Depuis plusieurs années, on assiste à la création de programmes en prévention du suicide à l’adolescence. L’un de ces programmes repose sur le principe des pairs aidants. Il consiste à former des jeunes dont le rôle est d’apporter du soutien…

Recent advances in biology have afforded scientists with the knowledge that polysaccharides play an active role in modulating cellular activities. Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are one such family of polysaccharides that play a very important role in regulating the functions of numerous…

Este trabajo desarrolla dos cuestiones centrales de la dialéctica entre feminisnos
y ciencia: el lugar de las mujeres en ciencia y tecnología y el sesgo
androcéntrico de la misma. Analizamos cómo interacciona el postulado epistémico
del partir de las vidas…

This paper introduces our ongoing analysis of auto component development data obtained from Nishiguchi's research sponsored by MIT's International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP).
The main results of this paper can be found in the section of Research Results where
a…

We develop a qualitative method for understanding and representing phase space structures of complex systems and demonstrate the method with a program, MAPS --- Modeler and Analyzer for Phase Spaces, using deep domain knowledge of dynamical system theory. Given a…

Automated Program Analysis is the process of discovering decompositions of a system into sub-units such that the behavior of the whole program can be inferred from the behavior of its parts. Analysis can be employed to increase the explanatory power…

This paper presents a discussion of means of describing the discourse and its components which makes speech act interpretation and reference disambiguation possible with minimal search of the knowledge in the database. A portion of this paper will consider how…

The application of the multilingual knowledge encoded in Wikipedia to an open–domain Cross–Lingual Question Answering system
based on the Inter Lingual Index (ILI) module of EuroWordNet is proposed and evaluated. This strategy overcomes the problems due to
ILI’s low coverage…

La aparición de la teoría de las revoluciones científicas de Thomas S. Kuhn supuso una intensa alteración para la didáctica de las ideas del pensamiento de las ciencias —entre ellas, la geografía—; desde entonces éste se presenta como una sucesión…

This thesis demonstrates how the use of a global context can improve the power of a local character recognizer. The global context considered is a computer tutor of high school algebra that observes a student working algebra problems on a…