by Shawn W. Ritchie., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 1999., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-81).

In the search for meaning, the architectural profession legitimately seeks culture to sanction its products. However, in business organizations, culture is complex and tacit- richer and deeper than any of its external manifestations, including architecture. To compensate for culture's incoherence,…

Artículo colectivo sobre qué entendemos por "constructivismo" en enseñanza de las ciencias., In this paper we analyse some of the criticisms that are being made to the «constructivist paradigm» and their
implications on the development of the didactic of the…

El objetivo central de esta línea de investigación consiste en proponer distintas metodologías formales para representar el conocimiento en diversos sistemas argumentativos.
Como todo sistema simbólico, los sistemas argumentativos emulan el proceso de razonamiento como una manipulación dediversos símbolos. Esto…

1. Introduction to academic networks 2. Conceptual framework of networking: internal and external connections that bring relevance 3. Making knowledge through academic networks supported in technologies 4. Meetings and disagreements in the contribution to academic networks for knowledge construction, References

The aim of this work is to relate two apparently independent concepts as belief revision and relevance. We propose a formal characterization for the notion of (ir)relevance by means of a set of postulates. Then we define (ir)relevance using change…

One of the more recent and alluring phrases used by development and resource management practitioners and theorists is "traditional ecological knowledge." Although there is a substantial amount of the literature on this subject, these studies have unfortunately an inadequate characterization…

The use of clocks for timekeeping seems to be a straightforward and almost intuitive routine. Glancing at mechanical clocks designed in Edo period Japan, however, we witness how modern-day intuitions betray our attempts to understand devices created in a culture…

While theory formation and the relation between theory and data has been investigated in many studies of scientific reasoning, researchers have focused less attention on reasoning about experimental design, even though the experimental design process makes up a large part…

The purpose of this study is to investigate a series of issues around the primary theme of value constructions and the ways that these influence the construction of interior spaces and impact on its occupants. The ways in which knowledge…