2010

This thesis is focused on temporal information processing, which is a task framed in the field of natural language processing. The aim of this task is to obtain the temporal location and ordering of the events expressed in text or…

Along with changes which occur in different social institutions in the world, education and particularly universities are enroute to adding an economic and a productive role to their cultural mission and knowledge. These changes are done by using information and…

This research is rooted in my professional practice at the newly established
international Centre for Spiritual Life Development (CSLD) of The Salvation Army. It
is designed to develop a foundation which can shape and enhance the policy and provision of…

A team of biologists, engineers, and cognitive scientists has been working together for the past five years, teaching an upper level undergraduate course in biologically inspired design where half the class of forty students are biologists and other physical scientists…

The members of the Academic Community have slowly placed themselves in the local and national scene. They work towards a universal educational goal. This requires the renewal of systems and strategies to create knowledge adaptable to the dynamic changes of…

Besides explicit sources carrying feedback, we notice the increasing importance of other implicit ways. In this article we analyse the different kinds of sources of a story-telling process. All through the course we analyse how two teachers tell and play…

During the past few years, fabricated low-caloric foods (light or lite) have become very popular. Even though the Mexican Official Standard defines each of these products since 1994, Mexican consumers have not knowledge about their classification and proper use. This…

En el ámbito global, la pobreza es tal vez el mal que más agobia a la población mundial. Durante la última década del siglo pasado uno de cada tres niños estaba subalimentado, alrededor de tres millones de infantes murieron cada…

The knowledge of field management zones based on soil attributes can be helpful for the implementation of site-specific management. This work had the objective of analyzing the spatial dependence of soil attributes of the 0-0.20 m and 0.20-0.40 m layers…