El D-002 es una mezcla de alcoholes alifáticos primarios superiores (tetracosanol, hexacosanol, octacosanol, triacontanol, dotriacontanol, tetratriacontanol) purificada de la cera de abejas con efectos antioxidantes, cuyos efectos sobre los niveles plasmáticos de hidroperóxidos totales (OHPT) no habían sido investigados. Este…

The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) progress targets have not been met. Nevertheless, the United Nations (UN) has not yet undertaken in-depth review in order to discover the reasons behind this lack of progress in achieving the MDG. From a political…

Knobler (1971) notes that within society at least three
communities are affected by intellectual property rights and
these include; the stakeholders who produce and distribute
the new knowledge such as Microsoft or Disney, individual
generators of new knowledge such as…

The necessity of verification tools for Knowledge Based-Systems (KBSs), that help to guarantee a certain degree of quality and reliability of these systems will increase in the future when more critical systems are developed in areas such as industry, science,…

Effective document retrieval using domain knowledge and semantics is one of the major challenges in Information Retrieval. Over the last years, there has been a growing interest in ontologies as an artifact for human knowledge representation and a critical component…

This thesis examines the evolution of Internet based knowledge networks (e-knowledge networks) in the domain of sustainable development. The objective of this thesis is to use an engineering systems approach to understand knowledge networks, identify the barriers to their sustainability…

The incorporation of ethnopedological knowledge in soil science and the inclusion of indigenous communities as beneficiaries of the agricultural technology are indispensable premises to make a better use of soil. However, to achieve this, it is necessary to have clearer…

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

Knowledge management is defined as the process of creating, storing, transferring, applying and saving organizational knowledge. Especially, in an environment of intensive competition increased with globalization; creating knowledge has been a vital factor for organizations, which want to gain advantage…

A fuzzy controller is usually designed by formulating the knowledge of a human expert into a set of linguistic variables and fuzzy rules. As it is well known, the use of prior knowledge can dramatically improve the performance and quality…