De‐dollarization, Indexation and Nominalization: the Chilean Experience

Lessons from the Chilean Experience

Musicbrainz for The World: The Chilean Experience

In this paper we present our research in gathering data from several semi-structured collections of cultural heritage— Chilean music-related websites—and uploading the data into an open-source music database, where the data can be easily searched, discovered, and interlinked. This paper also reviews the characteristics of four user-contributed, music metadatabases (MusicBrainz, Discogs, MusicMo...

Enlaces: The Chilean ICT Experience in Education

This paper presents a concise overview of Enlaces, which is the ICT in Education initiative of the Chilean Educational Reform. Enlaces long term goal is to achieve the harmonic and widespread insertion and use of information and communication technologies into the Chilean educational system, and particularly, into every school’s culture. At the core of the program’s strategy to successfully int...

Privatizing Social Security: the Chilean experience.

In 1981, Chile introduced a new approach to social insurance, a system of individual capitalization accounts financed solely by the employee. This new privatized system was an improvement over Chile's failing pay-as-you-go arrangement. As many countries worldwide are facing financial problems with their social security system, they are now looking to the Chilean model in trying to find solution...

Multiple endocrine neoplasia: the Chilean experience

Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) types 1 and 2 are genetic diseases that are inherited as autosomal traits. The major clinical manifestations of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 include the so-called "3 P's": parathyroid, pituitary, and pancreatic tumors, including gastroenteroneuroendocrine tumors. Genetic testing can be performed on patients and the potential carriers of the menin gene m...