Open Source Software projects base their operation on collaborative structure for knowledge exchange in the form of provision or reception of information, expertise and feedback on the creation of source code. Here, we address the direction of these knowledge flows…

Desde inicios de esta década, se ha registrado en Centroamérica un crecimiento importante de la presencia de pandillas conocidas como “maras”. Estas pandillas surgieron en Estados Unidos en los años ochenta y luego se desarrollan en Centroamérica como consecuencia de…

Molts problemes de la vida quotidiana estan plens de decisions multi-classe. En l'àmbit del Reconeixement de Patrons, s'han proposat moltes tècniques d'aprenentatge que treballen sobre problemes de dos classes. No obstant, la extensió de classificadors binaris al cas multi-classe és…

Saltwater Chronicles investigates the notion of “islandness” in contemporary Newfoundland readership through two in-depth case studies of book clubs as representational spaces in the elaboration of local knowledge and identities. We demonstrate how select Newfoundland readers perform acts of regeneration…

Eighty years after the discovery of penicillin, the interest of this ß-lactam antibiotic at industrial level is still remarkable. Despite the good background knowledge, little is known on how Penicillin chrysogenum became a good penicillin overproducer, and much of the…

Background: Recently, proteins and peptides have become an added value to foodstuffs due to new knowledge
about its structural analyses as related to antioxidant and anticancer activity. Our goal was to evaluate if protein
fractions from cacao seeds show antitumor…

Resource management and performance models constitute important aspects for parallel applications' performance analysis and tuning. Defining performance models associated with the application structure has been proven useful for implementing dynamic tuning tools. However, for extending this strategy to complex pplications…

Understanding how materials deform and break is a subject of critical importance in industry. At the same time, it requires from the knowledge of the basic processes governing the phenomenon and hence, fundamental physics research is a must. The presence…

From the earliest hardware and software days to the internet era, complexity of computer systems has been something computer scientists, engineers, and programmers have had to deal with. Important fields of research and technology have originated, developed, or matured as…

Reseña de The Optic of the State. Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil de Jens Andermann (Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007).