Embora o entendimento da Paisagem Geográfica como “tudo aquilo que nossa visão alcança” seja amplamente aceito, esta definição traz alguns problemas de natureza metodológica, tornando a análise geográfica limitada. Visando ilustrar tais limitações, levantamos quatro contra-argumentos a este conceito...

The National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES) series provides information on health expenditures by or on behalf of families and individuals, the financing of these expenditures, and each person's use of services. The Survey of American Indians and Alaska Natives (SAIAN) was designed in collaborati...

This dissertation takes as its point of departure the recent renewal of the interest of the Chinese state in agricultural development. The approach of this research is twofold: political and sociological. The political approach focuses on the analysis of agricultural modernization policies between 2...

Since 2003, more than 400 popular districts categorized as sensitive urban zones and 4 million inhabitants have become part of a program initiated by the Framework Act on Town Planning and Urban Renewal (so-called “Borloo law”). In order to achieve district transformation and social diversity, the p...

twenty years after the publication of the post-apocalyptic comic strip Le Transperceneige, created by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette, the film Snowpiercer of Korean director Bong Joon-Ho went to the cinema in 2013. This is not an adaptation as such, but rather a real recreation, the change of me...

The contribution seeks to explain the meaning and role of the terms “décadence” and “dilettantism” in the context of the considerations of a non-political one, highlighting the influence of the French cultural critic Paul Bourget and the “Vienna Essayist” Hermann Bahr. In view of the fact that the v...

Domingo F. Sarmiento, born in Argentina in the XIX Century, was a writer, politician and educator who left a deep trace in the american ideals. His thoughts had an influence in the histori and lanscape of his time. The present paper shows the facets of his work,which are related to Geography, namely...

Similar to most major Spanish cities, Pamplona organised its growth throughout the 20th century as high-density regular neighbourhoods, relegating the river Arga, its feeder source, to a secondary role. This situation was corrected from 1998 as a result of the establishment of the Arga Fluvial Park,...

Relationships between past events, future expectations and present decisions, typically examined through a temporal prism within applied economics, have been lately moving to the spatial dimension through spatial econometrics. However, violations of the “arrow of time”, and thus causality, have been...

For the last 30 years, research carried out both in Tonina and in neighbouring localities changes our interpretations of the human occupation of the Ocosingo Valley. They authorise a review of the chronology with the possible identification of a transition phase of the Terminal Clásico, following th...

[ES] The aim of this work is to define and justify the structural solution developed for a tower with the aim of supporting three panels with a width of 15 metres and a height of 3 metres at a height of 25 metres. The wind loads generated in a tower of this magnitude make it necessary to adopt the s...

The analysis of space temporal routines allows you to go deeply into a little explored aspect in the frame of the links between work and time. The reconstruction on individual paths about colonists of Puiggari, and their later mutation since the arrival of the Seventh Day Adventitious Church, are th...

This thesis refers to the international legal problems represented by the hostage taking all over the world, especially in Colombia. Having as a goal the granting of the universal rights to life and to freedom, the States and the International community repress hostage taking. They adopt internation...

Lèpre is a particular disease in the Middle Ages, the representations of which vary between curse and benection, sacer and Sanctus, avers and setbacks in the same room that Durkheim referred to as ‘sacred’. Religious constructions, these ambivalent images have an impact on behaviour towards the inju...

<p> The Fast Response Survey System (FRSS) was established in 1975 by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), United States Department of Education. FRSS is designed to collect issue-oriented data within a relatively short time frame. FRSS collects data from state education agencies, lo...

This thesis focuses on performance characteristics in the Cross-Country Olympic Mountain Bike (MTB XCO) discipline. The performance produced in a man-material interaction situation results from the optimal adequacy between the rider and his equipment. It results as much from mechanical factors (fram...

In an era when we witness the erosion of biodiversity it is essential to understand the benefits provided by ecosystems and find ways to maintain them. The concept of ecosystem service has been applied in this perspective, but mainly in large-scale surveys and on terrestrial ecosystems. The primary...

International audience Peaking for major competition is considered critical for maximizing team-sport performance. However, there is little scientific information available to guide coaches in prescribing efficient tapering strategies for team-sport players.Purpose: To monitor the changes in physica...

In this paper, we analytically analyzed the impact of an error-prone channel over all performance measures in a trafficsaturated IEEE 802.11 WLAN. We calculated station's transmission probability by using the modified Markov chain model of the backoff window size that considers the frame-error rates...

International audience This document presents some insight which intends to question the reconfiguration of social and temporal-spatial relations and representations about sociality and uses of public space in youngsters and adults who live in the city of La Plata, Argentina. With this aim, we have...

The main of this paper is to examine Giordano Bruno's conception of beauty his book De gli Eroici Furori. Firstly, I place Bruno's conception of beauty in the frame of his theory of knowledge, whose central problem is how we can know the divinity. Next, I connect Bruno's analysis of beauty with 'the...

Este artigo apresenta o estado das experiências educativas nos países da América Ibérica que utilizam modelos 1:1, com o objetivo de proporcionar um marco adequado para o desenvolvimento de futuras pesquisas nesta área. Em primeiro lugar, analisam-se as experiências latino-americanas de implementaçã...

this doctoral work focuses on the use of quality management tools by health professionals in hospital. At the end of the literature review on objects in the humanities, we use a semitic perspective of management tools. The tool, as a sign consisting of an artefact and a utilisation schedule, is inte...

Toccherwill be a topic on which Antonio Carbonaro would have had a lot to say. It is a topic which, in various forms, resembles his works in more than one point. The theme is cognitive ethics. Talking about cognitive ethics means putting forward a specific hypothesis. This is the hypothesis that we...