This text offers discussion, challenges, and case studies that enable reflection upon the complexities of working with vulnerable people. It helps students and practitioners to be aware of their own values, knowledge and power, in order to manage the balance…

Knowledge of how groups of people interact is important in many disciplines, e.g. organizational behavior, social network analysis, knowledge management and ubiquitous computing. Existing studies of social network interactions have either been restricted to online communities, where unambiguous measurements about…

The Triple β-Spiral is a novel protein structure that plays a role in viral attachment and pathogenesis. At present, there are two Triple β-Spiral structures with solved crystallographic coordinates - one from Adenovirus and the other from Reovirus. There is…

In this thesis, the opportunities and challenges involved in applying natural language processing techniques to the control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are addressed. The problem of controlling an unmanned aircraft via natural language inputs is formulated as a feedback…

The quality of higher education has been a growing concern in the United States and United Kingdom. There have been no notable improvements in the education system until the last few years. Considerable transformation in the higher education arena has…

Direct wafer bonding has emerged as an important technology in the manufacture of silicon-on-insulator substrates (SOI), microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D IC's). While the process is currently employed in applications such as these, a lack of knowledge…

The contribution of this thesis is to provide a tractable framework for supply chains and revenue management problems subject to uncertainty that gives insight into the structure of the optimal policy and requires little knowledge of the underlying probability distributions.…

Este proyecto tratará acerca de una operación real dentro de una empresa de manufactura, cuyo producto principal es la pasta. La investigación está enfocada a la optimización de la línea de producción de Pasta Bühler 600 de la empresa Fideos…

Cette thèse a pour objectif d’analyser les représentations du temps historique dans le Tableau de Paris (1781-1788) et le Nouveau Paris (1798) de Louis Sébastien Mercier et de faire voir comment elles se transforment sous l’impact de la Révolution française,…

Este artículo constituye un intento por delinear un acercamiento al lenguaje, no desde una reflexión teórica acerca de su funcionamiento y de los procesos inherentes a él, sino desde la propia praxis vital del ser humano. Es un intento por…