The main objective of green homes is to minimize the overall environmental impact by using as much as possible local materials and reducing the water and energy consumption, both during the construction and the lifetime ...

New readings of historic centres seek alternative methods and approaches to understand their natural, cultural and historical senses. These epistemological efforts want to overcome the positivist visions of the modern ...

Since the development of computer systems, it becomes necessary to differentiate the responses came from both a computer system as a person, so that one cannot replace the other in environments where only one person should ...

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) personifies the ideal humanist of the universal knowledge. He is also considered to be as one of the Renaissance geniuses and artists. His most known dimension is that of a painter, although ...

For the few reports in the literature, this case is done with clinical and epidemiological diagnostic of the hemorrhagic chickenpox which was treated with antiviral, immunoglobulins and antibiotics (for over infection), ...

The aim of this work was to analyze the effect of temperature and light intensity on trumpet flower seed germination, as well as the effect of seeding depth on its emergence. To study the influence of temperature, nine ...

To better handle landscape heterogeneities in distributed hydrological modeling, an earlier work proposed a discretization based on nested levels, which leads to fully unstructured modeling meshes. Upon such a discretization, ...

This paper proposes a test protocol to evaluate the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) produced by cell phones. First the resolution issued by ex CONATEL (National Telecommunications Council) for the approval of telecommunications ...

Faced with government pressure to transform themselves into research institutions, Ecuador’s universities confront a major challenge. Based on a review of the English language literature, this paper attempts to pull together ...