The assessment is the most complicated task in the teaching work and it should be especially useful to improve the features and results of the learning process proposed at the beginning of an academic year. It must incorporate tools with…

Data mining is at the core of the knowledge discovery process. However, an initial preprocessing step is crucial for assuring reliable results within this process. Preprocessing of data is a time-consuming and non-trivial task since data quality issues should be…

The effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) and the conservation of marine environments must be based on reliable information on the quality of the marine environment that can be obtained in a reasonable timeframe. We reviewed studies that evaluated all…

Diagnosis is an important process in patient care. A suitable diagnosis helps a physician determine a precise treatment. Physicians also have a tendency to seek collaboration from other colleagues and expert systems for better confidence in their decision. The sources…

This thesis is focused on temporal information processing, which is a task framed in the field of natural language processing. The aim of this task is to obtain the temporal location and ordering of the events expressed in text or…

An exploratory analysis was carried out to describe patient satisfaction with ambulatory care. The analysis aimed at gaining an understanding of satisfaction with the care received from the patient's perspective; it was guided by the principles of qualitative analysis. Findings…

The reduction of harm of tobacco is a matter of great interest for the health departments of several countries and for the WHO, which, recognizing that we are very far from the time where the tobacco is fully eradicated, tend…

Entre el método clásico y simbólico de desambiguación de sentidos (WSD) que utiliza representaciones semánticas profundas de oraciones y textos, y el método estadístico que utiliza información relativa a la co-ocurrencia de palabras, existe una tendencia reciente a usar métodos…

In order to determine the characteristics of papers published in the rheumatological literature, we have conducted a survey of the seven leading rheumatological journals published in 1987; 1107 original papers have been reviewed and classified according to study design, statistical…

Little is known about the spatial ecology and ranging behaviour of vultures in Europe. In this paper we used GPS satellite telemetry to assess home-ranges of eight non-breeding Eurasian Griffon Vultures in Spain, trying to answer the main questions on…