"The discrepancy between [our personal experiences] and our idealizations of knowledge leads us into counterproductive strategies for learning and thinking" (Papert 1993). This discrepancy has driven most research towards understanding how people fail to accomplish a task, while few researchers…

(cont.) to variations in the way functional elements interact with verbal roots. Overall, my work not only contributes to our understanding of how events are syntactically represented, but also explicates interactions at the syntax-semantics interface, clarifying the relationship between surface…

(cont.) in the ECS signal, no definitive method for sensing blade vibration using an ECS has yet been developed., High cycle fatigue (HCF) cracks generated by compressor blade vibrations are a common source of failure in gas turbine engines. Current…

Para mostrar la contribución de la evidencia cualitativa a la práctica de la enfermería y la salud comunitaria, se hace necesario primero examinar lo que es evidencia y cual es la relación que hay entre la investigación y la práctica.…

This project investigates how doctoral students make
‘learning leaps’ to recognise and cross conceptual
and skills thresholds in their research and ways in
which they can be best supported to do so. It
responds to current national and international
concerns…

Este trabajo de titulación nos presenta la creación de un documental sobre la evolución de la animación publicitaria audiovisual en Quito desde los años 60 hasta el 2010. Por medio de videos de archivos y testimonios de profesionales involucrados en…

El conocimiento de las relaciones entre la cultura ibera del sureste peninsular y el mundo púnico se ha construido a medida que se sucedían los modelos historiográficos. En las primeras décadas del s. XX, los estudiosos Francisco Figueras y José…

1. Introduction to academic networks 2. Conceptual framework of networking: internal and external connections that bring relevance 3. Making knowledge through academic networks supported in technologies 4. Meetings and disagreements in the contribution to academic networks for knowledge construction, References

(cont.) which is expected, given their additional knowledge resources. The respondents' urgency in looking for the relevant knowledge is the primary explanation for this difference between the two networks. This difference in knowledge networking among the different groups did not…

This thesis examines the evolution of Internet based knowledge networks (e-knowledge networks) in the domain of sustainable development. The objective of this thesis is to use an engineering systems approach to understand knowledge networks, identify the barriers to their sustainability…