El desarrollo de las cooperativas en Venezuela a partir de 1999 se ha visto marcado por políticas
gubernamentales en el área jurídica, social, económica y educativa. La educación se ha convertido en
un pilar fundamental en este tipo de organizaciones…

In the forests of Wemindji Cree Territory on the eastern shores of James Bay, north-western Quebec, forest fires burn frequently, human interventions are rare, and fire is the key agent of forest transformation. This thesis examines Cree perceptions of spatial…

Has university scholarship gone astray? Do our academic assessment systems reward scholarship that addresses the questions that matter most to society? Using international business as an example, we highlight the problematic nature of academic ranking systems and question if such…

This paper considers Aristotle’s account of technē (craft-knowledge) and the relationship it bears to phronesis (the capacity for excellent ethical deliberation). Neither techne nor phronesis are exclusively intellectual: both require practice and an evaluative capacity. Phronesis, however, structures a person’s…

The original idea of this research was the disigning, evaluating and applying of an interactive material that could help our �Sports Initiation II� students to achieve the required knowledge of an adapted sport like the mini handball. Guidelines established in…

Argumentative formalisms have been widely recognized as knowledge representation and reasoning tools able to deal with incomplete and potentially contradictory informa- tion. All such formalisms are computationally demanding. Hence, optimizing argumen- tative systems has been approached from di erent views.

In recent years, an important focus has been placed on training counsellors to attend to cultural diversity. In an effort to assist counsellors in this process, models of Multicultural Counselling Competencies (MCC) have been developed for work with adult populations.…

El diseño de la instrucción asistida por ordenador es un proceso complejo que requiere tanto del diseño del proceso instructivo como de la elaboración de un producto informático acorde al mismo. Fruto de esta dificultad ha surgido una línea de…

The convergence of political and technical challenges is demonstrated in a case study on a collaborative initiative to develop a pan-Canadian Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. It is argued that the juxtaposition of different domains, procedures, knowledge bases, and entities…

In the last decade several ways to formalize defeasible reasoning have been studied. A particular approach, defeasible argumentation, has been particularly successful to achieve this goal.
The inference process of argument-based systems is based on the interaction of ar- guments…