El rendimiento académico estudiantil ha sido definido como el cumplimiento de las metas, logros u objetivos establecidos en el programa o asignatura que está cursando el alumno.
Se puede analizar el rendimiento académico como una medida de las capacidades del…

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…

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…

The environmental crisis in our contemporary, globalized world, is facing a paradigm: the company now has a major technological development, and is also a society that destroys most in history. All the achievements of our civilization provide various negative factors,…

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.…

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…

In this paper a methodology for accesing scientific data repositories on data grids is proposed. This methodology is based on ontology specification and knowledge representation. The concept of Knowledge Perspective is introduced, as the action of applying particular scientific conjectures…

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…

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…