It was hypothesized that children with physical disabilities would show a deficit in procedural and declarative knowledge of ball catching compared to age-matched non-disabled children. The first group of children consisted of sixteen children with physical disabilities, three girls and…

his dissertation analyzes how local knowledge improves environmental decisions. The premise is that controlling pollution and addressing public health disparities are not problems that professionals alone can solve. Concerned lay publics, especially low-income populations and people of color that experience…

The high rate of sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancies among the Cree adolescents indicate that this population frequently engages in unprotected sexual activities. AIDS is a critical health problem worldwide and AIDS contamination within a Cree community could be…

The main objective of the present work is to investigate the nature of the cognitive processes responsible for the problem-solving operations of novices, intermediates, and experts in a semantically rich and complex domain, i.e. electronics trouble shooting, in relation to…

The thesis examines aspects of the construction of methylmercury as an authoritative object of knowledge for Chisasibi, a Cree community on the James Bay coast in northern Quebec. I describe the evolution of a particular set of spheres of exchange…

by Robert W. Sommer., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1992., Title as it appears in the M.I.T. Graduate List, June 1992: Building internal knowledge networks in multinational corporations, a study of cross-border research and development., Includes…

Las realidades que marcan el recién iniciado milenio establecen inéditas señales paradigmáticas, las cuales acompañan el
devenir de la sociedad de la información y el conocimiento, aupando la aparición de originales nociones espaciales y temporales, conformantes de novedosos procesos…

This thesis tries to bring together al-Ghazali's thoughts about different aspects of education, scattered in numbers of works of different kinds and aims at presenting his educational theory in its complete picture. His life, his intellectual career, his mental crises,…

El presente trabajo se inscribe en la línea se investigación Educación, Estado, Sociedad que se desarrolla desde el Área de Educación de la Coordinación de postgrado de la Facultad de Humanidades y Educación, en la Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV).…

by William J. Flynn, III., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-54).