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…

Como se inserta los conocimientos generados por las investigaciones arqueológicas en los textos escolares en Venezuela es uno de los aspectos que indagaremos en este trabajo. También reflexionaremos, a partir de los textos escolares de educación básica, universitaria y páginas…

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…

Este ensayo de carácter argumentativo tiene como objetivo generar indicadores del pensamiento gerencial emergente a partir de la definición de los siguientes descriptores: lo epistemológico, lo axiológico, lo estratégico, las tecnologías. De allí se derivaron subdimensiones con sus respectivos descriptores…

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,…

Los moluscos son muy apreciados como alimento para el hombre y en Venezuela se aprovechan comercialmente almejas (Asaphis deflorata), ostras (Pinctada imbricata y Crassostrea rhizophorae), pepitonas (Arca zebra), pulpos (Optopus vulgaris), calamares (Loligo plei), vieiras (Amusium papyraceum), mejillones (Perna perna…

Conocer la cinética de deshidratación osmótica de un alimento y los factores que la afectan son aspectos importantes para diseñar un adecuado proceso. En este trabajo se investigó la aplicación del modelo de Weibull normalizado para describir la deshidratación osmótica…

Rapid population growth is now one of the biggest socio-economic and consequently, health problems in the world. The significance of this dramatic increase in population becomes apparent when the limited possibilities of socio-economic growth are considered among developing countries. The…