ABSTRACT: Soil compactation is problem in modern agriculture. Over cultivation, intensive cropping and inappropriate soil management leads to soil compactation. There are important factors which directly affect plant growth, such as water, oxygen, temperature and mechanical resistance to seedling emergence…

The United States is struggling to provide health care in the face of ever increasing demand. As medical students continue their decades long march toward specialization, questions of how to provide generalist care become quickly intertwined with that of who…

Presented at: Conference on Structural Reform and the Transformation of Organizations and Businesses, sponsored by the Ashcroft International Business School and the Athenian Policy Forum. Homerton College, Cambridge, 3-6 September 2003.

The goal of this project was two-fold: first, to improve the performance of machine learning
algorithms for the diagnosis of pediatric tuberculosis, and second, to use machine learning algorithms
to better understand the problem of diagnosis. We constructed and examined…

Actualmente y ante la gran movilidad geográfica
a la que asisten las distintas sociedades,
se hace necesario un mayor conocimiento
de las semejanzas y diferencias culturales
de dichos grupos étnicos por parte de las organizaciones
y los programas sanitarios, así…

This paper analyzes general features and most important objectives of feminist translation. One of the main principles of this theory is the non-acceptance of the traditional definition of equivalence. For this reason, we will compare feminist conception of equivalence with…

This paper presents and analyzes the influence of chronological distance between an original medieval text and its translation on the type of translation and the translation strategies –modernization/arcaization and philological/communicative translation– followed by a contemporary translator. Extracts of the medieval…

In the past few years, improvements in the data acquisition technology have decreased the time interval of data gathering. Consequently, institutions have stored huge amounts of data such as climate time series and remote sensing images. Computational models to filter,…

dentification of groups that are similar in their floristic composition and structure (habitat types) is essential for conservation and forest managers to allocate high priority areas and to designate areas for reserves, refuges, and other protected areas. In this study,…

Capitulo en libro, muestra resultados del análisis de la contribución de las redes sociales, en la medida que aportan estrategias que permiten a los migrantes mexicanos comenzar negocios propios en el suroeste de Michigan. Los casos analizados son parte de…