Monday, August 17, 2009

Government Auction In N-b

ITESM: software to prevent plagiarism water

El Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) implementó una estrategia cibernética para prevenir el plagio de información mediante software.

El Porvenir/ Especial.-El Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) implemented a strategy to promote cyber academic honesty, plagiarism prevention information and improve study habits in students.

The private university said that through the special software "Safe Assign" enable the institution to compare the contents of digital documents from academic databases and the Internet, keeping copies of information.

also compares the work of students from other universities that use the same system and self-generated database of student work Tecnológico de Monterrey.

The project manager the Academic Vice, Jorge Salinas Girodengo, said "it is a tool that basically works as a detector of plagiarism."

"We believe that this can contribute to the formation of people that mark on our mission, focusing on the promotion of positive values \u200b\u200bin students and encourage them to behave ethically in the academic and professional," added the manager.

The text states that the Safe Assign an algorithm based on text comparison only able to detect exact and approximate similarities between the current document and material in the database.

also determines the percentage of similarity and provides a report of authenticity showing the origin of the lines of text that could come from other documents. "Based on this report, the teacher can determine the authenticity of the document delivered by the student," he says.

relates that the natives digital are young people born with digital technology and are accustomed to using electronic information sources and notes that a large percentage of these young people live with the culture of the copy-paste , many Sometimes using the ideas of others in their school work without proper citation of sources consulted.

"More than a tool to identify plagiarism, the institution seeks through Safe Assign teach and encourage critical thinking in students and encourage them to build the knowledge and respect for intellectual property, "he says.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

What Is The Furthest 13 Year Old Shot Put

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Published in El País. remembered the Perez-Reverte novel :

ZV, 47, Hungarian, noted in a road map libraries thought "visit", a journey that began in northern Spain, and according which lacked go thirty cities before moving to Portugal , Where he planned to stop in Lisbon, Coimbra and Oporto-, France and Italy, as reported by the Guardia Civil. Previous stops on this route had been six libraries Soria, Toledo, Valladolid, Logroño and Pamplona, \u200b\u200bwhich was stolen in the past five months 67 maps and treatises on geography of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, among which are several Ptolemies.

All the stolen documents were found in folders in a hotel room in Pamplona where ZV was arrested last Friday. The detainee, who has no criminal record and was involved in the sale of used vehicles in the Dominican Republic, a country where he resided, has assured Civil Guard that his intention was to sell the maps, but wanted them for his personal collection. He also said he had begun this activity when, knowing the theft of ten maps Ptolemies in the National Library in August 2007, said that if one had already committed this crime, "why was not going to do it."

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Does Staples Laminate?

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