This study looks at some of the traits that characterized Argentina’s scientific and university policies under the military regime that spanned from 1976 through 1983. To this end, it delves into a rarely explored empirical ...

This work is a theoretical effort that aims to give light to a debate about the formation and development of a paradigm into scientific knowledge. More specifically the proposal is to analyze some aspects about how the ...

This article describes the configuration of the scientific field in Brazil, characterizing the scientific communities in every major area of knowledge in terms of installed capacity, ability to train new researchers, and ...

I will show in this chapter how the joint constructions of scientific knowledge and social problems operate in a complex and polymorphic way by presenting selected episodes from the history of Chagas disease in Argentina ...

The Research and Development (R&D) in ethnopharmacology and etnobiology fields, guided by the therapeutic information obtained with local communities and indigenous people, holders of traditional knowledge, produces social ...

In this article, we seek to analyze the formation of the scientific field of Genetics in the USA, from the late 19th to the early 20th century, by means of a historical perspective. The Foucauldian discursive approach and ...

The introduction of supply chain management (SCM) between the 1980s and 1990s represented a breakthrough in the field of management. SCM provides the analytical and theoretical background to design, plan, and manage ...

The scientific competences point to the development of capabilities, abilities and aptitudes which help to solve problems according to the context where the facts take place. Referring to PISA, 2015 there are six levels ...

The relationship between “marginal” and “mainstream” science has, in recent decades, become a matter of discussion. Traditional perspectives must be reexamined in the wake of transformations in the international circulation ...

We present a nonperturbative study of the (1 + 1)-dimensional massless Thirring model by using path integral methods. The regularization ambiguities - coming from the computation of the fermionic determinant - allow to ...