2009, Autores: Jorge Blajos, Patrick Lavelle, Dalva M. da Mota, Lucia Pitalluga, Sergio Salles Filho, Jorge Irán Vásquez.

Problematic aspects of intercultural communication are considered in the context of: an increasingly internationalized market for higher education; the globalization of knowledge; the compatibility of distinct national higher education cultures; and the capacity for successful cross-cultural cooperation. This is exemplified…

Using the underlying idea of the current-mode control, a new dynamical, sliding-mode control for the boost dc-dc converter is proposed. Such controller is easy to design, robust under load and input voltage variations, exhibits fast response, does not depend on…

El Arbitraje en Equidad es una de las instituciones más antiguas de administración de justicia.
Desde los orígenes de la humanidad, ya en la biblia, hay historias en las que se recurría ante un tercero imparcial, para que, según su…

Gilbert Ryle (1949) divided knowledge into “know that” and “know how”, which is neatly appealing to many design and technology educators, and like many writers on developing the curriculum, Kahney (1993) made a distinction between declarative knowledge:

verbal knowledge,…

Objective – Evidence based library and information services help to link best evidence with decision making in library practice. Current library and information science practice operates in both a knowledge and evidence-based environment. Health service librarians provide information services in…

El objetivo general de la presente investigación fue analizar las variables de vinculación de las universidades con el
sector productivo para el desarrollo tecnológico de las organizaciones. Asumiendo una concepción epistemológica enmarcada en el racionalismo, se seleccionó el método…

El Municipio del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito (MDMQ) cuenta con un total de 7134 colaboradores. Todos tienen un usuario que les permite acceder a la intranet institucional del cabildo y a los servicios que esta plataforma pone a su disposición.…

This paper outlines reflections by two tutors in Initial Teacher Education on ways design and technology (D&T) has been included in cross-curricular modules at our institution. These modules were a new addition to our courses in response to a conviction…

Researchers in science education have converged on the viewthat argumentation can be an effective intervention for promoting knowledge construction in science classrooms.However, the impact of such interventions may be mediated by individuals’ task goals while arguing. In argumentative discourse, one…