The performance and strategies of adolescents in learning to read artificial words /

The present study explored processing strategies used by individuals when they begin to read c;l script. Stimuli were artificial words created from symbols and based on an alphabetic system. The words were.presented to Grade Nine and Ten students, with variations included in the difficulty of orthography and word familiarity, and then scores were recorded on the mean number of trials for defined learning variables. Qualitative findings revealed that subjects 1 earned parts of the visual a'nd auditory features of words prior to hooking up the visual stimulus to the word's name. Performance measures-which appear to affect the rate of learning were as follows: auditory short-term memory, auditory delayed short-term memory, visual delayed short- term memory, and word attack or decod~ng skills. Qualitative data emerging in verbal reports by the subjects revealed that strategies they pefceived to use were, graphic, phonetic decoding and word .reading.

Enabling and Measuring Complexity in Evolving Designs using Generative Representations for Artificial Architecture

As the complexity of evolutionary design problems grow, so too must the quality of solutions scale to that complexity. In this research, we develop a genetic programming system with individuals encoded as tree-based generative representations to address scalability. This system is capable of multi-objective evaluation using a ranked sum scoring strategy. We examine Hornby's features and measures of modularity, reuse and hierarchy in evolutionary design problems. Experiments are carried out, using the system to generate three-dimensional forms, and analyses of feature characteristics such as modularity, reuse and hierarchy were performed. This work expands on that of Hornby's, by examining a new and more difficult problem domain. The results from these experiments show that individuals encoded with those three features performed best overall. It is also seen, that the measures of complexity conform to the results of Hornby. Moving forward with only this best performing encoding, the system was applied to the generation of three-dimensional external building architecture. One objective considered was passive solar performance, in which the system was challenged with generating forms that optimize exposure to the Sun. The results from these and other experiments satisfied the requirements. The system was shown to scale well to the architectural problems studied.

Algunos determinantes psico-sociales que explican la actitud hacia la detección oportuna de cáncer cervico uterino : estudio de campo realizado en mujeres mayores de 15 años con vida sexual en la ciudadde Apodaca, N. L.

Tesis (Maestría en Enfermería con Especialidad en Salud Comunitaria) UANL

Características de las familias que proveen cuidado a ancianos dependientes e independientes para realizar actividades de vida diaria.

Tesis (Maestría en Enfermería con Especialidad en Salud Comunitaria) UANL

Autocuidado y calidad de vida de adultos mayores en areas urbano marginadas de Monterrey

Tesis (Maestría en Enfermería con Especialidad en Salud Comunitaria) UANL

Factores cognitivo-perceptuales en estilos de vida menores en circunstancias especialmente difíciles

Tesis (Maestría en Enfermería con Especialidad en Materno Infantil Pediatríca) UANL

Evaluación de metodologías para la inducción artificial de huitlacoche.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias en Producción Agrícola) UANL

Uso de la oxitocina para la inseminación artificial intrauterina através del cérvix en cabras.

Tesis (Maestría en Producción Animal) UANL

Conocimientos y percepciones de salud de adultos jovenes en relación con su estilo de vida

Tesis (Maestría en Enfermería con Especialidad en Salud Comunitaria) UANL

Estilo de vida saludable del anciano y estado de salud percibido.

Tesis (Maestría en Enfermería con Especialidad en Salud Comunitaria) UANL

Indicadores de la satisfacción de vida en el anciano.

Tesis (Maestría en Enfermería con Especialidad en Salud Comunitaria) UANL

La portentosa vida de la muerte emperatriz de los sepulcros, vengadora de los agravios del altisimo, y muy señora de la humana naturaleza de Fray Joaquín Bolaños (México, 1792) : edición crítica, introducción y notas

Tesis (Maestría en Letras Españolas) UANL

Lecturas complementarias para el bachillerato sobre problemas de la vida cotidiana en relación con la quimica orgánica.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias, con Especialidad en Química Orgánica) UANL

Apoyo social y estilo de vida del paciente diabetico tipo 2

Tesis (Maestria en Ciencias de Enfermeria con Especialidad en Salud Comunitaria) UANL

Estilo de vida en el paciente con hipertensión arterial

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias de Enfermería) UANL