This study assessed the understanding of information about oral chemotherapy treatment, among patients attending the hematology outpatients' ward of a University hospital. A questionnaire with patient data and details of the treatment was applied to 147 outpatients. The analysis of…

The application of the multilingual knowledge encoded in Wikipedia to an open–domain Cross–Lingual Question Answering system
based on the Inter Lingual Index (ILI) module of EuroWordNet is proposed and evaluated. This strategy overcomes the problems due to
ILI’s low coverage…

In this paper an adaptive fuzzy decentralized
control algorithm for trajectory tracking of robot manipulators is developed. The proposed decentralized control algorithm allows the overall closed-loop system to be stabilized while making the tracking error to be uniformly ultimately bounded…

Depuis plusieurs années, on assiste à la création de programmes en prévention du suicide à l’adolescence. L’un de ces programmes repose sur le principe des pairs aidants. Il consiste à former des jeunes dont le rôle est d’apporter du soutien…

La enseñanza de la ciencia supone promover en los alumnos una actitud científica. El objetivo del trabajo es presentar una experiencia de enseñanza de la Estadística aplicada en Antropología. La meta de la misma es lograr cambios actitudinales, mediante una…

Baccharis uncinella DC. belongs to the Asteraceae family and is included in the Spicata group. Its synonym is Baccharis
discolor Baker and it is popularly known as vassoura and vassoura-lageana in Portuguese. The phytochemical
screening has shown the presence of…

Increasing attention to higher education policies in the knowledge-based society makes important to understand the relationship between socio-economic family characteristics and educational choices. This paper considers the decision to go to college in Argentina as a family's economic decision. The…

We study the Jupiter family comet (JFC) population assumed to come from the Scattered Disk and transferred to the Jupiter’s zone through gravitational interactions with the Jovian planets. We shall define as JFCs those with orbital periods P<20yr and Tisserand…

Advances in Corporate Householding are needed to address certain categories of data quality problems caused by data misinterpretation. In this paper, we first summarize some of these data quality problems and our more recent results from studying corporate householding applications…

Justificación: Hasta no hace demasiados años,
la naturaleza y la biología eran de los pocos fenómenos
que proporcionaban seguridad debido a su
estabilidad. En la actualidad estos procesos están
cambiando rápidamente y el imaginario social se
debe adaptar. Objetivo. El…