Brain infestation by Cysticercus cellulosae, the larval form of Taenia solium, is a common disorder in Mexico and other Latin American countries, Asia, Africa, and some Eastern European countries. Recent immigration has caused an increase in the number of cases of neurocysticercosis in the United States. This work describes the acute encephalitic form of neurocysticercosis in 26 cases. The clin...

This paper examines the evolution of market structure in emerging markets during the 1990’s. While a significant process of bank consolidation has been taking place in these countries, reflected in a sharp decline in the number of banks, this process has not systematically been associated with increased concentration as measured by standard indices. Moreover, econometric estimates based on the ...

1. Evolution of Dietary Culture 1.1. Hunting and Gathering 1.2. The Era of Agricultural Food Production 1.3. The Middle Ages—Agriculture and Dietary Habits 1.4. The Industrial Revolution and Dietary Habits 2. Food and Religion 2.1. Western Religions 2.1.1. Christianity 2.1.2. Islam 2.1.3 Judaism 2.2. Eastern Religions 2.2.1 Buddhism 2.2.2. Hinduism 3. Food Habits in Different Regions 3.1. Asian...

We introduce a new measure for the capital market efficiency. The measure takes into consideration the correlation structure of the returns (long-term and short-term memory) and local herding behavior (fractal dimension). The efficiency measure is taken as a distance from an ideal efficient market situation. Methodology is applied to a portfolio of 41 stock indices. We find that the Japanese NI...

the community of latin american and caribbean states, celac, is among the biggest latin american :union:s in the region.  this :union:, which includes the american countries except for the united states and canada, has been created to create the vast grounds of political and economical cooperation in the region.  celac has been considered by political analysts as an influential factor in politi...

Sonia M.R.Vasconcelos 2 The discussion of research integrity (RI), which includes plagiarism, in Latin American science has received scarce attention, though awareness of its importance is increasing. In Brazil, attention to plagiarism has begun to grow among journal editors and in some graduate programs. For most of these programs, however, formal policies are not clearly established. On the ...

Though fiscal policies of central governments sometimes provide modest insurance against regional income shocks, this paper shows that pro-cyclical fiscal policy among provincial governments can easily overwhelm these stabilizing effects. We examine the cyclicality of budget items among provincial governments in eight federations, showing that own-source taxes are highly pro-cyclical and contra...

United States is once again experiencing record levels of immigration. As with European immigrants arriving a century ago, concerns have been raised about the ultimate success of the new arrivals from Latin America and Asia (Suárez-Orozco and Suárez-Orozco 2001). Of particular concern are future prospects for children of immigrants who arrive with few human-capital resources and settle in racia...

Nanomedicine and nanoinformatics are emerging disciplines with substantial challenges ahead. For instance, nanomedicine involves complex and massive data analysis. Nanoinformatics could expand previous experiences in Biomedical Informatics with new features required to study different scientific biological and physical characteristics at a different level of complexity. ACTION-Grid is a project...

This paper draws on the results of recent research into digital publishing in Latin America sponsored by the European Commission’s ALFA programme. It outlines the growth in publishing in the region. It aims to stimulate reflection on the impact of a system in which most of the publishing is supported by institutions rather than commercial companies, and considers authors’ aspirations for their ...