James Reinders (Chief Evangelist of Intel® Software at Intel) and Jim Jeffers (Principal Engineer at Intel)
have gathered in this book the working knowledge of the people involved to prototype and productize the Intel® Xeon Phi coprocessor. This include…

Although current literature on learning styles shows that matching a teacher’s instructional style with the learning styles of students affects performance in a classroom environment, little is known about the influence of learning styles in online interaction. The paper argues…

Given an instance of an optimization problem together with an optimal solution, we consider the scenario in which this instance is modified locally. In graph problems, e. g., a singular edge might be removed or added, or an edge weight…

Background: Fieldwork has thoroughly established that most eggs are intensely predated. Among the few exceptions are the aerial egg clutches from the aquatic snail Pomacea canaliculata which have virtually no predators. Its defenses are advertised by the pigmented ovorubin perivitellin…

In these days most robotic systems tend to be complex to maintain and reuse because existing frameworks are based mainly on code-driven approaches. This means the software development process is reduced to the implementation of systems using specific programming languages.…

The role of communities associated to a substrate as fundamental components of an aquatic system has been recognized by many authors. Although periphyton has been considered of great importance in shallow lakes, its inclusion in different ecological models has been…

Ciudadanos y organizaciones civiles juegan un rol más importante en los nuevos regímenes democráticos que bajo las experiencias previas. Los esfuerzos para promover la transparencia, la responsabilidad en la gestión y la participación han llevado a los ciudadanos, las organizaciones…

Se evaluó el nivel de conocimiento de la nueva Ley de bosque nativo y fomento forestal que poseen los pequeños propietarios forestales en dos territorios de la Cordillera de Nahuelbuta, en Chile. Para ello, se aplicó una encuesta a 53…

La llegada de las Tics a la escuela, han provocado un cambio en los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje, como así también un cambio en el alumno que ahora es el principal protagonista de su conocimiento, y con lo cual,…

Los farmacéuticos y productos de cuidado personal (PPCPs) pertenecen al grupo contaminantes emergentes, su riego ambiental no se había detectado hasta hace una década. Recientemente, han sido reportados de causar efectos adversos sobre la vida silvestre y humana. Además, la…