La planificación del medio físico tiene, entre sus objetivos prioritarios, la aplicación
de una política preventiva, capaz de evitar el deterioro del medio ambiente. La preservación
de espacios de calidad ambiental lleva consigo la creación de figuras de protección
dotadas…

Este trabajo pretende hacer un análisis reflexivo de las aportaciones de distintas disciplinas en la proyección psicosocial
de los cuidados enfermeros. La enfermería psicosocial es algo más que unos conocimientos psicológicos para profesionales
de enfermería; las Ciencias Psicosociales, nos permiten…

Desde sus orígenes recientes la enfermería se ha interesado por la investigación, siendo los métodos cuantitativos los más usados. En las ciencias sociales, actualmente se reconocen cuatro paradigmas que fundamentan las distintas estrategias, éstas se consideran herramientas a disposición del…

La imperiosa necesidad de abordar sistemáticamente y en forma continua acciones de evaluación (FODA), para efectos de diagnóstico en los programas de educación y conservación del ambiente, como la Misión Árbol, permite analizar los factores que tienen mayor preponderancia sobre…

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.…