The past five years have seen the arrival and extremely rapid expansion of West Nile virus (WNV) in the Western Hemisphere. The rapid sweep across North America has permitted little time for developing knowledge of the virus's potential impacts on…

Se propone un modelo para medir el capital intelectual de un país que tiene en cuenta aspectos no contemplados en el Producto Interior Bruto (PIB) basándose

en la observación de capitales ocultos como generadores de riqueza a largo…

La pérdida del estilo de vida saludable en la sociedad avanzada ha provocado problemas serios en la salud pública, se han desarrollado enfermedades crónicas múltiples, causando millones de muertes prematuras cada año a consecuencia de la obesidad, el alcohol, el…

L’objectif de cette thèse est d’analyser les modes d’émergence de la voix
chez cinq écrivains québécois ayant initié, durant les années 1940-1970,
leur parcours littéraire à travers la pratique de la poésie. Cette thèse
puise à même les ressources de…

There are three different uses of the term 'inoformation' in ordinary language: in the restricted sense, it means diverse types of material objects, such as data or documents ('information-as-thing'); alternatively, the term is used as in reference to the act…

The regime of floods and droughts in the Pantanal wetlands determines the distribution and abundance of the wildlife, vegetation and ecological processes. Cattle ranching and fisheries, the main economic activities in this floodplain, are extremely influenced by and depend on…

The bivalve Limnoperna fortunei (Dunker, 1857), also called golden mussel, is native to Asia but becoming dispersed around the world. The golden mussel resembles the invasive dreissenid bivalves in many respects, and although much less studied it evidently has broader…

The spatial variation in the composition of the tree flora of some Atlantic forest areas distributed in the East Atlantic basins, Southeastern and Southern Brazil, extended to Paraguay and Argentina, was investigated under four main aspects: (1) to evaluate the…

Research on self-regulated learning (SRL) in hypermedia-learning environments is a growing area of interest. One major issue is the role of prior knowledge, which can influence how students interact with hypermedia-learning systems in terms of their use of SRL strategies.…

A system for visual recognition is described, with implications for the general problem of representation of knowledge to assist control. The immediate objective is a computer system that will recognize objects in a visual scene, specifically hammers. The computer receives…