Croatia Country Report por Siniša, Rodin

“…Following initial overview of legal rules regulating exercise of direct democracy in Croatia, it will be demonstrated that almost complete absence of national referenda over the past eight years of Croatia's independence can be explained by specific political consensus among the President of the Republic, the Parliamentary majority and the Government. I will also present relevant decisions of the Constitutional Court on the point and try to answer to what extent probability of referenda in Croatia depends on institutional balance.…”
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The importance of intercoder agreement for content analysis por Peña y Lillo, Macarena

“…In this essay, arguments for this practice are presented and a reflection about its use on an empirical case study is offered…”
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La antiglobalizacion contra el desarrollo, la comunidad contra la sociedad Anti-globalization against development, community against society por Jacob, Jean

“…Esta corriente también rehabilita posiciones conservadoras hasta reunirse en ciertos casos con pensamientos claramente reaccionarios.Often fed by deep ecology, currently the anti-globalization presents many merits in traditional communities respectful of the "Mother earth". …”
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La Polémica de El problema (1899), de Máximo Soto Hall por Iván Molina Jiménez

“…This conclusion is questioned in the present article, on the basis of a detailed analysis of the family and political antecedents of Soto Hall, his intellectual trajectory during the first half of the XX century and his links with the authoritarian governments of Rafael Iglesias in Costa Rica and Manuel Estrada Cabrera in Guatemala.…”
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Hidden Meanings of the Culture War over Abortion in the United States por Elizabeth Maier

“…My contention is that present clashes over abortion must be considered within this framework, so as to understand them not only as a conflict of values on fundamental issues of life, personhood, citizenship, gender, and family, but also as a contest for the institutional nature of a reconfigured structural and technological order. …”
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Residential Segregation and Adequate Housing among Migrants from Bolivia and Peru in Córdoba, Argentina por Florencia MOLINATTI, Enrique PELÁEZ

“…Although the most segregated group does not present the worst residential indicators, it is a paradox which underscores the complex relationship between segregation and access to adequate housing.…”
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Narratives and stories of the good living of indigenous childhoods as a peace-building strategy por Pineda Martínez, Edgar Oswaldo, Orozco Pineda, Paula Andrea

“…It develops the methodology for hermeneutic narrative research (INAH) searching to unveil the meanings and senses that acquire the experiences on the concept of Good Living of children and indigenous children in urban contexts, allowing understanding and interpreting through generative narrative their concepts about their world and their contexts. Alternatives are presented based in narratives and stories of the Good Living of indigenous childhoods that make possible future actions in reference to education and peace-building.…”
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Developing peace from social university potential: An innovating experience in postgraduate studies por Joya Valbuena, Daniela, Sierra Pardo, Claudia Patricia

“…This paper presents the results of the research on the pedagogical innovation that was developed with the students of the Specialization on Do no Harm and Peacebuilding during 2016 at the National University of Colombia-Bogotá Campus, it was proposed taking into account the demands of the national context facing post-agreement; therefore the program sought to educate peace-practitioners based on critical pedagogy. …”
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Measuring Impunity in Latin America: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges por Le Clercq, Juan Antonio, Cháidez, Azucena, Rodríguez, Gerardo

“…This article examines some of the conceptual and methodological challenges involved in measuring the phenomenon of impunity, with a particular focus on Latin America. The analysis presented in this article also examines the correlation between impunity and other problems governments face, such as insecurity, violence, corruption and inequality. …”
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Medicine, State and Reproduction in Brazil at the beginnings of the twentieth century por Rohden, Fabiola

“…It analyzes scientific production in the fields of gynecology, obstetrics, and childcare, as presented in academic theses and medical journals between 1900 and 1940. …”
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Constructing Interculturalism: Education Policy, Cultural Diversity and Inequality in Ecuador por Rodríguez Cruz, Marta

“…With the intention of deepening the study of the uses and abuses of these discourses in bilingual-intercultural education, we present the results of an ethnographic research project on these issues. …”
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Normalize: Discourse, Law and Sex Education por Torres, Germán

“…Here we present some lines of analysis on the making of the Law of Integral Sexual Education in Buenos Aires adopted in 2006. …”
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Toward a Common Defense Policy for Latin America: The Venezuela Proposal por Pádua, Adriana Suzart de

“…In this scenario, with different perceptions regarding what constitutes a threat, two proposals for military integration exist, one lead by Brazil within the context of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) and the other lead by Venezuela in the context of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America (Alba). This article presents the foundation of the Venezuelan proposal for the integration of an area of defense, specifically, by the Armed Forces, and provides an analysis of the proposal’s viability.…”
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Development Aid: The Anatomy of a Crisis por Unceta Satrustegui, Koldo

“…The current study presents an interpretive framework on the crisis of development aid. …”
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Representaciones de aves en la iconografía de la cultura Jama-Coaque por Quelal, Pablo

“…Los diseños presentes en la cultura material de las sociedades precolombinas del Ecuador han sido investigados generalmente desde una perspectiva formal. …”
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Creation of an Indicators Model for the Evaluation of Maintenance Management in The Coffee Park por Sánchez B., Maria Angélica, Quintero Beltrán, Lewis Charles

“…In this article, a model of indicators is shown to evaluate the management of maintenance of the attractions of the Coffee Park, at the present time. To do this, we recommend that you apply the RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) methodology to determine the causes that lead to asset failures, the level of criticism and the indicators that support preventive, corrective and predictive maintenance. …”
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FROM SYNESTHESIA TO BRAND EXPERIENCE por Muñoz Sánchez, Omar, Vélez Ochoa, Claudia I.

“…But when that mixture of senses presents to advertising, the opportunity arose to open new horizons for individual and group creativity. …”
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Accumulation Regime, State Regime and forms of Social Mobilization por Favela Gavia, Margarita

“…In pursuit of this goal, I present a preliminary and tentatively comparative review of the form that this triad takes on in two different moments of the historical development of capitalism. …”
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Measurement of total factor productivity in the commercial sector of Popayán, 2011-2012 por Giraldo-Caiza, Jorge, Gómez-Sánchez, Andrés Mauricio

“…Beginning with a Cobb-Douglas production function, and estimating capital based on Lora (1994), the results show that microenterprises and small businesses, that are responsible for the greatest net investment and job creation, present constant returns to scale. Medium and large companies that show increases in TFP during the period, show diminishing returns to scale.…”
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XML technology assisted research paper abstract writing por Castel, Víctor M.

“…Our purpose here is to present the RedACTe Project's approach to the design of software oriented to rhetorical and linguistic assistance in RP A writing…”
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