En este artículo, de corte documental, se hace unas reflexiones sobre la
evolución de la ciencia y de la teoría del conocimiento como fundamentación,
del conocimiento científico. Durante siglos, conocimiento científico era todo
conocimiento sistemático y el método científico fue…

Discussion of the natural sciences had a foundational role in the development of the sociology of race and racism, underpinning the claim that races should, if at all, be studied as social rather than natural phenomena. Whatever its strengths, the…

Los avances de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC)
presionan la educación y provocan transformaciones en el qué y cómo enseñar,
entre otros aspectos. Su conversión en un soporte educativo efectivo requerirá
de procesos de innovación de la…

"El conocimiento acerca de la presencia y concentraciones de metales pesados en las tortugas marinas que arriban a las costas mexicanas es escaso. Dado que las costas de la Península de Baja California sirven como áreas de alimentación para la…

The Canadian Health Libraries Association invites you to submit contributed papers or posters for its 2008 annual conference, to be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 23-30. Papers may describe innovative programs/practices or new research findings and should relate to…

Can children genuinely create new knowledge, as opposed to merely carrying out activities that resemble those of mature scientists and innovators? The answer is yes, provided the comparison is not to works of genius but to standards that prevail in…

The paper highlights that the secular and modernistic paradigm of development that lacks spiritual and ethical moorings is partly responsible for the 2009 global economic and financial crisis. Muslim policy-makers, intellectuals and scholars are duty-bound to promote the Tawḥīdic paradigm…

The Knowledge Society Network (KSN) “takes advantage of new knowledge media to maximize and democratize society’s knowledge-creating capacity” (www.ikit.org/KSN). This article synthesizes the principles and designs of this network which were initiated over 15 years ago, and presents an exploratory…

The ambiguity, robustness and performance of systems becomes increasingly evident as the complexity and size increase in industrial processes. Under these circumstances, conventional control techniques such as PID control, nonlinear feedback control, LQG control and H∞ control have several disadvantages…

Three classrooms of Grade 4 students from different schools and diverse backgrounds collaborated in early algebra research to solve a series of linear and quadratic generalizing problems. Results revealed that high- and low-achieving students were able to solve problems of…