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Bridging psychology and mathematics : can the brain understand the brain?
(2004-09-14)
We are told scientists are divided into experimentalists and theoreticians. The dialectic description of the dynamics of science, with one tribe gathering data and collecting evidence and another tribe providing form to ...
Bimbo Bakery case story
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Espacio de Negocios Inclusivos (ENI), 2011)
Breve historia de la empresa Bimbo.
Interactive Crowdsourcing to Fact-check Politicians
(Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2023)
The discourse of political leaders often contains false information that can misguide the public. Fact-checking agencies around the world try to reduce the negative influence of politicians by verifying their words. However, ...
Partisanship predicts COVID-19 vaccine brand preference: the case of Argentina
(Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Humanit Soc Sci Commun) ISSN 2662-9992 (online), 2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the significance of overcoming vaccine adoption
resistance and addressing real and perceived barriers for efficient vaccination campaigns.
One major problem faced by health systems around ...
Business cycle and macroeconomic policy coordination in MERCOSUR
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2003)
The paper analyzes cyclical comovements in the Mercosur area differentiating idiosyncratic from common shocks. In the Mercosur (or any region for that matter) shocks can be country-specific, affecting only one country or ...
Estructuras e instrumentos financieros para el desarrollo de negocios inclusivos
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2012)
El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo general evaluar los factores condicionantes y las oportunidades que existen en Argentina para poder replicar las estructuras y herramientas financieras que actualmente ...
The FTAA and the location of FDI
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2002)
The role of regional integration agreements as a determinant of the location of FDI has become an increasingly relevant issue for emerging economies. While the concerns regarding the impact of RIAs on FDI for countries in ...
Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
(2012-06-12)
Obesity prevalence is increasing in many countries at alarming levels. A difficulty in the conception of policies to reverse these trends is the identification of the drivers behind the obesity epidemics. Here, we implement ...
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 ...