Web-based learning environments are becoming increasingly popular in higher education. One of the most important web-learning resources is the virtual laboratory (VL), which gives students an easy way for training and learning through the Internet. Moreover, on-line collaborative communication represents…

An important tool for teaching is used at University of Alicante: the virtual campus. We think that information and communication technologies can help us to improve our teaching. Last year, we prepared some materials for our students and checked whether…

Se aborda el estudio en la Península Ibérica de los géneros, Hemiteles Gravenhorst, l829, Xiphulcus Townes, 1910, Subhemiteles Horstmann, 1976 y Gnypetomorpha Foerster, 1868. Los géneros Xiphulcus, Subhemiteles y Gnypetomorpha, así como las especies Hemiteles rubropleuralis Kiss, 1930, Xiphulcus floricolator…

In big companies, managerial activities and organizational boundaries will over time hide most unevenly developed skill and knowledge distribution patterns; studying the organizations with the means of modern applied physics is thus quite difficult. People are forced to communicate along…

The analysis of high sports performance by means of technological advances has often been used to calculate the routes of sportsmen in the distances covered, or to calculate speed in orienteering. However, there is still little information on data for…

Este artículo presenta un sistema de Búsqueda de Respuestas basado en
ontologías, implicación textual y requerimientos de usuario. Se propone una metodología para la construcción de una base de conocimiento de usuario que nos permite
asociar preguntas en lenguaje natural…

Ensuring environmental sustainability is the aim of the seventh Millennium Development Goal (MDG7). United Nations data shows insufficient progress, especially in developing countries. In order to generate new information about this progress and the main barriers that hinder it, we…

Recientes estudios muestran un gran desconocimiento
de los españoles sobre las culturas
de origen de los inmigrantes. Los elementos
de la cultura, como los mitos, la religión,
los tabúes, los usos y costumbres, etc, inciden en el
proceso salud/enfermedad/atención. Por…

Using an audiovisual perception task, two groups of native English listeners
(monolinguals, and L2 learners of Spanish) were asked to identify
which /p,t,k/ tokens had been produced by native English speakers
and which ones by foreigners. The experiment found that…

Content vocabulary may have different connotative values and different denotational meanings in different languages according to cultural idiosyncracy, manifested in culture-specific "key" meanings and culture-related scripts. Our claim here is that, even in all these cases involving the use of…