2014, Edição dos abstracts do 24º IUFRO World Congress, 2014, Salt Lake City. Sustaining forests, sustaining people: the role of research.

This paper is the survey of studies that include design processes of some fuzzy expert systems for applications in some medical area. Recent studies of us that include fuzzy expert systems that make use of fuzzy logic method were described.…

This interview collects the theoretical, critical and historiographical thinking of Ramón Gutiérrez, a key figure to understand and value Latin American architecture of the last decades. The text lays out his opinions on the contemporary problems which besiege Mexican and Argentinean…

Historical and rural landscapes have a high cultural value, a sum of each site’s natural environment and man-made modifications. Its value lies in the popular knowledge underlying the creation of such spaces. Harmonious landscapes result from the awareness of rural village…

There are three different uses of the term 'inoformation' in ordinary language: in the restricted sense, it means diverse types of material objects, such as data or documents ('information-as-thing'); alternatively, the term is used as in reference to the act…

Research on self-regulated learning (SRL) in hypermedia-learning environments is a growing area of interest. One major issue is the role of prior knowledge, which can influence how students interact with hypermedia-learning systems in terms of their use of SRL strategies.…

Background: Dance is a modality of choice in rehabilitation, because it combines the benefits of aerobic exercise with an enjoyable social activity. Despite the scientific evidence supporting the use of dance in rehabilitation, this treatment modality is rarely used in…

A large number of deaf/hard-of-hearing (hh) students never attain grade-appropriate reading comprehension levels. Studies, primarily with North American and European countries, have established that the median reading comprehension level achieved at graduation is grade 4. The present study sought to…

Reinforcement learning covers a broad category of control problems in which the learning agent interacts with the environment in order to learn to maximize the collected utility. Such exploratory interaction is often costly, encouraging sample-efficient algorithms to be used in…

Un mundo crecientemente los individuos tienen menor capacidad para tomar decisiones óptimas debido a la falta de conocimientos sobre conceptos básicos financieros. Esto conduce a equivocaciones en decisiones claves que se toman a lo largo de la vida. El analfabetismo…