OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence and geographic variations of the symptoms associated with asthma in Galician children and adolescents. POPULATION AND METHODS A cross-sectional epidemiological study following ISAAC (International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood) methodology, and using a written questionnaire distributed in schools. The study sample included 10,371 6-7 year-ol...

This paper describes an educational methodology that we have implemented at the Universidad de Vigo which is based on a real competitive environment. It involves developing a communication subsystem, specified by a standard. Intercommunication between subsystems must take place successfully according to that standard. However, students are free to incorporate new features, enhance others, or op...

Galician Agency for Health Technology Assessment, Department of Health, Spain, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública—CIBERESP, Spain, Department of Nephrology, Ourense Hospital Complex, Spain, Department of Nephrology, Santiago de Compostela University Hospital Complex, Spain and Department of Nep...

This work presents the main features of the project "Acquisition of basic resources in Galician computational linguistics for language engineering" (Xunta de Galicia, 2001-2003, ref. PGIDT01TICC06E) led by imaxin|software and the Computational Linguistics Group (SLI) of the University of Vigo.

David Cabrero Souto Dpto. Computación Universidad de A Coruña Campus de Elviña s/n 15071 A Coruña, Spain [email protected] Jesús Vilares Ferro Area de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial Universidad de Vigo Edificio Politécnico 32004 Ourense, Spain [email protected] Manuel Vilares Ferro Dpto. Computación Universidad de A Coruña Campus de Elviña s/n 15071 A Coruña, Spain vilares@ud...

The paper deals with multi-dimensional cutting and packing and metaheuristic algorithms. A brief overview of this area is presented, and the general Tabu Search framework of Lodi, Martello and Vigo [LMV99a] is considered in detail. Computational results on multi-dimensional bin packing problems are reported, and possible methods for extending the framework to other packing problems are finally ...

Este artículo pretende elaborar una primera aproximación a un mapa de la investigación sobre desinformación en España. Para ello, después revisión literatura materia los últimos años se ha realizado consulta base datos Agencia Estatal Investigación, el apartado ayudas concedidas, utilizando como palabras claves búsqueda “desinformación”, “verificación”, “fake news”, “factchecking”, “fact checki...

1. Requirements and the In-VIGO approach to grid-computing According to the definition of a science gateway as a " community-specific set of tools, applications, and data collections that are integrated together via a portal or a suite of applications, providing access to Grid-integrated resources " , there are several requirements to be met by its supporting Grid infrastructure [1]. A non-exha...