Web-based learning environments are becoming increasingly popular in higher education. One of the most important web-learning resources is the virtual laboratory (VL), which gives students an easy way for training and learning through the Internet. Moreover, on-line collaborative communication represents…

En el cerebro de mamíferos adultos tiene lugar la formación de nuevas neuronas (neurogénesis) de forma limitada a partir de células madre neurales residentes en dos nichos discretos, localizados en el ventrículo lateral y el hipocampo. En la retina existe…

Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and British explorer John Smith went to the New World for different reasons but both shared the experience of being a captive to the Native Americans. After their return to Europe, both of…

Díptico del Octavo Foro de Bienestar Social realizado el 27 de marzo de 2012 en Alicante con el objetivo de difundir los principales resultados del proyecto de I+D INCASS acerca de los estándares de calidad que deberían de aspirar a…

This article aims to describe the main hidrogeologic aspects of La Brianza area, making a contribution to the knowledge of the natural resources in this agricultural region from the central argentine plain. Two aquifer systems are found in this territory.…

La titulación de Ingeniería Geológica es de reciente creación en España, a pesar de que en algunos países como Inglaterra cuenta ya con una larga tradición. Ingeniería Geológica se caracteriza por tratarse de una
carrera situada a medio camino entre…

Purpose – Information and communication technologies have became pervasive in people’s lives and in this changing world education cannot remain anchored in old-fashioned models which ignore the evolution through which society is going. This paper seeks to present the gamble…

El falibilismo supone un desafío a la concepción tradicional del saber, pero es la razón que subyace a la valoración positiva de ciertos tipos de ignorancia. Una respuesta al desafío sería negar que la verdad de «p» sea una condición…

Geographic knowledge discovery (GKD) is the process of extracting information and knowledge from massive georeferenced databases. Usually the process is accomplished by two different systems, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the data mining engines. However, the development of those…

In big companies, managerial activities and organizational boundaries will over time hide most unevenly developed skill and knowledge distribution patterns; studying the organizations with the means of modern applied physics is thus quite difficult. People are forced to communicate along…