This thesis presents two applications of the prototypical make-to-stock queue model that are mainly motivated by supply chain management and e-commerce issues. In the first part, we consider the decentralized version of the make-to-stock model. Two different agents that we…

Las listas de palabras con sus frecuencias se usan ampliamente en muchos procedimientos de agrupamiento y categorización de textos. Usualmente para la compilación de tales listas se usan las aproximaciones basadas en morfología (como el stemmer de Porter) para unir…

This paper focuses on the general problem of the lexical bottleneck and, in particular, on the issues of semantic clustering and disambiguation by means of word usage cues obtained from sublanguage-specific corpora. Our approaches combines the use of numerical techniques…

La asignación de unas categorías de desvalorización hacia profesiones relacionadas con el cuidar debido a la reproducción de tareas tradicionalmente desarrolladas en el ámbito privado y doméstico, tiene que ver con la configuración de un orden social masculino, que ha…

Artículo colectivo sobre qué entendemos por "constructivismo" en enseñanza de las ciencias., In this paper we analyse some of the criticisms that are being made to the «constructivist paradigm» and their
implications on the development of the didactic of the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This work describes a way to map complex and / or multivalued attributes from a visual query environment to relational databases, using XML. These attributes are usually produced after the application of integration methodologies, like ERC+, whenever exists in original…