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…

The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss some results from an ethnographic research on Argentinian Mbya communities focused on representations and practices related to childrearing and development during the first stages of life course.
Firstly, I describe…

The role of communities associated to a substrate as fundamental components of an aquatic system has been recognized by many authors. Although periphyton has been considered of great importance in shallow lakes, its inclusion in different ecological models has been…

Knowledge acquisition for systems based on knowledge can be called knowledge engineering, according to Feigenbaum (1980) who used the term to describe the reduction of a wide context of knowledge for a set of facts and rules. The term Knowledge…

The appearance and continuous growth of virtual communities on the web imposes the challenge of coping with the large amount of information and knowledge these communities produce. The Semantic Web with its set of standards and technologies provides the basic…

Fotografía Experimental consiste en un taller creado para los alumnos del último año de la Orientación Ciencias Naturales del Liceo Víctor Mercante de la U.N.L.P. El aspecto que lo caracteriza es el trabajo interdisciplinario que se realiza durante su desarrollo…

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…

Se analizó el perfil de uso de los medicamentos utilizados en los pacientes adultos mayores (65 años o más) atendidos en los Centros de Salud, urbanos, de la Provincia de Santiago, Chile, durante los meses de junio a octubre de…

Se actualizan los conocimientos sobre botánica, etnofarmacognosia, cultivo, y en particular los avances en el aislamiento de nuevos compuestos y sus aplicaciones
en la moderna farmacología de Zingiber officinale Roscoe (Zingiberaceae)., This paper is an updating of the present knowledge…

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…