In numerous animal groups, individuals within the group often wish to impose
their preferences and guide the group in a certain direction. Conflicting preferences are
common in these situations and, in order to maintain group cohesion, collective decisionmaking
needs to…

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…

El Centro Cultural Metropolitano (CCM) es una institución cultural pública creada con el objetivo de promocionar el encuentro entre las diversas culturas para la construcción permanente de la identidad, el conocimiento, valoración y conservación de los patrimonios; ubicada en una…

Le présent projet vise à documenter la nécessité d’augmenter notre connaissance
de la présence des contaminants organiques tels que les médicaments dans
l’environnement et d’évaluer leur devenir environnemental. On a étudié la présence de
composés pharmaceutiques dans différents échantillons d'eau.…

La Declaración de Rijeka sobre el futuro de la Bioética fue firmada en Marzo 12 de 2011; el mismo día en que ocurría el desastre de Fukushima en un insensible mundo lleno de tecnología. Dentro de los puntos de la…

This paper describes a new method for cross-lingual textual entailment (CLTE) detection based on machine translation (MT). We use sub-segment translations from different MT systems available online as a source of cross-lingual knowledge. In this work we describe and evaluate…

Previous work on an interactive system aimed at helping non-expert users to enlarge the monolingual dictionaries of rule-based machine translation (MT) systems worked by discarding those inflection paradigms that cannot generate a set of inflected word forms validated by the…

A request from the Essex health and social care mental health commissioners for a series of broad consultations to seek the views of service users and carers emerged as a response to the potential need for service redesign engendered by…

This study aimed to trace the development of the implementation of knowledge management initiatives in the public sector institutions in Jordan. The study was compared with precedent study had been conducted in 2004. The results showed there is very little…

Even though knowledge in itself is nothing new, but how to effectively management it is a concern of all organizations, inclusive of university. In Iraq, there is concern by universities to manage knowledge scientifically in order to keep pace with…