Las Naciones Unidas han proyectado que para cerca del año 2050, el planeta estará habitado diez mil millones de personas. Abastecer de alimentos a esa futura población con una dieta adecuada en cantidad y calidad es un desafío. La producción…

This paper provides lessons learned and some unexpected transformations in the learning process when advanced collaboration technology was used to overcome limitations of a popular, existing collaboration technology. The activities pursued in these advanced undergraduate and graduate computer and information…

El texto presenta las obras ficcionales preferidas entre los lectores de Río de Janeiro en la primera mitad del ochocientos. Se hace una comparación con los libros de mayor difusión en Paris en el mismo período, observando de manera sincrónica…

We faced with a society identified as a knowledge society, characterized by the rapid development of scientific and technological knowledge, the trends to new ways of working, studying, creating and sharing knowledge, is seen in organizations, and particularly in the…

In this work we analyze the problem of incorporating specificity to characterize defeat in a particular argumentative framework, called observation based defeasible logic programming (ODeLP) [1]. Eficiency is an important issues in ODeLP, since this framework has been de ned…

This paper aims to clarify an economic mechanism behind the growing dichotomy between geo-economics and the borderless global knowledge economy. The proposed hypothesis is that geo-economic fault-lines, which are the product of the past prejudices of racial, linguistic, and cultural…

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…

Tardigrades constitute one of three clades of Xenarthra. Whereas modern tree sloths are common in the Amazonian Basin, their giant ground sloth "kin" were abundant throughout the Americas. During the Miocene, sloths were conspicuous faunal elements in Patagonia, generally considered…

Recent contributions to the knowledge of Gondwanan cynodonts highlight the presence in Africa of taxa previously recognized in South America and vice-versa. This is the case for the Middle Triassic Namibian fauna from the upper Omingonde Formation, where the first…

Se encuestó a miembros del equipo de salud, estudiantes universitarios y pacientes, para observar el grado de conocimiento que poseían respecto a la Farmacovigilancia, por medio de encuestas anónimas. Los farmacéuticos, los médicos y los estudiantes de la carrera de…