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…

Esta investigación enfatiza la importancia del conocimiento matemático del profesorado para garantizar una educación matemática continua. Desde esta perspectiva de continuidad se explora el papel del docente de matemáticas en la transición de primaria a secundaria, un contexto especialmente adecuado…

This essay argues that intellectual historians have overlooked the significance of the return of Euclid’s geometric thought to early-modern Europe. Looking at the period between 1400 and 1800, this essay shows how geometric thought not only penetrated into fundamental areas…

Esta tesis presenta una particularización de la Gestión del Conocimiento Matemático al caso de la Topología Algebraica.
La Gestión del Conocimiento Matemático es una rama de las Ciencias de la Computación cuyo principal objetivo consiste en desarrollar asistentes para…

Nowadays large systems are viewed in terms of the services that they offer and the entities that interact to provide or consume these services. Open multi-agent systems, where agents can enter or leave the system, interact and dynamically form groups…