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Architects and engineers: What makes the difference?
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 1997-12)
The historic dispute between architects and engineers, particularly civil engineers, is nonsense. Both professions are prestigious and dedicate themselves to covering separate and distinct aspects of the design of buildings ...
Experiencia con el proceso de mejoramiento de la calidad en una empresa manufacturera
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 1997-06)
The successful implementation of a continuous quality improvement process in a manufacturing enterprise requires that certain
vital conditions are present. It is also essential that those conditions be fully developed ...
Group technology and cellular manufacturing systems: an introduction
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 1997-12)
Global market competition is changing the nature of the present and future marketplace to a highly dynamic environment. Product variety is high and individual product demands are low. Also, customer's demand
for faster ...
Nonoccupational noise exposures and their hazards: a literature review
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 1998-06)
Noise pollution has been extensively studied during the last 30 years. Although most of the government regulations protect the vast majority of the workforce in the in the United States, they fail to consider the workers' ...
Design and implementation of a virtual keyboard to aid handicapped people to use computers
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 1997-12)
This article describes our Capstone Design Project. The project requirements were to design and implement an interface software, to create a virtual keyboard on screen, optimized for typing Spanish language, controlled by ...
Dynamic analysis of rigid pavements and bridges under moving vibrating trucks
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 1997-12)
The computer program UPR-PAVI2 was developed to perform the dynamic analysis of a pavement slab or a bridge superstructure loaded with moving vibrating trucks. UPR-PAVI2 can model the soil, slab and truck, considering their ...
Low-volume speech
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 1998-06)
This project is the outcome of the necessity of a female patient of Parkinson's disorder and hearing disability of having someone to tell her to speak louder when her voice level could not be heard. The idea was to build ...
Strain gauge and micrometer instrumentation of a truss structure
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 1997-12)
This project was performed as part of the Structural Analysis courses in order to compare theoretical results of the response of simple structures with the experimental results obtained at the Structures Engineering ...
Sistemas de Información Geográfica y Técnicas de Interpolación Espacial para la Modelación de Valores Residenciales
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2006)
El presente escrito muestra los resultados de una metodología que, utilizando técnicas de interpolación espacial, procedió a modelar los valores de ventas residenciales en la periferia de la alienación del Tren Urbano para ...
Retroceso de glaciares tropicales en los Andes Centrales de Colombia mediante imágenes LANDSAT
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2006)
Los glaciares tropicales exhiben cambios significativos en respuesta a las variaciones de las condiciones climáticas, observándose una pérdida constante y progresiva en los últimos 100 años. La estimación de la superficie ...