Uno de los grandes problemas de la educación a distancia soportada por computadora (e-learning) radica en que muchos de los estudiantes que inician un curso, se frustran, se sienten desmotivados, no logran asimilar los conocimientos y en consecuencia lo abandonan.…

Ante el exigente reto de promover la educación ambiental, la enseñanza de la geografía deberá considerar nuevos conocimientos para reorientar su práctica escolar. Eso justificó revelar los criterios de los educadores, quienes en su actividad cotidiana vivencían las dificultades ambientales…

El trabajo argumenta que los saberes de los pueblos indígenas deben
ser incorporados a las estrategias de desarrollo rural de las instituciones del
Estado, a fin de minimizar o evitar los impactos ecológicos y culturales de
los nuevos sistemas agrícolas…

by Robert J. Grochowski., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1988., Includes bibliographical references.

El autor aborda la fitotoponimia de una zona rural del Estado Mérida (Venezuela),
conocida como parroquia o micro-región Mucurubá, territorio en el que tal categoría está representada por numerosos nombres geográficos. Se analiza la significación social de los fitotopónimos, específicamente…

The Telematics Industry faces tremendous challenges for growth. Regardless of the efforts and investment from vehicle manufacturers and suppliers, telematics has not been that profitable industry that many analyst forecasted five years ago; a 40 billion industry by 2003. This…

Boron Neutron Capture Synovectomy (BNCS) is a novel application of the ¹⁰B(n,α) reaction for potential treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. During BNCS clinical trials, real-time knowledge of boron dose delivered to the synovium is necessary so that the remaining irradiation time…

Little has been written about the component provision problem (programming plans and domain concepts) for the repositories of knowledge in program understanding systems and reports that specifically address this issue are unknown. Model-driven and plan-driven approaches use repositories where construction…

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…

Purpose: The international literature suggests that disabled people may be at increased risk for HIV infection. There is a growing increasing recognition of this in South Africa, although there remains a paucity of literature on how disabled people are affected…