La demencia se caracteriza por el deterioro de la memoria y otras habilidades cognitivas al grado de interferir con el funcionamiento social u ocupacional de una persona. Por ejemplo, los problemas de memoria de las personas con demencia pueden disminuir…

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.…

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In the multimodel improvement context, software organizations have the need to incorporate into its processes different practices of several software process improvement models (SPIMs) simultaneously (i.e. CMMI, PSP, ISO 15504 and others). Currently, a clear trend to the specialization of…

As organizações em rede compreendem um conjunto de organizações cujas atividades visam reduzir custos, facilitar a coordenação e aumentar a flexibilidade. Dentro desse ambiente, o espaço de criação de conhecimento ("ba") proporciona às pequenas e médias empresas um ambiente favorável…

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…

The Caribbean Basin has complex biogeographical and cultural histories that have shaped its highly diverse botanical and cultural landscapes. As a result, the current ethnic composition of the Basin is a heterogeneous mixture including Amerindian, Afrocaribbean and a wide range…

NAC proteins constitute one of the largest groups of plant-specific transcription factors and are known to play essential roles in various developmental processes. They are also important in plant responses to stresses such as drought, soil salinity, cold, and heat,…

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…