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A Functional Size Measurement Procedure for MVC Applications from Source Code: Design, Automation and Empirical Evaluation
(2014-09)Software size has proved to be one of the main effort-and-cost drivers. It is widely accepted that software size is one of the key factors that has the potential to affect the effort and cost of the software projects. ... -
A geographical sampling strategy for field surveys in an urban area using high-resolution satellite imagery
(2006-11)Field evaluations for studying the epidemiology of vector-borne diseases like dengue in urban areas are often restricted to selection of households and buildings for field surveys. Therefore, the resulting sampling frame ... -
A Model Proposal for Augmented Reality Game Creation to Incentivize Physical Activity
(2017)Obesity and a sedentary lifestyle are relevant issues in today’s society. Even though different resources can be used to approach this problem, technology provides endless possibilities to fight against this problem. This ... -
A Prototype Mobile Expert System for Nutritional Diagnosis
(2013)This paper describes NUTRITION UCR, a prototype expert system for human nutritional diagnosis developed in Java on Android using a service-oriented architecture. The system runs on mobile devices and offers smart features ... -
A survey of software testing practices in Costa Rica
(2019-04-24)Software testing is an essential activity in software development projects for delivering high quality products. In a previous study, we reported the results of a survey of software engineering practices in the Costa Rican ... -
A tertiary study on model-based testing areas, tools and challenges: Preliminary results
(2018-04-24)Context: Model-based testing (MBT) is one of the most studied approaches by secondary studies in the area of software testing. A tertiary study that aggregates knowledge from secondary studies on MBT can be useful to both ... -
Actas del VIII Congreso Internacional Cátedra UNESCO para la Lectura y la Escritura: Lectura y escritura de las dinámicas discursivas en el mundo contemporáneo
(2018-09-21)Trabajos completos presentados en VIII Congreso Internacional Cátedra UNESCO para la Lectura y la Escritura: Lectura y escritura de las dinámicas discursivas en el mundo contemporáneo. Trabajos presentados en Costa Rica ... -
La actividad del "mundo interno" como variable inherente del envejecimiento activo
(2013)Introducción: La Gerontología, consciente de su impacto sobre los procesos de toma de decisión en la agenda pública y política, debe lanzar también un desafío para la deliberación, la investigación y la renovación de las ... -
Actividad Física en el Calor: Termorregulación e Hidratación en América Latina
(1999)En América Latina, es frecuente encontrar recomendaciones y pautas que han sido desarrolladas en los Estados Unidos de América o en Europa. A menudo se cuestiona qué tan aplicables son estas recomendaciones en nuestra ... -
Adaptabilidad y continuidad: la respuesta jurídico-educativa frente al COVID-19
(2020-09-17)La pandemia por COVID-19 ha provocado una crisis sanitaria que tiene fuerte repercusiones en otros ámbitos de la sociedad, como el económico y el laboral. El servicio público educativo no escapa a dicha problemática, pues ... -
Adaptacão de um modelo de temperatura dos grãos de café na torrefação
(2018-10-12)Objetivou-se com este trabalho ajustar um modelo de aquecimento para representar a cinética da temperatura dos grãos durante a torração do café. Foram usadas amostras de 350 g de grãos beneficiados retidos em peneira 17 e ... -
Algunas reflexiones de la gestión de conocimiento como estrategia de cambio institucional
(2016-11)El cambio supone la adaptación a las nuevas condiciones del entorno. Es precisamente la búsqueda de nuevos significados e interpretaciones, como las instituciones transforman sus procesos internos, sus funciones y estructuras, ... -
Algunos mitos sobre el ejercicio (propagados por los educadores físicos)
(Memoria del III Simposio en Ciencias del Ejercicio y la Salud, 1996-10)Este es el texto completo de la conferencia inaugural del III Simposio en Ciencias del Ejercicio y la Salud. Se trata de un material relativamente viejo, pero los lectores podrán juzgar su vigencia más de 15 años después. ... -
Alianzas para mitigar riesgos que amenazan la conservación del patrimonio cultural intangible: algunas reflexiones para el caso de Costa Rica
(2013)The aim of this paper is to share some experiences, based on the Costa Rican society, which address the risks of some of the intangible cultural heritage and to estimate the role of different institutions facing the ... -
Alzheimer’s Disease Early Detection Using a Low Cost Three-Dimensional Densenet-121 Architecture
(2020-06-23)The objective of this work is to detect Alzheimer’s disease using Magnetic Resonance Imaging. For this, we use a three-dimensional densenet-121 architecture. With the use of only freely available tools, we obtain good ... -
An Empirical Evaluation of Automated Function Points
(2016)Background: Function point analysis (FPA) has become widely used to measure software functional size in the industry. FPA is usually performed manually, which is a time consuming and expensive process. Automated Function ... -
An Empirical Validation of an Automated Genetic Software Effort Prediction Framework Using the ISBSG Dataset
(2016-04)The complexity of providing accurate software effort prediction models is well known in the software industry. Several prediction models have been proposed in the literature using different techniques, with different ... -
An Empirical Validation of Function Point Structure and Applicability: A Replication Study
(2015-04)Background: The complexity of providing accurate software size estimation and effort prediction models is well known in the software industry. Function point analysis (FPA) is currently one of the most accepted software ... -
An evaluation of functional size measurement methods
(2015-04)Background: Software size is one of the key factors that has the potential to affect the effort of software projects. Providing accurate software size estimation is a complex task. A number of functional size measurement ... -
La aplicación de la Medida de Seguridad en el campo Penal Juvenil en Costa Rica
(2021-11-17)Presentación para las II Jornadas de Investigación del Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas (IIJ) de la Universidad de Costa Rica, sobre la aplicación de las medidas de seguridades en el campo penal juvenil.