This paper evaluates the different tasks carried out in the translation of pronominal anaphora in a machine translation (MT) system. The MT interlingua approach named AGIR (Anaphora Generation with an Interlingua Representation) improves upon other proposals presented to date because…

The paper analyzes how the traditional variables that define a firm’s organizational structure (formalization, complexity, and centralization) influence knowledge performance (the degree to which a firm generates knowledge and uses it to reach a competitive advantage). Three hypotheses are tested…

This paper investigates the potential for a carbon tax to induce R&D, and for the consequent induced technical change (ITC) to lower the macroeconomic cost of abating carbon emissions. ITC is modelled within a general equilibrium simulation of the U.S.…

The goal of the study was to explore post-secondary students’ purposes for blogging with particular attention to the social and instructional purposes. The sample of blogs came from an all-women’s college in the United Arab Emirates. Content analysis was conducted…

For 20 years, and more intensively during the last decade, indigenous knowledge has challenged the regime of intellectual property. If this field of law has been, in the past, challenged by new technology, it is now, with the problematic of…

Siemens and Downes initially received increasing attention in the blogosphere in 2005 when they discussed their ideas concerning distributed knowledge. An extended discourse has ensued in and around the status of ‘connectivism’ as a learning theory for the digital age.…

Trata-se de um estudo exploratório-escritivo que teve por objetivo compreender a relação do trabalho com a presença do estresse ocupacional, em enfermeiros docentes do ensino superior de uma universidade pública. Os resultados mostraram que há um alto índice de sstresss…

Foi realizado levantamento entre mães residentes em Maringá, Brasil, para averiguar o conhecimento sobre fatores de risco para retardo mental e prevenção desta condição. Aplicou-se entrevista estruturada a 100 mães escolhidas por sorteio a partir do cadastro de nascimentos ocorridos…

O estudo tem como objetivo analisar as categorias emergentes dos discursos de trabalhadores da terra, jovens, adultos e idosos, participantes da turma de alfabetização do Núcleo de Educação Popular (NEP) da Universidade do Estado do Pará (UEPA), no município de…

En este artículo se sostiene que existe una primacía de la práctica y la acción sobre el conocimiento intelectual y la contemplación. Si esta tesis fuese falsa, no resulta comprensible por qué la prudencia y el hombre prudente son la…