This paper aims to clarify an economic mechanism behind the growing dichotomy between geo-economics and the borderless global knowledge economy. The proposed hypothesis is that geo-economic fault-lines, which are the product of the past prejudices of racial, linguistic, and cultural…

Tardigrades constitute one of three clades of Xenarthra. Whereas modern tree sloths are common in the Amazonian Basin, their giant ground sloth "kin" were abundant throughout the Americas. During the Miocene, sloths were conspicuous faunal elements in Patagonia, generally considered…

Recent contributions to the knowledge of Gondwanan cynodonts highlight the presence in Africa of taxa previously recognized in South America and vice-versa. This is the case for the Middle Triassic Namibian fauna from the upper Omingonde Formation, where the first…

Talampaya and Tarjados Formations correspond to the initial stage of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin filling, and record the oldest post-Permian events in the region. The sequence consists of red beds deposited essentially by ephemeral alluvial and fluvial systems, and overlay…

The glacigenic boulders from the Hirnantian Don Braulio Formation of the Argentine Precordillera contain a well preserved shelly fauna allowing to a better knowledge of brachiopods and bivalves, but gastropods remain undescribed. The purpose of this paper is to give…

Although South America lost more megafaunal genera than any other continent during the Late-Quaternary Extinction event (LQE), little is known about the chronology, causes or dynamics of these extinctions, especially in the northern part of the continent. Fossil deposits in…

Species of Brunfelsia, whose flowers change colour progressively from violet to white, are popularly known as yesterday-today-tomorrow and used in folk medicine, mainly as anesthetic and diuretic. Based on ethnobotanical surveys, they have been investigated chemically and pharmacologically for expanding…

En mi trabajo investigo las nuevas modulaciones de la ciencia ficción en el cine argentino de las últimas décadas observando cómo determinados saberes tales como la ciencia, la medicina y la biotecnología, están presente en su imaginario. Observaré cómo cierta…

En este artículo se describen las vinculaciones entre la ciudadanía de baja intensidad y las estrategias que los políticos llevan adelante durante su gestión, a través de los planes asistenciales. Asimismo se explican las diferentes relaciones clientelares que se generan…

El objeto de este trabajo es mostrar dos problemas básicos que obstaculizan la producción
de didácticas para las ciencias jurídicas. El primero de estos problemas lo constituyen los
usos de la ética, y la conciencia, definitorios tanto de la enseñanza…