Spanish Abstract: El presente documento propone un conjunto de indicadores que pueden servir como alternativa a la forma convencional en la que se estudia al comercio internacional. Por un lado se presenta una elasticidad país-país, la cual básicamente recoge el efecto que tiene un shock en...

The aim of this presentation is to develop a composite indicator, which should be consistent and reliable, to evaluate the physiological conditions of a group of patients on dialysis therapy. The composite indicators are developed based on key performance indicators. They have the advantage of...

The main result of this paper consists in the resolution of the inverse problem for the Black-Cox (1976) model, using the method proposed by Sukhomlin (2007). Based on the backward approach, we obtain an exact expression of the implied volatility expressed as a function of quantifiable market...

In this paper we show the results achieved by integrating Six Sigma, discrete simulation techniques and multi-criteria techniques for improving a beauty service that desires to obtain the best compromise solution between incomes, costs, use of resources and customer satisfaction. DMAIC...

The current work tests, in the dress sector in the center of the country, a methodology based in the theory of uncertainty and the fuzzy subsets, in order to build laws of possibilities for the retreat of clients only with the subjective opinion given by experts. The contribution of the present...

Most papers which study the world trade network use indicators that suffer from an absence of economic content. Understanding this problem, we propose an alternative methodology to describe the international trade using a network perspective, but recovering the economic interpretation. The...