Honda of America has developed a comprehensive approach to teaching the principles of lean
production to its suppliers. The centerpiece of these efforts is a program called BP (for "Best process",
"Best Performance", "Bs Practice"), in which a crossfunctional team…

To investigate the influence of input from fellow group members in a constrained decision-making context, we develop four 2-armed bandit tasks in which subjects freely select one of two options (A or B) and are informed of the resulting reward…

This dissertation concerns itself with the effects of education and wealth on health in Africa. The first two chapters focus on the impact of adult education levels on the HIV epidemic in four sub-Saharan countries. The last chapter turns to…

The limitations common to linear imaging techniques were formalized succinctly by Ernst Abbe in 1873. In his theory, each Fourier component of a signal propagates independently from the source to the detector, and the corresponding feature can be detected only…

The central goal of compressed sensing is to capture attributes of a signal using very few measurements. The initial publications by Donoho and by Candes and Tao have been followed by applications to image compression, data streaming, medical signal processing,…

El estudio del espacio geográfico puede orientarse a identificar recursos naturales y culturales
contenidos en un sector determinado. De este modo, al considerarlos, se obtiene un
conocimiento del área a fin de utilizar, de modo sustentable, dichos recursos. Una estrategia

En los momentos actuales, la enseñanza de la geografía y la historia, adolece de estrategias eficientes para la formación pedagógica, geográfica e histórica de los docentes en todos los niveles, lo cual genera una gran diversidad de problemas, no solo…

En el desarrollo de la línea de investigación “Formación y consolidación
de una comunidad de docentes investigadores en las ciencias sociales y en la
ciencias de la educación”, se viene diseñando, ejecutando y evaluando proyectos
de investigación referidos a la…

Plusieurs études ont démontré que prés de deux tiers des patients subissant une chirurgie cardiaque souffrent de douleur d’intensité modérée à sévère. Ces niveaux de douleur semblent être partiellement expliqués par la présence de barrières individuelles face au soulagement de…

Problematic aspects of intercultural communication are considered in the context of: an increasingly internationalized market for higher education; the globalization of knowledge; the compatibility of distinct national higher education cultures; and the capacity for successful cross-cultural cooperation. This is exemplified…