A real-time motion engine for interactive synthetic characters, either virtual or physical, needs to allow expressivity and interactivity of motion in order to maintain the illusion of life. Canned animation examples from an animator or motion capture device are expressive,…

This dissertation investigates how rapid learning occurs in high technology industries, many of which operate in what Bourgeois and Eisenhardt (1988) term "high velocity environments." The dissertation consists of three empirical studies, which follow the method of extended case study…

The climate of the reception of immigrants to the United States has soured, and circumstances are becoming increasingly difficult for persons seeking to gain residency. Reasons often given for the reversal in this practice are that immigrants are poor, uneducated,…

Understanding the biological signals encoded in a genome is a key challenge of computational biology. These signals are encoded in the four-nucleotide alphabet of DNA and are responsible for all molecular processes in the cell. In particular, the genome contains…

This thesis explores how doctors and nurses use documents to share their knowledge within and across healthcare settings. In addressing this question I draw on a 15-month, multi-sited ethnographic study in several pediatric health care settings, following patients from primary…

Despite numerous studies reporting on sustainable consumption or organic consumer profiles, there is a gap in thorough understanding of organic consumers in different places, since most of studies only investigate organic consumption in most developed countries. The goal of this…

Objetivos. Identificar las barreras más importantes al desarrollo del Plan Nacional de
Alimentación y Nutrición de Colombia (PNAN), tanto desde el punto de vista de sus
planificadores y ejecutores, como de los académicos.
Métodos. Se realizó una investigación en dos…

D. Eleanor Westney., Cover title. "Paper prepared for JAIMS conference on 'International Comparative Study of Knowledge Creation', Hawaii, December 12-14, 1996"--Added t.p. "February 1997.", Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-34).

, Editorial:, Una luz al final del túnel, Aguilera, Oscar, Presentación., Dossier: En la variedad está el gusto, Aguilera, Oscar, Educación y sociedad en América Latina, una década después, Education and society in Latin America, one decade later, Albornoz, Orlando,…

The bulk of research on teacher knowledge has taken place in elementary and secondary school settings. The goal of this study was to examine teacher knowledge in higher education by asking: (1) what types of knowledge are drawn upon in…