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An Electronic Market-Maker
Chan, Nicholas Tung - Shelton, Christian

Formato:
Enlaces:	This paper presents an adaptive learning model for market-making under the reinforcement learning framework. Reinforcement learning is a learning technique in which agents aim to maximize the long-term accumulated rewards. No knowledge of the market environment, such as the order…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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Exploring Object Perception with Random Image Structure Evolution
Sadr, Javid - Sinha, Pawan

Formato:
Enlaces:	We have developed a technique called RISE (Random Image Structure Evolution), by which one may systematically sample continuous paths in a high-dimensional image space. A basic RISE sequence depicts the evolution of an object's image from a random field, along…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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Intelligence by Design: Principles of Modularity and Coordination for Engineerin
Bryson, Joanna J.

Formato:
Enlaces:	All intelligence relies on search --- for example, the search for an intelligent agent's next action. Search is only likely to succeed in resource-bounded agents if they have already been biased towards finding the right answer. In artificial agents, the…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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Modern indigenous curriculum : teaching indigenous knowledge of handicraft at Sami colleges in Finland and Norway = Oddaaigasaš eamialbmoga oahppoplanat : arbevealuš diedu oahpaheapmis duoddji oahpaheapmi Sami allaskuvlaiid, Oddaaigasaš eamialbmoga oahppoplanat :
Stevenson, Charles Blair.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The Sami people have struggled for centuries to maintain their culture in spite of pressures against it from colonialism. The formal education systems of Norway and Finland have acted in discord with Sami decision-making since their inception. In response to…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Lay reasoning and decision making related to health and illness
Cytryn, Kayla N.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Research in decision making has identified the importance of prior knowledge and heuristics on decision making behaviour. These develop with experience in a fashion similar to how domain experts develop specialized knowledge structures and heuristic reasoning patterns. This research is…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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The depiction of boxing in classical Athenian art /
Boivin, Lawrence J.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The aim of this study is to test the assumption that the depictions of ancient boxing found on Attic Black and Red Figure pottery are accurate. Due to the scarcity of ancient written material and physical evidence, most of our…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Experientialist epistemology : Plantinga and Alston on Christian knowledge
Dyck, Timothy Lee.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This study examines Christian experientialist epistemology as articulated of late by Alvin Plantinga especially and also William Alston. It situates their approach to the epistemic status of Christian belief claims within the overall outlook they have respectively developed on what…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Walter Stace's philosophy of mysticism : a critical analysis
Fanaei Nematsara, Mohammad.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Mysticism can be examined from various viewpoints: historical, theological, sociological, and psychological. This study primarily examines the philosophical status and implications of mysticism, an issue investigated many times, particularly over the last four decades. Walter T. Stace's work in the…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Inuit values in adult education : a Nunavik case study
Mount, Christopher B. J.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this study was to investigate Inuit values and needs in Inuit Adult Education. These can only originate from the Inuit themselves: those attending and employed in Adult Education Centres in Nunavik, graduates of both vocational and academic…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Individual instructor's perceptions of teaching context : identifying facilitators and barriers to completion of teaching projects
Moxness, Katherine.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Frameworks seeking to explain teaching competency and development in higher education indicate that context and personal perspectives, as well as knowledge and action are crucial components in the understanding of how and why faculty teach as they do and how…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Three essays on aspects of patent-related information as measures of revealed technological capabilities
Lee, Yender, 1953-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation consists of three papers on the theme of technological capabilities. Patent information can be viewed as indicators of inventive activities emanating from a certain underlying technological capability. Cumulative patents may, therefore, be considered as the r&barbelow;evealed manifestations of…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Machine-learning assisted development of a knowledge-based system in dairy farming
Pietersma, Diederik.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The goal of this research was to explore the use of machine learning to assist in the development of knowledge-based systems (KBS) in dairy farming. A framework was first developed which described the various types of management and control activities…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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13.

That we might love him the more : an Irenaean theodicy built on Christ crucified
Gallaher, Brandon.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	[B]ut when He became incarnate, and was made man, He recapitulated in Himself the long history of human beings, and furnished us, in brief, with salvation (Irenaeus of Lyons. Against Heresies [= AH] III.xviii.1).This thesis attempts to clarify the mystery…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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14.

