by Roberta E. Bivins., Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1997., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-237).

Intentaremos mostrar la relación de dolor y placer en el arte, partiendo del dolor en Platón, y de las máximas “conócete a ti mismo” y “cuidado de sí”, porque el “conócete a ti mismo” es parte del proceso formativo. Según…

Spatial relationships between two globose cacti (Mammillaria mammillaris (L) Karsten and Melocactus schatzlii Till & Gruber) and two dominant mimosoid shrubs (Acacia farnesiana (Willd.) L. and Prosopis julifora DC.) were evaluated in two habitats (cactus thicket and thornscrub) of a…

El presente ensayo tiene como propósito generar una aproximación teórica para fundamentar, desde una perspectiva
multidimensional, la evidente existencia de un circuito tetralógico: sujeto-empresa-universidad-contexto, en el que se construye «el conocimiento». Es así, como se plantea una investigación que usa…

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.…