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…

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…

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…

En este artículo, describimos un modelo interactivo de resumen orientado
a síntesis de información (PRISMA). El usuario interactúa con el sistema por
medio de listas de conceptos clave extraídos automáticamente. El modelo hace uso
de información sintáctica para identificar conceptos…

When researchers in the field of Applied Linguistics or L2 teachers
try to carry out any kind of research, several problems arise. The first
one is knowing how to start the process of ‘researching’. The second
problem, perhaps more frustrating,…

La aspiración actual de la educación científica de enseñar a las personas cómo enfrentarse a problemas, de desarrollar destrezas de alto
nivel intelectual al mismo tiempo que conocimientos específicos queda reducida en la enseñanza habitual de la física a la…

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…

El turismo de sol y playa es el segmento que genera mayor flujo de turistas y representa un importante motor para el desarrollo de la actividad en muchos países. Sin embargo, la masificación, el deterioro ambiental, los cambios en la…

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,…

Tanto en sus escritos narrativos como en los políticos, sociológicos e históricos, es posible percibir en José Victorino Lastarria un idealismo latente –cifrado en la máxima «combatir la ignorancia»– que va construyendo una filantropía señera en las coordenadas latinoamericanas. La…