Funding R&D projects is perhaps the most important task faced by large public organizations, in charge of promoting science and technology in different countries. However, most popular ways to solve this decision problem are based on too simple decision models…

When people think spatially, they do not usually consider geographic coordinates nor projections. Facing questions having a spatial sense, people do not answer with maps or coordinates, but use some references whose spatial location is "well known". For instance, the…

Background: There is a high degree of misinformation given to the relatives of patients treated in the Ambulatory Pediatrics Unit at the Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez. The factors that contribute to this problem are diverse. Therefore, the practice…

This paper examines the changing role of government and foreign firms in Malaysia's industrialization process. Economists have held different views on the role of government in industrialization. Some believed that the developing world was full of market failures and the…

The knowledge of the flow kinematics of polymer melts is relevant for their processing; as well as for the de sig n of molds and dies. However, the analysis of the flow behavior of polymer melts during extrusion has been…

Service-oriented software engineering (SoSE) is a new paradigm for building software systems, fostered by the availability of a new -but already mature- computing technology based on services. SoSE advances the current object-oriented and the component-based software engineering paradigms. Under that…

When a mineral surface is immersed in an aqueous solution, it develops an electric charge produced by the amphoteric dissociation of hydroxyl groups created by the hydration of the solid surface. This is one influential surface property. The complete hydration…

Guaiacum unijugum is a rare shrub endemic to a 70 km stretch of coastline extending east from San José del Cabo in Baja California and is the least well-known of the 4 species of Guaiacum in Mexico. To increase our…

This article presents a six-step problem-solving strategy, aimed at addressing three major problems in the learning and teaching of physics: 1) the demand by physics instructors for effective teaching strategies that could help in the teaching of intuitive conceptual and…

During the first half of the 18th century, Father Buenaventura Suárez performed a series of astronomical observations in the Jesuit Reductions of Paraguay. His observations were published in prestigious European journals such as the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society…