by Robyn Arlene Edelson Kozierok., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1993., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-100).

Este trabajo pretende contribuir, desde una perspectiva histórico demográfica, al conocimiento del sector indígena de la población rionegrina ubicada en el ámbito mesetario extendido al sur de los ríos Limay y Negro, entre 1885 y 1920. En el marco del…

by Michael W. Frauens., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, February 2000., "January 2000.", Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-77).

The undergraduate law curriculum adopted at McGill University in 1998—the transsystemic programme—was born of the unique political, social, and intellectual histories of its Faculty of Law. This essay reviews these contexts and characterizes the programme as an ongoing conversation about…

This thesis integrates hardware development, data analysis, and mathematical modeling to facilitate our understanding of brain cognition. Exploration of these brain mechanisms requires both structural and functional knowledge to (i) reconstruct the spatial distribution of the activity, (ii) to estimate…

(cont.) algorithm to identify the regulatory models from protein-DNA binding and gene expression data. These models to a large extent agree with the knowledge of gene regulation pertaining to the corresponding regulators. The three works in this thesis provide a…

(cont.) increased activity whenever recollection was attempted, independent of the level of recollection success. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that increased left-lateralized retrieval activity in older adults supports recollection attempt. Age deficits in semantic memory are more subtle…

Myrciaria floribunda (H.West ex Willd.) O.Berg, Myrtaceae, popularly known as “camboim amarelo”, was collected in Restinga de Jurubatiba (RJ, Brazil). Leaves, stems and flowers were individually submitted to hydrodistillation, affording the respective essential oils. Monoterpenes were the main group of…

Los centros culturales surgen para albergar las aéreas del conocimiento, como la ciencia, tecnología, artes plásticas, actividades artísticas y culturales. Se deben conceptualizar como centros educativos y turísticos, que contribuyan a incrementar el nivel educativo de la población al ofrecer…

Most current web engineering approaches don’t have clear criteria for personalization, nor a clear strategy that designers can use to classify users and formulate a personalization strategy for the web site at design time. In this paper, we present a…