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La explotación de petróleo y gas natural tiene efectos ambientales específicos que dependen de la ubicación de los yacimientos y de las técnicas utilizadas para extraer los productos brutos. La prevención y control de los impactos ambientales generados por las…

La Ley Orgánica de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación aprobada en 2005 y puesta en vigencia en 2006, constituyó un instrumento legal idóneo para normar las
Políticas Públicas definidas por el Gobierno de Venezuela, para consolidar su Sistema Nacional de Ciencia…

Organizations must establish processes for managing knowledge across boundaries because of the specialized and task-dependent forms of knowledge required to deliver products and services. To address this challenge an integrative framework is developed that identifies and integrates the value of…

We instillate rational cognition and learning in seemingly riskless choices and judgments. Preferences and possibilities are given in a stochastic sense and based on revisable expectations. the theory predicts experimental preference reversals and passes a sharp econometric test of the…

La plataforma InTiMe (INtegration of Tools and corpora In the text-MEss project) es un ambicioso proyecto del Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas
Informáticos de la Universidad de Alicante. Nace con la idea de integrar, en una misma plataforma, gran parte…

Recent work on the application of relevance theory to humorous speech-acts (jokes) defines these as being characterised by an increased demand in processing effort for the attainment of maximum contextual effects. This increase, however, is limited to the resolution of…

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2008v7n1p69For naturalistic and non-intuitionistic moral realists, moral knowledge is more problematic than ordinary and scientific factual knowledge. For without special faculties of moral discernment, how could we ever detect moral facts and properties? Physical facts and properties may be accessible to perceptual…

Creating common ground in a community of people who do not all know each other is a chicken-and-egg problem: members do not share enough common ground to support the kinds of conversations that help build it. "Folk Computing" technology is…

Over the next five years, computer games will find their way into a vast number of American homes, creating a unique educational opportunity: the development of "computer coaches" for the serious intellectual skills required by some of these games. From…