Purpose – Information and communication technologies have became pervasive in people’s lives and in this changing world education cannot remain anchored in old-fashioned models which ignore the evolution through which society is going. This paper seeks to present the gamble…

This paper describes an adaptive and autocalibrated method to track surfaces. To do so, a non time
dependent impedance control system is proposed. This method fuses visual and force information to track a
given trajectory maintaining the contact with the…

Web engineering methods provide a systematic approach to develop complex and high quality Web applications. Many of these methods provide, in some way, personalization support. However, none of the existing Web methodologies provide a tool which allow the modeling, automatic…

La Lingüística Clínica es un nuevo ámbito de aplicación del conocimiento lingüístico. Su reconocimiento oficial en Reino Unido, en el año 1972, queda lejos de lo que en España hemos alcanzado y podemos esperar. En nuestro país los estudios de…

En este trabajo se analiza la pretensión de racionalidad del Derecho desde una perspectiva epistemológica. Para ello se parte de la distinción entre el estatuto interno de la racionalidad jurídica (relación entre el Derecho y la «ciencia jurídica») y su…

Background: The importance that birds of the Columbidae family have had throughout history is visible on the Mediterranean coast. Pigeon fancying is the art of breeding and training carrier pigeons and currently, several breeds exist. The sport of racing pigeons…

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…

In this paper a new conception of science is defined, which opposes apocalyptic points of view —science is a perverse knowledge leading to world destruction—, to irenist points of view —science is an armonic knowledge, as a puzzle where we…

In this study I deal with the conception of "elocutio" as described and explained in the "Institutio oratoria". My main point of view is the semiotic one, since the analysis of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of this rhetorical operation…

Virtual and remote laboratories(VRLs) are e-learning resources which enhance the accessibility of experimental setups providing a distance teaching framework which meets the student's hands-on learning needs. In addition, online collaborative communication represents a practical and a constructivist method to transmit…