The undergraduate law curriculum adopted at McGill University in 1998—the transsystemic programme—was born of the unique political, social, and intellectual histories of its Faculty of Law. This essay reviews these contexts and characterizes the programme as an ongoing conversation about…

by Neil William Van Dyke., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2000., "February 2000.", Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-91).

Cartilage functions as a load bearing and friction reducing material in synovial joints and it is constantly exposed to in vivo loading which is coupled to electromechanical and physicochemical forces. The swelling pressure of cartilage originates from proteoglycans containing negatively…

This article explores the way in which text worlds are created in advertising discourse by analysing linguistic choices and features of context which are crucial in the determination of specific relations between sender(s) and target audience(s), in particular, deixis and…

El macizo del Tagant, en la República Islámica de
Mauritania, alberga, a lo largo de una red interconectada de humedales, las últimas poblaciones de cocodrilo del desierto Crocodylus niloticus
suchus), que hasta muy poco tiempo se consideraban extintas. Estas poblaciones…

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…

No sólo las tendencias sociales de futuro en
nuestro país son de aumento de la multiculturalidad,
sino que ya es un hecho. El
objetivo de este trabajo es lograr un acercamiento
al conocimiento de las condiciones de vida y las

La aspiración actual de la Educación Científica de enseñar a las personas cómo enfrentarse a problemas, de desarrollar destrezas de alto nivel intelectual al mismo tiempo que conocimientos específicos, queda reducida en la enseñanza habitual de la Física a la…

This article presents a procedure for constructing a taxonomy of COTS products in the field of Requirements Engineering (RE). The taxonomy and the obtained information reach transcendental benefits to the selection of systems and tools that aid to RE-related actors…

Increasingly, knowledge-based tasks such as new product development and market research are being conducted by geographically dispersed teams. Early evidence from knowledge-based view of the firm and geographically dispersed work literatures suggests that at least four kinds of knowledge gaps---transactive…