First year students often feel ill-equipped academically and emotionally, hindering their
integration and adjustment into university life. This report describes a standardised
orientation program for first year undergraduate students focusing on peer and academic
support based on…

En este trabajo procuramos reflexionar sobre las posibilidades
que le brinda el ciberespacio a la Universidad para que difunda, a través de
las bibliotecas digitales, el producto científico que germina dentro de sus
paredes. Para ello, tomamos en consideración algunos…

El inicio de relaciones diplomáticas de Venezuela con el
continente africano se remonta a mediados del siglo XX. Sin embargo,
dicha temática no ha sido objeto de interés por parte de la historiografía
venezolana dedicada a esta área del conocimiento…

En el presente escrito intentamos analizar la obra del militar,
viajero y geógrafo italiano Agustín Codazzi, quien vino a jugar un
papel fundamental en el proceso de fundación de la nación venezolana
entre 1830-1850. Igualmente, ambicionamos hacer una aproximación
al…

The present research work has been developed in the context in which the approval of the Intercultural Education Act, to willing interculturalizing the educational process holistically, multiculturalism that had hitherto been exclusively dedicated to the nationalities and indigenous peoples. In…

The etiology and epidemiology of Pythium root rot in hydroponically-grown crops are reviewed with emphasis on knowledge and concepts considered important for managing the disease in commercial greenhouses. Pythium root rot continually threatens the productivity of numerous kinds of crops…

This study explored the relationship between vocabulary size (i.e., breadth of knowledge), depth of vocabulary knowledge, and reading comprehension of Chinese-speaking ESL (English as a second language) university students in Canada. Both aspects of vocabulary knowledge, breadth and depth, continue…

La fuerza arrolladora de la globalización y la crisis de los modelos convencionales de interpretación del mundo rural, están acercando los enfoques hermeneúticos a los
territorios rurales, particularmente los indígenas, en los que son más evidentes los alcances culturales…

The purpose of this study was to identify how coaches who have surpassed their athletic achievements acquired their coaching knowledge. Six University coaches from basketball, volleyball, and hockey, with a combined total of fourteen coach of the year awards were…

Children's speech sound errors may reflect deficits in acoustic-phonetic, articulatory-phonetic, or phonological knowledge of those sounds. The purpose of the current study was to explore the factors believed to contribute to accurate articulation of /s/ in children with typically developing…