La narrativa como género en el que se expresan las vivencias de personajes sin
más prevenciones ni limitaciones que las impuestas por el autor, constituye un material
de primera magnitud para abordar con garantías el problema de esta investigación: la

This paper suggests that a new form of racialization is being produced in the information age through developments and innovations in communication technologies. Increasingly, racial knowledge is being constructed from seemingly neutral and unrelated pieces of information, which are collected,…

Estudo do tipo quase-experimental que objetivou apresentar os Índices de Satisfação no Trabalho (ISTs) de uma equipe de enfermagem de uma UTI-adulto e as atividades efetuadas para sua melhoria. Participaram 8 enfermeiras e 9 auxiliares de enfermagem. Todos os requisitos…

O objetivo deste trabalho é compreender as representações sociais sobre saúde e as estratégias de enfrentamento das doenças entre as mulheres dos pescadores de Porto Rico, PR. Utilizou-se como referencial teórico a Teoria das Representações Sociais. Em setembro de 2000,…

The bulk of research on teacher knowledge has taken place in elementary and secondary school settings. The goal of this study was to examine teacher knowledge in higher education by asking: (1) what types of knowledge are drawn upon in…

A major contribution of research in workplace literacy has been to explore the part that writing plays in the knowledge-making practices of various professional groups. While such enquiry has revealed that writing is essential to the creation and use of…

This study examined the efficacy of conjoint behavioural consultation (CBC) with children evidencing conduct problems, the impact of CBC in enhancing parental knowledge of behavioural principles, and whether knowledge of behavioural principles is related to improved parenting skills. An A/B…

The structural design of power transmission lines requires knowledge from a variety of widely-dispersed expert sources. This thesis demonstrates how an expert system can be efficiently used to assemble and organize this knowledge in order to design a wide range…

Over the past few years, the amount of electronic information available from the Internet has increased dramatically. Unfortunately, the search tools currently available for retrieving and filtering such information remain inadequate in balancing relevance and comprehensiveness. This work proposes a…

This thesis argues that women's bodies are constituted by discourses about them. It explores the operations of power over women's bodies by analyzing the way in which the maternal body is constructed in the discourses of law, medicine and culture.…