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…

The extension to new languages is a well known bottleneck for rule-based systems. Considerable human effort, which typically consists in re-writing from scratch huge amounts of rules, is in fact required to transfer the knowledge available to the system from…

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:…

Este artículo presenta un sistema de Búsqueda de Respuestas basado en
ontologías, implicación textual y requerimientos de usuario. Se propone una metodología para la construcción de una base de conocimiento de usuario que nos permite
asociar preguntas en lenguaje natural…

The Network of MaB National Committees and Biosphere Reserves of Iberoamerica and the Caribbean -IberoMAB, conducted the “Conferencia de Reservas de Biosfera de Iberoamérica” which took place in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico in November 2010. This event brought together…

El estudio de la transferencia ha ocupado y sigue ocupando un lugar
relevante en la agenda de los investigadores sobre la adquisición de
segundas lenguas (L2), lo cual viene a ser una constatación del omnipresente
e importante papel que juega…

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…

El propósito de este artículo es ofrecer una primera aproximación crítica a
la contribución de Hayden White a la teoría del conocimiento histórico. En la
primera parte, se presentan aquellos elementos de esa contribución que se consideran más genuinos y…

The honey stemming from forest formings is very popular in the region for its food and therapeutic qualities towards its composition. The beekeepers of the Mountains of Béni-Chougrane (mountainous zone with agro-forest vocation in the wilaya of Mascara) Have to…