La investigación en enfermería ha sido, tradicionalmente, dominada por el uso de métodos cuantitativos; a pesar de esto, los cualitativos han tenido gran aceptación entre los profesionales, pues entre las áreas básicas de la salud, enfermería es el grupo más…

L’article presenta l’evolució històrica en l’estudi del fenomen ENSO. Aquest event,
que en principi només semblava produir repercusions destacables a la regió litoral de
Perú i Equador, ha passat a ser considerat como un dels paràmetres més sòlids per
realitzar…

El rendimiento académico estudiantil ha sido definido como el cumplimiento de las metas, logros u objetivos establecidos en el programa o asignatura que está cursando el alumno.
Se puede analizar el rendimiento académico como una medida de las capacidades del…

The aim of this work is to relate two apparently independent concepts as belief revision and relevance. We propose a formal characterization for the notion of (ir)relevance by means of a set of postulates. Then we define (ir)relevance using change…

One of the more recent and alluring phrases used by development and resource management practitioners and theorists is "traditional ecological knowledge." Although there is a substantial amount of the literature on this subject, these studies have unfortunately an inadequate characterization…

While theory formation and the relation between theory and data has been investigated in many studies of scientific reasoning, researchers have focused less attention on reasoning about experimental design, even though the experimental design process makes up a large part…

Ce mémoire propose une analyse critique du discours de l’enregistrement sonore à domicile (home recording). Dans la foulée des propos mettant de l’avant l’ «accessibilité» et la «démocratisation» de l’enregistrement sonore, ce mémoire analyse les relations de savoir/pouvoir produites et…

The purpose of this study is to investigate a series of issues around the primary theme of value constructions and the ways that these influence the construction of interior spaces and impact on its occupants. The ways in which knowledge…

A fuzzy controller is usually designed by formulating the knowledge of a human expert into a set of linguistic variables and fuzzy rules. As it is well known, the use of prior knowledge can dramatically improve the performance and quality…

We present a new algorithm to process captured images of reflected Placido rings. Up to our knowledge, conventional topographers transform from Cartesian to polar coordinates and vice-versa, thus extrapolating corneal data and introducing noise and image artefacts. Moreover, captured data…