Brazil nut is widely recognized as the cornerstone of the Amazonian extractive economy. Tight linkages between Brazil nut production, regional income, and intact mature forests have thrust this species into focus as a key component of Amazonian conservation and income…

The São Francisco River basin in Brazil is marked by socio-economic disparities and environrnental vulnerabilities. Water managers in the semi-arid region of the basin are faced with several challenges, such as competition among different water user groups, local over-exploitation of…

An important form of transmission of knowledge about the Spanish nation is based on the continuous telling of stories in which the nation features as a suprahistorical, perennial entity. Myths of national origin, golden-age legends, and epics of national heroes…

Número 122Mayo - Agosto 2008ISSN 0041 8633 HACIA UNA INVESTIGACIÓN JURÍDICA INTEGRATIVA* Jorge WITKER** The complexity that frames the current legal reality, demands a perspective of analysis, that starts of an integration of legal conceptions —positivism, iusnaturalism, sociology of law—,…

In developing countries, the study of intellectual disability has enormous knowledge gaps, especially in the areas of intervention, utilization of services and legislation. This article provides information not only for aiding in the potential development of sexuality in individuals with…

OBJECTIVE: To review original research studies published between 1990 and 2004 on the access and use of medicines in Mexico to assess the knowledge base for reforming Mexico's pharmaceutical policy. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A literature review using electronic databases was…

E-cognocracy [Moreno-Jiménez, 2003, 2006; Moreno-Jiménez and Polasek, 2003, 2005] is a new democratic system conceived for the purpose of extracting and diffusing the knowledge derived from the scientific resolution of complex problems that arise in the field of public decision…

We consider a one-dimensional jumping Markov process, solving a Poisson-driven stochastic differential equation. We prove that the law of this process admits a smooth density for all positive times, under some regularity and non-degeneracy assumptions on the coefficients of the…

This study aimed to discuss the importance of the collaborative knowledge and organizational knowledge and their ability to maintain the performance of the library that is based on the experience, knowledge and making strategic decisions. In addition to specifying the…

Kenya is a developing country which has done fairly well in terms of development. However it has developed a strategy called vision 2030 which will see it get more developed. Before this is achieved a lot has to be done…