LATIN AMERICA AT A CROSSROADS: A CULTURAL THEORY TO ADDRESS THE WICKED PROBLEM OF REGIONAL INTEGRATION WITH CLUMSY SOLUTIONS

Latin America at a Crossroads: A Cultural Theory to Address the Wicked Problem of Regional Integration with Clumsy Solutions

Latin America is at a crossroads.Its efforts to integrate are undergoing significant changes.In this light, integration has been regarded as a wicked problem.Contra convention, such approach suggests that wicked problems, being social problems, may have an indefinite number of solutions.This article builds on that argument and, in order to make it

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Effects of shielding the radiosensitive superficial organs of ORNL pediatric phantoms on dose reduction in computed tomography

In computed tomography (CT), some superficial organs which have increased sensitivity to radiation, receive doses that are significant enough to be matter of Mens Joggers concern.Therefore, in this study, the effects of using shields on the amount of dose reduction and image quality was investigated for pediatric imaging.Absorbed doses of breasts,

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Homotopy Characterization of ANR Function Spaces

Let Y be an absolute neighbourhood retract (ANR) for the class of metric spaces and let X be a topological space.Let YX denote the Wrist Brace space of continuous maps from X to Y equipped with the compact open topology.We show that if X is a compactly generated Tychonoff space and Y is not discrete, then YX is an Tudca ANR for metric spaces if and

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Parametric pattern selection in a reaction-diffusion model.

We compare spot patterns generated by Turing mechanisms with those generated by replication cascades, in a model one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system.We determine the stability region of spot solutions in parameter space as a function of a natural control parameter (feed-rate) where Rubber Disc degenerate patterns with different numbers of spo

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