The lack of effective data integration and knowledge representation in patient monitoring limits its utility to clinicians. Intelligent alarm algorithms that use artificial intelligence techniques have the potential to reduce false alarm rates and to improve data integration and knowledge…

En este trabajo, se analiza el drama del conocimiento
como “bien privadamente público”;
transitando, en primera instancia, por
las potencialidades de difusión y los peligros
de exclusión que corre el conocimiento
en la sociedad de la información. Siguiendo
las indicaciones…

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…

Durante la década de los años
sesenta se produce la consolidación de
la profesión académica en Venezuela
como consecuencia de la expansión de
la educación superior. En este contexto,
la Universidad de Los Andes se nutre
de la afluencia de…

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…

Metacognition loosely refers to one’s “thinking about thinking” and is often defined by its accompanying skills (such as monitoring and evaluating). Despite the tendency for researchers to use metacognition as an overarching umbrella term, cognitive and educational theorists argue as…

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…

Abstract: Since the discovery of conducting polymers in 1977, a new era of research work has escalated, with applications such as transistors, solar cells, logic circuits, sensors, etc. The materials can be chemically modified during their synthesis in order to…

La importancia de las empresas de la construcción, radica en que éstas se
encargan de transformar materiales, en productos de gran valor agregado
desde la óptica social y económica, lo cual requiere conocimientos, destrezas,
tecnologías y múltiples recursos. Normalmente las…

Se realiza un análisis de la importancia que posee la Zona No - Saturada en el conocimiento de los fenómenos hidrológicos en llanuras, por radicarse en ese ámbito los más significativos en la fase terrestre del ciclo hidrológico (evapotranspiración e…