Se pretende una aproximación al conocimiento de las actividades que se realizan en la escuela como parte de la cultura escrita, conscientes de la necesidad de conocer si la escuela está ofreciendo a los alumnos, desde muy temprano, la posibilidad…

This article reports the recent progress of re-search made in the Droplet-Based Manufacturing Laboratory at MIT. The study has been focused on obtaining a fundamental understanding of microdroplet deposition and applying the technology to various practical applications. Specific scientific contributions…

Cavity balancing is the process of altering the flow front within a cavity through thickness and design changes such that the desired fill pattern is achieved. The 2 dimensional (2D) cavity-balancing algorithm, developed by Lam and Seow [1] can only…

Effective collaboration is essential for engineers at geographically dispersed locations to accomplish good design with less iteration. Over the last several years, more and more efforts have been put into such research as many industries have distributed their product development…

Le programme -Une école adaptée à tous ses élèves-, qui s'inscrit dans la réforme actuelle de l'éducation au Québec, nous a amenée à nous intéresser aux représentations dans les grandeurs en mesure en mathématiques des élèves en difficulté d'apprentissage. Nous…

In this study I deal with the conception of "elocutio" as described and explained in the "Institutio oratoria". My main point of view is the semiotic one, since the analysis of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of this rhetorical operation…

Mark Klein., "October 1999.", Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-16).

When it was created in 1995, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) served only 200 students and offered two degrees. Today, it has expanded its activities to serve over 20,000 students and 16 official degrees. UOC also offers more than…

Most neural network learning algorithms cannot use knowledge other than what is provided in the training data. Initialized using random weights, they cannot use prior knowledge such as knowledge stored in previously trained networks. This manuscript thesis addresses this problem.…

“The Subtle Body of Language and the Lost Sense of Philosophy”. This paper develops the ideas that underlie Wittgenstein’s philosophical work, at least since the Philosophical Investigations, of language as something animal and words as mainly expressive. I begin by…