La Biología es la ciencia de los organismos, ciencia que da una visión unificada de todos los seres vivos, especialmente de los humanos con los otros organismos animales. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar, a la luz de la…

This article presents a new measuring and on water coaching device for rowing called “Accrow” which measures the boat acceleration with an acceleration sensor (50 Hz) and boat velocity with GPS (4 Hz). The data were analysed with the special…

Foreign direct investment (FDI) ownership decision is one of the most researched topics in the international business literature. However, little is known about the extent to which this knowledge can be applied to emerging-economy multinationals. Building on the institutional, transaction…

This article documents the operation of multimodal and rhetorical strategies in cosmetic surgery leaflets, with a focus on the interplay between the verbal and visual channels. It describes how advertising discourse exploits the image of an idealized female body in…

El objetivo del trabajo es subrayar la peculiaridad cartesiana y lo revolucionario de su propuesta al proponer estudiar las pasiones humanas de manera científica; como el propio autor lo afirma en la obra sobre el tema, al declarar que su…

This dissertation investigates the relation between Mies van der Rohe and cinema. Its purpose is to elucidate, both historically and theoretically, the association between the architect Mies and the pioneers of abstract film Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling during the…

Protein domain prediction is a key step in characterizing protein structure, function, and evolution. However, the genome of Plasmodium falciparum, the causative agent of malignant malaria, remains poorly-annotated using standard approaches to domain prediction. We identified several general problems with…

O tema do trabalho é o processo de inovação que ocorre a partir de conhecimentos científicos produzidos na universidade. O objetivo central foi investigar a história de dois processos de inovação e desenvolver uma heurística parcial que sirva de referência…

All intelligence relies on search - for example, the search for an intelligent agent's next action. Search is only likely to succeed in resource-bounded agents if they have already been biased towards finding the right answer. In artificial agents, the…

This article analyzes the appropriateness of a text summarization system, COMPENDIUM, for generating abstracts of biomedical papers. Two approaches are suggested: an extractive (COMPENDIUM E), which only selects and extracts the most relevant sentences of the documents, and an abstractive-oriented…