The criteria adopted for establishing whether a determined substance has potential as a cosmetic constituent are based on the present legislation of each country. In this study, natural antiaging constituents as Fomes officinalis, rice protein and glutamic acid were pharmacologically…

In a multi-agent system, a group of individ- uals interact in a social context in order to boost their capabilities and enhance global per- formance. Each individual's action repertoire may be reduced, but it's social capability allows it to interact…

This paper develops a conceptual framework and offers new statistical evidence on the access to credit by micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Guatemala and Nicaragua. To this end, and after reviewing the existing literature on the topic, it…

The appearance and continuous growth of virtual communities on the web imposes the challenge of coping with the large amount of information and knowledge these communities produce. The Semantic Web with its set of standards and technologies provides the basic…

A grande maioria dos Sistemas de Gerenciamento de Aprendizagem predominantemente em uso no ensino com suporte computacional são estáticos e lineares, ou seja, apresentam o mesmo conteúdo instrucional para os diversos estudantes sem considerar o nível de aquisição de conhecimentos…

Los modelos gráficos probabilísticos, tales como las redes bayesianas y los diagramas de influencias permiten representar de forma coherente el conocimiento de un dominio bajo condiciones de incertidumbre. Están basados en los fundamentos de la teoría de la probabilidad y…

This study attempts to conceptualise the right to forget/be forgotten along with building a theoretical foundation of this individual’s right and validating the social importance of establishing the right, which is characterised as a nearly fundamental human right to protect…

In this paper, an improvement of deformable template matching algorithm for polygonal objects in grayscale images using two-dimensional deformable templates along orthogonal curves is presented. In the process of pre-computing extensions of the deformable template along orthogonal curves, the novel…

Recent contributions to the knowledge of Gondwanan cynodonts highlight the presence in Africa of taxa previously recognized in South America and vice-versa. This is the case for the Middle Triassic Namibian fauna from the upper Omingonde Formation, where the first…

Los estudios de esta tesis doctoral muestran la relación estrecha que existe en la Fenomenología del Espíritu entre el concepto hegeliano de experiencia, su concepción del absoluto y el impacto que tiene en ambos el desafío del escepticismo. La tesis…