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Freshwater scarcity is an ever-increasing problem throughout the arid and semi-arid countries, and it often results in poverty. Thus, it is necessary to enhance understanding of freshwater resources availability, particularly for groundwater, and to be able to implement functional water resources plans. This study introduces a novel statistical approach combined with a data-mining ensemble model,

Abstract in Spanish Este trabajo presenta algunas reflexiones preliminares acerca del desarrollo rural en el nordeste de Argentina a la luz de los cambios socio-económicos y políticos acontecidos en los últimos veinte años aproximadamente. Así, por ejemplo, los procesos de descentralización que han tenido lugar en este país durante la década de 1990 ilustran la complejidad de las estrategias de de

Six years after signing the Peace Agreement between the FARC-EP and the Colombian government, the main rural transformations were delayed, while the violence figures show that peace had not materialized. Using an activist methodology, working in the Department of Cauca with rural communities, this article analyses three phases of the ‘territorial peace’ model: the local turn, characterized by the

The project developed by three institutions in Denmark and Sweden –Malmoe School of Education, City Archives of Malmoe and the Cultural History Workshop in Denmark– uses the methods of oral history as an instrument in the production of historical awareness. It tries to elaborate multiple histories at several levels –nation, regional, local; ethnicized and gendered, social and political history– th

Popular Abstract in Swedish Som ett skepp uti vilda havet, den kristna församlingen i ärkebiskop Laurentius Petris verk I 1593 års Uppsala mötes "förening om läran, ceremonier och kyrkotukt" finns följande avsnitt : Thernäst bejake och vederkännes vi oss alldeles vele holle vidh the Apostoliske, Niceniske och Athanasii symbola, såsom och vidh then äldste, rätte och oförrandrede Ausburgiske confeThe aim of this thesis is to present the ecclesiology of Laurentius Petri, a former student at Wittenberg who was archbishop of Uppsala from 1531 to his death 1573. He had a decisive role in the founding of the Church of Sweden, especially through his Swedish Church Ordinance(1571). Nevertheless most of his seventy-three writings are little known and have been rarely studied. Chapter one st

What impact did the process of Romanization have on the landscapes and territories of ancient Hispania? This book examines the transformations of Baetica through a rigorous study of Western Sierra Morena and the Lands of Antequera, two key regions for understanding this historical period.The research adopts an innovative perspective that integrates spatial analysis and landscape study to examine t

Abstract in SpanishEn este artículo se propone un acercamiento didáctico a la enseñanza del Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto (PPC) en contextos de español como lengua extranjera. Se analizan algunos problemas de la visión tradicional sobre el tema y se plantea que el concepto de referencia genérica propuesto en Henderson (2010) da una respuesta más coherente a usos que la bibliografía suele adjudicar This article proposes a didactic approach to teaching the compound past tense that is known in English as “Present Perfect” (PPC for its initials in Spanish) in contexts of Spanish as a Foreign Language. It analyses some issues concerning the traditional view on the subject and suggests that the concept of generic reference proposed by Henderson (2010) provides a more coherent explanation for some

Abstract in French Cet article est basé sur l’analyse de deux corpus de français écrit langue étrangère par des apprenants suédois ; l’un transversal et l’autre longitudinal. Les deux corpus permettent des approches différentes, l’une de caractère linguistique mettant l’accent sur le profil développemental de l’accord en nombre ; l’autre plus cognitive analysant les aspects des connaissances expliThis article is based on an analysis of two corpora in French as a foreign language by Swedish learners; one cross-sectional and the other longitudinal. These two corpora lent themselves to different approaches: a linguistic approach which stressed the developmental profile of agreement in number; and a more cognitive approach which analyzed various aspects of explicit and implicit knowledge in th

Historians of the Dutch Revolt have suggested that the success of the rebellious provinces can be explained by sixteenth-century financial innovations that improved the creditworthiness of the States of Holland. This article claims that this development was triggered by a severe crisis of public finance in these States at the end of the fifteenth century. An analysis of the ensuing reorganization

Abstract: This study aims to investigate separate and combined impacts of land-use and climate variability on hydrological components in the Johor River Basin (JRB), Malaysia. The Mann-Kendall and Sen’s slope tests were applied to detect the trends in precipitation, temperature and streamflow of the JRB. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) was calibrated and validated using measured monthly