To find a good termination criterion for genetic algorithms is a difficult and frequently ignored task. In most instances the practitioner stops the algorittm after a predefined number of generations or function evaluations. How this number is established? This stop…

An increasing number of organizations are involved in the development of strategic
information systems for effective linkages with their suppliers, customers, and other
channel partners involved in transportation, distribution, warehousing and maintenance
activities. An efficient inter-organizational inventory…

The present article studies the opinions and
ideas death awakes among health professionals.
Not only the idea of their own death,
but the death of those patients or relatives they care
for. The concept of "death" is of paramount importance

Las franquicias, han marcado la pauta en la nueva tendencia mundial del comercio, éstas representan un conjunto de derechos de propiedad industrial o intelectual. Por tanto, el objeto de este artículo es examinar la contabilización de los activos intangibles en…

Las actividades relacionadas al levantamiento topográfico han sido modificadas tremendamente durante las pasadas décadas por la incorporación de instrumentos de última tecnología entre los que se puede mencionar el GPS y la Estación Total. Es necesario resaltar que la característica…

The accomplishment of systems with abilities to reason about actions and change and systems that can manage incomplete or not very reliable information with abilities to discuss or argument has been of great importance for artificial intelligence community. These two…

It is argued in this paper that the Islamization of the social sciences should be seen-for conceptual and for pragmatic reasons-as the heart of the Islamization of Knowledge (IOK) movement. If that position is accepted, the importance of efforts to…

Al-Ghazālī expressed many ideas on the theory of knowledge in his different works including Iḥyā’ ‘ulūm aI-dīn as well as al-Risālah al-laduniyyah. The former work is accepted by the scholars as securely attributed to al-Ghazālī, while the authenticity of the…

Baccharis uncinella DC. belongs to the Asteraceae family and is included in the Spicata group. Its synonym is Baccharis
discolor Baker and it is popularly known as vassoura and vassoura-lageana in Portuguese. The phytochemical
screening has shown the presence of…

El D-002 es una mezcla de alcoholes alifáticos primarios superiores (tetracosanol, hexacosanol, octacosanol, triacontanol, dotriacontanol, tetratriacontanol) purificada de la cera de abejas con efectos antioxidantes, cuyos efectos sobre los niveles plasmáticos de hidroperóxidos totales (OHPT) no habían sido investigados. Este…