One important purpose for creating clinical practice guidelines is to improve quality of care by reducing variations in practice. In the current healthcare environment, guidelines are being advocated as a means to disseminate research findings, standardize care, improve quality of…

(cont.) updates. It produces plan-ready information, by exploiting the self-serving and opportunistic pursuit of instant return-on-investment by frontline offices. Thanks to its emergent qualities, City Knowledge engenders unexpected plan-demanding situations, where the ability to conduct second-order analyses leads to deeper…

The combination of soil science, forestry, agronomy and biology allowed an analytical comparison of various experimental mixed culture systems. From these studies, a descriptor system was developed which allows to understand the contribution of each plant species to nutrient cycling,…

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…

En: Knowledge Technologies Conference, March 11-13, 2002, Seattle, Washington.

En: Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2002

How are we able to construct truly realistic representations
of knowledge organizations (KOs)? The paper introduces and defines the
knowledge profile as a method to investigate the epistemological basis of
any KO to outline the consequences this basis has upon…

Durante la preparación de la selección junior autonómica de remo (Comunidad Valenciana, España), se recogieron las características antropométricas de 18 remeros junior masculinos de edad 17,83±3,83 años. A los remeros se le realizaron una valoración anthropometry mediante la técnica basadas…

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In the past few years, improvements in the data acquisition technology have decreased the time interval of data gathering. Consequently, institutions have stored huge amounts of data such as climate time series and remote sensing images. Computational models to filter,…