by Shung Yar Lim., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2003., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-126).

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DOSSIER: Educación, Pensamiento Crítico y Cambio Sociocultural
Coordinadora: Lic. María del Pilar Quintero M.


Racismo, etnocentrismo occidental y educación. El caso Venezuela.
Racism, western ethnocentrism and education. The case Venezuela.Racisme, ethnocentrisme occidental et…

ABSTRACT: This paper is an user's manual for the phpBB2, a bulletin board package (BBS) developed by the phpBB Group. It's an Open Source software chosen, experimentally, as a knowledge management tool to improve research and development activities at Embrapa…

The Embrapa Agricultural Instrumentation Center, one of the thematic centers of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, is an institution of science and technology in instrumentation. Its purpose is to promote Brazilian agribusiness through the generation, adaptation, and transference of knowledge…

This article tries to articulate certain drifts in ?social psychology of science? with different contributions from ?feminist studies of science?. This is done in a reflexive aim in order to analyse how gender structures intersect the practices of psychological knowledge…

Apart from speculating about a series of issues open to debate, such as the dark side of progress and globalization or the conflict between science and morality,
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake (2003) offers a feasible insight into the state…

An automatic disassembly cell requires of a
computer vision system for recognition and localization of
the products and each of theirs components. The detection
of occlusions adds more information to the knowledge base
to identify components and products, and generate…

Issues related to maternal mortality have generated a lot of empirical and theoretical information. However, despite the amount of work published on the topic, maternal mortality continues to occur at high rates and solutions to the problem are still not…

The undergraduate law curriculum adopted at McGill University in 1998—the transsystemic programme—was born of the unique political, social, and intellectual histories of its Faculty of Law. This essay reviews these contexts and characterizes the programme as an ongoing conversation about…

The first two chapters of this thesis investigate a possibly fundamental aspect of technological progress. If knowledge accumulates as technology progresses, then successive generations of innovators may face an increasing educational burden, forcing them to spend longer periods in education…