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This paper aims to analyze the repressive strategy as it was described in the military doctrine that guided the actions of the armed forces, security forces and paramilitary organizations in El Salvador between 1962 and 1972. Attention will be given to the way this repressive strategy molded the state repressive treatment of the wave of trade union protest that took place in the same period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, which is part of a research on the interactions and tensions between science and literature in Spain from the 19th to the 21st centuries, is focused on Agustín Fernández Mallo's poetry. Besides his famous narrative trilogy Proyecto Nocilla, his poetry expand and blur the limits of the poetic textuality by the incorporation of science and multimedia technology not just in a referencial fashion but as both constructive and theoretical principles from which is possible a critical consideration of the poetic process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The common interpretation of Descartes argues that the new science is a result of Cartesian replacement, in scientific explanations, of the final and formal causes by the efficient causes. While this statement is broadly correct, it has tended to assume that efficient causes do not imply any problem. This paper wishes to question this assumption, showing a number of problems concerning the knowability of efficient causes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper is presented how to establish a working system for the achievement of scientific results that characterize a university. These results must be evaluated by international standards, but also they have to be relevant for the impact that they have on the country where the university. The fundamental objective of the present work is the cycle management application for the administration of science identifying at each stage the elements that must be considered. Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría is used as a case study, CUJAE, located in Havana, Cuba. The results obtained in the last four years show progress in most measured indicators, demonstrating that this process has been developed efficiently and effectively, through rational use of resources, especially teachers and researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an inclusive didactic proposal in Natural Sciences, based on inquiry teaching. The proposal, designed with the appropriate adaptations to meet each special case, was implemented in a third grade class with 26 children, 5 of them with special educational needs. The results show the feasibility and benefits for all of using inquiry teaching: all children, including those with special needs, succeed in the objectives proposed. Also, the students developed a high degree of motivation and commitment, although some difficulties arose related with group work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the causes of the alienation of youth for environmental, in a District Educational Institution, from the perspective of approaches Science, Technology, Society and Environment CTSA, Questions social scientific CSC, as well as the impact of School Projects Environmental. This analysis was conducted from a sample of data obtained through non-participant observation grids, applied to students. The research is part of a broader Group Project Teaching and Learning of Physics of the University Francisco José de Caldas, and is emerging as a qualitative research due to the characteristics of the variables to be analyzed (demonstrations, attitudes) without analyzing the data statistically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Plant genetic improvement has a double scientific nature: it is both an empirical science of nature and an applied science of design. In this context, this paper provides an investigation of scientific prediction as an essential feature of plant genetic improvement as an applied science of design with special emphasis in the improvement of stone fruits (Prunus genus). In considering plant genetic improvement, we can speak of three levels of knowledge. These levels are associated with molecular biology (micro level); the genetic constitution of an individual (meso level); and the phenotype and overall appearance of the new release (macro level). These levels of reality affect both the type of prediction and the methodology applied. The prediction is the main objective of the plant genetic improvement as science of design. It is very important to have a knowledge of possible future to make a new design that will be complete within a few years, more than 12 years in the case of stone fruit that is the subject of this work. Finally, in developing a scientific prediction applied to Prunus breeding it is necessary to consider different internal (the genetic nature of the starting plant material, the available methodologies, etc.) and external (social acceptation, environmental factors, biotic and abiotic stresses, etc.) variables. The degree of knowledge of these variables determines the quality of the prediction in the design of the new Prunus varieties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The changes that occurred on digitization have produced profound variations in the world of work in general, and academic one in particular. Considering the transformations in terms of production, use and appropriation of knowledge, mainly taking this situation as a kind of social relationship described as "cognitive exploitation of scientific knowledge". From this characterization, I shall discuss in this paper the impact over the work of the social scientist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a study on socio-educational research logic, focusing on the essential elements of research designs, but especially on the relations between those elements, which denote the most important requirements for the research design in the inquiry about educational phenomena. In the first part we discuss the formal levels of socio-educational research, with special emphasis on the philosophical, scientific and technical elements of research logic. Subsequently, we propose the concept of relationality as a coordinating approach to address the logic of research, and establish an integrated approach of the different levels that make up the research process and also a research