It is difficult to understand the importance of shame in modern societies because we live inside an ethos that is highly individualistic and focused on exterior matters. In the interior, thought and perception are recognized, but hardly a thought is given to emotions and relationships. This essay attempts an explanation of why shame should be considered the master emotion. The idea will be illu...

The diverse functional roles that proteases play in basic biological processes make them essential for virtually all organisms. Not surprisingly, proteolysis is also a critical process required for many aspects of pathogenesis. In particular, obligate intracellular parasites must precisely coordinate proteolytic events during their highly regulated life cycle inside multiple host cell environme...

Is it possible for a distributed filesystem to perform at the same speed as local disk filesystems, at least in important cases? This paper is trying to answer this question for traditional client-server distributed filesystems, not for distributed filesystems exploiting very fast networks and disk striping techniques. We claim the answer is ”yes”. Systems such as AFS, Sprite, Coda, Arla and DF...

This work presents the results of applying genetic algorithms, in selecting the more relevant features present in chromatograms of polyphenolic compounds, obtained from a high performance liquid chromatograph with aligned photodiodes detector (HPLCDAD), of samples of Chilean red wines Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenere and Merlot. From the 6376 points of the original chromatogram, the genetic algori...

We present a number of examples to illustrate the use of small quotient dessins as substitutes for their often much larger and more complicated Galois (minimal regular) covers. In doing so we employ several useful group-theoretic techniques, such as the Frobenius character formula for counting triples in a finite group, pointing out some common traps and misconceptions associated with them. Alt...

Active learning plays an important role for invigorating students in learning. Different active learning strategies have been discussed and implemented in many disciplines. In this paper, we propose using wrong examples as a tool on teaching computer engineering courses. Traditionally, an instructor only passes correct knowledge to students and students are busy with notetaking inside classroom...

We report on a combined approach to solve two known problems of traditional Explanation-Based Generalization (EBG) concerning utility and expressiveness. (1) Usually, for each training example a new rule is derived and added separately. Therefore, the overall performance of the associated inference system may degrade if the presented instances are numerous and not representative for the class o...