2008

Most unsupervised indigenous knowledge (IK) are known to be very useful in combating critical health issues as well as being dangerous if the administration is abused. Despite the fact that these locally prepared herbal medicine are not encouraged to be…

The application of the multilingual knowledge encoded in Wikipedia to an open–domain Cross–Lingual Question Answering system
based on the Inter Lingual Index (ILI) module of EuroWordNet is proposed and evaluated. This strategy overcomes the problems due to
ILI’s low coverage…

Malaria and diarrhea are major causes of illness and death in Africa. These preventable diseases take the biggest toll on children, mostly due to lack of education and adequate resources in the home. The purpose of the reported research project…

Las universidades públicas venezolanas disfrutan del fuero constitucional de la autonomía para concebir, dirigir y organizar su vida académica, pudiendo
transformarse permanentemente sin el consentimiento de terceros. Definidas como las magnas casas del saber que orientan la vida del país…

Para la adecuada aplicación de los cuidados
enfermeros es necesario el conocimiento
antropológico de las personas a las que van
dirigidos. Concretando en las personas ostomizadas
debemos evidenciar los cambios, modificaciones
y trastornos producidos por la nueva situación
(ser portador…

Proficiency and habits in body culture cannot be disregarded when drawing up integrated cultural competences that meet the challenges of the 21st century. This is all the more true if we aim to define the key competences of the cultural…

The pragmatic approach to translation implies the consideration of translation as a useful test case for understanding the role of language in social life. Under this view this article analyses the decision-making stage translators go through in the course of…

The terminology of Right is an age long undertaking of the human mind, by means of which it
has tried to respond to the necessities, progressively more complex and marked by multiple tensions.
This paper has dedicated the first section…

In polyandrous species, sexual selection acts both before (precopulatory) and after
(postcopulatory) mating on traits that are important for reproductive success. Precopulatory traits
are important for mate acquisition and include weapons and ornaments. Postcopulatory traits
include components of sperm quantity…