En este trabajo intento reflexionar acerca de lo que considero un problema olvidado entre los estudiosos de la filosofía de R. Descartes. ¿Es posible encontrar en el pensamiento cartesiano un ámbito fenomenológico que permita proporcionar un nuevo criterio de justificación…

This paper describes a new statistical, model-based approach to building a contact state observer. The observer uses measurements of the contact force and position, and prior information about the task encoded in a graph, to determine the current location of…

Ensuring environmental sustainability is the aim of the seventh Millennium Development Goal (MDG7). United Nations data shows insufficient progress, especially in developing countries. In order to generate new information about this progress and the main barriers that hinder it, we…

In recent years, researchers in artificial intelligence have become interested in replicating human physical reasoning talents in computers. One of the most important skills in this area is predicting how physical systems will behave. This thesis discusses an implemented program…

This paper describes a system for the computer understanding of English. The system answers questions, executes commands, and accepts information in normal English dialog. It uses semantic information and context to understand discourse and to disambiguate sentences. It combines a…

All intelligence relies on search --- for example, the search for an intelligent agent's next action. Search is only likely to succeed in resource-bounded agents if they have already been biased towards finding the right answer. In artificial agents, the…

El presente trabajo pretende realizar un análisis de los procesos y trabajo que involucran a una persona dentro de la producción de audio para imagen permitiendo determinar las competencias necesarias que requiere este perfil profesional para trabajar en proyectos audiovisuales,…

El desarrollo del presente trabajo de titulación se lo realizará mediante el análisis del Proyecto de Ley que el Instituto Ecuatoriano de la Propiedad Intelectual realizó, llamado de “Conservación y Protección de los Conocimientos Colectivos, los Saberes Ancestrales y las…

The aim of this paper was to explore how a military career may affect the mental health
of serving and ex-service personnel, to identify the accessibility and helpfulness of
support (both during and after military service) and to make recommendations…

BUT : Cette étude longitudinale a pour objectif d’évaluer l’impact à court terme des programmes d’enseignement sur l’autogestion du diabète dispensés par l’équipe multidisciplinaire de l’Unité de jour de diabète (UJD) de l’Hôtel-Dieu du CHUM. L'UJD offre une formation de…