We develop a theory to explain the transition from stagnation to modern growth. We focus on the forces that shaped the evolution of total factor productivity in agriculture and manufacturing across history. More specifically, we build a multisector model of…

Los métodos de generación de resúmenes basados en técnicas extractivas han demostrado ser muy útiles por su adaptabilidad y eficiencia en tiempo de respuesta en cualquier tipo de dominios. En el ámbito biomédico son numerosos los estudios que hablan de…

This article reviews existing knowledge concerning the epidemiology, instruments and regulatory criteria currently used to evaluate artificial turf soccer pitches. Recent years have seen tremendous growth in the use of artificial turf as a playing surface for sports (rugby, soccer,…

This article contains a rapid review of the abundant information furnished by the Latin inscriptions to our knowledge of Ancient History. To this effect a rapid balance is made of the Latin epigraphs known today and the advances made in…

En este trabajo se pretende comparar dos de los métodos de enseñanza y aprendizaje que en la actualidad están siendo impartidos tanto en las escuelas, como en los institutos y en las universidades. Uno de estos métodos es la clase…

The construction of a teenager population’s citizenship identity is influenced by the cultural and social capital belonging to every student, as well as by two aspects of school organisation. On the one hand, there is an academic contribution motivated by…

En la presente investigación nos aproximamos y presentamos una obra de finales del siglo XIX que abarca tres disciplinas distintas pero sumamente relacionadas, como son la fonética, la lexicología y la lexicografía: Elementos de Fonética y Lexicología seguidos del vocabulario…

When building Hypermedia/Web Applications, (different) designers are often faced with the same problems over and over again. Those recurring problems soon yield elegant solutions, which can be conveniently described as design patterns. In this paper we present two patterns for…

In this paper we present different error measurements with the aim to evaluate the quality of the approximations generated by the GNG3D method for mesh simplification. The first phase of this method consists on the execution of the GNG3D algorithm,…

An audience driven philosophy for web site design takes the different target audiences as an explicit starting point, and organizes the basic navigation structure accordingly. However, for the designer it is not always easy, or sometimes even impossible, to assess…