To investigate the influence of input from fellow group members in a constrained decision-making context, we develop four 2-armed bandit tasks in which subjects freely select one of two options (A or B) and are informed of the resulting reward…

This dissertation concerns itself with the effects of education and wealth on health in Africa. The first two chapters focus on the impact of adult education levels on the HIV epidemic in four sub-Saharan countries. The last chapter turns to…

The limitations common to linear imaging techniques were formalized succinctly by Ernst Abbe in 1873. In his theory, each Fourier component of a signal propagates independently from the source to the detector, and the corresponding feature can be detected only…

The central goal of compressed sensing is to capture attributes of a signal using very few measurements. The initial publications by Donoho and by Candes and Tao have been followed by applications to image compression, data streaming, medical signal processing,…

El estudio del espacio geográfico puede orientarse a identificar recursos naturales y culturales
contenidos en un sector determinado. De este modo, al considerarlos, se obtiene un
conocimiento del área a fin de utilizar, de modo sustentable, dichos recursos. Una estrategia

Ce mémoire traite de la construction d’un espace social citoyen à partir de l’analyse du travail d’intervention de deux organismes locaux situés à Trou du Nord (Haïti). Il s’agit d’explorer les manières dont les membres se représentent et s’approprient leur…

As education plays such a vital role in economic competitiveness, it is no surprise that the focus for many governments is to invest in educational initiatives. Innovation in pedagogy, refined curriculum and much research into the science of teaching and learning…

Objective – The purpose of this paper is to articulate a theory for the use of action research as a tool of evidence based practice for information literacy instruction in school libraries. The emerging theory is intended to capture the…

Prehistoric rock paintings from Northern Mexico are becoming better known. Twenty sites for a single municipio in the state of Nuevo Leon have recently been described. Not all the paintings that are being found are a spectacular as the ones…

Prehistoric rock paintings from Northern Mexico are becoming better known. Twenty sites for a single municipio in the state of Nuevo Leon have recently been described. Not all the paintings that are being found are a spectacular as the ones…