This paper investigates and analyses the process of building a knowledge management (KM) model at Brazil‟s Embrapa (The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation). Embrapa is a world class knowledge organization whose mission is to provide feasible solutions for the sustainable development…

This essay is a result of the author's research into Buddhism and poststructuralist theories on knowledge, self and ethics and attempts to articulate the ethico-political implications of his own practice of Vipassana (a form of Buddhist meditation) and interrogate what…

A randomised survey in Texas found that 22 per cent of the public identified themselves as consumers of New Age media. Despite widespread recognition of the ‘spiritual supermarket’ there has been little sustained analysis of the production of spiritual commodities…

En este trabajo se analizan los símbolos y representaciones del proceso de gestación entre los tobas de la provincia de Formosa poniendo especial énfasis en sus transformaciones e interrelaciones con las instituciones y representaciones biomédicas. Se considera el simbolismo del…

The SemanticWeb is a project intended to create a universal medium for information exchange by giving semantics to the content of documents on the Web by means of ontology definitions.
Ontologies intended for knowledge representation in intelligent agents rely on…

The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss some results from an ethnographic research on Argentinian Mbya communities focused on representations and practices related to childrearing and development during the first stages of life course.
Firstly, I describe…

L‟utilité de la théorie de la dissuasion est régulièrement remise en question pour expliquer la relation entre les peines et la criminalité puisque les propriétés objectives de la peine ne semblent pas affecter les taux de criminalité, les perceptions que…

Current reasoning systems attempt to model an agent's knowledge and interaction with its environment in a symbolic manner. This environment, its world is generally dynamic and changing due to natural evolution or the actions of other agents that are a…

El trabajo aspira a despertar el interés por el conocimiento y la asimilación de categorías teóricas, que supongo, pueden despertar el interés comunitario
por mayor conocimiento, por un conocimiento técnico, práctico y emancipativo: (Habermas: 1978), en la Comunidad de los…

En réadaptation en déficience physique, les intervenantes psychosociales utilisent
plusieurs types de savoirs, mais la relation entre ceux-ci est peu étudiée. Ce projet
regarde quelle place ces intervenantes accordent à différents types de savoirs dans
leurs pratiques.
Nous distinguons savoirs…