Considering the importance of the debate on the topic of disasters related to landslides, flooding and technological risks, under international and more recently in Brazil, this work analyzes the situations of vulnerability risk areas on the Northern Coast of São…

Nowadays universities are required not only to impart
knowledge of specific disciplines but also generic graduate
attributes such as communication, problem-solving,
teamwork, creative thinking, research and inquiry skills. For
students to attain these generic skills, educators are
encouraged to use…

The combination of soil science, forestry, agronomy and biology allowed an analytical comparison of various experimental mixed culture systems. From these studies, a descriptor system was developed which allows to understand the contribution of each plant species to nutrient cycling,…

This paper means to show how British Colonialism in India was made possible, and then sustained and strengthened, as much by cultural technologies of rule as it was by the more obvious and brutal modes of conquest. In fact colonialism…

The present article examines how practices of computersupported
collaborative designing may be implemented in
an elementary classroom. We present a case study in
which 12-year-old students engaged in architectural design
under the guidance of their teacher and a professional
designer.…

Analysis of resistance groups active in the War on Terror provides case-studies for an examination of Occidentalism. Al-Qaida constructs a West both homogeneously and pejoratively in order to represent the self as a single Islamic nation under attack from a…

Good university teaching is considered to be a major
requisite for student learning. However, its representation
in the literature is often related to presage factors such as
personal skills and subject matter knowledge of professors
rather than to activities and…

The book is very interesting in that the author Anna Herbert
attempts to use the views of a number of psychological
analysts to explain how different theories can be used to
develop creativity in the classroom and overcome factors
that…

Learning-by-doing and external productive effects of government spending are well-known engines of long-run economic growth. To the best of our knowledge, the interaction of these growth engines has not been analysed. This paper aims at filling this vacuum by combining…

Oxygenases are ubiquitous enzymes that catalyze the introduction of one or two oxygen atoms to unreactive chemical compounds. They require reduction equivalents from NADH or NADPH and comprise metal ions, metal ion complexes, or coenzymes in their active site. Thus,…