"Knowing Children" describes the means by which telepathic devices present the mind of the child in novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Carson McCullers. An intellectual interest in the child and childhood flourished not only during the…

This qualitative inquiry is a close reading of the representations of public schools and schooling in HBO's television drama The Wire. I pay particular attention to the experiences of school administrators, educators, and students. The Wire draws from the ethnographic…

Background: Despite its low incidence, ovarian cancer is associated with very poor prognosis and this is common knowledge in the general population. There is limited knowledge about the levels of anxiety and depression in women who undergo diagnostic testing for…

The aim of this thesis was to better understand the impact of different evaluative tasks on student learning by considering the role that learners’ beliefs about knowledge and knowing might have in this relationship. This study explored whether students’ task…

Consensus on physical mechanisms linking work posture to discomfort and disorder risk has not been reached. The objective of this dissertation was to use a series of laboratory studies to identify measurements associated with discomfort and disorder risk in lower…

Although South America lost more megafaunal genera than any other continent during the Late-Quaternary Extinction event (LQE), little is known about the chronology, causes or dynamics of these extinctions, especially in the northern part of the continent. Fossil deposits in…

Research, development and technological innovation (RD&I) companies promote inter- and intra-organizational interactions based on the formation of research nets. This arrangement prioritizes the use of competencies of both people and institutions, stimulating the generation of new knowledge and competencies, and…

The regime of floods and droughts in the Pantanal wetlands determines the distribution and abundance of the wildlife, vegetation and ecological processes. Cattle ranching and fisheries, the main economic activities in this floodplain, are extremely influenced by and depend on…

Resumen en español: En la actualidad existe una amplia gama de estrategias para la conservación del medioambiente diseñadas principalmente sobre criterios de tipo puramente económico, que representan una amenaza tanto para los estilos de vida de numerosos pueblos indígenas como…

Esta investigación ofrece primeramente una categorización de las estrategias de desinformación más comunes, explicadas a la luz de teorías de diferentes campos del conocimiento y contextualizadas a través de análisis de casos históricos y contemporáneos. Posteriormente se ofrece un estudio…