This paper considers Aristotle’s account of technē (craft-knowledge) and the relationship it bears to phronesis (the capacity for excellent ethical deliberation). Neither techne nor phronesis are exclusively intellectual: both require practice and an evaluative capacity. Phronesis, however, structures a person’s…

One of the biggest changes that we are seeing both in educational settings and in society in general is progressive and unstoppable expansion of software and free knowledge as a new technological and cultural model of personal and social development,…

The objective of this thesis project is to build a robot that can clearly demonstrate its
potential to solve standard jigsaw puzzles. This robot must be capable of picking up
and reorienting puzzle pieces to the precision required for completing…

A goal of fisheries management is to predict the probability of successful
establishment of invasive fish species. To address this goal, species distribution models
are used to project species distribution under different climate-change scenarios. In this
study, the geographic distribution…

The analysis of noisy consensus dynamics in networks is of great interest to both
advance the fundamental understanding of multi-agent systems in nature as well as
create robust decentralized engineering systems. We develop a protocol that heuristically attempts to optimize…

Este trabajo de Titulación se basa en la elaboración de un Plan de Inducción, que apoye la labor de los nuevos funcionarios que se incorporen al Ministerio de Salud Pública y que tengan conocimientos básicos sobre los procedimientos que deben…

In the last three decennia there has been a sizable shift of labor out of Brazilian agriculture in response to the higher returns to be gained in non-farm employment. The shift has not been rapid enough to equalize the income…

El software Compers es una de las herramientas tecnológicas que permite el desarrollo del Área de talento humano de la organización. Este método permite automatizar todos los subprocesos que engloba a la Gestión de Recursos Humanos sin importar el tipo…

El problema fundamental enfrentado por investigadores en lo metodológico
tiene un fondo esencialmente epistemológico, pues giran alrededor conceptos
de conocimiento, ciencia y respetabilidad científica de sus productos: conocer la
verdad y leyes de la naturaleza. Se percibe una crisis, no…

This empirical study investigates the type of knowledge the NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisations) transfer to the beneficiaries in Bangladesh.  About 22,000 NGOs are in operations in Bangladesh with a view to developing the socio-economic conditions of their beneficiaries. Knowledge transfer is…