Worldwide, there is a well-documented crisis for bees and other pollinators which represent a fundamental biotic capital for wild life conservation, ecosystem function, and crop production. Among all pollinators of the world, bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) constitute the major group in…

Previous work on an interactive system aimed at helping non-expert users to enlarge the monolingual dictionaries of rule-based machine translation (MT) systems worked by discarding those inflection paradigms that cannot generate a set of inflected word forms validated by the…

Hemos analizado las alineaciones a nivel de oración de dos corpus paralelos de textos originales y sus simplificaciones creados con diferentes objetivos. Hemos clasificado las alineaciones que se observan y diseñado un algoritmo de clasificación capaz de predecir si las…

Póster presentado en 11th Mediterranean Congress in Chemical Engineering "Chemical Engineering in the Frontiers of Knowledge", Barcelona, 21-24 October 2008., This study was financial supported by the “Plan Nacional de I+D 2007-2010” of the Spanish Government (Ref. CTQ2007-66780, Spain) and…

In this paper, we describe the process to extend TERSEO
system to Italian using an automatic porting to this new
language, as it was performed to English., In questo report viene descritto il processo in base al
quale TERSEO, un…

A concept of pedagogical process knowledge (PPK) is introduced to partner pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). This concept arises from observing the learning of teachers engaged in a course supporting them in introducing more inquiry-based methods into their practice. This course…

In our view, there is a general need to gain insights into what a listener
does in linguistic interaction and to provide a comprehensive account
of listenership from a pragmatic standpoint. This paper examines listener
roles and processes in three…

We present a new algorithm to process captured images of reflected Placido rings. Up to our knowledge, conventional topographers transform from Cartesian to polar coordinates and vice-versa, thus extrapolating corneal data and introducing noise and image artefacts. Moreover, captured data…

As stated at the start of this article, psychological and physical demand states can be understood as the effects and consequences caused by loads. To deduce the physiological characteristics of psychophysical demand, theoretical concepts like the load/demand concept are commonly…

The effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) and the conservation of marine environments must be based on reliable information on the quality of the marine environment that can be obtained in a reasonable timeframe. We reviewed studies that evaluated all…