Se presentan los resultados de un proyecto etnobotánico que pretende rescatar el conocimiento vegetal y la etnomedicina entre los indígenas Warao de la Isla de Araguabisi y de Tucupita en el estado Delta Amacuro. El trabajo de campo se realizó…

Los vegetales han acompañado e influenciado estrechamente la historia del hombre. Por su gran diversidad de usos y funciones en la cotidianidad, se plantea que en gran medida su presencia ha sido vital y determinante para el desarrollo e la…

Las investigaciones desarrolladas por la lingüística moderna y, en particular, por Roman Jakobson, han demostrado científicamente que la función poética del lenguaje tiene la característica de vincular estrechamente el sonido y el sentido. Un campo idóneo para el estudio de…

The article reveals economy competitiveness and knowledge-based economy questions and the basis of information and communication technologies influence on this.  Methods and competitiveness estimation are presented. The work contains the methods of competitiveness estimation; researching of competitiveness level, human development…

In this paper, I would like to share my experience as a kidwatcher in a private school in Bogotá, Colombia while designing and implementing a variety of literacy activities to promote writing in English in an EFL context for second…

Product quality assessment is a complex task. The aim of this paper is to analyse the concepts of quality, different quality management models and their interaction with knowledge management models and the presented criteria system for assessing product quality. Moreover,…

Safety culture is a sub-unit of organisational culture, which affects members’ attitudes and behaviour in relation to organisation’s ongoing health and safety performance. Many companies want to enhance their safety culture or some aspect of safety behaviour trying to find…

Business engineering process improvement is required because of the complexity of production and changing markets. Therefore, a multi-level-model is being developed by which it is possible to examine not only the enterprise level of the business processes, but also the…

While building knowledge-based society and economy, particular importance in human resources management falls on the value of human resources and management expertise. The article analyses the features of human resources management competences in terms of completing human resources management functions…

Presented paper aims to reveal new aspects of propensity to emigrate. Overview of prevailing emigration theories is being followed by insight into current emigration tendencies in the European Union. Authors point out, that, despite economic driving forces are rather significant,…