This article seeks to understand the discourses on motherhood elicited by media in news articles dealing with infanticide. Applying thematic analysis, we studied news and online comments of a Portuguese newspaper. The analysis of infanticidal mothers reports two differe...

The present study adopts a data mining approach based on support vector machines (SVM) for modeling the number of sales of smartphone devices by eBay sellers. The data-based sensitivity analysis was adopted for extracting meaningful knowledge translated into the relevan...

The discovery of knowledge through data mining provides a valuable asset for addressing decision making problems. Although a list of features may characterize a problem, it is often the case that a subset of those features may influence more a certain group of events co...