Robust Clustering of Banks in Argentina by Vargas, José M., Díaz, Margarita, García, Fernando, Vargas, José M., Díaz, Margarita, García, Fernando

“…Based on the strategy criteria established in (Wang 2007) and (Werbin 2010), seven variables were selected. In agreement with bank theory, four “natural” clusters were obtained, named “Personal”, “Commercial”, “Typical” and “Other banks”. …”
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The Rise and Fall of Massive Open Online Course by Laaser, Wolfram

“…For that reason, we will describe the context in which these concepts arose, the reasons that caused the popularity of the concept of MOOCs, as well as their later decline. Finally, some perspectives for their future development are pointed out.…”
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Readings about the aboriginal social organization in the Central-South Andes by Gordillo, Inés

“…Each contribution is herein briefly described, analyzed and contextualized in relation to the general problem it approaches. …”
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Reporte N°20: Vigilancia de variantes de SARS-CoV-2 en la CABA, provincias de Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Mendoza, Neuquén, Río Negro, San Luis y Santa Fe. Actualización al... by Consorcio Argentino de Genómica de SARS-CoV-2, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Instituto de Virología Dr. José María Vanella, Gobierno de la Provincia de Córdoba. Ministerio de Salud. Laboratorio Central

“…Laboratorio De Salud Pública (Ciudad de Mendoza, provincia de Mendoza): Silvia Zerrer, Belén Ortiz, Silvina Denita, Luciana Martinez, Cristian Garay, Fernando Giuliani. …”
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Some Opinions about Monte Verde: Response to Dillehay (2019) and Dillehay, Pino, and Ocampo (2020) by Politis, Gustavo Gabriel, Prates, Luciano Raúl

“…They claimed that we purposefully ignored pertinent data to support our opinions, and that we made several mistakes when analyzing the evidence. …”
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The theory of the mind as mediating process of the social functioning. Evaluation in Turner's Syndrome by Aguilar, María José, Zabala, Maria Lucía, López Morales, Hernán, Urquijo, Sebastián, López, Marcela

“…Turner´s Syndrome is a chromosomal disorder characterized by an atypical development of certain brain areas involved in social cognitive processes, existing empirical evidence that support woman with this diagnosis present impairments in specific aspects involved in social functioning. …”
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Remembering a master: Julio F. Villegas Bustos (1944-2016) by Caycho, Tomás

“…Julio Villegas was born in 1944 in the city of San Carlos, Ñuble, Chile and studied psychology at the University of Chile in 1964. About his beginnings of university studies Julio Villegas mentions: "For a choice of educational principles, I always studied in the public system and thus completed the basic level, sharing the classroom and activities with my peers who represented the greatest social, religious and cultural heterogeneity" (Villegas, 2012, p. 277).…”
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Real Incomes and Its Aggregates in Latin American and The Caribbean: A Tale of Convergence? by Rambaldi, Alicia N.

“…Although growth in real incomes have not been uniform across all countries, for a large majority both income and consumption have been increasing since the beginning of this century. The trends indicate increasing prosperity which could lead to welfare gains if a sustained effort is made to reduce income inequality. …”
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Internal political conflict, foreign policy and the role of Latin America: open tensions in the third Peronist government by Míguez, María Cecilia

“…Itwas proposing the beginning of a new relation with Latin America. It would prefigure the approximation towards Cuba and the attempts of the new Argentine government of advancing towards a reform of the OEA and the inter-American system. …”
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The omnipotent whiteness: the treatment of Civil Rights in the American Hollywood cinema. Three paradigmatic examples of commercial success by Cossalter, Javier

“…The presence of the African-American community in North American cinema dates back of the beginning of the seventh art. However, the relationship between the representation of whites and blacks on the screen was always uneven. …”
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Design and validation of a perception scale on previous knowledge for students of introduction to microeconomics by Moneta Pizarro, Adrián, Daniele Barra, Carla M.

“…The ad hoc instrument developed aims to highlight the level of prior knowledge according to the opinion of the students themselves in order to provide a complementary input for a more effective teaching of the subject and to provide a scale of measurement for research that seeks to relate prior knowledge to other variables of interest such as academic performance. We begin with a bibliographical review of the importance of considering students' previous knowledge, describe the phases of development of the instrument and present the results of an exploratory factorial analysis carried out on a sample of 326 students, which indicate that the questionnaire is valid for the proposed objectives. …”
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Title Discounting and Executive functions as indicators of methamphetamine use in adolescents and adults : Discounting and Executive tasks by Meth-users by Mejía Cruz, Diana, Hernández, Laura, Ávila-Chauvet, Laurent, Mejía Cruz, Diana

“…Our general conclusion is the executive functions: Inhibition and Updating are related with cognitive issues due to drug use in a developing brain, and the discounting tasks do not reflect a general impulsivity trait.…”
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Babe, a pig not so gallant by Rojas Castillo, Sandra Daniela

“…From anthropomorphizing animals as narrative subjects that inside their animality have a life story to tell, this movie exposes the way as humans have classified animals according to arbitrary parameters as use and the inconformity of some animals because of the place humans have given them in the world. Beginning with duck Ferdinand and young pig babe search of not being the dinner, I pretend to expose the necessity of being an indispensable animal in a human world, the individualism that brings his search and the high cost that comes with being emancipated from food category.…”
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On Argentina's Agricultural Policy in the Period 1933-2007 by Colomé, Rinaldo Antonio

“…It is concluded that specific agricultural economic policies were initially designed to unrest the effects of the crisis at the beginning of thirties, and were thought as transitory. …”
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Latin American rights in the 21st century and its new link with the economic elite. The cases of Horacio Cartes (2013) and Mauricio Macri (2015) by Nikolajczuk, Monica

“…We maintain that there has been a quantitative and qualitative change after the beginning of the socalled change of era and particu- larly, after the global crisis of 2008, mutating into a type of generalized, persistent and consolidated linkage in the partisan ins- titutional sphere. …”
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The Cinematographic Origin of Colonialism in Haiti: Zombie Target by Brito Alvarado, Xavier, Rodríguez Caguana, Adriana, Jadán, Diego

“…In this way, the essay begins with a bibliographic review of the zombie and its cinematographic representations, a second moment deals with the historical and political location of the zombie in Haiti, and, finally, the analysis of the film "White Zombie" which unravel the complex relationships between whites and blacks within a Haitian colonial context.…”
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The Thousand Days-National Program in perspective compared to Mil Días-San Miguel two years after its sanction by González, María Sol, Santos, María Emma

“…While A MilD-SM implemented home-visits with an interdisciplinary and multidimensional approach from the very beginning, the MilD-N program, so far, has exclusively used cash transfers. …”
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Should Latin American countries adopt structural balance-based fiscal rules? by Ter-Minassian, Teresa

“…The fact that these conditions are rather demanding, and unlikely to be adequately fulfilled in many Latin America countries at the present time, suggests that a gradualist approach may be more realistic, beginning with a systematic and transparent calculation and dissemination by the authorities of structural indicators to assess the fiscal stance and inform budgetary policy, and moving to more formal rules over time as the relevant pre-conditions are put in place.…”
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Osteometry of Vicugna vicugna Molina, 1782 in the late Pleistocene of southern chilean Patagonia: palaeoecologic and biogeographic implications by Labarca Encina, Rafael, Prieto Iglesias, Alfredo

“…The extinction of this form is, most likely, due to the impact of climatic change during the begining of the Holocene over its pasturing diet and its territorial and non migratory habits. …”
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