framework based on the relational conception of educational phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of biomedical journals is to publish high-quality scientific studies and to ensure a widespread dissemination of their contents. Journals compete for the best science generated in their respective disciplines and, therefore, they critically scrutinize the scientific quality of all submitted papers in order to identify and select only those that merit publication. The "peer review" system represents the cornerstone of the scientific process. It provides a critical appraisal, by external independent experts, of the studies under consideration. The system is intended to improve the quality of the submitted papers but also to help the Editors in their decision-making process. The process has been widely embraced by the scientific and editorial international community but it is not free from caveats. In fact, although several strategies have been implemented to improve its quality and the results obtained, limitations still persist. Accordingly, its quality should be closely monitored to ensure excellence. Surprisingly, although the "peer review" process is universally accepted to validate the science, limited scientific information exists on its real value. In this review we will critically analyze the "peer review" process and we will advance some ideas that may help to understand why, in spite of its limitations, it remains the "gold standard" for the selection of scientific manuscripts by biomedical journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific collaboration and gender equality are two spheres of great interest for the organizations responsible for instigating scientific policies. We have identified the research groups and women's contribution to one of the most outstanding Spanish psychology journals. We have selected papers published during the 1989-2008 period in Psicothema. A bibliometric and network analysis was carried Out using the Pajek Software tool. We have analysed 1,718 papers, written by 2,423 authors, 53.45% men and 47.54% women. We have identified 86 research groups made up of 293 researchers. We have observed a high increase of productivity and collaboration in the 1999-2008 period, as well as the consolidation, growth, and evolution of many incipient groups identified in the 1989-1998 period, benefiting from the increased interest and prestige of the journal. Despite the increase in the number of women, rising from 35.71% in 1989 to 48.48 in 2008, we have observed an imbalance with regard to productivity and the order of signatures, where women are relegated to intermediate positions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores a female conception of knowledge and attempts to reveal the need to incorporate the gender perspective into the educational world with the purpose of removing the effects of inequity discrimination in the training of women. Its main focus lies in the theory of gender that has sustained extensive criticism of the Western way of thinking and of the construction style of scientific knowledge from an androcentric viewpoint. It argues that gender epistemology differs from the classical epistemology - adopted by most of the scientific and philosophical literature- which tries to negate its ideological content to project an image of scientific universality and neutrality. he paper attempts to relate the nature-culture and male-female dualism that falls within the framework of the traditional epistemological approach with gender pedagogy and the exclusion and invisibilization of women in scientific production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of the literature on choosing science courses in school and the determining factors in such choice in light of the important role that this choice plays in the present crisis in the science professions. The factors that influence this choice are personal, school-related, and extra curricular. The most important personal factors are gender and attitudes toward science and toward school science subjects; the paper analyses both attitudes and gender in particular. The quality of science education as implemented through curricula, teachers, and fairness issues are some influential school-related factors. There are many, diverse out-of-school factors. Finally, several proposals to improve the choice of science subjects are discussed, such as strengthening academic counseling in school and innovating science education by giving it a humanistic twist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper identifies advances in science, technology and innovation (STI) in Colombia between 1990 and 2005, and then explores: (i) the successes and failures of policies designed to stimulate advances, and (ii) the challenges facing the country when converting knowledge and, especially, innovation into primary sources of development and competition. The paper reviews neoclassical and evolutional contributions in terms of their relationship with technological change, growth and development, and looks at the literature on recent experiences of successful industrialization and national innovation systems. It then moves on to the implications for STI policy, using official information, domestic and international publications and a number of the authors' investigations to evaluate some of the efforts and results indicators related to innovation, production capacity, and scientific divulgation and articulation between actors in the scientific, technological and productive fields. The results show notable advances in science, but precarious results for technology and the links between actors in these fields. The paper then examines the political challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to approach the relationships among science, technology and politics and the role that various actors have played, in the control of orientations in the development of these activities. Some of the questions that are moving our research and that are guiding this paper, are: which is the extent of the mediation by interest groups and power networks in the stimulus or lack or support to science and technology?; how are integrated the groups or elites that have defined the road of science and technology policies?; what is the historical process followed in the creation of those groups? Finally the paper argues that the fight field in the control of science and technology policies, is becoming become more complex, as new agents, new interests and new conceptions are entering in play. