La vivienda ante emergencias

Transmisión eficiente de flujos de video ante la convergencia digital

Technological development has promoted the demand for voice, data, and video services. This trend has produced the so called Triple Play (voice, data, and video network services). This article studies the efficient transmission of video in this type of networks. Specifically, the article presents the evaluation of the performance of video flows generated by a modified codec H.26/AVC. This modif...

TextMess 2.0: Las Tecnologías del Lenguaje Humano ante los nuevos retos de la comunicación digital

The overall aim of this project focuses on the study, development and experimentation with different techniques and systems based on Human Language Technologies (HLT) for developing the next generation of intelligent digital information processing systems (modelling, retrieval, processing, comprehension and detection), in order to meet the present challenges posed by digital media. In this new ...

Upping the Ante

Chagas disease prevention through improved housing using an ecosystem approach to health Prevención de la enfermedad de Chagas vía mejoramiento de la vivienda com un enfoque ecosistémico de la salud

This Chagas disease prevention project via housing improvement aims to determine the efficiencyof different interventions in vector control. The following study describes the target communities, disease magnitude, and housing improvements. Transmission levels are analysed from an ecological and socioeconomic perspective. Special interest was focused on the peridomicile as the origin of domicili...

Ante-partum Thrombo-embolism.

WHILST thrombo-embolism is a well recognised complication of the puerperium, ante-partum it is rare. No mention of its management is to be found in standard textbooks. Despite controversy concerning the value of anticoagulant treatment in arterial thrombotic disease, the efficacy of this therapy in venous thrombo-embolism is now well established. The apparent rarity of this condition in the ant...