Currently, Draper Laboratory is in the development stages of a gliding autogyro airdrop system. The goal of the project is to design a platform capable of placing small, high value items into urban terrain. Theoretically, autogyros can achieve descent rates…

by Ronnie E. Thebeau., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2001., Includes bibliographical references (p. 149).

(cont.) algorithm to identify the regulatory models from protein-DNA binding and gene expression data. These models to a large extent agree with the knowledge of gene regulation pertaining to the corresponding regulators. The three works in this thesis provide a…

Some proponents of epistemological approaches to argumentation (Biro, Siegel, Lumer, Goldman) assume that it should be possible to develop non-relative
criteria of argument evaluation. By contrast, this paper argues that any evaluation of an argument depends (a) on the cognitive…

The necessity of verification tools for Knowledge Based-Systems (KBSs), that help to guarantee a certain degree of quality and reliability of these systems will increase in the future when more critical systems are developed in areas such as industry, science,…

Main technologies, recommendations and generated knowledge. Embrapa Soybean and the comunity. Employees: commitment and development of skills. Important challenges: vision on the future., 2005, 1 folder.

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Effective document retrieval using domain knowledge and semantics is one of the major challenges in Information Retrieval. Over the last years, there has been a growing interest in ontologies as an artifact for human knowledge representation and a critical component…

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One does not have to be a fierce advocate of dialectics to consider the claim that the exercise of dystopic imagination may represent a necessary stage to think a better world. If it is good to know the worst, that does not…