This study set sights at the issue of predominance of the attitude and behavior of self medication, medication storage and self treatment among female students of a Pakistani university. Random sampling and cross sectional surveys were conducted after collecting the…

Una nueva filosofía de Management tiene el objetivo de capturar, diseminar y rehusar el conocimiento disperso que poseen las organizaciones y que junto a sus recursos humanos constituyen su Capital Intelectual, que forma parte de su activo más importante en…

Las ciencias sociales en su versión clásica –adoptando como modelo a las ciencias naturales- se centraron en el estudio de los hechos empíricos con la pretensión de arribar a un conocimiento objetivo de la realidad. Desde este enfoque la ciencia…

Me propongo analizar y discutir algunos resultados de una investigación etnográfica desarrollada en comunidades Mbya Guaraníes (Misiones, Argentina) acerca de las representaciones y prácticas relacionadas con la crianza y el desarrollo infantil.
En este trabajo caracterizo las categorías, representaciones y…

Processes of spatial mobility among the Mbya are of interest in anthropological and ethnobiological studies, as these processes are related to transformations in the landscape and the environment. Despite this, ethnographic literature usually focuses itself on the mobility of Guaraní…

Humans have always been intrigued by their ability to reason. We have constantly attempted to emulate this process, trying almost everything, from physiological explanations, to sociological accounts. The approach with possibly the longest tradition conceives this process as a mere…

Analiza las políticas sanitarias del gobierno de Domingo Alfredo Mercante (1946-1952) – mano derecha de Juan Domingo Perón – en la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, atendiendo a lo que fue una de sus más instigantes líneas de intervención: la…

This paper presents a proposal for an architecture that integrates knowledge discovery systems (automatic acquisition) and knowledge based systems (experts systems). This work formulates considerations over the viability of the implementation of this architecture according to the advance of the…

Cultural differences play a very important role in matching computer interfaces to the expectations of users from different national and cultural backgrounds. But to date, there has been little systematic research as to the extent of such differences, and how…

Ontologies serve as a mean to establish a conceptually concise basis for communicating knowledge for many purposes. Within the information integration area, ontologies are useful to solve heterogeneity problems. They provide a set of knowledge terms, including the vocabulary, the…