Home and away : the female artist in academia
Gamelin, Anastasia Kamanos.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This dissertation explores the conflicts, contradictions and paradoxes inherent in the lives of those women who, as artists and academics, seek to connect their personal and professional lives in their work. It explores how creativity and the pursuit of self-knowledge…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Determinación de la constante de propagación de líneas de transmisión no homogéneas utilizando mediciones en el dominio del tiempo y su comparación con métodos en el dominio de la frecuencia, Determination of the propagation constant of lines embedded in transitions by time domain measurements methods and its comparison with frecuency methods
Marco Antonio Panduro Mendoza

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Enlaces:	Para medir fielmente y de una manera más exacta los parámetros pl_S de dispositivos de microondas, las técnicas de calibración (LRL, LRM, etc.) necesitan conocer la impedancia ZL de las líneas de la base de pruebas donde se encuentra montado…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	CICESE

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Remediating conduct problems in children : examining changes in children and parents following consultation
Illsley, Staci D.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of these investigations was to compare changes in child conduct problem behavior and parental ability and to examine the relationship between parent and child outcome. An A/B research design was used across two studies with a total of…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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A comparison of the role of the frontal cortex and the anterior temporal lobe in source memory and in the accurate retrieval of episodic information /
Thaiss, Laila Maria.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	It has been argued that patients with frontal lobe lesions are impaired in temporal context memory and, more generally, in retrieving the source of one's knowledge or ideas. Furthermore, it has been speculated that a failure to retrieve source information…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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18.

Integrating information about mechanism and covariation in casual reasoning
Rapus, Tanja L.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Causal reasoning is an important and complex process, in which individuals have multiple sources of information available to inform their judgments. An enduring tension exists between what cues to causality people use and focus on in acquiring causal knowledge and…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Computer System for Visual Recognition Using Active Knowledge
Freuder, Eugene C.

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Enlaces:	A system for visual recognition is described, with implications for the general problem of representation of knowledge to assist control. The immediate objective is a computer system that will recognize objects in a visual scene, specifically hammers. The computer receives…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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20.

Accurate radiation dosimetry using liquid- or air-filled plane-parallel ionization chambers
Stewart, Kristin J.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	To optimize delivery of radiation therapy treatments, accurate knowledge of absorbed dose in the clinical beam is essential. In this work we investigated issues related to the use of different types of ionization chambers for accurate radiation dosimetry. We determined…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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21.

Detecting heritability of brain structure using magnetic resonance imaging
Bellera, Carine.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	A method is described that allows one to assess heritability of brain structures using magnetic resonance images (MRI). We have obtained MRI images for a group of identical twins and another group of fraternal twins. Each MRI image was segmented…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Assessing the economic feasibility of a carbon tax on energy inputs in Ontario's pulp and paper industry : an econometric analysis
He, Miaofen, 1976-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Knowledge of price responsiveness of energy is important for designing effective price-based controls to curb the GHG emissions in Canada. The translog and logit models are developed in this study to analyze the demand for four types of energy inputs:…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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23.

Group comparisons in the presence of length-biased data
Addona, Vittorio.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The effects of length-bias and left-truncation in survival data have been well studied in the statistical literature. To a lesser extent, the phenomena of length-bias and left-truncation have also been investigated when group comparisons are of interest. This literature examines…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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24.

Cultivating Aristotelian rationality through the arts : a philosophical and practical perspective
Honig, Valerie Amelina.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis presents a description of a five-month project involving the educational unit of a large urban museum and its interaction with a group of elementary-aged students from a disadvantaged community. The description is framed within a philosophic premise that…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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25.

Islamic Fiqh and the contract of international carriage of passengers by air
Naji, Alaa A.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	GOD says in the Holy Qur'aan "O' people, I have created you from a single pair of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes that ye may know each other. Verily the most honored of…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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26.

Conceptions of teaching in higher education : challenges and recommendations
Jazvac, Marian.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Research on academics' conceptions of teaching hopes to enhance understanding of how and why the process of teaching in higher education looks and works the way it does. The following work critically examines this body of literature and identifies problems…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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27.