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the traditional approach to the sociology of science based upon Karl Mannheim's sociology of knowledge. Robert Merton's program is discussed as the basis of sociology of science. Furthermore, Kuhn is acknowledged as having set up the foundation for a new paradigm in the sociology of science. This paper intends to defend the work of Kuhn as the framework by which other current studies in the social sciences under the name of «sociologies of scientific knowledge» have come about. Finally, several key pedagogical issues taken from the traditional sociology of science as argued by Merton are discussed. It has been found that pedagogy in terms of sociology of science has closely followed the framework used by the other social sciences. Several advances and achievements that have recently made some headway are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many countries in Latin America have made nanotechnology a development priority in their public policy platforms. The main feature of these public policies is to provide support for nanotechnology research and development, aiming to forge ties between public institutions and universities and the private sector, to boost innovation and competitiveness. These public policies do not take into account the global context of strong capital concentration in which nanotechnologies emerge, and which makes it difficult to be competitive within the framework laid out by these public policies to develop these technologies. This paper analyzes the direction of public policy in the international context, and also suggests policy alternatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This scientific paper focuses the problem of classification of methods of scientific research. Probably covered in theoretical research, not just what they have been awarded scientific knowledge that it is obtained, but also the method by which it is obtained. Is there any chance that supports logical methodological consistency of classification methods in this science are instituted? What reason attends the defense of the idea, that the methodology of scientific research stands through empirical methods, where, regardless of the empirical constitutes the above to the scientific level, the theoretical and the empirical are exclusive natures of knowledge? What arguments invoked in order to demonstrate the falsity of the thesis in which I become identical knowledge and methods according to their scientific nature? Why cling undoubtedly the medieval universal educational thought to absolute canons and the concept of method as a way or path holding?, we would not be far from the scientificity that he quintessential definition and it should be given? The basal idea is to defend and to subsume questions formulated above is to be irrevocably dialectical relationship between the method and theory, which necessarily comes first classification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the newspaper's coverage on the subject of renewable energy and renewable energy technologies and how that information has been exhibited in the Costa Rican case by the newspapers La Nacion and El Financiero between January 2006 and December 2011 (considered the period of emergence and establishment of the most important public discussions on the issue). It's presented a general analysis of the form of presentation of information and content through the representations analysis on the subject, taking as a starting point some works that have emerged in recent years in Latin America and the rest of the world, concerning to the communication of science and technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Oral cancer rates have been increasing. There are several ongoing studies on this subject that specifically focus on the risk factors for this type of cancer. Addressing this problem holistically will allow analyzing this phenomenon using various approaches. For such reasons, we conducted a review of research papers published in electronic journals in SciELO and PubMed databases in order to demonstrate the contribution of the Oral Cancer Screening Program to Cuban public health and its interrelation with science, technology, and society. The assumed starting point allows stating that the science, technology and society approach is not only a field of study concerned with the complex interrelationships between science, technology, and the societies in which they develop. In addition, this approach is related to all social areas. Therefore, it is not just a matter of thought or study; it is, above all, a practical-existential problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we reflect on the problem of theoretical and practical approach to the role of artifacts in general in social life and information technologies in the life of organizations , in particular, and as an object of reflection of those who seek to study assuming the existence of a network of relationships and processes constitute and recreate the bounded, in the first instance , the scene of the organization. In this sense, the work explores the seminal effort that culminated in what is now known under the definition of Social Studies of Science and Technology, examining its relevance to understanding the phenomenon in organizations from those proposed by Bruno Latour elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Decision making in science and technology is a complex task due to the multiple intervening factors. In the present paper a methodology for science and technology indicator analysis for organizational decision making purpose is presented. This methodology is based on the modeling of causal relations among indicators through fuzzy cognitive maps and its dynamics and statics analysis. For static analysis a node centrality composite indicator based on OWA operators is proposed. OWA operators based on distance are used to quantify scenario analysis. A case study is presented showing the proposal applicability. The methodology shows significant results for the application of fuzzy cognitive maps in science and technology decision making and policy conception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Science, technology and innovation are fundamental to economic and social