This dissertation investigates "geological" literature in the 19th century, and aims to describe a poetics of the earth sciences. Focusing on the work of Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868), whose literary experiments translate and transform scientific knowledge, the dissertation argues that the…

Over the course of the twentieth century, how were real estate developers and architects involved in transforming their own professional practices and the built form of American cities? My dissertation uses historical, architectural, and urban analysis to show how real…

In healthy cells, cytochrome c (cyt c) acts as an electron transport protein peripherally bound to the inner mitochondrial membrane lipid cardiolipin, but it has an important role in apoptosis - upon apoptotic stimuli, it is released from the mitochondria…

Michel Foucault, Thomas Mann, and more recently, Sven-Olov Wallenstein have argued that the modern European hospital of the early twentieth century acted as a research laboratory for a new way of governing human populations. This dissertation studies a subsequent phase…

Introduction: Bien que la dépense énergétique associée au travail mental ne soit pas plus élevée qu’au repos, des travaux ont mené à la conclusion que la réalisation d’une tâche mentale stressante était reliée à une augmentation de la consommation énergétique.…

In the last few years, several studies have emphasized the use of ontologies as an alternative to organization of the information.
The notion of ontology has become popular in fields such as intelligent information integration, information retrieval on the Internet,…

Document classification has already been widely studied. In fact, some studies compared feature selection techniques or feature space transformation whereas some others compared the performance of different algorithms. Recently, following the rising interest towards the Support Vector Machine, various studies…

Las asignaturas relacionadas con tecnologías audiovisuales en planes de estudios de ciencias de la comunicación e ingeniería, suelen encontrar una problemática compartida basada en las mismas causas: extraordinaria limitación temporal, grupos excesivamente numerosos, instalaciones técnicas, drástica disociación entre la visión…

El presente trabajo es una investigación documental, por su temática es de desarrollo teórico, persigue presentar el enfoque de Ramón A Tovar, sus imágenes de ruptura y continuidad para darle corpus a una ciencia considerada desde el criterio de lo…

En este artículo intentamos justificar la relación intrínseca entre texto/imagen en libros escolares que abordan la enseñanzaaprendizaje de la ciudad. Partimos de ciertas premisas teóricas para luego, indagar a través de principios de la metodología cualitativa, el valor del contenido…