Predictors of video game console aggression by Bean, Anthony Martin, Ferro, Lauren

“…The 59 participants played their assigned game, Mortal Kombat on Nintendo Wii or Halo 2 on the Xbox, for 45 minutes with a partner. The researchers employed twelve t-tests (alpha adjusted to .004) and three multiple linear regressions to explore the difference of aggression levels in gender, violent video game, and predictors of aggression. …”
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Pension Regimes in Latin American Emerging Countries: Do and Can Individual Capitalization Schemes and PAYG Systems Coexist? by Rezk, Ernesto

“…Nevertheless, several preconditions appear necessary for the preceding scenario to be possible: coverage and tax compliance need to be expanded in both regimes particularly to include the self employed workers, individual capitalization needs be improved and turned more attractive by reducing administrative and commercial costs and by offering a more varied portfolio composition concerning instruments and risk levels. …”
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Médano Santa Clara half a century later (Salliqueló district, Central Pampean Dunefields): new perspectives on the analysis of the lithic assemblage by Santos Valero, Florencia, Messineo, Pablo Gerónimo

“…Differences were observed in the procurement strategies and the methods and techniques employed between those majority and minority rocks. …”
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Fetal age at death estimation on dry bone: testing the applicability of equations developed on a radiographic sample by Carneiro, Cristiana, Curate, Francisco, Alemán, Inmaculada, Botella, Miguel, Cunha, Eugénia

“…A test sample of 17 fetuses with known gestational age at death from the osteological collection of the Department of Legal Medicine, Toxicology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Granada (Spain) was employed. Examined bones comprised the femur, tibia, humerus and radius. …”
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Pseudo-static pile load test: expirience on pre-bored and large diameter piles by Rinaldi, V. A., Viguera, R.

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Armar y vestir al ejército de la Nación : los artefactos militares del Fuerte General Paz (Carlos Casares, Buenos Aires) en el marco de la construcción del Estado nacional y la gue... by Leoni, Juan Bautista

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The Wrath of God: knowledge, technology and social control in two contemporary TV series by Roca, Alejandra, del Piero, Gina

“…Through the comparative study between the first season of the TV series Westworld (2016) and the first season of The Handmaid’s Tale (2017), which explore dystopia and science fiction, it is possible to draw similarities amongst the android’s, the handmaid’s and our own –each time more– illusory realities, in which the dominant segments employ certain strategies based on the unequal distribution of knowledge and technology. …”
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Evaluation of Artemia sp. (Branchiopoda, Artemiidae) as an alternative prey for laboratory rearing of Tupiocoris cucurbitaceus (Hemiptera: Miridae), a predator of horticultural pes... by Lois, Marcelo, Carrizo, Paola Irene, Lopez, Silvia Noemí, Viscarret, Mariana Mabel

“…(Branchiopoda, Artemiidae) cyst, a crustacean tested for the laboratory rearing of other hemipteran species, could be used as food, being less expensive than the species commonly employed (Sitotroga cerealella [Olivier] [Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae]). …”
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Bolivian Toba: Resilience and adaptation in Northern Chaco by Mendoza, Marcela

“…We focus our study on the Tobas of Bolivia, describing a model of seasonal use of the environment employed by hunter-gatherers in the semiarid savannas of Northern Chaco where demographically small groups would fish in the rivers and temporary waterways and plant in wetlands, moving, during other periods of the annual cycle, between hunting and gathering camps in interior lagoons. …”
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Reference evapotranspiration variation between 1968 and 2018 in Córdoba (Argentina) under the influence of wind speed and thermal amplitude by de la Casa, Antonio, Ovando, Gustavo Gabriel, Díaz, Guillermo José

“…This work assessed the difference between daily reference evapotranspiration rate (ETo) calculated by the Penman-Monteith method (PM) with the complete set of meteorological variables and that obtained using only thermal records and a constant surface velocity (u2) of 2 m s-1 (PMxn),employing meteorological data from the weather stations Río Cuarto Aero (RC), Marcos Juárez Aero (MJ), Pilar Observatorio (PI) and Villa Dolores Aero (VD) between 1968 and 2018. …”
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Truman and the Corporate Father by Fuentes Lenci, ´Álvaro

“…The concept of a corporate-scale superego is introduced, employing tools from group psychology and a typology of parents, the latter supported by the aforementioned second source. …”
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The Loma Ruiz 1 site: Lithic technological strategies during the Initial Late Holocene in eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition by Armentano, Gabriela, Martinez, Gustavo, Landini, Cecilia

“…The objectives of this paper are to discuss the techno-typological characteristics of the lithic assemblage, the acquisition and management strategies of lithic raw materials, the purposes involved and employed knapping techniques, the débitage and façonnage methods, chaînes opératoires and diversity of tool categories. …”
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Chañarales: symbolic space of healing and danger Essay carried out on ethnographic notes with peasants from Huarpe communities in the department of Lavalle, NE in the province of M... by Besio, Laura

“…My focus of study are healing plants and by employing ontological theories hybrid society nature that try to explain the relational ways that chañarales would be called by the local people as areas of spiritual strength and material for the cure that synchronize alliances between past worlds and simultaneously present.…”
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Changes and continuities in human mobility at the end of the late holocene: entheseal changes, degenerative joint disease and stable isotopes in southern Mendoza by Peralta, Eva Ailén

“…Although mobility can be understood through stable oxygen isotopes (?18O) we could employ other high resolution proxies, observed at an individual level, to strengthen the evidence. …”
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Use of fauna in the traditional medicine of native Toba (qom) from the Argentine Gran Chaco region: an ethnozoological and conservationist approach by Martinez, Gustavo Javier

“…A total of 199 uses corresponding to 72 species belonging to 52 families were documented as part of the animal pharmacopoeia employed by the natives. Information obtained by open and semistructured interviews was used to develop an Index of Local Conservation Priorities (ILCP) that allowed ordering the species according to their Relative Importance, Ecological and Cultural Value, and Conservation Status. …”
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