Este artículo presenta un estudio comparado de varios métodos de predicción de pausas, usando el mismo corpus etiquetado. Algunos métodos propuestos
por otras publicaciones sobre el tema son probados, combinando algunas técnicas
previas para aprovechar sus principales ventajas. Un nuevo…

A Matlab-based seismic risk tool has been developed and named RISKICG. This tool is
still in development, but it can provide damage results and economic losses for the
general building stock of a city or country and also for the…

The general objective of this thesis is the development of an adaptive technique for extracting knowledge in large databases. Nowadays, technology allows storing huge volumes of information. For this reason, the availability of techniques that allow, as a first stage,…

The fact that nutrition affects education outcomes is accepted by researchers and by policy makers. It is simple. Children cannot learn if they are hungry. The validity of the empirical approaches used to show a causal relationship from nutrition to…

Purpose: To determine the scientific evidence about the prevalence of accommodative and nonstrabismic binocular anomalies. Methods: We carried out a systematic review of studies published between 1986 and 2009, analysing the MEDLINE, CINAHL, FRANCIS and PsycINFO databases. We considered admitting…

Software tools processing partially common set of data should share an understanding of what these data mean. Since ontologies have been used to express formally a shared understanding of information, we argue that they can be used to improve integration…

This study will concentrate specifically on the use of the portfolio as an element of evaluation in the core subject English Language IV in the degree English Studies at the University of Alicante as an answer to the changes that…

En este trabajo se comentan algunos aspectos geométricos y
topológicos relacionados a los Politopos n-Dimensionales y tres
metodologías para su visualización: a través de sus
unravelings, a través de sus intersecciones con el espacio 3D y a
través de…

It is commonly said that a pattern has four essential parts: a statement of the context where the pattern is useful, the problem that the pattern addresses, the forces that play in forming a solution, and the solution that resolves…

The term “Federated Databases” refers to the data integration of distributed, autonomous and heterogeneous databases. However, a federation can also include information systems, not only databases. When integrating data, several issues must be addressed. Here, we focus on the problem…