2007

Good command of anatomy is a basic requirement for studying and practicing clinical disciplines. A common difficulty that faces many medical and dental students (at least this was the case with the author) is how to keep their knowledge of…

Contribuição tecnológica da Embrapa Cerrados para a agropecuária no bioma Cerrado; Caracterização e conservação da biodiversidade do bioma Cerrado; Gestão de recursos hídrico e manejo de irrigação no Cerrado; Manejo e fertilidade de solo no Cerrado: contribuição da pesquisa; Viabilidade…

The way frailty is conceptualised and interpreted has profound implications for social responses, care practice and the personal experience of care. This paper begins with an exegesis of the concept of frailty, and then examines the dominant notions of frailty,…

Brazil nut is widely recognized as the cornerstone of the Amazonian extractive economy. Tight linkages between Brazil nut production, regional income, and intact mature forests have thrust this species into focus as a key component of Amazonian conservation and income…

A utilização da modelagem matemática pode contribuir para aumentar o conhecimento em sistemas de produção animal, possibilitando a identificação, compreensão e quantificação das interações e problemas nestes sistemas. Por este motivo, o objetivo deste trabalho foi desenvolver um modelo para…

Open Source Software projects base their operation on collaborative structure for knowledge exchange in the form of provision or reception of information, expertise and feedback on the creation of source code. Here, we address the direction of these knowledge flows…

The purpose of this study was to investigate sources of knowledge acquisition of high school team sport coaches. Six teacher/coaches were interviewed using a semi-structured open-ended interview format. Cote, Salmela, and Russell's (1995) guidelines were used to inductively analyze and…

In this thesis we follow two directions: Zero Knowledge Protocols and the Discrete Logarithm Problem. In each direction we present the necessary background and we give a new approach for some parts of the existing protocols., The new parts are…

Metacognitive knowledge is a critical piece of the information literacy puzzle. In a world of exploding information and communications possibilities, the difficulty for users of information systems and services may not lie in finding information but in filtering and integrating…