http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2008v7n1p69For naturalistic and non-intuitionistic moral realists, moral knowledge is more problematic than ordinary and scientific factual knowledge. For without special faculties of moral discernment, how could we ever detect moral facts and properties? Physical facts and properties may be accessible to perceptual…

The goal of the study was to explore post-secondary students’ purposes for blogging with particular attention to the social and instructional purposes. The sample of blogs came from an all-women’s college in the United Arab Emirates. Content analysis was conducted…

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…

A hipogalactia é apontada pela literatura como a causa mais freqüente de desmame precoce. Ela é causada por fatores como erro na técnica de amamentação, introdução precoce de mamadeiras ou outros alimentos na dieta do bebê, ansiedade e estresse maternos.…

El conocimiento sobre la condición de los reproductores (= calidad de gónadas) de la madreperla Pinctada mazatlanica y su impacto sobre el desarrollo embrionario y larvario, es esencial para proporcionar un conocimiento más amplio sobre la fisiología de la especie…

Collaborative systems are becoming a widely used tool particularly among professional communities and research groups. They provide a suitable context for distributed people working on the same subject to concentrate their work in a shared place to which everyone has…

Depuis plusieurs années, on assiste à la création de programmes en prévention du suicide à l’adolescence. L’un de ces programmes repose sur le principe des pairs aidants. Il consiste à former des jeunes dont le rôle est d’apporter du soutien…

The CIDE is a research center which also trains postgraduates of excellent academic standing in the areas of administration, accounting, and finance. It is charged with the diagnosis of problematic situations within the managerial dynamic of organizations, and the linking…

In this paper, a restricted domain question answering (QA) system is described. The design architecture of this QA system and the features that allow the adaptation of the QA system to the medical domain are also presented. The advantages of…

A scientific event to promote knowledge regarding honey from stingless bees: 1. Physical-chemical composition
(Vit Olivier, Patricia; Marchini, Luis Carlos; Fernández Díaz, Cecilia; Tricio, Aida Esther; Villas Bôas, Jerônimo Khan; Rodríguez M., Antonio Jesús; Almeida, Daniela; Almeida Souza, Bruno y…