Increasing attention to higher education policies in the knowledge-based society makes important to understand the relationship between socio-economic family characteristics and educational choices. This paper considers the decision to go to college in Argentina as a family's economic decision. The…

The "Cerrado Region" - the acid savannas of Brazil, as many as thirty years ago, were considered as ecosystem unsuitable for agriculture crop production because environmental limitations. However, a burst in agricultural development has taken place in the area during…

To find a good termination criterion for genetic algorithms is a difficult and frequently ignored task. In most instances the practitioner stops the algorittm after a predefined number of generations or function evaluations. How this number is established? This stop…

SE ANALIZA LA DIMENSIÓN DE UTILIDAD Y USO DEL CONOCIMIENTO PRODUCIDO POR LA INVESTIGACIÓN SOCIAL EN EL MARCO DE LAS RELACIONES ENTRE INVESTIGADORES ACADÉMICOS Y AGENTES SOCIALES NO CIENTÍFICOS. SE POSTULA QUE DICHAS RELACIONES SON, EN LA INVESTIGACIÓN SOCIAL, MÁS…

La presente monografía de grado, llevó a cabo un análisis sobre la situación actual de los conocimientos tradicionales frente a la propiedad intelectual, tomando en cuenta sus antecedentes y sus proyecciones en un entorno siempre cambiante, en el cual, por…

Los virus herpes bovino 1 y 5 (BHV-1 y 5) afectan naturalmente al bovino,
especie en la que provocan diversas manifestaciones clínicas: rinotraqueítis, vulvovaginitis pustular infecciosa (IPV), balanopostitis (IPB), conjuntivitis, aborto y encefalitis. La
distribución de la infección es mundial,…

EN ESTE ARTÍCULO, LA AUTORA ANALIZA DESAFÍOS ACTUALES DE LAS CIENCIAS SOCIALES A LA LUZ DE LA DOBLE TENDENCIA HACIA LA CRECIENTE ESPECIALIZACIÓN DEL CONOCIMIENTO Y, SIMULTÁNEAMENTE, A LAS INTERACCIONES DISCIPLINARIAS. ÉSTAS SE EXPLORAN, A SU VEZ, DESDE LA ÓPTICA…

Mixing upper level undergraduates majoring in engineering with those majoring in biology, we have devised a course on biologically-inspired design (BID) that provides practical training in methods and techniques that facilitate the identification and translation of biological principles into solutions…

One of the more recent and alluring phrases used by development and resource management practitioners and theorists is "traditional ecological knowledge." Although there is a substantial amount of the literature on this subject, these studies have unfortunately an inadequate characterization…

Takeshi Yoshioka & George Herman., "October 1999.", Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-25).