The objectives of this work were: (i) identified the risk areas of landslides, flooding and sea level rise and social vulnerabilities in different scales of analysis; (ii) analyse the risk perception of people living in this risk areas; (iii) found…

O presente trabalho relata a experiência desenvolvimento e aplicação, no âmbito de um projeto de pesquisa, de um modelo de organização e representação do conhecimento sobre os processos de intensificação agropecuária, contextualizados por observações empíricas em regiões produtoras de commodities…

En los crustáceos decápodos, las proteasas digestivas más comúnmente descritas son de la clase serino, sin embargo, estudios recientes reportan la presencia de otras clases de enzimas como las cisteíno proteasas en especies de decápodos Carideos y más recientemente proteasas…

Throughout 2006-2009 Elders, Aboriginal resource people, and Aboriginal scholars shared their insights about the learning spirit with the Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre’s (ABLKC) Nourishing the Learning Spirit Animation Theme Bundle, led by M'ikmaw education scholar Dr. Marie Battiste. The ABLKC…

Emerging international research suggests that
enhancing teacher-student assessment for learning
(AfL) interactions is a key to enhancing student
learning. Planning frameworks that make explicit the
multiple dimensions of technology can be used to
extend teacher knowledge and focus interaction.
Effective…

With this article, we wish to make a contribution to the
ongoing debate about the nature of technological literacy,
by sharing our views of what goals are important to strive
for within technology as a school subject in compulsory
school,…

Over the past decade, several prominent U.S.
organizations have suggested Americans – particularly
American students – should be more knowledgeable
about technology to be successful, well-rounded
citizens. However, these urgings have been made
largely in the absence of data about…

The Curtain Within: Haida Social and Mythical Discourse by Marianne Boelscher-Reviewed by Anna de Aguayo (pgs: 75-7)Trail to Heaven: Knowledge and Narrative in a Northern Native Community by Robin Ridington-Reviewed by Richard Preston (pgs: 77-9)Environmental Ethics: Philosophical and Policy Perspectives by Philip P.…

This paper will address five questions that emerge
from the title of the Design and Technology
Association Education and International Research
Conference 2007: ‘Linking Learning’: (a) How can we
think about learning so that it informs our work in
design…

The aim of this paper is to increase external auditors’ knowledge about earnings management and help them spot the difference between earnings management and financial reporting fraud. A thorough literature review was undertaken to achieve the paper’s aim. The secondary…