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…

We had previously shown that regularization principles lead to approximation schemes, as Radial Basis Functions, which are equivalent to networks with one layer of hidden units, called Regularization Networks. In this paper we show that regularization networks encompass a much…

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,…

SERIE: Cuadernos del GIECAL Nº 4, Para el estudio de la historia es imprescindible estar vinculados con las fuentes como ejes fundamentales en el conocimiento de los aconteceres culturales, a
través de la historiografía, donde los investigadores contribuyen a mantenerlos

El diseño de programas de actualización profesional es un proceso complejo en el que se conjugan aspectos instruccionales, estructurales, organizativos y tecnológicos muy particulares. La estructura del programa, los modos de interacción facilitador-participante, la forma y estructura de los contenidos…

Le decept es entendido como la distancia entre las creencias de los individuos y el movimiento de la historia, la existencia de un tiempo individual y uno colectivo, conformada la primera en un movimiento soportado por la espera y el…

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…