AbstractThrough the course of our history, Indigenous cultural and spiritual knowledge remains, in many places as faint as the smoke rising from the embers of last nights fire; in other places, with enough flame to ignite another log. In spite…

"Knowing Children" describes the means by which telepathic devices present the mind of the child in novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Carson McCullers. An intellectual interest in the child and childhood flourished not only during the…

This qualitative inquiry is a close reading of the representations of public schools and schooling in HBO's television drama The Wire. I pay particular attention to the experiences of school administrators, educators, and students. The Wire draws from the ethnographic…

Background: Despite its low incidence, ovarian cancer is associated with very poor prognosis and this is common knowledge in the general population. There is limited knowledge about the levels of anxiety and depression in women who undergo diagnostic testing for…

The aim of this thesis was to better understand the impact of different evaluative tasks on student learning by considering the role that learners’ beliefs about knowledge and knowing might have in this relationship. This study explored whether students’ task…

Consensus on physical mechanisms linking work posture to discomfort and disorder risk has not been reached. The objective of this dissertation was to use a series of laboratory studies to identify measurements associated with discomfort and disorder risk in lower…

Resumen en español: En la actualidad existe una amplia gama de estrategias para la conservación del medioambiente diseñadas principalmente sobre criterios de tipo puramente económico, que representan una amenaza tanto para los estilos de vida de numerosos pueblos indígenas como…

The state of psychology as a knowledge discipline is examined. Some reflections are made about the application of psychological knowledge, taking into account: a) the nature of knowledge being applied, b) the translation of analytic knowledge typical of basic science,…

Esta investigación ofrece primeramente una categorización de las estrategias de desinformación más comunes, explicadas a la luz de teorías de diferentes campos del conocimiento y contextualizadas a través de análisis de casos históricos y contemporáneos. Posteriormente se ofrece un estudio…

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT’s) have the potential of radically change governments and the way they interact with citizens, businesses and other levels of government. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the conditions, factors, and aspects that are…