Hypertext constitutes a new way to communicate and think about information. Hypertextual nonsequentiality offers us new ways to analyze the world and facilitates access to philosophical activity to thousands of new social actors. Hypertext is democratising thought and enabling debates between different widely dispersed people. This paper considers hypertext’s role inside new social, scientific ...

Spain is one of the countries with higher use of social networks in the world. Among them, Facebook is emerging as one of the most significant internationally. If these phenomena are combined with the current transformation of journalism, it is not surprising that some Spanish cybermedia have approached this platform to develop new products for the Web. From this starting point, this article fo...

OBJECTIVES The impact of educational level and social support on short-term and long-term recovery of activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living after injuries to the extremities was examined in a prospective study concerning late middle-aged and older persons. METHODS Patients (N = 171) who had sustained fall-related injuries (hip fractures, other fractures, or sp...

The main objective of this article is to determine if associative strategies followed in Chile have had any impact on the enhancement of productive performance of Chilean SMEs firms. In order to do that, the estimate of the impact is approached using the benchmark given by Social Experiment but within the context of a `nonexperimental' evaluation design. We conclude that these kinds of policies...

The world economy is undergoing a fundamental structural change driven by the globalization of business on the one hand and by the revolution in information and communication technology on the other. The New Economy is the superior economic structure that is expected to arise as an outcome of these two forces. The papers is this special issue attempt to assess the significance of the New Econom...

The Science Museum’s new Information Age gallery looks at the last 200 years of information and communication technologies, inviting visitors to take a long view on our ability to generate, share and store information. We focused the gallery on six technological ‘networks’ and chose transforming events – or moments in history – that show how people have created and shaped each new wave of socia...

This paper presents the idea that the life cycle of an ontology is highly impacted as a result of the process of reusing it for building another ontology. One of the more important results of the experiment presented is how the different activities to be carried out during the development of a specific ontology may involve performing other types of activities on other ontologies already built o...

River flow regimes influence ecologic, cultural, social, aesthetic, and economic values. Detecting changes in river flows attributing their causes is important but challenging due to the combined of climate relevant local activities, lack data on water abstraction, drainage modification or land use management. This study assessed degree which trends could be attributed versus anthropogenic acti...

In this paper we raise the concept of Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) as a means of supporting activities of competence development and learning in organisations. In order to illustrate our conceptual understanding of WIL, the paper includes empirical results from a case study in a consultant firm, Ypsilon, which operates in the education sector and delivers courses for IT-professionals. Ypsilon...

iranian rural women have been working side by side with men in many activities. but in recent years, due to social, economic and cultural changes, the role of women in many rural activities has declined, causing many social and economic problems in rural areas. tourism is one of the activities in which there are too many opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship for women. women are abl...