El análisis actual sobre las profesiones se centra en su relación con la estructura
social, las organizaciones y la política, de tal manera que las tendencias más recientes
están configurando su estudio sobre la base del conocimiento abstracto y de…

Knowledge acquisition for systems based on knowledge can be called knowledge engineering, according to Feigenbaum (1980) who used the term to describe the reduction of a wide context of knowledge for a set of facts and rules. The term Knowledge…

Most neural network learning algorithms cannot use knowledge other than what is provided in the training data. Initialized using random weights, they cannot use prior knowledge such as knowledge stored in previously trained networks. This manuscript thesis addresses this problem.…

In the restricted single-machine common due date problem the goal is to find a schedule for the n jobs which jointly minimizes the sum of earliness and tardiness penalties, while for the weighted tardiness problem the goal is to find…

Argumentative formalisms have been widely recognized as knowledge representation and reasoning tools able to deal with incomplete and potentially contradictory informa- tion. All such formalisms are computationally demanding. Hence, optimizing argumen- tative systems has been approached from di erent views.

El estrés oxidativo juega un papel importante como cofactor en la patogénesis del virus de la inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH). Los individuos infectados con VIH desarrollan además deficiencia en micronutrientes antioxidantes que recrudecen aún más el estado redox. En la era…

Four teachers & their eight classes of 179 5th-grade (10-11-year-old) students participated in this quasi-experimental classroom study, which investigated the effects of form-focused instruction (FFI) & corrective feedback on immersion students' ability to accurately assign grammatical gender in French. The…

A re-design process implies dealing with complex interactions between stakeholders, especially if we are talking about a personalization re-engineered process, which can be applied to an existing web application. In this context, knowledge becomes a main factor of influence, but…

Este trabalho foi conduzido na Comunidade de Vila Cachoeira, município de Ilhéus, Bahia, no período de setembro de 2000 à maio de 2001, tendo como objetivo analisar o resgate do conhecimento da comunidade sobre o uso de plantas medicinais. Foram…

Las plantas medicinales y sus preparaciones farmacéuticas tienen cada vez mayor aceptación por parte del personal de salud y de la población en general. Su utilización se concentra fundamentalmente en la Atención Primaria de Salud, donde contribuyen a resolver muchos…