http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2008v7n1p69For naturalistic and non-intuitionistic moral realists, moral knowledge is more problematic than ordinary and scientific factual knowledge. For without special faculties of moral discernment, how could we ever detect moral facts and properties? Physical facts and properties may be accessible to perceptual…

The goal of the study was to explore post-secondary students’ purposes for blogging with particular attention to the social and instructional purposes. The sample of blogs came from an all-women’s college in the United Arab Emirates. Content analysis was conducted…

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2008v7n1p87In the first part of this essay, I shall sketch the debate about vampirism during the age of Enlightenment historically, while in the second part, I will interpret this debate philosophically. The historical reconstruction mainly relies on Gábor Klaniczay’s brilliant essay The…

Forecast models based on climatic conditions are of great interest in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs. The success of these models depends, among other factors, on the knowledge of the temperature effect on the pests? population dynamics. In this direction,…

A hipogalactia é apontada pela literatura como a causa mais freqüente de desmame precoce. Ela é causada por fatores como erro na técnica de amamentação, introdução precoce de mamadeiras ou outros alimentos na dieta do bebê, ansiedade e estresse maternos.…

El conocimiento sobre la condición de los reproductores (= calidad de gónadas) de la madreperla Pinctada mazatlanica y su impacto sobre el desarrollo embrionario y larvario, es esencial para proporcionar un conocimiento más amplio sobre la fisiología de la especie…

Sucrose is one of the compounds in the raw coffee bean that has been identified as an important precursor of coffee flavour and aroma. In order to increase our knowledge of sucrose metabolism in coffee species, sucrose and reducing sugar…

Los sistemas insulares han sido áreas modelo para explicar las variaciones espaciales en la composición, riqueza y abundancia de las especies, donde tales variaciones pueden ser resultado de las diferencias interinsulares en la heterogeneidad y variabilidad ambiental. A pesar de…

Collaborative systems are becoming a widely used tool particularly among professional communities and research groups. They provide a suitable context for distributed people working on the same subject to concentrate their work in a shared place to which everyone has…

At a time when it is clear that climate change adaptation and mitigation are failing, this book examines how our assumptions about (valid and usable) knowledge are preventing effective climate action. Through a cross-disciplinary, empirically-based analysis of climate science and…