Considering the importance of the debate on the topic of disasters related to landslides, flooding and technological risks, under international and more recently in Brazil, this work analyzes the situations of vulnerability risk areas on the Northern Coast of São…

O conhecimento da variabilidade espacial dos atributos do solo que influenciam na produtividade agrícola é fundamental para a implantação da agricultura de precisão. Se o comportamento desses atributos apresentar dependência espacial, recomendase o emprego da geoestatística na descrição de sua…

En este trabajo defiendo la idea de que la competencia lingüística está constituida por lo que denomino 'actitudes de aceptación subdoxásticas'. Estas son estados mentales cognoscitivos con un contenido conceptual, pero que son inconscientes en un sentido profundo. En primer…

Mexico counts among the five countries with the highest biodiversity in the world. In the Yucatán Peninsula, there are aquatic ecosystems with a very special microbial diversity. These ecosystems are essential for the ecological equilibrium of the region, and are…

This paper means to show how British Colonialism in India was made possible, and then sustained and strengthened, as much by cultural technologies of rule as it was by the more obvious and brutal modes of conquest. In fact colonialism…

The creation of a stone fruit, pear and citrus integrated pest management (IPM) interdisciplinary network (entomology, and field and post-harvest pathology) to strengthen the exchange of knowledge and experiences of participating working groups is proposed; emphasizing on the development of…

Data quality issues have taken on increasing importance in recent years. In our research, we have discovered that many “data quality” problems are actually “data misinterpretation” problems – that is, problems with data semantics. In this paper, we first illustrate…

Analysis of resistance groups active in the War on Terror provides case-studies for an examination of Occidentalism. Al-Qaida constructs a West both homogeneously and pejoratively in order to represent the self as a single Islamic nation under attack from a…

Dust is an ubiquitous inhabitant of the interstellar medium, and leaves an unmistakable signature in its optical properties, and physico-chemical evolution. Although there is little direct knowledge of the true nature of interstellar dust grains, strong evidences point toward the…

Learning-by-doing and external productive effects of government spending are well-known engines of long-run economic growth. To the best of our knowledge, the interaction of these growth engines has not been analysed. This paper aims at filling this vacuum by combining…