Adolescent learners' awareness of first language influence on their second language knowledge
Lepine, Christine.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This research is a replication and expansion of Lightbown and Spada (2000) which investigated the metalinguistic awareness of 11--12 year-old francophone learners of English as second language (ESL). Their research examined whether young L2 learners were able to make explicit…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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28.

Art and secular spirituality
Walsh, Dale.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Despite the numerous examples throughout history, the study of secular spirituality in art was mostly ignored until recently by contemporary writers, critics, historians, philosophers and educators. In my thesis, through the examination of selected images and writings, I determine how…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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29.

Fine mapping of the nuclear restorer locus for cytoplasmic male sterility in Brassica napus
Stollar, Rachel.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis will discuss the 'Polima' cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) system (pol) in Brassica napus (Canola) and detailed genetic mapping of the region surrounding restorer gene ( Rfp) for that system This fine mapping of the Rfp region will facilitate…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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30.

Data mining and knowledge discovery in financial research : empirical investigations into currency
Wu, Qionglin, 1964-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Since there exist drawbacks for linear models such as those based on regression techniques, which have been the basis of traditional statistical forecasting models, neural networks are used in this thesis to train and test the input data. This thesis…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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31.

MR based frickle-gelatin dosimetry : uncertainty evaluation and computerised analysis of measured dose distributions
Belanger, Philippe.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Dynamically delivered intensity modulated beams (IMBs) pose unique verification problems that may be addressed with the use of integrating continuous 3D dosimeters such as gel based Fricke dosimeters. Accurate knowledge of the ability of these dosimeters to measure adequately and…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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32.

An early Sufi concept of qalb : Hakim al-Tirmidhi's map of the heart
Pavlis, Natalie A.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The Spiritual Journey is of pivotal importance to Sufis. Various mystics have conceived of this journey in different ways. For one early Sufi, al-H&dotbelow;akim al-Tirmidhi, this journey is conceived as an inward one through the concentric circles of the Heart.…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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33.

The efficiency and mechanisms for pollutant removal in biological wastewater treatment systems /
Cameron, Kimberley A.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The research project was initiated to refine the knowledge available on the treatment of rural municipal wastewater by constructed wetlands. Field and laboratory studies were conducted to determine the treatment capacity of a constructed wetland system and to determine a…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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34.

Investigation of lateral effects on shock initiation of homogeneous liquid nitromethane
Jette, Francois-Xavier.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	An experimental study of the process of shock initiation of detonation in liquid nitromethane sensitized with diethylenetriamine (DETA) was conducted. In particular, the effect of the lateral boundary conditions on the sensitivity of the explosive to shock stimuli was investigated.…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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35.

Theory and simulation of texture formation in mesophase carbon fibers
Yan, Jun, 1974-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Carbonaceous mesophases are discotic nematic liquid crystals that are spun into high performance carbon fibers using the melt spinning process. The spinning process produces a wide range of fiber textures and cross-sectional shapes. The circular planar polar (PP), circular planar…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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36.

Joint mechanics during movement : experimental and theoretical studies
Lortie, Mireille.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In the first of three manuscripts, we describe a study in which we measured the electromyographic (EMG) and mechanical responses to brief stretches of the ankle plantarflexors applied at various instants during an imposed movement of the ankle. The results…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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37.

An investigation of the dual mechanism model of past tense formation : does the model apply to non-native speakers?
Dougherty, Timothy.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	The purpose of this research is to further investigate the ongoing debate between the Dual Mechanism Model and the Connectionist Model of language processing by investigating how knowledge of second language (L2) inflectional morphology is represented and processed by learners…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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38.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the auditory cortex : an event-related study using pure tone stimulation
Samaha, Mark.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Introduction. The use of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) in studying central auditory pathways expanded our knowledge of the neurophysiology of hearing. In various studies, an array of diverse auditory stimuli has been used, including pure tones and words, in…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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39.

