In today’s world, the European Union is searching for a delicate balance between linguistic integration and diversity. Thanks to international knowledge transmission and exchange as well as co-operation and mobility beyond national boundaries, English has now become the preferred option…

In most of the triathlon races, the 10km-run is critical to win and, just a few seconds, may separate the gold and the silver medal. To our best knowledge, no study has analyzed the biomechanical differences among the first qualified…

Cualquier trabajo en ingeniería ontológica debe estar fundamentado en un protocolo de directrices bien definidas que no sólo organicen la estructuración de la ontología sino que además ayuden a determinar sus unidades ontológicas y propiedades. Una sólida metodología para el…

After considering the various dimensions of innovation policy, this paper reviews the experiences of the Czech Republic (CR) in implementing such policies in the post-1990 transition period. Particular attention is paid to the contribution of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)…

Le rôle important joué par la mitochondrie dans la cellule eucaryote est admis depuis longtemps. Cependant, la composition exacte des mitochondries, ainsi que les processus biologiques qui sy déroulent restent encore largement inconnus. Deux facteurs principaux permettent dexpliquer pourquoi létude…

In the UK, a series of policies and practices since
the 1980s have increasingly involved service users
and carers in the policy and planning of mainstream
services (Department of Health, 2000; 2001; 2004).
The knowledge base on which services are…

The purpose of the present paper is to review the current knowledge about cholesterol gallstone disease. It is generally accepted that the formation of cholesterol gallstone requires three major pathogenic defects, namely, supersaturation, nucleation and crystal growth as well as…

This article considers aspects of the assimilation of academic research to town planning guidelines and policies, in particular research conducted in terms, and with methodologies, remote from practical town planning processes. It grew out of an interdisciplinary project examining the…

Several epidemiological and intervention studies have been performed in Mexico in order to evaluate control strategies against Taenia solium cysticercosis. Epidemiological questionnaires and immunodiagnostic assays indicate that the main risk factor for acquiring cysticercosis is the tapeworm carrier. Two control…

This paper is part of a more general study aimed to the determination of the best experimental procedures for reliable quantitative measurements of Fe-Mn alloys by LIBS. In this work, attention is pointed on the self-absorption processes, whose effect deeply…