AbstractDue to aspect-oriented mechanisms explosion, their concepts arrive to distributed systems tackling concepts as security, persistence, or synchronization, especially in middleware approaches. Regarding distributed databases, the research has been focused mainly on object-oriented databases. Based on the great impact of…

The k nearest neighbor (k-NN) classifier has been extensively used in Pattern Recognition because of its simplicity and its good performance. However, in large datasets applications, the exhaustive k-NN classifier becomes impractical. Therefore, many fast k-NN classifiers have been developed;…

The present experiment attenmpted to evaluate the formation of associations between elements of an odour-flavour compoundpared with a LiCl injection, in rats. The data ob­tained show that the aversion produced to the lacquer thinner odour is greater when this is…

Power systems monitoring is particularly challenging due to the presence of dynamic load changes in normal operation mode of network nodes, as well as the presence of both continuous and discrete variables, noisy information and lack or excess of data.…

AbstractSince the emergence of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the 1980s, there has been a structural change in the way countries now finance and provide public infrastructure. Although national governments apparently encourage PPPs, and many have succeeded, some others have failed.…

This issue, with special editor Natalia Evnitskaya, is about CLIL (Content Language and Integrated Learning). It is dedicated to Mia Victori Blaya, who passed away on the 29th November 2010 ...Aquest volum, editat per Natalia Evnitskaya, versa sobre la implementació dels enfocaments AICLE (Aprenentatge…

We begin this issue with our invited authors Dr. Annie Pilote, Dr. Marie-Odile Magnan and Dr. Cynthia Groff (...) three articles are selected papers from the Annual Interuniversity Roundtable on Research in Language and Literature Education (...). Comencem aquest volum…

This article reports on a research project focused on peer editing as a pedagogical tool to promote collaborative assessment in the EFL writing process. With teachers overstretched in the Bogotá public school system, a method needed to be found that…

En este artículo se describen los efectos causados por el uso del enfoque de género y proceso y del dossier del portafolio electrónico en el desarrollo de la habilidad para escribir historias cortas de un grupo de estudiantes de undécimo…

This action research study focused on the analysis of children’s perceptions of writing in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and was grounded in the theory of the process approach. This approach was considered in view of students’ negative perceptions…