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Visiones de la revolución química (1794-1943): entre la historia y la memoria
José Ramón BERTOMEU SÁNCHEZ · Antonio GARCÍA BELMAR · 2009-11 · Cuadernos Dieciochistas
<p>RESUMEN: Iniciada por los propios protagonistas, desarrollada por los «químicos historiadores» del siglo XIX y engrosada, revisada y completamente reformulada desde la historia, la sociología y la filosofía de la ciencia del siglo XX, la narración de la llamada «revolución química» han dado lugar a uno de los capítulos más ricos y extensos de la historiografía de la ciencia. Como si de la narración de los orígenes…
Review: Holger Stoecker: Afrikawissenschaften in Berlin von 1919 bis 1945. Zur Geschichte und Topographie eines wissenschaftlichen Netzwerkes (2008) Buchbesprechung: Holger Stoecker: Afrikawissenschaften in Berlin von 1919 bis 1945. Zur Geschichte und Topographie eines wissenschaftlichen Netzwerkes
Katrin Bromber · 2009-05 · Africa Spectrum
Review of the monograph: Holger Stoecker: Afrikawissenschaften in Berlin von 1919 bis 1945. Zur Geschichte und Topographie eines wissenschaftlichen Netzwerkes, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-515-09161-9, 359 pages. Besprechung der Monographie: Holger Stoecker: Afrikawissenschaften in Berlin von 1919 bis 1945. Zur Geschichte und Topographie eines wissenschaftlichen Netzwerkes, Stuttgart: Franz Steine…
Análise Empírica do Senso de Controle: Buscando Entender o Excesso de Confiança
Wesley Mendes-da-Silva · Abraham Sin Oih Yu · 2009-04 · RAC: Revista de Administração Contemporânea
In the emerging field of behavioral finance, where details of human behavior concerning financial decision making are broached, implications of cognitive psychology and sociology are considered. In this way, scientific production, still small but making steady headway, of this thematic in the national scope has essentially laid more focus on the consequences of the cognitive biases of agents, which can reduce the val…
Adopsi Model Competency Based Training dalam Kewirausahaan
I Ketut Santra · 2009-01 · Jurnal Manajemen dan Wirausaha
The aim of the research is improving the teaching method in entrepreneurship subject. This research adopted the competency based training (CBT) into the entrepreneurship. The major task in this research is formulated and designed the entrepreneurship competency. Entrepreneurship competency indicated by Personal, Strategic and Situational and Business competence. All of entrepreneurship competences are described into …
CHANGES AND PERSPECTIVES OF SLOVENIAN PIG PRODUCTION BEFORE AND AFTER ACCESSION TO THE EU: THE CASE STUDY
M. Kastelić · 2007-6 · Poljoprivreda
The changes in pig production during the last six to ten years were studied in case of Farme Ihan d. d., the Slovenian pig producer. At the beginning of the period, the company produced 70 to 75 thousand slaughtering pigs per year. At the end of the period the production increased to 150 thousand. As expected, the prices of pigs were reduced during that period. According to the new legislation, the large part of faci…
The Free State’s approach to implementing the Comprehensive Plan: notes by a participant outsider
Dingie van Rensburg · 2006-January · Acta Academica
This study reviews the first two years of implementation of the Comprehensive Plan in the Free State, within the national framework and amid external influences. The features and principles of the province’s approach are analysed, in particular the phased, multimodel, PHC-centred nature and its emphasis on partnerships and inclusiveness. As implementation progresses, constraints and deficiencies are seen to emerge: a…
Archbishop Mečislovas Reinys: his Letters from the Vladimir Prison
Aldona Vasiliauskienė · 2005-December · Genocidas ir Rezistencija
The article is devoted to the last period of Archbishop Reinys’ life (1947–1953), when he was arrested by the Soviet security on 12 June 1947, interrogated for half a year, held in the basement of the Vilnius KGB, sentenced to 8 years, and in the beginning of 1948 transported by a special convoy to the Vladimir prison. The Soviet prisons did not break the great spirit of this man. Here, too, he remained faithful to t…
It Pays to Manage Health Protection and Safety at Work
Viera Sukalova · Olga Ponisciakova · 2005-9 · Communications
Under European Union directives, employers have responsibilities for the safety and health of their workers. Directive 89/391 provides the general framework for health and safety management, risk identification and prevention. The directive has been implemented in national legislation that may include additional requirements. In the Slovak Republic the health and safety work act 1996 required an employer to identify …
Utilization and costs of home-based and community-based care within a social HMO: trends over an 18-year period
Walter Leutz · Lucy Nonnenkamp · Lynn Dickinson · Kathleen Brody · 2005-10 · International Journal of Integrated Care
<b>Purpose:</b> Our objective was to describe the utilization and costs of services from 1985 to 2002 of a Social Health Maintenance Organization (SHMO) demonstration project providing a benefit for home-based and community-based as well as short-term institutional (HCB) care at Kaiser Permanente Northwest (KPNW), serving the Portland, Oregon area. The HCB care benefit was offered by KPNW as a supplement to Medicare'…
¿Hacia dónde va la psicolingüística? What is the new course of psycholinguistics?
