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This book of proceedings gathers the contributions presented at the 4th URV Doctoral Workshop in Computer Science and Mathematics. After the successful previous editions in 2014, 2015 and 2016 the fourth edition was held...

Chaos in Transit Systems is a work in progress inspired by the everyday experiences people face when driving through the city. Why is it that traveling times between the same locations can vary so much for different driv...

This thesis, entitled €High Performance Computing for solving large sparse systems. Optical Diffraction Tomography as a case of study€ investigates the computational issues related to the resolution of linear systems o...

Water availability is one of the main limiting factors that control ecosystem functions and productivity in semiarid regions. Vegetation of these regions usually presents a patchy distribution where sparse plant cover is...

The current knowledge of the stratigraphy of Niger benefited greatly from the mining, hydrocarbon, hydrogeological, and paleontological sciences. Exploration by early explorers and studies of the aquifers initially spark...

This excellent history of Peru proposes and proves an entirely new thesis on its nineteenth century: the changes in its economy that might have led to a better future were undone by taxes and other demands at the nationa...

In arid and semiarid areas, the interplant spaces are usually covered by physical and biological soil crusts. These crusts, though representing an almost negligible portion of the soil profile, have a number of crucial r...

This book condenses some of the critical features of the discussion about the interpretative problems of quantum mechanics, pointing out some possible ways out of the conundrum. In order to set the road for these matters...

Bioenergy has emerged as a potentially sustainable alternative to the use of fossil fuels for transport and industrial uses. Developing nations, such as Colombia, can seize the advantages of modernizing rural areas by us...

Regionalismo ensamblado plantea una nueva conceptualización del regionalismo cultural latinoamericano como una forma de ecología política. El libro propone la idea de región y regionalismo como un ensamblaje entre es...

One of the purposes of this thesis is to study the gravitomagnetic effects. These effects are derived by the analogy between Coulomb’s law and Newton’s gravitation law. There is a relationship between Maxwell’s equ...

The current knowledge of the stratigraphy of Niger benefited greatly from the mining, hydrocarbon, hydrogeological, and paleontological sciences. Exploration by early explorers and studies of the aquifers initially spark...

The present PhD thesis addresses Rural Tourism, in particular Madeira Island’s Country Homes, focusing on the relation between this tourist segment and Madeira’s regional heritage. Generally, this investigation is a ...

The aim of this paper is to examine, through a discussion of the main theoretical approaches to globalisation, the various aspects of the present multidimensional crisis (economic, political, social, cultural and ecologi...

Critical Discourse Analysis is a kind of analysis which seeks to discover the relationship among power, ideology and discourse. Recently, the growing Sino-Japanese dispute over the Diaoyu Islands, causing widespread conc...

The thesis analyzes the legal nature of the abusive clauses, particulary in the insurance contract, to proposse the relative nullity as the adequate consequence to the abusive clause.

There are questions that are so important that it is a pity to spoil them with answers. No doubt, the question of God is one of them. Contrary to many presuppositions, theology is not capable of providing us with the fin...

Intellectualism is the philosophical view that thinking involves the activity of reason-giving. In this paper I argue that the intellectualist point of view is incompatible with any form of empiricism. First, I show that...

El presente trabajo sitúa las tesis aristotélicas sobre la diferencia sexual y las relaciones entre varones y mujeres en la fase regresiva-analítica del método progresivo-regresivo de El segundo sexo de Simone de Bea...

En “Naturalismo sin representacionalismo”, Huw Price propone una variedad de naturalismo –una que él denomina naturalismo del sujeto– que supuestamente puede evitar los problemas de la localización relacionados...

The Czech Republic is often said to be one of the most secular countries in Europe, or even in the world. For this, in accord with the secularization thesis, the modernization is often mentioned, where it was supposed th...

El trabajo presenta las elaboraciones de carácter teórico y analítico que se aportaron en las investigaciones sobre educación y derechos humanos (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes 2003-2013), en especial para las convo...

Argentina es el octavo productor mundial de cítricos y primer productor de limón (Citrus limon), por lo que la industria citrícola es una de las más importantes para la economía del país. La producción y comercial...