In this article we examine and expose some of the results of a research work based on the appropriation of knowledge through visual expression, activity attended by teachers and students outside the schooleducational method called "Open Classroom".After the investigation, it…

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…

ABSTRACTApplication of renewal process most commonly requires the knowledge of the mean value function and the variance function. In this study, Xie's RS method (1) is adapted to the computation of the variance function for the both ordinary and stationary…

This paper is based on the analysis of job advertisements by Turkish furniture companies that appeared in main daily newspapers in Turkey between April 1998 and May 2002. During this period, a total of 204 advertisements for different positions in…

In Disability Studies, Universal Design (UD) is a concept that is often borrowed from an architectural or design context to mean an ideology of inclusion and flexibility with a range of applications in education, technology, and other milieus. This paper…

The production planning radiofó-nica is essential to achieve greater impact ofmessages. This article explains a way to design-NAR program or radio spot, which can be transmitted in a cultural station as presetUniversity of Costa Rica, or commercial. Itstresses the importance…

The body language is a disciplinethat gives humans the ability to communicate feelings, moods, emotions, knowledge and feelings creatively and referring to the opinion of the man andwomen. Lets spontaneously manifest itselfline from the body of knowledge in an individual…

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…

Slavery is (Not) Our History: On the Public Debate and Divergent Meanings of theNTR Television Series SlaveryThis article discusses the debates that followed the broadcasting of Dutch NTR-television series Slavery (De Slavernij) in 2011. While the series was aimed at…

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…