In this study I deal with the conception of "elocutio" as described and explained in the "Institutio oratoria". My main point of view is the semiotic one, since the analysis of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of this rhetorical operation…

La presente proposición ofrece una serie de ideas en torno a la Práctica Profesional como escenario de investigación y construcción del conocimiento profesional de los docentes de formación inicial. Su estudio tiene como base una Práctica que se configura como…

Modeling is one of the most crucial activities during all the phases in any software development life cycle. Typically, system development is a very complex task, and working with models helps to handle this complexity in an organized way, allowing…

When faced with challenging technical problems, R&D personnel would often turn to technical papers to seek inspiration for a solution. The building of a corpus of such papers and the easy retrieval of relevant papers by the user in his…

In a Communication Bootstrapping system, peer components with different perceptual worlds invent symbols and syntax based on correlations between their percepts. I propose that Communication Bootstrapping can also be used to acquire functional definitions of words and causal reasoning knowledge.…

El papel que las matronas han desempeñado a
lo largo de la historia ha estado íntimamente condicionado
por la cultura de la sociedad en la que
vivían: las costumbres, las creencias y los ritos. El
objeto del presente trabajo fue…

The objective of this paper is the construction of an Essential Object Model for Information Systems. This model is derived from the organization workflows representing the business processes and follows rules described by the methodology proposed. To achieve the desired…

Nuestro trabajo tiene como objetivo principal, la formulación de un modelo explicativo de la adquisición del aprendizaje complejo, y por extensión, del desarrollo inicial de la competencia
experta en un dominio específico. Modelo que tiene en cuenta los principales aspectos…

When I first started reading Ms. Le Guin's novel, I was struck by the presence in it of what I then recognized as elements from Eastern philosophy and thought, in particular Taoism. Long before mention is made of the yin-yang…

For 20 years, and more intensively during the last decade, indigenous knowledge has challenged the regime of intellectual property. If this field of law has been, in the past, challenged by new technology, it is now, with the problematic of…