Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

The qualitative study presented is a descriptive nature, where from an experience of action research includes the teaching-learning processes in biological sciences, using the example of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). This was addressed in two dimensions, structure and applications of the molecule. As part of his experience that took advantage of modern technology, especially the use of computers and the Internet provide. The study participants were students of a section of a Biological Sciences course at higher education. Through this study we obtained information that helps to accomplish the first purpose is to explore how the implementation of activities never before used, this group of students, improve teaching-learning process. A second purpose was to observe the applicability of this method of action research in biological science courses and as the benefits and constraints faced at the time of its use in the university classroom. Data were collected using a reflective essay, a reflective journal of the teacher- researcher, reflective individual and group discussions. The results show a strong preference of students for the activities carried out during this study for teaching and learning of the concept DNA compared with normal activities used by the teacher- researcher. The main reasons for this preference are the change of routine, involving small group discussion, using the Internet as a source of information instead of the textbook and the teacher- researcher interaction with groups, as a participant and an additional resource, instead of being the main source of education available. Some of the implications of this study may have for curriculum development in the Biological Sciences are: using the Internet as a modern and relatively inexpensive resource for teaching and learning, encourage teamwork of students to facilitate the flow of information and create awareness among teachers on action research as a useful and powerful that they could add to its list of educational tools, not only to investigate but to find solutions to the problems of their respective courses.

In the past the European Union was perceived as a functional and ideal polity despite media coverage pointing to the contrary and academic literature featuring its complexities. This article agrees with the assessment that the EU is not quite the ideal polity of yore and its functionality is the product of intense interstate bargains and policy coordination between member states. The absence of these would comprise a critical juncture, which would usually mean stagnation in the process of integration. These junctures were especially poignant between 1997 and 2005 but were also frequent in the period leading up to the institutional overhaul made possible by the Treaty of Lisbon (2009). Because it is of recent implementation, assessments of institutional refit are mere speculations at this point; the passage of time being the only recourse for procurement of data necessary to provide adequate assessment of the new EU regime. This does not exempt the polity from experimenting cyclical periods of crisis nor does it invalidate past recommendations for approaching the study of politics and policy in the EU. That is, taking into account the constant interaction of the ontical and ontological when studying such a complex polity, a student of the European Union needs to consider various criteria. First, the institutional dynamics of this unique type of regime and the assumption of the EU as a multilevel entity and the integration process as running in multiple velocities (Europe à deux vitesses). And second, as such, for the European Union to be understood it needs to be studied from various theoretical approaches.

This paper examines the context for the sale of exclusive broadcasting rights for the televised transmission in Puerto Rico of the Spanish TV series Cuéntame cómo pasó. Three perspectives inform this analysis: globalization and cultural diversity, the geo-linguistic context, and the context of acquisition. As an instance of globalization and cultural diversity, this case demonstrates the importance of European audiovisual products in Latin America. The Puerto Rican example illustrates acquisition in a geo-linguistically related area dominated by U.S. audiovisual products. We argue that the exportation of this product from Spain responds to European Union cultural policy debates. In terms of the media market, we discuss the diversification of Europe‘s most important public television corporate enterprises, underscoring the role of satellites in their exportation strategies. We also discuss the circumstances which paved the way for the acquisition of rights for exclusive televised transmission in Puerto Rico of this series by the Puerto Rican Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPRDP).

The theme of "City Branding" has become very popular among urban planners as it is seen as a model to study and sets the attributes of the city to develop strategies to help enhance the image of the latter. This model arises as an adaptation of business models to the area of the city with the aim of improving the local economy, attracting foreign investment among others. The purpose of this research is to understand how business practices are translated to an urban environment and city and establish both the limits and possibilities of the "City Branding". After examining a series of lectures on the subject, questions of how the mass of this concept can meet the particular understanding of each of the cities examined, without posing a threat to individual aspects of them. This conceptual model provides a number of parameters to study which claim to be "universal", regardless of the particularities of each city. The differences that define the city may be affected because of the framework of study that is used to understand it and therefore this concept may not address the differences and specificities of each.

Since late seventies, in Dr. Graciela Candelas‘ Molecular Biology laboratory, we have been studying regulatory molecular mechanisms in silk synthesis by spider Nephila clavipes. These have been conducted parallel to Lyon‘s grouop research in larvae stage of moth Bombyx mori. During past years, both molecular biology research groups developed high level advice and collaboration relationship. Recently, an opportunity arose for teamwork within biotechnological aspect for the production of this protein.

The literature on entrepreneurship widely recognizes that environmental factors influence the creation of new businesses. Among the most important studies on the effects of these factors is the international research done by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). Puerto Rico and Jamaica became part of this study in 2005, becoming the first Caribbean countries to participate. According to GEM‘s theoretical model, 15 environmental factors exert influence on the creation of new businesses. This comparative study offers exploratory and descriptive analyses of the impact of environmental factors on business development in the Caribbean region and some countries in the European Union. This study is based on answers to a questionnaire given to 36 national experts from different countries to cull their perceptions on each of the 15 factors.

Grounded in the literary, aesthetic and philosophical heritage of André Malraux, this paper offers an analysis of Malraux‘s thought on European man and the crisis of Western culture as espoused in The Temptation of the West. It also analyzes the simultaneous construction of his anti-fascist defense of culture and the free European region in The Conquerors and Man‘s Hope. Finally, the double constitution of European cultural and space in Malraux‘s multicultural conceptions are discussed using the open hermeneutics of The Imaginary Museum and The Metamorphosis of the Gods. The Anti-Memoirs (1967- 1972) and several archival documents inform our investigation of Malraux‘s concrete deeds as a thinker and as Minister of Culture. His aesthetic-philosophical thought influences contemporary cultural hermeneutics and draws attention to the responsibility of all cultural theory to counter totalizing myths.

At the end of World War II, France, Holland and Britain ended the long period of colonial domination in the region and set up new structures in their territories. This essay explores the problems and challenges facing contemporary European possessions in the Caribbean. The text describes the different routes taken by the colonial metropolis, the existing antagonisms between the metropolitan powers and its territories, and the challenges they face in the current regional scenario.

This paper deals with some theoretical intersections that exist between complexity theory and the more recent conceptual developments about Gaia theory, as well as its relevance for the social sciences. It pretends to "complexify" social analysis, drawing attention to this organic-physical-social entity (Gaia) which provokes the generation of eminently transdisciplinary approaches as the only option to produce relevant knowledge, capable ofproposing alternatives to the increasing deterioration of our bio-social environment and the social practices which to a greater extent cause it.

This article analyzes the scientific status of the Gaia theory related to the aim of a global Sustainability Science. The science of the self-regulating and autopoietic systems (proposed by Lovelock and Margulis) has been a new look at life on Earth following a heuristic and ontological programme. In the second part of this article we explain that this programme has inspired the emerging paradigm of the "Earth System Science", in search of a global Sustainability Science.