El autor aborda la fitotoponimia de una zona rural del Estado Mérida (Venezuela),
conocida como parroquia o micro-región Mucurubá, territorio en el que tal categoría está representada por numerosos nombres geográficos. Se analiza la significación social de los fitotopónimos, específicamente…

Purpose: The international literature suggests that disabled people may be at increased risk for HIV infection. There is a growing increasing recognition of this in South Africa, although there remains a paucity of literature on how disabled people are affected…

Este trabajo de investigación presenta un análisis lingüístico hecho a partir de la Semiótica
de las pasiones. El corpus escogido corresponde a la epístola Romanos B (Romanos 1, 1-
15) del apóstol San Pablo, simulacro epistolar de contenido cristiano moralizante.…

When a person is born, apart from natural instincts and biological impulses endowed in his existence, is unaware of realities around him. He gets acquainted with the world around him by utilizing senses and wisdom bestowed upon him by God.…

Este trabajo intenta contribuir con el conocimiento de la epidemiología de la tripanosomiasis en bovinos tropicales. El estudio se realizó en bovinos del valle de Aroa, Venezuela mediante un muestreo estratificado polietápico, seleccionándose 387 animales de dos unidades agroecológicas (U.A.)…

Competing claims about the level of ignorance, or knowledge, among the current Nexus generation are addressed. The core of the paper is a theoretical analysis of ignorance in the knowledge society. Specifically, the knowledge-ignorance paradox suggests that the intense specialization…

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the method of meaning implication discourse analysis can be applied in the context of online collaborative reflective practice of student teachers. The method was developed to identify knowledge building in networked…

The authors argue that, rather than abandoning education in secretarial/office administration disciplines, universities should be leading the educational trans- formation required to prepare personnel to exploit the potential of computer- based technologies. Four points support the argument. First, computer-based office…