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Principales colaboradores

Esta sección ofrece un currículum resumido de los principales colaboradores de esta obra.

Enfoques contemporáneos sobre la cuenta corriente

En esta sección se incluyen los ensayos “¿Importa la cuenta corriente? El punto de vista tradicional y el moderno” de Max Corden y “Un marco de análisis teórico para el ‘problema’ de la cuenta corriente” de Raúl Aníbal Feliz, así como un comentario general de Jacques Polak, que se presentaron en el seminario sobre la relevancia de la cuenta corriente, que organizó la revista Economía Mexicana. Nueva Época en la sexagésima segunda Conferencia Anual de la Southern Economic Association en la ciudad de Washington, D.C., en noviembre de 1992.

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Rethinking the Social Construction of Technology Through 'Following the Actors': A Reappraisal of Technological Frames

In this paper, I summarize case study research on an information system called Connected Kids. This case study was guided by an approach to technology studies called the \'Social construction of technology\' or SCOT Bijker (1984). In discussing Connected Kids, I illustrate many of SCOT\'s main tenents, e.g. the various social interactions that surround and influence technology design. As the paper progresses, however, I focus on one concept in particular, i.e. SCOT\'s notion of a \'technological frame,\' which is used as a catch-all concept for handling the structural influences in technology design. My discussion and illustration of this concept shows that – whilst technological frames help an analyst understand, in general terms, the role structure(s) play in shaping technology – the \'heterogeneity\' of technological frames can cloak the more obvious, and potentially most influential, forces at work in technology design. In the case of Connected kids, the role of resources, and which actors had access to these resources, was critical in pointing Connected Kids down a particular trajectory. Further, this discovery emerged from listening carefully to respondents\' comments on the role of resources in their community. These comments, and my own observations on how resource-access propelled certain actors into a leadership position, led to my developing an alternative method for analyzing technological frames. The implications of this analysis are then discussed within the context of SCOT and technology studies more generally.Social Construction of Technology, Technological Frames, Information Technology

Language delay is not predictable from available risk factors

Aims. To investigate factors associated with language delay in a cohort of 30-month-old children and determine if identification of language delay requires active contact with families. Methods. Data were collected at a pilot universal 30-month health contact. Health visitors used a simple two-item language screen. Data were obtained for 315 children; language delay was found in 33. The predictive capacity of 13 variables which could realistically be known before the 30-month contact was analysed. Results. Seven variables were significantly associated with language delay in univariate analysis, but in logistic regression only five of these variables remained significant. Conclusion. The presence of one or more risk factors had a sensitivity of 89% and specificity of 45%, but a positive predictive value of only 15%. The presence of one or more of these risk factors thus can not reliably be used to identify language delayed children, nor is it possible to define an “at risk” population because male gender was the only significant demographic factor and it had an unacceptably low specificity (52.5%). It is not possible to predict which children will have language delay at 30 months. Identification of this important ESSENCE disorder requires direct clinical contact with all families

Money; Out the Window; The Valentine Fairy

The Marinello One-Acts presented at John Carroll University March 10-13, 2005.https://collected.jcu.edu/plays/1139/thumbnail.jp

List of Resources Needed to Rebuild Rwanda

Detailed list of what resources and how many of them are needed to rebuild Rwanda after the genocide. Data used is from the mid to late 1980s.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/rawson_rwanda/1103/thumbnail.jp

Impressions On Pre-Genocide Rwanda Conflict

How a neighboring African country views the situation in Rwanda in 1992. Makes comments on the support the RPF is getting in Rwanda by sympathetic parties.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/rawson_rwanda/1195/thumbnail.jp