Although most eggs are intensely predated, the aerial egg clutches from the aquatic snail Pomacea canaliculata have only one reported predator due to unparalleled biochemical defenses. These include two storage-proteins: ovorubin that provides a conspicuous (presumably warning) coloration and has…

Los paradigmas, las técnicas y las prácticas producto de tradiciones regulan las formas de transmisión del saber, estableciendo las concepciones de sujeto, así como las nociones de cuerpo, de prácticas corporales y, sobre todo, de cómo se educa lo “corporal”.

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…

Este trabalho tem o objetivo de apresentar a percepção ambiental dos moradores do bairro Jardim Tangará, localizado na porção leste do município de São Carlos, São Paulo. Dentre os aspectos socioambientais abordados, deu-se ênfase á nascente localizada no bairro. Realizou-se…

La amplia difusión del proceso de desarrollo basado en componentes, en particular en el dominio de aplicaciones geográficas, ha generado el surgimiento de una gran cantidad y variedad de componentes software orientados a satisfacer las necesidades de los desarrolladores. En…

La expansión del riego complementario con aguas subterráneas en una vasta región de Argentina con alta productividad trajo como beneficio el incremento en rendimientos y mayor protección ante sequías, pero también problemas cuali-cuantitativos por conflictos con el uso doméstico. El…

The role of communities associated to a substrate as fundamental components of an aquatic system has been recognized by many authors. Although periphyton has been considered of great importance in shallow lakes, its inclusion in different ecological models has been…

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…

Associating the pattern in text data with the pattern with time series data is a novel task. In this paper, an approach that utilizes the features of the time series data and domain knowledge is proposed and used to identify…

This paper aims to clarify an economic mechanism behind the growing dichotomy between geo-economics and the borderless global knowledge economy. The proposed hypothesis is that geo-economic fault-lines, which are the product of the past prejudices of racial, linguistic, and cultural…