The integral development of a conventional broadcasting radio and its emission through internet is an investigative initiative and a pedagogic development. This idea, together with the creation of educative and local contents, wins great relevance in the TIC and the…

La comunidad sorda demanda una práctica comunicativa fundamental de naturaleza interpersonal, tan válida como la requerida por cualquier ser humano que maneje otro sistema de representación del lenguaje. Una comunicación que permita a sus usuarios, los sordos, el reconocimiento de…

El estudio indaga la actuación de profesores experimentados a partir de la caracterización de explicaciones en clases de física en una facultad de ingeniería. La aproximación metodológica es cualitativa. Es un estudio de casos. Dado el carácter social, didáctico, semiótico,…

À ce jour, peu d’études ont été conduites pour mieux comprendre le phénomène de la demande d’aide auprès d’hommes dans le contexte du cancer. Les études consultées suscitaient de nombreuses questions et hypothèses sur la signification que pouvaient accorder ces…

This study delineates practical knowledge bases that university professors draw upon during exemplary Critical Incidents of teaching. One hundred and eight full-time, tenure track, university professors from departments of Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, English, History, Math, and Philosophy across the…

Most of the current wireless sensor networks are built for specific applications, with a tight coupling between them and the underlying communication protocols. We present a more flexible architectural approach for building WSNs, in which application-specific features are decoupled from…

La estimación de precios es un proceso crítico para la elaboración de presupuestos en compañías que tienen que competir para obtener pedidos ofreciendo precios competitivos. En concreto, las compañías de mecanizado de piezas, dicho proceso es complejo, pues se pueden…

The three essays in the present dissertation build on and expand the notion of generativity in the context of a learning (i.e., knowledge creating) organization, and learning (i.e., knowledge based) economy in sequential progression with increasing levels of analysis. Essay…

Academics believe in a symbiotic relationship between research and teaching, though evidence challenges its existence. Previous studies may have defined these constructs too narrowly to detect the perceived relationships. This study used a qualitative approach to investigate chemistry professors' beliefs…

The history of post-disaster reconstruction programs, especially in developing countries, is replete with the failure to provide safe-construction methods that can be sustained and repeated over time, in spite of the usually acclaimed success of these projects by those in…