La metafísica y el ser personal. Metaphysics and Personal Being

Personal Well - Being during Growth

This paper considers the relative importance of improvements in economic status in explaining improvements in non-monetary measures of well-being during Vietnam's economic boom in the 1990s. This study finds that improvements in economic status can explain virtually all of the 20 percent increase in schooling attainment and most of the observed improvements in child nutrition and declines in ch...

La Comunicación Científica y Tecnológica: El Artículo

a culminación de una investigación científica, y de una investigación de innovación y desarrollo tecnológico, es la publicación de sus resultados, con el fin de que puedan ser compartidos y contrastados por la comunidad científica y tecnológica correspondiente al ámbito de su competencia. Algunas personas consideran que la investigación termina cuando se obtienen los resultados y se presenta el...

Uso de TIC en la Empresa Mexicana: El correo electronico, la Intranet y el Telefono Celular

On being an albino: a personal account.

After thirty-three years it is impossible for me to separate those influences on my developing life style that resulted directly from being an albino from those that must naturally have come from the life styles of my parents. I am conscious, however, that from an early age I was told that I could not do particular things-that is, someone made that assumption for me when I was too young to eval...

La doctrina y el laboratorio: fisiología y experimentación en la sociedad española del siglo XIX

Vivian Nutton, in the first chapter, wrote a 43 page essay on the social history of medicine in ancient Greece and Rome that is the best introduction to this vast topic I have seen. Katharine Park's description of medicine and society in medieval Europe, a society more diverse than our own, she claims, tells us about a universe of disease and the various attempts to cope with the effects of suc...