This paper proposes a tractable model for the design of a rapid transit system. Travel cost is minimized and traffic capture is maximized. The problem is modeled on an undirected graph and cast as an integer linear program. ...

Our aim was to compare the degree of comprehension and the time needed to achieve it, when reading a scientific text on paper or on screen. At the same time, we wanted to correlate these results with the preference expressed ...

The teacher research movement in Chile has, historically, been an expression of the profession's concerns with the ways in which schooling reproduces and produces the social order in the broader society. The work currently ...

A Multimodal perspective recognizes that teaching materials make meaning upon the integration of multiple semiotic resources such as writing, drawing, pictures among others. From a Social Semiotics scope, learning in school ...

The Chilean Association of medical faculties (ASOFAMECH) has a regular accreditation process for the programmes and centres for the specialist training. At the end of 2002 professors of neurology from three of the five ...

This article identifies and describes the rhetorical organization of the Textbook genre, based on a corpus-based approach and on part of PUCV-2006 Corpus of Academic Spanish. This subcorpus includes 126 textbooks collected ...

This article seeks to expose the bonds between the mythical and fictional character Robinson Crusoe, the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the utopian educator Simón Rodríguez in the historical novel La Isla de Robinson ...

Education is one of the main factors that promote social mobility. Secondary education is important for the development of upper cognitive processes as for the destiny of the individuals, once they graduate of the school ...

Qualitative study that analyzes the perceptions of students participating in the project "Democratization of the University class: educating teachers, educating people", carried out by professors in the area of body ...

The present article focuses on the identification and characterization of the communicative purposes of the editor's discourse of scientific journals, which we have called "editorial genre" independent of the labels given ...