Se creer des ancetres. : les ecrits historiques et genealogiques des de Forest et des Forest d'Amerique du Nord, 19e et 20e siecles
Caron, Caroline-Isabelle.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis examines the exercise of genealogy in North America in the 19th and 20th centuries through an analysis of the historical and genealogical writings by and about the (real and presumed) descendants of two Walloon brothers, Jesse (c 1580--1624)…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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40.

Wounds : theories of violence in theological discourse
Faber, Alyda.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	My dissertation presents a survey of theories of violence in contemporary theological discourse. I consider four positions that represent a range of current trends within theology: Girardian anthropology, the radical orthodoxy movement, liberation theology, and feminist theology., Rene Girard creates…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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Epistolary constructions of identity in Derrida's "Envois" and Coetzee's Age of Iron
Hogarth, Claire Milne.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	In this thesis, I argue that identity construction is a postal effect: it results from a transmission of some sort, received or sent. I examine three instances of postal effect. In a chapter on Jacques Derrida's "Envois," a collection of…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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42.

Le livre en serie : histoire et theorie de la collection letteraire
Montreuil, Sophie.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This doctoral thesis examines the literary series [collection litteraire], considered at one and the same time as a form of publication defined and redefined by the publisher since the invention of the printing press and as a paratextual component that…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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43.

Sweet blood and power : making diabetics count
Rock, Melanie.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	As recently as 1995, sweet blood did not resonate broadly as an urgent transnational concern. This thesis chronicles how diabetes mellitus, sweet blood, became recognized as a social problem besetting Canada, among many other countries., This ethnographic study brings anthropological…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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44.

Nerve growth factor modulation of basal forebrain neuron acetylcholine release : new perspectives on a classic interaction
Auld, Daniel Scott.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	This thesis addresses long- and short-term neurotrophin modulation of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons (BFCNs), focusing on acetylcholine (ACh) release and choline acetyltransferase (ChAT; the enzyme responsible for ACh synthesis) activity. (1) Initially, ACh release was characterized from primary embryonic basal…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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45.

Modelos didácticos personales y obstáculos para el desarrollo profesional: estudios de caso con profesores de Ciencias Experimentales en Educación Secundaria
Wamba Aguado, Ana María

Formato:	text (thesis)
Enlaces:	Es un estudio de caso con tres profesores expertos de Ciencias Naturales de Educación Secundaria, con el objetivo de identificar obstáculos para su desarrollo profesional. Para la obtención de datos se ha utilizado un cuestionario y una entrevista semiestructurada, grabándose…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	Dialnet (Tesis)

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Structural and functionnal [sic] consequences of oxygen induced retinopathy, Structural and functional consequences of oxygen induced retinopathy
Dembinska-Knypinski, Olga.

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a potentially blinding retinal disorder, which results from the exposure of the premature infant to hyperoxia. The diagnosis and the assessment of severity of ROP are based on the degree of retinal vascular abnormalities (such…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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47.

The Structure of Mathematical Knowledge
Michener, Edwina Rissland

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report develops a conceptual framework in which to talk about mathematical knowledge. There are several broad categories of mathematical knowledge: results which contain the traditional logical aspects of mathematics; examples which contain illustrative material; and concepts which include formal…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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48.

The Role of Knowledge in Visual Shape Representation
Saund, Eric

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report shows how knowledge about the visual world can be built into a shape representation in the form of a descriptive vocabulary making explicit the important geometrical relationships comprising objects' shapes. Two computational tools are offered: (1) Shapestokens are…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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49.

Qualitative Knowledge, Casual Reasoning and the Localization of Failures
Brown, Allen

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report investigates some techinques appropriate to representing the knowledge necessary for understanding a class of electronic machines -- radio receivers. A computational performance model - WATSON - is presented. WATSONs task is to isolate failures in radio receivers whose…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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50.

Using Analogy to Acquire Commonsense Knowledge from Human Contributors
Chklovski, Timothy

Formato:
Enlaces:	The goal of the work reported here is to capture the commonsense knowledge of non-expert human contributors. Achieving this goal will enable more intelligent human-computer interfaces and pave the way for computers to reason about our world. In the domain…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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51.

