In systems where agents are required to interact with a partially known and dynamic world, sensors can be used to obtain further knowledge about the environment. However, sensors may be unreliable, that is, they may deliver wrong information (due, e.g.,…

Cultural differences play a very important role in matching computer interfaces to the expectations of users from different national and cultural backgrounds. But to date, there has been little systematic research as to the extent of such differences, and how…

This paper aims to clarify an economic mechanism behind the growing dichotomy between geo-economics and the borderless global knowledge economy. The proposed hypothesis is that geo-economic fault-lines, which are the product of the past prejudices of racial, linguistic, and cultural…

Effective document retrieval using domain knowledge and semantics is one of the major challenges in Information Retrieval. Over the last years, there has been a growing interest in ontologies as an artifact for human knowledge representation and a critical component…

Mediante técnicas paleoparasitológicas cuantitativas y cualitativas se examinaron los sedimentos de la cavidad pélvica de dos esqueletos humanos. Los individuos fueron hallados en dos enterratorios asociados al asentamiento español de fines de siglo XVI "Nombre de Jesús" (Cabo Vírgenes, provincia…

Mediante técnicas paleoparasitológicas cuantitativas y cualitativas se examinaron los sedimentos de la cavidad pélvica de dos esqueletos humanos. Los individuos fueron hallados en dos enterratorios asociados al asentamiento español de fines de siglo XVI "Nombre de Jesús" (Cabo Vírgenes, provincia…

Since huge amounts of spatial data can be easily collected from various applications, ranging from remote sensing technology to geographical information system, the extraction and comprehension of spatial knowledge is a more and more important task. Many excellent studies on…

Conocida como ácido ascórbico, la Vitamina C es una vitamina que interviene en múltiples procesos, tales como: formación de hormonas, neurotransmisores, carnitina, conversión del colesterol en ácidos biliares, incremento en la absorción de hierro, además de su fundamental intervención en…

Este trabalho tem o objetivo de apresentar a percepção ambiental dos moradores do bairro Jardim Tangará, localizado na porção leste do município de São Carlos, São Paulo. Dentre os aspectos socioambientais abordados, deu-se ênfase á nascente localizada no bairro. Realizou-se…

This paper contributes to the empirical literature on pensions and saving by studying the influence of funded pension systems on the gross national saving rate using a sample of 48 developed and developing countries over the 1980-2004 period. To the…