The knowledge of spatial variability soil properties is useful in the rational use of inputs, as in the site specific application of lime and fertilizer. The objective of this work was to map and evaluate the spatial variability of the…

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Introduction: The use of computer-generated 3-dimensional (3-D) anatomical models to teach anatomy has proliferated. However, there is little evidence that these models are educationally effective. The purpose of this study was to test the educational effectiveness of a computer-generated 3-D…

A review of Richard E. Lee, Knowledge Matters: The Structures of Knowledge and the Crisis of the Modern World System (UQP, 2010).

This article considers higher education in the context of global knowledge economy policies as a site for the production of economic subjectivities. Drawing insights from poststructuralist theory and feminist economics, it explores how the incorporation of economic discourse and market…

Este artigo discute o problema da preservação do patrimônio urbano no contexto das cidades, aqui entendida como expressões de modos de vida e relações sociais, presentes nas manifestações da Cultura, no cotidiano dos indivíduos, na família, lazer, ou seja, nas…

Los estudiantes universitarios presentan algunas dificultades al momento de leer y escribir géneros relacionados con su disciplina, debido a que cualquier área del conocimiento implica formas particulares de escribir y ellos no reciben el adecuado entrenamiento lingüístico. Por tanto, este…

Higher education on the corporate model imagines students as consumers, choosing between knowledge products and brands. It imagines itself liberating the university from the dictates of the State/tradition/aristocratic self-replication, and putting it in the hands of its democratic stakeholders. It…

The ambiguity, robustness and performance of systems becomes increasingly evident as the complexity and size increase in industrial processes. Under these circumstances, conventional control techniques such as PID control, nonlinear feedback control, LQG control and H∞ control have several disadvantages…

In mainstream humanities and social sciences, a traditional humanism has given way to an ethos of cultural difference. One form of cosmopolitanism triumphs over another as the goal of pedagogy. Both these cosmopolitanisms keep alive a model of culture as…