Biochemical and genomic analysis of -galactosidases from Bifidobacterium infantis HL96
Hung, Ming-Ni, 1962-

Formato:	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Enlaces:	Among 29 strains of bifidobacteria studied as sources of beta-galactosidase enzyme, Bifidobacterium infantis HL96 showed the highest hydrolytic and transgalactosylic activities. This strain grew well in a MRS medium containing various sugars including lactose, and produced three beta-galactosidases (termed beta-Gal…
Fecha:	2001
Recurso:	McGill University - MCGILL

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52.

Qualitative and Quantitative Knowledge in Classical Mechanics
Kleer, Johan De

Formato:
Enlaces:	This thesis investigates what knowledge is necessary to solve mechanics problems. A program NEWTON is described which understands and solves problems in mechanics mini-world of objects moving on surfaces. Facts and equations such as those given in mechanics text need…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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53.

Reasoning from Incomplete Knowledge in a Procedural Deduction System
Moore, Robert Carter

Formato:
Enlaces:	One very useful idea in AI research has been the notion of an explicit model of a problem situation. Procedural deduction languages, such as PLANNER, have been valuable tools for building these models. But PLANNER and its relatives are very…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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54.

Roles of Knowledge in Motor Learning
Atkeson, Christopher Granger

Formato:
Enlaces:	The goal of this thesis is to apply the computational approach to motor learning, i.e., describe the constraints that enable performance improvement with experience and also the constraints that must be satisfied by a motor learning system, describe what is…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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55.

Representing Knowledge of Large-Scale Space
Kuipers, Benjamin J.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This dissertation presents a model of the knowledge a person has about the spatial structure of a large-scale environment: the "cognitive map". The functions of the cognitive map are to assimilate new information about the environment, to represent the current…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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56.

Test Generation Guided Design for Testability
Wu, Peng

Formato:
Enlaces:	This thesis presents a new approach to building a design for testability (DFT) system. The system takes a digital circuit description, finds out the problems in testing it, and suggests circuit modifications to correct those problems. The key contributions of…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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57.

A Study of Qualitative and Geometric Knowledge in Reasoning about Motion
Forbus, Kenneth D.

Formato:
Enlaces:	Reasoning about motion is an important part of our commonsense knowledge, involving fluent spatial reasoning. This work studies the qualitative and geometric knowledge required to reason in a world that consists of balls moving through space constrained by collisions with…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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58.

Learning Commonsense Categorical Knowledge in a Thread Memory System
Stamatoiu, Oana L.

Formato:
Enlaces:	If we are to understand how we can build machines capable of broad purpose learning and reasoning, we must first aim to build systems that can represent, acquire, and reason about the kinds of commonsense knowledge that we humans have…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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59.

Toward a Theory of Representation Design
Baalen, Jeffrey Van

Formato:
Enlaces:	This research is concerned with designing representations for analytical reasoning problems (of the sort found on the GRE and LSAT). These problems test the ability to draw logical conclusions. A computer program was developed that takes as input a straightforward…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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60.

Generating Circuit Tests by Exploiting Designed Behavior
Shirley, Mark Harper

Formato:
Enlaces:	This thesis describes two programs for generating tests for digital circuits that exploit several kinds of expert knowledge not used by previous approaches. First, many test generation problems can be solved efficiently using operation relations, a novel representation of circuit…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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61.

Toward A Model Of Children's Story Comprehension
Charniak, Eugene

Formato:
Enlaces:	How does a person answer questions about children's stories? For example, consider 'Janet wanted Jack's paints. She looked at the picture he was painting and said 'Those paints make your picture look funny.' The question to ask is 'Why did…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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62.

A Computational Model of Skill Acquisition
Sussman, Gerald J.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This thesis confronts the nature of the process of learning an intellectual skill, the ability to solve problems efficiently in a particular domain of discourse. The investigation is synthetic; a computational performance model, HACKER, is displayed. Hacker is a computer…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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63.

BUILD: A Tool for Maintaining Consistency in Modular Systems
Robbins, Richard Elliot

Formato:
Enlaces:	Build is a tool for keeping modular systems in a consistent state by managing the construction tasks (e.g. compilation, linking, etc.) associated with such systems. It employs a user supplied system model and a procedural description of a task to…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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64.

ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematics
McAllester, David Allen

Formato:
Enlaces:	Ontic is an interactive system for developing and verifying mathematics. Ontic's verification mechanism is capable of automatically finding and applying information from a library containing hundreds of mathematical facts. Starting with only the axioms of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory, the Ontic…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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65.

Computational Structure of Human Language
Ristad, Eric Sven

Formato:
Enlaces:	The central thesis of this report is that human language is NP-complete. That is, the process of comprehending and producing utterances is bounded above by the class NP, and below by NP-hardness. This constructive complexity thesis has two empirical consequences.…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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66.

Conocimientos tradicionales
Maldonado Ochoa, José Eduardo

Formato:	Tesis
Enlaces:	El desarrollo del presente trabajo de titulación se lo realizará mediante el análisis del Proyecto de Ley que el Instituto Ecuatoriano de la Propiedad Intelectual realizó, llamado de “Conservación y Protección de los Conocimientos Colectivos, los Saberes Ancestrales y las…
Fecha:	2013-06-20
Recurso:	Universidad de las Américas

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67.

A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge
Fahlman, Scott E.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report describes a knowledge-base system in which the information is stored in a network of small parallel processing elements ??de and link units ??ich are controlled by an external serial computer. This network is similar to the semantic network…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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68.

New Progress in Artificial Intelligence
Winston, Patrick H.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report concentrates on progress during the last two years at the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Topics covered include the representation of knowledge, understanding English, learning and debugging, understanding vision and productivity technology. It is stressed that these various areas…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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69.

TYPICAL: A Knowledge Representation System for Automated Discovery and Inference
Haase, Kenneth W., Jr.

Formato:
Enlaces:	TYPICAL is a package for describing and making automatic inferences about a broad class of SCHEME predicate functions. These functions, called types following popular usage, delineate classes of primitive SCHEME objects, composite data structures, and abstract descriptions. TYPICAL types are…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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70.

Creation of Computer Animation from Story Descriptions
Kahn, Kenneth Michael

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report describes a computer system that creates simple computer animation in response to high-level, vague, and incomplete descriptions of films. It makes its films by collecting and evaluating suggestions from several different bodies of knowledge. The order in which…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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71.

Hypothesis Formation and Evaluation in Medical Diagnosis
Rubin, Ann D.

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Enlaces:	This thesis describes some aspects of a computer system for doing medical diagnosis in the specialized field of kidney disease. Because such a system faces the spectre of combinatorial explosion, this discussion concentrates on heuristics which control the number of…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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72.

The Use of Equality in Deduction and Knowledge Representation
McAllester, David Allen

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report describes a system which maintains canonical expressions for designators under a set of equalities. Substitution is used to maintain all knowledge in terms of these canonical expressions. A partial order on designators, termed the better-name relation, is used…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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73.

Coherent Behavior from Incoherent Knowledge Sources in the Automatic Synthesis of Numerical Computer Programs
Brown, Richard

Formato:
Enlaces:	A fundamental problem in artificial intelligence is obtaining coherent behavior in rule-based problem solving systems. A good quantitative measure of coherence is time behavior; a system that never, in retrospect, applied a rule needlessly is certainly coherent; a system suffering…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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74.

Flexibility and Efficiency in a Computer Program for Designing Circuits
Mcdermott, Drew Vincent

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report is concerned with the problem of achieving flexibility (additivity, modularity) and efficiency (performance, expertise) simultaneously in one AI program. It deals with the domain of elementary electronic circuit design. The proposed solution is to provide a deduction-driven problem…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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75.

The Use of Grouping in Visual Object Recognition.
Jacobs, David W.

Formato:
Enlaces:	The report describes a recognition system called GROPER, which performs grouping by using distance and relative orientation constraints that estimate the likelihood of different edges in an image coming from the same object. The thesis presents both a theoretical analysis…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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76.

Automatic Analysis and Synthesis of Controllers for Dynamical Systems Based On P
Zhao, Feng

Formato:
Enlaces:	I present a novel design methodology for the synthesis of automatic controllers, together with a computational environment---the Control Engineer's Workbench---integrating a suite of programs that automatically analyze and design controllers for high-performance, global control of nonlinear systems. This work demonstrates…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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77.

