One of the methodologies utilized for process design consists of the application of optimization techniques to identify the best design inside a set of alternatives. In spite of the efforts and advances, this approach is not broadly utilized in the…

In this study we present a pilot-investigation of high-school and university students' abilities to solve partially specified physics problem and ways which they handle the task. Students are asked to answer the question whether the given problem situation is physically…

Awareness of user preferences and analysis of the current situation makes capable to provide user with invasive services in various applications of smart environments. In smart meeting rooms context-aware systems analyze user behavior based on multimodal sensor data and provide…

We propose a model to generate music following a linguistic approach. Musical melodies form the training corpus where each of them is considered a phrase of a language. Implementing an unsupervised technique we infer a grammar of this language. We…

In this paper, we show an approach to cross-lingual textual entailment (CLTE) by using machine translation systems such as Bing Translator and Google Translate. We experiment with a wide variety of data sets to the task of textual Entailment (TE)…

Neutron spectra unfolding and dose equivalent calculation are complicated tasks in radiation protection, are highly dependent of the neutron energy, and a precise knowledge on neutron spectrometry is essential for all dosimetry-related studies as well as many nuclear physics experiments.…

When people think spatially, they do not usually consider geographic coordinates nor projections. Facing questions having a spatial sense, people do not answer with maps or coordinates, but use some references whose spatial location is "well known". For instance, the…

This paper examines the changing role of government and foreign firms in Malaysia's industrialization process. Economists have held different views on the role of government in industrialization. Some believed that the developing world was full of market failures and the…

The knowledge of the flow kinematics of polymer melts is relevant for their processing; as well as for the de sig n of molds and dies. However, the analysis of the flow behavior of polymer melts during extrusion has been…

During the first half of the 18th century, Father Buenaventura Suárez performed a series of astronomical observations in the Jesuit Reductions of Paraguay. His observations were published in prestigious European journals such as the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society…