The etiology and epidemiology of Pythium root rot in hydroponically-grown crops are reviewed with emphasis on knowledge and concepts considered important for managing the disease in commercial greenhouses. Pythium root rot continually threatens the productivity of numerous kinds of crops…

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…

In the last decade, advertising agency industry has experienced an enormous growth prompted by the structural and technological advances. According to The European Advertising and Media Forecast, from 1990 to 2000, in the assembly of the countries of the European…

Purpose – Information and communication technologies have became pervasive in people’s lives and in this changing world education cannot remain anchored in old-fashioned models which ignore the evolution through which society is going. This paper seeks to present the gamble…

This paper proposes a process management system that enables new dynamic manufacturing models to be implemented. This system facilitates the automation of process modelling, thus reducing the workload for process engineers. To this end, it focuses on the incorporation of…

El artículo desarrolla la temática de identidad profesional del Trabajo Social a partir de abordar los conceptos de tradición, historia, sentido, experiencia. Señala la presencia de la heterogeneidad en dicha construcción. Incorpora la categoría “identidad de frontera”, clave para comprender…

We live in a world, where common sense is applied almost everywhere. To apply
common sense is to understand simple facts about people and everyday life.
The study of commonsense knowledge and reasoning is important, whether to
help understand…

En la sociedad del conocimiento, Internet constituye la vía fundamental de acceso y
difusión de información, y las lenguas proporcionan el soporte para ese proceso de comunicación.
Para la Comunidad de Madrid, que pretende hacer del conocimiento la base de…

Diagnosis is an important process in patient care. A suitable diagnosis helps a physician determine a precise treatment. Physicians also have a tendency to seek collaboration from other colleagues and expert systems for better confidence in their decision. The sources…

Corallus annulatus (Northern Annulated Tree-boa) is a little-studied tropical Boid occurring disjunctively throughout Central America and tropical South America in mostly lowland tropical moist and wet forests (Holdridge, 1967; Stafford & Henderson, 1996; Smith & Acevedo, 1997; Henderson et al.,…