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…

In the 1970s Thomas McKeown and Archibald L Cochrane were two of the most influential voices in criticizing the dominance of medical thinking. A bibliometric study of the citations to McKeown's The Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage or Nemesis and…

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…

El interés actual por la historia y su enseñanza ha cobrado fuerza, entre otras razones, por haberse convertido en escenario
de controversias y apropiaciones ideológicas. El conocimiento histórico, crítico y plural, permite aclarar dónde estamos, qué ocurrió y hacia…

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…

En estas páginas pretendo llevar a cabo un estudio del pensamiento de Nietzsche con relación al problema del conocimiento y la verdad, cuestión que ha sido considerada el núcleo filosófico de su producción teórica. Trataremos pues de la verdad como…

La talla baja es una condición que afecta el crecimiento lineal en el proceso de desarrollo del individuo es ocasionada por múltiples factores pero con un fuerte componente genético. En los últimos años, se ha incrementado el conocimiento de las…

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,…

Cladophialophora carrionii es un hongo dimórfico con melanina que causa en humanos una micosis profunda, localizada y crónica llamada cromomicosis, y se adquiere a través de la inoculación con espinas de cactáceas infectadas. El estado Falcón es una zona endémica…