development of the country, requiring, each time more, to give significant resources in order to prepare the personnel and make them more competitive, where the information exchange, knowledge and learning generated by this process, will contribute to achieve a better performance in the organization. The purpose of this paper is the development of a organizational learning model and its phases, based on information and knowledge of scientific and innovation project team members, which will allow to evaluate the capacity of organizational learning and also contribute to a better organization performance. In this model is highlighted the integration of the main trends in the study of organizational learning, providing technical tools to develop learning ability and performance evaluation of the organization from indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we will see that depending on the context and diversity, discovering and teaching in science, should have an Intercultural look. The final objective of the so-called exact sciences, practically mostly, you could say it's the same. This objective would be to know and understand the secrets it holds the universe. But how do we discover? and how do we learn the knowledge that are already found?, we propose that this path should be intercultural. In this paper, first we will try to adopt and / or assume a definition for the words of Knowledge, Education, Science and Interculturality; because they are words that have much theoretical debate, and if we do not assume some definition for them, we will not reach to any goal. Then we will prove that interculturality must be present at the time of doing science and teaching it, for which purpose, we will find support primarily with studies of neuroscience, then, with the meaningful learning theory of Ausubel, with Piaget that gives importance to the prior knowledge of the learner, by Watson, Vygotsky, etc. Even we give an ancient example, in which this knowledge has already been used with good results; we talk about education in times of the Incas. This is a clear example that interculturality should be applied to teaching and conducting science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a theoretical reflection on the nature and importance of the processes of scientific communication within the academic world. The communication of science is a process used by researchers to present their findings; it may be aimed at specialized academic or public peers, or wider and heterogeneous public. Communicating science can be done directly, by who investigates or by mediation of professionals in journalism, who do reach the public to the knowledge generated in academic areas. Understanding the process of communicating gear science is crucial to create effective strategies for their development and visualization as a specific objective of the process of scientific research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to reflect, on one hand, the need for an integral education of healthcare agents, that addresses the spiritual dimension; and, on the other hand, the need for a better preparation of religious agents that work in hospitals and health centers, so that, in the interest and concern for sick people, dichotomies in the name of faith or in the name of reason are prevented. The promotion of dialogue between reason and faith shortens the distance between sciences and avoids a divorce between praxis of faith and praxis of science, showing that, despite the different degrees of certainty, may be close by the object: the search for the truth that liberates human beings of all forms of injustice and oppression, disease generators and psychosomatic illnesses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the characterization of the Jurisprudence in the thought of Karl Larenz. His view of the Jurisprudence will be studied as a normative, comprehensive and valuator science through the descriptiveanalytical method. Subsequently, a juridical assessment of his approaches will be conducted, identifying the problems of the posed questions and their possible solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research at the university is not only responsible for the research training of future professionals but it also should intervene in solving problems at social, business, community and group levels. This paper discusses this reality and analyzes the actions that link social participation in science and technology with the research training for university students. The literature review was aimed at finding scientific texts and unpublished research that address the issue from the science, technology and society (STS) perspective. Among the main results it is possible to find students scientific research initiatives, science and technology advisory agencies, as well as knowledge transfer activities, which allows us to come to the conclusion that there is a link between research and participatory processes through different modes of knowledge construction at the university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to expose a possible interpretation of the ontological problems influencing the conceptualization of space. Work starts assuming that is not possible to understand the space’s problem without contextualizing it in a broader problematization of the experience in the modern world. This means that the space’s problem has a close relationship with the specificity of modern society and the way she sees herself. In order to show these relationships this work develops what Hegel called: the «positions of thought regarding the objectivity». From this reading of modern philosophy based on the relationship established between the subject and the object, we try to show how it could be interpreted the connection between knowledge, society and space in different philosophical and theoretical perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a perspective for the formulation of public policy in science, technology and innovation (STI) for the State of Sinaloa. Today, the productive processes of the regions are developed in what is called "knowledge economy". There are two main theoretical frameworks for the study of this subject. The neoclassical school explains the technological change using production functions and growth models; in second place is evolutionary thinking that builds national and regional categories of innovation