The Socio-Historical Research Group of the Andean Region (GISARA) is an academic branch of the Universidad de Los Andes, attached to the Department of Anthropology and Sociology of the Faculty of Humanities and Eduction. It has as its aims the…

The GIFACE is a group of excellence in the production of knowledge, research products, and development in the area of Accounting Sciences.

Its objectives are:
1) To construct, form, and maintain a culture surrounding the production of…

The principal activity of GIDyC is centered on the research and realization of prototypes which verify theoretical results obtained in the areas of spacial temporal , multimedia and Object Oriented databases, integration of heterogeneous software, methods engineering, and information recovery.…

The creation of the group of Biopathological Investigations for the Dentistry Faculty (GIBFO) was founded in the clear necessity to update the knowledge base which is required by all the teaching personnel as part of its function of research, since…

La superación del juridicismo y de la aplicación mecánica de las normas reclama un nuevo perfil de juez que no sólo atienda al conocimiento y habilidades jurídicas sino también a consideraciones éticas. En este marco, el autor aborda el tema…

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…

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…

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,…