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…

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).…

El presente artículo recoge los resultados de una investigación sobre percepción pública de la ciencia y tecnología en Mérida, cuyo objetivo fue conocer las ideas de la población general y de un grupo de actores sociales sobre estas actividades. Para…

This study investigates how Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), a medieval abbess used visions received during the prodromal stages of migraines to reconstruct herself symbolically. In her visions she believed that God, the "Living Light" instructed her "to write and say…

Human designers use previous designs extensively in solving new design problems and Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) provides a knowledge representation paradigm which attempts to model such process. In this thesis we present a case-based approach to solving design problems by retrieving…

Los cambios a nivel mundial en políticas educativas hacen necesario que el docente se relacione con los procesos tecnológicos, con la finalidad de innovar en su campo de conocimiento, de allí la necesidad de planificar estratégicamente la política de formación…

This thesis presents a survey of the development of economic growth theory, including the latest developments in the relationship between international economic integration through international flows of goods and/or knowledge and endogenous economic growth. Based on the following literature review,…

This thesis considers the dimensional analysis theory in engineering. A Knowledge-Aided Design Tool is presented which permits the solution of many aspects of Dimensional Analysis for electromagnetics. The KAD Tool was coded in the language Lisp with Allegro Common Lisp…

This study focused on the comprehension and cognitive processing of texts in biology by 36 graduate science students for whom Chinese was their first (L1) and English their second language (L2). The students in the study were from two disciplines:…

This study retraces the steps of the 17th century architect and engineer Salomon de Caus through his written and built works, in an attempt to understand the relationship between what he made and the model by which his world was…