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La investigación cualitativa, sus aportes teóricos, metodológicos y prácticos
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 229

La investigación cualitativa, sus aportes teóricos, metodológicos y prácticos

La investigación científica se ha encontrado circunscrita a los parámetros de la investigación cuantitativa. Sin embargo, es claro que, frente a los paradigmas dominantes, otros se fueron consolidando y pusieron en evidencia las controversias paradigmáticas en relación con su naturaleza axiomática. Actualmente, la investigación cualitativa ha desarrollado sólidas líneas de indagación relacionadas con enfoques dirigidos a puntos de vista subjetivos, descripción de la creación de situaciones sociales y análisis hermenéutico de las estructuras subyacentes. En cierto sentido, se fue definiendo un estándar sobre qué decía, cómo y con qué conceptos se debía conocer. A mediados...

Creativity and Convention
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Creativity and Convention

This book offers a pragmatic account of the interpretation of everyday metaphorical and idiomatic expressions. Using the framework of Relevance Theory, it reanalyses the results of recent experimental research on figurative utterances and provides a novel account of the interplay of creativity and convention in figurative interpretation, showing how features 'emerge' during metaphor comprehension and how literal meaning contributes to idiom comprehension. The central claim is that the mind is rather selective when processing information, and that in the pragmatic interpretation of both literal and figurative utterances, this selectivity often results in the creation of new ('ad hoc') concepts or the standardization of pragmatic routines. With this approach, the comprehension of metaphors and idioms requires no special pragmatic principles or procedures not required for the interpretation of ordinary literal utterances, but follows from an automatic tendency towards selective processing which is itself a by-product of Sperber and Wilson's Cognitive Principle of Relevance.

Ecosystem Services in Patagonia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 499

Ecosystem Services in Patagonia

This book aims to quantify and discuss how societies have directly and indirectly benefited from ecosystem services in Patagonia; not only in terms of provisioning and cultural services, but also regulating and supporting services. Patagonia, a region that stretches across two countries (ca. 10% in Chile and 90% in Argentina), is home to some of the most extensive wilderness areas on our planet. Natural grasslands comprise almost 30% of the Americas, including the Patagonian steppe, while Patagonian southern temperate forests are important for carbon sequestration and storage, play a pivotal role in water regulation, and have become widely recognized for their ecotourism value. However, prof...

Agroecology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 146

Agroecology

Introduction : why agroecology? -- The scientific principles of agroecology -- The scientific evidence for agroecology : can it feed the world? -- Scaling up agroecology : social process and organization -- The politics of agroecology -- Conclusions : conform or transform?

72nd Annual Meeting of the Italian Society of Physiology: New Perspectives in Physiological Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

72nd Annual Meeting of the Italian Society of Physiology: New Perspectives in Physiological Research

The 72nd Meeting of the Italian Society of Physiology (SIF) gathers scientists from universities and institutes across Europe and offers a platform for discussing the most exciting developments in the areas of basic and translational physiology. This Frontiers Research Topic will collect varied contributions from original research to review articles from SIF participants covering key achievements and latest advancements in the field of physiology. This collection is led by Guest Editors Prof. Giovanna Valenti, Prof. Andrea Gerbino and Prof. Grazia Tamma from Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro and Prof. Fiorenzo Conti from Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.

Memories of the Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Memories of the Future

Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence A provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory, desire, and the imagination from the internationally bestselling and prizewinning author of The Blazing World, Memories of the Future tells the story of a young Midwestern woman’s first year in New York City in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbor, Lucy Brite. As she listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building, S.H., aka “Minnesota,” transcribes her neighbor’s bizarre and increasingly ominous monologues in a notebook, along with sundry other adventures, until one frightening night when Lucy bursts into her apartment on a resc...

Biochar for Environmental Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 449

Biochar for Environmental Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Earthscan

"Biochar is the carbon-rich product when biomass (such as wood, manure, or crop residues) is heated in a closed container with little or no available air. It can be used to improve agriculture and the environment in several ways, and its stability in soil and superior nutrient-retention properties make it an ideal soil amendment to increase crop yields. In addition to this, biochar sequestration, in combination with sustainable biomass production, can be carbon-negative and therefore used to actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, with major implications for mitigation of climate change. Biochar production can also be combined with bioenergy production through the use of the gase...

U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Register
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 44

U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Register

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-07-28
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Hyperborder
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Hyperborder

Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.

The Summer Without Men
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

The Summer Without Men

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-03-03
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED 'An astoundingly joyful read . . . a book that shines with intellectual curiosity and emotional integrity' Guardian 'By turns funny, moving and erudite, playfully reminding us of a contemporary Jane Austen' Daily Mail After Mia Fredricksen's husband of thirty years asks for a pause - so he can indulge his infatuation with a young French colleague - she cracks up (briefly), rages (deeply), then decamps to her prairie childhood home. There, gradually, she is drawn into the lives of those around her: her mother's circle of feisty widows; the young woman next door; and the diabolical teenage girls in her poetry class. By the end of the ...