The anthropogenic dark earths (ADE, Terra Preta de Índio or terra preta arqueológica, as are often referred to in Portuguese) feature unique properties that are interesting not only from a pedological point of view but have important agronomic and economic…

Despite the many assumptions that usually surround the importance of science education for scientific practice, scholarship on the history of subject has been scattered and usually undertaken en route to other pursuits. In this research, I aim to bring to…

La cuenca del Congo es la selva tropical más grande después del Amazonas. Este bosque cuenta con más de 28 especies de árboles dominantes (muy grande), de un valor comercial importante, como Wenge y Bosee Clair-. En una parte del…

El presente trabajo de investigación fue desarrollado con el objetivo de determinar la factibilidad financiera y comercial de un proyecto de construcción de viviendas en el sector de Santa Mónica Alta ubicado en el valle de los Chillos, el mismo…

Nowadays universities are required not only to impart
knowledge of specific disciplines but also generic graduate
attributes such as communication, problem-solving,
teamwork, creative thinking, research and inquiry skills. For
students to attain these generic skills, educators are
encouraged to use…

En este trabajo defiendo la idea de que la competencia lingüística está constituida por lo que denomino 'actitudes de aceptación subdoxásticas'. Estas son estados mentales cognoscitivos con un contenido conceptual, pero que son inconscientes en un sentido profundo. En primer…

This paper means to show how British Colonialism in India was made possible, and then sustained and strengthened, as much by cultural technologies of rule as it was by the more obvious and brutal modes of conquest. In fact colonialism…

Mexico counts among the five countries with the highest biodiversity in the world. In the Yucatán Peninsula, there are aquatic ecosystems with a very special microbial diversity. These ecosystems are essential for the ecological equilibrium of the region, and are…

The present article examines how practices of computersupported
collaborative designing may be implemented in
an elementary classroom. We present a case study in
which 12-year-old students engaged in architectural design
under the guidance of their teacher and a professional
designer.…

Analysis of resistance groups active in the War on Terror provides case-studies for an examination of Occidentalism. Al-Qaida constructs a West both homogeneously and pejoratively in order to represent the self as a single Islamic nation under attack from a…