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…

Se realizó este trabajo de titulación con el objetivo de presentar una propuesta para dar a conocer la marca Pretty Nails a estudiantes de la Universidad de las Américas al norte de Quito sector la Granados, la idea surge debido…

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

La revisión bibliográfica de los últimos 20 años, muestra el desarrollo de un cuerpo de conocimientos cada vez más importante sobre los padecimientos o dolencias crónicas. Estos conocimientos se han generado alrededor de enfermedades crónicas "tradicionales" como es la diabetes,…

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…

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 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…