The spatial variation in the composition of the tree flora of some Atlantic forest areas distributed in the East Atlantic basins, Southeastern and Southern Brazil, extended to Paraguay and Argentina, was investigated under four main aspects: (1) to evaluate the…

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…

A la fecha, no existe un trabajo integrador y actualizado de la orquideoflora tabasqueña, lo anterior, a pesar de la existencia de diversos estudios florísticos donde se incluye a la familia y a la cantidad de material disponible en los…

AbstractThrough the course of our history, Indigenous cultural and spiritual knowledge remains, in many places as faint as the smoke rising from the embers of last nights fire; in other places, with enough flame to ignite another log. In spite…

"Knowing Children" describes the means by which telepathic devices present the mind of the child in novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Carson McCullers. An intellectual interest in the child and childhood flourished not only during the…

This qualitative inquiry is a close reading of the representations of public schools and schooling in HBO's television drama The Wire. I pay particular attention to the experiences of school administrators, educators, and students. The Wire draws from the ethnographic…

Background: Despite its low incidence, ovarian cancer is associated with very poor prognosis and this is common knowledge in the general population. There is limited knowledge about the levels of anxiety and depression in women who undergo diagnostic testing for…

The aim of this thesis was to better understand the impact of different evaluative tasks on student learning by considering the role that learners’ beliefs about knowledge and knowing might have in this relationship. This study explored whether students’ task…