This study assessed the understanding of information about oral chemotherapy treatment, among patients attending the hematology outpatients' ward of a University hospital. A questionnaire with patient data and details of the treatment was applied to 147 outpatients. The analysis of…

La enseñanza de la ciencia supone promover en los alumnos una actitud científica. El objetivo del trabajo es presentar una experiencia de enseñanza de la Estadística aplicada en Antropología. La meta de la misma es lograr cambios actitudinales, mediante una…

Increasing attention to higher education policies in the knowledge-based society makes important to understand the relationship between socio-economic family characteristics and educational choices. This paper considers the decision to go to college in Argentina as a family's economic decision. The…

We study the Jupiter family comet (JFC) population assumed to come from the Scattered Disk and transferred to the Jupiter’s zone through gravitational interactions with the Jovian planets. We shall define as JFCs those with orbital periods P<20yr and Tisserand…

Este trabajo ha tenido como objetivo examinar el desempeño en lectura y escritura de niños que asisten a instituciones escolares primarias de la ciudad de La Plata. Su interés radica en la importancia que adquiere alcanzar niveles competentes de alfabetización…

The quantity of exports is a decisive factor of prosperity or tardiness of a region, since as well as in International trade, exportations determine the volume of importations; those regions that have their exportations promoted will be benefited to a…

The horticulture at La Plata horticultural belt, is driven by different management types that are named and classified with different criteria. One 2-type classification refers to farmers, farms or management types named conventional, and organic, based in the general, more…

This paper aims to clarify an economic mechanism behind the growing dichotomy between geo-economics and the borderless global knowledge economy. The proposed hypothesis is that geo-economic fault-lines, which are the product of the past prejudices of racial, linguistic, and cultural…

Baccharis uncinella DC. belongs to the Asteraceae family and is included in the Spicata group. Its synonym is Baccharis
discolor Baker and it is popularly known as vassoura and vassoura-lageana in Portuguese. The phytochemical
screening has shown the presence of…

The glacigenic boulders from the Hirnantian Don Braulio Formation of the Argentine Precordillera contain a well preserved shelly fauna allowing to a better knowledge of brachiopods and bivalves, but gastropods remain undescribed. The purpose of this paper is to give…