Current theories of physics cognition require specification of complex mechanisms for explaining knowledge acquisition. I demonstrate that a quantitative model of physics perception can be constructed by assuming that physics problem perception provides an optimal summary of a set of…

À l’ère de la société de la connaissance, l’éducation supérieure occupe une place
prépondérante dans le monde et les universités sont des acteurs de premier ordre.
La connaissance, à travers l’innovation qu’elle permet, est devenue un élément central du processus…

En este artículo se revisan los estudios realizados sobre la influencia
que tienen los procesos erosivos sobre la vegetación. Fundamentalmente
se revisan las tendencias generales en la composición florística
de las comunidades vegetales sometidas a fuertes procesos erosivos,
así como…

The appearance and continuous growth of virtual communities on the web imposes the challenge of coping with the large amount of information and knowledge these communities produce. The Semantic Web with its set of standards and technologies provides the basic…

Following the deaths of Victoria Climbié and of Peter Connelly (Baby P) the media has raged about social work competence, the public have expressed dismay and the government has responded with proposals designed to alter practice procedures. Altering procedures gives…

Although we represent other people in terms of both what they look like and how they behave, these two aspects of person knowledge have rarely been studied together. While vision scientists have focused on the processing of faces and bodies,…

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A new species of Seticornuta from Brazil is described and illustrated, the frst record of this genus for the Brazilian fauna. This new species was found in a study that aimed to enhance knowledge of the Brazilian fauna of Metopiinae,…

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…

En este trabajo se presentan los objetivos y alcances del proyecto de investigación AP/048416/11, “TIC Y Formación Web 2.0 para la Inclusión Social y el Desarrollo Sostenible”, financiado por la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) y…