El paradigma positivista busca la verdad en los hechos verídicos, capaces de comprobación científica, dada su condición cuantitativa y su efecto de ser medible, dejando de un lado la verdad milenaria que se esconde tras el saber popular de las

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…

La presente investigación tiene como objetivo evaluar el funcionamiento tecnológico de 10 fincas pequeñas doble propósito leche-carne del municipio Torres estado Lara. Aplicándose la metodología Diagnóstico Rápido, Perfiles Productivos y
Funcionalidad de Patrones Tecnológicos en Sistemas de Producción con Vacunos;…

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…

El espacio Arquitectónico escolar evidencia la calidad socio comunicativa y transformadora de un grupo humano. Los centros educativos son espacios sociales, una de cuyas finalidades prioritarias es preparar a los estudiantes para que aprendan a conducirse y comprender las relaciones…

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.…