Designing theoretically-informed implementation interventions.

Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Ontario Ministry of Healt

Lessons from World Bank Research on Financial Crises

The benefits of financial development and globalization have come with continuing fragility in financial sectors. Periodic crises have had real but heterogeneous welfare impacts and not just for poor people; indeed, some of the conditions that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for the poor. Past crises have also had longer-term impacts for some of those affected, most notably through the nutrition and schooling of children in poor families. As in other areas of policy, effective responses to a crisis require sound data and must take account of incentives and behavior. An important lesson from past experience is that the short-term responses to a crisis -- macroeconomic stabilization, trade policies, financial sector policies and social -- cannot ignore longer-term implications for both economic development and vulnerability to future crises.Financial crisis; macroeconomic response; social protection; poverty; safety nets

Key issues of sustainable performance for construction projects

2006-2007 > Academic research: refereed > Research book or monograph (author)Version of RecordPublishe

Strategies for COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery. Applying Engineering Asset Management Principles

Versión preprint permitida por el editor Elsevier para subir a repositorios: http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/2468-2667/es/Current COVID-19 pandemic available data for Spain, Andalusia an its eight provinces have been analyzed. Utilizing a model recently published to predict pandemic behavior, confinement measures and their economic impact are analyzed. Applying principles for effective and efficient management of engineering assets, decision-making implications of establishing confinement at national, regional or local (province) level are analyzed. The quarantine time is formulated as a function of the delay in taking confinement measures in the territories. The delay is measured in time since the free expansion in the territory is observed. Results discussions and analysis help to formulate a recommended strategy that is presented in the paper. We aim for: (i) design action plans by local level but(ii) controlled centralized by a unique decisionmaking center considering by country. Benefits of that strategy are measured in quarantine times beside GDP loss toll recovery. The strategy would be even more convenient when tackling with successive waves of the pandemic, requesting immediate action on local relapse

The DBSCAN Clustering Algorithm on P Systems

We show how to implement the DBSCAN clustering algorithm (Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise) on membrane systems using evolution rules with promoters and priorities

Playing with Derivation Modes and Halting Conditions

In the area of P systems, besides the standard maximally parallel derivation mode, many other derivation modes have been investigated, too. In this paper, many variants of hierarchical P systems and tissue P systems using different derivation modes are considered and the effects of using di erent derivation modes, especially the maximally parallel derivation modes and the maximally parallel set derivation modes, on the generative and accepting power are illustrated. Moreover, an overview on some control mechanisms used for (tissue) P systems is given. Furthermore, besides the standard total halting mode, we also consider different halting conditions such as unconditional halting and partial halting and explain how the use of different halting modes may considerably change the computing power of P systems and tissue P systems

Beyond Generalized Multiplicities: Register Machines over Groups

Register machines are a classic model of computing, often seen as a canonical example of a device manipulating natural numbers. In this paper, we de ne register machines operating on general groups instead. This generalization follows the research direction started in multiple previous works. We study the expressive power of register machines as a function of the underlying groups, as well as of allowed ingredients (zero test, partial blindness, forbidden regions). We put forward a fundamental connection between register machines and vector addition systems. Finally, we show how registers over free groups can be used to store and manipulate strings