Las universidades están encaminadas a transmitir desde ya, a las futuras generaciones, los conocimientos,
los valores y las destrezas necesarias para que promuevan el desarrollo económico del país; de tal forma
que el emprendimiento y la educación sean una alianza…

Este artículo pretende hacer un análisis de la realidad virtual desde el
punto de vista de la estética y la filosofía. La virtualidad es considerada como
un ambiente donde se amplía la experiencia artística, siendo la cibernética una
realidad en…

This chapter summarizes selected results from the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) and briefly describes a vision for future Amazonian research. The need for research on people and environment interactions is emphasized in the context of regional and global…

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…

This inquiry sought to examine the effects of participating in an online discussion forum on the development of knowledge for teaching mathematics. The participants of this study were among the pre-service teachers from a large urban university, chosen as they…

In wireless communications, the broadcast nature can be explored to efficiently support multicast services while the difference in channel gains among the wireless links of users promotes multiuser diversity which can be used to improve multicast performance. This thesis proposes…

Desde sus inicios, la industria del software se ha preocupado por mejorar lacalidad de sus productos. En respuesta a esta inquietud, surgen los modelos demejoras de procesos de software (MMPS), cuyo objetivo es el de mejorar lacalidad de los productos…

This work examines the patterns inherent to the understanding of the nature of the forbidden fruit in an attempt to demonstrate parallels between the reasoning of biblical interpreters, on one hand, and of artists, on the other., While the biblical…

It has been proposed that forms of dialogue (Keegan, 1993) are differentially related to subject knowledge possessed by the student and the roles that teachers and students play within those dialogues. A reading of the socio-constructivist literature suggests that maximal…

This thesis proposes a knowledge based expert system tool that can be used as an on- line controller for the charging/discharging of an energy storage system in a wind-diesel microgrid. The wind-diesel microgrid is modelled, and a typical energy storage…