La Sociedad Astronómica de Barcelona (1910-1923) se fundó con el objetivo de
desarrollar y difundir el conocimiento científico en la ciudad de Barcelona y, por extensión,
Catalunya. A pesar del peso mayoritario de los estudios astronómicos durante los
primeros años,…

Este artículo muestra un método para la marcación automática de emociones
(EmoTag) en textos en lengua inglesa, prestando especial atención a la utilización de un analizador de dependencias (MINIPAR) para la localización de las
palabras implicadas en las negaciones. De…

Los avances de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC)
presionan la educación y provocan transformaciones en el qué y cómo enseñar,
entre otros aspectos. Su conversión en un soporte educativo efectivo requerirá
de procesos de innovación de la…

Rough Sets Theory has opened new trends for the development of the Incomplete Information Theory. Inside this one, the notion of reduct is a very significant one, but to obtain a reduct in a decision system is an expensive computing…

This dissertation investigates how rapid learning occurs in high technology industries, many of which operate in what Bourgeois and Eisenhardt (1988) term "high velocity environments." The dissertation consists of three empirical studies, which follow the method of extended case study…

BACKGROUND:A variety of definitions of evidence-based practice (EBP) exist. However, definitions are in themselves insufficient to explain the underlying processes of EBP and to differentiate between an evidence-based process and evidence-based outcome. There is a need for a clear statement…

The area of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning has been enriched during the past two decades with the addition of Argument-Based Reasoning Systems. In formal systems of defeasible argumentation, arguments for and against a proposition are produced and evaluated to test…

BACKGROUND:Primary prevention of breast cancer through prophylactic mastectomy can reduce the risk of malignancy in high-risk individuals. No type of mastectomy completely removes all breast tissue, but a subcutaneous mastectomy leaves more tissue in situ than does a simple mastectomy.CASE…

This paper focuses on the general problem of the lexical bottleneck and, in particular, on the issues of semantic clustering and disambiguation by means of word usage cues obtained from sublanguage-specific corpora. Our approaches combines the use of numerical techniques…

This dissertation considers three implications of collective self-government for just foreign policies in an imperfect world. Individuals are the appropriate moral unit of analysis, constrained to govern themselves justly, together with compatriots. First I derive limits to state autonomy that…