This paper empirically examines the role of social networks in welfare participation. Social theorists from across the political spectrum have argued that network effects have given rise to a culture of poverty. Empirical work, however, has found it difficult to…

Semantic, Syntax and Pragmatic represent in themselves three different
approaches to the same concern: semiotic structure.
The aim of this paper is to provide a general view of Landowskian Semiotics,
discussing the results achieved from different fields of knowledge to…

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A utilização da modelagem matemática pode contribuir para aumentar o conhecimento em sistemas de produção animal, possibilitando a identificação, compreensão e quantificação das interações e problemas nestes sistemas. Por este motivo, o objetivo deste trabalho foi desenvolver um modelo para…

Con el objetivo de ampliar los conocimientos en relación a los cambios recientes del nivel en la plataforma continental de Alicante se ha procedido al estudio de diferentes perfiles sísmicos de alta resolución. En el presente trabajo se ha identificado…

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El conocimiento de las relaciones entre la cultura ibera del sureste peninsular y el mundo púnico se ha construido a medida que se sucedían los modelos historiográficos. En las primeras décadas del s. XX, los estudiosos Francisco Figueras y José…

Belief Revision systems are logical frameworks to modeling the dynamics of knowledge. That is, how to modify our beliefs when we recieve new information. The main problem arises when the information is inconsistent with beliefs that represents our epistemic state.…

This thesis studies al-Ghazali's theory of knowledge, particularly his concept of knowledge of God in his three later works: "The book of Knowledge" of the Ih&dotbelow;ya', al-Munqidh, and Iljam al-`Awamm. From his conception of knowledge of God the first book…

The application of the multilingual knowledge encoded in Wikipedia to an open–domain Cross–Lingual Question Answering system
based on the Inter Lingual Index (ILI) module of EuroWordNet is proposed and evaluated. This strategy overcomes the problems due to
ILI’s low coverage…