Following the deaths of Victoria Climbié and of Peter Connelly (Baby P) the media has raged about social work competence, the public have expressed dismay and the government has responded with proposals designed to alter practice procedures. Altering procedures gives…

Los modelos de ciclo de vida actuales tienden a presentar, normalmente, cierta linealidad en su dinámica asociada. El presente trabajo tiene por objetivo, a través de interrelacionar diversas áreas del conocimiento, mostrar que el continuum, casi siempre, no se corresponde…

In systems where agents are required to interact with a partially known and dynamic world, sensors can be used to obtain further knowledge about the environment. However, sensors may be unreliable, that is, they may deliver wrong information (due, e.g.,…

Desde os primórdios da existência humana, o homem vem estabelecendo uma estreita relação com o recurso solo. Muitos conhecimentos foram gerados durante todo esse tempo. Porém, nas sociedades ocidentais, o homem ainda busca uma forma adequada de utilizar esse recurso…

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We study the effects of proximity in the interconnections between Internet providers participating at the three main Italian Internet Exchange Points. We find that geographical proximity plays a role in driving Internet Providers’ interconnection, positively affecting the likelihood of an…

1. Introduction to academic networks 2. Conceptual framework of networking: internal and external connections that bring relevance 3. Making knowledge through academic networks supported in technologies 4. Meetings and disagreements in the contribution to academic networks for knowledge construction, References

Although BNs have been used successfully for many medical diagnosis problems, there have been few applications to epidemiological data where data mining methods play a significant role. In this paper, we look at the application of BNs to epidemiological data,…

Le but de ce mémoire est d’expliciter en détail et de voir la portée d'un passage bien précis du traité des Topiques, ouvrage où Aristote tente d'élaborer une méthode qui permettra de raisonner de manière dialectique. Dans le deuxième chapitre…

El proceso de neolitización de la fachada mediterránea peninsular se ha asociado tradicionalmente al paradigma cardial del ámbito franco-ibérico. No obstante, el mejor conocimiento del registro material del arco noroccidental mediterráneo, la revisión de diversos conjuntos arqueológicos de las comarcas…