by Glenn D. Bartkowski., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2001., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-69).

Humans recognize optical reflectance properties of surfaces such as metal, plastic, or paper from a single image without knowledge of illumination. We develop a machine vision system to perform similar recognition tasks automatically. Reflectance estimation under unknown, arbitrary illumination proves…

Flow Accelerated Corrosion (FAC) is the most prevalent material degradation mechanism for low carbon steel in steam-water flow systems. The band of uncertainty in predictions of wear rate due to FAC spans one to two orders of magnitude. Such a…

One of the main problems in anaphora resolution is how to find the correct antecedent for each anaphoric expression that appears in the discourse. As shown in a previous study (Rico, 1993), the type of knowledge required to select an…

Novelty is a concept of great importance in the writing of a research paper, given that the author has to persuade the audience of the news value of the reported research, which makes it worth publishing. In this paper I…

Apart from speculating about a series of issues open to debate, such as the dark side of progress and globalization or the conflict between science and morality,
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake (2003) offers a feasible insight into the state…

Enfermería tiene necesidad de conocimientos
para abordar los nuevos retos con que se
enfrenta ante una realidad social distinta a la
de años atrás y que nos lleva a tener que desarrollar
los cuidados con personas de otras culturas.
Con…

Los cambios que afectan a las instituciones educativas universitarias ocurren en distintos órdenes y se refieren a: cambios en el conocimiento (en la generación, gestión y distribución del mismo); cambios socio-culturales (relacionados con la globalización); cambios propiciados por las TIC…

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…