This thesis explores how doctors and nurses use documents to share their knowledge within and across healthcare settings. In addressing this question I draw on a 15-month, multi-sited ethnographic study in several pediatric health care settings, following patients from primary…

La educación en el Ecuador ha crecido considerablemente en los últimos años por el
impulso del Gobierno Nacional y las instituciones privadas; están empeñados en
transformar la imagen decaída de años atrás, con la adquisición de sistemas educativos que
ayuden…

Este trabajo fue realizado por miembros de un equipo de investigación de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, integrando algunas de sus previas elaboraciones. Así, se entiende a la contabilidad como una disciplina científica,…

A real-time motion engine for interactive synthetic characters, either virtual or physical, needs to allow expressivity and interactivity of motion in order to maintain the illusion of life. Canned animation examples from an animator or motion capture device are expressive,…

This dissertation investigates how rapid learning occurs in high technology industries, many of which operate in what Bourgeois and Eisenhardt (1988) term "high velocity environments." The dissertation consists of three empirical studies, which follow the method of extended case study…

Despite numerous studies reporting on sustainable consumption or organic consumer profiles, there is a gap in thorough understanding of organic consumers in different places, since most of studies only investigate organic consumption in most developed countries. The goal of this…

The climate of the reception of immigrants to the United States has soured, and circumstances are becoming increasingly difficult for persons seeking to gain residency. Reasons often given for the reversal in this practice are that immigrants are poor, uneducated,…

Understanding the biological signals encoded in a genome is a key challenge of computational biology. These signals are encoded in the four-nucleotide alphabet of DNA and are responsible for all molecular processes in the cell. In particular, the genome contains…

This paper presents a knowledge-based approach to facilitate the engineering design
process relating to spacecrafts. Because the design evolves over a long time and typically
involves individuals working at different locations and frequently for different
organizations, the degree of collaboration…

El diálogo de saberes constituye una manera de relacionar estudiantes, docentes y comunidad; se trata de que el sujeto exprese su saber frente al saber del otro y de lo otro, pues la realidad vivida se debe incorporar a la…