This text offers discussion, challenges, and case studies that enable reflection upon the complexities of working with vulnerable people. It helps students and practitioners to be aware of their own values, knowledge and power, in order to manage the balance…

This article analyzes the appropriateness of a text summarization system, COMPENDIUM, for generating abstracts of biomedical papers. Two approaches are suggested: an extractive (COMPENDIUM E), which only selects and extracts the most relevant sentences of the documents, and an abstractive-oriented…

Cómo enseñar la práctica profesional constituye un asunto de vital importancia en el proceso educativo actual,
específicamente en las carreras de la salud. El presente estudio, desarrollado en la Facultad de Odontología de la Universidad del Zulia, examina la enseñanza…

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Complex goods and processes require ever more sophisticated and specialized knowledge; harnessing multiple kinds of expertise to execute tasks, solve problems, and develop strategies is increasingly critical to organizations' survival. When specialists come together, however, they often speak in different…

The present dissertation postulates the dead body as a cultural signifier in which it is possible to read social, political, ethical, and aesthetic meanings and practices during the first half of twentieth century Latin America. Drawing from a close examination…

In this paper, we study the asset pricing implication of imprecise knowledge about rare events. Modeling rare events as jumps in the aggregate endowment, we explicitly solve the equilibrium asset prices in a pure-exchange economy with a representative agent who…

O tema do trabalho é o processo de inovação que ocorre a partir de conhecimentos científicos produzidos na universidade. O objetivo central foi investigar a história de dois processos de inovação e desenvolver uma heurística parcial que sirva de referência…

Los paradigmas, las técnicas y las prácticas producto de tradiciones regulan las formas de transmisión del saber, estableciendo las concepciones de sujeto, así como las nociones de cuerpo, de prácticas corporales y, sobre todo, de cómo se educa lo “corporal”.

A goal of fisheries management is to predict the probability of successful
establishment of invasive fish species. To address this goal, species distribution models
are used to project species distribution under different climate-change scenarios. In this
study, the geographic distribution…