Desde el año 2004 la Organización de Estados Americanos, a través de su Misión de Acompañamiento al Proceso de Paz –MAPP/OEA- en Colombia, estableció una cooperación técnica para hacer un seguimiento, acompañamiento y monitoreo al proceso de Desarme, Desmovilización y…

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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…

AIM: To discover whether nursing students believed that a post-registration cardiac module was meeting their needs.

METHOD: A descriptive qualitative approach was used in this study. Semi-structured interviews were recorded with a purposive sample of six registered nurses who…

Aplicando los conocimientos de animación y producción adquiridos en la carrera de multimedia y producción audiovisual, se ha creado con conceptos sólidos una historia llamada "Huellas". Es un cortometraje animado en 2D y 3D, diseñado con imágenes que sean de…

This article analyzes the appropriateness of a text summarization system, COMPENDIUM, for generating abstracts of biomedical papers. Two approaches are suggested: an extractive (COMPENDIUM E), which only selects and extracts the most relevant sentences of the documents, and an abstractive-oriented…

 Researchers with experiential disability knowledge increasingly engage in socio-medical research. In this paper the author discusses her experiences with employing her own lived experiences with disability in academic and non-academic research projects. Incorporating one’s own lived experiences in research implies…

Mixing upper level undergraduates majoring in engineering with those majoring in biology, we have devised a course on biologically-inspired design (BID) that provides practical training in methods and techniques that facilitate the identification and translation of biological principles into solutions…

O câncer de colo uterino constitui um problema de saúde pública em nosso país. A literatura evidencia a prevenção por meio de ações de educação em saúde e conscientização da população. A pesquisa investigou o conhecimento das mulheres sobre prevenção…

ABSTRACTApplication of renewal process most commonly requires the knowledge of the mean value function and the variance function. In this study, Xie's RS method (1) is adapted to the computation of the variance function for the both ordinary and stationary…