1984: ¿Se cumplen las predicciones de Orwell?

Intellectual freedom versus economic centralization 1984 and George Orwell ’ s

TO THE END of his life, George Orwell remained a socialist. In “Why I Write” (1946), we find his programmatic statement: “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.”* Orwell had fiercely attacked the attitude of capitalist society towards the poor in Down and Our in...

Evaluación de la calidad de las imágenes de rostros utilizadas para la identificación de las personas

Automatic evaluation of face image quality is an important topic in the development of face recognition systems. This paper describes a framework for assessing the conformity of face images with the parameter set in the standard ISO/IEC 19794-5 that determines if given images possess an identification value and can be used in personal identification documents. New algorithms for image analysis ...

Genetica De Las Epilepsias

Genetics of epilepsy. In the last few years, the presence of specific genetic abnormalities leading to some of the classical epileptic syndromes has been clearly elucidated. This means that for the first time, it has become possible to create a strong relationship between the presence of specific genomic and/or proteomic abnormalities and epileptic syndromes previously considered to be “idiopat...

De Las Lecciones Correspondientes

Las Metodologías de Desarrollo y la Mejora de Calidad de las Aplicaciones en Web

Esta e ja a 4a vez Que a ComissSo Sectorial para a Qualidade nas Tecnologias de InformaAo e ComunicaJes (CSO3), constitulda no mbito do Conselho Nacional para a Qualidade (CNQ), organiza este evento. As anteriores edi96es realizaram-se em Lisboa (1994 e 1995) e GuimarAes (1998). Pretendemos consolidar a iniciativa e reunir, uma vez mais, as comunidades academica e empresarial, fomentando a troc...