systems, technological trajectories and paradigms in science and technology. For the construction of a regional policy in this field is more useful this second school of thought, which complemented an institutionalist vision adequately. A progressive verification method is used for checking each one of the components of the Regional Innovation System (RIS) in the case of universities are taken each of the dimensions of quality set by Levin (2006) . The meaning and scope of a regional innovation system is shown and the categories of this construct are hard to visualize Sinaloa developing policy proposals for the development of the region. Stresses elements such as the need to strengthen the pillars of RIS; Sinaloa enroll in the knowledge economy; build the city of knowledge; improve visibility of the knowledge produced in the state, and strengthen the institutional base of the STI. The second element addresses are universities as knowledge producers. A theoretical framework is developed using the concepts of triple helix, two mode of knowledge production, innovative university, Pasteur's quadrant, and academic capitalism. In the qualification of higher education in the state twelve dimensions are used: excellence in research, academic freedom and proper intellectual atmosphere, capacity for self-government, to have adequate facilities and funding, to practice respect for diversity, to achieve internationalization activities, to exercise democratic leadership; faculty development for undergraduates; appropriate use of new information technologies; quality of teaching; relationship with society and the existence of a dynamic collaboration within. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the paper is to present an analysis of scientific training outstanding students deepening into the elements and challenges that society demands. For Support Program Highlights were studied in the state of Sinaloa, by virtue of being a program that seeks to bring its full potential talent manifest in children and young Sinaloa. For research interviews, observation and document analysis using qualitative perspective, the perspective of philosophical model rhombus Renée Bédard were performed. The results show that students in the program are being formed with a scientific identity under environments that rescue creativity, commitment and momentum talent with the constituency in collaborative work and human development, also are working on research projects, product development and initiatives for the benefit of the state of Sinaloa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the linking between the Faculty of Agriculture of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, namely Science graduate of Agricultural Production and Culiacan Valley farmers addressed. In principle, a theoretical review about linking and managing it is then detailed the methodology used, which consisted of the application of both farmers and to the student's graduate faculty survey instrument type Agronomy. In the course of work are able to verify the veracity of the problem in terms that there is a management policy for the real link between science degree in Production, Faculty of Agronomy in agriculture Culiacan, which is considered essential for further and better relationship between the two sectors, therefore the end tips and more adecuados schemes for linking these important sectors for the development of Sinaloa arise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mexico has joined the paradigms that drive knowledge societies, whose continuing effort focuses on the technological and economic development, quality of life and international competitiveness. However, its efforts has not capitalized on outstanding results in terms of competitiveness and scientific, technological and innovative productivity. Neither the country has achieved a transformation of its universities to create a culture of cohesion that could contribute to social inclusion. Therefore the main purpose of this paper is to reflect on the role and meaning of the university, showing the reality of the country and the challenges that Mexican universities have to face facing the need to promote, via the generation, access and use of knowledge, the networks, citizen participation, equity and social cohesion as mechanisms of social inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to create a methodological approach to promote environmental education in students of Agronomy, from the Chemistry discipline. It was used the simulated cases methodology with focus science, technology, environment and society (STES). The proposal was implemented for three courses and its results helped students show greater appreciation of the study of Chemistry. This proposal help to the responsibility and commitment of students to the search for possible solutions to social and environmental issues, with arguments from Chemistry's content and consistent with the social, cultural and political context in which these problems manifest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thanks to the tools of Web 2.0 researchers and scientists have become personally involved in the communication of science, especially through the use of blogs. In spite of being important in the dissemination of science, these tools have only been studied in the English-speaking context; the Spanish-speaking milieu remains unstudied. This paper has analyzed the contents of 100 entries from what the Bitácoras 2013 competition considers the ten most popular science blogs in the Spanish-speaking blogosphere. The analysis includes not only linguistic features and rhetorical strategies but also the sources used in the entries. Finally, the function of each entry has also been determined - explanation, information or opinion. This study concludes that Spanish-speaking science blogs represent a hybrid genre comprising both academic and disseminative characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cognitive mechanisms underlying question generation are not yet well understood. Recently, the Obstacle-Goal model has been proposed. This model assimilates comprehension to a problem-solving cognitive process: the obstacles in the way to the intended goal originate the questions asked. A direct prediction from this model is the relationship between the distribution of types of questions asked, and the kinds of mental representations subjects elaborate