La Plata National University is making a great effort to support and encourage scientific, technologic and artistic research and innovation, maintaining its quality, as well as the development and knowledge transference that benefit society and generate new scientific, technologic and…

Odisea: Discurso y Narrativa, by Graciela Zecchin de Fasano, is the most sophisticated and convincing interpretation known to me concerning the varied and complex roles played by direct speech in Homer’s epic. In this wide-ranging and lucidly written work, Dra.…

El traspaso de la Modernidad a la Modernidad tardía ha supuesto sustanciales cambios en la economía y en la sociedad toda, que se han traducido en el traspaso de una sociedad incluyente a otra excluyente. Paralelamente, en el ámbito criminológico,…

La historia del conocimiento que el mundo mediterráneo, primero Grecia y luego Roma,
tuvo de la India, comienza en forma paulatina con la llegada, por ejemplo, de objetos de
marfil. A partir de la expedición de Alejandro, tiempo en el…

El concepto de misericordia divina ha pasado por diversos estadios en su evolución, pero las concepciones de la religión cristiana y de la religión pagana no siempre se oponen. En este artículo se examinan las fuentes filosóficas (Aristóteles, filosofía helenística),…

El punto de partida de la presente investigación sobre el significado y la función que la mimesis tiene en el pensamiento de Aristóteles está dado por la adopción de una perspectiva de estudio "amplia", i.e. no restringida a la esfera…

An application of Zadeh’s prototype theory in the Knowledge Acquisition process, is presented here, and as a practical example, to define a method for predicting the evolution of the forest fire occurrence-danger rate in INCEND-IA: A KBS for prediction and…

This paper addresses the problem of contour line extraction from scanned topographic maps in poor condition. A novel method is developed, using knowledge of cartography and graphics to extract contours by removing other layers which overlay the contours, and reconstructing…

The role of communities associated to a substrate as fundamental components of an aquatic system has been recognized by many authors. Although periphyton has been considered of great importance in shallow lakes, its inclusion in different ecological models has been…

The main advantage of a recurrent architecture is the ability to store information from prior system states. A recurrent fuzzy controller includes hidden fuzzy variables which makes the controller more appropriate to deal with dynamic systems. We are currently investigating…