The supervision of postgraduate Master's Degree dissertations has attracted little attention in the
academic literature and is an under researched area of supervisory activity. This research was a
response to generate new knowledge concerning the praxis of supervisors who supervise…

The chemical effects of acoustic cavitation are obtained in sono-reactors built-up from a vessel and an ultrasonic
source. In this paper, simulations of an existing sono-reactor are carried out, using a linear acoustics model, accounting
for the vibrations of the…

Content vocabulary may have different connotative values and different denotational meanings in different languages according to cultural idiosyncracy, manifested in culture-specific "key" meanings and culture-related scripts. Our claim here is that, even in all these cases involving the use of…

In recent research, it is claimed that deviant features of interlanguage grammars arise only
from the users' knowledge of the rule system of the target language. This paper examines
the relative contribution of the rule system of each of the…

Uno de los grandes problemas de la educación a distancia soportada por computadora (e-learning) radica en que muchos de los estudiantes que inician un curso, se frustran, se sienten desmotivados, no logran asimilar los conocimientos y en consecuencia lo abandonan.…

En este artículo ofrecemos algunas ideas sobre la actividad científica, en Venezuela. En la evolución de la cultura y comunidad académica en Venezuela durante la primera década de gobierno de la revolución bolivariana socialista (1998-2008) nos hemos propuesto llenar lo…

La necesidad de dotar de multilingualidad a sistemas basados en el conocimiento
plantea un nuevo reto a la investigación en Inteligencia Artificial. La mayoría de las estrategias
adoptadas en la actualidad para la representación de multilingualidad en bases de conocimiento…

La santé publique n’échappe pas au courant actuel qui valorise le développement d’une culture de décision et d’action axée sur l’utilisation des données probantes. Des études qui portent sur les services de santé et les politiques publiques en lien avec…

This work extends the semantics and implementation of fuzzy prolog presented in [VGM02] in order to include Default Knowledge capability. The new semantic allows non-uniform default assumptions and has Closed World Assumption (CWA) and Open World Assumption (OWA) as particular…

Undergraduate physiotherapy programmes aim to equip graduates with basic skills, knowledge and behaviours to allow them to
enter the profession. The aim of this study was to explore employers’ perceptions of key factors in work place preparedness of novice
physiotherapists.…