The preservation, management, and sharing of indigenous knowledge is crucial for social and economic development in ruralAfrica. The high rate of illiteracy (print-based) in rural Africa and the exclusion of indigenous knowledge from Western education add to the information gap…

The knowledge of the characteristics of the Chilean convict population is of main importance in order to devise Health services in this area, nevertheless there was no representative information on the subject in Chile. This transversal design study describes convicted…

Theoretical constructions about time and space produced to describe and understand the relationship between gender and work, in the context of organizational university structures, are discussed. To do so, 5 narratives of academic women on their gender experiences within university…

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This study examines possible interaction effects of gender and region (urban vs. rural) on student beliefs about women in math and science, their attitudes towards math and science, and their confidence in the use of technology. A secondary purpose of…

This paper is a case study of the role of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) and multi-stakeholder governance processes in the formation of international communication-information policy. It analyzes the Campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS) during the World…

This paper discusses the recognition of textual entailment in a text-hypothesis pair by applying a wide variety of lexical measures. We consider that the entailment phenomenon can be tackled from three general levels: lexical, syntactic and semantic. The main goals…

As a contribution to consider software projects to be risk investments, it is important the full standardization of either the planning methodology (as a subset of project management methodology) and the effort estimation method. We think there is important and…

The design and analysis of research may cause systematic gender dependent errors to be produced in results because of gender insensitivity or androcentrism. Gender bias in research could be defined as a systematically erroneous gender dependent approach related to social…

When researchers in the field of Applied Linguistics or L2 teachers
try to carry out any kind of research, several problems arise. The first
one is knowing how to start the process of ‘researching’. The second
problem, perhaps more frustrating,…