Designed to provide an introductory grounding in Typography, The Complete Typographer teaches the essentials for the effective use of type - technical expertise and historical knowledge, an understanding of the functional and aesthetic qualities of different typefaces, and the organization…

This paper shows some indicators of the environmental crisis and its complex problems. It also recognizes that solutions to environmental problems require reflection on deep changes in knowledge organization, i. e., a new paradigm related to the concept of totality.…

Le brossage des dents, la mastication des aliments et toutes autres activités orales quotidiennes peuvent provoquer une bactériémie transitoire. Cette bactériémie transitoire a le potentiel de causer une endocardite infectieuse en présence de certains facteurs de risque. Les cardiopathies congénitales…

The changes that have taken place during the modern era have threatened the overall authority of the ‘ulamā’ as transmitters of knowledge. The ‘ulamā’ nevertheless retained their status by adapting their past discursive forms. Based upon interviews and content analysis,…

Building on the strength of the first edition, Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics provides a simple introduction to the mathematical and statistical techniques needed in business. This book is accessible and easy to use, with the emphasis clearly on…

En el trabajo se analizan las consecuencias de la crisis económica internacional de 2008 sobre el turismo en el destino Rio Grande do Norte (Brasil), dedicándose especial atención a los efectos de esta crisis y a las medidas implantadas para…

The educational policies of the Singapore government are driven by the needs of a modern knowledge-based society and economic development, with the state advocating modernity while the Muslim minority, arguably, appeared to be caught in tradition and holding on to…

En el mundo globalizado actual, el idioma inglés ha cruzado las fronteras y se ha convertido en elemento esencial en el desarrollo y progreso de las naciones. La mayoría de los planes curriculares, en las instituciones educativas del Ecuador, para…

Este artículo es el resultado de un diálogo crítico con Literaturwissenchaft als Lebenswissenschaft (Teoría literaria como conocimiento de la vida) que es el “texto programático” (Programmschrift) escrito por el filólogo alemán Ottmar Ette, respecto de las reflexiones y debates sobre…

In the past few years, improvements in the data acquisition technology have decreased the time interval of data gathering. Consequently, institutions have stored huge amounts of data such as climate time series and remote sensing images. Computational models to filter,…