La investigación cualitativa en el campo de la salud se enfrenta a problemas relativos a la producción de conocimiento científico o la cuestión epistemológica, los procedimientos metodológicos en la indagación cualitativa, y la utilidad y uso de los hallazgos cualitativos.…

An exploratory analysis was carried out to describe patient satisfaction with ambulatory care. The analysis aimed at gaining an understanding of satisfaction with the care received from the patient's perspective; it was guided by the principles of qualitative analysis. Findings…

Desde sus orígenes recientes la enfermería se ha interesado por la investigación, siendo los métodos cuantitativos los más usados. En las ciencias sociales, actualmente se reconocen cuatro paradigmas que fundamentan las distintas estrategias, éstas se consideran herramientas a disposición del…

In big companies, managerial activities and organizational boundaries will over time hide most unevenly developed skill and knowledge distribution patterns; studying the organizations with the means of modern applied physics is thus quite difficult. People are forced to communicate along…

Ensuring environmental sustainability is the aim of the seventh Millennium Development Goal (MDG7). United Nations data shows insufficient progress, especially in developing countries. In order to generate new information about this progress and the main barriers that hinder it, we…

Social knowledge is one of the key aspects of MAS in order to face complex problems in dynamical environments. However, it is usually incorporated without specific support on behalf of the platform and that does not let agents take all…

This paper describes the overall architecture of Episteme, a tool for the development of efficient LFG-based MT systems following the classical transfer approach. The
system incorporates a series of novel computational techniques which enhance the overall performance significantly: representation, storage…

We discuss the convenience of an early introduction of undergraduate students to the reading of scientific papers, mostly divulgative or historical. This can encourage them to deeper readings and to search and discover in the scientific writings new sources of…

Multi-agent systems (MAS) offer an approach to solve complex problems where data and control are inherently distributed among several agents. Normally, agents have to cope with conflicts based on inconsistent knowledge which arise when they exchange information. A relative common…

In this article I argue against Matthews (1981) claim about the impossibility
of deriving dependencies from constitution. Based on his claim, Matthews
defends that there is no strong equivalence between the corresponding theoretical
frames.
Contrary to that opinion, I start…