Manipulating and retrieving multimedia data has received increasing attention with the advent of cloud storage facilities. The ability of querying by similarity over large data collections is mandatory to improve storage and user interfaces. But, all of them are expensive…

El proyecto actual expone el diseño y la implementación de un prototipo de estación meteorológica remota, para el Observatorio Astronómico de Quito (O.A.Q.), con la finalidad de obtener información meteorológica del medio ambiente. De esta manera, esta dependencia de la…

This work describes two media converter prototypes for transmitting 10Mb/s & 100Mb/s Ethernet data over large core (1mm) Step-Index Polymer Optical Fiber (SI-POF). In terms of reach, both prototypes greatly outperform previously published results and current commercial media converters based…

En la primera parte de este trabajo se describen algunos experimentos sobre el Beber Inducido por el Programa de Reforzamiento (BIP) con ratas. Los resultados de estos experimentos se pueden clasificar conforme a dos enfoques diferentes. Los datos del primer…

Some experiments on Schedule-Induced Drinking (SID) in rats are described in the first part of this paper. The results from these experiments can be classified according to two different approaches. Data from the first approach show that the water-producing response…

The objective of this research was to evaluate the nature and the amount of commentaries made by two Futsal´s coaches during the practices and competitive games and the moment of the game which the commentaries were made by them. Two…

The objective of this research was to evaluate the nature and the amount of commentaries made by two Futsal´s coaches during the practices and competitive games and the moment of the game which the commentaries were made by them. Two…

This paper presents a data structure based on Sparse Spatial Selection (SSS) for similarity searching. An algorithm that tries periodically to adjust pivots to the use of database index is presented. This index is dynamic. In this way, it is…

In order to apply HAZUS methodology to a real seismic risk study outside USA, the
Oslo municipality was chosen as study region. The civil institutions were asked for neccesary information and we were provided with different ASCII and Arcview files…

El objetivo de este artículo es examinar la relación existente entre la volatilidad de la tasa de cambio y el volumen de exportaciones, usando datos brasileños. Después de establecer la existencia de cointegración entre las variables incluidas en nuestro modelo,…