In this paper, a restricted domain question answering (QA) system is described. The design architecture of this QA system and the features that allow the adaptation of the QA system to the medical domain are also presented. The advantages of…

Main technologies, recommendations and generated knowledge. Embrapa Soybean and the comunity. Employees: commitment and development of skills. Important challenges: vision on the future., 2005, 1 folder.

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2008v7n1p69For naturalistic and non-intuitionistic moral realists, moral knowledge is more problematic than ordinary and scientific factual knowledge. For without special faculties of moral discernment, how could we ever detect moral facts and properties? Physical facts and properties may be accessible to perceptual…

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…

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2008v7n1p87In the first part of this essay, I shall sketch the debate about vampirism during the age of Enlightenment historically, while in the second part, I will interpret this debate philosophically. The historical reconstruction mainly relies on Gábor Klaniczay’s brilliant essay The…

A hipogalactia é apontada pela literatura como a causa mais freqüente de desmame precoce. Ela é causada por fatores como erro na técnica de amamentação, introdução precoce de mamadeiras ou outros alimentos na dieta do bebê, ansiedade e estresse maternos.…

El conocimiento sobre la condición de los reproductores (= calidad de gónadas) de la madreperla Pinctada mazatlanica y su impacto sobre el desarrollo embrionario y larvario, es esencial para proporcionar un conocimiento más amplio sobre la fisiología de la especie…

by C. Annique Un., Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, February 2001., "February 2000.", Includes bibliographical references (leaves 297-311).

by Antoine D. Guivarch., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2003., Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-152).

Multiagent systems and online communities rely on rating systems to infer the reputation given to an individual within a particular context. The notion of reputation is essential for helping a given individual to trust in other individuals and for being…