The problem of automatic face recognition is to visually identify a person in an input image. This task is performed by matching the input face against the faces of known people in a database of faces. Most existing work in…

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…

Este trabajo intenta contribuir con el conocimiento de la epidemiología de la tripanosomiasis en bovinos tropicales. El estudio se realizó en bovinos del valle de Aroa, Venezuela mediante un muestreo estratificado polietápico, seleccionándose 387 animales de dos unidades agroecológicas (U.A.)…

El agua es un bien abundante en el planeta Tierra y los seres humanos son su principal agente contaminante, en detrimento de su calidad de vida. Incluida la Constitución Nacional, la normativa venezolana es abundante en disposiciones legales para obligar…

Este artículo se enmarca dentro de la polémica de las estrategias en formación de valores en la casa y la escuela. Muestra la institución educativa como el lugar donde se abre la posibilidad de establecer relaciones con sujetos que tienen…

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…

Computing is a broad discipline that crosses the boundaries between mathematics, science, and engineering. New computing disciplines emerge over time and knowledge changes rapidly in computing. Therefore, several reports that define and update guidelines for computing curricula have appeared over…

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…