Despite implant-supported overdentures' advantages over conventional dentures, edentulous patients often refuse dental implants for reasons that may be related to fear. Objective. The purpose of this study was to uncover and explain the various forms and sources of dental implant-related…

Despite the widespread discussion of organisational learning, there is little scholarly contribution on promoting learning through the practical application of management tools. This is especially true in a complex internal supply chain context of an organisation. This paper seeks to…

ABSTRACT: Despite of all modem communications tools, difficulties of dialogue still exist between technicians and local community members when dealing with natural resources. This is related to many factors, from the predominantly technical formation of the teachers and researches to…

Este documento de trabajo analiza las percepciones, preferencias e intereses de los mexicanos con respecto a la política exterior de México en general y los procesos de integración en América del Norte y el continente americano en particular. Con base…

Designing systems with the ability to make optimal decisions under uncertainty is one of the goals of artificial intelligence. However, in many applications the design of optimal planners is complicated due to imprecise inputs and uncertain outputs resulting from stochastic…

The thesis includes two essays on asset pricing. In the first essay, "Asset Pricing in a Monetary Economy with Heterogeneous Beliefs", we shed new light on the role of monetary policy in asset pricing by focusing on the case where…

Bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis (BIPF) is a disease caused by the chemotherapeutic bleomycin in which normal lung tissue is replaced with fibrous tissue that is unable to fulfill the normal functions of oxygen exchange in the lung. The development of this…

Conventional Minimum-Variance (MV) channel estimation is affected by two sources of error, namely the finite number of samples used to estimate the covariance matrix and the asymptotic bias due to interference and additive noise. On the other hand, widely linear…

La evolución de las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones está suscitando profundos cambios sociales. Esta transformación plantea nuevos retos educativos derivados de la necesidad de preparar a los individuos para la Sociedad del Conocimiento. Paralelamente, las tendencias pedagógicas…

El objetivo de estudio es la integración socio-educativa de las familias inmigrantes en la escuela. A través de un estudio de caso, y de la aplicación de técnicas puramente cualitativas, se determina la red de relaciones y el nivel de…