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…

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…

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…

This paper uses dynamic general equilibrium and computational methods, inspired by the multi-sector growth model structure in Stephen Turnovsky's work, to develop a theory that unifies two of the traditional explanations of structural change: sector-biased technical change and non-homothetic preferences.…

This article explores the way in which text worlds are created in advertising discourse by analysing linguistic choices and features of context which are crucial in the determination of specific relations between sender(s) and target audience(s), in particular, deixis and…

El macizo del Tagant, en la República Islámica de
Mauritania, alberga, a lo largo de una red interconectada de humedales, las últimas poblaciones de cocodrilo del desierto Crocodylus niloticus
suchus), que hasta muy poco tiempo se consideraban extintas. Estas poblaciones…

This article examines the role of lexical morphology in pedagogical grammars of Spanish as a way
to increase knowledge of vocabulary. We review the ways in which derivation and compounding are
introduced in Spanish textbooks and which present different types…