Issues related to maternal mortality have generated a lot of empirical and theoretical information. However, despite the amount of work published on the topic, maternal mortality continues to occur at high rates and solutions to the problem are still not…

Los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio, y dentro de éstos las Metas del Milenio, constituyen un plan operativo para la consecución de logros básicos dirigidos al alcance de la salud, la erradicación de la pobreza y el cumplimiento de los…

Scientific knowledge and skills acquired by students during pre-university education has diminished since legislative changes were introduced in Spain during the 1990's. As a result, education in the field of science is suffering. Some initiatives are currently underway in Great…

Este artículo analiza la participación de Inglaterra en la Guerra de Sucesión
Española a través de la obra de Francisco de Castellví, escritor catalán partidario del
archiduque Carlos. A través de ella tenemos conocimiento de las motivaciones que
llevaron a…

Póster presentado en 11th Mediterranean Congress in Chemical Engineering "Chemical Engineering in the Frontiers of Knowledge", Barcelona, 21-24 October 2008., This study was financial supported by the “Generalitat Valenciana GV07/129 ” of the Spanish Government.

Desde un punto de vista de la construcción del conocimiento científico se parte
del planteamiento ya revisado por otros autores sobre cómo las empresas farmacéuticas mercantilizan sus productos hasta el punto de estar en el límite de
la «generación» o…

Although there is a general understanding of Montagu’s harrier migration routes and wintering areas, detailed information on the species’ migration is still lacking. However, improvements in satellite tracking technology in recent years have enabled the study of medium-sized species by…

Web engineering methods provide a systematic approach to develop complex and high quality Web applications. Many of these methods provide, in some way, personalization support. However, none of the existing Web methodologies provide a tool which allow the modeling, automatic…

Las nuevas tecnologías ya no son un tema novedoso para la comunidad científica. La trascendencia del fenómeno ha generado una importante labor investigadora, centrada, fundamentalmente, en el estudio cuantitativo de su utilización. Sin embargo, y a pesar de los estudios…

This paper describes the development of an image retrieval
system that combines probabilistic and ontological information1. The
process is divided in two different stages: indexing and retrieval. Three
information flows have been created with different kind of information
each one:…