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En memoria: Juan Manuel Morales
No full textIn memoriam, Dr. Juan Manuel Morales.
How to cite: Navarro, S. (1998). En memoria: Juan Manuel Morales. Cuaderno de Investigación en la Educación, 13, 3-4. Retrieved from https://revistas.upr.edu/index.php/educacion/article/view/16463Escrito en memoria al Dr. Juan Manuel Morales.
Cómo citar: Navarro, S. (1998). En memoria: Juan Manuel Morales. Cuaderno de Investigación en la Educación, 13, 3-4. Recuperado a partir de https://revistas.upr.edu/index.php/educacion/article/view/1646
Viñetas
No full textViñetas del ilustrador y diseñador gráfico colombiano Juan Manuel Rico, graduado de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Nacional. El trabajo de Rico varía entre el dibujo, el grabado, el diseño gráfico textil y las técnicas mixtas, métodos que aplica a temas diversos como la historia natural, las estéticas históricas y la naturaleza, como lo muestra en estas piezas.
Viñetas
No full textViñetas del ilustrador y diseñador gráfico colombiano Juan Manuel Rico, graduado de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Nacional. El trabajo de Rico varía entre el dibujo, el grabado, el diseño gráfico textil y las técnicas mixtas, métodos que aplica a temas diversos como la historia natural, las estéticas históricas y la naturaleza, como lo muestra en estas piezas.
Viñetas
No full textViñetas del ilustrador y diseñador gráfico colombiano Juan Manuel Rico, graduado de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Nacional. El trabajo de Rico varía entre el dibujo, el grabado, el diseño gráfico textil y las técnicas mixtas, métodos que aplica a temas diversos como la historia natural, las estéticas históricas y la naturaleza, como lo muestra en estas piezas.
Endowments, Coercion, and the Historical Containment of Education
No full textDistinguishing the role of coercive labor and political institutions from the effects of economic inequality levels and populations’ ethno-linguistic compositions in explaining the diverging patterns of development across the Americas has remained a challenging task. This paper examines whether the incentives for elite groups to enforce coercive labor and political institutions, holding other factors constant, inhibited economic development by restricting the provision of public schooling. Using 19th-century micro data from municipalities in Puerto Rico, and exploiting variation in the suitability of coffee cultivation across regions and the timing of the nineteenth century coffee boom, we find that coffee-region local governments allocated more public resources to enforce coercive labor measures and repress revolutionary movements, as documented by greater expenditures targeted towards the enforcement of coercive contracts and the size of military and government-backed paramilitary forces. These local governments also allocated fewer resources towards the provision of primary schooling - a decline of 40 percent in the provision of public primary schools and a decline in literacy rates of 25 percent. These findings are consistent with models of factor price manipulation and political repression under elite-controlled non-democratic regimes, in which the returns to labor are depressed as a result of the extraction of rents from peasants’ wages and literacy-based voting rights are restricted through limited access to schooling.labor coercion; political institutions; geography; schooling
La Lengua y Los Deportes
No full textPonencia presentada por el Profesor Victor Manuel Madera, Director y Decano del Colegio Regional de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce, en el Seminario sobre la Lengua, patrocinado por el Instituto de Lexicografía Augusto Malaret, el día 19 de febrero de 1976 en San Juan de Puerto Rico
The Dynamic Effects of Information on Political Corruption: Theory and Evidence from Puerto Rico
No full textDoes the disclosure of information about corrupt activities induce a sustained reduction in corruption? We use publicly released routine audits of municipal governments in Puerto Rico to answer this question. We first develop a political agency model where voters re-elect incumbents based on their performance while in office. We show that, because voters cannot directly observe incumbents’ actions, an incumbent whose reputation improved in the previous term is likely to engage in more rent-seeking activities in a future term. Guided by this model, we use longitudinal data on audit results to examine the long-term consequences of providing information to voters on levels of political corruption. We find that municipal corruption levels in subsequent audits are on average the same in municipalities audited preceding the previous election and those not audited then. In spite of this, mayors in municipalities audited preceding the previous election have higher re-election rates, suggesting that audits enable voters to select more competent politicians. We conclude that short-term information dissemination policies do not necessarily align politicians’ long-term actions with voter preferences as politicians exploit their reputational gains by extracting more rents from office.corruption; information; political agency; dynamic incentives
