The glacigenic boulders from the Hirnantian Don Braulio Formation of the Argentine Precordillera contain a well preserved shelly fauna allowing to a better knowledge of brachiopods and bivalves, but gastropods remain undescribed. The purpose of this paper is to give…

The South American giant short-faced bear (Arctotherium angustidens Gervais and Ameghino, 1880) is one of five described Arctotherium species endemic to South America and it is known for being the earliest, largest, and most carnivorous member of the genus. Here…

This paper addresses the problem of contour line extraction from scanned topographic maps in poor condition. A novel method is developed, using knowledge of cartography and graphics to extract contours by removing other layers which overlay the contours, and reconstructing…

Presentation of a web collection platform designed to relate and unify information available on different standard web sources with a view to creating a userbrowseable thematic repository. The platform will be used at the Intellectual Creation Diffusion Service combined with…

Vision based applications are present anywhere. A special market is industry, allowing to improve product quality and to reduce manufacturing costs. The vision systems applied to industries are known as machine vision systems. These systems must meet time constraints to…

Mediante técnicas paleoparasitológicas cuantitativas y cualitativas se examinaron los sedimentos de la cavidad pélvica de dos esqueletos humanos. Los individuos fueron hallados en dos enterratorios asociados al asentamiento español de fines de siglo XVI "Nombre de Jesús" (Cabo Vírgenes, provincia…

Mediante técnicas paleoparasitológicas cuantitativas y cualitativas se examinaron los sedimentos de la cavidad pélvica de dos esqueletos humanos. Los individuos fueron hallados en dos enterratorios asociados al asentamiento español de fines de siglo XVI "Nombre de Jesús" (Cabo Vírgenes, provincia…

Genomic and darwinian medicine deal with the application of hereditary and evolutionary principles for the understanding of health and disease. The progress in molecular and bioinformatic knowledge is making possible through a holistic
approach to biological phenomena and one aspect…

Los paradigmas, las técnicas y las prácticas producto de tradiciones regulan las formas de transmisión del saber, estableciendo las concepciones de sujeto, así como las nociones de cuerpo, de prácticas corporales y, sobre todo, de cómo se educa lo “corporal”.

A new impetus for recollecting information seems regaining appeal, maybe heir of the “social indicators movement”. The movement was an heir to the supporters of quantification in the Social Sciences, as numbers were believed to be objective and scientific per…