En: Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2002

Presented at the 21st Conference of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE), held in Granada, in Summer 2006., One of twenty-five papers exploring our contemporary reading of what is global, the way we comparatively understand this world of new…

Many college students and their families are concerned about the high costs of textbooks. A company called Flat World Knowledge both gives away and sells open-source textbooks in a way it believes to be financially sustainable. This article reports on…

This paper suggests that a new form of racialization is being produced in the information age through developments and innovations in communication technologies. Increasingly, racial knowledge is being constructed from seemingly neutral and unrelated pieces of information, which are collected,…

Estudo do tipo quase-experimental que objetivou apresentar os Índices de Satisfação no Trabalho (ISTs) de uma equipe de enfermagem de uma UTI-adulto e as atividades efetuadas para sua melhoria. Participaram 8 enfermeiras e 9 auxiliares de enfermagem. Todos os requisitos…

O objetivo deste trabalho é compreender as representações sociais sobre saúde e as estratégias de enfrentamento das doenças entre as mulheres dos pescadores de Porto Rico, PR. Utilizou-se como referencial teórico a Teoria das Representações Sociais. Em setembro de 2000,…

(cont.) In the process, this thesis intervenes in social theoretical debates not simply around the nature and production of knowledge and value, but also around the place of larger belief-systems - relating to religion, nation and ethics - in such…

Most neural network learning algorithms cannot use knowledge other than what is provided in the training data. Initialized using random weights, they cannot use prior knowledge such as knowledge stored in previously trained networks. This manuscript thesis addresses this problem.…

Objective – The primary objective of this study was to gather quantitative information on the need, development, acquisition, and application of pedagogical knowledge by academic librarians with teaching responsibilities.

Design – Online survey questionnaire.

Setting – Higher-education…

This thesis proposes a miethodology for the design of man-machine interfaces by combining top-down and bottom-up processes in vision. From a computational perspective, we propose that the scientific-cognitive question of combining top-down and bottom-up knowledge is similar to the engineering…