I have invented "Internet Fish," a novel class of resource-discovery tools designed to help users extract useful information from the Internet. Internet Fish (IFish) are semi-autonomous, persistent information brokers; users deploy individual IFish to gather and refine information related to…

En este artículo se exponen diversos puntos de vista acerca del devenir de las Ciencias Sociales, a partir del estudio de las revoluciones sucedidas en América Latina desde 1989. Se muestran algunos mitos y tabúes sobre los linderos de las…

El texto es una reflexión proveniente de una experiencia editorial sustentable que afirma que la creación y producción del pensamiento de una universidad es localizado, medible y cualificable por lo que se escribe, se publica y hace eficazmente visible. Lo…

What is the best way to understand 'applies to' when it is said of a linguistic theory that it applies to a particular language-user? We can answer by saying that a linguistic theory is applicable to an individual language-user just…

En los Andes venezolanos, el cultivo del café ha sido una de las actividades económicas más importantes sobre la cual se han sostenido muchas familias por varias generaciones. Los caficultores trujillanos, especialmente del Municipio Monte Carmelo, estado Trujillo, manejaron la…

The development of decision support systems for equipment diagnosis has been found to be an iterative process whereby functionality and knowledge are continually added to a prototype until satisfactory performance is achieved. In order to reduce both the dependency on…

Sadr al-Din Qunavi (605/1207-673AH/1274 CE)--stepson and pupil of Ibn $ rm sp{c}$Arabi (d. 638 AH/1240 CE)--played a pivotal role in the development of Islamic intellectual history. His contributions in the medieval period helped alter the course of mystico-philosophical tradition, which…

The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the medical data management expert system at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the Montreal Children's Hospital. The objective of this study is to provide a systematic method to evaluate and, progressively…

This study examines how prior knowledge influences future learning. Although it has been established that prior knowledge does have a strong impact on later learning, it is not clear how this effect manifests itself. Previous research suggests that one way…

Se actualizan los conocimientos sobre botánica, etnofarmacognosia, cultivo, y en particular los avances en el aislamiento de nuevos compuestos y sus aplicaciones
en la moderna farmacología de Zingiber officinale Roscoe (Zingiberaceae)., This paper is an updating of the present knowledge…