Automated Reasoning About Classical Mechanics
Wong, Leon

Formato:
Enlaces:	In recent years, researchers in artificial intelligence have become interested in replicating human physical reasoning talents in computers. One of the most important skills in this area is predicting how physical systems will behave. This thesis discusses an implemented program…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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78.

Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language
Winograd, Terry

Formato:
Enlaces:	This paper describes a system for the computer understanding of English. The system answers questions, executes commands, and accepts information in normal English dialog. It uses semantic information and context to understand discourse and to disambiguate sentences. It combines a…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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79.

Learning by Failing to Explain
Hall, Robert Joseph

Formato:
Enlaces:	Explanation-based Generalization requires that the learner obtain an explanation of why a precedent exemplifies a concept. It is, therefore, useless if the system fails to find this explanation. However, it is not necessary to give up and resort to purely…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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80.

ARLO: Another Representation Language Offer
Haase, Kenneth W., Jr.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This paper describes ARLO, a representation language loosely modelled after Greiner and Lenant's RLL-1. ARLO is a structure-based representation language for describing structure-based representation languages, including itself. A given representation language is specified in ARLO by a collection of structures…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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81.

Using Structural and Functional Information in Diagnostic Design
Hamscher, Walter

Formato:
Enlaces:	We wish to design a diagnostic for a device from knowledge of its structure and function. the diagnostic should achieve both coverage of the faults that can occur in the device, and should strive to achieve specificity in its diagnosis…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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82.

Reasoning Modeled as a Society of Communicating Experts
Steels, Luc

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report describes a domain independent reasoning system. The system uses a frame-based knowledge representation language and various reasoning techniques including constraint propagation, progressive refinement, natural deduction and explicit control of reasoning. A computational architecture based on active objects which…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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83.

Towards a Computational Theory of Definite Anaphora Comprehension in English Discourse
Sidner, Candace Lee

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report investigates the process of focussing as a description and explanation of the comprehension of certain anaphoric expressions in English discourse. The investigation centers on the interpretation of definite anaphora, that is, on the personal pronouns, and noun phrases…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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84.

KBEmacs: A Step Toward the Programmer's Apprentice
Waters, Richard C.

Formato:
Enlaces:	The Knowledge-Based Editor in Emacs (KBEmacs) is the current demonstration system implemented as part of the Programmer's Apprentice project. KBEmacs is capable of acting as a semi-expert assistant to a person who is writing a program ??king over some parts…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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85.

KAM: Automatic Planning and Interpretation of Numerical Experiments Using Geometrical Methods
Yip, Kenneth Man-Kam

Formato:
Enlaces:	KAM is a computer program that can automatically plan, monitor, and interpret numerical experiments with Hamiltonian systems with two degrees of freedom. The program has recently helped solve an open problem in hydrodynamics. Unlike other approaches to qualitative reasoning about…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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86.

Contact Sensing: A Sequential Decision Approach to Sensing Manipulation Contact
Eberman, Brian Scott

Formato:
Enlaces:	This paper describes a new statistical, model-based approach to building a contact state observer. The observer uses measurements of the contact force and position, and prior information about the task encoded in a graph, to determine the current location of…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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87.

Segmentation and Alignment of Speech and Sketching in a Design Environment
Adler, Aaron D.

Formato:
Enlaces:	Sketches are commonly used in the early stages of design. Our previous system allows users to sketch mechanical systems that the computer interprets. However, some parts of the mechanical system might be too hard or too complicated to express in…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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88.

Priors Stabilizers and Basis Functions: From Regularization to Radial, Tensor and Additive Splines
Girosi, Federico - Jones, Michael - Poggio, Tomaso

Formato:
Enlaces:	We had previously shown that regularization principles lead to approximation schemes, as Radial Basis Functions, which are equivalent to networks with one layer of hidden units, called Regularization Networks. In this paper we show that regularization networks encompass a much…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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89.

