China and New Zealand were able to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 2008, in spite of the large differences in standards under which they were respectively negotiating trade agreements in the international arena. This ...
Global political economy is a field of inquiry that tends to focus on the
projection of power as a purposive action. However, when we look at international
trade, we observe that trade-engaged companies will adapt their ...
While influential works since the 1970s have widely assumed that imitation is an
innate skill in both human and non-human primate neonates, recent empirical studies
and meta-analyses have challenged this view, indicating ...
Rivera-Hechem, María Ignacia; Guzmán, Ricardo A.; Rodríguez-Sickert, Carlos; Gelcich, Stefan(2021)
Governance regimes that assign exclusive access to support collective action are increas-
ingly promoted to manage common-pool resources under the premise that they foster
environmental stewardship. However, experimental ...
It is only recently that the sense of community in contexts other than the neighbor-
hood has started to be studied, providing evidence on the associations between this
variable in the school environment and various ...
In the last decades, novel neurotechnologies are enabling the collecting
and analyzing of neuronal data as well as the targeted alteration of brain activity.
While this progress has the potential to help many patients ...
The theory of universal emotions suggests that certain emotions such as fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise and happiness can be encountered cross-culturally. These emotions are expressed using specific facial movements ...
Fajardo, Gabriela; Muñoz-Reyes, José Antonio; Rodríguez-Sickert, Carlos(2022)
From an evolutionary perspective, phenotypic, social, and environmental factors help
to shape the different costs and benefits of pursuing different reproductive strategies
(or a mixture of them) from one individual to ...
In both sexes, aggression has been described as a critical trait to acquire social status.
Still, almost uniquely in men, the link between aggressiveness and the genetic background of testosterone sensitivity measured ...
The academic debate in migrant entrepreneurship has mainly focused on movements from emerging economies into developed economies. Anecdotal evidence has suggested that the highest impact is generated by migrants in/from ...
This paper proposes a methodology for measuring Quality of Employment (QoE) deprivation from a multidimensional perspective in six Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and ...
Tres son las grandes persecuciones que el budismo debió enfrentar y superar en la historia de China, y variadas las maneras en que ha debido crear un discurso que se adecue a las circunstancias culturales y políticas para ...
En busca de un lugar idóneo para las prácticas ascéticas, las monjas budistas chinas se insertan en la montaña y se refugian en un lugar que les permita estar en retiro. Entre estos lugares hallamos templos abandonados; ...
Este trabajo busca determinar si las variables del modelo de mejoramiento estratégico construido en base a los principales postulados tanto del liderazgo distribuido como del liderazgo sistémico y con pertinencia cultural ...
Raveau Morales, María Paz(Universidad del Desarrollo. Facultad de Gobierno, 2022-01)
In October 2015, the government of Chile started a constitution-making process, which allowed citizen participation. During the participatory phase, citizens gathered in local selfconvoked encounters to debate on four ...
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a heterogeneous condition that affects face perception.
Evidence shows that there are differences in face perception associated with the processing of low spatial frequency (LSF) and high ...
Facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR), 2D:4D digit ratio and skeletal muscle mass are morphological traits that have been linked to status-seeking behaviors throughout dominance. However, this link has been contested recently, ...
Despite the fact that Chile's position in the world has radically improved in the last thirty years, the post-dictatorial international project is exhausted. Today it is necessary to move towards a new cycle of foreign ...
We formulate a bi-objective distribution model for urban trips constrained by origins and destinations while maximizing entropy. We develop a flexible and consistent approach in which the estimations of generated/attracted ...
Due to the high emissions produced by the transportation sector, one of the most implemented policies worldwide is the economic incentive to purchase electric and hybrid vehicles. The adoption of these policies in developing ...