The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss some results from an ethnographic research on Argentinian Mbya communities focused on representations and practices related to childrearing and development during the first stages of life course.
Firstly, I describe…

Los estudios de crecimiento tienen amplia tradición dentro de la Antropología Biológica por su variación en función de distintos factores biológicos y socio‐ambientales y por las complejas interacciones que se establecen entre ellos. Es por esto que el crecimiento es…

Background: Fieldwork has thoroughly established that most eggs are intensely predated. Among the few exceptions are the aerial egg clutches from the aquatic snail Pomacea canaliculata which have virtually no predators. Its defenses are advertised by the pigmented ovorubin perivitellin…

La educación ambiental, ha atravesado en las últimas décadas distintas etapas respecto de sus finalidades, contenidos y modos de interactuar en las aulas. En Buenos Aires, tal proceso de cambio se profundiza con la aprobación de los diseños curriculares en…

O artigo trata da questão da poluição atmosférica e do aquecimento global, fazendo um estudo do Protocolo de Kyoto e questões de natureza ética. Este artigo objetiva relacionar desenvolvimento sustentável, mecanismos de desenvolvimento limpo e mercado de créditos de carbono.…

A re-design process implies dealing with complex interactions between stakeholders, especially if we are talking about a personalization re-engineered process, which can be applied to an existing web application. In this context, knowledge becomes a main factor of influence, but…

Lawyers often need to look for previous similar legal cases when analysing new ones.
The more previous cases, the more time is spent. Classical search engines execute termbased retrieval, which may miss relevant documents as well as fetch several irrelevant…

As a contribution to consider software projects to be risk investments, it is important the full standardization of either the planning methodology (as a subset of project management methodology) and the effort estimation method. We think there is important and…

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…

The general objective of this thesis is the development of an adaptive technique for extracting knowledge in large databases. Nowadays, technology allows storing huge volumes of information. For this reason, the availability of techniques that allow, as a first stage,…