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…

2009, Resumo.

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…

Nutrigenomics covers disparate fields of nutrition science and has been defined in many different ways. In fact, this emerging field of science has multiple facets, many of which do not generate the same ethical issues. In particular, different ethical issues…

La escuela, además de ser un espacio de socialización de nuevas
generaciones, es un escenario donde tiene lugar la creación constante del
sujeto social. Podría decirse, haciendo referencia a Jorge Larrosa (1999),
que el conocimiento, la realidad escolar y el…

Human and social studies on emotions are diversely interested in the reality emotions signify. Within this field, the discourse analysis approach focuses its attention on the linguistic expression of emotions and cannot thus extend its evaluation on psychological or sociological…

AIM: To discover whether nursing students believed that a post-registration cardiac module was meeting their needs.

METHOD: A descriptive qualitative approach was used in this study. Semi-structured interviews were recorded with a purposive sample of six registered nurses who…

It has been suggested there is a knowledge base that surrounds the use of 3D modeling within the engineering design process and correspondingly within engineering design graphics education. While solid modeling receives a great deal of attention and discussion relative…

Recently, many individuals have been faced with a transfer of learning issue, surrounding the move from one 3-D CAD system to another.  The purpose of this research was to test the hypothesis that, with minimal instruction, users can transfer their…

Los hidrocarburos aromáticos policíclicos (HAP’s) son compuestos claves en la determinación de la contaminación petrolera. Muchos de ellos son tóxicos y cancerígenos para los organismos vivos. En los ecosistemas acuáticos los HAP’s se incorporan a la biota del entorno y…