L'eugénisme fascine. L'eugénisme fait peur. D'ailleurs, le spectre de cette idéologie, lié à un passé riche en histoire, revient en force et suscite des craintes de dérives quant à l'avancement des connaissances scientifiques et de leurs applications principalement dans le…

The coreoid fauna from Neotropics is poorly known, especially in terms of community studies. Aiming at contributing to this knowledge, a two-year study was carried out at Parque Estadual do Turvo, Municipality of Derrubadas, state of Rio Grande do Sul,…

La magnitud del problema del consumo de tabaco, considerado un importante
problema de Salud Pública ha sido una de las razones que nos ha conducido a realizar esta
Tesis Doctoral. Conocer la prevalencia de consumo de tabaco en los universitarios

This study examines the relationship between knowledge management and organizational resilience. The sample for the study consisted of one hundred and twenty eight (128) employees from the thirty four manufacturing companies that are registered with the manufacturers Association of Nigeria,…

Desde inicios de esta década, se ha registrado en Centroamérica un crecimiento importante de la presencia de pandillas conocidas como “maras”. Estas pandillas surgieron en Estados Unidos en los años ochenta y luego se desarrollan en Centroamérica como consecuencia de…

Motor response selection is the process by which an intention to act is transformed into an action; this multifaceted process occurs at the interface between cognitive and motor systems. Despite the importance of response selection, the nature and neural implementation…

This dissertation addresses the profound influence that the shared experience of humans and animals had on the poetics of early modern drama. With reference to a selection of early modern comedies and a range of non-literary texts that includes natural…

Though turnover researchers have called for a deeper understanding of the temporal and contextualized process of individual voluntary turnover, little empirical progress in this direction has been made. Adopting Price's (1977) dynamic conceptualization of turnover as moving from one social…

This study focuses on communities in conservation in central Philippines, with reference to marine protected areas. It analyzes communities as intersections of multiple actors with stratified interests and power, involving complex processes of place-making, ecological knowledge, tenure, governance, markets, and…

Transposons, also known as transposable elements (TEs), are genetic elements capable of changing their location in the genome and amplifying in number. Because of their ability to cause mutations in the host genome, often with detrimental consequences to the host,…