Abstract


This thesis examines literacy practices embedded in the home domain of three
transnational families from a new sending region in Mexico with the aim of
understanding the relationship between literacy and transnational migration.
Data was collected…

Rough Sets Theory has opened new trends for the development of the Incomplete Information Theory. Inside this one, the notion of reduct is a very significant one, but to obtain a reduct in a decision system is an expensive computing…

Se realizó un estudio piloto para evaluar la aceptación y efectividad de dos materiales educativos (Cartilla y Fotocartel), elaborados a partir del conocimiento tradicional que poseen las comunidades seleccionadas en tres humedales llaneros, con el propósito de propiciar cambios en…

Se realizó un análisis de la concentración de algunos minerales como potasio, sodio, calcio, magnesio y hierro en el tejido muscular del morocoto Piaractus brachypomus del Orinoco medio en Venezuela, capturado en algunas lagunas de inundación con redes de enmalle.…

In this paper, I offer an explanation of my own working art practices as set within the context of the spaces of the archive and presented as a series of questions arrived at through action, illuminated in turn by anthropological…

Here I first provide an introduction to a neglected topic in contemporary aesthetics: intellectual beauty. Then I review James McAllister?s critique of autonomism and reductionism regarding the relation between empirical and aesthetic criteria in scientific theory evaluation. Finally, I critique…

Here I first provide an introduction to a neglected topic in contemporary aesthetics: intellectual beauty. Then I review James McAllister?s critique of autonomism and reductionism regarding the relation between empirical and aesthetic criteria in scientific theory evaluation. Finally, I critique…

The research problem dealt with in the first part of this text concerns the existence of a Mayan theory of knowledge based on its own historical evolution through a mind perspective that involves an acceptance of intercultural difference. The text…

The Libro de medicinas, muy seguro.... (1751) is an unpublished source of great importance for our knowledge of traditional Yucatec medicine, both because of its early date as well as the fact that it reflects a synthesis between purely indigenous…

The research problem dealt with in the first part of this text concerns the existence of a Mayan theory of knowledge based on its own historical evolution through a mind perspective that involves an acceptance of intercultural difference. The text…