Since the mid nineteen nineties most Latin American nations have implemented free market policies. The ensuing economic stability has attracted investment from non-Latin corporations, thereby causing the transfer of non-Latin executives to Latin nations. For many of these executives, their Latin assignments include an unexpected challenge: Dealing with Latin America’s subtle but pervasive racis...

This qualitative study examined concept formation of Latin prefixes in three students diagnosed with learning disabilities through a theme-based analysis. The study had two purposes. Conceptual processes underlying the learning of Latin prefixes were explored through dynamic assessment and Vygotsky’s stages of concept formation were empirically tested. There were five major findings in this stu...

We present an overview of the theory of self-distributive quasigroups, both in the two-sided and one-sided cases, and relate the older results to the modern theory of quandles, to which self-distributive quasigroups are a special case. Most attention is paid to the representation results (loop isotopy, linear representation, homogeneous representation), as the main tool to investigate self-dist...

Dementia is a global socio-medical problem. The steepest increase in prevalence occurs in Latin-America and Asia. European governments have implemented dementia plans to improve care. We describe common goals of European dementia plans and discuss the Brazilian situation. Sixteen European countries have governmental dementia plans, another four are set to launch them. These plans have some comm...

The World Sleep Federation (WSF) is an international organization that was founded in 1988 and is currently comprised of seven Charter members (American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Asian Sleep Research Society, Australasian Sleep Association, Canadian Sleep Society, European Sleep Research Society, Federation of Latin American Sleep Societies, and Sleep Research Society) representing about 53 sl...

This paper starts from the premise that private sector development is of crucial importance to the future development of MENA countries. It demonstrates the relative importance of various institutional constraints, in general, and impediments to dispute resolution, in particular, in reducing the competitiveness of private firms in the MENA region through by increasing transaction costs. It desc...

INTRODUCTION Research on diagnostic and formative assessment competencies during undergraduate medical training is scarce in Latin America. OBJECTIVE To assess the level of clinical competence of students at the beginning of their medical internship in a new curriculum. METHODS This was an observational cross-sectional study in UNAM Faculty of Medicine students in Mexico City: a formative a...