This thesis is focused on temporal information processing, which is a task framed in the field of natural language processing. The aim of this task is to obtain the temporal location and ordering of the events expressed in text or…

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by Robert J. Grochowski., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1988., Includes bibliographical references.

Este ensayo parte de la consideración, desde un enfoque reticular, de que la investigación es el eje
vinculante de los programas de postgrado. Para ello se partió de la siguiente interrogante ¿cómo vincular los
programas de postgrado a través de…

There is a great need among educators for a way to quickly assign teams in large or distance learning classrooms in a manner superior to random assignment or student self-selection. Forming teams based on knowledge of students' characteristics is too…

The Telematics Industry faces tremendous challenges for growth. Regardless of the efforts and investment from vehicle manufacturers and suppliers, telematics has not been that profitable industry that many analyst forecasted five years ago; a 40 billion industry by 2003. This…

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This study presents a theoretical model for predictions of near-shore hydrodynamic characteristics and the local sediment transport rate along long, straight beaches. The wave may be periodic or random, the beach may be plane or barred, and the bed may…

Early Americans defined themselves, and the nation, through their relations with the world. This dissertation explores a crucial aspect of these relations, examining how global commerce, and Americans' ideas about global commerce, produced theories and practices of power. It approaches…

En el cinturón neotropical existen dos grandes tipos de ecosistemas boscosos: los bosques húmedos o lluviosos (Guariguata y Kattan, 2002) y los secos tropicales (Bullock et al., 1995). De estos, los más estudiados son los bosques húmedos (Sánchez-Azofeita et al.,…