and fault tree analyses (FTA) employs two basic assumptions. The first assumption is related to likelihood values of input events, and the second assumption is regarding interdependence among the events (for ETA) or basic events (for FTA). Tradi...

BACKGROUND In the study of medicine and management, there is a strong interest in cross-country comparison. Across healthcare systems in industrialised countries, New Public Management has provided a similar reform template, but new governing arrangements exhibit significant national variations. The comparative perspective also offers a leverage to overcome the resistance focus of earlier studi...

moral psychology is an important part of ethics. some of the recent interpreters of nietzsche’s philosophy have tried to elaborate a nietzschean naturalistic moral psychology based on his remarks and pose it against other positions in moral psychology, especially the kantian one with its fundamental claim that third-person accounts of moral psychology have no bearing on a morality which purport...

The expression of sexual feelings toward the therapist is a common development in psychotherapy regardless of the gender constellation of the dyad. Much of the literature on this topic has been written about female patients by male therapists, though, and some authors (1, 2) have suggested that male patients either are too inhibited to express sexual feelings to a female therapist or tend to ac...

To advance the coordinative business processing cognition of conceptual workkow spec-iications, several fundamental extensions of execution dependency, over and above process to process triggering, are recognised. These include: information passing through buuers and messaging, abort handling, and the application of decomposition for decision processing. The addition of these concepts, however,...

Over the last decade, there has been a rapid growth in the application of quantitative genetic techniques to evolutionary studies of natural populations. Whereas this work yields enormous insight into evolutionary processes in the wild, the use of modelling techniques and strategies adopted from animal breeders means that estimates of trait heritabilities (h(2)) are highly vulnerable to misinte...