The Internet is a powerful channel that presents new opportunities for touching
customers, enriching products and services with information, squeezing out costs
through process automation, and redesigning internal business processes through
enhanced communication and knowledge sharing. In…

This thesis proposes a methodology for the design of man-machine interfaces by combining top-down and bottom-up processes in vision. From a computational perspective, we propose that the scientific-cognitive question of combining top-down and bottom-up knowledge is similar to the engineering…

The hydrological characteristics of the Peninsula of Yucatan have given cause for the systems training limnological very particular, that include exposed and underground waters of origin carstic. The aquatic fauna of the cenotes and caves yucatecos has been studied from…

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This paper analyzes the reasons for
the marginalization of feminist thought in the interdiscipline
of communication studies and elucidates the potential contributions
of this approach to social communication theorizing.


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Cet article fait l'analyse des causes
de…

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Located in the
context of discussion in urban British Columbia as to whether
contemporary First Nations art should properly be referred to
as ``art'' in the Western sense or whether it is, rather, the repository
and communicator of culturally…

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There is a certain parallel between arguments
about the decline of the public sphere and the decline of the
university today. Both institutions are said to be increasingly
fragmented and politicized. In this paper, I mobilize Nancy Fraser's
alternative…

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Recently, Canadian university campuses
have begun to display signs of increasing corporate influence
in their affairs. In spite of the recent appearance of these
signs, the foundation was laid in the early 1980s for this increasing
corporate influence through…

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This thesis studies al-Ghazali's theory of knowledge, particularly his concept of knowledge of God in his three later works: "The book of Knowledge" of the Ih&dotbelow;ya', al-Munqidh, and Iljam al-`Awamm. From his conception of knowledge of God the first book…

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The ongoing subordination of
academic research to the needs of industry is a matter of growing
concern to people both within and outside of Canada's universities.
However, while the costs of university/industry links are increasingly
well understood, the ways…