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The limited (but relevant) role of the doctrine of the double effect in the Just War Theory
(Ethics & Global PoliticsRoutledgeTaylor & Francis, 2017)My focus in this paper is the use of the doctrine of double effect (DDE) in the context of Just War Theory. Different versions of DDE have different degrees of plausibility. Two distinctions are crucial. First, I distinguish ... -
The Long and Winding Road to Real-Life Experiments: Remote Assessment of Executive Functions with Computerized Games—Results from 8 Years of Naturalistic Interventions
(Brain Sciences (e-ISSN 2076-3425), 2024-03-07)Mate Marote is an open-access cognitive training software aimed at children between 4 and 8 years old. It consists of a set of computerized games specifically tailored to train and evaluate Executive Functions (EF), a ... -
The maximum 2D subarray polytope: facet-inducing inequalities and polyhedral computations
(2022)Given a matrix with real-valued entries, the maximum 2D subarray problem consists in finding a rectangular submatrix with consecutive rows and columns maximizing the sum of its entries. In this work we start a polyhedral ... -
The Media Politics of Latin America’s Post Left Turn: Legal (Counter-)Reforms in Argentina and Ecuador
(2022)Latin America’s ‘left turn’ has been characterized by ambitious reforms to reshuffle power relations in the region’s historically elitist and commercially-driven media systems. Those radical media policies faced course ... -
The Mix of Latin American Populist Constitutionalism
(2022)In this article, we study Latin American populist constitutions and their uses, seeking to analytically understand whether populist constitutionalism is, indeed, a thing. We posit that Latin American populist constitutionalism ... -
The neural basis of decision-making and reward processing in adults with euthymic bipolar disorder or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
(2012-05-18)Background: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and bipolar disorder (BD) share DSM-IV criteria in adults and cause problems in decision-making. Nevertheless, no previous report has assessed a decision-making ... -
The Open Anchoring Quest Dataset: Anchored Estimates from 96 Studies on Anchoring Effects
(Journal of Open Psychology DataUbiquity Press, 2022)People’s estimates are biased toward previously considered numbers (anchoring). We have aggregated all available data from anchoring studies that included at least two anchors into one large dataset. Data were standardized ... -
The Potential Footprint of Plant- Based Meat Adoption on Leading Crop Producers
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023-12-30)Plant-based meat (PBM) has the potential to improve the global food supply chain on numerous environmental and societal dimensions. Some of these gains, derived from lower animal meat production, could disrupt the supply ... -
The presence of irrelevant alternatives paradoxically increases confidence in perceptual decisions
(Cognition, 2023)Confidence in perceptual decisions is thought to reflect the probability of being correct. According to this view, confidence should be unaffected or minimally reduced by the presence of irrelevant alternatives. To test ... -
The price of incorvertible deposits: the stock market boom during the Argentine crisis
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2003)The Argentine crisis witnessed, among other things, a deposit run, the suspension of deposit convertibility, and a “boom” in the stock market. We argue that this boom reflects the cost that depositors were willing to incur ... -
The resources of civil society
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Derecho, 1999-11)We understand civil society as a form, or rather, as a variety of forms, of social organization that contrast with government-imposed organization. We need some such marker for conceptually separating communities from the ... -
The Rise of Public Sector Unions in the Twenty-FirstCentury: A Theoretical,Mixed-Methods Approachwith Evidence from Argentina
(Politics & SocietySAGE, 2023)Public sector unions are increasingly becoming the hegemonic contemporary labor actorin terms of membership and militancy in both advanced and emerging economies.However, political economy lacks a unified theoretical ... -
The South American Way : el "milagro" brasileño, los Estados Unidos (1939-1943)
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos, 1999)En 1943, con la publicación del libro Brazil Builds concluía el ciclo de construcción del «caso brasileño» como topos fundamental del imaginario de la arquitectura del siglo XX. Aunque su proceso de gestación puede ... -
The Spatial and Temporal Construction of Confidence in the Visual Scene
(2009-03-17)Human subjects can report many items of a cluttered field a few hundred milliseconds after stimulus presentation. This memory decays rapidly and after a second only 3 or 4 items can be stored in working memory. Here we ... -
The transfer pricing problem: the Argentine experience (1932-1998)
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Derecho, 2000)This essay examines the various approaches that Argentina has developed to address this problem in the income tax area. The period studied runs from 1932, when the first transfer pricing provision was passed, up to the ... -
The Value of Observing the Buyer Arrival Time in Dynamic Pricing
(2020)We consider a dynamic pricing problem where a firm sells one item to a single buyer in order to maximize expected revenues. The firm commits to a price function over an infinite horizon. The buyer arrives at some random ... -
The welfare effects of unemployment insurance in Argentina. New estimates using changes in the schedule of transfers
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2022)Unemployment insurance transfers should balance the provision of consumption to the unemployed with the disincentive effects on the search behavior. Developing countries face the additional challenge of informality. Workers ... -
The wisdom of extremized crowds: Promoting erroneous divergent opinions increases collective accuracy
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023)The aggregation of many lay judgements can generate surprisingly accurate estimates. This effect, known as the “wisdom of the crowd”, has been demonstrated in domains such as medical decision-making, factchecking news, ... -
Thomas Hobbes y la formación de jóvenes científicos : Leibniz, Newton, y una inexplicable omisión
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Departamento de Historia, 2012-07)Estudio sobre el lugar que le dio la historia de la ciencia a Tomás Hobbes teniendo en cuenta textos de Newton y Leibniz.