Information location and interactivity are two attributes of desktop virtual environment (DVE) design that can be exploited to enhance the ability of learners to acquire information and skills that transfer to real world. The term "information location" refers to the…

A formulation to treat aleatory and epistemic uncertainties, in a separate way, on infrastructures is proposed and applied to a dam and a breakwater in Mexico. The purpose of that is to de termine 2nd order bounds on the reliability…

There are different approaches to the temporal study of time evolving systems. This paper reviews previous works related to time series and it evaluates three approaches focused to the comparison of these type of series. Two approaches are based on…

Funding R&D projects is perhaps the most important task faced by large public organizations, in charge of promoting science and technology in different countries. However, most popular ways to solve this decision problem are based on too simple decision models…

When a mineral surface is immersed in an aqueous solution, it develops an electric charge produced by the amphoteric dissociation of hydroxyl groups created by the hydration of the solid surface. This is one influential surface property. The complete hydration…

Two types of intraslab earthquakes in the subducted Cocos plate occur below Guerrero, Mexico, and adjacent areas: (A) steeply-dipping thrust earthquakes, and (B) normal-faulting earthquakes. Type A events are located ~10-35 km from the coast at a depth of ~35…

Background: Limited data are available on the impact and safety of fibrinolytic therapy (FT) in left - side prosthetic valve acute thrombosis (PVAT). Study objective: To improve our knowledge about the FT role in left -side PVAT. Design: Bibliographic search…