Classification trees outperform logistic regression predictions of attrition in the U.S. Marine Corps
No full textThe present study compared the performance of machine learning classification models against logistic regression in the context of predicting training attrition from the Delayed Enlistment Program in the United States Marine Corps (UMSC) with scores from the Tailored Adaptive Personality Assessment System (TAPAS). The base-rate of attrition was low which made the model training process difficult, but the random-forest model outperformed logistic regression in predicting cases of attrition in a stratified 50% attrition sample.Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2020-10-02 without embargo termsThe student, Juan Alzate Vanegas, accepted the attached license on 2020-07-08 at 22:53.The student, Juan Alzate Vanegas, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2020-07-08 at 23:08.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2020-07-15 at 07:29.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15537 on 2020-10-02 at 15:12:39Made available in DSpace on 2020-10-07T20:59:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4
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Realities and perspectives of software development in Puerto Rico: a new analysis
No full textCurrently, within the field of Software Engineering (SE), it has been proposed to integrate four variables to developquality software: i.) A flexible development methodology (traditional, agile, or hybrid) and adapted to the contextparticular to each application, ii.) a work team (trained, experienced, highly innovative, and with leadership), iii.)cutting-edge technologies,represented in the quality of the equipment and tools (automated or semi-automated)facilitating the planning, design, and manufacturing processes of products and, iv.) the inclusion of usabilitytechniques in the process, as a guarantee to manufacture products according to customer needs.A literature search indicates that in Puerto Rico so far,there are no published articles that allow knowing the stateof the art of the SE on the Island and, therefore; the organizational schemes and the type of workgroup thatpredominates in software development companies are unknown. Almost twenty years after the promulgation ofthe Agile Manifesto, in Puerto Rico, the degree of adoption of the new paradigms is still unknown. It is necessaryto search for information within companies to understand what strategies are used by developers and whatbenefits report with their use.This new study seeks to evaluate, synthesize and present the empirical findings on software development inPuerto Rico (PR), to contrast or update the previously collected data and to know the type of applications that arecarried out on the Island, what methodologies of work are the most used, how agile methods are perceived and ifthe approach towards usability techniques has changed in recent decades. These aspects are centralto proposingto software developers an integration framework according to their needs and the demands of their clients.Fil: Alvear Suárez, Alcides. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos; EspañaFil: Bollati, Verónica Andrea. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Reg.resistencia. Departamento de Ingeniería En Sist.de Informacion; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Nordeste; ArgentinaFil: Vara Mesa, Juan Manuel. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos; Españ
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LGBTQ Tourism in San Juan, Puerto Rico: The Economic Impacts of the “Pink Dollar”
No full textManuel Rivera
Dr. Rivera is an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Rivera is also the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Hospitality Management. His research interest includes tourism development, destination management, economic impacts and poverty.
Kelly Semrad
Dr. Semrad is an association professor in the Department of Tourism, Events and Attractions in Rosen College of Hospitality Management at the University of Central Florida. She teaches event and entertainment management courses. Her research addresses revenue management and marketing related topics in hospitality and socioeconomic related challenges in tourism.
Robertico Croes
Dr. Croes is a professor and Associate Dean for Research and Administration and the Director of the Dick Pope Sr. Institute for Tourism Studies at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management at the University of Central Florida. His research interest includes tourism development, competitiveness and human development.The objectives of this study are three-fold. First, the current study intends to estimate the amount of LGBTQ tourists visiting a Caribbean destination – San Juan, Puerto Rico. Second, the study will empirically determine the sociodemographic profile of LGBTQ tourists visiting San Juan, Puerto Rico. Finally, while some destination marketers assume that the LGBTQ market is a value added segment for destinations, the current study will facilitate a systematic forecasting tool with which to estimate the economic impact of the pink dollar in San Juan, Puerto Rico
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