La aspiración actual de la Educación Científica de enseñar a las personas cómo enfrentarse a problemas, de desarrollar destrezas de alto nivel intelectual al mismo tiempo que conocimientos específicos, queda reducida en la enseñanza habitual de la Física a la…

Este trabajo de investigación presenta un análisis lingüístico hecho a partir de la Semiótica
de las pasiones. El corpus escogido corresponde a la epístola Romanos B (Romanos 1, 1-
15) del apóstol San Pablo, simulacro epistolar de contenido cristiano moralizante.…

Public authorities and private developers around the world are attempting to create and sustain hubs within the innovation-based economy by fostering successful urban environments. These large-scale developments succeed an earlier generation of post-industrial "technopoles" named after the French word popularized…

Oligomeric mini-proteins, short peptides with protein-like features, constitute valuable minimal models for the study of oligomeric proteins. Oligomerization is a common feature of cellular proteins that may confer structural and functional advantages. Oligomerization is proposed to have arisen by several…

In plasma etching process it is critical to know when the film being etched has cleared to the underlying film, i.e. to detect endpoint, in order to achieve the desired device performance in the resulting integrated circuit. The most highly…

We describe an adaptation of the knowledge gradient, originally developed for discrete ranking and selection problems, to the problem of calibrating continuous parameters for the purpose of tuning a simulator. The knowledge gradient for continuous parameters uses a continuous approximation…

Ce mémoire se veut être un alliage de connaissances historiques théoriques et de leur mise en application dans un contexte académique de niveau collégial. L’objet principal est de comparer l’historiographie savante, écrite par des historiens chercheurs, au contenu de quatre…

Information Retrieval Systems normally deal with keywordbased technologies. Although those systems reach satisfactory results, they aren’t able to answer more complex queries done by users, especially those directly in natural language. To do that, there are the KnowledgeBased Systems, which…

This dissertation sets a detailed, technical history of ideas of Dutch-born lens maker and natural philosopher Nicolas Hartsoeker (1656-1725). Hartsoeker's case exemplifies the kinds of intellectual journeys a university-educated man with technical skills undertook to navigate the chaos and uncertainty…

Se intenta explicar la labor formativa de la Geografía en la educación escolar venezolana, tomando en cuenta las características
geográficas del mundo globalizado. Ante la práctica pedagógica actual, de orientación transmisiva, determinista, naturalista, limitada
al aula y que promueve aprendizajes…