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Special Kaehler manifolds: a survey

This is a survey of recent contributions to the area of special Kaehler geometry. It is based on lectures given at the 21st Winter School on Geometry and Physics held in Srni in January 2001

Morbidity and Mortality ofVery Low Birth Weight Infant Graduates of a Level Three Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Purpose: To describe the morbidity and mortality of very low birth weight (VLBW) infant graduates of a level three neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in a medically underserved population. Design: A retrospective chart analysis of 181 live born infants at a regional tertiary center between 2004-2006. Sample: Infants born with a birth weight of 425-1489 grams and gestational age of23-40 weeks (n=127). Main outcome variable: Descriptive statistics were used to describe the incidence of associated VLB W morbidities presenting after discharge along with hospital readmissions and mortality rates. Results: VLBW infants discharged from the NICU had chronic lung disease (24.4%), hearing loss (5.5%), seizures (3%), cerebral palsy (1.6%), mental retardation (0.8%), and visual loss (0.8%). They also showed abnormal neurodevelopmental findings (59%), speech/language disorders (12.5%) and behavioral/learning disorders (1.5%). One death (\u3c1%) was reported after discharge. Forty-five children (35%) were readmitted to the hospital after discharge accounting for 78 hospital admissions

"No One Asked Me": Latinos' Experiences With Massachusetts Health Care Reform

Presents lessons from low-income Latinos' experience of the 2006 Massachusetts healthcare reform, with a focus on their understanding of the individual mandate, the role of community groups in the enrollment process, and the affordability of coverage

Sin novedad en el paraíso. Emociones, terrorismo y turismo

Los diferentes actores del sistema turístico responden a las agresiones terroristas de formas diversas. Analizo diversos medios de comunicación para caracterizar dichas reacciones y determinar cómo se regenera la imagen de un destino.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Intention-based economic theories of reciprocity

Recientemente, varios experimentos han mostrado que los individuos exhiben un comportamiento auténticamente recíproco en interacciones anónimas que se dan una sola vez ('one-shot'). En tanto que se ha mostrado que la reciprocidad es relevante en múltiples campos de la economía, han existido varios intentos por modelar el comportamiento recíproco. Este documento revisa los modelos de reciprocidad que se fundamentan en las intenciones y presenta un ejemplo para el caso del manejo de los profesores en el sector público, en el que el gobierno ofrece un esquema de incentivos para la implementación de un programa. Este esquema tiene la estructura del dilema del prisionero. Tanto en los juegos simultáneos como secuenciales, los resultados de equilibrio puede ser distintos a los que predice la teoría convencional. ************************************************************************ In recent years, several experiments have shown that individuals exhibit authentic reciprocal behavior in anonymous one-shot interactions. As reciprocity has been shown to be relevant in several economic fields, there have also been several attempts to model reciprocical behavior. I review the intention-based models of reciprocity and present an example in teachers´ management in the public sector in which a government offers an incentive scheme to implement a program. The incentive scheme has the prisioner’s dilemma structure, In both simultaneous and sequential games, in equilibrium reciprocal teachers may reach other equilibria different from those predicted by the standard theory.Game theory, psychological games,Intention-based models, reciprocl behaviour