The demand for agricultural products has been increasing in all countries in the last decades. Together with the decrease in natural resources and the possible impacts to agriculture caused by climatic changes, this aspect has aroused concerns in terms of…

In this paper, I argue that, through an examination of Hornbacher’s intentional rhetorical intertexuality, we can provide a feminist reading of disability life writing that resists essentializing assumptions about illness and leaves room for intersectional understandings of disability key for…

To expand knowledge on the accessibility of higher education to students with disabilities, the study compared 170 such students in higher education institutions in Israel with 156 students without disabilities for formal achievements and overall participation in higher education. Results…

Este artículo aborda, a partir de 97 casos consultados por los delitos de aborto e infanticidio del Archivo Histórico Judicial de Medellín, las percepciones alusivas a la sexualidad femenina y su relación con los códigos sociales de honor asumidos en…

Se pretende determinar el alcance del artículo 402 de la Constitución del Ecuador 2008, referente a los derechos colectivos de propiedad intelectual. Dicho texto legal dispone que se prohíbe el otorgamiento de cualquier tipo de derechos sobre conocimientos colectivos, aseveración…

Les populations autochtones canadiennes ont un passé difficile qui influence leur vécu actuel. Les recherches canadiennes et ailleurs dans le monde s’entendent sur la surreprésentation des enfants autochtones en protection de l’enfance. Au Canada, la surreprésentation s’explique présentement par la…

Many studies have focused on the concept of humanization of birth in normal
pregnancy cases or at low obstetric risk, but no studies, at our knowledge, have so far
specifically focused on the humanization of birth in both high-risk, and…

Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo determinar las tareas
escolares solicitadas por los docentes como apoyo al aprendizaje.
El estudio fue de campo y documental, pues, a una muestra de 12
docentes de diferentes niveles educativos se pidió describir
pormenorizadamente dos…

Registered nurses undertaking programmes of study to become non-medical prescribers appear to have
limited biological science knowledge. A case study was undertaken to determine whether the nurses entering
Prescriber programmes considered studies in bioscience in their pre-registration nursing courses had…

Environmentalism and social sciences appear to be in a period of disorientation and perhaps transition. In this innovative collection, leading international thinkers explore the notion that one explanation for the current malaise of the “politics of ecology” is that we…