OBJECTIVE To explore the conceptual dimensions of dengue in the urban context, aiming at creating hypotheses about community attitudes toward prevention campaigns. METHODS An exploratory cross-sectional study was carried out between March and April 2003 comprising 130 people selected by proposition sampling in three municipalities with different dengue prevalences in Mexico. Semi-structured i...

Teachers’ epistemic beliefs may have consequences for their pedagogical work. We used previously developed scales to assess that teachers hold about learning, knowledge and knowing, how they report putting such ideas into practice. The consisted of self-reported Likert-type statements considering collaborative building, valuing metacognition, certainty knowledge, a surface approach learning. pa...

Time is a concept that highly depends on the socio-cultural context. Its perception by humans is primarily based on the cultures, nations and social environment they belong to. Hence, different socio-cultural contexts imply different understandings of time. This leads to communication problems when their members start interacting with each other. In a dynamic and multi-cultural environment like...

Research conducted with European Americans suggests that attention to the individual self intensifies emotional reactivity. We propose, however, that cultural models of the self determine which aspect of the self (individual vs. relational), when attended to, intensifies emotional reactivity. In 3 studies, we predicted and observed that attention to individual aspects of the self was associated...

Will the rich domain knowledge from research publications and the implicit cross-domain metadata of cultural objects be compliant with each other? A contextual framework is proposed as dynamic and relational in supporting three different contexts: Reusing, Publication and Curation, which are individually constructed but overlapped with major conceptual elements. A Relations for Reusing (R4R) on...