Knowledge Management (KM) to date has been poorly recognized, explained, and applied in China, and lack of empirical evidence has become a major barrier to the development of KM research in the Chinese academic community. The purpose of this study…

This dissertation formulates and analyzes three original models dealing with aspects of optimal property rights protection, in varying contexts. Chaper 1 is a survey of the literature on the importance of property and property rights in economic thought beginning from…

The current study seeks to explore the washback effects of the CET (College English Test) on teacher beliefs, interpretations and practices, and in particular seeks to discover the way the 'teacher factor' is manifested in the washback phenomenon. It also…

The roots of the human desire for agelessness and the want to surpass the limitations of the human condition go deep into the reaches of history. The religious disposition for immortality is ancient. However, the concept of transcending human nature…

This study evaluated the outcome and process of a peer education program for sex workers, with social support proposed as an organizing framework. Program outcomes were assessed through a pre-post design without comparison group. Sex workers naïve to peer education…

Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes are one of the most powerful classes of error-control codes known to date. These codes have been considered for many recent digital communication applications. In this dissertation, we propose stochastic decoding of state-of-the-art LDPC codes and…

Following a classical conception of Artificial Intelligence (one that aims a definition of cognitive mechanisms and their implementation in computers), this thesis explores the problem of knowledge organization. In particular, it draws attention to the linguistic and semantic memory, trying…

El proyecto de tesis doctoral surge a partir de dos problemáticas: la notoria ausencia de una institución que tenga la encomienda de reglar la consistencia de la formación (inicial y contínua) de los profesores de bachillerato (incluye la inconsistencia y…

Ante las dificultades que presentan los estudiantes de 15 años a la hora de aplicar sus conocimientos y destrezas matemáticas básicas en situaciones de la vida real, hecho documentado en varios informes del proyecto OCDE/PISA, partimos de la interrogante acerca…

El derecho de acceso a los documentos públicos es radicalmente vital para la Democracia. Sin embargo, esta eminente facultad ciudadana es a menudo relegada como una mera secuela de las libertades de expresión, prensa e información. La conquista por la…