OMER SILVA VILLENA · 2005-06 · Forma y Función
Este trabajo revisa de modo introductorio la preocupación de destacados pensadores en la historia de los estudios de la relación lenguaje-pensamiento. Del mismo modo se analizan los periodos de la psicolingüística como ciencia de la comunicación humana: formativo, lingüístico, cognitivo y de ciencia cognitiva. Uno de los puntos más importantes es el relacionado con el modelo de arquitectura básica de los procesos de …
SOCIAL PROBLEMS AT FISHING COMMUNITIES AROUND BURULLUS AND BARDAWEELLAKES
S. EI-sabbagh · Abd EI-Gawad Bali · 2004-1 · Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences
This study aims mainly at identifying the social problems which face the fishing communities around Burullus and Bardaweel lakes . assessing the differences between the two areas regarding facing those problems • and finally identifying the fishers' suggestion for overcoming those problems. The data were collected through personal interview using pretested questionnaire from a random sample amounted to 250 respondent…
A városi területhasználat monocentrikus modelljéről
Lengyel Imre · Mozsár Ferenc · 2002-September · Tér és Társadalom
A városokban a területhasználatot, ehhez kapcsolódva a településszerkezetet, valamint az ingatlanok kínálatának és keresletének jellemzőit többféle módon és különböző modellekkel lehet vizsgálni. A városgazdaságtanban közismert a monocentrikus városmodell, amelyet Alonso dolgozott ki 1964-ben, továbbfejlesztve Thünen mezőgazdasági földhasználatra vonatkozó elméletét. Alonso a bérleti díj függvény bevezetésével a neok…
DISKURSO SĄVOKA SOCIOLOGINIAME-ISTORINIAME AKADEMINĖS DISCIPLINOS TYRIME (metodologinės pastabos)
Liutauras Kraniauskas · 2002-January · Problemos
Straipsnyje apžvelgiamos diskurso sąvokos taikymo galimybės sociologiniuose-istoriniuose mokslinių disciplinų tyrimuose. Aptariamos pagrindinės sociologinės mokslinio žinojimo tyrinėjimo tradicijos, kurios diskurso sąvokai suteikia sociologinio reiškinio sampratą. Trumpai pristatoma sociologinė diskurso samprata, sutelkianti tyrinėtojo dėmesį ne tik į vidinius teksto struktūrinių komponentų ryšius, bet ir į akademinė…
Yellow and purple nutsedges survey in the southeastern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Eyherabide Juan José · Leaden María Inés · Alonso Sara · 2001 · Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira
A survey of 79 fields was conducted between December 1993 and January 1994, to determine the distribution and relative importance of species of the genus Cyperus, to justify developing management strategies in the southeastern of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Yellow and purple nutsedge were found in 43% and 9% respectively of the surveyed fields. Thirty eight per cent of the surveyed area showed a heavy infestati…
A Note on Internet Resources for the Entrepreneur: A Small Firm Finance Perspective
James C. Brau · 1996-12 · The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance
This article concentrates on internet resources that are available to those interested in entrepreneurial and small firm finance. Specifically, I present web pages that focus on general entrepreneurial issues and different avenues for acquiring capital. The three main areas of external financing that I include are venture capital, going public, and loans. Additionally, the advantages of using electronic mail, distrib…
Ensino de saneamento do meio nas escolas de saúde pública Teaching environmental sanitation in schools of public health
Walter Engracia de Oliveira · 1975-06 · Revista de Saúde Pública
Após a última guerra mundial, e especialmente nesta década, em decorrência do crescimento demográfico e do desenvolvimento industrial, a par de migração da população rural em direção aos conglomerados urbanos, aumentaram os problemas relacionados ao saneamento do meio, devido a poluição ambiental. Aumentou assim a necessidade de maior incremento ao ensino e à pesquisa no campo do saneamento do meio, como também uma r…