To find a good termination criterion for genetic algorithms is a difficult and frequently ignored task. In most instances the practitioner stops the algorittm after a predefined number of generations or function evaluations. How this number is established? This stop…

This paper investigates and analyses the process of building a knowledge management (KM) model at Brazil‟s Embrapa (The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation). Embrapa is a world class knowledge organization whose mission is to provide feasible solutions for the sustainable development…

Décadas de uso inadecuado
de los recursos naturales en Australia han llevado a la extinción de numerosas especies autóctonas. Aprendiendo de sus propios errores,
se han inicido recientemente diferentes proyectos de conservación en los que participan diversos agentes interesados. La…

Como resultado preliminar del estudio de unas 200 especies de la subtribu Gonolobinae (Apocynaceae subfam. Asclepiadoideae), se describe a continuación un

nuevo género, (Pseudolachnostoma Morillo), y se propone el restablecimiento de los géneros Ibatia Decne. y Lachnostoma Kunth…

In this article we examine and expose some of the results of a research work based on the appropriation of knowledge through visual expression, activity attended by teachers and students outside the schooleducational method called "Open Classroom".After the investigation, it…

Heat shock (HS) leads to the activation of molecular mechanisms, known as HS-response, that prevent damage and enhance survival under stress. Plants have a flexible and specialized network of Heat Shock Factors (HSFs), which are transcription factors that induce the…

In Disability Studies, Universal Design (UD) is a concept that is often borrowed from an architectural or design context to mean an ideology of inclusion and flexibility with a range of applications in education, technology, and other milieus. This paper…

This article reviews findings and theoretical models concerning a specific aspect of theory-of-mind development, namely, the understanding of how knowledge is acquired. The review shows that where as the seminal research suggests this understanding emerges at around the age of…

El nuevo contexto impone a las organizaciones la necesidad vital de disponer de adecuadas infraestructuras de comunicación, que les permitan conseguir un conocimiento real y suficiente del entorno. El presente artículo pretende mostrar la estructura organizativa del Sistema de Gestión…

The Reading of documents of ecclesiastical source produced during Middle Ages provides the very clear percept of the presence of various categories of mediators between the natural world and mystical forces, in the daily routine of the western men. On…