AbstractDue to aspect-oriented mechanisms explosion, their concepts arrive to distributed systems tackling concepts as security, persistence, or synchronization, especially in middleware approaches. Regarding distributed databases, the research has been focused mainly on object-oriented databases. Based on the great impact of…

AbstractThis study performs a comprehensive analysis of the effect of different environmental, demographic and vehicle variables on the severity of two-vehicle crashes. The limitations associated with previous studies have been addressed by using a large crash database, properly defining the…

AbstractSince the emergence of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the 1980s, there has been a structural change in the way countries now finance and provide public infrastructure. Although national governments apparently encourage PPPs, and many have succeeded, some others have failed.…

En este trabajo hemos estudiado algunas paráfrasis contenidas en un recurso lingüístico llamado badele.3000, una base de datos que agrupa los 3.600 sustantivos más frecuentes del español, así como más de 2.800 verbos de uso habitual. Su combinación restringida da…

Este trabajo describe un modelo numérico implementado en el método de los elementos finitos (Hughes, 2000), el cual permite simular el comportamiento elástico del concreto reforzado con fibras cortas de dirección aleatoria. En estructuras hechas de dicho material cada punto…

This paper outlines the development of a power quality monitoring system. The system is aimed at assessing power quality and detecting critical areas throughout at distribution system. Such system integrates a hardware system and a software processing tool developed in…

Many Turkish EFL learners struggle with giving complaints and criticisms in the EFL classroom. Language instructors must find way to provide students with the linguistic and pragmatic elements of EFL to be able to appropriately complain as EFL users. The…

Participaron en el estudio dieciseis sujetos de ocho a diez años de edad, con el objeto de analizar experimentalmente la generalización de respuesta en operaciones de división, con base en el entrenamiento (instrucción sobre un ejemplo más retroalimentación) de tareas…