We develop a theory to explain the transition from stagnation to modern growth. We focus on the forces that shaped the evolution of total factor productivity in agriculture and manufacturing across history. More specifically, we build a multisector model of…

The purpose of the study was to investigate whether teachers’ knowledge of student assessment was influenced by their gender and if it was related to their teaching experience (years in education). One hundred and twenty six physical education teachers (n=126)…

In this paper, a method of event ordering based on temporal information resolution is presented. This method consists of two main steps: on the one hand, the recognition and resolution of the temporal expressions that can be transformed on a…

This paper analyzes general features and most important objectives of feminist translation. One of the main principles of this theory is the non-acceptance of the traditional definition of equivalence. For this reason, we will compare feminist conception of equivalence with…

This paper presents and analyzes the influence of chronological distance between an original medieval text and its translation on the type of translation and the translation strategies –modernization/arcaization and philological/communicative translation– followed by a contemporary translator. Extracts of the medieval…

This work presents the main theories and models formulated with the purpose of offering a global overview on the acquisition of knowledge and skills involved in the initial development of expert competence. Setting from this background, we developed an empirical…

En la societat actual, una de les millors maneres de donar a conéixer una llengua i la seua cultura —i encara més a nivell internacional— és la traducció. La tasca traductològica té com a objectiu primordial posar en contacte dues…

The extension to new languages is a well known bottleneck for rule-based systems. Considerable human effort, which typically consists in re-writing from scratch huge amounts of rules, is in fact required to transfer the knowledge available to the system from…

This paper presents the automatic extension to other languages of TERSEO, a knowledge-based system for the recognition and normalization of temporal expressions originally developed for Spanish. TERSEO was first extended to English through the automatic translation of the temporal expressions.…

Characterizations of the containment of a convex set either in an arbitrary convex set or in the complement of a finite union of convex sets (i.e., the set, described by reverse-convex inequalities) are given. These characterizations provide ways of verifying…