La detección de regiones y objetos en imágenes digitales es un tema de suma importancia en la resolución de numerosos problemas correspondientes al área de reconocimiento de patrones. En esta dirección los algoritmos de esqueletización son una herramienta muy utilizada…

Nowadays, an increasing number of companies are using process improvement models as a mean to improve the quality of their processes and therefore the quality of their products and services. Although various improvement frameworks exist that provide organizations with aids…

Evidence-based practice has become a cornerstone to the development of many professions over the last twenty years, ranging from health and social sciences to education. Research based on reflective practice provides the impulse...En els últims vint anys, pràctiques basades en…

Abstract This article sets out the objectives, approaches and organisational development of a still on-going inter-university literature-teaching project entitled ‘Between the Lines: Comprehensive Reading of Literary Texts in a Foreign Language’, which was awarded a two-year grant by the Catalan…

Abstract The present article aims to meticulously focus on the integration of the assessment and instruction which leads to a new approach, Dynamic Assessment, based on the principles of Socio-cultural Theory of Mind (SCT) developed by L. S. Vygotsky and…

Abstract Professor Steve Walsh is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the School of ECLS of the University of Newcastle in the United Kingdom. He is the module leader for ‘Teacher Development for TESOL’, ‘Learning and teaching in Higher Education’, ‘Discourse…

Oferim a lectores i lectors una àmplia gamma de temes en el darrer volum de l'any 2012. El primer article, escrit pels membres d'un grup de recerca al Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona…

AbstractTeachers are highly influenced by their beliefs, which are related to their ideas, to their views of the world and to their values and conceptions of their environment. Departing from the premise that teachers' beliefs are one of the most…

Little work has been yet done to analyse if e-learning is an efficiency way in economic terms to produce higher education, especially because there are not available data in official statistics. Despite of these important constrains, this paper aims to…

The impact on temperature of the urban growth in central Mexico from 1993 to 2009 and the sensitivity of forecast to change in land cover are studied using high resolution numerical simulations. The mesoscale atmospheric Weather Research and Forecasting model…