The first two chapters of this thesis investigate a possibly fundamental aspect of technological progress. If knowledge accumulates as technology progresses, then successive generations of innovators may face an increasing educational burden, forcing them to spend longer periods in education…

The climate of the reception of immigrants to the United States has soured, and circumstances are becoming increasingly difficult for persons seeking to gain residency. Reasons often given for the reversal in this practice are that immigrants are poor, uneducated,…

A real-time motion engine for interactive synthetic characters, either virtual or physical, needs to allow expressivity and interactivity of motion in order to maintain the illusion of life. Canned animation examples from an animator or motion capture device are expressive,…

Characterization of defect is one of the important objectives of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) for condition assessment of structures. Among many other NDE techniques, ultrasonic methods play a prominent role in the both quantitative and qualitative assessment of discontinuities in reinforced…

This dissertation investigates how rapid learning occurs in high technology industries, many of which operate in what Bourgeois and Eisenhardt (1988) term "high velocity environments." The dissertation consists of three empirical studies, which follow the method of extended case study…

Understanding the biological signals encoded in a genome is a key challenge of computational biology. These signals are encoded in the four-nucleotide alphabet of DNA and are responsible for all molecular processes in the cell. In particular, the genome contains…

En esta presentación describimos el uso de ontologías legales como base para la
mejora del soporte para jueces. El uso de la tecnología de procesamiento de lenguaje natural
permite obtener respuestas a los jóvenes jueces en tiempo real y mejorar…

En los últimos treinta años se ha producido un desarrollo considerable en torno a lo que realmente podemos conocer acerca del pasado histórico del antiguo Israel en Palestina. La investigación arqueológica y la crítica literaria del Antiguo Testamento han hecho…

This thesis explores how doctors and nurses use documents to share their knowledge within and across healthcare settings. In addressing this question I draw on a 15-month, multi-sited ethnographic study in several pediatric health care settings, following patients from primary…

L’objecte d’aquest treball és estudiar i analitzar les característiques generals i els objectius de les teories feministes de la traducció. Un dels pilars bàsics de la teoria feminista de la traducció és la noció del concepte d’equivalència, noció diferent a…