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Someone could point out that Education is not a discipline but an object of study, and that the discipline to which this object corresponds is Pedagogy, considered as "the" science of Education. However, I will allow myself to incidentally cast doubt on these claims because of the inconclusive epistemological discussion about "the" sciences of education; by the relativity that I assign to certain modern taxonomic schemes; due to their Eurocentric nature; because I am interested in debating the complexity of the problem as transdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary; by the framework of the power dispute in which the proposed discussion is inserted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The presentation of this paper has two fundamental purposes: First, to develop and discuss a series of theoretical-conceptual problems that are present at the moment of understanding and delimiting different pedagogic spaces directly linked to work training in rural social spaces (Cragnolino, 2008); second, to share some of the progress made on research refering to the understanding of this pedagogic spaces, to the literacy trajectories within them; and to the identities/laboral distinctions that resulted from that process, in three generations of farming workers from two rural towns in the province of San Juan. Regarding the first part of the paper, it's worth pointing out that theoretical reflection comes from an interdisciplinary dialog that has its origin and foundation in the diverse training of its authors. In this way, a series of categories that come from ethnographic education with a heavy socio-anthropological influence (epistemologically founded in genetic structuralism) i.e.: rural social space, identity/distinction, cultural discontinuities, etc; are complemented with notions and theoretical propositions mostly linked to Education History and, within this field the theory of school form particularly. In the second part of the paper a series of finds and results from the research are presented. They refer to processes inside the rural social space of identification/laboral distinction, that are anchored in a diversity of pedagogic spaces (linked to the work training) constituted inside the rural education field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Water absorption kinetics in pea seeds (Pisum sativum L.), varieties San Isidro and Sureña, were determined. Rehydration was conducted at three temperatures (6, 18 and 30 °C), using a seed/water ratio 1: 4 (w/v), and measurements at 0, 3, 6, 9, 12 and 24 hours were taken. The effect of temperature was evaluated by the water adsorption capacity, whereas the water adsorption kinetics was studied in two models (Exponential and Peleg). The water adsorption capacity increased with increasing water temperature. The models adequately describe the kinetics of adsorption of water. Both diffusivity and kinetic parameters show dependence on temperature and when are evaluated by the Arrhenius activation energy of 17.24 kJ/mol for San Isidro and 9.25 kJ/mol for Sureña were obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Language is a fundamental part of the communication in any society, there are people with difficulties to perceive and pronounce the characteristics sounds of the common language. The sign language was designed for these people, which can be characterized by implementing technological advances that are currently present. The objective of this work is to design a prototype that allows process changes introduced into a system of resistive sensors coupled to a Lilypad Arduino microcontroller. To develop this project, the first step was study the behavior of each implemented component, after that were implemented in the design of the glove. With the glove design finished, we could proceed to develop a graphical interface in Matlab, which can characterize and visualize the movements made by each articulation of the fingers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]