This paper aims to clarify an economic mechanism behind the growing dichotomy between geo-economics and the borderless global knowledge economy. The proposed hypothesis is that geo-economic fault-lines, which are the product of the past prejudices of racial, linguistic, and cultural…

Esta investigación cualitativa tuvo como propósito comprender el significado que le otorgan las(os) adolescentes al ejercicio de su función sexual. Se realizó con 12 adolescentes de las comunidades Simón Bolívar y Pueblo Nuevo, Mérida, Venezuela. El método utilizado fue la…

“Trust your senses not your neighbours.”
– London Transport security notice.

In the wake of 9/11 and the London bombings of 2005, public safety campaigns in London featured signs with the above warning on the underground and at bus…

Context: The Dreyfus model describes how individuals progress through various levels in their acquisition of skills and subsumes ideas with regard to how individuals learn. Such a model is being accepted almost without debate from physicians to explain the ‘acquisition’…

Presentamos Sentitext, un sistema de análisis de sentimiento con arquitectura cliente-servidor para el español, cuya característica más distintiva es el estar basado en conocimiento. En primer lugar describimos las fuentes de conocimiento léxico que el analizador utiliza y a continuación…

Chingaza como destino de turismo contemplativo, nace de un deseo personal por generar reflexión en las gentes, hacia un respeto por la vida y un cuidado de nuestra biodiversidad y se traduce en la práctica, en un modelo de gestión…

Background: The acquisition of new knowledge is a primary goal of residency training. Retrieving and retaining influential primary and secondary medical literature can be challenging for house officers. We set out to investigate the effect of a Universal Serial Bus…

Background: It is increasingly important that physicians have a thorough understanding of the basic science of human genetics and the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) associated with genetic testing and counseling. Methods: The authors developed a series of web-based…

Background: Although medical programmes are often thoroughly evaluated, these evaluations more seldom include workplace points of view. The present study focuses on how well a Swedish medical programme was judged to prepare students for work as a physician. Methods: Thirty-two…

La historia oficial afirma que Occidente heredó directamente el legado cultural de Grecia y Roma. Pero si la mayoría de los manuscritos griegos y latinos fueron destruidos a partir del saqueo de la Biblioteca de Alejandría en 391, los archivos…