Policies to avert the threat of dangerous climate change focus on stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations by drastically reducing anthropogenic emissions of carbon. Such reductions require limiting the use of fossil fuels-which supply the bulk of energy to economic activity,…

The thesis comprises three essays on various aspects of the development and diffusion of pharmaceutical innovations, woven together by the idea that the production of clinical knowl- edge influences organizational design, pricing, and advertising decisions in the pharmaceutical industry -…

Integration of daylight availability in time and architectural space is a critical element in achieving optimal comfort and productivity, as well as in minimizing energy consumption. In recent years, there has been an increase in the demand of the better…

Dans ce document, serons détaillées les résultats de mes travaux de recherche d’études doctorales. Tout d’abord, nous discuterons de la synthèse totale de la lépadine B, la plus courte à paraître dans la littérature à ce jour. Cette synthèse, en…

by Sherry L. Buschmann., Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2001., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-116).

Anaesthetists are a group of doctors who are at a higher occupational risk of contracting blood borne infections as they perform many invasive procedures. Practice of Universal Precautions (UP) is vital in reducing the risk of transmission. The objective of…

This thesis considers three complications that arise from applying reinforcement learning to a real-world application. In the process of using reinforcement learning to build an adaptive electronic market-maker, we find the sparsity of data, the partial observability of the domain,…

Tanto en el marco de la teoría de los principios y parámetros
(Chomsky, 1981) como en el contexto de los estudios funcionalistas
(Pienemann, 1989), el papel de la transferencia o influencia interlingüística
en la adquisición de segundas lenguas se ha…

The Curtain Within: Haida Social and Mythical Discourse by Marianne Boelscher-Reviewed by Anna de Aguayo (pgs: 75-7)Trail to Heaven: Knowledge and Narrative in a Northern Native Community by Robin Ridington-Reviewed by Richard Preston (pgs: 77-9)Environmental Ethics: Philosophical and Policy Perspectives by Philip P.…

Since the first Computer and Internet based learning developments, there has been a recurrent idea: the creation of reusable didactic pieces, developed once and used many times in instructional processes, called learning objects. These elements promised to constitute knowledge bases…