The objective of this thesis is to clarify the ways that organizational factors influence nuclear power plant performance in order to improve performance. Therefore, this thesis studied the nuclear power plant organizational environment by identifying and detailing its important work…

by Kah-Peng Aw., Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2001., Includes bibliographical references (leaf 55).

The pragmatic approach to translation implies the consideration of translation as a useful test case for understanding the role of language in social life. Under this view this article analyses the decision-making stage translators go through in the course of…

Data from a network of experiments conducted during 1998 for 25 maize cultivars and 30 hybrids cultivated in 19 and 16 different environments, respectively, in the states of Piaui, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, and Bahia, Brazil, were…

In this dissertation, I trace methods for organizing skilled workers engaged in creative, limited-term projects in the United States between the nineteenth century and the 1950s. Examining eras of system building in technical fields-civil engineering in the nineteenth century, laboratory…

Con el objeto de caracterizar el gen de la k-caseína (k-CN) y
beta-lactoglobulina (BLG) y determinar la asociación entre
éstos sobre la producción y composición de la leche en la raza
Criollo Limonero, se utilizó la técnica de la reacción…

Current reasoning systems attempt to model an agent's knowledge and interaction with its environment in a symbolic manner. This environment, its world is generally dynamic and changing due to natural evolution or the actions of other agents that are a…

The goal of this work involves the developing of an argumentation-based formalism that an agent could use for constructing plans. In this formalism, agents will have certain knowledge about the world, and a set of actions that they will be…

Las organizaciones como elemento social están conformadas por seres
humanos que hacen posible su crecimiento y evolución a lo largo de su vida
útil, el capital humano es actualmente considerado un elemento esencial de
trascendencia en el devenir de la…

El objetivo principal del presente trabajo es examinar la relación existente entre la habilidad intelectual y la habilidad de organización del conocimiento dentro de un modelo más general sobre los factores explicativos de la adquisición de conocimientos y habilidades. Se…