his dissertation analyzes how local knowledge improves environmental decisions. The premise is that controlling pollution and addressing public health disparities are not problems that professionals alone can solve. Concerned lay publics, especially low-income populations and people of color that experience…

Instruction may be seen as the intentional creation of conditions around learning so as to facilitate the achievement of determined goals. Normally, instruction is based upon certain educational strategies. It is well accepted in the field of educational technology that…

Strategic management as an academic field of study has spanned over four decades. As an interdisciplinary subject that enjoys concurrent contributions by allied disciplines such as economics and social science, numerous industries have benefited from applying tools and concepts developed…

Este artículo presenta una propuesta de Geografía del Clima, que se contrapone a la
noción de una Climatología Geográfica. Por lo tanto, volviendo a los inicios de la Climatología
en Brasil, se ha buscado establecer las bases conceptuales de la…

In this article we present a generalized dynamic argumentation framework that handles arguments expressed in an abstract language assumed to be some first order logic fragment. Once the formalism is presented, we propose a reification to the description logic ALC…

Most neural network learning algorithms cannot use knowledge other than what is provided in the training data. Initialized using random weights, they cannot use prior knowledge such as knowledge stored in previously trained networks. This manuscript thesis addresses this problem.…

Los impactos ecológicos de las especies introducidas constituyen uno de los aspectos menos investigados de la ecología de las
invasiones, especialmente en Europa. La mayor parte de los estudios realizados se han restringido a especies que tienen un impacto
económico…

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This article overviews the concepts of distributed intelligence, outlining the motivations for studying this field of research. First, common systems of distributed intelligence are classified based upon the types of interactions exhibited, since the type of interaction has relevance to…

El estudio de la repercusión de la proximidad es uno de los temas que esta latente al abordar las formas y tipos de relaciones entre empresas y su influencia en los procesos de aprendizaje, transferencia y difusión de conocimientos e…