While a wide variety of agendas are used in legislative voting, the literature focuses almost exclusively on Euro-Latin and Anglo-American agendas. These two agendas share three features common to many agendas used in practice: they are non-repetitive in that every vote eliminates some alternatives from consideration; continuous in that alternatives continue to be contested until they are eithe...

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©2011 Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Reproduction without prior authorization is prohibited. 1 NOTICE OF PURPOSE: TEC Assessments are scientific opinions, provided solely for informational purposes. TEC Assessments should not be construed to suggest that the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program or the TEC Program recommends, advocates, requires, en...

©2008 Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Reproduction without prior authorization is prohibited. 1 NOTICE OF PURPOSE: TEC Assessments are scientific opinions, provided solely for informational purposes. TEC Assessments should not be construed to suggest that the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program or the TEC Program recommends, advocates, requires, en...

Given the importance of IT investments in today’s organization, firms tend to spend increasing amounts of time and resources to better manage IT projects. However these projects continue to have high failure rates thus highlighting the need for improved risk management. A stream of IS research has focused on identifying several causes of managerial risks. The theory base that has been used in t...

Lean Thinking has been one of the preferred approaches to improve healthcare processes in developed countries; however, it barely used Latin America. This study presents a implementation Mexican public academic medical center. The goal was reduce time required discharge patients from Internal Medicine Department. non-experimental intervention measured, analyzed, and improved process flow throug...

Fungal symbionts that live asymptomatically inside plant tissues (endophytes) can influence plant-insect interactions. Recent work has shown that damage by leaf-cutting ants, a major Neotropical defoliator, is reduced to almost half in plants with high densities of endophytes. We investigated changes in the phenotype of leaves that could influence ants' behavior to result in the reduction of fo...