The Sincrored case referred to in this document forms part of a multiple-case study performed within the research Project "Managing change through learning formative and organizational competences in organizations". Through an action-research design, the possibilities of collective change and learning…

Spinoza’s deductive metaphysic system states a problem in regard to the knowledge of the passions. On the one hand, the passions are explained like body’s affections, but the soul has a mutilated and confused knowledge of the body. On the…

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2008v7n1p87In the first part of this essay, I shall sketch the debate about vampirism during the age of Enlightenment historically, while in the second part, I will interpret this debate philosophically. The historical reconstruction mainly relies on Gábor Klaniczay’s brilliant essay The…

Denominado por Lee Shulman como el missing paradigm, el conocimiento didáctico del contenido (CDC o PCK, pedagogical content knowledge por sus siglas en inglés) ha experimentado en los últimos años un crecimiento vertiginoso como corriente de investigación didáctica. A pesar…

The general objective of present work has been the development and application of analytical methodologies based on the combination of UV spectra with chemometrics methods of experimental design for establishing the matrix of calibration and later analysis of the obtained…

Ecology, morphology, and phylogeny contribute to the organization of lizard assemblages; however, the number of lizard assemblages for which detailed knowledge of closely related sympatric species is available is limited. We studied the diet of 3 sympatric species of lizards…

A functional understanding of Newton's second law as a vector equation requires that students be able to reason about forces and acceleration as vectors. In this paper, we present data describing students' conceptual difficulties with vector quantities such as acceleration.…

“Peirce, Wittgenstein and Davidson: Anti-skeptic Coincidences”. This paper shows some similarities among Peirce’s, Wittgenstein’s and Davidson’s answers to skepticism. In each case, the response to Cartesian skepticism consist in pointing out the contradictory character of the skeptical doubt in itself.More…

A falta de compreensão do paciente acerca do medicamento prescrito pode causar resultados insatisfatórios no tratamento. Ao iniciar a terapêutica medicamentosa com os pacientes diabéticos tipo 2, em particular, naqueles em uso de antidiabético oral, a equipe de saúde, deve…

Abstract: In The Vision Machine (1994) Paul Virilio uses powerful imagery to warn us about the consequences of our increasing dependence on “vision machines.” With little use, he claims that our sense organs will atrophy and we will degenerate into…