Mexico’s 2021 midterm elections occurred amid concerns about the erosion of democratic institutions. Supporters President Lopez Obrador (AMLO) view his centralization power in executive as necessary to make government work for a marginalized majority. But same state weaknesses that helped propel AMLO constrain responses complex governance problems, including poverty and violent crime. This limi...

Objective: to analyze the organizational culture of a psychiatric hospital and identify the capacity of resilience of nursing workers. Method: quantitative research. For data collection, were used the Brazilian Instrument for Evaluation of Organizational Culture (IBACO - Instrumento Brasileiro para Avaliação da Cultura Organizacional) and the Resilience Scale (RS). Results: participants rep...

Dadd et al. [Hum Hered 2010;69:285-294] recently criticized our delta-centralization (DC) method of controlling for population stratification (PS) and concluded that DC does not work. To explore our method, the authors simulated data under the Balding-Nichols (BN) model, which is more general than the model we had used in our simulations. They determined that the DC method underestimated the PS...

The synergistic interaction between teammates in association football has properties that can be captured by Social Network Analysis (SNA). The analysis of networks formed by team players passing a ball in a match shows that team success is correlated with high network density and clustering coefficient, as well as with reduced network centralization. However, oversimplification needs to be avo...