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…

Gene expression arrays are a technology used to measure quantities of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA). Application of the technology involves a variety of physical processes beginning with the acquisition of mRNA samples and ending with the fluorescence imaging of a…

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…

(cont.) members. The experimental program for RC beams involves qualitative and quantitative observation of the changes in the debonding behavior and load capacity of the beams with various configurations of shear and/or flexural strengthening and anchorage conditions in four evolutionary…

Public authorities and private developers around the world are attempting to create and sustain hubs within the innovation-based economy by fostering successful urban environments. These large-scale developments succeed an earlier generation of post-industrial "technopoles" named after the French word popularized…

An automatic disassembly cell requires of a
computer vision system for recognition and localization of
the products and each of theirs components. The detection
of occlusions adds more information to the knowledge base
to identify components and products, and generate…

, Salud mental y globalización, necesidad de una nueva etnopsiquiatría., Mental health and globalization, the need of a new ethnopsychiatry., Clarac de Briceño, Jacqueline, Religión, modernidad y globalización: otras formas de observar los saberes y prácticas médicas, de indígenas tenejapanecos…

This study was designed to examine the ability to use prior knowledge in text comprehension and knowledge integration. The focus of the research was on effects of different degrees of subjects' theoretical knowledge in the domain of biochemistry on their…

, Migraciones rurales andinas: un estudio a ambos lados de la frontera colombo-venezolana., Andean rural migrations: a study of both sides of the colombian-venezuelan frontier., Freire, Germán, Territorialidad conflictiva en la aldea de Horcáz-estado Mérida., Conflicting territoriality in the village…

I consider the implementation problem under complete information and employ Nash equilibrium as a solution concept. A socially desirable rule is given as a correspondence from the set of states to the set of outcomes. This social choice rule is…