Promoción de la identidad desde la historia local, a través de propuestas de escritura en la escuela, Strategies to promotion of writing school through local history
Pulido, José Antonio - García Romero, Marisol

Formato:	Texto
Enlaces:	La presente propuesta explica cómo el estudio de la historia local de un pueblo, San José de Bolívar en el estado Táchira, puede servir de estrategia didáctica no solo para afianzar la identidad cultural del estudiante de educación primaria en…
Fecha:	2012-08-20
Recurso:	Universidad de los Andes Venezuela

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90.

Control of Vibration in Mechanical Systems Using Shaped Reference Inputs
Meckl, Peter Heinrich

Formato:
Enlaces:	Dynamic systems which undergo rapid motion can excite natural frequencies that lead to residual vibration at the end of motion. This work presents a method to shape force profiles that reduce excitation energy at the natural frequencies in order to…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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91.

Residual Vibration Reduction in Computer Controlled Machines
Singer, Neil C.

Formato:
Enlaces:	Control of machines that exhibit flexibility becomes important when designers attempt to push the state of the art with faster, lighter machines. Three steps are necessary for the control of a flexible planet. First, a good model of the plant…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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92.

The Image Irradiance Equation: Its Solution and Application
Bruss, Anna R.

Formato:
Enlaces:	How much information about the shape of an object can be inferred from its image? In particular, can the shape of an object be reconstructed by measuring the light it reflects from points on its surface? These questions were raised…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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93.

Shape from Shading: A Method for Obtaining the Shape of a Smooth Opaque Object from One View
Horn, Berthold K.P.

Formato:
Enlaces:	A method will be described for finding the shape of a smooth apaque object form a monocular image, given a knowledge of the surface photometry, the position of the lightsource and certain auxiliary information to resolve ambiguities. This method is…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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94.

Dependency Directed Reasoning for Complex Program Understanding
Shrobe, Howard Elliot

Formato:
Enlaces:	Artificial Intelligence research involves the creation of extremely complex programs which must possess the capability to introspect, learn, and improve their expertise. Any truly intelligent program must be able to create procedures and to modify them as it gathers information…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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95.

Understanding Simple Picture Programs
Goldstein, Ira P.

Formato:
Enlaces:	What are the characteristics of the process by which an intent is transformed into a plan and then a program? How is a program debugged? This paper analyzes these questions in the context of understanding simple turtle programs. To understand…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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96.

Foundations of Actor Semantics
Clinger, William Douglas

Formato:
Enlaces:	The actor message-passing model of concurrent computation has inspired new ideas in the areas of knowledge-based systems, programming languages and their semantics, and computer systems architecture. The model itself grew out of computer languages such as Planner, Smalltalk, and Simula,…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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97.

A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier Design
Ressler, Andrew Lewis

Formato:
Enlaces:	Electrical circuit designers seldom create really new topologies or use old ones in a novel way. Most designs are known combinations of common configurations tailored for the particular problem at hand. In this thesis I show that much of the…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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98.

Hierarchical Object Recognition Using Libraries of Parameterized Model Sub-Parts
Ettinger, Gil J.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This thesis describes the development of a model-based vision system that exploits hierarchies of both object structure and object scale. The focus of the research is to use these hierarchies to achieve robust recognition based on effective organization and indexing…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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99.

Model-Based Troubleshooting of Digital Systems
Hamscher, Walter Charles

Formato:
Enlaces:	This thesis describes a methodology, a representation, and an implemented program for troubleshooting digital circuit boards at roughly the level of expertise one might expect in a human novice. Existing methods for model-based troubleshooting have not scaled up to deal…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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100.

Procesos de producción para el primer prototipo Avión Piquero - Galapagos UAV y uso de materiales.
López Zárate, Jaime Eduardo

Formato:	Tesis
Enlaces:	El Proyecto Avión No Tripulado - Galápagos UAV comprende el desarrollo de diferentes prototipos consecutivos de aviones no tripulados desarrollados a partir del conocimiento de estudiantes de diferentes facultades del colegio Politécnico, conjunto con el conocimiento profesional de profesores pertenecientes…
Fecha:	2013-06-20
Recurso:	Universidad San Francisco de Quito