For most of us, the home is considered to be our castle: when we close the doors, it is our equivalent to pulling up the drawbridge, thereby retreating from the outside world. But more often, there is no retreat from…

Having experienced the second highest population increase in the European Union, older people in the Republic of Ireland constitute 14% of the population (Central Statistics Office 2012). Older people, adults aged 65 and older, are at disproportionate risk of becoming…

Se pretende determinar el alcance del artículo 402 de la Constitución del Ecuador 2008, referente a los derechos colectivos de propiedad intelectual. Dicho texto legal dispone que se prohíbe el otorgamiento de cualquier tipo de derechos sobre conocimientos colectivos, aseveración…

(cont.) characterization, and kink criterion implementation, form a synergistic analysis of the mechanistic debonding behavior affected by moisture. Results have shown that moisture affected debonding is a highly complex phenomenon that involves physical changes in the bond as well as…

Dynamic systems which undergo rapid motion can excite natural frequencies that lead to residual vibration at the end of motion. This work presents a method to shape force profiles that reduce excitation energy at the natural frequencies in order to…

Este trabajo plantea la publicación de dos fragmentos cerámicos decorados con rostros frontales como
imagen de una diosa local de carácter fúnebre, que amplían el conocimiento iconográfico en lo referente
a las representaciones de las divinidades íberas y a las…

This article examines the role of lexical morphology in pedagogical grammars of Spanish as a way
to increase knowledge of vocabulary. We review the ways in which derivation and compounding are
introduced in Spanish textbooks and which present different types…

The purpose of this paper is to address the critical impact of local Shakespeare on global Shakespeare by examining a Japanese-Korean adaptation of Othello. Incorporating elements of Korean shamanistic ritual and elements from Japanese noh to create a new reading…

Este trabalho surgiu diante dos seguintes questionamentos: quais as ferramentas de gestão podem auxiliar as micro e pequenas empresas na melhoria do processo administrativo? Qual o grau de conhecimento dos micro e pequenos empresários sobre conhecimento qualificado em gestão? Tomou-se…

In the wake of the development of technology to sequence the complete genome of an organism, it has become expedient to generate methodologies to elucidate and characterize the function of all genes constituting the complete genetic makeup of an organism,…