Knowledge of the world soil resources is fragmented and dated. There is a need for accurate, up-to-date and spatially referenced soil information as frequently expressed by the modelling community, farmers and land users, and policy and decision makers. This need…

Ontology integration is the problem of combining data sources in the SemanticWeb. Concepts in source ontologies are captured in terms of concepts de ned in a global ontology. When some of these ontologies are inconsistent, the knowledge engineer often has…

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

Virtual and remote laboratories(VRLs) are e-learning resources which enhance the accessibility of experimental setups providing a distance teaching framework which meets the student's hands-on learning needs. In addition, online collaborative communication represents a practical and a constructivist method to transmit…

Dans les centres d’hébergement et de soins de longue durée (CHSLD), jusqu’à 80 % des personnes admises vivent avec une démence (Conseil des aînés, 2007). Parmi ces personnes âgées, plusieurs crient. Ce comportement a fait l’objet de quelques études, mais…

Les efforts investis pour diminuer les risques de développer un infarctus du myocarde sont nombreux. Aujourd’hui les médecins prennent connaissance des divers facteurs de risque connus prédisposant aux syndromes coronariens aigus (SCA) dans le but de prendre en charge les…

The purpose of this paper is to determine the degree of implementation of the knowledge management process in two selected groups of companies of the states of Carabobo (Venezuela) and Tamaulipas (Mexico). A non-experimental research was made, with a transactional…

Introduction: We report about the direct short-term effects of a Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-based Medicine (CE-EBM) module on the knowledge, attitude, and behavior of students in the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), Universitas Indonesia (UI), and University of Malaya (UM).…

In this paper, I offer an explanation of my own working art practices as set within the context of the spaces of the archive and presented as a series of questions arrived at through action, illuminated in turn by anthropological…

Here I first provide an introduction to a neglected topic in contemporary aesthetics: intellectual beauty. Then I review James McAllister?s critique of autonomism and reductionism regarding the relation between empirical and aesthetic criteria in scientific theory evaluation. Finally, I critique…