Instituciones, evolución y delincuencia racional: Hacia una perspectiva posthumeana by José L. Tasset

“…Este trabajo pretende mostrar (1) las líneas generales de la propuesta humeana de una teoría de la evolución de las instituciones en clave utilitarista; (2) en segundo lugar, analizará la objeción interna a esta teoría que supone la existencia de posibles sujetos no cooperadores pero inteligentes (vulneradores racionales de las normas de justicia, de los fundamentos del diseño institucional), (3) en tercer lugar, intentará también defender dicha teoría de la acusación externa de no tener un auténtico carácter normativo; y (4) al no haber desarrollado el propio Hume con detalle su contestación al problema del conflicto Moral/Racionalidad, tal y como surge en el contexto de su discusión de la Knavery, finalmente, y en cuarto lugar, este trabajo, yendo en un cierto sentido algo más allá de lo propuesto por Hume, ensayará un argumento post-humeano en torno a ese conflicto, basado, por una parte, en el reconocimiento de la multidimensionalidad de la Moral, así como en la paralela aceptación de la necesidad de un ajuste contextual de ésta, asentado sobre consideraciones primaria, que no exclusivamente, utilitaristas.…”
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Vulnérabilité et Stratégies durables de gestion des risques : Une étude appliquée aux ménages ruraux de Madagascar by Claire Gondard-Delcroix, Sophie Rousseau

“…The goal of this article is to understand the way people living in a risky environment find durable strategies to handle these risks. Generally the definition of vulnerability is the probability of having his/her situation or standards of living worsen facing shocks or risks whatever his/her level of economic strength. …”
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Psychometric properties and factor structure of the Persian version of worry questionnaire – Contrast avoidance model by Razieh Javaherirenani, Pantea Ahadianfard, Ahmad Ashouri

“…Based on CAQ-W, there is a positive and significant correlation between Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) (r = .846) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) (r = .720). Also, confirmatory factor analysis supported its 3-factor structure. …”
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Effect of Breed on the Composition of Cow Milk under Traditional Management Practices in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria by K Adesina

“…The result showed that breed of cow has no significant effect on the mineral and amino acids composition of the milk. Generally, the compositional variation of milk under study typified those of dairy herds earlier reported. …”
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A Panoptic Segmentation for Indoor Environments using MaskDINO: An Experiment on the Impact of Contrast by Khalisha Putri, Ika Candradewi -

“…We then improved the model generalization on the various contrasts by re-optimizing it using a contrast-augmented dataset. …”
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Overview of hepatocarcinogenesis focusing on cellular origins of liver cancer stem cells: a narrative review by Jong Ryeol Eun

“…Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) accounts for 85% to 90% of primary liver cancers and generally has a poor prognosis. The hierarchical model, which posits that HCC originates from liver cancer stem cells (CSCs), is now widely accepted, as it is for other cancer types. …”
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Proceso de paz entre gobierno colombiano y las FARC-EP: camino hacia la reincorporación de combatientes by Ghina Alexandra Castrillón Torres, Helver Javier Cadavid Ramirez

“…De esta manera, el punto dos del acuerdo se enfoca en la participación política y la ampliación democrática, exponiendo la pertinencia de revisar los lineamientos generales pactados en dicho acuerdo para la creación y adecuación de instituciones que se encarguen de acompañar y vigilar la reincorporación política de los excombatientes; así como también de la puesta en marcha del tránsito a la vida, identificando así los retos a los que se enfrentan los excombatientes y las medidas que se deben tomar…”
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LIQUIDITY AND PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM THE DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Celestine Toluwa Oladele, Rihanat I Abdulkadir, Peters Ade Sanni

“…The analytical method employed to analyze the data was the System Generalized Method of Movement (GMM) estimator. The empirical results showed that among the proxies for liquidity (liquidity ratio, cash reserve ratio, loan to deposit ratio), only cash reserve ratio was significant and consistent on both dimensions of performance. …”
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YOUTHS PROTEST IN NIGERIA: THE ENDSARS IN PERSPECTIVE by Felix Ikalewumi

“…While many researches had looked into youth protests mostly in the advanced countries, Africa generally, only a few assessed youth protests in Nigeria so far. …”
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Antinomias y paradojas de la sociedad civil global by Edwin Cruz Rodríguez

