En este artículo se exponen diversos puntos de vista acerca del devenir de las Ciencias Sociales, a partir del estudio de las revoluciones sucedidas en América Latina desde 1989. Se muestran algunos mitos y tabúes sobre los linderos de las…

El texto es una reflexión proveniente de una experiencia editorial sustentable que afirma que la creación y producción del pensamiento de una universidad es localizado, medible y cualificable por lo que se escribe, se publica y hace eficazmente visible. Lo…

En los Andes venezolanos, el cultivo del café ha sido una de las actividades económicas más importantes sobre la cual se han sostenido muchas familias por varias generaciones. Los caficultores trujillanos, especialmente del Municipio Monte Carmelo, estado Trujillo, manejaron la…

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…

Trypanosoma cruzi congenital transmission in wild bats (Molossus molossus), associated with infected
Rhodnius prolixus in a natural habitat from a rural locality in western Venezuela, is reported. T. cruzi blood
circulating trypomastigotes in a pregnant batwere detected by parasitologicalmethods. Polymerase…

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.…