Academic engineering graphics curricula are facing a rapidly changing knowledge base and current teaching and assessment methods are struggling to keep pace.  This paper is the second in a two-part series which examines practicing engineering graphics professionals to discover their…

El proyecto KNOW pretende añadir significado, conocimiento y razonamiento a las tecnologías actuales de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural., The KNOW project aims to add meaning, knowledge and reasoning to current Natural Language Processing technologies., TIN2006-15049-C03.

According to Heritage Watch, a collaborative NGO based
in Cambodia which is active in archaeological salvage
work, village outreach and education, the looting of
archaeological sites in Cambodia has now reached “epic
proportions.” Although increased security and tourism
provide protection…

Defeasible Logic Programming (DeLP) is a suitable tool for knowledge representation and reasoning. Its operational semantics is based on a dialectical analysis where arguments for and against a literal interact in order to determine whether this literal is believed by…

La víbora de cascabel Crotalus ruber se distribuye en Baja California y parte de California. Es una especie sujeta a extracción ilegal y matanza indiscriminada, pero el problema mas preocupante es la presión ejercida por los desarrollos turísticos que propician…

In the past few years, improvements in the data acquisition technology have decreased the time interval of data gathering. Consequently, institutions have stored huge amounts of data such as climate time series and remote sensing images. Computational models to filter,…

The integral development of a conventional broadcasting radio and its emission through internet is an investigative initiative and a pedagogic development. This idea, together with the creation of educative and local contents, wins great relevance in the TIC and the…

Is the residential tourist model a type of development which is accepted by society? This question will be answered using the qualitative analysis of the discourses made by the main social actors involved in the dynamics of this process in…

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal, Pour respecter les droits d'auteur, la version électronique de cette thèse ou ce mémoire a été dépouillée, le cas échéant, de ses documents…

El parto se ha desarrollado tradicionalmente en el ámbito familiar, un medio en el que la parturienta ha vivido su experiencia, personal e intransferible, en compañía de sus familiares más cercanos, madre y amigas, siendo asistida por una profesional, otra…