This report shows how knowledge about the visual world can be built into a shape representation in the form of a descriptive vocabulary making explicit the important geometrical relationships comprising objects' shapes. Two computational tools are offered: (1) Shapestokens are…

La estimación de precios es un proceso crítico para la elaboración de presupuestos en compañías que tienen que competir para obtener pedidos ofreciendo precios competitivos. En concreto, las compañías de mecanizado de piezas, dicho proceso es complejo, pues se pueden…

Expert and novice soccer players (N=140) from five different competition levels (inexperienced, provincial, regional, national and international levels) were examined for differences in procedural knowledge. A video-based test was developed recording four matches of the under-16 Spanish football final play-off.…

The three essays in the present dissertation build on and expand the notion of generativity in the context of a learning (i.e., knowledge creating) organization, and learning (i.e., knowledge based) economy in sequential progression with increasing levels of analysis. Essay…

Academics believe in a symbiotic relationship between research and teaching, though evidence challenges its existence. Previous studies may have defined these constructs too narrowly to detect the perceived relationships. This study used a qualitative approach to investigate chemistry professors' beliefs…

Research, development and technological innovation (RD&I) companies promote inter- and intra-organizational interactions based on the formation of research nets. This arrangement prioritizes the use of competencies of both people and institutions, stimulating the generation of new knowledge and competencies, and…

The history of post-disaster reconstruction programs, especially in developing countries, is replete with the failure to provide safe-construction methods that can be sustained and repeated over time, in spite of the usually acclaimed success of these projects by those in…

Este artículo presenta el resultado del estudio de un amplio conjunto
de bases de conocimiento multilíngües actualmente disponibles que pueden ser de
interés para un gran número de tareas de procesamiento semántico a gran escala. El
estudio incluye una amplia…

La sociedad actual, cultural y tecnológicamente compleja, nos enfrenta a un importante replanteamiento de la educación en sus diferentes ámbitos y niveles, y en este sentido, la formación inicial del educandos, profesorado y comunidad es un elemento clave y estratégico…

Tomando la tercera de las cinco proposiciones sobre el arte en Nietzsche, según propone la interpretación de M. Heidegger, utilizamos el concepto ampliado de artista para caracterizar "el arte como acontecer fundamental de todo ente. El ente es, en la…