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…

This study provides support to the characteristics of participatory and anticipatory stages in secondary school pupils’ abstraction of mathematical conceptions. We carried out clinical task-based interviews with 71 secondary-school pupils to obtain evidence of the different constructed mathematical conceptions (Participatory…

This paper presents the automatic extension to other languages of TERSEO, a knowledge-based system for the recognition and normalization of temporal expressions originally developed for Spanish. TERSEO was first extended to English through the automatic translation of the temporal expressions.…

El proceso de informatizar el conocimiento necesario para conservar la biodiversidad de un país o región requiere de varias etapas de
desarrollo de sistemas de información. Típicamente se inicia con el manejo de datos en formatos analógicos y se continúa…

El estudio de la nobleza constituye un objetivo esencial en el conocimiento de la
realidad histórica peninsular a lo largo de la Edad Moderna, dada su preeminencia social, política y económica. Nuestro estudio se centrará en la privatización del gobierno…

Characterizations of the containment of a convex set either in an arbitrary convex set or in the complement of a finite union of convex sets (i.e., the set, described by reverse-convex inequalities) are given. These characterizations provide ways of verifying…

Results of the study of Ichneumoninae, collected in light traps are reported. The genera Gnatichneumon and Cyclolabus and the species Dicaelotus pudibundus, Gnatichneumon mandibulator, Cyclolabus dubiosus, Platylabus iridipennis, Coelichneumon (Coelichneumon) desinatorius are new records for the Spanish fauna.

Le développement des mauvaises herbes dans la plaine de Sidi Bel Abbes (Algérie) constituent un facteur agroécologique déterminant sur la qualité de la récolte et des rendements. L’impact sur les agrosystèmes reste important et est tributaire de deux paramètres climatiques…

This paper uses dynamic general equilibrium and computational methods, inspired by the multi-sector growth model structure in Stephen Turnovsky's work, to develop a theory that unifies two of the traditional explanations of structural change: sector-biased technical change and non-homothetic preferences.…

The process of teaching any subject involves the use of all resources available to achieve efficient/effective result. When dealing with teaching foreign languages, we have noticed that such a traditional and apparently well-known tool as a dictionary is not so…