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Article
Zoning as a labor market regulation
An instrument of wealth accumulation and racial segregation in housing markets, the intersections between zoning and labor are often overlooked. Extending theories of space, race, and class, and drawing on his...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Blockchain in Agribusiness Supply Chain Management: A Traceability Perspective
The demand for agricultural products for export is increasing every year. Thus, there is a need for a traceable and more communicative agricultural supply chain among its stakeholders. In addition, the increas...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Usability in the Development of a Project Management Software Reinforced with Machine Learning
Software development stages can represent a challenge due to the increase of final user demands since it must comply with standards and metrics that assure the quality of the final product, especially when re...
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Article
Open AccessFirst report of Leishmania infantum infection in the endangered orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus) in Madrid, Spain
Some wild animals have been recognized as potential reservoirs of Leishmania infantum infection (e.g. carnivores, lagomorphs, rodents, etc.). Leishmania infantum was also identified infecting humans and lagomorph...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Project Portfolio Management in Small Context in Software Industry: A Systematic Literature Review
In recent years, the software industry in Latin America, mostly consisted of small companies, has shown a notable increase in its operations. However, the practices they use do not allow them to achieve sustai...
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Resistance to Targeted Therapies in Renal Cancer: The Importance of Changing the Mechanism of Action
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a complex disease characterized by mutations in several genes. Loss of function of the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumour suppressor gene is a very common finding in RCC and leads to up-...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Data Mining of Energy Consumption in Manufacturing Environment
Markets and consequently manufacturing companies are facing an unprecedented challenge. The constant markets demand of more and more customized and personalized products combined with the recent evolution of i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Level of Detail Event Generation
Level of detail is a method that involves optimizing the amount of detail that is simulated for some entity. We introduce an event generation method to optimize the level of detail of upcoming events in a simu...
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Article
The Wide Experience of the Sequential Therapy for Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
Sequential targeted therapies are the standard of care for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). Several drugs are available for patients whose disease progresses while they receive initial tyr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Aerial-Ground Robotic Team for Systematic Soil and Biota Sampling in Estuarine Mudflats
This paper presents an aerial-ground field robotic team, designed to collect and transport soil and biota samples in estuarine mudflats. The robotic system has been devised so that its sampling and storage cap...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The ProFlex Methodology: Agile Manufacturing in Practice
Today, manufacturing production systems are required to be responsive, re-configurable, adaptable, and flexible. The fulfilment of these requirements is directly related to the method used to design and develo...
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Growth pattern of the sea urchin, Loxechinus albus (Molina, 1782) in southern Chile: evaluation of growth models
The growth pattern of Loxechinus albus in southern Chile was studied using size-at-age data obtained by reading growth bands on the genital plates. The scatter plots of sizes-at-age for samples collected in three...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multiagents Applied to Humanitarian Demining
The complexity associated to Humanitarian Demining becomes very high due to its broad set of activities, which beyond the already complex of landmine removal, includes other socio-economic supporting activitie...
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Chapter
Husserl’s Concept of Pure Logical Grammar
Husserl raises the following problem: once the difference between dependent and independent meanings is reduced to the difference between dependent and independent objects, it is a question—for the dependent o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Meteo: A Telephone-Based Portuguese Conversation System in Weather Domain
Dialog systems using speech technology are in expansion all over the world being used for different domains. The main reason for this growing, apart from the motivation on speech and human-machine interaction ...
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Chapter
Response to a Food Safety Problem in Produce
Imports play an increasingly important role in produce consumption in the United States. In 1996, imports accounted for 38 percent of fresh fruit consumption and 14 percent of fresh vegetable consumption (Luci...
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Chapter
Corporalidad
Por “enfoque fenomenológico” entendemos nuestra interpretación y adaptación personales del método fenomenológico, tal como ha sido concebido y practicado por Husserl y los fenomenólogos posteriores.
