Background: Intra-urban inequalities in mortality have been infrequently analysed in European contexts. The aim of the present study was to analyse patterns of cancer mortality and their relationship with socioeconomic deprivation in small areas in 11 Spanish cities. Methods: It…

Rich Internet Applications offer Web surfers a richer user experience, mainly due to better responsiveness and enhanced user interface capabilities. In recent years, existing design methodologies targeting traditional Web 1.0 applications were extended to also support RIAs. These extensions do…

MACSimJX provides the means for advanced modelling and development of multiagent driven control systems. This is achieved by drawing together two modelling tools used extensively in their respective communities. These are Simulink, a tool used for control systems development and…

The ability of building robust semantic space representations of environments is crucial for the development of truly autonomous robots. This task, inherently connected with cognition, is traditionally achieved by training the robot with a supervised learning phase. We argue that…

Las comunidades de Traslasierra, en el oeste de la provincia de Córdoba, sufren cambios profundos en el uso de la tierra. Áreas rurales que mantenían una valiosa agrodiversidad, como ganadería, cultivos anuales, hortalizas, frutales, e importantes áreas del ecosistema nativo,…

Web design methodologies should be able to provide a requirements analysis stage to consider the large and heterogeneous audience of Web applications. In this stage, non-functional requirements (NFRs) should be addressed in order to improve the quality of the Web…

La plataforma InTiMe (INtegration of Tools and corpora In the text-MEss project) es un ambicioso proyecto del Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas
Informáticos de la Universidad de Alicante. Nace con la idea de integrar, en una misma plataforma, gran parte…

Recent work on the application of relevance theory to humorous speech-acts (jokes) defines these as being characterised by an increased demand in processing effort for the attainment of maximum contextual effects. This increase, however, is limited to the resolution of…

El diseño de tareas en los programas de formación de maestros se vincula al desarrollo del conocimiento necesario para realizar diferentes tareas profesionales- organizar el contenido matemático, interpretar el aprendizaje, gestionar la enseñanza. Se ejemplifica esta perspectiva en el caso…

El objetivo de este proyecto se basa en la necesidad de replantearse la filosofía clásica del TLH para adecuarse tanto a las fuentes disponibles actualmente (datos no estructurados con multi-modalidad, multi-lingualidad y diferentes grados de formalidad) como a las necesidades…