“…En términos normativos, existe una paradoja pues la sociedad civil global no representa ciudadanos o intereses generales sino cuerpos con intereses particulares vinculados a la necesidad de gobierno o gobernanza global. …”
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Object identity representation occurs early in the archerfish visual system by Svetlana Volotsky, Ronen Segev

“…Building on this unique behavior, it was recently shown that archerfish can be trained to distinguish between different object categories by generalizing from examples. Analysis of the archerfish’s behavior revealed that the fish visual system relies on a small set of visual features for categorization and is more sensitive to object contours than to textures. …”
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De la force illocutionnaire de l’énoncé comme potentialité de performativité dans l’interaction verbale by Abdelhadi Bellachhab, Olga Galatanu

“…Le cadre de cette recherche est celui de la sémantique de l’(inter)action verbale – la SIV, développement d’une théorie plus générale du sens linguistique, de ses potentialités discursives et sémantiques, la Sémantique des Possibles Argumentatifs. …”
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Dhat Syndrome: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Comorbidities, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management by Yukino N. Strong, Angel Li, Michael E. White, Abrahim N. Razzak, Danyon J. Anderson, Alan D. Kaye, Edwin W. Herron, Nazih P. Khater, Elyse M. Cornett, Ivan Urits

“…For patients with Dhat syndrome, it becomes important to appreciate how generalized depression and anxiety may persist alongside the disorder and those symptoms can be common and non-specific. …”
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Aplicación de la entrevista cognoscitiva y de la entrevista judicial a un testigo víctima del delito de hurto by Déborah Johanna Manrique Pérez

“…En este trabajo investigativo se estudia un método alternativo para obtener el testimonio, propuesto por autores como Geiselman y Fisher (1994), denominado entrevista cognoscitiva; este método agrupa cuatro técnicas generales de memoria, más unas estrategias complementarias para el recuerdo de detalles específicos. …”
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OUTSOURCING OF R&D AND INNOVATION ACTIVITIES IN SMEs: EVIDENCE FROM SLOVENIA by Barbara Bradač Hojnik, Miroslav Rebernik

“…As the results of these activities enable companies to achieve and sustain competitive advantage, it is crucial to manage them properly. As SMEs generally lack internal resources to perform R&D and innovation activities internally, is the outsourcing of these activities a viable solution for them? …”
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Historical Memory and the Representation of History: Forging Connections Between National Historic Sites and Gender History by Brittney Ann Bos

“…Historical memory is a significant methodology employed within gender history in order to examine complex questions surrounding the formation of memories and history more generally. It builds upon the feminist methodology of oral history but presents a more complex set of questions that examines the construction of the memory itself. …”
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A SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODEL TO DETERMINE THE VALUE OF INVENTORY HOLDING COST by BABATUNDE OMONIYI ODEDAIRO, EMILOLA HELEN ALABA, INYENEOBONG EDEM

“…However, due to the absence of a generally acceptable methodology, many practitioners still determine this percentage based on estimates, benchmarks and intuition. …”
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The Relevance of the Practice of Ifá Divination in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are not to Blame by Olusegun Olu-Osayomi, Babatunde Adebua

“… The custom of Ifá divination is common among the Yorùbá of Western Nigeria, and among Africans generally. This paper attempts an evaluation of the relevance of the practice of Ifá divination in the selected play of Ola Rotimi to Yorùbá culture and metaphysics. …”
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LA PARTICIPACIÓN DE LOS BANCOS CENTRALES EN LAS CRISIS BANCARIAS DE LA AMÉRICA LATINA. Lecciones de los decenios de los noventa y de 2000 by Luis I. Jácome H.

“…Si bien con algunas salvedades, las conclusiones del presente artículo son pertinentes y los países en desarrollo deberían verlas como una advertencia contra la expansión excesiva de los balances generales de los bancos centrales para hacer frente a las crisis financieras, tal como lo han hecho recientemente varios países industrializados.…”
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THE POLITICS OF OIL EXPLORATION AND THE CHALLENGES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: THE ISSUE OF BAYELSA STATE by FRANK FUNKEYE SAPELE, AYOOLA BABATUNDE FADOLA

“…Nigeria joined oil producing nations on 3rd august 1956 when oil was first discovered in commercial quantities in the Oloibiri of Bayelsa State and today Nigeria ranked as the leading oil and gas producer in Africa and the 6th largest exporter in the world. The area is generally referred to one of the most important wetland and marine system in the world. …”
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