“On Experience: L. Wittgenstein and C.I. Lewis”. This essay attempts to illustrate the parallelism –in spite of certain dissimilarities in their approach and conceptualization– between Wittgenstein’s thought at the beginning of the thirties and C.I. Lewis’ theory of knowledge. The…

There are people who leave us with a text as their legacy. Their text. Sometimes it is a masterpiece, or a huge amount of work, a fertile and essential one. But there are people who leave us with something more,…

Este trabajo plantea la tesis de que las profundas transformaciones económicas, culturales, tecnológicas y personales acaecidas desde los años sesenta han terminado fluidificando la realidad social en todos sus niveles, pero que ello no hace de los procesos y mecanismos…

Este texto sostiene que lo virtual no es algo nuevo, algo que observamos como resultado de la proliferación de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación.  Por el contrario, “virtual” es una noción con una larga historia. La palabra …

This paper demonstrates the importance of knowledge for effective
management of outsourcing. Drawing on an empirical study on automakers?
management of supplier involvement in product development in Japan, this paper shows
that the level of own knowledge is critical for…

Foi realizado levantamento entre mães residentes em Maringá, Brasil, para averiguar o conhecimento sobre fatores de risco para retardo mental e prevenção desta condição. Aplicou-se entrevista estruturada a 100 mães escolhidas por sorteio a partir do cadastro de nascimentos ocorridos…

Trata-se de estudo descritivo cuja população foi composta por menores de 15 anos, residentes em Londrina, vítimas de acidentes de transporte terrestre em 2001, que foram atendidos em serviços de urgência e internação no município e/ou morreram devido a tais…

The radiofrequency coil is a crucial component of the magnetic resonance imaging scanners, so that a solid knowledge on the design and physical characteristics is important for those interested in its development. A birdcage coil with a 10 cm radius…

Educational Software is one of the pillars of distance learning and educational systems and has become the basic tool for current generations of students. However, recent methodologies used in this development have too many problems: a lack of common theoretical…

A functional understanding of Newton's second law as a vector equation requires that students be able to reason about forces as vectors. In this paper, we present data describing students' conceptual difficulties with forces as vectors. These data suggest that…