by Roberta M. Braum., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999., Includes bibliographical references (p. 57).

Increasing attention to higher education policies in the knowledge-based society makes important to understand the relationship between socio-economic family characteristics and educational choices. This paper considers the decision to go to college in Argentina as a family's economic decision. The…

Los agentes pueden definirse como componentes de software (programas) activos que perciben, razonan y se comunican a través de un protocolo predefinido. Muy generalmente, como en el caso de la World Wide Web, los agentes no son desarrollados en aislamiento…

Durante el Proyecto Cubano de Modificación Artificial del Tiempo (PCMAT) (1985-
90), en el Polígono Meteorológico de Camagüey (PMC) se obtuvo un volumen tal de
información que ha permitido, aún en la actualidad, continuar extrayendo resultados que
modestamente pensamos que…

Los virus herpes bovino 1 y 5 (BHV-1 y 5) afectan naturalmente al bovino,
especie en la que provocan diversas manifestaciones clínicas: rinotraqueítis, vulvovaginitis pustular infecciosa (IPV), balanopostitis (IPB), conjuntivitis, aborto y encefalitis. La
distribución de la infección es mundial,…

Desde la Física se han hecho numerosas contribuciones a la prevención de las enfermedades y
a la salud humanas. Con técnicas de avanzada científicos europeos y estadounidenses nos sorprenden día a
día con los resultados de sus investigaciones. Mucho menos…

This instrument was part of the research project "Research on Evaluation of Health and Education Plans and Programs in the Province of Buenos Aires", developed by the of Chair Preventive Psychology of the Psychology course of studies at the School…

One of the more recent and alluring phrases used by development and resource management practitioners and theorists is "traditional ecological knowledge." Although there is a substantial amount of the literature on this subject, these studies have unfortunately an inadequate characterization…

by Qi Dong., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1999., Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-171).

While theory formation and the relation between theory and data has been investigated in many studies of scientific reasoning, researchers have focused less attention on reasoning about experimental design, even though the experimental design process makes up a large part…