Ruben Castro

Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala

The purpose of this study was to assess the frequency by which plastic surgery-related terms have been included in the lyrics of Western music hits from the 1970s to the present day as a proxy for estimating the cultural impact of plastic surgery. A list of the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 songs from 1968 to 2019 and the Billboard Year-End Hot R&B/Hi...

Background and objectives: There is much interest in adding social variables to hospital performance assessments. Many of the existing analyses, however, already include patients' diagnosis data, and it is not clear that adding a social adjustment variable would improve the quality of the results: the growing literature on this issue provides mixe...

Background: Migraine headache is a common, debilitating condition responsible for astronomical societal burden. The chronicity of migraine headaches necessitates the use of many healthcare services. Preventative treatment remains the desirable option for this patient population. Pharmacologic advances have led to the development of erenumab, a mon...

Recent literature proposes that poverty could lead women to remain childless, thus attenuating or reverting higher fertility typically observed among women of lower schooling level. We explore the role of health in this approach: does health have a distinctive detrimental effect on fertility among women of lower schooling levels? To that end, we co...

Un aspecto clave para cualquier institución educativa es formar a los individuos para que se desenvuelvan eficientemente en la sociedad. En la actualidad el contexto en que se desarrolla la formación es la era digital. En este contexto y en la coyuntura socioeconómica actual, se hace fundamental incrementar la futura empleabilidad de los discentes....

A set of measurements of sea surface currents obtained by the Instituto Oceanográfico deVenezuela in Bergantín Bay during various months in 1989 are re-analysed with new approaches.In particular the source of the current records is described and their likely connectionwith forcing agents is analysed. The following results are found. 1) Contrary to...

One of the main aims of Higher Education institutions in the present socio-economic landscape is to train in a efficient way future workers. In order to do so these institutions invest lot of money and resources although this does not guarantee the improvement of students' employability. The problems they have to find a proper work is many times re...

The Moon Pyramid is the second largest monument at Teotihuacan and represents a key source of information regarding the state polity and its underlying ideology. It was little known archaeologically until now. Extensive excavations around the pyramid and tunnel operations within its nucleus have discovered an elaborate architectural sequence, inclu...

A set of measurements of sea surface currents obtained by the Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela in Bergantín Bay during various months in 1989 are re-analysed with new approaches. In particular the source of the current records is described and their likely connection with forcing agents is analysed. The following results are found. 1) Contrary...

The Feathered Serpent Pyramid (Temple of Quetzalcoatl) was built in a single episode involving the sacrifice of around 200 individuals, in Miccaotli or Early Tlamimilolpa times. Most were males with military gear. Many had shell collars with pendants of imitation human jaws made of worked shell teeth set in stucco; rarely were real jaws used. At th...