There is a significant world-wide apprehension concerning perceived deficiencies in university students’ performance and a resulting decrease of knowledge level and competency development. This paper analyses the benefits of using a portfolio as a means of evaluating student progress and…

EL OBJETIVO consiste en contribuir al proceso de consolidación de una nueva disciplina: La Enfermería Comparada. El MATERIAL básico compuesto por monografías y artículos versantes sobre Educación Comparada complementado con la bibliografía específica sobre Enfermería Comparada en el periodo 1988-1990.…

La Universidad San Francisco de Quito cuenta con una infraestructura y un personal docente de primera calidad en la carrera de Ingeniería Civil, sin embargo carece de laboratorios para dicha carrera. Es por esto que varios compañeros hemos emprendido el…

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The design of intelligent agents is a key issue for many applications. Although there is no universally accepted de nition of intelligence, a notion of rational agency has been proposed as an alternative for the characterization of intelligent agency.
Modeling…

El paradigma positivista busca la verdad en los hechos verídicos, capaces de comprobación científica, dada su condición cuantitativa y su efecto de ser medible, dejando de un lado la verdad milenaria que se esconde tras el saber popular de las

While birdsong is a model system for animal communication studies, our knowledge is derived primarily from the study of only one sex and is therefore incomplete. The study of song in a role-reversed species would provide a unique opportunity to…

For the first time for Mexican mycobiota the genus Cerinomyces Mar. is reported with the species C lagerheimii (Pat.) McNabb. This species only have been found in Ecuador (type locality), Brasil, United States and Venezuela. A review of different specimens…

In 1950, Tinbergen described the elicitation of offspring begging by the red spot on the bill of parent gulls, and this became a model system for behavioural studies. Current knowledge on colour traits suggests they can act as sexual signals…

Studies of tropical secondary forest succession face strong limitations due to the slow pace of succession and the time-consuming task of monitoring processes. The occurrence of tree rings in secondary forest trees may help expand our knowledge on succession in…