La conmemoración del septuagésimo aniversario de la Sociedad Argentina de Antropología nos brinda la oportunidad de sintetizar las distintas corrientes que predominaron en la disciplina del Folklore. El itinerario propuesto muestra cómo se conformó este campo del conocimiento mediante los…

Effective document retrieval using domain knowledge and semantics is one of the major challenges in Information Retrieval. Over the last years, there has been a growing interest in ontologies as an artifact for human knowledge representation and a critical component…

The way frailty is conceptualised and interpreted has profound implications for social responses, care practice and the personal experience of care. This paper begins with an exegesis of the concept of frailty, and then examines the dominant notions of frailty,…

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Editorial. Formación basada en competencias.


DOSSIER: Formación por competencias: un nuevo reto pedagógico


El largo camino de las competencias. Diseño de perfiles y programas.
A long trip towards competences: profile design and programs.

A formulation to treat aleatory and epistemic uncertainties, in a separate way, on infrastructures is proposed and applied to a dam and a breakwater in Mexico. The purpose of that is to de termine 2nd order bounds on the reliability…

, Editorial, Aguilera, Oscar, Presentación:, Academia, salud y ciudad, Aguilera, Oscar, El pensamiento académico venezolano, opción revolucionaria: Un ensayo bibliográfico, The Venezuelan academic thought a revolutionary option: A bibliographical essay, Jiménez, Elsi, El perfil de la élite política vs. el…

A fuzzy controller is usually designed by formulating the knowledge of a human expert into a set of linguistic variables and fuzzy rules. As it is well known, the use of prior knowledge can dramatically improve the performance and quality…

Galardonada la universidad de Los Andes y premiada la democracia venezolana.
University of Los Andes awarded and Venezuelan democracy honored.
Anzola, Myriam

Brazil nut is widely recognized as the cornerstone of the Amazonian extractive economy. Tight linkages between Brazil nut production, regional income, and intact mature forests have thrust this species into focus as a key component of Amazonian conservation and income…

A investigation was conducted to evaluate six 'green' office buildings acoustically to learn design lessons. It involved a meeting with designers, performing an occupant satisfaction survey, analyzing the acoustical responses, walking through the building, and planning acoustical measurements. The results…