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…

This instrument was part of the research project "Research on Evaluation of Health and Education Plans and Programs in the Province of Buenos Aires", developed by the of Chair Preventive Psychology of the Psychology course of studies at the School…

This paper explores the relation between society, family, and learning. In particular, it addresses the features of home literacy environments in low income families and their impact on children's pre-literacy skills and knowledge. Sixty-two four/five-year-old children and their mothers were…

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the configurations of the families that live in contexts of social exclusion; provide conceptualizations of their operation mode; highlight the formative effects that neighborhood interdisciplinary practices with such families produce in the…

The article analyses the vision of otherness in the writings of Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-
1904) and of Aurora Bertrana (1892-1974). The 19th century expands the possibilities to undertake trips to faraway lands. The incipient European colonialism, the building of the…

Los virus herpes bovino 1 y 5 (BHV-1 y 5) afectan naturalmente al bovino,
especie en la que provocan diversas manifestaciones clínicas: rinotraqueítis, vulvovaginitis pustular infecciosa (IPV), balanopostitis (IPB), conjuntivitis, aborto y encefalitis. La
distribución de la infección es mundial,…

One of the more recent and alluring phrases used by development and resource management practitioners and theorists is "traditional ecological knowledge." Although there is a substantial amount of the literature on this subject, these studies have unfortunately an inadequate characterization…

The aim of this work is to relate two apparently independent concepts as belief revision and relevance. We propose a formal characterization for the notion of (ir)relevance by means of a set of postulates. Then we define (ir)relevance using change…

Desde la Física se han hecho numerosas contribuciones a la prevención de las enfermedades y
a la salud humanas. Con técnicas de avanzada científicos europeos y estadounidenses nos sorprenden día a
día con los resultados de sus investigaciones. Mucho menos…

While theory formation and the relation between theory and data has been investigated in many studies of scientific reasoning, researchers have focused less attention on reasoning about experimental design, even though the experimental design process makes up a large part…