Issues related to maternal mortality have generated a lot of empirical and theoretical information. However, despite the amount of work published on the topic, maternal mortality continues to occur at high rates and solutions to the problem are still not…

Los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio, y dentro de éstos las Metas del Milenio, constituyen un plan operativo para la consecución de logros básicos dirigidos al alcance de la salud, la erradicación de la pobreza y el cumplimiento de los…

Se aborda el estudio en la Península Ibérica de los géneros, Hemiteles Gravenhorst, l829, Xiphulcus Townes, 1910, Subhemiteles Horstmann, 1976 y Gnypetomorpha Foerster, 1868. Los géneros Xiphulcus, Subhemiteles y Gnypetomorpha, así como las especies Hemiteles rubropleuralis Kiss, 1930, Xiphulcus floricolator…

This paper describes the development of an image retrieval
system that combines probabilistic and ontological information1. The
process is divided in two different stages: indexing and retrieval. Three
information flows have been created with different kind of information
each one:…

This paper describes an information retrieval system called NLA which analyses natural language queries. The languages used here are: English, Italian & French. The query analysis is performed in two stages: the comprehension stage, where the user's request is translated…

The present paper constitutes an attempt to establish the parameters between
specialized trends in approach, methods or aims, in order to place the analysis of
meaning within the boundries of objetivism and humanism, and to organize in
adequate epistemological channels…

In this bibliographic essay I first give some of the reasons that, in my opinion, had led to
the lack of knowledge about the Chicago School as regards the Literary Criticism.
Afterwards I have prepared a basic bibliography on Neo-Aristotelians,…

In the 1970s Thomas McKeown and Archibald L Cochrane were two of the most influential voices in criticizing the dominance of medical thinking. A bibliometric study of the citations to McKeown's The Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage or Nemesis and…

In this paper, a restricted domain question answering (QA) system is described. The design architecture of this QA system and the features that allow the adaptation of the QA system to the medical domain are also presented. The advantages of…

El propósito de este artículo es ofrecer una primera aproximación crítica a
la contribución de Hayden White a la teoría del conocimiento histórico. En la
primera parte, se presentan aquellos elementos de esa contribución que se consideran más genuinos y…