by Jeffrey C. Chi., Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2001., Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216).

Context can be described as the totality of ideas, situations and information that (a) related to, (b) provide the origins for, and (c) influence our response, perspective or judgment of a thing. Design always takes place in a context. However,…

The human tongue is a versatile, lithe and structurally complex muscular organ that is of paramount importance for many physiological tasks. The lingual musculature is composed of various orthogonally oriented myofiber populations. Furthermore, coupling this knowledge of tissue myoarchitecture with…

This Ph.D. thesis has covered the scientific issues of defect reactions involving dopants and impurities in Si, and the applications of this knowledge to reactive ion etching (RIE) and Fe gettering processes. The reactions among self-interstitials (Sii), vacancies (V), impurities…

Las concepciones humanísticas de José Ortega y Gasset, que lo llevarían
a fundar, junto a Julián Marías, el Instituto de Humanidades de Madrid
en 1948, tuvieron significativa repercusión en las universidades
latinoamericanas. El prestigioso historiador español Américo Castro
no desconocía…

Objetivos: Evaluar el impacto educativo de una actividad escolar dirigida a mejorar los conocimientos básicos necesarios para la prevención de la malaria en una población escolar perteneciente a una comunidad endémica para esta enfermedad.
Material y Métodos: Se diseño un…

Los cambios a nivel mundial en políticas educativas hacen necesario que el docente se relacione con los procesos tecnológicos, con la finalidad de innovar en su campo de conocimiento, de allí la necesidad de planificar estratégicamente la política de formación…

Increasingly, knowledge-based tasks such as new product development and market research are being conducted by geographically dispersed teams. Early evidence from knowledge-based view of the firm and geographically dispersed work literatures suggests that at least four kinds of knowledge gaps---transactive…

Knowledge-based Cascade-correlation is a neural network algorithm that combines inductive learning and knowledge transfer (Shultz & Rivest, 2001). In the present thesis, this algorithm is tested on several real-world and artificial problems, and extended in several ways. The first extension…

In order to close the gap that exists between the research areas of mathematics anxiety and mathematics learning, this study examined cognitive, metacognitive, and affective aspects of mathematics anxiety as well as students' mathematics performance and competence. One hundred and…