to understand the provided information. Up to now, this prediction has been partially validated, and only textual information has been used to this purpose. In the present paper an empirical two-phase study is developed to validate the above prediction in a more reliable way, using non-textual information: the operation of experimental devices. Results support the prediction of the model with enough statistical power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A decision conflict is present when a person wants and, simultaneously, not wants to follow an action course. This paper describes firstly the double decision conflict on the physicist Werner Heisenberg: Conflict regarding decisions of going into exile or to remain in the Nazi Germany, and with regard to the degree of scientific collaboration with the Nazi regime to create an atomic bomb. Secondly, discusses the fact that on the summer of 1945 while Oppenheimer was celebrated by his success in coordinating the Manhattan project, which made possible the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Heisenberg was in detention for his scientific collaboration with the Nazi regime even when the collaboration was parsimonious and limited. Finally, the Author discusses the ethical and practical problem of the relation between science and power: when scientists forced to serve power are judged lately according to victories and defeats of such power that personally are not imputed to them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cuban archeology has more than a century and a half of continuous practice. An approach to its history reveals the work of various associations, scientists and collectors, as well as the influence of different anthropological schools in the process of its formation as a science and the production of knowledge about societies that no longer exist. In this paper, a periodization of Cuban archaeological science between 1847, beginning of its practice, and 1940, academic and political limit, from an externalist analysis from the perspective of science is proposed. We show that between 1847 and 1898 occurred the gestation cycle, influenced by the ideas of European anthropology, and his scientific work occurs between 1899 and 1940, when a Cuban archaeological thought emerges, generating processes of institutionalization and professionalization and influencing the development of heritage protection policies in line with the world stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the twenty-first century approaches, humanity experiences unprecedented contradictions in its history. First, we have experienced the domination of science over nature, and technological advances and comfort, never seen before, but cruelty and segregation are becoming more frequent and exacerbated. This paper shows that the pair cruelty-vulnerability is inherent to both the constitution of the subject from the Other, and to the social link, and, also, its appearance is made possible due to historical conditions, such as neoliberalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communication, as a knowledge discipline, consists in the analysis of an interdisciplinary object of study, which requires the integral conjunction of other fields of scientific knowledge without losing its essence and specificity. This paper is the result of a critical revision of the numerous studies that have, in the first place, considered the communication as a science; secondly, envisaged the diverse communicative processes and understood the social phenomena from different perspectives. Finally, they have considered the communication science as an interdisciplinary field whose study requires an epistemology with a methodological pluralism that leads to the solution of problems through applied research. Nowadays, the communication research has taken diverse forms; those who study the uses, practices, social representations and the production of sense of the communicative phenomena, face the dilemma of choosing the adequate way to study a social phenomenon, which is the object or subject of the communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the appearance, in recent decades, of so-called knowledge-based economies, there have been various explanatory proposals or theoretical frameworks for understanding them. In this paper we aim to ponder, within a humanistic outlook, various concepts introduced by thinkers like Dominique Foray, from economic theory, Javier Echeverría, from philosophy of science, Manuel Castells, from sociology, and Edgar Morin, from the perspective of complex thinking. Situating human at the center of the equation, we want to approach the problem of knowledge and their meanings. To that end, this essay begins with a consideration on different conceptions of knowledge and the role that it has taken in the new society, continues with an analysis of the relations between the new economy and the idea of integral human development, and ends by outlining the application of the principles of Morin's complex thought as a proposal to articulate different perspectives on knowledge and the global society to which we belong. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the appearance, in recent decades, of so-called knowledge-based economies, there have been various explanatory proposals or theoretical frameworks for understanding them. In this paper we aim to ponder, within a humanistic outlook, various concepts introduced by thinkers like Dominique Foray, from economic theory, Javier Echeverría, from philosophy of science, Manuel Castells, from sociology, and Edgar Morin, from the perspective of complex thinking. Situating human at the center of the equation, we want to approach the problem of knowledge and their meanings. To that end, this essay begins with a consideration on different conceptions of knowledge and the role that it has taken in the new society, continues with an analysis of the relations between the new economy and the idea of integral human development, and ends by outlining the application of the principles of Morin's complex thought as a proposal to articulate different perspectives on knowledge and the global society to which we belong. