by Roberta E. Bivins., Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1997., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-237).

EAIE 2012, Dublin, Ireland, september 11-14

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El inicio de relaciones diplomáticas de Venezuela con el
continente africano se remonta a mediados del siglo XX. Sin embargo,
dicha temática no ha sido objeto de interés por parte de la historiografía
venezolana dedicada a esta área del conocimiento…

This case study discusses ethical obligations regarding the extent and scope of knowledge dissemination and restitution strategies in the context of global health research., Cette étude de cas porte sur les obligations éthiques concernant l’étendue et la portée des stratégies…

Introduction: Towards a knowledge-based society, Case study: Mobilizing OER to educational practice, Sharing: Publication of academic content through OER, Selection: Documentation and evaluation of academic content, Dissemination: Communication and reference of academic content, Mobilization: Transference of academic content, Lessons learned…

In this thesis, we investigated a sequential decision making problem. We tested
different policies for online portfolio optimization: for a given number of assets and
a time horizon, the weights on assets are rebalanced at every time step according to

The purpose of this thesis was to simultaneously test a new theoretical model,
vicarious hypocrisy, which has been shown to produce changes in people’s
sunblock usage attitudes and behavior, and to apply this model to another
important health domain, dental…

This research explores the metabolic role of the gut microbiota in the global
obesity crisis and rising threat of global warming. Enteric microbiota in the rumen emit
methane as a by-product of metabolite degradation. Experiments – primarily on mice –