This thesis a study of the notion of scientia in thinkers of the Latin West in the twelfth century. Scientia is a Latin word that has served to refer to important conceptions of science. Important in medieval philosophy is its…

Design is concerned with the question of how to construct an artifact or system to meet the desired specification and is normally categorized as either routine, non-routine or creative. Up until now, the study of knowledge-based design has concentrated on…

Background Continuing professional development stakeholders are continually searching for better ways of collecting and using data to determine the educational needs of physicians. Research questions1) What, if any, family physician learning needs are revealed through the reflective process prompted by…

Concerned with interreligious conflict in Indonesia, this study seeks to describe and evaluate the current citizenship education that has been designed and implemented for a democratic multireligious Indonesia. The context for the study, outlined in Chapters 1 and 2, is…

This study explored the relation between pedagogical knowledge and subject-matter knowledge, in the context of inquiry-driven science instruction, and their relation to instructors' performance in the instructional process. This multiple case study focused on three distinct categories of teachers--Novice in…

The popularization of science during the eighteenth century generated, toward the end of the century, an epistemological anxiety that reached all levels of the population from the most literate scientist to the poorest peasant, the expert in differential calculus like…

Esta tesis tiene como objetivo profundizar en el conocimiento de las relaciones hispano-norteamericanas durante el tardofranquismo y los inicios del proceso democratizador alejándose del enfoque que tradicionalmente ha adoptado la historiografía para acercarse a esta materia. Sin renunciar a un…

La concesión de una patente otorga a quien la solicita, una protección jurídica basada en el ius prohibendi, a cambio del desvelamiento que el inventor realiza de su aportación tecnológica a la industria. En esta Tesis Doctoral se investigan las…

This dissertation sought to add to knowledge of the links between human and ecosystem health by examining relationships between biodiversity and human nutrition in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. Grounded in a theoretical framework drawing from systems approaches to human…

The information in this chapter is the result of a research carried out between 2001 and 2005 on Mbya Guarani communities in the province of Misiones (Argentina) focused on the study of health – illness processes in the first stages…