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the relationship that can be established between segregation as a form of social link in contemporary times, and the predominance of capitalist discourse in its necessary articulation with the discourse of science. It also examines the phenomenon of the emergence of the so-called "contemporary symptoms", whose correlate is a kind of subject completed by his surplus-jouissance, i.e., the individual required by the way capitalist discourse works. The 'diagnosis' of the epoch allows us to situate the logic that involves the contemporary offer of symptoms, which has nothing to do with the function of the symptom acknowledged by psychoanalysis: as an objection to the discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay attempts to show that the ancient rhetorical theory has explanatory capabilities to understand and learn to write modern texts and to analyze them in order to understand their communication skills, as in the scientific article, one of the most prestigious forms on scientific communication. It starts with the notion of discourse in the field of scientific communication and then address the rhetorical dimension of the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Diskursethik of Jürgen Habermas is analysed in order to consider, in the field of Ethical reflection, the change that Science and Technology drive into Society. It is pointed out that Diskursethik does not take into account the historicity of human being and suscribes a kantian position that separate rationality from phenomenology. Facing Habermas's denial to recognize a value to science different from its submission to dictum of theoretical reason, this paper offers the main features of a dynamical ethics which sees the future of humanity and nature as its own object. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific support consists of helping coaches, athletes and/or sports teams with recording, data collection, assessment and/or decision-making processes through the use of scientific procedures. Its implementation entails important modifications in and adaptations of the protocols used by researchers in their laboratories. This paper uses a practical case study to describe and explain the steps and adjustments coaches and researchers need to effect in order to conduct this cooperative work. It should always be borne in mind that the purpose of scientific support is to enhance the performance of athletes and not for athletes to be used as research subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows how Hegel was opposed to a purely scholarly teaching of philosophy in gyms and universities, and outlines his proposal to teach it as a science, as a rigorous and systematic knowledge of concepts by which the human soul rises to the universal. Man just is what he/she is, and can only become what she/he wants to be through education as a "second birth" to the realm of spirit. Teaching philosophy cannot remain only in the study of historical products of philosophizing. It should become familiar with arts, sciences and the own particular religion in order to participate in this spiritual substance from beginning to the end. Otherwise, conceptual thinking would be reduced to a mere sophistical reasoning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the advances of one of the lines of work of the research project "Social communication of science. Challenges and Perspectives in the convergence of languages " (School of Social Communication, Universidad Nacional de Rosario). This work will focus on the link-up between videogames and the model of social communication of science, considered as a relationship that allows the appropriation of science and a process that transforms passive receivers into well informed, active citizens, leading to a democratization of science. Videogames conceived as new media, a concept coined by Lev Manovich, allow the construction and appropriation of meaning by users through the simulation of different situations. They therefore propose a player / viewer that is not reduced to a passive guider of the plot, but rather is an active participant who reflects and appropriates of the game, transforming, adapting and manipulating it. The same properties can be seen in the model of social communication of science, centered in an active citizen who appropriates scientific discourse and problematizes science, this is, someone who is no longer an amateur, as Lafuente puts it, but a 'Tecnocidano' instead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a biographical and contextual analysis of the creative processes of leading Argentine scientists: Houssay, Leloir and Milstein. We analyze interviews, biographies, autobiographies and documents (works, speeches, letters) and several sources of information available in different formats: official websites and foundations, interviews, digital and paper texts and documentaries. We emphasize the role of exchanges with specialists as a conditioning factor of creative processes and significant advances in science. The biographical- contextual studies carried out indicate that interactions with teachers, mentors, tutors, colleagues and students favor the development of creativity and scientific activity in the cases analyzed. We also present analysis of other determinants of the creative process: contexts of work, ability to generate resources, educational background, knowledge available, sources of information, emotions, motivations and personality traits. Theoretical issues and previous studies on creativity in science are included in the first part of the text. Then, we describe significant results of the study. Finally, we argue about the relationship between communication, creativity and science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper condenses the results of an inter-institutional discussion that began in 2011 within the National University of San Juan (UNSJ). This discussion was about the advisability of creating an interdisciplinary instance, in order to debate about Public Communication of Science and Technology (CPCyT). At the beginning some questions are posed, related to the links between education and CPCyT, the CPCyT anthropological and teleological foundations, the CPCyT as an interdisciplinary field and the notions of science and public communication involved in the CPCyT. We offer some possible answers to the questions posed. Finally we present the Project of a "Program of Public Communication of Science and Technology", to be developed at the San Juan University, its objectives and actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]