The main purpose of this article is to contribute to a better understanding of the organizational sources pertaining to continuous innovation. This work identifies a set of best practices, which once integrated, create the innovative activities that help organizations to…

11-16 July 2010 Melbourne, Australia ICAP 2010 will be the first International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) Congress to be held in the Southern Hemisphere and the Australian Psychological Society (APS) is delighted to be hosting this prestigious, global event.…

It is a fact that mood-state knowledge is of particular relevance for the understanding of consumer behavior. The belief that it may be affected by the content of marketing communication and the context in which these communications appear was the…

At the moment, the debate about what human resources practices include as High Involvement Work Practices would have to be considered still open. In this communication we try to make a revision of the theoretical framework. This allows us to…

The objective of the experiments described in this thesis is to perform a detailed spectroscopic study of the dynamics on the A and X state surfaces of 13C2H2 in order to further understand the acetylene - vinylidene isomerization process in…

Most neural network learning algorithms cannot use knowledge other than what is provided in the training data. Initialized using random weights, they cannot use prior knowledge such as knowledge stored in previously trained networks. This manuscript thesis addresses this problem.…

The proper interpretation of measurements from an optical fiber sensor requires a full understanding of its mechanical response to external action and the corresponding change in optical output. To quantify the mechanical behavior it is necessary to know the mechanical…

El presente trabajo aborda el conocimiento; relaciones, representaciones y valoraciones que alumnos y docentes realizan en el contexto de la cotidianeidad escolar, integrando el proyecto de investigación "Adolescencia y Escuela" que se viene implementando desde 1995, en la cátedra Fundamentos…

Esta tesis presenta un método para resolver la ambigüedad léxica pura (semántica) en textos de dominios no registrados en cualquier lengua que tenga un repositorio de sentidos organizado como una base de conocimiento léxica. A este método de resolución de…

Cultural resources like traditional medicinal knowledge need to be recognized in their role tied to important regional practices in Zimbabwe. This is especially as a nexus of legal definitions for biological, intellectual and cultural resources will inform a National Sui…