(cont.) updates. It produces plan-ready information, by exploiting the self-serving and opportunistic pursuit of instant return-on-investment by frontline offices. Thanks to its emergent qualities, City Knowledge engenders unexpected plan-demanding situations, where the ability to conduct second-order analyses leads to deeper…

A fuzzy controller is usually designed by formulating the knowledge of a human expert into a set of linguistic variables and fuzzy rules. As it is well known, the use of prior knowledge can dramatically improve the performance and quality…

OBJECTIVE:
To determine how often clinical research from doctoral degree programmes is unpublished and to see if one can characterise differences between those researchers who do or do not publish their work or between the institutions where they studied.
DESIGN:

Dans le contexte actuel de l’éducation au Québec où la réforme des programmes de formation des jeunes appelle un renouvellement des pratiques d’enseignement, notre recherche s’intéresse au développement de la dimension didactique de la pratique liée à l’enseignement des mathématiques…

This report focuses on recycling. As an objective neutral party, MIT has compiled a knowledge base that examines the many complex issues relating to re-cycling. Although this report was prepared at the request of the Automotive board of Governors, it…

Tal vez no exista escenario citadino más alejado de eso que Ángel Rama denominara la Ciudad Letrada que el barrio o arrabal. De ahí que ciertas propuestas literarias concebidas a partir de algunos de los elementos emblemáticos de esas zonas…

Purpose: Citations received by papers published within a journal serve to increase its bibliometric impact. The objective of this paper was to assess the influence of publication language, article type, number of authors, and year of publication on the citations…

The Semantic Web attempts to reach a state in the future where everything on the Web will no longer be only machine-readable, but also machine-understandable. An ontology is an explicit specification of a conceptualization. A conceptualization is an abstract, simplified…

This thesis explores a novel approach to visual speech modeling. Visual speech, or a sequence of images of the speaker's face, is traditionally viewed as a single stream of contiguous units, each corresponding to a phonetic segment. These units are…

Con el propósito de uniformizar el proceso de fabricación de miel y panela de caña de azúcar (Saccharum spp. híbrido) se midieron las variables temperatura, sólidos solubles totales (Grados Brix) y pH, durante su elaboración en un Central panelero tradicional.…