The closing decades of the twentieth century saw a dramatic shift from institutional to community-based care for the mentally ill. This paper describes a study of the social representation of mental illness by mental health professionals working in Britain and…

Los avances de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC)
presionan la educación y provocan transformaciones en el qué y cómo enseñar,
entre otros aspectos. Su conversión en un soporte educativo efectivo requerirá
de procesos de innovación de la…

Planteamos varias actividades didácticas cuyo objetivo es que los alumnos y alumnas comprendan la influencia de la isostasia y del flujo térmico en el relieve del planeta y su relación con la Tectónica de Placas. Tres de ellas se basan…

Con especial atención se discute sobre la esencia de la verdad en Occidente y sus repercusiones en una ciencia como la Historia. Por ello se indaga en los
procedimientos por los cuales la Historia busca y maneja los elementos…

This work presents the main theories and models formulated with the purpose of offering a global overview on the acquisition of knowledge and skills involved in the initial development of expert competence. Setting from this background, we developed an empirical…

The area of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning has been enriched during the past two decades with the addition of Argument-Based Reasoning Systems. Defeat between arguments is established by a combination of two basic elements: a conflict or defeat relation, and…

Distance learning courses need intensive planning that, in turn, requires the integration of knowledge and expertise in different areas and levels such as curriculum, ICTs and course management. This paper presents an integrated approach for distance learning course planning that…

As a contribution to consider software projects to be risk investments, it is important the full standardization of either the planning methodology (as a subset of project management methodology) and the effort estimation method. We think there is important and…

PET is a nuclear medical examination which constructs a three-dimensional image of metabolism inside the body; in this article is particular, images are taken from the brain. The high complexity inherent to the interpretation of the brain images makes that…

When using tableaux algorithms to reason about Description Logics (DLs), new information is inferred from the models considered while trying to achieve knowledge satisfiability. By focusing the ontology change problem, we consider an environment where DLs are the logical formalization…